Demand for Data Centers Is Soaring
Past the dense western suburbs of Washington, the vistas widen into open stretches of fields and farmland — a panorama frequently interrupted by massive, windowless...
Tesla May Have Already Won the Electric Vehicle Charging Wars
The stakes with automobiles are much higher: They cost tens of thousands of dollars, and replacing gasoline vehicles with electric models is key to addressing...
How MrBeast Became the Willy Wonka of YouTube
In this context, the strangest thing about “1,000 Blind People See for the First Time” is how familiar it is. Seen alongside everything else YouTube...
John B. Goodenough, 100, Dies; Nobel-Winning Creator of the Lithium-Ion Battery
He was, he said in a memoir, “Witness to Grace” (2008), the unwanted child of an agnostic Yale University professor of religion and a mother...
In Classrooms, Teachers Put A.I. Tutoring Bots to the Test
On a recent morning, Cheryl Drakeford, a third-grade teacher at First Avenue Elementary School in Newark, projected a challenging math question on her classroom’s whiteboard:...
A.I. May Someday Work Medical Miracles. For Now, It Helps Do Paperwork.
Dr. Matthew Hitchcock, a family physician in Chattanooga, Tenn., has an A.I. helper. It records patient visits on his smartphone and summarizes them for treatment...
A.I.’s Use in Elections Sets Off a Scramble for Guardrails
In Toronto, a candidate in this week’s mayoral election who vows to clear homeless encampments released a set of campaign promises illustrated by artificial intelligence,...
New Study Bolsters Room-Temperature Superconductor Claim
A magical material that could effortlessly conduct electricity at room temperatures would likely transform civilization, reclaiming energy otherwise lost to electrical resistance and opening possibilities...
How to Turn Your Chatbot Into a Life Coach
Hello! We’re back with another edition of On Tech: A.I., a pop-up newsletter that teaches you about artificial intelligence, how it works and how to...
The Super Connector Who Built Sam Bankman-Fried’s Celebrity World
About 10 months before he was arrested on fraud charges, the cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried posed for a photograph at the 2022 Super Bowl in...
Canada’s Online News Act Targets Facebook and Google
The Canadian Parliament has passed a law that will require technology companies to pay domestic news outlets for linking to their articles, prompting the owner...
‘Titanic’ Director James Cameron Points to Flaws in Titan Sub’s Design
“We’ve never had an accident like this,” James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of “Titanic,” said on Thursday. Mr. Cameron, an expert in submersibles, has dived...
SmileDirectClub to Release Customers From NDAs in Settlement
SmileDirectClub, which provides orthodontic services through the mail, has agreed to release customers who asked for refunds from nondisclosure agreements, as part of a settlement...
Microsoft Says it Could Abandon Activision Deal if Judge Delays It
The first day of a weeklong hearing that could determine the outcome of Microsoft’s $70 billion acquisition of the video game giant Activision Blizzard opened...