#David Annapurna

[brybryby]

I’m working really hard on releasing my post about Waylon’s Korean-coding, coming from the lens of someone who is a product of Asian migration to the US. (I’m really excited for it! I hope it’s educational)

[EDIT]: here’s a list of things I will address:

- Model Minority Myth

- the “feminine Asian man” stereotype in the US

- comp sci at UC Berkeley

- Asian emigration to the US

- notions of gender/masculinity in 20th century America

There will be a slight delay—during my deep dive, I realized that there’s a history of characters with Asian surnames who have shown some type of resistance/rebellion against Murkoff, which I thought was interesting and definitely worth analyzing. That being David Annapurna, Melissa Cho, and Ethan Sriskandaraja. Their contributions to the game are subtle, but I think they mean a lot to the overall lore—especially David’s parallels with Waylon.

I’m finding it very meaningful. It will hopefully come very soon!

[thebutcher-5]

Che fine ha fatto Bernadette?

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo andati avanti con l’horror, arrivando negli anni ’90 e discutendo di un cult, una piccola perla canadese di cui, a mio avviso, non si parla abbastanza ossia Cube – Il cubo. Il film inizia con alcune persone che si svegliano all’interno di una strana stanza cubica. Non si conoscono, non sanno come sono finiti lì, chi li ha portati…

[kdinjenzen]

Huh, I was under the impression Annapurna's *executives* all stomped off 'cuz they wanted to do things AAA style.

No, the entire video game division of company left due to actions and choices of the owner Megan Ellison. This was because the gaming division wanted to split off as a more independent firm.

Megan Ellison, for full disclosure, is the daughter of Larry Ellison who is a multibillionare who owns 98% of Lānaʻi in Hawaii... an island in which the entire family spent all of the main original peaks COVID on to be away from other people.

Further facts: Megan owns Annapurna and her brother David owns SkyDance.

[rdaskas]

Sausage Party: Foodtopia

2020 (Photoshop)

Annapurna Pictures

Concept painting for Conrad Vernon's Sausage Party TV series. Layout by David James, character designs by Craig Kellman. With some Apocalypse Now inspiration.

[rivendellfrostfair]

You know when you realise the seeds of something you love now were sown long, long ago.

For example, I love ttrpgs, especially the rp side of it, and I started playing them a few years ago. But I was recently reminded that, between the ages of 13-15, my friends and I made up an entire role playing game (without realising that was what it was) and played it for two solid years, almost every day. It was called The Correspondence and was delightfully over dramatic, as all good teenage stories should be.

It started in what must have been a particularly boring physics class (sorry Dr Speirs) with us passing notes, when my friend Ruth decided to write to us not as herself, but Rupert, Lord Rupert to be specific. So we replied. I believe we drew pictures of socks to send him.

We kept writing replies after class had finished. And the next day. And the next. And so it grew as more and more people were invited into this network of letter writing. We swapped them at lunch and breaktimes, writing them on the bus, at the dinner table or sometimes in class. It's hard to explain just how many letters there were. Some you would never even see because they weren't to you!

We chose our names: Annapurna, Katrina, David, Rupert, Camilla, Brigitta, Helena, Margaritte, Francis - and more I can't remember!

We also chose an era and we became upper class Edwardians. Our grasp of historical accuracy was low, though Katrina became a suffragette and later, when we moved into WWI, a VAD, which fueled us all to do our own research on these amazing historical women.

We did not let reality discourage the drama though. There was a kidnapping at one point, and I still vividly remember writing my own ransom note with glee knowing I would be handing it to my friends in the morning.

Annapurna had an older sister who had been engaged to Rupert, but the sister had died of TB before they could be married. Later Rupert had married Helena but it turned out to be an unhappy marriage, and his son Francis was a disappointment to him. He had an affair with Annapurna, who was secretly living in his hunting lodge at the time. Rupert's twin David had married Brigitta and they'd had like twelve children (there was an extensive family tree so we could keep track of them all). It was all very exciting.

I loved all that world we created as teenagers, I still do. We created a wonderful game, where we could try being someone else for a bit, where we could explore ideas about what relationships were like and push the boundaries of good, and not so good, storytelling.

