Zum Start des US-Börsenhandels erreicht Nvidia einen neuen Höchstwert und festigt seine Stellung als wertvollstes Unternehmen der Tech-Branche. (Nvidia, Börse)
YouTube seeks a more couch-friendly experience.
YouTube has been streaming for 20 years, but it was only in the last couple that it came to dominate TV streaming. Google’s video platform attracts more TV viewers than Netflix, Disney+, and all the other apps, and Google is looking to further beef up its big-screen appeal with a new raft of features, including shopping, immersive channel surfing, and an official version of the AI upscaling that had creators miffed a few months back.
According to Google, YouTube’s growth has translated into higher payouts. The number of channels earning more than $100,000 annually is up 45 percent in 2025 versus 2024. YouTube is now giving creators some tools to boost their appeal (and hopefully their income) on TV screens. Those elaborate video thumbnails featuring surprised, angry, smiley hosts are about to get even prettier with the new 50MB file size limit. That’s up from a measly 2MB.
Video upscaling is also coming to YouTube, and creators will be opted in automatically. To start, YouTube will be upscaling lower-quality videos to 1080p. In the near future, Google plans to support “super resolution” up to 4K.
Fans of kopi luwak claim the coffee has a unique aroma and taste. A new chemical analysis backs them up.
In 2007’s The Bucket List, Jack Nicholson’s billionaire magnate is a fan of a luxury coffee called kopi luwak, only to be informed that the beans first pass through the digestive tracts of civets and are harvested from their feces prior to roasting. The implication is that the billionaire just liked drinking gimmicky expensive coffee without realizing its less-than-luxurious origins. It’s one of the most expensive coffees in the world, ranging from $45 per pound to $590 per pound, depending on whether the beans are farmed or collected in the wild.
Whether kopi luwak is worth that hefty price tag depends on who you ask. A Washington Post food critic once compared the beverage to stale Folgers, memorably describing the flavor as “petrified dinosaur droppings steeped in bathtub water.” Yet kopi luwak has many genuine fans who claim the coffee has a unique aroma and taste. Based on a new chemical analysis, they might have a point, according to a paper published in Scientific Reports.
Technically, kopi luwak is a method of processing, not a specific coffee bean variety. Asian palm civets hang around coffee plantations because they love to feast on ripened coffee berries; the berries constitute most of their diet, along with various seeds. The consumed berries undergo fermentation as they pass through the animal’s intestines, and the civets digest the pulp and excrete the beans. Coffee farmers then collect the scat to recover the excreted beans and process and roast them to produce kopi luwak.
Ankers USB-Ladegerät mit vier Anschlüssen, 140 W Leistung und Smart Display ist erneut zum bisher niedrigsten Preis bei Amazon erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware, Amazon)
Ankers USB-Ladegerät mit vier Anschlüssen, 140 W Leistung und Smart Display ist erneut zum bisher niedrigsten Preis bei Amazon erhältlich. (Technik/Hardware, Amazon) Eine Powerstation von Jackery mit einer Kapazität von 518 Wh und sieben Ausgängen inklusive 500-W-Steckdose ist bei Amazon stark reduziert. (Powerstation, Technik/Hardware)
Eine Powerstation von Jackery mit einer Kapazität von 518 Wh und sieben Ausgängen inklusive 500-W-Steckdose ist bei Amazon stark reduziert. (Powerstation, Technik/Hardware) Zum angekündigten Start der 2. Netflix-Staffel von One Piece startet das Kultschiff Flying Lamb durch – jetzt erstmals zum Tiefstpreis. (Lego, Netflix)
Verhilft Arc Raiders den Extraction-Shootern zum Durchbruch? Unsere Solopartie hat jedenfalls sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Arc Raiders, Spiele)
Verhilft Arc Raiders den Extraction-Shootern zum Durchbruch? Unsere Solopartie hat jedenfalls sehr viel Spaß gemacht. Ein Hands-on von Peter Steinlechner (Arc Raiders, Spiele) “I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble,” says Huang after announcing $500B in orders.
On Wednesday, Nvidia became the first company in history to reach a $5 trillion market capitalization, fresh on the heels of a GTC conference keynote in Washington, DC, where CEO Jensen Huang announced $500 billion in AI chip orders and plans to build seven supercomputers for the US government. The milestone comes a mere three months after Nvidia crossed the $4 trillion mark in July, vaulting the company past tech giants like Apple and Microsoft in market valuation but also driving continued fears of an AI investment bubble.
Nvidia’s shares have climbed nearly 12-fold since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022, as the AI boom propelled the S&P 500 to record highs. Shares of Nvidia stock rose 4.6 percent on Wednesday following the Tuesday announcement at the company’s GTC conference. During a Bloomberg Television interview at the event, Huang dismissed concerns about overheated valuations, saying, “I don’t believe we’re in an AI bubble. All of these different AI models we’re using—we’re using plenty of services and paying happily to do it.”
Nvidia expects to ship 20 million units of its latest chips, compared to just 4 million units of the previous Hopper generation over its entire lifetime, Huang said at the conference. The $500 billion figure represents cumulative orders for the company’s Blackwell and Rubin processors through the end of 2026, though Huang noted that his projections did not include potential sales to China.
Das Flugzeug soll zeigen, dass Fliegen mit Überschall kein Lautstärkeproblem hat. Die Technik könnte dann in der zivilen Luftfahrt eingesetzt werden. (Überschall, Nasa)
Das Flugzeug soll zeigen, dass Fliegen mit Überschall kein Lautstärkeproblem hat. Die Technik könnte dann in der zivilen Luftfahrt eingesetzt werden. (Überschall, Nasa) Leeches have a long medical history. Here’s what happens if one gets in your nose.
Since the dawn of civilization, leeches have been firmly attached to medicine. Therapeutic bloodsuckers are seen in murals decorating the tombs of 18th dynasty Egyptian pharaohs. They got their earliest written recommendation in the 2nd century BC by Greek poet and physician Nicander of Colophon. He introduced the “blood-loving leech, long flaccid and yearning for gore,” as a useful tool for sucking out poison after a bite from a poisonous animal. “Let leeches feed on [the] wounds and drink their fill,” he wrote. Ancient Chinese writing touted their medicinal potential, too, as did references in Sanskrit.
Galen, the physician for Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, supported using leeches to balance the four humors (i.e. blood, phlegm, and yellow and black bile) and therefore treat ailments—as initially outlined by Hippocrates. Leeches, doctors found, provided a method for less painful, localized, and limited bloodletting. We now understand that leeches can release an anesthetic to prevent pain and a powerful anticoagulant, hirudin, to prevent clotting and keep blood flowing.
In the centuries since the Roman era, leeches’ popularity only grew. They were used to treat everything from gout to liver disease, epilepsy, and melancholy. The very word “leech” is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word “laece,” which translates to “physician.”
Zum Start des US-Börsenhandels erreicht Nvidia einen neuen Höchstwert und festigt seine Stellung als wertvollstes Unternehmen der Tech-Branche. (
Zum angekündigten Start der 2. Netflix-Staffel von One Piece startet das Kultschiff Flying Lamb durch - jetzt erstmals zum Tiefstpreis. (