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  • The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection

    The Thinking Game takes you on a journey into the heart of DeepMind, capturing a team striving to unravel the mysteries of intelligence and life itself. Filmed over five years by the award winning team behind AlphaGo, the documentary examines… more ›

  • Why Electricity is Holding Back Africa

    Virtually every wealthy nation uses power abundantly, with electricity consumption and GDP growth closely linked. Some 80% of all people who live without electricity live in Africa, a problem that’s long hobbled the continent’s industrial development. So why isn’t Africa… more ›

  • China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights | WSJ

    Ford’s CEO says China’s EV industry poses an existential threat to global automakers. The country’s dark factories, which have robots run 24/7 with limited human interaction, aim to further widen the gap between Chinese car manufacturers and everyone else. As… more ›

  • How strong is Iran’s regime?

    Nicolas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent, and Adam Roberts, our digital editor, are just back from a rare reporting trip to Tehran. They join our top editors in the studio to discuss the future of the Islamic Republic. After 46… more ›

  • Wagner Moura’s Closet Picks

    The actor and director praises BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL as one of the most important Brazilian films ever made, talks about the complex humanity of IL POSTO, and reflects on why Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are his favorite filmmakers. — more ›

  • The China in Africa Podcast: China at COP30 and the New Politics of Climate Change

    Listen: https://ift.tt/7KGa4fu With the U.S. absent from two major international summits this month, the G20 in South Africa and the COP30 in Brazil, we got an early look at what the post-American order is starting to look like. In both… more ›

  • NAGORI: A Short Film by Guillaume Hurbault

    In Nagori—a Japanese word meaning “the traces that linger”—a fisherman turned war hero drifts across seas of ink and memory to find the daughter he lost to time and discovers that love’s shadow remains long after the tide has gone.… more ›

  • Kayhan Kalhor & Kiya Tabassian, setar duo – دو نوازی سه تار کیهان کلهر و کیا طبسیان

    Follow us / Rejoignez-nous : Facebook: https://ift.tt/1z96pAf Instagram: https://ift.tt/ozeSunq Spotify: https://ift.tt/lW1hjmd http://www.constantinople.ca Kayhan Kalhor – Setar Kiya Tabassian – Setar Salle Bourgie, Montreal, Canada, 11 June 2022 استاد کیهان کلهر – سه تار کیا طبسیان – سه تار سالن بورژی،… more ›

  • Reuters Econ World: Interview with European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane

    Listen: https://ift.tt/GanPZqV The euro zone’s economic outlook is steady – can it really stay that way? Host Carmel Crimmins talks to Philip Lane, chief economist at the European Central Bank about tariff turmoil, Fed independence and getting the euro zone… more ›

  • The economics of dark forest spaces

    In the world of online platforms there’s a well-known pattern called the 90-9-1 rule. It says that in most online spaces, 90% of people silently consume; 9% interact (liking or commenting); and 1% create the material itself. But what about… more ›