We kept some of the letters, but there must have been hundreds between us all, scraps of paper, backs of envelopes or pages ripped out of notebooks and many, inevitably were lost to time. Ruth was entrusted with the ones we kept. I hope she still has them somewhere, even though it's been over 14 years now.

It was never about the quality of the paper though - it was all about the words on the page - our characters only ever lived in their own words.

Which is why I think I love ttrpgs. The characters we play exist only in the words that we give them, except they also live deep in our hearts. They take up space there - and we love them.

Today I quietly added to the canon of The Correspondence and drew Annapurna and Rupert. I thought about how much things had changed since then and how much I had changed.

I think, maybe, one day, if I'm feeling bold, these drawings might find themselves in an envelope, flitting through the post, so that they might live briefly again, even if only for the length of time it takes to open a letter.

[kaiyves-backup]

2023 Reading Wrap-Up:

In 2023, I read 34 books for fun! (My previous record was 20 in 2018.)

25 were nonfiction, 9 were fiction.

10 were by a woman or women (previous record was 8 in 2017), 20 were by a man or men, and 4 were by collaborators of mixed gender.

24 books were by American authors, the rest by non-American authors. (Of those, 3 were by Brits and 2 by New Zealanders.)

Oldest: The Space-Gods Revealed: A Closer Look at the Theories of Erich von Däniken, Ronald Story (1976)

Newest: The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths (2023, the only book I read that actually came out this year, I mostly shop at used bookstores.)

6 were mysteries from the Three Investigators series.

Best: The Sirens of Mars: Searching for Life on Another World, by Sarah Stewart Johnson. I said in June it probably would be my favorite of 2023 and I stand by that

Other Favorites:

Annapurna: A Woman’s Place, Arlene Blum (1980)

The Bathysphere Book: Effects of the Luminous Ocean Depths, Brad Fox (2023)

Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History, Stephen Jay Gould (1991)

The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake: With Seamaster and Blakexpeditions from Antarctica to the Amazon, Peter Blake and Alan Sefton (2003)

Nonstop: Driven by the Sea, Boris Herrmann and various collaborators (2021)

Shuttle, Nigel MacKnight (1985)

Venus Revealed: A New Look Below the Clouds of Our Mysterious Sister Planet, David Harry Grinspoon (1997)

Worst: JPL and the American Space Program: A History of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, by Clayton R. Koppes. As I said in my journal, Koppes’ account of the early years of space exploration is “nearly as dry, cold, and devoid of atmosphere as the surface of Mars.” Both my favorite and least favorite books this year were about planetary exploration and the contrast is incredible.

[tomwambsmilk]

Hey. Recommend your favorite indie movies rn. I promise ill watch them because i need to watch more indie stuff anyway and i trust your judgment

sooo glad a couple of you took the bait <3

Right off the bat, I'll say that the line between indie and not is a bit blurry and malleable, so I'm defining it as movies that didn't have the backing of a major US studio. That said, there's debate over whether A24 and Annapurna count as major or indie studios. So ultimately, to split the difference, I've settled on 7 "true" indies, one A24 picture, one that's kind of an indie but also not for reasons I'll get into, and one that's not an indie at all but people still don't watch it because it's old so I'm going to take this opportunity to stump for it.

Leave No Trace (2018)

This is the first movie that jumps to mind for me when people ask me about the best indie movies I've seen. It's about an ex-marine with PTSD so severe he can't function in modern society; instead, he and his 13yo daughter live in National Parks. He's homeschooled her (well!) and taught her to be independent and live off the land, and they have a very, very strong relationship. But, she's also 13, and is struggling with the extreme isolation that comes with their lifestyle. She loves her father and doesn't want to abandon him, but it's starting to take a toll on her mental health. And her father loves her, but he's simply incapable of integrating into society in a way that would allow her to have the social relationships she needs. It's moving and heartbreaking and very much a coming-of-age story. Even though the situation at hand is completely alien to my life experience, the core of it is about a father-daughter relationship, and growing up and also losing your father. It came out only two years after my own father died, and on the way home I had to duck into a Mcdonald's bathroom and ugly cry because it jogged something loose in me, which is what finally spurred me to go to grief counselling (which I'd been avoiding for two years).

