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Microsoft's water use and carbon emissions have increased compared to 2020 numbers due to artificial intelligence datacenters.
Artificial Intelligence

How will Microsoft ever reach its sustainability goals at this rate?

The research explores how the reintroduction of bison into an ecosystem helped boost the overall amount of carbon sucked up by plants.
Climate Change

Say hello to these beefy "climate heroes."

A powerful Australian mining magnate has been trying to get an unflattering portrait of her removed from a museum.
Science & Energy

"I paint the world as I see it."

Reddit's wallstreetbets meme stock investors are back in full force — but their latest ruse isn't playing out as expected.
Future Society

WallStreetBets is back after a three year hiatus.

The American newspaper giant and USA Today owner Gannett is using AI to generate a bulleted list of "Key Points" for news articles.
Artificial Intelligence

Gannett's AI optimism persists.

Those daring enough to buy high mileage used Teslas from rental car company Hertz are facing massive repair bills.
Tesla

"I realized why they were trying to get rid of those Teslas."

Astronomers have identified seven stars in our galaxy that could potentially host a Dyson sphere — a hypothetical alien megastructure.
Off-World

So you're telling me there's a chance?

MotorTrend finally settled the debate, proving once and for all that Tesla's Cybertruck stunt involving towing a Porsche 911 was rigged.
Tesla

The debate is finally settled.

OpenAI's GPT-4 is so lifelike, it can trick more than 50 percent of human test subjects into thinking they are talking to a person.
Artificial Intelligence

This is pretty huge.

Remember all of Elon Musk's claims that Teslas would be actually autonomous soon? Thanks to one lawsuit, he might have to pay for them.
Tesla

"Tesla allegedly engaged in a systematic pattern of fraud over a long period of time."

It's been 7 weeks since a Singaporean cargo ship crashed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge, and its crew is still stranded aboard.
Future Society

How much longer are federal authorities going to maroon them?

The robot, named Sophia, gave painfully generic answers and even plugged the AI industry. Many students felt "disrespected" by the decision.
Artificial Intelligence

The disrespect.

In a new Bloomberg interview, Neuralink's first human patient recalled the time the brain-computer chip started glitching.
Prosthetics and Devices

"But then they told me that the threads were getting pulled out of my brain."

As The Information reports, Stable Diffusion maker Stability AI is facing a severe cash crunch and is in talks of being sold off.
Artificial Intelligence

The numbers are not pretty.

In her new book, hotel heiress Paris Hilton revealed that she had an, er, peculiar way of handling having babies via surrogates.
Developments

"I wanted it to feel real — even in just this small way."

NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made up its mind and will continue down a rocky ridge that scientists believe was once a raging river.
Mars

This "snake-like" path looks a lot like a meandering river.

Billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman is willing to foot the bill of a maintenance mission to NASA's Hubble telescope.
NASA

NASA is still weighing the pros and cons.

Writers at the newspaper giant Gannett quietly updated employment contracts to provide much more leeway for generating "news content."
Future Society

"It was shocking and frustrating and disappointing."

China's navy has apparently tested out its hypersonic rail gun — but during a demonstration of its power, things didn't go quite as planned.
Off-World

Wow.

Publishers Horrified at New Google AI Feature That Could Kill What’s Left of Journalism
Google

"This will be catastrophic to our traffic..."