An unsecured police dashboard was a rare window into how the authorities track foreigners by collecting and aggregating vast amounts of private data. By Lily Kuo and Pei-Lin Wu Most days, Marc Hofer, ...

A power line went down outside of Washington, DC, this week. Normally, the grid would only need a few seconds to recover from such an event. But this one took more than 10 minutes because data centers ...

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A little piece of my soul shrivels up every time I get a message laying out how another company plans to use personal data in ever encroaching ways for AI training. I got one of those emails recently ...

Android 17 is now available for Pixel phones, but some users are experiencing an odd Wi-Fi bug. While their phones show an active Wi-Fi connection, certain apps seem unable to take advantage of it.

Tech giants are racing to build the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence. But a growing body of evidence suggests that AI hyperscalers – large-scale cloud service providers like Google, ...

PHOENIX—A new style of architecture is rising in the sprawling suburbs of the Sonoran Desert: windowless data centers that hum 24 hours a day and guzzle as much electricity as a midsize city. As ...

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

As every gamer knows, computers can plausibly simulate just about anything from the routine concerns of a household to the crises confronting a multiplanetary civilization. Simulating the fundamental ...

Artificial intelligence data centers are on the verge of reaching their limits. To meet ballooning demand, chipmakers like Nvidia Corp. are churning out ever more powerful chips, requiring a new ...

USB Type-C is meant to unify connectors and cable specifications, making it easier to connect devices. But not all cable manufacturers follow the connector's requirements. You can potentially buy ...

The Google-owned video platform also now has more three billion users, the company revealed Tuesday. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Sora may be dead, but some of its most buzzed-about features are about ...