2. The Five Obstructions (2003)

This one is actually a documentary, but one that I think is worth watching if you're interested in film. The premise is that Lars von Trier has challenged Jørgen Leth to remake his 1970s-era experimental short film, "The Perfect Human", five times - but each time von Trier gives him a set of rules to follow (which, in each case, are designed to "ruin" the picture). Every time Leth comes back with something which has inexplicably been made even better because of the restrictions placed on him. On an academic level, it's fascinating to see how the different techniques change the energy and even the meaning of the film - I'm also personally a huge fan of the use of "creative constraint" in art, so it was especially fascinating to me. On a human level, it's intriguing to watch von Trier try to push Leth to confront less of the "perfect" and more of the "human", and how doing so ultimately elevates the art.

3. A Dog's Breakfast (2007)

This one is maybe the truest indie of all on this list, and the only reason I know it exists is that I've been a long-time fan of its writer + director + producer + star David Hewlett. Hewlett's character (Patrick) is an isolated and somewhat dysfunctional man, who is visited by his sister and discovers that she's engaged. He becomes convinced the fiance is trying to kill her, and decides to try and kill the fiance instead. Patrick's sister Marilyn is played by Hewlett's real-life sister Kate, which personally I think adds something to their whole dynamic. It's a pretty small-scale film - the whole thing takes place at Patrick's house or on his property, and there are only 4 actors, not including Hewlett's real-life dog Mars - and I love what that kind of creative constraint does to a film. Also - it's a comedy (and a riotously funny one, if you enjoy that kind of humour). It's maybe not the deepest or most insightful on this list, but it's a LOT of fun and I've seen it several times.

4. The Invitation (2015)

One of my greatest frustrations in the last year was hearing people talk about The Invitation and getting excited that they were FINALLY discovering this brilliant, underrated indie horror - only to realize they were talking about the shitty vampire movie of the same name. Okay.

The less you know going into The Invitation, the better, so I'll just say it's about a man who goes with his girlfriend to a dinner party hosted by his ex-wife and her new husband. It's immensely suspenseful, and it utilizes the kind of social anxiety that would come with this sort of extremely awkward situation to great effect. The main character and the viewer are constantly asking - is there something weird and sinister going on? Or is this just supremely uncomfortable for other, more mundane reasons? It also touches on grief in some brief but meaningful and relatively poignant ways, and has an extremely chilling and effective coda that I am still thinking about to this day (I am forever trying - and failing - to replicate the impact of this movie's final shot in my own writing).

5. Treed Murray (2001)

This is another one that I only know about because I obsessively watched David Hewlett's filmography for a while. Up front, I'll say it's maybe not the most original or insightful social commentary out there, and I also watched it when I had much less awareness of racial issues than I do now, so it’s possible there are the problematic things in the writing I’ve forgotten about. That’s the disclaimer. But it still holds a special place for me because of the premise - a yuppie ad executive gets chased up a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, and the rest of the movie plays out with him stuck in the tree overnight and them waiting for him to come down. The acting all-around is superb, the script is suspenseful (even if the character beats aren't the most unique or original), and I have such a soft spot for any movie that uses a limitation like "this guy is gonna be in a tree the whole time" to its advantage like that, so it's making the list.

6. Nightcrawler (2014)

This is one that's technically indie, but because Jake Gyllenhall is attached it got a lot more attention than another film might have. Gyllenhall is a "nightcrawler" - a video journalist who drives around at night looking for shocking crimes and accidents he can film and sell to news stations for their morning news. It's dark, it's suspenseful - and it's also an incredibly cogent commentary on the news media, how it exploits victims, and how it plays into polarization, division, and marginalization for profit.

7. The Death of Stalin (2017)

Again, this one's technically indie, but Steve Buscemi is in it and it's written and directed by the guy who did Veep, so it got its fair share of attention. But it is one of my all-time favourite movies. It's a satirical look at the leadership of the Soviet Union in the days immediately following Stalin's death; it's bitingly funny, and a lot of humour rests on the sort of bureaucracy that's frustratingly relatable to anyone who's ever worked in an office. At the same time, it manages to touch on the horrors of that period in history in a way that is genuine and respectful, which is a difficult line to walk. Altogether it makes for something that manages to be simultaneously entertaining and somewhat chilling.

