The Badass Punk Life of Kay Turner

[ad_1] Kay Turner in a performance promotion for the What a Witch performance series (photo collage by Vanessa Haney, all images courtesy the artist) This article is part of Hyperallergic’s 2024 Pride Month series, featuring interviews with art-world queer and trans elders throughout June. This week, 75-year-old artist and scholar Kay Turner will take the stage at […]

Fetcherr boosted by $90M for further growth

[ad_1] Fetcherr, a startup providing an AI-powered pricing and inventory control engine to airlines, has attracted $90 million in Series B funding. The investment, which will fuel further growth and enable recruitment, was led by Battery Ventures with existing investors also participating. Israel-based Fetcherr, a PhocusWire Hot 25 Travel Startup for 2023, announced a pre-Series […]

AWS partners with EvolutionaryScale following its $142M raise

[ad_1] Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is collaborating with EvolutionaryScale, an AI company focused on biology, to give scientists and researchers access to the startup’s ESM3 language models via AWS to advance drug discovery by allowing for the creation of new proteins. Yesterday, EvolutionaryScale, founded by former researchers at Meta’s AI research lab, announced […]

Jamaal Bowman Didn’t Lose Because of AIPAC

[ad_1] Their astonishing spending mattered less than how the congressman’s Jewish constituents weighed his words and actions. Ad Policy Representative Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) lost his bid for reelection to New York’s 16th Congressional District.(Michael M. Santiago / Getty) The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) is absolutely slaphappy about Jamaal Bowman’s defeat on Tuesday, claiming […]

The Best Films of 2024 So Far | Features

[ad_1] Now streaming on: “Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell” I have watched many films since this time last year, when, at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a film so startling in its visual assuredness, bearing a deep sense of longing and regret, froze me where I sat. It is a ruminative piece that, coincidentally, travels […]