The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is sounding alarms this week about a dangerous fungus that has grown far more prevalent in the U.S. since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and poses a deadly threat, particularly in hospitals. It all sounds a bit like the setup for the HBO show The Last of … Read more
Silicon Valley Bank’s former parent company can’t access about $2 billion that it had deposited at the failed bank, after regulators froze the company’s accounts and are exploring whether it should help shoulder costs associated with the bank’s failure. Lawyers for SVB Financial Group, the holding company that used to control the now-defunct bank, claimed … Read more
Published: March 21, 2023 at 4:43 p.m. ET For the second time in his 67 years, Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates said he has been truly blown away by technology. The first time was back in 1980, when he was introduced to the graphical user interface, which became the rock upon which he built Microsoft’s … Read more
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
I’ve inherited a house in San Francisco from my aunt. My aunt had rented her basement to an older couple (probably illegally) for a few years for below market rates. I don’t believe there was a lease, and it is probably against the building code to have tenants in the basement. The couple’s family is … Read more