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Tennessee Joins States Requiring Data Center Owners to Pay Full Electricity, Infrastructure Costs
2+ hour, 45+ min ago (372+ words) A new law passed in Tennessee will protect residents from incurring rising electricity costs from nearby data centers" demands on the grid. Republican-led bill HB 1847 prohibits utilities companies and municipalities from paying for a data center"s electrical needs, or…...
Phone Case Brand Designs Autonomous Floating Plastic Collection Platform to Combat Ocean Waste
2+ week, 4+ hour ago (315+ words) In a stunning act of corporate responsibility, one of the world's largest makers of smartphone cases has designed and built a seaborne drone carrier designed to clean up ocean-bound plastic waste. Already deployed off the coast of Taiwan, the Circular…...
Phone-Free Social Events Grew by 567% Led by the Generations Who Didn't Have Them Until Adulthood
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (369+ words) Members of Gen Z and Millennials are attending phone-free experiences 567% more often across the globe, signaling a major shift in how people want to gather. In a world shaped by algorithms and constant visibility, Eventbrite data shows that the generations…...
250 Millionth Tree Planted by this Tree-Planting Search Engine Just Ahead of Earth Day
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (697+ words) Reaching the milestone just before Earth Day, Ecosia, the nonprofit search engine, is celebrating 250 million trees planted worldwide, becoming the world's largest planter of native trees. Since its founding in 2009, Ecosia has built the world's largest network of local reforestation…...
'Call a Boomer' Payphone Instantly Connects Youth with Seniors to Tackle Loneliness Across Generations
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (344+ words) The new payphone outside a coffee shop on a Boston University campus is a strange sight: with its canary yellow box and the sticker pasted across the top reading "Call a Boomer." But what passersby can't see and don't know…...
'Offline' Trend Sees Thousands Attending Phone-Free Concerts, Dates, and Events Where You Can "Find Your People
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (780+ words) One of the realities of social media addiction is the self-awareness of the addicted. A recent survey from the British Standards Institution found that 68% of teen respondents said they feel worse when they spend too much time on social media,…...
In the 1980s, Anguilla Was Given the. ai Web Domain: Now it Makes a Killing on the Dot AI Boom
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (309+ words) Back when the internet was just starting, nations were all given a URL in order to publish websites official to the nation. The US got. us and the UK got. uk. Well Anguilla, the small British Overseas Territory in the…...
Lost i Phone Survives 2 Months Submerged in River " And Still Works When it's Returned to Owner
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (600+ words) A lost i Phone survived for an incredible two-and-a-half months submerged in a river, and it still works. Faizan Choudhry lost his i Phone 14 Pro Max on July 4th while tubing on the Delaware River along the New Jersey'Pennsylvania border. What…...
Australian Woman Shocked When Ohio Social Media Helps Reunite Her with i Pad Lost 2 Years Ago
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (347+ words) From the popular social media platform Reddit comes the incredible story of a young woman recovering her i Pad lost two years before while traveling in the US. It started on a forum, called a sub-Reddit on the site, for…...
Engineer Revives the Pay Phone for Vermont Community to Make Free Calls in Their Cellular Dead Zone
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (423+ words) Humanity is enjoying a bit of a devolution back to analog, and a perfect example of this comes from Vermont, where refurbished pay phones are connecting a community with poor cell signal. When was the last time you used a…...