U.S. technology companies are pursuing energy assets held by bitcoin miners as they race to secure a shrinking supply of electricity for their rapidly expanding artificial intelligence and cloud computing data centers. Those data centers are driving the fastest U.S. power demand growth since the start of the millennium, outpacing grid expansions and leaving giant technology companies, like Amazon (AMZN.O), opens new […]
Generative AI systems are trained by letting them surf the web to scrape content. Apple allows publishers to opt out of its scraping, and a new report says that many of the biggest websites have specifically opted out of Apple Intelligence training. This includes both Facebook and Instagram, as well as many high-profile news and media sites like The New York Times and The […]
Keeping battery-powered electronics in good shape is an arcane art. Do you keep them on the charger, so they’re always at 100 percent when needed, or do you constantly charge cycle them to prevent the batteries from degrading? Well, luckily for you, someone smarter than both of us has figured out the methods for your […]
For Nvidia investors, the past two years have been a joyride. But recently they’ve been on more of a roller coaster. As the primary beneficiary of the artificial intelligence boom, Nvidia has seen its market cap expand by about ninefold since the end of 2022. But after reaching a record in June and briefly becoming the world’s most valuable […]
Norwegian battery startup Morrow, which opened its first factory earlier this month, has reached a preliminary deal to deliver power storage systems to Ukraine, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Morrow said it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving (SAEE), adding that a […]
The leaves are changing color, and everything is pumpkin-flavored again. It also means it’s high time for a new iPhone. Apple has announced its Glowtime event will take place on Sept. 9 at its Cupertino headquarters. You can tune into the live event, streamed from inside the Steve Jobs Theater, starting at 10 a.m. PT […]
True North is Avangrid’s (NYSE: AGR) first solar farm in Texas – and it will be the largest solar project in the company’s portfolio. Avangrid installed more than 488,000 solar panels at the 321 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Falls County, Texas, over the past several months, and it says it finished ahead of schedule. […]
Imagine if Australian cities became major producers of clean energy, rather than relying on far-flung solar and wind farms. Far fetched? Hardly. Our cities and towns are full of warehouses, commercial areas, shopping centers and factories. These types of buildings have one very important underutilized resource—large expanses of unoccupied rooftops, perfect for solar and battery […]
Homeowners are taking action to protect themselves from violent crimes. Recently, more people have been blurring their homes on Google Maps to help deter burglars. Google Maps is a great tool to help people navigate and find restaurants, homes, or buildings, but it also gives criminals a bird’s eye view of your home. Criminals might use the images […]
Microsoft is once again rebranding its AI. What started out as “Bing Chat” and is now known as “Copilot” will once again change. The specific name for the rebrand remains under wraps, as it is unknown to the public, but it is a reality. The question is, will it still be one of the confusing […]
The Korea Institute of Energy Research (KIER) has developed a redox-active metal-organic hybrid electrode material (SKIER-5) for Li batteries that remains stable in cold conditions as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. By addressing the limitations of graphite as an anode material of conventional Li batteries under freezing conditions, SKIER-5 has the potential to be […]
Researchers have produced the world’s first flexible “solar panel” that is thin enough to coat on other objects so they can double as a portable source of energy. A breakthrough approach allowed scientists to create solar cells 150 times thinner than existing silicon-based panels, without sacrificing any of their energy-generating capabilities. These panels could eventually […]
