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These College Dropouts Want to Automate Your Job Away With AI
Updated Oct. 23, 2023 9:12 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) Govind Gnanakumar was in diapers when Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard. Like the Meta founder, he won’t wait for a university diploma to start his business. The 19-year-old dropped out of the Georgia Institute of Technology in May to focus full time …
Melinda Gates reportedly rented private island to avoid media
Bill and Melinda Gates reportedly planned to make their stunning divorce announcement in March — and she hoped to avoid the media glare by renting a remote, private island in Grenada for the family. Sources told TMZ that Melinda rented Calivigny Island for a whopping $132,000 a night for her and the couple’s children, as …
Jobs are make-or-break argument for Biden in climate plan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is bringing out the billionaires, the CEOs and the union executives Friday to help sell President Joe Biden’s climate-friendly transformation of the U.S. economy at a virtual summit of world leaders. The closing day of the two-day summit on climate change is to feature Bill Gates and Mike Bloomberg, …
Coronavirus virtual vaccine summit sees world leaders pledge billions to find COVID-19 cure, but Trump administration skips it
World leaders held an online summit Monday aimed at galvanizing global efforts to develop a coronavirus vaccine. At the end of the three-hour meeting, billions of dollars had been pledged to fund the efforts. Notably absent from the meeting were any officials from the Trump administration in the U.S., the country with the highest confirmed …
Future Meat Technologies, a lab-grown meat start-up, raises $14M
Chicken shawarma, made with soy protein and cultured chicken fat Source: Future Meat Technologies As meatless burgers have landed at Burger King and Carl’s Jr., dozens of start-ups are racing to be the first to sell beef grown in a lab. Now, one of those start-ups has raised $14 million to produce its cultured meat …
Bill Gates and Michelle Obama are the world’s most admired people 2019
After an international book tour that took her around the world promoting her bestselling memoir, “Becoming,” it’s hardly a surprise that former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama tops the list of the world’s most admired woman in 2019. International market research firm YouGov published its annual study of the most admired public figures in the world earlier this …
Chart of the day: The World’s Top Ten Billionaires, 2000 to 2019
Here’s a new animated “bar chart race” visualization above showing the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2019 based on data from business magazine Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires via Wikipedia. I’ve slowed this visualization down to four seconds per year to make it easier to absorb the annual changes, and have …
