The Pentagon is moving toward OpenAI and xAI models after its split with Anthropic, deepening the AI industry’s divide over ...

I'm writing from Forrest City. When my dad says it, it sounds like "Far City." His accent gets thicker the farther east we drive. We're headed Delta ways to tag-team some research for a new book. This ...

Your mobile plan has a set amount of roaming data you can use before it begins to cost you extra money. Depending on your phone's plan, you don't have to keep track of it too much (unless you're ...

AI data centers can operate without using peak power continuously, according to the results of a UK trial, a finding that could have implications for electricity systems worldwide. Grids from the US ...

Losing important files—photos, documents, or work projects—can happen in an instant. Hardware fails, ransomware strikes, or devices get lost, and without a solid plan, critical data can vanish forever ...

Early last year, a cluster of data centers in Virginia suddenly dropped off the power grid, threatening the stability of the already vulnerable system. The roughly 40 data centers, which had been ...

North Carolina is facing a surge in electricity demand, largely driven by the growth of data centers. A state task force is exploring how to manage rising power needs without overburdening residential ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

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Stone Age people 40,000 years ago used a simple form of writing comparable in complexity to the earliest stages of the world’s first writing system, cuneiform, according to a study of mysterious signs ...

New A.I. sites could drive up your power bill. We look at possible solutions. By Claire Brown Tech companies are investing billions of dollars to build energy-hungry data centers at a time when demand ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...