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Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s co-founders and a Silicon Valley titan, died today at 94 years old, according to a press release from the company. He was part of the “traitorous eight” who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which became an incubator for many other Silicon Valley companies — including AMD. Moore and Robert Noyce, a fellow member of the eight, went on to found Intel, originally named Integrated Electronics, in 1968. He eventually became chairman and CEO of the company in… Read the full article here

‘The Sun’ (1910-11) by Edvard Munch © Alamy This year I have seen the sun rise in four different countries. Well, almost. In three of them I watched the darkness inch its way towards light: dawn in Berlin in January was grey and melancholy; London a month later was predictably overcast; at home in New York, though the city has enjoyed bright blue morning skies this winter, the skyscrapers make it hard to see a sunrise.But this month in Sharjah, I had a soul-expanding view every morning…. Read the full article here

The United States’ most powerful financial regulators gathered on March 24 by video conference for an unscheduled, closed meeting of the Treasury Department’s Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), the department announced in a statement. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen convened the meeting.Details were sparse in the Treasury statement, but it said Federal Reserve Bank of New York staff gave a presentation on market developments. The gist of the presentation was reassuring:“The… Read the full article here

A 2000s love. Nick Cannon dated Love Don’t Cost a Thing costar Christina Milian from 2003 to 2005 — and decades later, he’s still wishing for more. “Everybody talks about having kids [in relationships],” the Wild ‘N Out host — who is the father of 12 children with six different women — told The Shade Room in March 2023, acknowledging that his next comment was about to go viral. “When Christina Milian and I were doing Love Don’t Cost a Thing, I… Read the full article here

Ibrahim Shema, a former governor of Katsina State, has asked the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, to revoke his suspension from the party or he will renounce its membership. He also asked the PDP to rescind the decision to dissolve the Katsina State Working Committee of the party. Mr Shema made the demands in a letter dated 24 March to Mr Ayu. The former governor and four others were on Thursday suspended from the party for alleged anti-party… Read the full article here

The Police on Friday acknowledged the kind gesture of Inspector Tobi Kulani Kanadi attached to Police Mobile Force 44, Force Headquarters, Abuja. Force Public Relations, CSP Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement, said the officer was recognized for being a worthy ambassador. The police commended Kanadi for his thoughtfulness in ceding his N2,000 (the maximum daily allocated) to a health worker. The Inspector had met the civilian on a long queue at an Automated Teller Machine, ATM, at the National… Read the full article here

The candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) at the just-concluded 2023 governorship election in Abia State, Bishop Sunday Ndukwo Onuoha, has sent message to the winner and the Labour Party candidate, Alex Otti, on his emergence as the governor-elect of the state after a keenly contested poll. DAILY POST reported that Otti polled a total of 175, 467 votes cast to beat his closest rival and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Okey Ahiwe, who scored 88,529 votes to come second… Read the full article here

Men of the Ondo State Police Command have arrested a 37-year-old pastor for allegedly raping and killing a nursing mother within his church premises in the state. In his church, Oke-Irapada, in Alade, Idanre Local Government Area of the state, the pastor, Kayode Salami, was accused of committing the crime on Friday. It was gathered that the deceased, Adejoke Oloje, left her home in January with her 11-month-old child in order to stay at the church. She was also said to have gone to the… Read the full article here

Former Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez has revealed why he snubbed Manchester City for Manchester United in January 2018. He also said he believes Manchester City would have won the Champions League by now had it been he joined Pep Guardiola’s side, Sanchez was involved in one of the most contentious transfers in the English top flight’s history when he forced his departure from Arsenal in January 2018. Sanchez got frustrated by Arsenal’s inability to challenge for the Premier League and… Read the full article here

Marie-Josee Loando lives in Pakadjuma, one of Kinshasa’s many slums, where she sells bread to the residents of this sprawling settlement. It has an unfortunate reputation for both crime and sex work, but Marie-Josee’s lucky as she’s manage to get some free business training from a local NGO.  “I’ve seen a change in my business because of the training we got,” she told Africanews. “I used to spend most of my income on buying cosmetics… Read the full article here