
Observer - 1 day 2 hours ago
Data center construction is driving massive demand for electricians, plumbers and builders as tech firms race to build data centers.

GeekSpin - 1 day 3 hours ago
A sudden Google Home outage has plunged countless smart homes into chaos, leaving light bulbs, switches, and automations unreachable just when users rely on them most. What looked like a simple glitch quickly turned into a widespread disruption, with devices showing offline despite still having power. As Google works behind the scenes to fully resolve […] Read the original article here: Major Google Home outage shuts down bulbs and switches...

Sky News - 1 day 4 hours ago
The US and China have signed off on a deal for TikTok's Chinese owner to hand over the company's American division to investors backed by Donald Trump.

New York Times - 1 day 4 hours ago
At one point on Wednesday morning, Apple's weather app was predicting up to 17 inches of snow in New York on Sunday, while other forecast sources were suggesting far less. By Thursday evening, the app was predicting eight to 10 inches of snow.

Newser - 1 day 4 hours ago
Caroline Ellison is out of federal custody, roughly a year after she helped prosecutors take down Sam Bankman-Fried. Federal prison officials confirmed the 32-year-old former head of Alameda Research FTX's sister trading firm and a key player in its collapse was released Wednesday from "community confinement," meaning she is no...

Sky News - 1 day 8 hours ago
When Jane Wallbank found out she'd been awarded free upgrades to make her home warmer and cheaper to run, it sounded like "a fairytale".

Air and Space - 1 day 8 hours ago
Recreating the industrious world of the Shakers wasn't just movie magic it required conservators, curators and artisans...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 9 hours ago
Strong leadership is essential for IEEE to advance technology for humanity. The organization depends on the dedicated service of its volunteers to advance its mission . Each year, the Nominations and Appointments (N&A) Committee is responsible for recommending candidates to the Board of Directors and the IEEE Assembly for volunteer leadership positions, including president-elect , corporate officers, committee chairs, and committee members. See below for the complete list. By nominating qualified...

Variety - 1 day 9 hours ago
Xbox has set release windows for two of its most anticipated titles of 2026: Playground Games’ “Fable” reboot and “Forza Horizon 6.” “Fable,” now confirmed to be an open-world, action-RPG title, will debut in fall of 2026 with a specific launch date still to be announced. It should be noted what is expected to be […]...

Los Angeles Times - 1 day 9 hours ago
Anduril to invest another $1 billion in California with new Long Beach campus...

Variety - 1 day 11 hours ago
For the second time in less than a week, Elon Musk’s X — the social media platform formerly known as Twitter — suffered widespread technical problems. But the outage appeared to be resolved within a few minutes. Error reports with X surged around noon ET Thursday, according to uptime monitoring site Downdetector. As of 12:11 […]...

New York Times - 1 day 11 hours ago
Ms. Murati with Mr. Altman and two other OpenAI colleagues in 2023. She co-founded Thinking Labs a year ago.

Newser - 1 day 11 hours ago
Elon Musk's homegrown chatbot just got hit with some very unwelcome math. The New York Times reports that Grok, the AI tool integrated into X, appears to have publicly churned out at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women in nine days, according to a Times analysis of platform...

Newser - 1 day 12 hours ago
Jeff Bezos is doubling down on space with thousands of internet satellites. Blue Origin on Wednesday unveiled TeraWave, a planned communications network built on 5,408 satellites that will target businesses, data centers, and government agencies. The system will use spacecraft in both low and medium Earth orbits and is...

IEEE Spectrum - 1 day 14 hours ago
Much has been made of the excessive power demands of AI, but solutions are sparse. This has led engineers to consider completely new paradigms in computing: optical , thermodynamic , reversible the list goes on. Many of these approaches require a change in the materials used for computation, which would demand an overhaul in the CMOS fabrication techniques used today. Over the past decade, Hector De Los Santos has been working on yet another new approach. The technique would require the same exact...

BBC - 1 day 16 hours ago
The studio, known for Assassin's Creed and Just Dance, is also delaying seven titles in a restructure.

Vox - 1 day 16 hours ago
The robots in my building are multiplying. It started with one roughly the size of a doghouse that cleans the floors, and not very well a commercial-grade Roomba that talks to you if you get in its way. Somehow, I'm always in its way. My landlord was clearly excited about the new, technical marvel of an addition to the building, which takes up half the size of a New York City block. There are plenty of floors to clean and human hours of labor to save. Then my landlord told me the robot, which...

GeekSpin - 2 days 3 hours ago
If you've been refreshing your email all morning only to find out that it isn't loading properly, you aren't the only one dealing with the headache. A huge outage has knocked both Yahoo Mail and AOL Mail offline, cutting off millions of people from their messages and leaving everyone asking the same question: what is […] Read the original article here: Yahoo and AOL Mail hit by widespread outages...