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Insatiable demands for data have triggered startling projections on how much electricity is consumed to power the Internet. But technology itself — along with strategic regulations — could keep our energy needs in check.

As data consumption continues to grow in India, the need for more data centers is evident. However, the energy consumption of data centers is a concer

Venture capital firm and crypto pusher Andreessen Horowitz wants you to keep buying crypto, and is not above publishing blatant falsehoods to convince you to do so.

Guidelines issued by the ITU in 2020 say the ICT industry should cut its emissions by 45% by 2030 to comply with the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Aakaanksh Autade, who goes by @kaansanity on TikTok, shared a trick to tell if your phone is new or pre-owned.

From the blog of Paul Ben Ishai at The Times of Israel

Is there a more environmentally friendly way to train AI? Nicole Gray Shares Machine learning is changing the world, and it’s changing it fast. In just the last few years, it’s brought us virtual assistants that understand language, autonomous vehicles, new drug discoveries, AI-based triage for medical scans, handwriting recognition and more.  One thing that machine learning shouldn’t be changing is th...

Are Your Netflix Binges Killing The Planet? By Alex Kimani - Jan 17, 2021, 12:00 PM CST The use of streaming video has grown exponentially around the world, with pandemic-driven shelter-in-place mandates helping to supersize the industry. The live streaming industry recorded nearly 100% growth at the height of the pandemic, with viewers consuming 3.93 billion hours of content in April 2020 compared to 1.97 billion hours in April 2019.  The rapid growth of these services has frequent...