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[ad_1] Nvidia could have more room to run, according to Daiwa Capital Markets. The firm raised its price target on the chipmaker to $165 per share from $115 and reiterated its outperform rating. Daiwa’s forecast calls for about 16% upside from Wednesday’s close. Analyst Louis Miscioscia said in a Wednesday note that Nvidia is “back in the driver’s seat.” He lauded the company’s first-quarter results released last week . He also noted that the company has multiple growth drivers that underpin his optimistic view — including robust inference demand from Microsoft, OpenAI and Google, which could signal a growing appetite…

[ad_1] Demis Hassabis prefers gaming over acid trips.The Google DeepMind CEO said he’s never taken LSD and doesn’t want to. In a recent interview with Wired’s Steven Levy, the AI boss was asked about his pursuit of understanding the “nature of reality,” as his X bio states.More specifically, Hassabis was asked if acid had ever helped him get a glimpse of the nature of reality. The short answer is no.”I didn’t do it like that,” Hassabis said. “I just did it through my gaming and reading a hell of a lot when I was a kid, both science fiction and…

[ad_1] Military recruiting numbers are up — the Army met its annual goal of recruiting 61,000 troops months early and signs indicate Navy numbers are in good shape. But what is it exactly that is driving the jump? Recruiting officials say it’s complicated.For the past several years, the Army and Navy fell thousands of new recruits short, a trend that only began to reverse at the end of last year — which the new administration has promoted as stemming from President Donald Trump’s leadership and a surge of patriotism.The shift seems to turn on a shaky economy that’s hiring less…

[ad_1] This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Scott Edinburgh, a Boston-based MBA admissions consultant. It has been edited for length and clarity.I launched an admissions consulting business in 2008 — it’s a family business that I run with my sister.We get a lot of international students, and they sometimes make up half our clients for the year. Our reach matches what many schools are seeing. There is a lot of interest from India and China, as well as growing numbers in Europe, the Middle East, and some countries in Africa. For MBA programs, most students are in…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  It’s a big day for Nintendo fans. The gaming giant’s new console, the Switch 2, arrives on store shelves globally after being announced in April — marking Nintendo’s first major console launch since the original Switch arrived roughly eight years ago. And fans have clearly been waiting; 2.2 million people applied for a lottery system to buy the Switch 2 in Japan, according to a translation of an X post from Nintendo in April. Nearly all US Best Buy stores opened just after midnight to accommodate eager fans. The Switch 2, priced at $450 in…

[ad_1] As Wall Street reels with every twist and turn in President Donald Trump’s trade war, there’s little sign of economic uncertainty in Manhattan’s favorite beach destination just 100 miles east.Demand for luxury real estate in the Hamptons is only growing. Sales and home prices have surged over the last year.Rising prices in the tony enclave are nothing new. The pandemic ushered in a surge of buyers looking to escape the city. The median sales price of homes in the Hamptons in the first quarter of 2025 was more than $2 million, a 13% increase over the previous year and nearly…

[ad_1] It’s easy to read a text offering what is clearly a fake job and think, “Who in the world would fall for this?” Of course, Temu or Target isn’t going to send me an unsolicited message with a too-good-to-be-true employment offer out of the blue. Except scammers don’t do things that don’t work — so while it may seem obvious to you, there are people who absolutely fall for these tricks, and no one is immune.Scam texts have exploded in recent years (which I probably don’t have to tell you — if you have a cellphone, you’re most likely…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Hooters has abruptly closed dozens of locations just a few months after the chicken wing chain filed for bankruptcy and proclaimed it wasn’t “going anywhere.” “After careful consideration of what is needed to best position our company for the future, Hooters made the difficult decision to close certain company-owned locations,” a company spokesperson said in a statement to CNN. A specific list of closures wasn’t released, but local reports reveal that about 30 locations were affected including several in Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. The company said that it’s “here…

[ad_1] New York CNN  —  Stablecoins are on the verge of going mainstream, analysts say, as a landmark regulatory bill makes its way through Congress. The Senate is deliberating the GENIUS Act, which would provide a framework for regulating stablecoins. The bill last week passed a major procedural hurdle in the Senate after initial resistance from some Democrats. Stablecoins are a type of crypto asset that is tied to the value of another currency, such as the US dollar or gold. They were initially created as a way for crypto investors to store their money but have grown in popularity…

[ad_1] CNN  —  Last June, after almost a full year on the job hunt, Jordan Williams landed a role at a high-growth, United Kingdom-based outdoor apparel brand that was looking to build out its US operations. Passenger Clothing was well-positioned for expansion: The company landed orders with REI, Scheels and others, and Williams, an outdoor industry veteran, was excited for the ride. Until April. “Upon Liberation Day,” Williams said, nodding to the moniker President Donald Trump assigned to his blowout tariff announcement on April 2, “I was liberated from employment.” Overnight, the US went from being Passenger’s biggest potential growth…