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The rapid growth of data centers to support AI is significantly increasing global electricity demand.This surge in demand threatens to outpace the development of renewable energy sources.International regulations are needed to ensure tech companies use clean energy and minimize their impact on climate goals.The global electricity demand is expected to grow exponentially in the coming decades, largely due to an increased demand from tech companies for new data centers to support the rollout of high-energy-consuming advanced technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI). As governments worldwide introduce new climate policies and pump billions into alternative energy sources and clean tech, these...

Venture capitalist David Sacks has been tapped to serve as President-elect Trump’s White House czar for artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency, taking on a newly created role to lead the administration’s policy on the two technologies. “David will focus on making America the clear global leader in both areas,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Thursday night. “He will safeguard Free Speech online, and steer us away from Big Tech bias and censorship.” Sacks, who will also lead the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology, has been a key voice of support for Trump in...

AVietnamese court has upheld the death sentence for real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, rejecting her appeal against convictions for embezzlement and bribery in a fraud case involving over $12 billion. This amount represents nearly three percent of Vietnam's 2022 GDP, marking the country's largest recorded financial fraud. Lan, 67, served as chairwoman of Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group. Between 2012 and 2022, she illicitly controlled the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB), orchestrating approximately 2,500 loans that resulted in losses exceeding $27 billion. The Ho Chi Minh City court noted that if Lan repays at least three-quarters of the...

UnitedHealthcare has disabled social media comments on its profiles after disgruntled patients began flooding the company with complaints following the assassination of its CEO. The health insurer has been deluged by comments, many from people who say their or their loved ones claims have been denied. Its most recent Instagram posts announcing the death of Thompson let users like or share the post, but not comment on it. The company is in the spotlight following the assassination of CEO Bryan Thompson, 50, who was gunned down on his way to an appearance at an investor conference in New York on...

We're forced to use COMCAST . . . (got THAT out of the way)My wife's computer has been hooked into our internet wirelessly with an etherneg plug for a couple of years.We had an electrical outage this afternoon for about an hour and a half and when it came back on, after going through some set-up things, I got up and running with no problems.Then Liza came home.She cannot get connected and I've tried the shut down and wait thing to no avail.Diagnostic says the ethernet connection is what has failed.Can that USB type ethernet plug have been fried ?

At a time when America was rapidly industrializing, when famers who had done everything themeselves were being forced into factories, students who like Abe Lincoln studying by firelight had to be fitted for factory work, Woodrow Wilson said: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education, and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class, of necessity, in every society, to forego the privileges of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks." But now students are being cast adrift by a feckless educational establishment which can't even educate or...

Does anyone having any suggestions for a password generator that is either online, or other? I see a few online free sites, but don't know if they are bogus or questionable. I get tired of attempting to create strong passwords, especially when using a website that requires at least 15 various numbers, characters, etc. Thanks

We're sure you'll learn to love the new Outlook for Windows app [not] Microsoft is preparing to kill off the old Windows Mail, Calendar, and People apps by the end of this month and shift users to the Outlook for Windows app.In November, Microsoft confirmed there would be no reprieve for the apps. It will be possible to export local emails, calendar events, and contacts that users have stored in Mail, Calendar, and People into the new Outlook up until December 31, 2024. After that, however, the ability to send or receive mail will be revoked."The new Outlook for Windows...

Well Bill Gates and the WHO have ran a simulation of the next pandemic, coming soon to a government near you in 2025. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation conducted another pandemic tabletop exercise in Brussels, Belgium, on October 23, 2022. The phenomenon is dubbed SEERS, Severe Epidemic Enterovirus Respiratory Syndrome 2025. You ready?

LeBron James may be the wealthiest basketball player in history, but his media company is in troubled waters. According to financial documents obtained by Bloomberg, Springhill, the media company LeBron founded with his business partner Maverick Carter, is bleeding money and failing to turn a profit. Founded in 2020, SpringHill seeks to combine film and television production, athlete storytelling, and marketing. Its completed projects include the film Space Jam: A New Legacy and Netflix’s Top Boy. The report states: The company lost $28 million on sales of $104 million last year, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg News. SpringHill lost...

