A new study published in Conservation Biology shows that geotagged social media photos can significantly improve biodiversity datasets, especially in regions underrepresented in global monitoring ...

An image of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein standing with prominent figures next to a swimming pool was created using AI, according to Google’s SynthID tool.

US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the ...

Ham radio operators may be familiar with slow-scan television (SSTV) where an image is sent out over the airwaves to be received, decoded, and displayed on a computer monitor by other radio ...

Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

PowerGen’s Shock Pivot: How AI Data Centers Hijacked an Energy Conference Your email has been sent AI data centers dominated PowerGen, revealing how inference-driven demand, grid limits, and ...

If you’ve ever had a SoundCloud account, now might be a good time to double-check your security settings. Reports indicate that the music streaming platform suffered a major data breach, exposing ...

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Homeland Security officials have urged disaster response staff at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to avoid using the word “ice” in public messaging about the massive winter storm barreling ...

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