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Bitcoin miners and data scientists love cheap, green Icelandic processing power. Maybe a little too much.
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MIT Technology Review
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| Updated | 2026-05-04 09:48 |
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Robots that can rapidly plan out their movements could accelerate factory automation—and help keep fragile humans safe.
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Most of it, say astrophysicists, if we want to guarantee the future of humanity.
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A group called Xenotime, which began by targeting oil and gas facilities in the Middle East, now has electrical utilities in the US and Asia in its sights.
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Construction companies are developing an AI system that predicts worksite injuries—an example of the growing use of workplace surveillance.
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A new test for measuring awareness in fruit flies could change the way neuroscientists think about and measure consciousness.
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IBM is betting that collaboration with universities and other corporations can help it recover its powerhouse status.
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Luminous Computing has developed an optical microchip that runs AI models much faster than other semiconductors while using less power.
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With the election approaching, lawmakers are facing up to the fact they need to do something about the explosion in manipulated media.
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The latest attempt to assess the environmental impact of the cryptocurrency finds that mining accounts for about 0.2% of global electricity consumption.
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Gene-editing company eGenesis is now carrying out experiments to help solve a critical shortage of human organs available for transplant.
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Automata hopes its inexpensive devices can bring automation to companies that usually wouldn’t be able to afford high-end robotics.
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The company’s AI researchers have developed a speech synthesizer capable of copying anybody’s voice with uncanny accuracy.
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The history of trustbusting shows there are many possible ways to combat the monopoly power of companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
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If you have a cell-phone camera, the NaviLens system can give you vital information about where you are.
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Deep learning has a terrible carbon footprint.
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Internet governance expert Viktor Mayer-Schönberger says a breakup wouldn’t fix the real problem: companies like Google have too much data, and nobody else stands a chance.
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Can a town like Paradise, California, ever be truly safe in the era of climate change?
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With the 2020 presidential race fast approaching, America hasn’t learned the lessons of the last one.
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US regulators will investigate whether companies like Amazon, Facebook, and Google have too much power. Here’s an introduction to the issues.
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Meet the space-weather forecaster leading the charge to help us understand solar flares and geomagnetic storms before it’s too late.
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