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A professional milestone… and a personal tragedy. Nicole Kidman announced the death of her mother Janelle on September 6, the same date on which she won Best Actress for her role in Babygirl at the Venice Film Festival. Kidman’s mom was 84 years old. Nicole Kidman attends Los Angeles Premiere of Netflix’s “The Perfect Couple” on September 4, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images) The sad news was confirmed via a statement read on stage by Halina Rejn, who directed Kidman in the aforementioned film. “Today, I arrived in Venice to find out shortly after, that…

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, recently unveiled a new supercomputer dubbed Colossus. And like its name implies, it’s big.The computer is an artificial intelligence training system that Musk says runs on a whopping 100,000 Nvidia H100 chips, a powerful graphics processing unit that’s become critical to the AI race.To put that into perspective, Meta’s Llama 3 large language model was trained on 16,000 H100 chips. Meta said in March it would continue to invest in its AI infrastructure by adding two new 24,000 chip clusters.In other words, Musk’s Colossus is powerful. And it could help him catch up to the…

The US government is taking aim at the engine of Google’s immense wealth – its extremely lucrative ad tech business.A trial beginning on Monday will hear the Department of Justice’s case that the search engine’s parent company Alphabet illegally operates a monopoly in the market.The company earned more than $200 billion (£152bn) last year through the placing and selling of ads seen by internet users.Alphabet has argued its success is due to the “effectiveness” of its services – but prosecutors say it has used its market dominance to stifle rivals.“It is a really important industry that grabs billions of consumer…

Jana Duggar Courtesy of Jana Duggar/Instagram Jana Duggar said “yes” to the dress — and it’s straight out of her Pinterest dreams! Duggar, 34, gave her YouTube followers a peep of what planning her August wedding was like for her, providing footage of when checked out the venue for her special day and took a spontaneous trip to look at dresses. Ahead of that, the Counting On alum found a Pinterest photo of what she hoped her gown may look like. “I do have a Pinterest photo of a wedding gown that I absolutely love, but I’m trying not to…

Money isn’t a concern for Jaclyn Sienna India’s clients.She’s the founder of a Sienna Charles, a members-only travel agency that caters to wealthy clients who take million-dollar trips around the world.But even with their endless resources, India says she often advises her clients that not all splurges really go the distance.If you’ve saved up for a big-ticket trip or are thinking of going lux on a few items on your next vacation, here are two expenses India says aren’t necessarily worth the money — and one that is.Not worth the splurge: The most expensive suite at the hotelIf you want to…

Switzerland won both Paralympic wheelchair marathons on Sunday while the Netherlands secured back-to-back women’s wheelchair basketball titles, denying the United States on the final day of competition. China finished top of the medals table in Paris, as they have for every Paralympics since Athens in 2004. They had 94 golds, followed by Britain with 49 and USA with 36. As the six weeks of Olympics and Paralympics fever in the City of Light drew to a close, venues were being dismantled before the closing ceremony at the Stade de France. Early in the morning, Catherine Debrunner propelled her racing wheelchair…

NASHVILLE (CelebrityAccess) – Grammy-nominated Americana powerhouse Hayes Carll and Gold-selling rock group The Band of Heathens have reunited for a self-titled album. Branded as Hayes & The Heathens, the eponymous debut will be available on October 4. “Our collaboration was so natural and easy,” says The Band of Heathens’ Ed Jurdi. “We’ve been great compadres for such a long time, and it was just the right time for this project to come to life. I think you can really hear all of that in the music. This is really that rare alliance where 1+1…

Boeing on Sunday agreed to a historic labor agreement with its unionized workers, averting a potentially catastrophic strike.The tentative agreement for the next four-year contract, which will still need to be ratified by workers in a vote on Thursday, guarantees unionized Boeing employees in the Pacific Northwest a 25% general wage hike over the contract’s term, and a commitment that the company’s next plane will be built in the region.If approved by the roughly 32,000 Boeing workers, the agreement will prevent a labor stoppage that would have been detrimental to the company as it continues to grapple with a spate…

World number one Jannik Sinner stormed past Taylor Fritz to win the US Open and secure a second Grand Slam title of the year.Italy’s Sinner, who won his first major title at the Australian Open in January, held off a late charge from American 12th seed Fritz to win 6-3 6-4 7-5.It comes just 19 days after it was revealed he had been cleared of any wrongdoing after twice testing positive for a banned substance in March.The 23-year-old held his arms aloft and looked up to the sky as he became the first player since Guillermo Vilas in 1977 to…

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during Day 2 of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., August 20, 2024. Mike Segar | ReutersSen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Sunday said Vice President Kamala Harris should increase her proposed 28% tax rate on long-term capital gains, marking his latest divergence with the Democratic presidential nominee’s economic platform.”I would go higher than that,” Sanders told NBC’s “Meet the Press” of Harris’ proposed capital gains tax rate. “I think she’s trying to be pragmatic and doing what she thinks is right in order to win the election. My own view is slightly different.”Harris…