Reuters Rosita Missoni founded the brand with her late husband Ottavio in 1953 Rosita Missoni, co-founder of the eponymous Italian knitwear label Missoni, has died aged 93. The news was confirmed by the president of Italy’s Lombardy region, Attilio Fontana, who praised the brand’s iconic “multicoloured textures”. He described her death as “a great loss […]
OpenAI’s cofounder and former chief scientist, Ilya Sutskever, made headlines earlier this year after he left to start his own AI lab called Safe Superintelligence Inc. He has avoided the limelight since his departure but made a rare public appearance in Vancouver on Friday at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). “Pre-training as […]
NEW YORK — Bernard “Bernie” Marcus, the co-founder of The Home Depot, a billionaire philanthropist, and a big Republican donor, has died. He was 95. Marcus died Monday in Boca Raton, Florida, surrounded by family, according to a Home Depot spokesperson. Marcus was Home Depot’s CEO as it grew rapidly during its first two decades, […]
As “Tetris” celebrates 40 years of falling blocks at the Lucca Comic and Games convention in Italy, Variety sat down with its creator Alexey Pajitnov and the Tetris company’s co-founder Henk Rogers to discuss the beginnings of the most successful computer game in the world. Despite the difference in their appearance, Pajitnov, pale with a […]
Gaëlle Andreatta (left) and Julia Carpenter are working to bring a new type of metal foam to market.Credit: Apheros In August, the technology start-up Apheros announced a US$1.85-million funding round to develop a metal-foam-based cooling system for the world’s data centres, which are expected to account for an estimated 6% of global energy consumption by […]
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for their work on proteins. Demis Hassabis co-founded the artificial intelligence research company that became Google DeepMind. Proteins are the building blocks of life and are found in every cell in the human body. Better understanding of proteins has driven huge […]
