Trump casts chill over US wind energy sector

Windmills make up about 10 percent of US energy production, with the largest output in the Republican-led states of Texas, Iowa and Oklahoma. Donald Trump has long ranted against wind…

Fired IT worker partly shuts down British Museum

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The British Museum said it had closed a number of exhibits after a fired IT contractor “shut down” some of its systems, in one of several…

Big Tech wants to plug data centers right into power plants. Utilities say it’s not fair

A data center owned by Amazon Web Services, front right, is under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2024. Credit: AP…

Cyber safety board axed: Implications for US security

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Before the end of its first full day of operations, the new Trump administration gutted all advisory panels for the Department of Homeland Security. Among these…

Meta tests ads on Threads, its alternative to X

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Facebook parent Meta has begun testing ads on its newest social network Threads, an executive announced Friday, as the company continues to grow its alternative to…

Nepal explores paving with plastic

Vehicles riding over a road built using recycled plastic waste in Pokhara. Cars speeding along a smooth, black-colored street in Nepal’s Pokhara are also driving over heaps of discarded plastic,…

AI revolutionizes training for sensorimotor skills from surgery to tennis

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The new wave of powerful generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and DALL-E has introduced powerful capabilities such as writing and image generation. In…

Self-adaptive LLM dynamically adjusts its weights to learn new tasks

How good old mud can lower building costs

“What’s cool here is we’re able to make shape-optimized building elements for the same amount of time and energy it would take to make rectilinear building elements,” Sandy Curth says.…

New 2-liter ammonia-fueled engine developed, showing improved thermal efficiency and power output

Direct Injection Ammonia Engine. Credit: Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) A 2-liter engine utilizing ammonia, a renewable and zero-carbon energy source, has been developed. This groundbreaking technology is…