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Carol Hancox
August 25, 8:09 PM
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There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.
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Carol Hancox
August 18, 7:55 PM
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More than 50 sensors feed temperature, humidity and acoustic readings into the Museum’s AWS Data Ecosystem, which found woodland soils stayed 10°C cooler in June’s heatwave.
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Carol Hancox
August 13, 7:11 PM
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Its WeatherNext model, which will be open-sourced, can accurately predict a storm’s track and intensity using lower-resolution weather data. Researchers don’t yet fully understand how it does this.
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Carol Hancox
July 18, 6:21 AM
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Growth in carbon emissions for 2024-25 matches total emissions over the previous four years, as Microsoft focuses on datacentre power
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Carol Hancox
July 2, 5:45 AM
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The maps and images show the extent of destruction and give rescue operations a tool to find any remaining survivors.
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Carol Hancox
June 14, 3:03 AM
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The popular wildfire tracking app is adding flood monitoring to its platform. It’s the first new disaster alert on the service, with many more to come.
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Carol Hancox
June 7, 5:05 AM
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Google, Microsoft, and other hyperscalers have come under scrutiny for their impact on water quality and availability.
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Carol Hancox
May 10, 11:25 PM
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A new NASA map shows how the sinking of Mexico City is uneven, with areas registering up to 2 centimeters per month.
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Carol Hancox
April 18, 12:34 AM
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Weather forecasting has gotten a big boost from machine learning. How that translates into what users see can vary.
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Carol Hancox
April 14, 8:33 PM
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By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister
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Carol Hancox
April 5, 8:59 PM
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Documents show that one of Google’s new data centers would be powered by a natural gas plant that emits millions of tons of emissions each year—an increasingly common trend in the industry.
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Carol Hancox
March 16, 3:06 AM
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“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf.
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Carol Hancox
December 19, 2025 12:40 AM
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Fears about AI data centers’ water use have exploded. Experts say the reality is far more complicated than people think.
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Carol Hancox
August 18, 7:56 PM
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More than a decade after launching in Europe, the Netherlands company is now selling its repairable phones in the US, starting with the Fairphone (Gen 6+).
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Carol Hancox
August 16, 8:15 AM
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New research finds that by making the fossil fuel industry more productive, AI could help increase carbon emissions by up to nearly 5 percent—vastly outpacing the impact of data centers.
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Carol Hancox
August 7, 3:50 AM
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More EVs reaching the end of their life means more batteries to recycle. But waste management companies have yet to catch up to the new reality.
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Carol Hancox
July 13, 7:52 AM
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Thousands of new fossil-fuel power sources are quietly firing up across the state to power the AI boom, thanks to a regulatory loophole, leaving residents feeling blindsided.
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Carol Hancox
June 27, 3:16 AM
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With an initial capacity of 24 megawatts, the innovative data center uses seawater as a natural cooling system.
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Carol Hancox
June 14, 2:53 AM
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Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers.
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Carol Hancox
May 10, 11:26 PM
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With the launch of the first 16 satellites, Russia begins construction of a network for satellite internet that aims to cover the entire country by 2030. But getting there won’t be easy.
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Carol Hancox
April 18, 12:52 AM
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In a letter obtained by WIRED, the Energy Information Administration tells two senators that it plans to develop a mandatory assessment of data centers' energy use.
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Carol Hancox
April 18, 12:27 AM
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By ensuring strategic technology capabilities are developed in-house, megacities can protect their critical infrastructure from cyber threats and global unpredictability, says Moscow government minister
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Carol Hancox
April 12, 3:19 AM
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It’s a better rating than the company has gotten from repairability experts before, at least. Samsung is second worst with a D.
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Carol Hancox
March 28, 1:44 AM
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As war reshapes the Gulf, the satellite infrastructure the world relies on to see conflict clearly is being delayed, spoofed, and privately controlled—and nobody is sure who is responsible.
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Carol Hancox
February 19, 11:26 PM
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A pair of BBC journalists raced from Derby to Nottingham to see which app was the most effective.
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This is a nice site where you can select a city and then watch a virtual walk around the city. The video quality is very good, and you can also have the sound on. Great to get students taking walks and then telling their peers what they saw and where they went.