8. First Reformed (2018)

This is the one A24 picture I mentioned, but I'm including it in part because it hasn't gotten as much attention as other A24 movies, and in part because it had such a huge impact on me personally. Ethan Hawke plays the pastor of a tiny little tourist church, suffering from depression after losing his son in the Iraq War. A pregnant parishioner comes to him to ask him to speak to her husband, an environmental activist who believes it's wrong to bring children into a world facing climate catastrophe. That encounter shakes the pastor and sends him spiralling as he tries to reconcile the state of the world and the deterioration of the environment with the kind of pat, consumable, shallow, capitalist christianity being pushed by the protestant megachurch which owns his parish.

I will say that part of the reason this film resonated with me so specifically is because I saw it at a point in my life where I was pretty severely depressed, struggling with repressed grief, and really grappling with questions around the faith I'd been raised with, so it spoke to me in a very particular personal way. It might not resonate with other people in quite the same way, but I do think, regardless, it's a well-done exploration of a particular kind of psyche, and so worth a watch.

9. Snowpiercer (2016)

So this one is debatable as an indie; it had a budget of $40 million, it stars Chris Evans, and its worldwide box office was nearly $88 million. Most of that $88 million, though, came from South Korea (where it was initially released) and China; when it came to the US it had a reception and release much more comparable to an indie. So it's a weird one to talk about, because it's "indie" in North America only, and it raises questions as to whether we should be sticking to definitions of "indie" that center on US production companies. If a South Korean studio can make a comparable effort and expenditure, should it not be classified as a major studio?

But. The point of this list is movies I (a North American) recommend to my (largely North American) friends and they simply don't watch because they're "indie movies", and this absolutely fits that bill. And it's especially galling after the (deserved!) success of Parasite. Snowpiercer is also a Bong Joon-Ho film, and while it's not on the same level as Parasite (few things are) it's still excellent. It has all of the suspense, nuance, character work, and adept social commentary of Parasite, but in a dystopian post-apocalyptic setting. After a new ice age brought about by climate change, all of humanity lives on a train constantly circling the globe. The few wealthy live at the front of the train; the many, many poor live at the back. Chris Evans' character leads an insurgency against Wilbur, who runs the train, and the film follows his group of rebels as they move from the back to the front. (I also love this premise because of the physical space limitations which come from having your whole movie set on a train, which the film uses VERY well, especially in its action sequences).

10. Touch of Evil (1958)

So this one is cheating because it's not an indie at all. In fact, the edits made by the major studio it was attached to (Universal) are a big part of why it flopped so hard when it first came out. But I'm taking this opportunity to stump for it as a movie that I love so dearly and no one ever watches because it's black and white and old and Orson Welles directed it and people immediately think of Citizen Kane and think it'll be boring and don't want to touch it. But it is excellent (provided you can get past Charlton Heston in brownface, which is.... hm). It's probably my favourite classic noir (and I have seen many noirs). A car bomb explodes along the US-Mexico border, and Heston, a Mexican drug enforcement agent, has to partner with an American police captain (played by Welles) to investigate - but he quickly starts to suspect that the American captain is planting evidence. The movie itself is dark and gripping and suspenseful, but I also think the key ideas about the ethics of the police and the importance of civil liberties are especially resonant now. It makes the opposite argument of modern "copaganda" that implies that we would all be better off throwing our rights in the trash and letting the cops do whatever they wanted. Instead, Welles is making a case that, actually, personal rights are important and must be held sacred, even if (and especially if) that makes the cops' jobs harder.

[alexzalben]

Do you have any info on the Dead Ringers remake at Amazon Prime Video?

