Amazon GW Ranch. When AI’s carbon footprint outgrows the biggest polluter in America
Every ChatGPT-style query has a hidden cost, and Amazon's newest project makes that cost impossible to ignore. Deep in Pecos…
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Stargazing has always been a battle against light pollution, but the next threat to dark skies might not come from…
DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys. A 5.6-trillion-pixel portrait of the cosmos
Thirteen years, two telescopes and 263,407 exposures later, astronomers have assembled what is now the largest 2D map of the…
Domino’s The Domino. A pizza finally shaped like the logo after 65 years
It only took 65 years, but Domino's has finally made a pizza named after itself — and shaped like its…
Cortical Labs CL-1. The toaster-sized computer that runs on living neurons
Forget large language models for a moment. In a Melbourne lab, a startup called Cortical Labs is building computers out…
Zoom Screen-Sharing Flaw. When Joining a Call Meant Handing Over Your Device
Getting on a Zoom call is an act of trust — and that trust nearly became a liability. Researchers at…
James Webb Space Telescope. A cosmic lion roars to life in stunning new infrared detail
Hubble showed us the Lion Nebula a quarter of a century ago. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has returned…
Sharge Disk Pro 2. The pocket dock that finally shuts up
The original Sharge Disk Pro was a clever bit of engineering with one glaring flaw: a cooling fan loud enough…
Fanttik D2 Pocket Green Laser Level. Straight lines for under thirty bucks
If your shelves lean, your picture frames tilt and your bubble level keeps lying to you, the Fanttik D2 Pocket…
CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Liquid. An RTX 5070 rig that once hit $1,399
Prebuilt gaming PCs live and die by their timing, and the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Liquid proved the point. Back in…
