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The Verge
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
adds new forms for each of the game's weapons, new boss fight variations, and, most importantly,
I see a new Hades II update. Among other things, The Unseen Update a kickass new song from Scylla and the Sirens. The game just keeps getting better. There's still no v1.0 launch date, but Supergiant Games is 'starting to prepare' for the launch, according to a blog post. It's currently in early access on PC, but when it hits 1.0, it'll come out on Switch and Switch 2.
The Verge
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
I see a new Hades II update.
Among other things, The Unseen Update adds new forms for each of the game's weapons, new boss fight variations, and, most importantly, a kickass new song from Scylla and the Sirens. The game just keeps getting better. There's still no v1.0 launch date, but Supergiant Games is 'starting to prepare' for the launch, according to a blog post. It's currently in early access on PC, but when it hits 1.0, it'll come out on Switch and Switch 2.
Time Out
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Ithell Colquhoun: ‘Between Worlds'
Ithell Colquhoun didn't sit still, visually or spiritually. This exhibition attempts to make sense of a sprawling oeuvre that engages with an incredibly wide gamut of spiritual, religious and formal ideas. Though not always coherent, it reveals her to be an artist of immense talent and invention. Across her engagements with the occult, Hindu Tantra, Christian mysticism and the Jewish Kabbalah, Colquhoun's eye for composition remains a constant, and might be the best part of a sometimes confusing show. Born in 1906 in India, where her father worked in the British colonial administration, Colquhoun moved to Cheltenham at a young age and went on to study art at the Slade, where she developed an interest in the esoteric. She was a card-carrying surrealist until 1940, when the group's British leader E.L.T. Mesens declared that members shouldn't join other societies. A practicing occultist, she took her cue to leave. Throughout the exhibition, various strains of surrealism and ways of understanding the world serve as a kind of tasting menu for Colquhoun. Here, in a relatively small-scale restaging of her broader exhibition at Tate St. Ives, the jumps between various artistic mediums and grand ideas can be jarring. Spanning painting, drawing and a number of more experimental techniques, the diversity of Colquhoun's output seems to work against the constraints of the exhibition. What might be an expansive exploration often feels like a whistle-stop tour. Standout moments are deeply – if quietly – impactful. The painting Scylla (1938), for example, depicts two tubular and fleshy rocks emerging from the ocean. They meet underwater among a tangle of coral. It's as suggestive as it is strange, reflecting the Surrealist idea of a 'double image', where one thing masquerades as another. A phallic interpretation is tempting, but a second look yields something more elegant and subtle: a pair of legs emerging from the water, seen from above as though painted from the point of view of someone sitting in a bathtub. A transatlantic counterpart, perhaps, to Frida Kahlo's surrealist masterpiece What the Water Gave Me, which was painted in the same year. The formal virtuosity that Scylla demonstrates is constant through Colquhoun's practice. This clearly comes naturally to her, as is evident in some beautiful small-scale examples of her experiments with new techniques. The symmetrical, rainbow-coloured Rorschach tests yielded by her 'Stillomancy' technique and the ghostly shapes applied using Fumage – holding paper above a flame and painting with its smoke – are highlights. Elsewhere, a tarot deck is adorned with psychedelic abstract constellations formed by pouring brightly coloured enamel paint. Bonsoir (1939) is the work that best demonstrates this talent for composition. Across a grid of 42 small-scale, simplistic photographic collages (some comprising only one image), Colquhoun tells an ambiguous story of attraction between two women. She crops, clips and combines images with the keen graphic sensibility of a pop artist. Though this show might bite off more than it can chew conceptually, it succeeds in communicating Colquhoun's impressive abilities as an image-maker.
