Friday, September 19
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Nvidia, Intel
Nvidia is investing $5 billion in rival Intel. A month after the Trump administration took a 10% stake in the struggling chipmaker, Nvidia—the largest company in the world by market cap—is pushing its chips in, too. With the investment, Nvidia and Intel will jointly develop chips for data centers and personal computers, giving Intel another boost for its turnaround plan while allowing Nvidia to move deeper into the PC market. The companies have reportedly been discussing a deal since last year, before the Trump administration bought a stake in Intel. Nvidia’s cash infusion increases the value of the government’s stake by nearly $5 billion to $14 billion. The news powered Intel’s stock to its best day yesterday since 1987.
Trump asks SCOTUS to allow the firing of Lisa Cook. The next big Supreme Court case could be over the fate of a Federal Reserve governor. Yesterday, President Trump asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Fed’s board of governors after an appeals court permitted her to keep her job. Trump has tried to fire Cook for allegedly claiming two different properties as her primary residences, which Cook has denied. (Trump’s treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, allegedly did the same thing he has accused Cook of doing, Bloomberg reported.) Per the Associated Press, no president has fired a Fed governor in the 112-year history of the agency, which was designed to remain independent from partisan politics.
Starbucks workers are suing the company over its new dress code. Sbux employees filed lawsuits in Illinois and Colorado and a complaint in California alleging that the coffee giant broke the law when it changed its dress code but failed to reimburse those who had to buy new clothes. In May, Starbucks began requiring workers to wear a solid black shirt under their green aprons in order to give customers a more consistent experience across stores. Previous dress codes were reportedly lax, but the new one is being strictly enforced, the Associated Press reported. Starbucks did not comment directly on the lawsuits, but noted that it provided employees with two shirts at no cost.—AE
Robert Reich
It could be his undoing
Friends,
The one thing Trump can’t take is a joke, especially one at his expense.
Yesterday — one day after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely,” after pressure from the chairman of Trump’s Federal Communications Commission — Trump said federal regulators should revoke broadcast licenses over late-night hosts who speak negatively about him.
“They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away.”
It was bad enough in the early 1950s when the U.S. government criminalized certain speech during Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts. Those witch hunts were directed at alleged members of the Communist Party who supposedly posed a threat to America (although the vast majority of them were loyal Americans).
At A Glance
What it's like wearing Meta's new AI glasses.
World's largest serving of jollof rice.
How skin cells could be used to create human embryos.
How to cut down on ultraprocessed foods.
Dome-headed dinosaur headbutted to attract mates.
Study highlights mental health benefits of exercising outdoors.
A machine to taste avocado ripeness.
Fishermen spot one-of-a-kind golden shark.
Clickbait: The rise of adult pacifiers.
Historybook: President James Garfield dies from gunshot wounds (1881); British cultural icon and model Twiggy born (1949); First-ever underground nuclear test takes place in Nevada (1957); Jimmy Fallon born (1974); Deepwater Horizon oil spill is sealed after five-month oil leak (2010).
In The NEWS
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> ABC suspends "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" indefinitely following Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk during his opening monologue on Monday night's show (More)
> Gino the gorilla dies at age 44; the silverback gorilla was the oldest gorilla at Disney's Animal Kingdom and had been at the park since its 1998 opening (More)
> Two-time Olympic medalist Fred Kerley becomes first track athlete to commit to Enhanced Games, a competition allowing use of performance-enhancing drugs (More) | Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh hits 56th home run to break Mickey Mantle's record for most single-season homers by a switch-hitter (More)
Science & Technology
> Ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies before Senate Health Committee; says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month without an independent data analysis (More)
> Researchers develop AI tool that uses medical records to calculate risk for 1,231 diseases, including Type 2 diabetes and heart conditions (More) | Diabetes 101 (1440 Topics)
> Wild African chimps easily consume more than the equivalent of two standard alcoholic drinks, according to first-ever measure of ethanol in native fruits (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq -0.3%) (More) | StubHub shares close down in New York Stock Exchange debut after the ticket reseller raised $800M at a roughly $8B valuation in initial public offering (More)
> Ben & Jerry's cofounder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever stifled the ice cream brand's independence on social issues (More)
