Wisconsin is becoming a popular location for data centers due to its climate, water access, and affordable land. The majority of a data center's water footprint comes from the offsite electricity ...

Scientists have created an AI-powered "grape ripeness detector" designed to make wine production more efficient, combining the use of technology with vineyard expertise in pursuit of the best wine for ...

Researchers at Northwest A&F University in China have developed a pair of apple-picking robots that can harvest an apple in just 7.5 seconds. The duo — nicknamed Big Guy and Little Guy — work in ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

Researchers in Ania Bleszynski Jayich’s lab use a mechanical resonator to enable greater entanglement for potentially more powerful sensors. Most people think of diamonds as high-end adornments. Not ...

Commercial vessels are deploying high-tech sensors to map a shifting sea, providing critical data for scientists and some help for the industry. Bob Hersey Jr. fishes for lobsters and dives for sea ...

Smart cities are pitched as the answer to aging populations, traffic, energy waste, and urban stress. But the deeper you look, the more the model depends on constant monitoring: sensors in homes, ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

There are countless smart home devices, varied in gadgetry and practicality, that you can place piecemeal throughout your home and configure any way you want. From voice assistants to smart locks, ...