Yep! 6 episodes, all will premiere April 21 on Prime Video. Here are some first look images, and more info below:

Rachel Weisz (Disobedience, The Favourite, Black Widow) stars as OBGYN twins Beverly and Elliot Mantle for the highly anticipated psychological thriller Dead Ringers. Weisz also serves as an executive producer. The limited series is created, written, and executive produced by Emmy-nominated writer and playwright Alice Birch (Normal People, Succession, The Wonder). A modern take on David Cronenberg’s 1988 thriller starring Jeremy Irons, Dead Ringers will feature Rachel Weisz playing the double-lead roles of Elliot and Beverly Mantle, twins who share everything: drugs, lovers, and an unapologetic desire to do whatever it takes—including pushing the boundaries of medical ethics—in an effort to challenge antiquated practices and bring women’s health care to the forefront. The series’ ensemble cast includes Britne Oldford (The Umbrella Academy, American Horror Story: Asylum) as Genevieve, Poppy Liu (Hacks, Better Call Saul) as Greta, Michael Chernus (Severance, Orange is the New Black) as Tom, Jennifer Ehle (Zero Dark Thirty, Saint Maud) as Rebecca, and Emily Meade (The Deuce, The Leftovers) as Susan.

Filmmaker Sean Durkin (Martha Marcy May Marlene, The Nest, The Iron Claw) directed the first two episodes and co-directed the last episode of the series. Durkin also serves as an executive producer. The directing team also includes Karyn Kusama (Jennifer’s Body, Girlfight), Karena Evans (P-Valley, Snowfall), and Lauren Wolkstein (A Friend of the Family, Y: The Last Man). Dead Ringers is co-produced by Amazon Studios and Annapurna Television. Alice Birch, who is the series showrunner, serves as an executive producer alongside Rachel Weisz for Astral Projection, Stacy O’Neil, Sue Naegle, and Sean Durkin. Ali Krug is the executive producer for Annapurna Television. Erica Kay, Anne Carey, and Polly Stokes also serve as executive producers. James G. Robinson, David Robinson, and Barbara Wall executive produced for Morgan Creek.

[richardtrager]

Plotted  starter  for  @faerietael’s  David  Annapurna  . 

Giving  this  whole  thing  the  green  light  had  been  like  pulling  fucking  teeth,  with  him,  anyways.  Sure,  there’s  a  few  tree  huggers  left  on  the  board  tickling  Murkoff’s  balls  just  enough  to  whisper  sweet  nothings  about  enrichment  programs  and  boosting  the  social,  emotional,  and  cognitive  growth  of  residents...and  that  was  enough  pressure  to  pull  the  trigger  on  the  Art  Program.  It  was  never  a  decision  he  felt  comfortable  with,  watching  money  dry  on  canvas.  The  program’s  been  up  and  running  for  a  month  or  so  now  so  it’s  about  time  he  got  the  invite  to  see  what  the  damage  is.  It’s  more  like  a  surprise  visit,  actually.  

                                                                                          He  invited  himself.  

Coolly,  Trager  pushes  open  the  door  to  the  makeshift  arts  and  crafts  closet,  the  fumes  of  fresh  paint  hitting  him  like  a  ton  of  bricks.  “Wooo!  That’ll  clear  your  sinuses.”  He  announces  his  presence,  sniffing.  Bleary  eyes  turn  to  gawk  in  his  direction,  each  of  the  patients  looking  either  mildly  confused  or  disturbed  by  his  crashing  the  party.  These  people  are  always  tough  to  please.  Take  take  take,  you  know.  

As  the  executive  takes  a  step  inside,  shutting  the  door  with  his  foot,  he  takes  in...the  art.  These  lunatics  look  like  they’re  painting  themselves  more  than  the  paper,  truth  be  told...and  those  few  guys  who’ve  managed  to  get  a  few  brush  strokes  in...--  “Oh!”  Richard  stops  in  his  tracks,  hands  in  his  pockets  as  he  leans  over  a  bald  man’s  shoulder,  taking  a  look  at  the  only  thing  in  the  room  that  looks  like  a  drawing  of  some  kind.  Splattered  across  the  canvas,  in  shades  of  purple  and  stark  black,  is  a  ghostly  figure.  Its  missing  some  distinct  features...eyes,  a  mouth...but  it  looks  like  something.  It  makes  the  hair  on  the  back  of  his  neck  stand  on  end.  

