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Proposals for massive data centers are popping across Florida
1+ hour, 41+ min ago (721+ words) Florida doesn't have a hyperscale data center operating yet, but proposals to build them are emerging all across the state. There are many traditional data centers here, though, where external servers can live on the floor of an office building…...
Florida bill targets water and energy impacts of massive AI data centers
3+ week, 5+ day ago (206+ words) Florida lawmakers are looking into regulations for massive data centers used to power artificial intelligence. Hialeah Gardens Republican Senator Bryan "vila is sponsoring the bill, SB 484. "This is a balance between making sure that we are still leading the way…...
Viral global TikToks: A twist on soccer, Tanzania's Charlie Chaplin, hope in Gaza
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1785+ words) More than one billion users visit TikTok every month, and since its launch in 2016, it's grown to become one of the most popular social media platforms. And controversial, too. India, for example, banned the app in 2020, and Australia barred children…...
Florida lawmakers get presentation on AI data centers
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (354+ words) As part of the Florida House's "AI Week, lawmakers received a presentation about the infrastructure for AI data centers in Florida. The state currently does not have massive AI data centers to the scale of ones grabbing national attention in…...
Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (402+ words) Updated October 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM EDT A massive outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted major websites and apps on Monday, in a show of how one company's online infrastructure has become essential for many modern businesses to function. Amazon said it…...
WFSU is back to full power!
4+ mon, 6+ day ago (173+ words) WFSU has completed the installation of a new transmitter to resolve low power and signal interruptions. - On Air Now Playing 88.9 WFSU-FM (News and Information) - On Air Now Playing 89.1 WFSW-FM (News and Information) WFSU is back to full power! After operating…...
Engineer restores pay phones for free public use
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (436+ words) Patrick Schlott often finds himself in a cellular dead zone during his drive to work. "You go down the road, you turn the corner and you're behind a mountain and you'll lose cell coverage pretty fast," he says. The 31-year-old…...
This TikTok video is fake, but every word was taken from a real creator
7+ mon, 6+ day ago (857+ words) Millions of TikTokkers have watched some version of a video in the past week falsely stating that "they're installing incinerators at Alligator Alcatraz," referring to an internet conspiracy theory that furnaces were being set up at a state-run immigration detention…...
It's last call for Skype as the once-popular video calling app shuts down
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (304+ words) Microsoft has announced that the pioneering online video calling service that's been around for more than two decades will go offline on Monday. Skype, the pioneering online video calling service that has been around for more than two decades, will…...
The Justice Department and Google battle over how to fix a search engine monopoly
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (1120+ words) After a federal judge ruled that Google had a monopoly on the search market, the tech giant and the government are in court to debate penalties. One possible result: forcing Google to spin off Chrome. Nearly a year ago, U.S. District…...