Supermodel Kathy Ireland launches commercial fishing career, prefers ‘sharks in the ocean’ over business ones

Supermodel Kathy Ireland launches commercial fishing career, prefers ‘sharks in the ocean’ over business ones

Kathy Ireland is embarking on a new business venture as she dives into the world of commercial fishing.  In July, the 62-year-old supermodel and businesswoman announced that she had obtained her open-ocean commercial fishing license from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and would be working as a crew member on the 4th Watch,…

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Google opens new AI engineering centre in Taiwan

Google opens new AI engineering centre in Taiwan

[TAIPEI] Alphabet’s Google on Thursday opened in Taiwan its biggest artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure hardware engineering centre outside of the US, in what Taiwan’s president said was a show of confidence in the island as a trustworthy technology partner. Taiwan is home to the world’s largest contract chipmaker, TSMC, whose chips are widely used by…

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When “Psychopathic” Traits Make Better Founders

When “Psychopathic” Traits Make Better Founders

Entrepreneurship rewards edge cases. That’s uncomfortable to admit, but it’s true. Some traits we label as “psychopathic” can fuel strong leadership when pointed in the right direction. My view is simple: the same wiring that can break companies can also build them—if it’s managed with clear ethics and hard guardrails. The Traits That Cut Both…

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Enraged House Republicans claim ‘disgusting’ backroom deal to spare Dem Stacey Plaskett, GOPer Cory Mills from censure

Enraged House Republicans claim ‘disgusting’ backroom deal to spare Dem Stacey Plaskett, GOPer Cory Mills from censure

WASHINGTON — Multiple House Republican lawmakers seethed Tuesday over a failed effort to censure Del. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) over her 2019 text exchange with late sex predator Jeffrey Epstein — accusing leadership of cutting a backroom deal with Dems to spare Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) the same rebuke. Republicans stuck together to beat back an initial…

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Trump-ordered report that found almost no evidence to support ‘gender-affirming care’ for kids gets scientific seal of approval

Trump-ordered report that found almost no evidence to support ‘gender-affirming care’ for kids gets scientific seal of approval

A Trump-ordered review of the scientific basis for providing “gender-affirming care” to kids — which found almost no medical evidence to support hormone therapy and other treatments for minors who identify as transgender — was published in its final version Wednesday after passing scientific peer review. The report was reviewed by 10 different experts and…

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Nvidia’s switch to smartphone-style memory ‘to double server-memory prices by end-2026’

Nvidia’s switch to smartphone-style memory ‘to double server-memory prices by end-2026’

Tech-focused research firm says the change will spike the demand for chips that the industry can’t handle [BEIJING] Nvidia’s move to use smartphone-style memory chips in its artificial intelligence (AI) servers could cause server-memory prices to double by late 2026, based on a report published on Wednesday (Nov 19) by Counterpoint Research. In the past…

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CSE Global’s Q3 revenue swells 20.5% but order book shrinks

CSE Global’s Q3 revenue swells 20.5% but order book shrinks

Its order intake is weighed down by a lack of major projects and unrepeated orders from the same year-ago period [SINGAPORE] Systems integrator CSE Global posted a 20.5 per cent rise in revenue for its third quarter ended Sep 30 – but also saw its order book shrink 26.2 per cent for the nine-month period,…

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Google Deepmind launches research lab in Singapore to better study S-E Asia’s cultural nuances

Google Deepmind launches research lab in Singapore to better study S-E Asia’s cultural nuances

[SINGAPORE] Artificial intelligence (AI) pioneer Google Deepmind on Wednesday (Nov 19) launched its research lab in Singapore. The lab’s opening is part of the group’s efforts to expand into the Asia-Pacific region. It operates other research labs in India and Japan. Located at its Apac headquarters at Pasir Panjang, the research lab is Google Deepmind’s…

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