Genius

2002 was the last year in which neither Roger Federer nor Rafael Nadal or Novak Djokovic won a Grand Slam title. This year, 22 years on, the same will happen again, as Novak Djokovic’s shock exit at the U.S. Open sealed the end of this remarkable run. When Federer won his first Wimbledon title in 2003, it marked the beginning ...

In May 2023, Jensen Huang said: ‘A trillion dollars of installed global data centre infrastructure will transition from general purpose to accelerated computing as companies race to apply generative AI into every product, service and business process.” That day Nvidia  reported $7.19 billion in revenuefor the first fiscal quarter of 2024. 12 months later, it reported $26 billion in revenue, ...

So here you are, you’re boss of a group of red-hot coders who can make world-warping AI applications. Obviously the dough is in tailoring apps for sale to big organisations to use to oppress their staff and make it cheaper to get their customers off their back. Maybe the reason why MS is the most valuable company in the world ...

Malcolm Penn (pictured below) CEO of Future Horizons and Europe’s leading semiconductor analyst, has written an insight into the Nvidia phenomenon. Here it is: In what can only be described as a ‘right place, right time’ moment, nVIDIA’s stratospheric ascent over the past year has re-written chip-market history, writes Penn. The fuse was lit on 30 November 2022, when OpenAI ...

Only nine nations (or political unions) have been to the moon, its orbit or its vicinity as part of a successful or semi-successful missions. The U.S. tops the list, with 42 completed successful or semi-successful missions to the moon between 1959 and 2022, according to OMG Space and Statista research. The USSR flew 22 such missions between 1959 and 1976. ...

Apple is hovering around the $3 trillion market cap figure – just above on Friday, just below on Monday – having added around $900 billion in value this year. What’s more Apple has done it without waxing hyper about AI. Who can imagine where the value will go if/when it gets an all-singing all-dancing autonomous EV on the road. 23 ...

As I am quids in with the PM these days, on account of services rendered, I not only wangled a ticket to the Coronation but also permission to hold a soirée, after the ceremony, to entertain some Coronation guests in the Whitehall Banqueting Rooms. I identified some foreign guests who are involved with their countries’ efforts to revitalise their chip ...

Thanks to weobserved.com for this – the 25 best inventions of 2022: 1. Color Changing Cars : BMW IX Flow 2. Humanoid Robot : Ameca 3. Smart Bathing : PerfectFill 4. Foldable Tech Devices : Zenbook, Galaxy flip, etc. 5. COVID-19 Breathalyzer Test : ViraWarn Freedom 6. Health Body Scans : Withings body scan 7. Digital Twins 8. Flying Vehicles ...

Atlas, Boston Dynamics’ 6ft humanoid, can now grip as well as run, dance and flip.   Here he shows off his skills as a construction worker. In 2013, Boston Dynamics was bought by Google which, in 2017, sold it to Softbank. In 2020, Hyundai bought an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics from Softbank for $880 million.  

Over the last few days, some of these tunes may have seemed a trifle familiar. Mariah Carey’s 1994 hit All I Want for Christmas Is You achieved one billion streams on Spotify last year and, this year, Last Christmas by Wham! achieved the same milestone. Even though Ariana Grande’s Santa Tell Me only places third, the song racked up 773 ...