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California-based company reports seven-fold jump in profit to $14.88bn in first quarter.Nvidia, the chipmaker at the centre of the boom in artificial intelligence (AI), has reported a seven-fold jump in profit, sending its stock to a record high. The Santa Clara, California-based company said on Wednesday that net income rose to $14.88bn in the first quarter, up from $2.04bn a year earlier. Revenue more than tripled to $26.04bn, well above analysts’ forecasts. Nvidia forecast revenue would hit $28bn, plus or minus 2 percent, in the second quarter, also beating analysts’ forecasts. Nvidia also announced it would split its stock 10-for-1,…

PodcastPodcast, The TakeHospital staff fear becoming an Israeli target when international doctors leave. The European Hospital is one of the few medical facilities still functioning in Gaza, but now, the staff has shrunk significantly with the departure of international doctors. We spoke to two American doctors about the atrocities they witnessed and the colleagues they had to leave behind. In this episode:  Dr Adam Hamawy, former US Army combat trauma surgeon Dr Mohamad Abdelfattah, Palestinian-American ICU doctor Episode credits: This episode was produced by Tabish Talib and Sarí el-Khalili, with Ashish Malhotra, Tamara Khandaker, Manahil Naveed and our host Malika…

NewsFeedThe leaders of Israel and Hamas could be facing warrants for their arrest if an application by the International Criminal Court is accepted. They are accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and subsequent war on Gaza. Al Jazeera’s Virginia Pietromarchi explains.Published On 22 May 202422 May 2024 Source link

The fight for justice for civilians allegedly killed by the Syrian government continues with often devastating results.In the final instalment of this series, two vital cases in the search for justice for the civilians allegedly killed by the Syrian government continue in European courts. In Spain, Amal identified her brother Abdul in the 27,000 photos in the Caesar File – but the attempt to prosecute his killers is frustrated by Spanish law. In France, lawyer Clemence Bectarte triggers an investigation into the disappearance of her client’s brother and nephew in a detention centre in Damascus. The outcome is devastating for…

Norway, Ireland and Spain have announced they will formally recognise Palestine as a state on Tuesday. Wednesday’s announcement has prompted Israel to immediately recall its envoys to Ireland and Norway for “urgent consultations”. “Today, I am sending a sharp message to Ireland and Norway: Israel will not go over this in silence,” Foreign Minister Israel Katz said in a statement. He threatened to also withdraw the Israeli ambassador from Spain. In addition, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said he will stop transferring tax funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA). Israel, which occupies the West Bank illegally under international law, is…

“I set up my company several years ago. The power cuts were bad then, lasting up to five hours a day,” said Lezanne Viviers, who works in the fashion industry and lives in Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest city. Since 2007, electricity cuts have become so common that Eskom – the state-owned electricity supplier – has devised a schedule for them. It calls these periods of national exasperation “load shedding”. “We weren’t ready for it. But us South Africans are very resilient,” Viviers told Al Jazeera. “When there was load shedding, we worked with our hands and made use of the…

Dr Mohammed Harara, 28, had barely begun working as a general practitioner when he was thrust to the front lines of a warzone, forced to become a jack-of-all-trades. In the nearly eight months since Israel launched its offensive on Gaza, Harara has seen more than he thought he ever would. Like the maggot-infested wounds of the maimed that he has had to stand by and helplessly look at. Lacking medication and even basic hygiene materials, Harara and his colleagues are not able to clean – or keep clean – festering wounds. Also complicating their struggles are the patients’ severely compromised…

By the end of 2023, nearly half of all internet traffic was bots, found a study by United States cybersecurity company Imperva. Bad bots reached their highest levels recorded by Imperva, making up 34 percent of internet traffic, while good bots made up the remaining 15 percent. This was partly due to the increasing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) for generating text and images. According to Baydoun, the pro-Israeli bots they found mainly aim to sow doubt and confusion about a pro-Palestinian narrative rather than to make social media users trust them instead. Bot armies – thousands to millions of…

Massive crowds of Iranians thronged the streets of the capital, Tehran, for the funeral procession of President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash. In the city centre, mourners clutching portraits of Raisi gathered on Wednesday in and around the University of Tehran, where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led the prayers. Flanked by top officials, Khamenei said prayers over the coffins of the dead, who also included Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian. Raisi’s helicopter crashed into a fog-shrouded mountainside in northwestern Iran on Sunday as he headed back to the city of Tabriz after attending a…

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has led prayers at a memorial ceremony for late President Ebrahim Raisi and his entourage, who died in a helicopter crash. “Oh Allah, we didn’t see anything but good from him,” said Khamenei on Wednesday, paying tribute to Raisi at the University of Tehran before crowds of tens of thousands, who proceeded to walk from Enghelab (Revolution) Square to Azadi (Freedom) Square. Minutes ago Imam Khamenei led the funeral prayer over the bodies of President Ebrahim Raisi and his esteemed companions pic.twitter.com/eSFemTDsne — Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) May 22, 2024 The caskets of Raisi, who was…