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Our insatiable demand for digital content and services has been driving a rise in energy-hungry data centers.

So you're thinking of buying an electric car. Perhaps you want to save money on fuel, or reduce your greenhouse gas emissions, or both. After all, for Australia to reach net zero it needs to electrify vehicles (and expand public transport use).

Transport emissions have grown in line with the population and economy. Without intervention, the Australian government expects transport to be the largest emissions source by 2030. So, cutting transport emissions is a crucial, but challenging, element of the net-zero strategy.

With their massive sails stretched over towering masts, merchant ships that plied the world's oceans hundreds of years ago helped launch the era of commercial shipping, delivering goods of all kinds to different ports of call.

Professor Tsumoru Shintake of Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) has proposed an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology that surpasses the standard in semiconductor manufacturing.

In the last year or so, the cryptocurrencies market has seen significant fluctuations, which, according to research published in the International Journal of Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies, has led to a surge in influencer activity on social media.

Like many other technology companies, LinkedIn is all in on generative AI, the artificial intelligence systems that can create text, images and other media in response to queries.

Inspired by the map makers of the 20th Century, Imperial researchers have demonstrated a new way to identify copyright holders' work in LLMs.

The "white gold" of clean energy, lithium is a key ingredient in batteries large and small, from those powering phones and laptops to grid-scale energy storage systems.

Public administrations in a growing number of countries around the world are employing algorithms based on artificial intelligence (AI) to determine the allocation of public social services, such as unemployment benefits. The expectation behind this is that AI-based assessment will be more efficient and objective.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, just took its most direct shot at Google yet.

The grid needs to change. To electrify everything from vehicles to heating systems to stovetops, the U.S. grid must expand by about 57% and get more flexible, too. Solar and wind energy are the renewables most likely to dominate a future clean energy grid. But they are found primarily in remote areas, far from the hubs that need their power.

Apple Vision Pro isn't easy to transport thanks to its size and fragility, but Waterfield offers an excellent Backpack purpose-built to safely and inconspicuously carry the expensive device.

Apple Intelligence, the company's suite of AI-based enhancements, are probably not going to arrive with iOS 18, and will probably arrive starting in iOS 18.1

Apple has long been rumored to be in talks with various ad agencies in an effort to bring some level of advertising to its Apple TV+ service. While the service remains ad-free currently, this could be changing — at least in the UK.

The Windows 11 Pro sale price of $19.97 delivers an 89% discount off retail, but the deal is valid for a limited time only.

A new study from SUNY Polytechnic Institute provides a detailed overview of deepfake datasets and identifies key challenges, offering valuable insights for researchers, engineers, and practitioners. It emphasizes the importance of developing proactive detection methods and improving existing datasets to combat deepfake threats effectively.

An unknown iCloud Private Relay issue that was affecting Safari users on iPhone has now been resolved after several days.

Apple could make more iPhone models in India in 2024, with it reportedly preparing to make Pro and Pro Max versions for the first time, when the iPhone 16 debuts.

Investment analyst firm TD Cowen predicts that Apple Intelligence will bring a modest boost to the iPhone 16 range, but be much more significant in 2025, by when China sales are expected to have returned to growth.