All posts tagged: Raw

From pop royalty to raw Americana: ‘Michael’, ‘The New West’ and ‘Die, My Love’ – arts24

From pop royalty to raw Americana: ‘Michael’, ‘The New West’ and ‘Die, My Love’ – arts24

Published by Sam Flores

This week’s film show on arts24 spotlights a trio of strikingly different releases, led by Antoine Fuqua’s highly anticipated biopic “Michael”, which features a breakout performance from nephew Jaafar Jackson as the King of Pop, alongside Colman Domingo’s chilling turn as patriarch Joseph Jackson. The conversation then shifts to Kate Beecroft’s Sundance-winning debut “The New West”, a moving docu-fiction starring real-life rancher Tabatha Zimiga with Scoot McNairy and Jennifer Ehle, which captures the quiet struggles of rural America. Rounding out the highlights is Lynne Ramsay’s intense Cannes contender “Die, My Love”, where Jennifer Lawrence delivers a powerhouse performance opposite Robert Pattinson in a raw and unsettling portrait of love, isolation and mental health. Together, these films bring star power, controversy and deeply human storytelling to the big screen. Source link

Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

Meta’s New AI Asked for My Raw Health Data—and Gave Me Terrible Advice

Published by skeptic

Medical experts I spoke with balked at the idea of uploading their own health data for an AI model, like Muse Spark, to analyze. “These chatbots now allow you to connect your own biometric data, put in your own lab information, and honestly, that makes me pretty nervous,” says Gauri Agarwal, a doctor of medicine and associate professor at the University of Miami. “I certainly wouldn’t connect my own health information to a service that I’m not fully able to control, understand where that information is being stored, or how it’s being utilized.” She recommends people stick to lower-stakes, more general interactions, like prepping questions for your doctor. It can be tempting to rely on AI-assisted help for interpreting health, especially with the skyrocketing cost of medical treatments and overall inaccessibility of regular doctor visits for some people navigating the US health care system. “You will be forgiven for going online and delegating what used to be a powerful, important personal relationship between a doctor and a patient—to a robot,” says Kenneth Goodman, founder of …

River of raw sewage pours down residential street after heavy rain

River of raw sewage pours down residential street after heavy rain

Published by Sam Flores

Residents were left horrified after raw sewage flooded a street in Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, during heavy rain on March 24. Waste including toilet paper and nappies flowed past homes after drains overflowed, with locals warning it posed a health risk. Severn Trent said tree roots caused the blockage and apologised, with further repairs and a clean-up planned. Source link

From raw material to real-life power

From raw material to real-life power

Published by skeptic

The 5GSOLAR project is developing environmentally friendly photovoltaics for powering indoor appliances. Solar power has long been associated with rooftops, sunlight, and wide-open skies. Yet, much of modern life happens indoors, under office lights, kitchen lamps, and the soft glow of our homes. As our world fills with small electronic devices that quietly work in the background, the question is: ‘Can solar energy work indoors too?’ The answer is yes of course, and it may lie in a relatively simple and little-known Earth-abundant material called antimony sulfide (Sb2S3). Why indoor solar cells matter Modern life is filled with small devices that need constant power: smart sensors that monitor air quality, wearable health devices, electronic labels, and Internet of Things (IoT) systems embedded in homes and workplaces. These devices consume very little energy, but they rely heavily on batteries. Replacing and disposing of batteries is inconvenient, costly, and environmentally harmful. Indoor solar cells offer a compelling alternative: devices that power themselves using the light already around them. Indoor photovoltaics – in simple terms, ‘the conversion of …

At the Sea, Berlin Film Festival review – Amy Adams could finally win her Oscar with this raw alcoholism tale

At the Sea, Berlin Film Festival review – Amy Adams could finally win her Oscar with this raw alcoholism tale

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter The 2026 Oscars haven’t even happened yet, but Amy Adams will likely be in the running next year for her towering performance in Kornél Mundruczó’s At the Sea (which premiered in competition at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday evening). Adams has already received six nominations across her career, for films ranging from David O Russell’s bombastic crime comedy American Hustle to the melancholy indie Junebug, but she’s surely never faced a role as demanding or rewarding as this. Adams plays recovering alcoholic Laura, with the very first image of the film a huge close up of her sallow face. The camera gradually pulls back and we see that she is drumming with ferocious concentration. This is a musical exercise at a rehab centre – she’s been there for six months trying to get sober, after smashing up a car in …

