Art festivals can fill abandoned buildings with new life – or clear a path for property developers. Coimbra’s Anozero is trying out a more confrontational approach If you decide to spend a night at Coimbra’s Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova in the near future, do bear in mind that the place is almost certainly haunted. Disembodied children’s voices echo around the first floor of the 17th century co...
Art festivals can fill abandoned buildings with new life – or clear a path for property developers. Coimbra’s Anozero is trying out a more confrontational approach If you decide to spend a night at Coimbra’s Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova in the near future, do bear in mind that the place is almost certainly haunted. Disembodied children’s voices echo around the first floor of the 17th century convent perched atop a hill in the Portuguese university city, overlooking the medieval centre from across the Mondego river. In the garages, dry foliage has been arranged in geometric shapes, as if in preparation for a wicca ritual. You need the nerves of a ghost-hunter to walk through the pitch-black ground-floor corridor of the dormitory wing, lit only by a neon strip at either end, where tortured wails ambush you from the monkish cells. Sung in Albanian, Chinese, Kurdish, Kyrgyz and Turkish, these laments are part of an installation by US artist Taryn Simon, but they feel like spectral reminders of the nuns who lived in these quarters for two centuries. Continue reading...
Malaysia’s king said he would select a new anti-corruption chief, the first official confirmation that current head Azam Baki’s term will not be renewed when it ends next month. “I will determine who is the best candidate to lead the MACC from now on,” Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, the current monarch, said in a social media post on Thursday, referring to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commissi...
Malaysia’s king said he would select a new anti-corruption chief, the first official confirmation that current head Azam Baki’s term will not be renewed when it ends next month. “I will determine who is the best candidate to lead the MACC from now on,” Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar of Johor, the current monarch, said in a social media post on Thursday, referring to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission. He added that “there is no need for any party to politicise the matter”. Representatives for the...
格隆汇4月23日｜Sameer Group LLC的CEO Syed Sameer在X平台回应孙宇晨称，其与Aryam1和Aqua1作为最大的WLFI机构持有者之一(总计超过3亿美元)，愿意为孙宇晨达成一个公平的解决方案，并解锁其被锁的代币。据悉，孙宇晨及其公司周二向旧金山联邦法院提交诉状，起诉美国总统特朗普家族联合创立的加密货币项目World Liberty Financial（WIFI），指控...
格隆汇4月23日｜Sameer Group LLC的CEO Syed Sameer在X平台回应孙宇晨称，其与Aryam1和Aqua1作为最大的WLFI机构持有者之一(总计超过3亿美元)，愿意为孙宇晨达成一个公平的解决方案，并解锁其被锁的代币。据悉，孙宇晨及其公司周二向旧金山联邦法院提交诉状，起诉美国总统特朗普家族联合创立的加密货币项目World Liberty Financial（WIFI），指控该公司敲诈勒索，并实施“非法计划”来没收他的代币，他和他的公司遭受了“数亿美元的损失”。
SpaceX may be tackling one of the biggest challenges in the chip business: manufacturing the keys to powering artificial intelligence called graphics processing units, or GPUs. Ahead of SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO expected this summer, the company has warned prospective investors of its big spending plans to develop AI and other technologies. It lists "manufacturing our own GPUs" among the "subs...
SpaceX may be tackling one of the biggest challenges in the chip business: manufacturing the keys to powering artificial intelligence called graphics processing units, or GPUs. Ahead of SpaceX's $1.75 trillion IPO expected this summer, the company has warned prospective investors of its big spending plans to develop AI and other technologies. It lists "manufacturing our own GPUs" among the "substantial capital expenditures" it is undertaking, according to excerpts of its S-1 registration reviewed by Reuters.