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Bruce Bastian, a founder of WordPerfect Corporation whose word processor was the preferred writing tool during the early days of personal computing—and who later renounced his Mormon faith and funded LGBTQ causes after coming out as gay—died June 16 at his home in Palm Springs, California. He was 76.Michael Marriott, executive director of the BW Bastian Foundation, said the cause was complications from pulmonary fibrosis.In the late 1970s, Mr. Bastian was finishing his undergraduate studies at Brigham Young University when he founded the company that would become WordPerfect with Alan C. Ashton, his computer science professor and the nephew of David O. McKay, the influential former president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.In the 1980s and early 1990s, Mr. Bastian and Mr...

If the Biden administration prevails, many more electronic chips would be produced in factories located in, say, Texas or Arizona.They would then be shipped to partner countries, such as Costa Rica, Vietnam or Kenya, for final assembly and sent around the world to power everything from refrigerators to supercomputers.These places may not be the first that come to mind when you think of semiconductors. But administration officials are trying to transform the world’s chip supply chain, and they’re negotiating hard to do it.Key elements of the plan include convincing foreign companies to invest in U.S. chipmaking and finding other countries to set up factories to do the work. Officials and researchers in Washington call it part of the new “chip diplomacy.”The Biden administration argues that ...

According to official visitor logs, a Parkinson’s disease expert from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer to this spring, including at least once for a meeting with President Biden’s physician.The expert, Dr. Kevin Cannard, is a neurologist who specializes in movement disorders and recently published an article about Parkinson’s. The logs, released by the White House in response to a request from The New York Times, document visits from July 2023 to March of this year. More recent visits, if any, would not be released until later, under the White House’s voluntary disclosure policy.It was unclear whether Dr. Cannard was at the White House to specifically consult with the president or whether he was there as part ...

  Aydın'da kombi servisi seçerken doğru tercihi yapmak önemlidir. Doğru hizmeti almak ve kombinizin sorunsuz çalışmasını sağlamak için bazı önemli faktörleri göz önünde bulundurmanız gerekmektedir. Uzmanlık ve Deneyim Kombi servisi seçerken, servis sağlayıcının uzmanlık ve deneyim düzeyi büyük önem taşır. Kombinizin ihtiyacı olan doğru bakım ve onarım hizmetini alabilmek için bu faktörlere dikkat etmek önemlidir. Altus marka kombileriniz için özellikle Aydın Altus Servis'in deneyimli ve uzman kadrosu size güven verir. Müşteri Memnuniyeti ve Referanslar Bir kombi servisi seçerken, diğer müşterilerin deneyimleri ve servis sağlayıcının müşteri memnuniyeti odaklı hizmet anlayışı da göz önünde bulundurulmalıdır. En yakın Aydın kombi servisi seçiminde, servisin sunduğu refera...

France's left-wing parties made an unexpected gain in Sunday's national legislative elections, denying the nationalist, anti-immigration Rassemblement National party a majority in the lower house of parliament.But official results showed that no party or bloc had won an outright majority, leaving one of Europe's largest countries on the brink of political impasse or instability.Here are five food for thought from this election.Big Surprise #1There were two major surprises when France voted for a new parliament in early elections, neither of which had been predicted by pundits, pollsters or forecasters.The biggest was the triumph of the New Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties that is now the dominant force in a bloc of about 190 lawmakers and has emerged as the large...

In May, CoreWeave, a provider of cloud computing services for AI companies, raised $1.1 billion, followed by $7.5 billion in debt, at a valuation of $19 billion. Scale AI, a data provider for AI companies, raised $1 billion, at a valuation of $13.8 billion. And xAI, founded by Elon Musk, raised $6 billion, at a valuation of $24 billion.These funding rounds have increased the overall deal volume in the industry, both in terms of dollar amount and number of deals, said Kyle Stanford, research analyst at PitchBook."It's not declining anymore," he said. "The bottom has already fallen out."The activity has prompted some venture capitalists to change their messaging. Last year, IVP investor Tom Loverro predicted a “mass extinction event” for startups and urged them to cut costs. Last week, h...

Huda Omari sat outside a broker's office in Jordan for two days, waiting for a visa to undertake the annual hajj, or pilgrimage, to Saudi Arabia.In Egypt, Magda Moussa’s three children pooled their resources to raise nearly $9,000 to fulfill their dream of accompanying their mother on the hajj. When she got the green light to make the trip, she said, relatives and neighbors in her village cheered.The daylong pilgrimage is a deep spiritual journey and a daunting trek even under the best of circumstances. But this year, amid record heat, at least 1,300 pilgrims did not survive the hajj, and Saudi officials said more than 80 percent of the dead were pilgrims without permits.Ms. Omari and Ms. Moussa were among a large number of unregistered pilgrims who relied on illicit or fraudulent tour...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing on Monday, courting another authoritarian partner after talks last week in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.In announcing Mr. Orban’s visit to Beijing, China’s official Xinhua news agency said only that Mr. Xi would hold “in-depth discussions with him on issues of mutual concern.” The leaders last met two months ago, when Mr. Xi visited Budapest as part of a push to restore Chinese influence in Europe.Chinese state television said Mr Xi and Mr Orbán were holding talks at the Diaooyutai State Guesthouse, but gave no further details.The meeting will give Mr. Xi and Mr. Orbán, an outlier in the European Union in support for Ukraine and other issues, a chance to urge the bloc to distance itself from W...

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, offering behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism is made.After recording about 90 episodes of "Hard Fork," a weekly New York Times podcast about technology and business, life is pretty much the same for its hosts, Kevin Roose and Casey Newton. That is, except for the occasional fan encounter, which is a new and sometimes surprising experience for them.“Just last night, I was having dinner with two friends who were visiting from out of town,” Mr. Newton said. “As I was coming back from the bathroom, a man stopped me. At first, I thought I had met him before because I’m basically prone-blind. But then it turned out he recognized me from our YouTube channel.”Since the podcast’s first episode in October 2022, Mr. Roose and Mr. Newton...

Israelis on Sunday marked nine months since the devastating Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7 and the start of the subsequent war in Gaza with a nationwide day of anti-government protests, at a time many here see as a pivotal moment in the conflict.Mainly demanding a ceasefire deal with Hamas that would see the return of hostages from captivity and new elections in Israel, protesters blocked traffic at several major intersections in cities and on highways across the country. Much of central Tel Aviv was brought to a standstill in one of the largest protests in months.Some progress has been made in recent days in resuming negotiations for an interim agreement after weeks of stalemate, despite ongoing fighting in Gaza, where an Israeli strike on Saturday hit the area of ​​a United Nations school, a...