Fungus resistant to drugs spreading rapidly, CDC says

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Candida auris is a yeast responsible for many infections. Resistant to most anti-fungal drugs, this fungus causes several deaths worldwide. BSIP | Universal Images Group | Getty Images A fungus that is often resistant to drugs has spread at an “alarming rate” through health-care facilities in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control … Read more

SVB Financial Group seeks cooperation with FDIC after $2 bln frozen

SVB Financial Group seeks cooperation with FDIC after $2 bln frozen

March 21 (Reuters) – An attorney for SVB Financial Group (SIVB.O) told a judge on Tuesday it was seeking cooperation from regulators who seized its Silicon Valley Bank unit and removed $2 billion of its cash, which was needed to sustain operations. SVB Financial, which filed for bankruptcy on Friday, had said in court papers … Read more

NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF

NVIDIA Unveils Ada Lovelace RTX Workstation GPUs for Laptops; Desktop RTX 4000 SFF

Along with their server part announcements today, NVIDIA is also using the backdrop of GTC to do a wholesale update of their professional visualization product stack. NVIDIA’s laptop lineup, which to date has not received any parts based on NVIDIA’s new Ada Lovelace architecture is finally getting its due, with a nearly top-to-bottom update of … Read more

Brain Decline Comes Later Than Previously Thought

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Summary: Brain decline begins during our 30s and 40s, and not at age 25 as previously believed, researchers say. Source: University Medical Center Utrecht Recent research from University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC Utrecht) shows that our brain declines later than previously thought. Instead of after our 25th year of life, it happens when we are … Read more

Nvidia Unveils New AI Products at GTC Event

Nvidia Unveils New AI Products at GTC Event

On Tuesday, the company’s CEO Jensen Huang announced a wide-ranging set of partnerships and products that enable this latest wave of artificial intelligence services—all powered by Nvidia’s semiconductors. “Generative AI’s incredible potential is inspiring virtually every industry to reimagine its business strategies and the technology required to achieve them,” Huang said during the Nvidia (ticker: … Read more

Bayonetta Creator Says Prequel Will Solve Japan’s Low Birthrate

Bayonetta Creator Says Prequel Will Solve Japan’s Low Birthrate

The just-released Bayonetta prequel side-story, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon, is actually really good, a return to form after the disappointment of Bayonetta 3, as I noted in my impressions yesterday. But apparently I was off base in positing that it was intended to placate lore-starved Bayonetta players like myself, because her creator, … Read more

Where Nate Oats says San Diego State ‘has an advantage on us’ in Sweet 16

Where Nate Oats says San Diego State ‘has an advantage on us’ in Sweet 16

Nate Oats is one of many subscribers to the popular college basketball analytics website KenPom.com, and his research of upcoming opponents includes it. One number in particular stood out to Oats when he started digging into San Diego State, which meets Alabama in the Sweet 16 on Friday night in Louisville. “They’re an experienced team,” … Read more

Having Covid before being vaccinated may result in less immunity

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A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images People who caught Covid-19 before they were vaccinated had a weaker immune response to the shots than those who … Read more

Bitcoin Prices Slips. The Fed Decision Will Be a Key Moment for Cryptos.

5 Reasons Bitcoin's Price Is Soaring Amid the Bank Panic. One Is Key for Stocks.

Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies settled lower Tuesday after a rally that carried digital assets to their highest point since last summer. While the Federal Reserve decision Wednesday is the next key catalyst, cryptos show signs of fundamental strength. The price of Bitcoin has fallen 2% over the past 24 hours to $27,750 after the largest … Read more