Hindustan Times
26-05-2025
- Business
- Hindustan Times
Spectacle or stability: America's trade at a crossroads
In the wake of President Trump's threat to slap a 50% tariff on all European Union imports (he has delayed it till July 9) alongside his promise of punitive levies on tech giants, America stands at a crossroads between political posturing and economic prudence. What may play well on the campaign trail risks opening the Pandora's box in boardrooms from Detroit to Dublin. As the Federal Reserve adopts a wait-and-see stance amid sticky price pressures, the real test will be whether policymakers choose spectacle over stability, or whether common sense prevails in preserving the world's most dynamic economy. It is an old adage that 'empty barrels make the most noise,' and in Trump's tariff theatre, the loudest clamour often comes at the expense of nuanced economic argument. Instead of negotiating mutual reductions, the administration resorts to unilateral threats that risk a spiral of retaliation. As European leaders contemplate their next move, the warning is clear: If you live by tariffs, you may also die by them, hurting consumers and producers on both sides of the Atlantic. Behind the headlines lurks a more sober concern — the risk of stagflation. With consumer-price inflation still running above the Fed's two per cent target and wage growth edging higher, central bankers find themselves between Scylla and Charybdis. As JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon has warned, the confluence of fiscal deficits, geopolitical fragmentation, and services-driven price stickiness could slow growth even as prices stubbornly rise. The Federal Reserve's wait-and-see posture is not a retreat into dovishness but rather an exercise in disciplined restraint recognising that an ill-timed rate cut amid tariff-induced uncertainty could fan the flames of inflation. Yet patience wears thin when households confront rising housing and health care costs, and businesses postpone investment decisions in an environment of shifting trade winds. In short, America may find itself stuck in a growth-sapping quagmire if policy missteps escalate. Parallel to Europe, US policy towards China underscores another illusion: the myth of decoupling. Political rhetoric promises a clean break, yet real-world supply chains remain intertwined from semiconductors to rare-earth minerals. As one commentator quipped, 'you can't change horses midstream,' and the world's factories and financial markets have too many co-dependencies to sever without self-inflicted wounds. Moreover, capital markets continue to operate under commercial logic unless explicitly curtailed by sanctions. JPMorgan's underwriting of bonds for CATL, China's battery champion, reinforces that markets will fill any void left by politics. This pragmatism runs through corporate boardrooms and portfolio strategies worldwide: Firms seek opportunity, not political blame games. If Trump's tariff theatre embodies the art of the deal on steroids, then the path forward must be guided by the art of the possible. First, Washington and Brussels should revive a 'zero-for-zero' roadmap — under which the US lifts existing 25% duties on autos, steel, and aluminium in exchange for reciprocal EU cuts on a broader basket of industrial goods. This will re-establish trust and avert escalation. Second, policymakers must recognise that trade deficits are neither inherently villainous nor indicative of exploitation. Economies trade because they gain from specialisation — the very principle that powered US growth in the 20th century and underpins today's global value chains. A 'common sense and economic sense' approach, as one market observer put it, would accept that deficits in goods can be offset by surpluses in high-value services such as software, finance, and entertainment. Finally, the Federal Reserve should maintain its disciplined stance, ready to act if inflation expectations become unanchored but cautious about cutting rates before the fog of tariffs lifts. A clear, jointly communicated roadmap on trade policy would reduce uncertainty and allow the Fed to calibrate policy without the overhang of political theatrics. In politics, as in economics, words without action are like 'bells without tongues' — loud but hollow. The real test for US leadership will be to balance the electoral allure of tough talk with the needs of an open, efficient economy. The world is watching: Will Washington choose spectacle, or will it choose stability? Shruti Punia is fellow, Helsinki Geoeconomics. The views expressed are personal
Business Wire
21-05-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Trackforce and Scylla Partner to Connect AI Detection, Guard Dispatch & Incident Resolution
SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Trackforce, a global leader in security workforce management software, today announced an industry-first partnership with Scylla, an AI video surveillance company, that connects AI-powered threat detection directly into security workforce workflows to give security providers a faster, smarter, and fully integrated way to identify, dispatch, resolve, and bill incidents. The security industry historically struggles with siloed systems, creating gaps between threat identification and immediate physical response. As security providers modernize their operations, this integration tackles two critical challenges: reducing the high rate of false-positive alerts that drain resources and improving situational awareness for guards responding to incidents. By filtering out non-critical events before dispatch and equipping responders with AI-verified incident details, the partnership helps security teams allocate personnel more effectively, respond faster to real threats, and enhance the safety and preparedness of guards in the field. 'This is a direct response to what our customers have been asking for,' said Byron McDuffee, CEO of Trackforce. 'With labor shortages and high false-positive rates straining security teams, this partnership gives our clients a smarter way to deploy their skilled guards more efficiently. By embedding Scylla's AI into our workflows, we're helping customers boost situational awareness, speed up response times, and streamline administrative processes like billing, reporting, and accountability.' The combined solution bridges Scylla's smart event detection capabilities with the newly launched TrackTik Command Center. Whether identifying an active shooter on a camera feed or detecting an intrusion at a critical infrastructure site via drones, verified incidents are instantly pushed into the TrackTik platform, triggering automated response protocols. This eliminates manual handoffs, reduces response times, and ensures complete visibility from detection through resolution. 'The security industry has been reactive for too long. Seeing threats but lacking the ability to respond quickly and effectively is more than an issue,' said Albert Stepanyan, founder and CEO of Scylla. 'Together with Trackforce, we're changing that dynamic by providing complete situational awareness and faster response coordination, helping security teams move from passive monitoring to proactive intervention.' By fusing detection and response, this first-of-its-kind integration provides security service providers with a full closed-loop system, reducing risks, streamlining operations, and enabling new high-margin services like remote guarding and drone response. It is especially powerful for industries like data centers, energy, critical infrastructure, commercial real estate, high-net-worth residential, and automotive dealerships, where proactive threat detection and rapid incident resolution are critical to protecting investments and maintaining business continuity. To learn more about Trackforce's operations and mission, visit About Trackforce Trackforce is dedicated to developing advanced solutions that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations worldwide. Its commitment to delivering innovative web and mobile technology solutions is unwavering, as it constantly seeks to empower security professionals and streamline their operational challenges. For additional information, please visit About Scylla At Scylla, our mission is to create the best possible AI tech for video surveillance. As a technology-first company, we are committed to leveraging our expertise to deliver unparalleled precision and reliability in our solutions. We not only prioritize safety but also develop highly precise and sensitive AI solutions for video surveillance and security at large. We believe that through innovation and technology, we can provide our clients with the tools they need to protect what matters most and improve operations of their organizations. Learn more about Scylla at
