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Nvidia products are at the heart of the boom in artificial intelligence.Despite starting in gaming and designing semiconductors that touch many diverse industries, the products Nvidia designs to go inside high-powered data centers are the most important to the company today, and to the future of AI.Graphics processing units, designed to be clustered together in dozens of racks inside massive temperature-controlled warehouses, made Nvidia a household name. They also got Nvidia into the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and put it in the position to control the flow of a crucial but finite resource: artificial intelligence.Nvidia’s first generation of chips for…
Like many tech execs, Dropbox’s VP of product and growth agrees that job seekers should still learn basic technical skills — but his No. 1 piece of advice is to “show your work.”Morgan Brown told Business Insider that it’s about showcasing your capabilities, rather than showing how you arrived at an answer. “Publish your stuff, publish your thinking,” Brown said in an interview. “Build the apps, build the websites.”Brown said he would give that advice at any time, but it’s especially relevant in the age of AI. In a time where there’s an abundance of free tools and online courses,…
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Talks aimed at settling a strike between train engineers and New Jersey’s huge commuter railroad will pick up on Saturday and continue Sunday, New Jersey Transit CEO Kris Kolluri said. The locomotive engineers’ strike began Friday at the rail system with 350,000 daily riders and left commuters either working from home or searching for other ways to travel across the state or over the Hudson River to New York City. Kolluri spoke Saturday at Newark’s Broad Street Station, saying the agency is preparing for the workweek commute by “surging” buses to help commuters at train stations.…
The robotaxi race is speeding up.Tesla is preparing to debut its autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin next month, and Alphabet’s Waymo continues to expand throughout major US cities.Under the hood of the Tesla and Waymo robotaxis are two key pieces of technology that the companies respectively call Full Self-Driving (FSD) and the Waymo Driver.We (Business Insider’s Lloyd Lee and Alistair Barr) tested both of these AI-powered drivers in San Francisco — and the results truly surprised us.Given the positive experiences we’ve had with Waymo and Tesla’s FSD, we expected the results of our not-so-scientific test to come down to minute…
A leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot.Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions.“Irrigation is the future. We do not rely on the weather,” said its 83-year-old president, Miguel Torres. “I don’t know how long we can stay here making good wines, maybe 20 or 30 years, I don’t know. Climate change…
Los Angeles entrepreneur and investor Jessica Mah is embroiled in bitter legal disputes with two former executives of her company and with D Global Ventures, a firm led by Justin Caldbeck, a prominent Silicon Valley venture capitalist who admitted to sexually harassing female investors in 2017.In a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court this week, Mah accused Caldbeck of sexually harassing her and of seeking to defame her over a dispute about an investment he made in a corporate entity she controlled.Meanwhile, in three separate lawsuits, two ex-senior executives at Mah’s investment firm Mahway — former CFO William Mulholland…
The state-run company’s refining capacity target will mark a 25% jump from 81 mmtpa currently.Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOCL) is looking to diversify into data centres, nuclear power generation, shipping, critical mineral mining, and battery manufacturing among sectors, said people aware of the development.In its core business, India’s top refiner and fuel retailer is targeting 100 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) refining capacity and 13 mmtpa petrochemical capacity by FY28, the people said.These initiatives are part of IOCL’s strategy to reach $1 trillion revenue and achieve net zero emissions operationally by 2047. Senior IOCL executives highlighted in their ‘Imagining…
Long gone are the days when you needed an anime-exclusive streaming service to watch your favorite series; now, you can turn to popular services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Max for both new releases and classic titles in the genre. With that in mind, more and more viewers are cutting Crunchyroll from their monthly subscriptions to save money, and I’ve broken down how to do so below. Luckily, it only takes a few clicks to cancel a Crunchyroll subscription. After doing so, you’ll have until the day before your renewal date to continue watching at your current plan’s level, whether you’re a Fan,…
(Investing) – U.S. oil producer Chevron Corp (NYSE:) and several European companies are in talks with the Trump administration to obtain authorizations to keep their stakes in joint ventures with Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA, three sources close to the matter said. Washington in March revoked licenses and authorizations it had granted in recent years that allowed PDVSA’s foreign partners and customers to do business with Venezuela, which is under U.S. sanctions, and export oil to destinations including the U.S., Europe and India. The U.S. gave the companies until May 27 to wind down transactions, but did not rule specifically on what they should do…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Storms Friday afternoon tore roofs off buildings, ripped bricks off of siding and downed trees and power lines.At least four people died and authorities were searching from building to building for people who were trapped or hurt after severe storms iswept through St. Louis. A person walks past a large tree blocking a road after a severe storm moved through Friday, May 16, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) A person walks past a large tree blocking a road after a severe storm moved through Friday, May 16, 2025, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)Read…