Andreas RichardsonNvidia Nvidia announces plan to make CPU chips Financial Times - Richard WatersNvidia has taken aim at a core Intel market with its first general-purpose data centre chip, for use in the most advanced AI systems. The US chip company rose to prominence on the back of its more specialised...
Andreas RichardsonClimate Could Covid help us tackle climate change? Financial Times - Tim HarfordLike the uninspired sermon-writer who finds a way to link everything to Jesus, some commentators find a way to link everything to climate change. In December, an editorial in The Lancet medical journal...
Andreas RichardsonFinance Catch them if you can: the $14bn rise of rapid grocery delivery services Financial Times - Tim Bradshaw, Dave LeeDominique Locher, a veteran of online grocery services in Europe, realised the potential of a rapid delivery app at a board meeting of a Turkish supermarket chain in 2018. As the directors gathered, some...
Andreas RichardsonGreece How Poetry Won Independence for Greece The Wall Street Journal. - John Psaropoulos“All art is propaganda,” wrote George Orwell. This year Greece celebrates the bicentennial of its War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire, won with the help of some of the most powerful propaganda...
Andreas RichardsonFinance ‘This crisis is different’: the dramatic rebound in the global economy Financial Times - Chris GilesFrom an economic point of view, it is almost as if the last year was just a bad dream. As recently as October, the IMF was warning that coronavirus will cause “lasting damage” to living standards across...
