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Microsoft is expanding ‘biomimicry’ at its data centers as it faces more pushback from locals over construction, pollution, and noise. by Justine Calma Oct 2, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC Justine Calma is a senior science reporter covering energy and the environment with more than a decade of experience. She
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Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner’s allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. “Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I’ll come back, and they won’t ask me any questions,” says Madison, who
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The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It’s just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while various Star Wars aliens bark at each other in incomprehensible sci-fi languages. Eventually a young Anakin Skywalker proves his mettle
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer is the Star Wars racing game I've always wanted and has sparked a competitiveness I never knew I had. Fuse Games has designed an exhilarating, highly engaging roguelike racer with amazing buildcraft customization that offers endless possibilities on the track. Reasons to buy * +Exhilarating,
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* Florida police have discovered unauthorized Flock cameras * At the moment it's not clear who is operating the devices * The owners have been given 30 days to come forward It's going from bad to worse for Flock and its license plate reader cameras: following Florida's
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Japan's Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) says 85.8% of respondents to its 2026 game developer questionnaire indicated some form of generative AI use in their work. That's based on 1,349 individual responses from an online survey conducted between May and August this
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Amazon has made a series of new public commitments to communities where it’s building data centers, including making an official announcement that it no longer uses nondisclosure agreements in its arrangements with county officials. In a blog post published Friday, CEO Matt Garman detailed the steps the company says
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Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers may
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Microsoft has confirmed that its official X account was taken over on Thursday and used to amplify a Clippy-themed cryptocurrency account. According to The Verge, the company’s account, which has more than 13 million followers, started following the crypto account and shared one of its messages. Microsoft’s profile
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SPARK Microsystems has found a new use for its energy-efficient Low Energy Ultra Wideband (LE-UWB) communications technology: driving next-generation gaming peripherals, in partnership with SteelSeries. "Conventional wireless connectivity compromises the performance metrics that matter most to competitive gamers," claims SPARK Microsystems Fares Mubarak, announcing the company's
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Before a hardware wallet can protect your cryptocurrency, it needs a seed phrase. Most wallets generate that phrase automatically, leaving users to trust that the device produced truly random words and handled them securely. Seedmate focuses entirely on that first step. Rather than generating a seed behind the scenes, the
