CNN

Exhausted? The reason may be how you’re using technology

Kara Alaimo is a professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was published ...
Los Angeles Times

Amid the AI boom, California looks to address water use by massive data centers

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The AI-driven boom in data centers is putting growing demands on water in California and the Southwest. New ...
The Conversation

How your electric bill may be paying for big data centers’ energy use

Ari Peskoe is the Director of the Electricity Law Initiative at the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program (EELP). EELP receives funding from philanthropic foundations that support ...
MIT Technology Review

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...
Nature

Data centres will use twice as much energy by 2030 — driven by AI

The electricity consumption of data centres is projected to more than double by 2030, according to a report from the International Energy Agency published today. The chief culprit? Artificial ...
PC Gamer

If in doubt, use more lube: Wooting's Lekker V2 switches now have tighter tolerances and more of the slippy stuff, insert your own joke here

Please, can we keep our minds out of the gutter for just one…oh, go on then. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If there's one thing ...
Game Rant

How Does Lockpicking Work in Star Wars Outlaws? (Data Spike Guide)

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...
The New York Times

The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast

New research from the Data Provenance Initiative has found a dramatic drop in content made available to the collections used to build artificial intelligence. By Kevin Roose Reporting from San ...
Forbes

Three Surprising Real-Time Data Use Cases

President and CEO at Volt Active Data, Inc. We live in a real-time age, but what exactly does "real time" mean? Not everyone has the same definition. When you're watching a live sporting event, you ...
Wired

ICE Records Reveal How Agents Abuse Access to Secret Data

Since 2016, hundreds of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees and contractors have faced internal investigations into abuse of confidential law enforcement databases and agency computers.
InfoWorld

Intro to Nuitka: A better way to compile and distribute Python

As Python’s popularity rises, its limitations are becoming more clear. For one thing, it can be very hard to write a Python application and distribute it to people who don’t have Python installed. The ...