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Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of water consumed by the entire population”—a figure which, thanks to a unit misunderstanding, appears to have been off by a magnitude of 1,000.In the thread, Hao thanked Andy Masley, the head of an effective altruism organization in Washington, DC, for bringing the correction to her attention. Masley has spent…
Everyone knew Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was a frontrunner to clinch some of the biggest categories at The Game Awards 2025, but I don’t know that anyone expected it to sweep the night and set a new record for winning nine awards (The Last Of Us 2 earned seven back in 2020). Instead of resting on its laurels, Sandfall Interactive used the night to shadow-drop Clair Obscur‘s free mini-DLC to give fans a reason to dive back into the Belle Époque RPG. This content drop was teased earlier this year and includes a new playable environment called “Verso’s Drafts” inspired…
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an uncommon sight – the death of a low-mass star – in this image of the Calabash Nebula released on Feb. 3, 2017. Here, we can see the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space. The recently ejected material is spat out in opposite directions with immense speed — the gas shown in yellow is moving close to a million kilometers an hour. Astronomers rarely capture a star in this phase of…
If you’re still on the hunt for gifts, or simply good holiday deals for yourself, you can find them on the internet. Just because Black Friday and Cyber Monday have ended doesn’t mean the deals have dried up. One of the best deals available that we’re tracking is on the latest Apple Watch Series 11, which you can get for a record low of $299.AppleWe gave the Apple Watch Series 11 a score of 90 when it came out in September. That’s thanks, in part, to an upgraded 24 hours of battery life — which lasted closer to a day…
There’s a lot to think about before you invest in age tech. I spoke with Ed Baig from the AARP (formerly American Association of Retired Persons) about what you should consider.Do They Want It?A crucial first question to ask is: How receptive is the older person to having this technology in the home? Before you think about buying, you must have a conversation with your elder and everyone else who lives in the home, and ensure that they are on board with the idea. While many of these technologies are intended to help older folks and maybe enable them to…
If you’ve already bought an Xbox for the holidays, there are a couple of small issues you thankfully still have time to address. One, it comes with one controller, so if you’re in a multi-player home, that’s going to be an issue. Two, that default controller is good — but it’s not great. The Xbox Elite Series 2 wireless controller that’s on sale for 33% off right now at Amazon? Indisputably great, so you can get that second controller and a pro gaming experience at the same time by taking this $135 deal. The Elite 2 works with Xbox One, Series S,…
Reddit has filed a lawsuit in Australia’s High Court aiming to overturn the country’s under-16 social media ban, Reuters reported. The forum platform called the law contrary to Australia’s constitution as it intrudes on free political discourse. It also argued that Reddit shouldn’t have been included in the ban since it isn’t a social media site, based on the law’s definition. The action is likely to set in motion a protracted legal battle, given Reddit’s resources and its popularity in AustraliaAustralia’s minimum age social media ban, the first of its kind in the world, went into effect on December 10.…
China’s “Great Green Wall” is a huge ecological engineering project to slow the expansion of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts in the country’s north.Since 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its borders with Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — and Chinese authorities plan to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years. If they succeed, the Great Green Wall will increase Earth’s forest cover by 10% since the late 1970s.The Great Green Wall, formally known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, is designed to slow soil erosion and sand deposition that has been increasing since the…
Transparency is so good, I’m really bummed that it doesn’t work when on a call. If it did, these cans would be great for long calls and meetings. The mics are remarkably adept at keeping background noise invisible to callers. When those noises were particularly loud, my voice faded somewhat, but only the high-pitched wail of a siren managed to pierce through. When my environment was quieter, the XH1 kept my voice more stable and clear than the Soundcore Space One Pro ($200).Daily DriversI’m not sure there’s any consensus on how much battery life is “enough” for a set of…
Raise your hand if you’re one of those people with a too-large box or bin full of wall chargers of all shapes and sizes, 90 percent of which you haven’t used in years. It’s OK, that’s pretty much everybody these days, since any new smart device or laptop comes with one, so they accumulate. For the most part, they’re underpowered, undercompatible, and overall underperforming, which is why they live in that box, collecting dust. One Anker Laptop Charger — a 140W monster with one USB-A and three USB-C ports and an LED screen that shows power output, port-specific details, and…