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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 | 2:00 AM Colorado stole the spotlight a year ago during college football's Week 1 festivities, and it seems only fair that the Buffaloes take center stage again on opening night in Week 1 of the 2024 season. Colorado pulled off the biggest upset of the season last year, beating defending national runner-up TCU, 45-42, in coach Deion Sanders' Football Bowl Subdivision coaching debut. Though the odds were as low as -18, most of the money was bet on the Horned Frogs, who were buoyed by a three-touchdown effort. “Do you believe it now,” Sanders famously…
A quiet but significant shift in global financial trends may be on the way – one that could dramatically alter the relationship between the Chinese yuan and the US dollar.At the heart of this shift is a potential move to repatriate large amounts of dollar-denominated assets held by Chinese companies, a scenario that is likely to play out if U.S. interest rates are cut in the coming months. The move could set off a wave of capital inflows into China, with far-reaching implications for the yuan, the dollar and global currency markets as a whole.It is estimated that Chinese companies…
AI hyperscaler CoreWeave announced a strategic partnership with EcoDataCenter, a Swedish company renowned for sustainable datacenter solutions, to host one of Europe's first large-scale NVIDIA Blackwell clusters in Sweden. The collaboration aims to significantly increase computing power across Europe and establish one of the most sustainable and advanced supercomputers in the region. As part of its European expansion strategy, CoreWeave will leverage thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs to meet global demand for large-scale AI infrastructure from leading AI labs and enterprises. The deployment of the cluster, which is expected to be operational by early 2025, marks a significant milestone for…
If you can't go outside, try to walk indoors from one place to another every day. (Photo: Freepik) Remember, every step counts. Even a short walk indoors can have huge health benefits. Learn more here. Health Benefits of Indoor Walking: There are many reasons why you can't go out for a walk. Sometimes it's due to health conditions, sometimes it's due to the weather. Or maybe you just don't have time to go for a walk after your daily chores and walk hard outdoors for a few minutes. But that shouldn't stop you from leading a physically active lifestyle. Exercising…
Badminton itself may be a harmless racket sport, but Hong Kong's Education Bureau has unintentionally given it a whole new meaning. A teaching resource for third-year secondary school students, titled “Young People and Intimate Relationships”, published last week, suggests that teenagers who want to have sex with each other could instead “go out to play badminton together”.The materials also include a form called “My Pledge,” which is intended to have “young lovers” certify that they will practice “self-control, self-restraint and resistance to pornography.” The new material has attracted public attention and criticism as being “unrealistic”, but authorities have defended their…
CNN — Black country music is in the spotlight thanks to the success of Beyoncé's latest album, Cowboy Carter, and the rise of artists like Nigerian-American singer Shaboozie, and Dusty & the Stones are capitalizing on that energy. Cousins Gazi “Dusty” Simelane and Linda “Stones” Msibi worked together on their grandparents' farm in the southern hills before forming a country music band. Their story may sound like a typical country band origin story, but the duo isn't from the American South, but Mooihoek in the small African country of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). The troubles of rural America may…
ERM, the world's largest specialist sustainability consulting firm, is working with Centrica Energy Storage to deploy ERM's emission.AI solution, a cloud-based digital tool that uses advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to generate detailed, actionable insights to help complex industrial facilities better understand and manage their energy efficiency and carbon emissions. Centrica Energy Storage (CES), which owns and operates Rough, the UK's largest gas storage facility, is set to deploy emissions.AI at its Easington terminal. emissions.AI provides continuous and autonomous monitoring to monitor energy use by enabling optimization of areas such as process configurations, operating procedures, plant start-up and shutdown and…
ASTANA – Kazakhstan on August 26 became the first Central Asian country to open a permanent representation to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal, Canada. Kazakhstan opened its Permanent Representation to ICAO in Montreal. The opening ceremony was attended by Kazakhstan's Minister of Transport Marat Karabaev, ICAO Council Chairman Salvatore Sciacchitano and ICAO Secretary-General Juan Carlos Salazar. Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Transport. The opening ceremony was attended by Kazakhstan's Minister of Transport Marat Karabaev, the Chairman of the ICAO Council, the Secretary-General of ICAO, and the heads of aviation authorities of ICAO member states, the Ministry…
Denmark-based toy maker Lego said on Wednesday that sales of its colorful plastic bricks outpaced the overall toy market in the first half of this year, helped by strong demand in Europe and North America.Lego's sales surge contrasts with a sluggish global toy market and weak sales at rivals such as Barbie doll maker Mattel (MAT) and Hasbro (HAS), the company behind My Little Pony.Family-owned Lego said sales rose 13% to 31 billion Danish kroner ($4.65 billion) in the January-June period. By comparison, Lego's sales for the first half of the year were up 1% from last year and are…
AI giant Nvidia (NVDA) will report its second-quarter earnings after the close of trading on Wednesday. Nvidia's announcement, the most anticipated of the quarter, will have ripple effects across the tech industry as investors look for signs that AI deals will continue to dominate market conversations in the second half of the year.Nvidia shares are up about 160% year to date and more than 60% in the past six months. Shares of rival AMD (AMD) are up 2% year to date but are down about 14% in the past six months.Intel (INTC) shares have fallen 60% since the beginning of…