AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
Meta, Microsoft, and Google are all betting big on new natural gas power plants to run their AI data centers. They may regret it.
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New Samsung TVs just dropped: Meet the new (but not) The Frame Pro and a curiously Frame Pro-like OLED TV
Almost all CES Samsung TVs slated for 2026 are available to buy. Shop the budget-friendly S85H OLED or the gallery chic S95H OLED.
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up
The company is undergoing major leadership restructuring as its CEO of applications goes on leave for “several weeks.”
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Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Is Helping Out on Viral Fraud Videos Now
The DOGE engineer appeared on influencer Nick Shirley’s podcast this week to talk corruption and government work—and how they collaborated on Shirley’s recent ‘investigation.’
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Musk wants a million data centre satellites. Bezos wants 51,600. Scientists want to know why.
The pitch is seductive in its simplicity: AI needs more power than terrestrial grids can supply, so move the data centres into orbit, where the sun never sets and the electricity is free. SpaceX, Blue Origin, and a growing constellation of startups are now racing to make that vision real. The problem, according to the […]
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People would rather have an Amazon warehouse in their backyard than a data center
A new poll shows that the debate over data centers is far from settled.
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Lenovo Legion Go 2 suddenly costs $650 more as RAMageddon lays waste to gaming hardware
Remember when we thought the Legion Go 2 was expensive at $1,099 and up? Those were the days – Best Buy is now listing Lenovo’s handheld for $1,499 with a Ryzen Z2 or $1,999 with a Z2 Extreme. The latter originally cost $1,349, so that’s a $650 jump in just six months. And yes, that […]
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Microsoft just shipped the clearest signal yet that it is building an AI empire without OpenAI
Six months after renegotiating the contract that once barred it from independently pursuing frontier AI, Microsoft has released three in-house models that directly challenge the partner it spent $13 billion cultivating. MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 are now available in Microsoft Foundry, and they do not carry OpenAI’s name anywhere on the label. The models are […]
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Artemis II astronauts need remote help to fix Microsoft Outlook issue in space
If you’ve ever experienced problems with Microsoft Outlook, just know that you’re in the same boat as a literal astronaut.
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Tesla reclaims the quarterly EV crown from BYD, but the numbers tell a more complicated story
Tesla delivered 358,023 battery electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2026, edging past BYD’s 310,389 pure electric sales to reclaim the global quarterly BEV lead it surrendered across all of 2025. The margin, roughly 48,000 units, was enough for the headline. What it was not enough to do was silence the questions multiplying around […]
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