The Supreme Court of India is about to begin hearings in the long-pending Sabarimala temple entry case, along with a series of related cases. The nine-judge Constitution Bench's proceedings are ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

In the summer of 2023, Montevideo, Uruguay, faced its worst drought in 74 years. Authorities were forced to mix saltwater into the public drinking supply to keep taps running. At the same time, Google ...

Proper use of AI and automation tools can transform tax time into a continuous, integrated, year-round process rather than a last-minute scramble. Dawn Allcot is a full-time freelance writer, content ...

The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal ...

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is asking companies to provide information about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities,” according to ...

President Trump appeared to scoop his own agency experts on Thursday night, posting new employment data hours before the Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest jobs report. The president took ...

Organizations have a wealth of unstructured data that most AI models can’t yet read. Preparing and contextualizing this data is essential for moving from AI experiments to measurable results. In ...

AI data centers require incredible amounts of energy to run. NPR's Planet Money investigates how that demand for power might affect your electric bills. Tech companies invested hundreds of billions of ...

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...

Abstract: With the rise of short-form video platforms and the increasing availability of data, we see the potential for people to share short-form videos embedded with data in situ (e.g., daily steps ...

Those pushing for a controversial new AI data center in Chandler — a cohort that includes paid not-technically-a-lobbyist Kyrsten Sinema — have made big promises about how it would save the city water ...