Articles

Vast datacentres are being built worldwide, amid growing concerns about the environmental costs. So should we all be considering a data diet – if not complete digital sobriety?

A new study suggests that AI can be used to covertly manipulate how you feel about someone when engaging over video

You know that couple everyone thought was perfect? Well, the drama just escalated - enter SearchGPT

A study shows that the activation patterns of LLMs can indicate when they are making errors.

I thought it would make me put glue on pizza, but instead it entertained my children and got me to finally paint my office. How could it transform our daily lives?

A growing global movement is seeing people object to data centres in their locality.

Your AI-powered iPhone comes with a questionable carbon footprint.

When users don’t clearly understand how systems function, they develop unique (and often incorrect) theories to explain their experiences.

SynthID makes subtle changes to LLM-generated text to create a statistical signature while preserving the quality of the output.

Alternate methods for accomplishing frequent actions in user interfaces support expert users by speeding up their interactions, without hindering novice users.

As the world’s natural habitats degrade, scientists are playing natural sounds to ecosystems to bring them back to life.

Pledge signed by scientists from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have reduced emissions

Whisper is a popular transcription tool powered by artificial intelligence, but it has a major flaw. It makes things up that were never said.

I’m a huge fan of Claude’s Artifacts feature, which lets you prompt Claude to create an interactive Single Page App (using HTML, CSS and JavaScript) and then view the result …

Greener software could make devices last longer and use less electricity.

When I graduated from college less than a decade ago, there seemed to be only two paths for people interested in fighting climate change full-time: science or policy.

A world that has tossed out the print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica in favor of Wikipedia is not necessarily a richer one.

These three imagined scenarios lead many physicists to doubt that space-time is fundamental.

Leaders are eager to fill us with positivity, but research shows people in distress are more likely to take collective action

Researchers criticised and gaslighted after telling Guardian of their fears say acknowledging feelings is critical to their work

So one needs to look outside of official policy to have any chance of finding a realistic plan to meet the obligations under the Paris Agreement.I recently came across one such plan - Le Plan de transformation de l’économie Française (The French Economy Transformation Plan) authored by The Shift Project, an influential energy and climate think tank in France led by the engineer and system-thinker Jean-Marc Jancovici.

Global electricity generation from solar will quadruple by 2030 and help to push coal power into reverse, according to new analysis.

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.

Tech barons are forever predicting some amazing new technology to fix the climate crisis. Yet fixes already exist

We've analyzed how ChatGPT responds to users based on their name, using language model research assistants to protect privacy.

As the Cop16 biodiversity conference begins, scientists and academics say human activity has pushed the world into a danger zone

Institute for AI and data science sends memo saying it will concentrate on fewer projects

I did not ask to receive feedback after my interrogation by a chatbot – but the third-party AI platform did an uncanny impersonation of the boss from my first job

System built by Google DeepMind team takes individual views and generates a set of group statements