2+ hour, 15+ min ago   (495+ words) For nearly a century, 529 Bryant Street in Palo Alto, California, has been an information connection point. In downtown Palo Alto, California, on a busy street with coffee shops and art galleries, there is a building that helped shape the internet…...

17+ hour, 21+ min ago   (366+ words) As AI increases demand for data centers, many will get built in dense metropolitan areas close to where people live and work. As investors pour billions of dollars into artificial intelligence, the construction of power-hungry data centers has become one…...

20+ hour, 15+ min ago   (564+ words) How can advertisers get in front of users when AI is making click-throughs less common? With chatbots doing much of the work of surfing the web for us, and providing things like AI summaries that make clicking through to source…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (871+ words) The digital detox economy is estimated to grow to $20 billion by 2032. The gamification that got you addicted to your phone might be the key to putting it down. About a year and a half ago, a friend of mine told…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (458+ words) Utilities across the country are investing in upgrades, and the cost is often passed on to consumers. In some places, utilities are increasing capacity for data centers, but elsewhere they're responding to the risk of wildfires and other natural disasters....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (132+ words) Garrett Johnson, professor of marketing at Boston University, shares his thoughts on the nuanced challenges of adding advertising to generative AI search platforms. Search engines, social media, e-commerce, and mobile games all make money by selling advertising. But making ads…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (180+ words) Nicholas Miller, policy associate at the National Conference of State Legislatures, explains how states are leaning into some tax incentives like reduced construction costs to attract data centers, while rethinking others related to electricity use. Tech giants are estimated to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (511+ words) What does that mean for power grids? " All those big, new data centers being built around the country will use a whole lot of power. Bloomberg New Energy Finance said that in the next 10 years, data centers are likely to…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (137+ words) While Wikipedia strives to be transparent about its articles' authors and the changes it makes, Grokipedia is a black box of answers generated by xAI's chatbot Grok, said Ryan McGrady. Grokipedia, the AI-powered encyclopedia launched by Elon Musk's xAI last…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (164+ words) Before the government shutdown, the Federal Communications Commission voted to end funding for Wi-Fi on school buses and the lending of hotspot devices from libraries. Nicol Turner Lee, author of "Digitally Invisible," says this could further the digital divide for…...