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NVIDIA CEO Awarded for Advancing Precision Medicine With Accelerated Computing, AI

NVIDIA AI Blog

NVIDIAs contributions to accelerating medical imaging, genomics, computational chemistry and AI-powered robotics were honored Friday at the Precision Medicine World Conference in Santa Clara, California, where NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang received a Luminary award.

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Listen Now to Learn How We Can Ensure Our Oceans Continue Sustaining Life!

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Hear from Julie Packard, Executive Director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium, and recipient of the Audubon Medal for Conservation, the Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the California Coastal Commission’s Coastal Hero Award as she shares why our environment is a crucial point in history, where conversation standards need to (..)

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Woman Whose Last Name Is "Null" Keeps Running Into Trouble With Computer Systems

Futurism

I had to mentally come to terms with not being able to go," Nontra, a 41-year-old clothing designer in Burbank, California, told The Wall Street Journal. Null in its current usage was invented by British computer scientist and Turing Award winner Tony Hoare. Luckily, the visa came through the day before her flight.)

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What do the mega gifts of 2024 say about giving? 

Candid

According to Dollars and Change , a report from Candid, GivingTuesday, and Network for Good, total dollars awarded and average grant or gift size increased between 2015 and 2022. And Steve and Alex Cohen awarded $116.2 Those gifts are in addition to the $640 million she awarded in the first quarter of the year.

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Elon Musk reaches first Tesla compensation award worth nearly $800 million

The Verge

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has unlocked the first of 12 possible stock option awards from the massive compensation plan he signed in 2018, and it’s worth nearly $800 million. Confirmation of the award was tucked inside Tesla’s annual “ proxy filing ,” a document that lays out what shareholders should expect at the company’s annual meeting.

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Saving the California Condor: A Collective Impact Story

ASU Lodestar Center

Except one: The California Condor. The California Condor is the sole surviving member of the Gymnogyps genus, a castaway from the Pleistocene epoch. The California Condor Recovery Program continues today, over 25 years since its inception. It’s the largest flying bird in North America. A puppet feeds a condor chick.

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Nintendo is complaining about a ROM store owner they sued missing a $50 payment

TechSpot

The California Federal Court ultimately awarded Nintendo $35,000 for each of their 49 games available on the site and an extra $400,000 in trademark damages. In 2019, Nintendo sued Storman as the owner of RomUniverse, a site they purported was illegally distributing copyrighted Nintendo games. Storman chose to represent himself.

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