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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) dazzled the stock market on Wednesday, posting better-than-expected results in its first-quarter earnings report and offering eye-popping guidance for the second quarter. Shares finished the aftermarket session nearly 25% higher, adding close to $200 billion in market value. The world's most valuable semiconductor company actually reported a year-over-year decline in revenue, which was expected as it faces difficult comparisons in its gaming segment. However, all eyes were on the data center segment. This area reflects the surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) chips, which has skyrocketed since ChatGPT's launch late last year. Here, Nvidia did not disappoint. Data center revenue rose 14% from the previous year and 18% from the previous quarter to a record $4.28 billion, and Nvidia's management forecast accelerating demand for AI capabilities. CEO Jensen Huang said, "A trillion dollars of installed global data center infrastructur...

If the average NBA fan didn't know who Miami Heat guard Caleb Martin was before Monday's Eastern Conference final Game 7 against the Boston Celtics, they certainly know now. Especially Celtics fans. Martin started for the first time in the series, played 45 minutes and scored 26 points on 11-of-16 shooting, while also grabbing 10 rebounds as the Heat avoided a monumental collapse and beat the Celtics 103-84 to advance to the NBA Finals where they will take on the Denver Nuggets starting Thursday night. Martin, a Mocksville, North Carolina native, who also attended Oak Hill Academy in Virginia, started his collegiate career at North Carolina State in 2014 playing two seasons there before transferring to Nevada. After sitting out the 2016-17 season because of NCAA transfer rules, Martin blossomed during his first season with the Wolf Pack, averaging 18.9 points and 5.4 rebounds on his way to being named Mountain West Conference Player of the Year. During his senior season, ...

  “It’s been about 25 years since I stood on this stage,” since Shania Twain, not long after the kickoff to her set Sunday night at the Hollywood Bowl. She had that figured about right — the calendar shows she last played America’s most favored amphitheater on May 6, 1999. That was a few weeks shy of the moment that her signature song among all signature songs, “Man! I Feel Like a Woman!,” peaked on the charts. When she pulled it out as her inevitable final encore number Saturday, it still felt like it was cresting. It’s a song that may never have truly peaked until all the generations represented at the Bowl this Memorial Day weekend have passed away and/or the day the prerogative to have a little fun has been codified into the criminal as a felony. For as long as there are women, and gay men, and straight men relaxed with themselves enough to buy “Let’s go, girls” T-shirt and diode-blinking pink cowboy hats, Twain will own rights to the ultimate ladies’ night anthem, just as s...

LOS ANGELES — George Maharis, a stage-trained actor with rough-hewn good looks who became an icon to American youth in the 1960s as he cruised the country in a Corvette convertible in the hit television series “Route 66,” has died. Maharis’ friend and caretaker Marc Bahan said in a Facebook post that he died Wednesday. Bahan told the Hollywood Reporter, which first reported Maharis’ death, that he died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, after contracting hepatitis. He was 94. On “Route 66,” Maharis played Buz Murdock, a hardened survivor of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. His co-star Martin Milner, who died in 2015, was Tod Stiles, a young man raised in wealth who upon his father’s death was left with nothing but a shiny new Corvette. The pair decided to travel the highway author John Steinbeck had dubbed “The Mother Road.” Each week brought a new adventure in a new city, and audiences tuned in in droves. “Route 66” was the rare series at the time that was filmed on lo...

After several failed attempts to delay her time behind bars, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is set to report to federal prison this week. The disgraced entrepreneur was sentenced to over 11 years in prison and ordered to pay $452m (£365m) with her former business partner Sunny Balwani to dozens of high-profile investors they defrauded through a blood-testing start-up. It's a sizeable bill for the former billionaire, who has claimed she does not even have enough money to pay her lawyers. In US federal court, convicted offenders are sometimes ordered to pay restitution. This is a reimbursement to victims for lost income, property damage, medical expenses or other financial costs related to the crime. In Holmes' case, she has been ordered to pay back some of the wealthiest families in America. After dropping out of Stanford University, she recruited several famous figures to raise money for Theranos, valued at $9bn at its peak. Donors included former Secretary o...