16 Best Raw Denim Jeans 2026, According to GQ Editors

16 Best Raw Denim Jeans 2026, According to GQ Editors

Published by Jenni Sidey

For a while there, the best raw denim jeans seems destined to remain a footnote in menswear—or is it #menswear?—history. See, if you’ve shopped for jeans recently, you’ve probably encountered some terrific washes. Light washes, medium washes, uneven washes, washes with whiskers, washes with trompe-l’oeil prints, you name it. You’re not imagining it: since they height of the raw denim craze in the 2010s, we’ve entered something of a washed denim golden era, an equal and opposite reaction GQ clocked as early as January of 2023. More recently, though, you might’ve also noticed that jeans have been getting a little bit darker again, and that the raw, deep-blue denim of decades past has made a triumphant return, just in time to keep your legs warm this winter. (For those of you who say selvedge never left, you’re right—plenty of people stuck by it during the down years, but die-hard loyalist are never the most accurate bellwether of mainstream ubiquity.) When it comes to the brands doing ’em justice, the old guard is still crushing it, …

Ballerina Farm Has Paused Raw Milk Sales. This Is Why

Ballerina Farm Has Paused Raw Milk Sales. This Is Why

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Ballerina Farm is the latest manufacturer of raw milk to halt production after reports that its milk failed safety tests. Coliform, a bacteria family that includes E. coli, was found in bottles manufactured in May and June 2025. The company, owned by lifestyle influencers Hannah and Daniel Neeleman, produces its raw milk, among other products, at a small farm in Kamas, Utah, where it also has a farm stand. They also own another farm store in Midway, Utah, but that location reportedly was not selling raw milk. According to KPCW, Ballerina Farm had to pause production of its raw milk after a routine health inspection by the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food (UDAF). This occurred just a few months after it started selling the raw milk at the Kamas farm stand, and a spokesperson from Ballerina Farm told KPCW that the farm is currently only selling pasteurized milk. “Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint,” Ballerina Farm said in a statement on Jan. 29, per KPCW. “Unfortunately, we learned …

Arcee’s U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence

Arcee’s U.S.-made, open source Trinity Large and 10T-checkpoint offer rare look at raw model intelligence

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San Francisco-based AI lab Arcee made waves last year for being one of the only U.S. companies to train large language models (LLMs) from scratch and release them under open or partially open source licenses to the public—enabling developers, solo entrepreneurs, and even medium-to-large enterprises to use the powerful AI models for free and customize them at will. Now Arcee is back again this week with the release of its largest, most performant open language model to date: Trinity Large, a 400-billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE), available now in preview, Alongside the flagship release, Arcee is shipping a “raw” checkpoint model, Trinity-Large-TrueBase, that allows researchers to study what a 400B sparse MoE learns from raw data alone, before instruction tuning and reinforcement has been applied. By providing a clean slate at the 10-trillion-token mark, Arcee enables AI builders in highly regulated industries to perform authentic audits and conduct their own specialized alignments without inheriting the “black box” biases or formatting quirks of a general-purpose chat model. This transparency allows for a deeper understanding of the distinction …

The Politics of Raw Power | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake

The Politics of Raw Power | Joseph O’Neill, Daniel Drake

Published by Jenni Sidey

On Wednesday a group of Border Patrol agents in Minneapolis pinned a man to the ground and, while he was immobilized, blasted pepper spray into his face at point-blank range. On Thursday the House of Representatives, with the necessary support of seven Democrats, passed a government spending bill that appropriated $10 billion to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. This morning federal immigration agents in Minneapolis shot and killed a nurse named Alex Pretti. Last February, as President Trump was going about dismantling nonmilitary federal agencies and strong-arming universities and law firms into compliance, I wrote to Joseph O’Neill to ask why Democrats had put up such weak opposition in the face of the administration’s actions. He called it “an unprecedented spectacle of democratic implosion.” In the year since our conversation, Trump and the Republican Party have embarked on a new stage of authoritarianism: an imperialistic foreign policy, extrajudicial murders on the high seas, and the mass deployment of Border Patrol and ICE agents into Democratic cities. This week I wrote to O’Neill to ask about the …

Eight surprising vegetables you should eat raw for a greater health boost

Eight surprising vegetables you should eat raw for a greater health boost

Published by Daniella Wilson

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free Most people aim for five portions of fruit and vegetables daily, but raw consumption can sometimes offer greater health advantages. Functional nutritionist Pauline Cox, author of Hungry Woman, notes that cooking depletes “heat-sensitive nutrients, such as vitamin C”. She adds that “beneficial enzymes within raw veg can also be lost to roasting and cooking”. Fresh, uncooked vegetables are particularly appealing in summer, perfect for satisfying salads and crunchy snacks. “Adding more raw to your daily dish will liven up your palate and upgrade your dinner plate,” Cox says. open image in gallery Eating vegetables raw can preserve their vitamin content (Alamy/PA) As with any raw ingredient, it’s important to prepare veg properly. “Whether you’re eating vegetables raw or cooked, always wash them well before consuming to help reduce pesticide residue or harmful bacteria,” suggests Maz Packham, nutritional therapist and founder of Nourishful Nutrition. Here, experts …