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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

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Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). One of the first applications for CUDA was in oil and gas exploration, processing the mountains of data from geological surveys.

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Is Java Still Popular with Software Developers?

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Java became open source in 2006, and Oracle took over stewardship when it acquired Sun in 2010. There are also advanced tree and 3D graphical models that developers find helpful. In a rapidly evolving technology world, that’s quite an accomplishment. The interface is easy to learn, and it provides visual feedback.