The Department of Energy’s estimated overall liability for failing to dispose of the country’s commercial spent nuclear fuel jumped as much as 10 percent this year, from a range of $34.1 billion to $41 billion in 2023 to a range of $37.6 billion to $44.5 billion in 2024, according to a financial audit of the DOE’s Nuclear Waste Fund (NWF) for fiscal year 2024. The estimated liability excludes $11.1 billion already paid out to nuclear power plant owners and utilities for the DOE’s breach of the standard contract for the disposal of spent fuel (10 CFR Part 961), which required...

Researchers also found that physicians were more likely to trust an AI explanation if it pinpointed a specific area on an X-ray. While artificial intelligence (AI) is a revolutionising tool in medicine, radiologists may over-rely on its advice when it highlights a specific part of an X-ray, according to a new study. A team of US researchers recruited 220 physicians across multiple sites in the country tasked with reviewing chest X-rays alongside AI-generated advice. Participants included radiologists and internal or emergency medicine physicians who were tasked with reading X-rays with the help of an AI assistant. The physicians could accept,...

A YouTuber who was part of the Korean special forces has been handed over to prosecutors for assaulting Johnny Somali. Controversial streamer Johnny Somali, real name Ramsey Khalid Ismael, has become known throughout the content creator world for all the wrong reasons thanks to his troublesome globetrotting broadcasts. After the American terrorized Japan and Israel, he set his sights on Korea, and wasted no time in causing havoc by kissing the Statue of Peace – a monument to victims of sexual slavery by Japanese troops during WW2. However, Koreans weren’t willing to let Somali roam free without getting some payback....

Australian fitness influencer Jaxon Tippet has died from a heart attack while on vacation in Turkey, his loved ones confirmed. Fitness coach and podcaster Jaxon Tippet, who had over 229,000 followers on Instagram, has died less than two weeks after celebrating his 30th birthday. “It’s with a heavy heart that our beloved Jaxon has passed away on Nov 10th 2024. He was such a beautiful soul and had such a positive impact on the world,” read the caption on his latest Instagram post, which shows the model smiling with his birth and death years, “1994 – 2024.” Additional tributes were...

A woman is issuing a grave warning to homeowners after claiming her property was destroyed in a fire that she says was caused by her Wi-Fi router overheating. Florida resident Keona Huntley.. posted a now-viral TikTok video in the aftermath of the fire, which she says started in her bedroom due to the internet box. Huntley shares horrifying footage of her property after the fire, while detailing how the terrifying blaze quickly spread throughout the entire house, leaving almost every room a charred shell. Beginning in her kitchen, Huntley captures the devastating aftermath of the fire, revealing blackened walls that...

@elonmusk Gonna happen 😂 RE: @ajtourville The IRS getting audited by the @DOGE

OK, so I gave a nice contribution to Trump, but the emails I get don't say how to get a job. What's up with that?Anyone know if Trump is hiring FReepers? I have much to contribute to Trump's second term.

A new composite material developed by KIMS researchers absorbs over 99% of electromagnetic waves from different frequencies, improving the performance of devices like smartphones and wearables. A team of scientists from the Korea Institute of Materials Science (KIMS) has developed the world’s first ultra-thin film composite material capable of absorbing over 99% of electromagnetic waves from various frequency bands, including 5G/6G, WiFi, and autonomous driving radar, using a single material. This novel electromagnetic wave absorption and shielding material is less than 0.5mm thick and is characterized by its low reflectance of less than 1% and high absorbance of over 99%...

@tunguz It was far from obvious at the time, but this was one of the major inflection points of human history.

Firefox just updated their browser and my settings with tabs below the address bar are now on top. This is a continuing problem with them and a bunch of years (12-15 or longer) ago they decided to change tab location placement and each time some kind IT type has user chrome steps to put them back where they belong, below the address bar. So I can use some help to put them back and, no, I'm not going to change to Brave or some other browser -- I have add-ons that I use every day here on FR so just...