Nvidia co-founder and now former CEO Jensen Huang has never been as flashy or controversy-prone as AI leaders like OpenAI’s Sam Altman or SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk. Now, the 63-year-old industry kingpin has admitted that he cheated on his wife of 40 years in affairs that could have ramifications beyond Huang’s…
5 PowerToys tools that help me get more done
Microsoft PowerToys is a free and open-source (FOSS) PC program for Windows 11 that offers a wide variety of advanced tools and features that supplement the operating system’s out-of-box capabilities. There are plenty of excellent PowerToys tools available to parse through, including many that I’d love to see become a…
Jensen Huang was having a third affair, Reuters reports
Nvidia founder Jensen Huang was having a separate affair with an employee that has not been previously reported, Reuters reported on Thursday. Huang stepped down as CEO and board member for the company earlier today, in the wake of news of extramarital affairs with accused spy Alice Huang and Nvidia…
It’s not just you Microsoft Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and Xbox are all down
If you’re having trouble accessing certain Microsoft services like Microsoft Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, Copilot, or even Xbox, you’re not alone. As of 3:00PM EST, on Thursday, November 12 many of Microsoft’s biggest apps and services were experiencing downtime. According to downtector.com, a website that tracks outages, issues with Microsoft’s various…
Nectar launches an AI agent to automate creator discovery and outreach for brands
Nectar, an AI-powered operating system for marketing, is launching a new AI agent designed to take a lot of the manual work out of influencer marketing, from finding the right creators to contacting them, managing partnerships, and tracking results. Founded by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, both former Meta employees,…
Your Google TV Streamer has an expiration date
The first streaming device I ever used was a Chromecast back in 2013, so when Google announced in 2024 that it was retiring the brand after 11 years, I was sad to see it go. But that sadness quickly turned into excitement, because while Google was saying goodbye to its…
Hugging Face CEO vows to keep fighting for open-source AI after Jensen Huang’s exit
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue briefly commented on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s departure on Thursday, calling it a “really sad day.” Nvidia had announced its plan to acquire the platform for open-source AI models in September for $12.9 billion, making it the second-largest acquisition in the company’s history, just behind…
4 films that are unrecognizable when you upgrade from DVD to 4K UHD
I’m a huge fan of physical media, and as a result, I have a bunch of movies on all sorts of formats. I have a collection of DVDs, Blu-rays, and 4K Blu-rays, and I even pick up VHS tapes from time to time. Of that group, I get the most…
SoftBank’s billion-dollar loss may have put a cap on AI’s natural gas ambitions
SoftBank might not be the first to invest in a hot trend, but when it does, it goes big. Witness its $30 billion bet on OpenAI in early 2025 or its announcement in February that its SB Energy subsidiary would spend $33 billion on a 9.2-gigawatt natural gas power plant.…
Apple CarPlay just got a major free upgrade, and you can thank Google
Apple CarPlay has always had a lot of catching up to do compared with Android Auto, whether it’s personalization or AI integration, and the gap only seems to be widening. In the past year or so, Google has been making a major push to integrate Gemini more into the Android…