A unit about the size of an air conditioner, mounted in the side yard, could soon be humming away on artificial intelligence tasks, drawing power from your home’s energy supply and earning you ...

Act surprised! A new privacy study has found that data brokers and AI companies deliberately deceive consumers who attempt to opt out of the sale of their personal data. An audit of the opt-out ...

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 ...

Discovery Ridge in Henrico County is part of a new affordable housing program funded by data center revenue. When Emma Swainston decided as a teenager to pursue a career in teaching, she came to grips ...

WASHINGTON — While computing and data shape nearly every aspect of modern life, efforts to expand data and computing education in K-12 settings have grown rapidly but unevenly, says a new report from ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater ...

The thick client is making a comeback. Here’s how next-generation local databases like PGlite and RxDB are bringing feature-rich data storage to the browser. Once upon a time, we had mainframes with ...

Despite owning FileMaker, Apple has never included a database app with iWork. Apple has now acquired Kuzu, Inc, a firm developing fast, flexible graph databases. Apple has had the FileMaker database ...

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In the life sciences, technological innovation has reshaped the scale and complexity of the questions we can ask. High-throughput sequencing, single-cell platforms, spatial transcriptomics, ...

In May of 2025, MySQL celebrated its 30th anniversary. Not many technology projects go strong for three decades, let alone at the level of use that MySQL enjoys. MySQL is listed at #2 on the ...

Consumers are increasingly aware that their personal information fuels everything from targeted advertising to AI development, yet they rarely see direct financial returns from that value. And ...