The Guardian

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows

Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997 For the millions of people across the United States who have spent the last month ...
The Washington Post

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.

The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...
Inc

Data Centers Are About to Use as Much Power as Japan—and the Solutions Are Getting Weird

Global electricity consumption for data centers is set to more than double by 2030. According to the International Energy Agency, consumption will hit around 945 TWh in just four years. That’s roughly ...
The New York Times

Are Models Getting Even Skinnier?

The era of size inclusivity is seemingly over. Our critic traces the shift and hopes designers might learn from it. By Vanessa Friedman I know models have always been skinny, but it seems to me they ...
9NEWS

‘I don’t see this as getting better’: Data centers fuel concern over water, energy use, air pollution

Brick buildings of homes and small businesses line the wide streets that lead to the shores of Lake Michigan and a historic lighthouse. The city celebrates the community's nautical heritage year round ...
The Verge

Disney Plus is getting vertical video

A TikTok-like vertical video feed is coming to the service later this year. A TikTok-like vertical video feed is coming to the service later this year. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming ...
Hosted on MSN

Getting big arms with the godfather of bodybuilding guiding form

Fitness Pro Superhuman Troy builds big arms with guidance from the Godfather of Bodybuilding. Massive fraud allegations in California: What we know Alaska Airlines pilot who safely landed plane after ...
MIT Technology Review

Why AI predictions are so hard

And why we're predicting what's next for the technology in 2026 anyway. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign ...
NPR

AI data centers use a lot of electricity. How it could affect your power bill

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...
Wall Street Journal

The Stealth Tactic Bosses Are Using to Get You Back to the Office

Companies’ latest return-to-office push is barely noticeable. That’s the point. After waves of RTO mandates yielded mixed results, employers are betting a subtler strategy will be more effective at ...
NOLA.com

How much water will Meta's Louisiana data center use? New details unveiled for first time.

Meta has detailed for the first time the large amount of water its artificial intelligence data center being built in rural northeast Louisiana will require, estimating the average daily use for the ...