Energy and Green Tech News

Fresh drinking water is a vital yet limited resource that will only grow scarcer over the next few years, according to the World Resources Institute. Desalination, the process of removing salt from water, is an established method used to increase the fresh water supply, especially in coastal regions. However, current... Read more

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations—it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few notes) triggers the memory of the entire pattern (the song), without you actually having to hear... Read more

A new study led by researchers from Michigan State University, Yale University and Johns Hopkins University reveals that ransomware attacks—which involve a hacker putting encryption controls into a file and then demanding a ransom to unlock the files—have become the primary driver of health care data breaches in the United... Read more

A new study suggests that populations of artificial intelligence (AI) agents, similar to ChatGPT, can spontaneously develop shared social conventions through interaction alone.... Read more

Scientists inspired by the octopus's nervous system have developed a robot that can decide how to move or grip objects by sensing its environment.... Read more

A bumper release for the latest "Assassin's Creed" installment did not save French video games giant Ubisoft from falling back into the red in its 2024-25 financial year, the company said on Wednesday.... Read more

Dutch scientists on Wednesday unveiled a boat powered by liquid hydrogen that they hope will offer lessons to the shipping industry as it eyes new fuel sources to reduce its significant greenhouse gas emissions.... Read more

"Novelty is cool. It's exciting. I want to be new (and) fresh," Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky told AFP in Los Angeles, where he is presenting a new offering that could bring haircuts and other services into your holiday home.... Read more

The cyberattack that has targeted Marks & Spencer's (M&S) is the latest in a growing wave of cases involving something called sim-swap fraud. While the full technical details remain under investigation, a report in the Times suggests that cyber attackers used this method to access M&S internal systems, possibly by... Read more

In 2022, after decades of booming growth, technology companies in the United States began to lay off droves of employees. The announcements—which continued in 2023 and 2024, spanning from major corporations to startups—made constant headlines: Meta dropped 11,000 employees, 13% of its staff. Microsoft cut 10,000, Amazon 27,000.... Read more

High-performance computing, or HPC for short, might sound like something only scientists use in secret labs, but it's actually one of the most important technologies in the world today. From predicting the weather to finding new medicines and even training artificial intelligence, high-performance computing systems help solve problems that are... Read more

Having humans participate in a study can be time-consuming and expensive for researchers stretching limited budgets on strict deadlines. Sophisticated, generative large language models (LLM) can complete many tasks, so some researchers and companies have explored the idea of using them in studies instead of human participants.... Read more

Imagine developing a finer control knob for artificial intelligence (AI) applications like Google Gemini and OpenAI ChatGPT.... Read more

When Amazon recently got caught in President Trump's crosshairs for reportedly planning to list the added costs of new tariffs on products sold at its online store, the drama underscored just how much is at stake for companies amid hiked-up taxes on U.S. imports.... Read more

A Vienna-based privacy campaign group said Wednesday it has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Meta, after the tech giant announced plans to train its artificial intelligence models with European users' personal data.... Read more