“Nice...work.”  He  finally  says,  measuring  his  words  a  little  more  carefully  than  usual.  “Loving  the  slippers  too.  Balenciaga?”  Richard  glances  down  at  the  man’s  feet  before  moving  on,  spotting  a  guy  with  brain  function.  

“Hey,  I’m  Rick  Trager  from  upstairs.  R&D.  I  think  I’ve  seen  you  before...don’t  tell  me...”  The  executive  reaches  out,  shaking  the  orderly's  hand,  eyes  rolling  back  to  try  and  remember  the  guy’s  name.  “Daniel?”  That  seems  close.  There’s  too  many  people  down  here.  

“I  figured,  you  know  what...  the  sun  is  shining,  the  office  is  cramped,  and  the  art  program  is  on  the  checklist  so  I  swung  by.”  Trager  smiles,  turning  to  look  at  the  room  at  large  again.  “Quite  the  Kindergarten  class  you’ve  got  here.  I’d  keep  an  eye  on  Picasso,  personally.  Looks  like  a  serial  killer.  You  know  those  people  draw  fucked  up  shit  when  they’re  young,  right?  The  more  ya  know...”  

[jcmarchi]

Amazon strives to outpace Nvidia with cheaper, faster AI chips

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Amazon strives to outpace Nvidia with cheaper, faster AI chips

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Amazon’s chip lab is churning out a constant stream of innovation in Austin, Texas. A new server design was put through its paces by a group of devoted engineers on July 26th.

During a visit to the facility in Austin, Amazon executive Rami Sinno shed light on the server’s use of Amazon’s AI chips. This development is a bold step toward competing with Nvidia, the current leader in the field.

The main reason Amazon is developing its own processor is this: it doesn’t want to rely on Nvidia and buy the company’s chips. The expensive Nvidia chips power a big part of the AI cloud business at Amazon Web Services. This business is the most significant growth engine of the company. Thus, the so-called “Nvidia tax” was pushing the company to look for a cheaper option.

Amazon’s chip development program has a dual purpose. Firstly, the project is meant to provide customers with more affordable opportunities for complex calculations and large data volume processing. Secondly, the initiative was developed to preserve Amazon’s competitiveness in the volatile cloud computing and AI industry. This move was also supported by the directions of tech giants such as Microsoft and Alphabet, which are developing custom-made chips to maintain their leadership in the market.

Rami Sinno, director of engineering for Amazon’s Annapurna Labs, a key element of the AWS ecosystem, emphasised that customer demand for more economical solutions to Nvidia’s products is growing. The acquisition of Annapurna Labs in 2015 was a savvy move by Amazon as it enabled the company to lay the groundwork to begin developing popular chips.

Although Amazon’s chips for AI are in their early days, the company has been making and refining chips for other mainstream applications for nearly a decade, most notably its general-purpose chip, Graviton, which is now in its fourth generation. Amazon has announced that its Trainium and Inferentia chips, the company’s latest and strongest, are still in their early days and are specially designed processors.

The impact is potentially huge because the impressive performance underscores the reports by David Brown, vice president of compute and networking at AWS. In this light, it should be acknowledged that Amazon’s in-house chips could deliver up to a 40-50% price-performance ratio improvement compared to Nvidia-based solutions. In turn, this potential improvement could mean considerable savings for AWS clientele deploying their AI workloads.

AWS’ significance to Amazon’s overall business cannot be underestimated. In the first quarter of this year, AWS made up a little under a fifth of Amazon’s total revenue, as its sales soared by 17 per cent year over year to reach $25 billion. At the moment, AWS holds about a third of the global cloud computing market, and Microsoft’s Azure covers about a quarter, or 25%.

Amazon’s commitment to its custom chip strategy was demonstrated during the recent Prime Day, a two-day sales event at Amazon.com. To handle the highly elevated level of shopping as well as streaming video, music, and other content, Amazon deployed an impressive 250,000 Graviton chips and 80,000 of its custom AI chips across its platforms. Adobe Analytics announced record Prime Day results of $14.2 billion in sales.

