STERLING, Va. — Not long after the enormous data center sprouted in Jessica Medeiros’s residential neighborhood, she began seeing black smoke. “There are times when the generators are running and … ...

Many properties of molecules cannot be predicted from the properties of the atoms they consist of. These properties only emerge when they are combined—a phenomenon known in science as "emergence." A ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - TikTok's Chinese owner, ByteDance, on Thursday said it has finalized a deal to establish a majority American-owned joint venture that will secure U.S. data, to avoid a U ...

The Fourth Amendment generally requires the government to get a warrant before searching your private information, but government agencies are circumventing the intent of the Constitution by simply ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...

Our goal at The Upshot is to produce distinctive explanatory journalism. But how do we get there? Some of our best work starts with a reporter squinting at a table, or a list, or a rough chart, and ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A report linked Amazon data centers to miscarriages and rare cancers, drawing concerns about data centers’ presence in central Ohio. According to a report from Rolling Stone, ...