During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Science News: For years, the future was envisioned as clean lines and loud machinery. Flying vehicles, metal outfits, and flashing weapons. None of this prepared ma.

AI research in question as author claims to have written over 100 papers on AI that one expert calls a ‘disaster’

A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

The grid operator must stop buying capacity for new data centers. Instead, it can provide them with only interruptible service until they bring their own capacity, write Tom Rutigliano and Claire Lang...

NREL’s name is gone, yet its solar, wind, and grid innovations define today’s energy world. This elegy reflects on its enduring impact.

There’s a lot of money to be made off angry, isolated men

Last night showed that the party is far from doomed—and the country is simply not as conservative as it seemed in November 2024.

One topic dominated the recent 2025 OpenInfra Summit Europe, and it wasn't AI.

AI deployments have a problem: they can humiliate people who don't look the way the AI expects them to look.

In 2005, the Uzbek government invented a group called “Akromiya” to justify massacring protesters. Now I worry the US government will do the same.

After a dust-up over protesters writing chalk messages, the Millers are selling. Asking price: $3.75 million.

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A coalition of 11 governors has threatened to withdraw from grid operator PJM.

Artificial intelligence dominates headlines, but new evidence shows most people barely use it in daily life. Researchers examined real-world web behavior and found low rates of AI use, often linked to...

Y'know, dogfooding. That old cliché term.

New research challenges SMR promises, finding diseconomies of scale, cost overruns, and added nuclear waste streams.

Traveling into or out of the US? Customs and Border Protection searches are at an all-time high, and agents may have the right to search your device. Here's how to prepare.

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In the age of automation, human workers are now being brought in to fix what artificial intelligence gets wrong.

Despite billions spent on AI, most firms see no ROI, fueling investor concerns as workers lag in skills.

Con Ed connected power boxes to 65 customers’ AC units, allowing households to stay cool without plugging in during summer system overload.

The author of Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination discusses the cost of Big Tech’s huge investment in technologies that may do more harm than good

Amid rising electric bills, states are under pressure to insulate regular household and business ratepayers from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s energy-hungry data centers.

Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison (R) claimed on Monday that the Republican Party will “never have the White House again” if Democrats overtake the majority in the Lone Star State.  “I‘m here to spea…

Some Gen Zers are firmly rejecting AI tools in their daily lives. We talked to four people, ages 23 to 27, who explained why they won't touch the tech.

Some college students are beginning to limit their use of artificial intelligence, so as not to hinder their own creativity, discipline and critical thinking

Tesla (TSLA) is not paying its bills, and this has led to at least two small American businesses going bankrupt....

Renewables saved $57B globally in 2024, but US clean energy progress stalls as Trump’s DOE yanks support for the US's biggest grid line.

After a tragedy, records from local archives can help us understand how a community understands itself. Here’s some of what we learned following the devastating July 4 flooding in Texas.

New research reveals that electric vehicles don't just reduce exhaust emissions but also cut down on brake dust pollution.

In states without policies to drive renewable energy, power prices could surge as federal tax incentives for clean energy disappear, according to Energy Innovation, a think tank.

Climate activist Bill McKibben has chronicled how solar is powering a lot of the US and international grid.

It faces hurricanes, heat, drought, rising seas and – as last week showed – deadly floods. But despite the clear need for preventive action, that is not the political mood

The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Important changes to Android devices took effect starting Monday.

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

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