Oil industry allies are quietly targeting a field of climate research that could cost fossil fuel companies billions of dollars. In the crosshairs is a forthcoming report from the National Academies ...

St. Luke's-Boise Medical Center once found itself staring at an uncomfortable reality. Its analytics operation was fragmented, much of the work had been outsourced for years, and the health system was ...

Span, a California-based startup, has developed small, fractional data centers, or "nodes," called XFRA units. The idea is to take advantage of unused electrical capacity on local grids, which the ...

The vector database category is undergoing a shift in response to the needs of agentic AI. The retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)-to-vector database pipeline doesn't cut it anymore; agentic AI ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

HELSINKI — A Beijing-based space startup has secured early-stage funding and extensive credit backing as part of a broader Chinese push toward space-based computing infrastructure. Beijing Orbital ...

Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) on Monday announced that, according to 52-week data from its Phase 2b REZOLVE-AA study, its lead asset rezpegaldesleukin improved clinical outcomes in patients with alopecia ...

People sit outside of the Tech Foundry, a makerspace at Aggie Square that designs and manufactures devices to support research and solve problems. (Magda Biernat/ZGF Architects) The UC Davis ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

Purdue University's online Master's in Data Science will mold the next generation of data science experts and data engineers to help meet unprecedented industry demand for skilled employees. The ...

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John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...