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Tech giant’s goal of reducing climate footprint at risk as it grows increasingly reliant on energy-hungry data centres

Samsung has unveiled a new solid-state battery with 20-year lifespan, 600-mile range, and 9-minute charging time.

The best of blogging meets the best of social media.

Speaking Saturday at the UN Summit of the Future, Google CEO Sundar Pichai described AI as “the most transformative technology yet” and announced a new

Facebook owner Meta Platforms is planning to announce this week that it has secured deals with actors including Judi Dench, Kristen Bell and John Cena to give voice to its Meta AI chatbot, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reuters on Monday.

Constellation announced today the signing of a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft that will pave the way for the launch of the Crane Clean Energy Center (CCEC) and restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1, which operated at industry-leading levels of safety and reliability for decades before being shut down for economic reasons exactly five years ago today.

Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.

Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.

There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.

Nvidia’s yearly AI chip refresh may not start this year.

Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

A new system uses generative AI to predict weather faster and more cheaply than ever — while detecting difficult-to-spot extreme weather events — beating the world's major weather agencies.

Global online retail and cloud computing giant says it has achieved a “moment in time” milestone where all its electricity demand has been matched by renewables.

US firm’s move, amid Beijing-Washington tensions, sparks rush to lure users to homegrown models

Google's greenhouse gas emissions have increased by half over the last five years due to the energy demands of artificial intelligence.

Quilt is a smart heat pump system with millimeter wave presence sensing built-in.

Proposals would mark first time any of the software group’s core product falls behind a paywall

eBay will be adding an image-based listing tool to its range of offerings powered by artificial intelligence (AI). This tool will allow sellers to simply take or upload a photo within the eBay app and watch as AI automatically fills in item information details, the company said in a Thursday (Sept. 7) article posted on its website. […]

Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

The small nation of Togo used image analysis algorithms to target economic support for its most vulnerable residents.

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro

Acquisitions, job postings and academic papers suggest tech company is preparing to run AI through its devices

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades