Data centres have become controversial on Earth. Technology firms want to put them in orbit, but there are challenges ahead. As the huge data centres powering the artificial-intelligence boom grow ...

On a Saturday morning, you head to the hardware store. Your neighbors’ Ring cameras film your walk to the car. Your car’s sensors, cameras and microphones record your speed, how you drive, where ...

In a new study, appearing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, scientists selectively bred Japanese quails into two groups: laying either relatively large or small eggs. As the ...

Sony just announced a truly strange initiative called The Playerbase. This is a program to scan people's likenesses and pop them in PlayStation games. That's pretty wild, but potentially cool to those ...

Tech billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are advocating for space data centers to scale AI. The space economy could be a $1.8 trillion opportunity by 2035, according to McKinsey and Company. Critics ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

Blue Origin has revealed its plans for an orbital AI data center system in a new filing with the Federal Communications Commission. The company has asked the agency for permission to deploy 51,600 ...

Nvidia announced chips that will be used for space missions at the GTC 2026 AI conference. Orbital data centers have been an increasingly popular proposition as AI demand tests Earth's energy ...

As we drove through southwest Memphis, KeShaun Pearson told me to keep my window down—our destination was best tasted, not viewed. Along the way, we passed an abandoned coal plant to our right, then ...

A former employee of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency reportedly stole Americans’ personal data from the U.S. Social Security Administration and stored it on a thumb drive, according to ...