As Raleigh prepares to implement water restrictions on Monday amid the ongoing drought, attention is turning to how much water large data centers could use and how that demand is managed during dry ...

Amid bipartisan backlash to AI from federal lawmakers, nearly a dozen states are considering legislation that would prohibit new data center construction for a period of months to years. Maine is ...

An author and freelance journalist has admitted to using AI to help him write a book review for the New York Times. The Times promptly dropped Preston, calling his “reliance on A.I. and his use of ...

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...

US Army Captain with the National Guard Bureau seen using the Maven Smart System in Arlington, Virginia in February 2026. (National Guard Bureau/Master Sgt. Whitney Hughes) The US Marine Corps (USMC) ...

Working with CSV files in Excel often involves repetitive imports and manual updates, which can be both time-consuming and error-prone. Leila Gharani introduces a practical solution using Excel’s ...

Google has signed agreements with five U.S. electric utilities in states from Arkansas to Minnesota to curtail its electricity use during periods of peak demand, the company said on March 19, in its ...

The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans’ data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency’s director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

Palantir CEO Alex Karp confirmed that Anthropic's Claude is still being used in the company's tools despite the startup's blackisting by the Pentagon. The Defense Department designated Anthropic a ...

An entrepreneur says overuse of AI will dull workers' critical-thinking skills. And he has a rule for his team and kids to stave off AI atrophy. Start with 10% human thinking, let AI handle the middle ...

Data centres use huge amounts of energy and chips are in high demand – could brain cells be the answer? Australia-based start-up Cortical Labs has announced it is building two “biological” data ...