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AI data centres taking electricity.

Data centres spark electricity cost fears among 80% of American homeowners

Eighty per cent of US homeowners worry that data centres will drive…
SETI and Nvidia

SETI Institute boosts alien hunt with real-time AI using Nvidia IGX Thor

The SETI Institute is integrating Nvidia’s new IGX Thor platform into the…
Mushroom computers

Shiitake mushrooms trained to act as living computer components

Researchers at The Ohio State University have successfully grown and trained common…
Jacob Benestad

Quantum computers get real-time tuning to keep unstable qubits in check

Researchers develop a method that continuously adjusts quantum bits like tuning a…
Smartphone

Smartwatches achieve centimetre-level GPS precision in world-first breakthrough

University of Otago researchers have developed algorithms enabling smartwatches to determine location…
Amazon AWS

AWS outage disrupts Facebook, Snapchat and Amazon before recovery begins

Amazon Web Services confirmed its systems were recovering following a major outage…
Titan submersible video

Titan submersible’s memory card survives but held no fatal dive footage

Recovery teams have found an undamaged SD card inside a specialist underwater…
AWS

AWS outage disrupts 40 services as DNS failure hits DynamoDB

Amazon Web Services suffered a significant service disruption affecting more than 40…
Meta's new AI-focused data centre in El Paso, Texas.

Meta begins construction on AI-optimised data centre capable of scaling to 1GW

Meta begins construction on AI-optimised data centre capable of scaling to 1GW…

Wikimedia launches free AI vector database to challenge Big Tech dominance

Wikimedia Deutschland has launched a free vector database enabling developers to build…