Jensen Huang’s abrupt resignation on Thursday as Nvidia’s CEO leaves the chipmaker searching for a successor who can replace an executive synonymous with the artificial intelligence boom and who is credited with transforming the company into a $4 trillion behemoth. The board’s announcement of Huang’s departure said that Colette Kress, the company’s chief financial officer, will serve as interim…
An aging NASA telescope is barely clinging to space after a failed rescue effort left it tottering lower and lower. The space agency said Monday it predicts the Swift Observatory will likely come crashing down on Wednesday. Most of the 1 ½-ton telescope is expected to burn up in the atmosphere. But a handful of…
With a consequential election in Israel Tuesday, tens of thousands of Israelis living abroad have flown in just to cast their ballots. Ronnie Teram Gil-Ad left Israel for the U.S. with her family a year ago. She shelled out about $3,000 to come back to vote. “It is my country. The fact that I’m living…
“Glaring gaps” in the United Kingdom’s Arctic defenses are leaving it and NATO vulnerable to attacks from Russia, British lawmakers said in a parliamentary report published Thursday. The group urged the British government to “urgently address” gaps in maritime forces, particularly with the U.S. acting “more unilaterally in the region.” “This is a demanding, hostile…
The online predictions market platform Polymarket has removed a contract that allowed users to bet on whether any of the seven men accused of sexually assaulting or exploiting a Cornell student in 2024 will be charged with a felony sex crime. More than $450,000 had been wagered on this question before it was taken off…
The winter season may bring much-needed rain and snow to parts of the United States where both have been lacking, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s latest winter weather outlook. But wetter conditions expected in much of the South will unfold alongside drier-than-average winter months across the northern tier of the country, largely…
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries expressed growing confidence that his party will regain control of the House in November, as he visited two battleground districts in recent days to help Democratic candidates unseat Republican incumbents. Jeffries campaigned Friday in New Jersey’s competitive 7th Congressional District alongside Democratic challenger Rebecca Bennett, a Navy veteran seeking to…
A remote island near Antarctica is no longer home to the world’s largest penguin colony as climate-driven changes to ocean food chains likely devastated its once-thriving inhabitants and caused a “population collapse,” researchers said Wednesday. Drone and satellite images showed that the volcanic island of Zavodovski lost more than 680,000 — or nearly two-thirds —…
Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang told CBS News he disagrees with recent warnings from artificial intelligence researchers that the technology could lead to humanity’s extinction within a few years, calling such statements overblown “doomsday narratives.” “2030 is not going to be the end of the world. There is 0% chance that’s going to be…
The language used Monday by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent as he announced a new raft of sanctions against Iran was apocalyptic. The measures are part of the Trump administration’s plan to use economic pressure to force Iran to capitulate, to bring an end to the nearly six-month war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The…
