2008—With opinions about to be issued concerning the en banc petition in Ricci v. DeStefano, Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor and her panel colleagues—fellow Clinton appointees Rosemary...
A U.S. Army helicopter crashed near the Strait of Hormuz, but President Trump said the two crew members aboard were not injured in the incident near the strategic waterway that Iran has effectively closed during the war.
Scandal is once again roiling the United Kingdom’s famed Oxford University. A private WhatsApp chat of 100 incoming philosophy, politics, and economics freshmen leaked last week. Its contents are a whopper. Oxford Union president Arwa Elrayess, the elected head of the university’s premier debating society, was caught defending the Oct. 7, 2023, atrocities committed by Hamas. […]
Nvidia’s decision to invest $6.5 billion in photonics may mark one of the most consequential inflection points in the evolution of artificial intelligence. By using light rather than copper wires to move data, photonics could dramatically reduce the energy, cooling, and networking constraints that limit large-scale AI systems. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has suggested this […]
The value of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is in free fall. Last October, Bitcoin was trading around $126,000. After trading as low as $59,000 last week, it is now meandering around the $60,000 to $61,000 level. This punishing drawdown has destroyed over $200 billion in market capitalization. What makes the sharp decline in Bitcoin more painful is […]