> Annual inflation among European Union members remains steady at 2%, below estimate of 2.1% and in line with the European Central Bank's target (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Three police officers are killed and two others wounded in a shooting while serving an arrest warrant in York County, Pennsylvania; the shooter has not been publicly identified as of this writing (More) | President Donald Trump says he will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization (More)
> France's major labor unions call for strikes and demonstrations today against austerity measures proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's administration; more than 250 rallies planned nationwide (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> The US and Ukraine launch $150M joint fund to invest in Ukrainian mineral reserves; each committed $75M, will split profits (More) | Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact (More)
> Gino the gorilla dies at age 44; the silverback gorilla was the oldest gorilla at Disney's Animal Kingdom and had been at the park since its 1998 opening (More)
> Two-time Olympic medalist Fred Kerley becomes first track athlete to commit to Enhanced Games, a competition allowing use of performance-enhancing drugs (More) | Seattle Mariners' Cal Raleigh hits 56th home run to break Mickey Mantle's record for most single-season homers by a switch-hitter (More)
Science & Technology
> Ousted CDC Director Susan Monarez testifies before Senate Health Committee; says Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to change the childhood vaccine schedule this month without an independent data analysis (More)
> Researchers develop AI tool that uses medical records to calculate risk for 1,231 diseases, including Type 2 diabetes and heart conditions (More) | Diabetes 101 (1440 Topics)
> Wild African chimps easily consume more than the equivalent of two standard alcoholic drinks, according to first-ever measure of ethanol in native fruits (More)
Business & Markets
> US stock markets close mixed (S&P 500 -0.1%, Dow +0.6%, Nasdaq -0.3%) (More) | StubHub shares close down in New York Stock Exchange debut after the ticket reseller raised $800M at a roughly $8B valuation in initial public offering (More)
> Ben & Jerry's cofounder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever stifled the ice cream brand's independence on social issues (More)
> Annual inflation among European Union members remains steady at 2%, below estimate of 2.1% and in line with the European Central Bank's target (More)
Politics & World Affairs
> Three police officers are killed and two others wounded in a shooting while serving an arrest warrant in York County, Pennsylvania; the shooter has not been publicly identified as of this writing (More) | President Donald Trump says he will designate Antifa as a terrorist organization (More)
> France's major labor unions call for strikes and demonstrations today against austerity measures proposed by President Emmanuel Macron's administration; more than 250 rallies planned nationwide (More) | See previous write-up (More)
> The US and Ukraine launch $150M joint fund to invest in Ukrainian mineral reserves; each committed $75M, will split profits (More) | Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact (More)
SOURCE: 1440 NEWS
The Wealthy Will Pay for It ALL
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It has been said by those on the right that the Democrat Party has moved directions and is now an ultra-liberal, socialistic, almost communistic political party.
Most Americans would support wholehearted free education, free transportation, price freezes, rent controls, and grocery stores managed by local governments to prevent food prices from increasing, while at the same time forcing employers to pay higher and higher wages.
Most of their programs would cause taxes to increase but these socialists claim that the wealthy will start paying high taxes. In order for the wealthy to pay high taxes, tax shelters will have to be abolished and that can only be done by CONGRESS. If Congress abolished tax shelters, the wealthy would stop contributing to their re-election campaigns.
Do you seriously thinking CONGRESS will screw themselves???
Do you believe CONGRESS will vote for term limits for member of Congress???
Forcing the wealthy to pay higher taxes is like forcing congress to REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT.
I'm all for getting something for free... but as we all know... NOTHING IS FREE as someone has to pay... and that someone is the taxpayer... not the wealthy...
If you vote for these socialistic lunatics, then you deserve to pay the price for their false promises.
Proposed approach could bridge gap between general relativity and quantum mechanics
A circulating fluxon–antifluxon pair in coupled annular Josephson junctions behaves as a detector. The pair decays due to Unruh-induced fluctuations, and the resulting event is observed as a voltage jump. By measuring the distribution of the corresponding switching currents, the Unruh effect can be detected.
Credit: Haruna Katayama and Noriyuki Hatakenaka, Hiroshima University
Researchers at Hiroshima University have developed a realistic, highly sensitive method to detect the Unruh effect—a long-predicted phenomenon at the crossroads of relativity and quantum theory. Their novel approach opens new possibilities for exploring fundamental physics and for developing advanced technologies.
The work is published in Physical Review Letters on July 23, 2025.
The Fulling-Davies-Unruh effect, or simply the Unruh effect, is a striking theoretical prediction at the profound intersection of Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Quantum Theory.
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