It seems that as Amazon intensifies its work on the development of AI chips, the industry leader, Nvidia, is not going to remain at the same level. Nvidia’s CEO, Jensen Huang, has presented Nvidia’s latest Blackwell chips, which are scheduled for release later in the year. Their performance has increased significantly, and Huang promised that the new chips are twice as powerful for AI model training and five times faster for inference.

Nvidia’s dominant position in the AI chip market is underscored by its impressive client list, which includes tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta. The company’s focus on AI has propelled its market value to a staggering $2 trillion, making it the third most valuable company globally, behind only Microsoft and Apple.

As the AI chip race intensifies, Nvidia is also diversifying its offerings. The company has introduced new software tools to facilitate AI integration across various industries and is developing specialised chips for emerging applications such as in-car chatbots and humanoid robots.

(Image by Gerd Altmann)

See also: Nvidia: World’s most valuable company under French antitrust fire

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[brightlotusmoon]

It is also known as the “Forgotten Generation.” The sort of “skipped-over” group, small that it is, who found themselves with a beeper and a cell phone at University. Recently there was an article calling us “Xennials.” Whatever the coined phrase is at the moment, this micro-generation speaks to the small lot of us that were born in the cusp years; the tail end of GEN X and right before Millennials. It has been said that the years are typically referred to the late 1970’s (1977) and early 1980’s, up to 1983. We are the youngest brothers and sisters to the GEN X group, and some days we recognize as such, and others as a Millennial.

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I was looking for GenX rememberings of The Oregon Trail and especially of the time they made it 3D, and I found this.

[lesterplatt]

Still Here | A Breakwater Original from Breakwater Studios Ltd. on Vimeo.

Annapurna Pictures Presents

A Breakwater Original

Fifty years later, the real Melvin Dismukes chronicles his first-hand experience of the infamous Algiers Motel Incident, for which he was wrongly charged with first-degree murder in 1967.

Directed by Ben Proudfoot | ben@breakwaterstudios.com Cinematography by David Bolen | @davidbolen Edited by Nick Wright Original Music by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson Post-Production Supervision by Dillon Brown Color by Stephen Derluguian Sound Supervision & Re-recording by Sean Higgins Sound Editing by TJ Jacques Visual Effects & On-Set Dit by David Nieman Production Sound by Ginge Cox Grooming & Make-Up by Rashida Williams Produced by Jeremy Lambert, Richard Graham & Ben Proudfoot

Archival Footage Courtesy of NBCUniversal Archives Archives of Michigan LBJ Presidential library Walter P. Reuther Library

For Breakwater Studios Gabe Godoi Dawn O’Keeffe Kristi Wenaus Clarisse Wiedem

Special Thanks to 10 Pins of Trenton Debbie Dismukes Johnny Dunn Megan Ellison Philip Kafka Austin Kolodney Matt Leuthe Lara McClintock Michael Risley The Transfer Lab Kees van Dijkhuisen Jr.

Clips from DETROIT Courtesy of Annapurna Pictures Directed by Kathryn Bigelow

Shot on Arri Alexa Mini and Cooke Mini s4i

Made with Love by Breakwater Studios Ltd. in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Los Feliz, California

breakwaterstudios.com | @breakwaterstud

[fmp2maxleighton]

The Artful Escape is a side scroller platform video game developed by Australian indie development studio Beethoven & Dinosaur and published by American publisher Annapurna Interactive, released at first exclusively on Windows and Xbox in 2021, before coming onto additional consoles in 2022. The plot of the game follows a teenage guitar prodigy sets out on a psychedelic journey to inspire his stage persona and confront the legacy of a dead folk legend. The game has a very sci-fi and psychedelic art style, inspired by the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Steven Spielberg and David Bowie’s creation of Ziggy Stardust.

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[suchananewsblog]

Annapurna Names Shayne Fiske Goldner EVP Physical Production As David Wolkis Exits; Skye Optican Promoted

EXCLUSIVE: Annapurna has employed Picturestart’s former EVP, Shayne Fiske Goldner as EVP of Physical Production. She replaces David Wolkis who’s leaving the studio as their Head of Physical Production for TV and movie. Meanwhile, Skye Optican has additionally been promoted to Creative Director of International Development and Production. Goldner will oversee all points of manufacturing…