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The boss of Nvidia says he is “disappointed” that China has reportedly ordered its top technology companies to halt purchases of the firm’s artificial intelligence (AI) chips.Jensen Huang added he would be “patient” in response to the move from China’s internet regulator.”There are a lot of places we can’t go to, and that’s fine,” he told reporters on Wednesday.Mr Huang is one of a number of tech bosses, including Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, accompanying US President Donald trump on his state visit to the UK.Nvidia – the world’s leading chipmaker – had previously been banned from selling its most advanced chips…

Two flying cars crashed into each other at a rehearsal for an air show in China which was meant to be a showcase for the technology.The Xpeng AeroHT vehicles collided in mid-air, with one catching fire during landing, the company said in a statement to Reuters. The company said people at the scene were safe, but CNN reported one person was injured in the crash, citing an anonymous company employee.The rehearsals on Tuesday were for the Changchun Air Show, set to start later this week in north-east China.BBC News has contacted Xpeng for comment.Footage on Chinese social media site Weibo…

Actions taken by Robert F Kennedy Jr under the Trump administration have greatly diminished the ability of the US to respond to outbreaks and infectious disease threats, according to recently ousted officials with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The two former top officials testified at a hearing on Wednesday before the Senate HELP (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) committee.Susan Monarez, the CDC director chosen by Kennedy, was fired after less than a month. Debra Houry, chief medical officer at the CDC, resigned after serving under six CDC directors during both Republican and Democratic administrations.On the morning of…

If you liked Timothée Chalamet as the nascent, scrappy, early-career Bob Dylan, you may love the real thing. The newest release in Dylan’s series of retrospective collections of unreleased material will go all the way back to his musical beginnings. “Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963” shall be released Oct. 31. Capturing the pre-electric period when he was considered a folk artist, the full boxed set spans eight CDs. Of 139 total tracks, 48 are previously unreleased, while another 38 are described as “super-rare.” This deluxe version also includes a hardback book with liner notes by Sean…

Florida associate head football coach and running backs coach Jabbar Juluke was suspended for three games for his involvement in an altercation before the Gators’ game at LSU on Saturday, the SEC and Florida jointly announced Tuesday.”Jabbar Juluke’s conduct during the pregame altercation reflects behavior that is unacceptable and not aligned with the standards of the Southeastern Conference,” SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said in a news release. “Coaches are expected to be leaders and to de-escalate tense situations, and that did not happen in this circumstance. This suspension is appropriate, and any future misconduct by Jabbar Juluke will result in…

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. If you’ve ever struggled to squeeze a couch around a tight corner while moving into a new apartment, you’ll probably find that the pure mathematics problem known as the “sofa problem” is incredibly relatable.  The question seeks to find a maximum value for the area of a sofa that can slide around a 90-degree corner in a corridor of a given width. Mathematicians have long suspected that the answer lies with a shape called Gerver’s sofa. Now, a postdoctoral researcher in South Korea may have finally…

Ah, beautiful, romantic Italy. Everywhere you go is gorgeous—the stuff of Instagram pictures to make your friends back home writhe in envy. Right? Well, not always.Italy has its fair share of aesthetically challenged places that aren’t worth even a millisecond on your itinerary. Seriously, they couldn’t pay people to take a postcard—if they even made them. All joking aside, it is admittedly tricky to condemn a whole city or area as “ugly”—even the most unsightly Italian areas will usually have at least one historic church, some natural beauty, or a decent ancient quarter. In some cases, the places on this list—sourced…

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR’s international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Hope you like cats! There are more than 1,000 of them on this campus. About 1,200 actually, although it’s impossible for the staff to count them all because … cats. About 30 years ago, the American University of Beirut (AUB) started taking in cats abandoned during years of war in Lebanon. During last year’s war with Israel, it gained a few hundred that were dumped at its gate. AUB has a huge, sprawling campus full of towering trees and…

The Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Jerry Greenfield has stepped away from the ice-cream brand after nearly 50 years, claiming it has lost its independence and accusing its parent company, Unilever, of having “silenced” its social mission.Greenfield said in a letter posted by his co-founder, Ben Cohen, that he could no longer “in good conscience” remain an employee of a business that he argued had been muzzled by the UK-listed Unilever, despite an agreement protecting its social mission when it was taken over in 2000.“It is profoundly disappointing to come to the conclusion that that independence, the very basis of our…

Should you be watching TV while at work? Why yes, yes you should — according to Tubi. On Wednesday, the streaming service announced the launch of a stealthy new tool that helps you watch shows and movies while you’re at work. Some of you are probably already doing that (I’m not judging), but with the introduction of Productubity, you can be sneaky and switch to a fake screen to trick your colleagues.”It’s designed for the modern multitasker who’s streaming on the sly, because sometimes, the only thing standing between you and your favorite show is your boss walking by,” Tubi’s pitch…