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Reducing data center energy use
2+ hour, 47+ min ago (189+ words) Data centers currently consume nearly 5% of the electricity generated in the United States and estimates are that the amount will more than double over the next five years. They could consume up to 12% of our electricity by 2030. Researchers at Penn…...
Funds will help Vermont build out broadband
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (338+ words) The federal government has approved funding that will allow Vermont to complete the building of needed broadband infrastructure to get internet to all areas of the state. In 2021 Congress approved the creation of the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment, or…...
Data centers: an important cause of rising utility bills
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (407+ words) It all started innocently enough: When we asked where our stored electronic information went, we were told "the cloud. "Sounds nice. Information stored in a puffy white setting. Of course, there is no information "cloud," our data is stored in…...
Outage at Amazon Web Services disrupts websites across the internet
6+ mon, 2+ week ago (402+ words) Updated October 20, 2025 at 8: 36 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…...
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
6+ mon, 3+ week ago (940+ words) Videos made with Open AI's Sora app are flooding Tik Tok, Instagram Reels and other platforms, making people increasingly familiar " and fed up " with nearly unavoidable synthetic footage being pumped out by what amounts to an artificial intelligence slop machine....
Tik Tok, Instagram may request selfie to verify age under proposed NY rules
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (491+ words) Social-media companies could soon verify their users" age in New York by requesting a selfie or a video, according to newly proposed regulations. State Attorney General Letitia James" office released a set of proposals Monday to implement the SAFE for…...
Meet Frankie Focus, Gov. Hochul's freaky school phone ban mascot
8+ mon, 2+ day ago (425+ words) He's about 6 feet tall with unblinking blue eyes, orange eyebrows, thick-rimmed glasses and neon-green hair that covers his body, from his fleshy elf ears to his oversized feet. Meet Frankie Focus, Gov. Kathy Hochul's new mascot promoting New York's new…...
Many offices and professionals see a rise in spam paper faxes
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (584+ words) Spam is not just for email. Junk messages for one older technology seem to actually be on the rise. Vito Emanuel has this story. (SOUNDBITE OF FAX MACHINE BEEPING AND BUZZING) VITO EMANUEL, BYLINE: You probably haven't heard this sound…...
Done with dating apps? How to meet people in real life
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (610+ words) Confidence coach Regina Bonds thinks that flirting in real life is a lost art. "In this new world of dating, everybody's behind a computer screen," she says. "So many people don't know how to put themselves out there." If talking…...
Bioprospecting and cell phone bans
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (139+ words) The Best of Our Knowledge explores topics on learning, education and research. We'll speak with one of a handful of winners of this year's Dan David Prize. Hamilton College professor Mackenzie Cooley received the world's largest history prize for her…...