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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Max Buckley, a 38-year-old senior software engineer at Google, based in Zurich, Switzerland. His identity and employment has been verified by Business Insider. The following has been edited for length and clarity.I’m a senior software engineer at Google in Zurich, where I’ve worked since 2013.Most people don’t go from business to a more technical background, but my bachelor’s degree was in business studies, and I joined Google out of undergrad as a financial analyst intern.Over several years, I pivoted from financial analysis to business analysis, then to trust and safety, and…
Pink noise, a staticky sound that’s supposed to help people fall asleep, may actually worsen your rest, a new study found.Pink noise — like white noise — contains all the frequencies humans can hear, but it plays lower frequencies more prominently. Sounds that are used for different types of brain stimulation or relaxation are assigned a color based on how their noise spectrum matches with a colored light spectrum. White noise plays all frequencies at the same intensity, and white light combines all the visible light colors.Pink noise has been compared to sounds of rain and ocean waves. Research on…
Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The outfit plans to use the capital to speed up deployment of its high-speed memory chips, a critical component for the chips used for AI workloads, sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. Investors in the round include Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), the country’s sovereign wealth fund, which has been increasingly focused on building out AI infrastructure, the sources said. The Reno-based startup’s Series B comes as hyperscalers and AI firms push to reduce their reliance on longstanding leader Nvidia. These firms include OpenAI, which,…
2026-02-04T08:06:13.867Z Share Copy link Email Facebook WhatsApp X LinkedIn Bluesky Threads lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Sam Altman said he’s “really excited” to get Elon Musk under oath. Their case will go to trial in April, a California judge said in January. Musk has accused OpenAI and Altman of misleading him into thinking it would remain a nonprofit. Sam Altman is pumped to take on…
Jensen Huang says Nvidia would love to invest in a future OpenAI IPO.Huang said in an interview on CNBC’s “Mad Money” on Tuesday that there was “no drama” between Nvidia and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, pushing back against recent chatter of tension in the relationship between the two companies.”The first deal is on,” the Nvidia CEO said, referring to the company’s September deal with OpenAI, under which the company said it planned to invest up to $100 billion in the AI startup.”And then there’s, of course, an IPO in the future,” he added. “We love to be participating in that…
New Mexico health officials are warning the public to avoid consuming raw dairy products after a newborn baby died from a Listeria infection.In a news release on Tuesday, Feb. 3, the New Mexico Department of Health said it believes the “most likely source of infection” was unpasteurized milk the baby’s mother consumed while she was pregnant. The state health department did not provide any additional information about the case.Though investigators cannot identify the exact cause of the infection, the state health department said the “tragic death underscores the serious risks raw dairy poses to pregnant women, young children, elderly New…
ROME (AP) — Italy’s art-filled cities have no shortage of tourists, but they haven’t always been welcoming to visitors with visual impairments or other disabilities.Art that is millennia old doesn’t always lend itself to being touched. People who use wheelchairs often find elevators and doorways that are too narrow, stairs without ramps and uneven pavements.In 2021, as a condition of receiving European Union pandemic recovery funds, Italy accelerated its accessibility initiatives, dedicating more attention and resources to removing architectural barriers and making its tourist sites and sporting venues more accessible.The huge archaeological site at Pompeii, for example, has installed a…
ROME (AP) — On a recent weeknight, long after the swarms of tourists had left Rome’s Colosseum, a small group of people walked around outside the darkened amphitheater, pausing every so often to take in a new aspect of its history, art or architecture with every sense but sight.Michela Marcato, 54, has been blind since birth. She and her partially sighted partner were touring the site amid a new effort by Italy to make its myriad artistic treasures more accessible to people with blindness or low vision and enhance how all visitors experience and perceive art.As she listened to her…
PayPal’s former president, David Marcus, raised concerns about the fintech giant, saying it’s “lost its mojo.”In a long post on X, Marcus spoke about several flaws in PayPal, a San Jose-based fintech giant, across its history. Marcus left PayPal in 2014 and has since worked at Coinbase and Meta. He has also founded a payments company, Lightspark, where he is now CEO.He said he had woken up to messages from former PayPal colleagues, which pushed him to “finally speak up.”During its latest earnings call on Tuesday, where it reported profit and sales misses, the company announced that its CEO, Alex…
Elon Musk has never been shy about his inner nerd — just look at his SpaceX merger memo.Over the years, the billionaire has peppered his company communications with sci-fi culture Easter eggs, physics nerd jargon, and enough dad-joke flair to make comedian Nate Bargatze blush.So it was no surprise that Musk’s latest internal memo — announcing that SpaceX would merge with xAI — leaned into the kind of words and phrases that might cause you to scratch your head.It reads less like a conventional corporate M&A announcement and more like a sci-fi manifesto, invoking “sentient suns,” orbital data centers, and…