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Equatic Unveils Oxygen-Selective Anodes, Unlocking Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal and Green Hydrogen Generation With Seawater Electrolysis
With funding from ARPA-E, the U.S.-manufactured OSAs will make combined carbon removal and clean hydrogen production more scalable, sustainable, and...
Constellation to Launch Crane Clean Energy Center, Restoring Jobs and Carbon-Free Power to The Grid
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.
Wind and solar have risen to ‘new highs’ in the EU overtaking fossil fuels for the first time ever | Euronews
Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said the EU is now “well equipped” to meet climate neutrality goals.
World’s largest heat pump to warm 30,000 homes in Finland
World's largest heat pump powered by renewable energy will help Helsinki meet its heating demands while reducing carbon emissions.
This AI model is helping researchers detect disease based on coughs
Here's how our bioacoustic foundation model, Health Acoustic Representations (HeAR), may help improve health outcomes for people across India.
Oracle Offers First Zettascale Cloud Computing Cluster
New AI supercomputer, the largest in the cloud, to deliver up to 131,072 NVIDIA GPUs to enable customers to build, train, and inference AI at scale.
Nth Cycle Begins Operations of First Domestic Commercial-Scale Nickel and Cobalt Scrap Refining System in Fairfield, Ohio
/PRNewswire/ -- Nth Cycle, the globally recognized critical metal refining company, has made history as the first company in the United States to produce...
Oil power UAE completes Arab world's first nuclear plant
The oil-rich United Arab Emirates on Thursday announced the completion of the Arab world's first nuclear power plant, calling it a "significant step".
BMW to launch hydrogen cars in 2028
The move is part of the German brand's partnership with Toyota and is a "milestone in automotive history"
YouTube astrologers gain celebrity reading horoscopes in Pakistan - Rest of World
Pakistanis are looking for certainty. Astrologers on YouTube want to help.
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Microsoft’s Hypocrisy on AI
Can artificial intelligence really enrich fossil-fuel companies and fight climate change at the same time? The tech giant says yes.
ByteDance Steps Up AI Chip Efforts
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is accelerating efforts to make its own artificial intelligence chips as it looks for an edge over its rivals in China’s AI chatbot market. ByteDance is aiming for mass production of two semiconductors it has designed by 2026, in collaboration with chipmaker ...
Meta reignites plans to train AI using UK users' public Facebook and Instagram posts | TechCrunch
Meta has confirmed that it's restarting efforts to train its AI systems using public Facebook and Instagram posts from its U.K. userbase.
Tech giants fight plan to make them pay more for electric grid upgrades
An Ohio power company is trying to make major tech companies pay more of the costs of upgrading the electric grid to accommodate power-hungry data centers.
AI chatbots might be better at swaying conspiracy theorists than humans
Co-author Gordon Pennycook: "The work overturns a lot of how we thought about conspiracies."
Meta fed its AI on almost everything you’ve posted publicly since 2007
Making Facebook and Instagram private won’t delete that data.
Forest Foundry: Carbon-Negative Glass Made From Pine Resin
Solving our glass problem, while preserving our forests and communities.
Reflect Orbital sells sunlight at night, but don't trust that fancy video
It's... intriguing.
Chinese Company Busted Showing Off Humanoid Robots That Actually Have Humans Inside
Viral footage shows what appear to be humanoid robots posing at a conference in Beijing. They're actually human cosplayers.
Google's best Gemini demo was faked | TechCrunch
Google's new Gemini AI model is getting a mixed reception after its big debut yesterday, but users may have less confidence in the company's tech or
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Diffusion Models Are Real-Time Game Engines
After the Internet
There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?
Singapore scientists seek power from darkness through shadow energy
Scientists in Singapore are hoping to perfect a new method of power generation driven largely by shadows, with the hope that it could one day help highly urbanised cities power themselves.
Music Producer Accused of Using AI Songs to Scam Streaming Platforms Out of $10 Million in Royalties
Michael Smith, a 52-year-old music producer, is accused of generating more than $10 million in illicit royalties using AI-generated songs.
Warm fronts to Y-fronts: Chinese city hit by underwear storm
Chongqing authorities say cloud seeding to break heatwave did not cause winds that sent laundry flying
The man who put Doom in a Lego brick is now playing it on a volumetric voxel display
From “barely 3D” to “more 3D than most 3D games”.
Why Really Tiny Nuclear Reactors Are Bringing In Big Money
Last Energy just raised a $40 million Series B.