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America’s Biggest Bitcoin Miners Are Pivoting to AI

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I...

How Data Centers Actually Work

Lauren Goode: Well, they're all interested in growing more. Who among us, Mike? But the hyperscalers refers to this class of major tech companies or cloud service providers....

Amazon’s AWS outage has knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline

On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites,...

Amazon’s AWS outage has knocked services like Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, Venmo and more offline

On this crisp October morning, it feels like half of the internet is dealing with a hangover. A severe Amazon Web Services outage took out many, many websites,...

OpenAI’s Blockbuster AMD Deal Is a Bet on Near-Limitless Demand for AI

The data center gold rush hinges in part on the idea that models will improve in line with the laws of scaling—so long as they’re trained on more...

Why do AI data centers use so many resources?

With the AI boom, construction of new data centers has skyrocketed, and not without consequence — some communities that count these facilities as neighbors are now facing water...

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Galaxy S26 battery tests show Qualcomm trim doing far better than Samsung’s own chip 

A YouTube channel ran a battery test on two versions of the Galaxy S26. Same phone, same tasks, same conditions, but the only...

AI is getting surprisingly good, but research says AI creativity is just a myth

AI might be getting impressively good at writing, designing, and even brainstorming. But when it comes to true creativity, humans still have the...

This utterly cute Chinese EV costs just $6,200 and pushes over 190 miles

China has never had trouble making things affordable, and electric vehicles are no exception. Still, $6,200 for a feature-packed EV with 190 miles...

Bethesda is shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30

It's a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it's permanently shutting down the...

Bethesda is shutting down The Elder Scrolls: Blades on June 30

It's a sad day for the dozens of players still grinding The Elder Scrolls: Blades. Bethesda announced that it's permanently shutting down the...