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National Grid

UK grid ‘overwhelmed’ as data centre power requests triple in one year

The UK’s electricity grid is “overwhelmed” by a flood of connection requests,…
Mustafa Suleyman

Microsoft AI boss rejects ‘AGI race’, warns ‘no one has a reassuring answer’

Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI, has explicitly rejected the industry’s…
Scenes from America.

AI stress for students jumps to 78% amid ‘crisis of connection’ in the US

Americans are grappling with a “crisis of connection”, and surging anxiety over…
Vibe coding with a cat.

Collins names “vibe coding” Word of the Year as AI reshapes language

Vibe coding, a term capturing the use of artificial intelligence prompted by…
David vs Goliath in cyber warfare.

Technology lets small nations compete in cyberwarfare with superpowers

Small and technologically less advanced countries can now wage effective cyberwarfare against…
Google's Project Sunchaser.

Google unveils ‘moonshot’ to power AI with space-based solar data centres

Google researchers have unveiled a “moonshot” research initiative to build AI data…
Brain organoids.

Japanese public reject brain organoid donations over consciousness fears

More than 90 per cent of Japanese citizens expressed serious hesitation or…
Apple iBook

Apple to launch budget Mac under $1,000 targeting Chromebook market

Apple is preparing to enter the low-cost laptop market for the first…
Wine, coffee and chocolate.

The end of coffee, wine, and chocolate? Climate change threatens luxury crops

Climate change is already shrinking the global production areas for coffee, wine,…
Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death

Medieval poem debunked after 700 years, rewriting Black Death history

A single 14th-century rhyming poem, mistakenly believed to be a historical fact,…