[ad_1] Donald Trump’s new Defence Secretary once hit a drummer with an axe on live television. Decorated Army veteran Pete Hegseth, 44, was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan and won two Bronze Stars, then unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Minnesota in 2012 before joining Fox News as a presenter. But it has emerged that the … Read more
[ad_1] Donald Trump has chosen a new environmental chief who shares the President Elect’s desire for the United States to once again pull out of the Paris climate agreement. After Mr Trump branded climate change ‘all a big hoax’, he has now picked Lee Zeldin to head his incoming administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Insiders … Read more
[ad_1] The trend of big touchscreens in cars has left many yearning for the not-so-distant days when most user interactions happened with physical buttons. But Rivian’s chief software officer Wassym Bensaid believes using buttons in a car is an “anomaly.” “It’s a bug. It’s not a feature,” Bensaid said Wednesday at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024. “Ideally, … Read more
[ad_1] NATO today confirmed North Korean troops are being sent to Russia to fight Ukrainian forces, with some personnel already deployed. After weeks of speculation and a number of Russian denials, secretary general of the western military alliance said some of the soldiers sent by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un to help his ally Vladimir … Read more
[ad_1] OpenAI has hired its first chief economist: Aaron Chatterji, formerly the chief economist at the Commerce Department under President Joe Biden and a senior economist in President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. Chatterji, who’s also a professor of business and public policy at Duke, will study AI’s economic impacts at OpenAI, leading research into … Read more