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Which political party provides more federal funding for science? Given climate-denial rhetoric, attacks on expertise, the size of government, and culture-war battles over research, many Americans may ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman dismissed the idea of data centers in space being a viable option in the next few years as SpaceX CEO Elon Musk pursues their deployment. "I honestly think the idea with the ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

Gordon Gauchat is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. Science’s big problem is a loss of influence, not a loss of trust Scientists and researchers who ...

Archival storage poses lots of challenges. We want media that is extremely dense and stable for centuries or more, and, ideally, doesn’t consume any energy when not being accessed. Lots of ideas have ...

Delhi Technological University, in collaboration with TimesPro, launches an Advanced Certificate Programme in Artificial Intelligence. The six-month course combines online learning, campus immersion, ...

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The GW Ranch project approved on 8,000 windswept acres of West Texas will look like many of the other data centers that have sprung up across the country to support Silicon Valley’s ambitions for ...

PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va.— Steve Alloy was preparing to develop 516 new homes in Bristow, Va., about five years ago when the home builder began noticing something odd. Much of the land surrounding ...

For years, the guiding assumption of artificial intelligence has been simple: an AI is only as good as the data it has seen.

An artificial intelligence data center development venture has signed a multimillion-dollar deal that will allow it to consume over 40% of a Pennsylvania town’s excess water supply. PennLive reported ...