Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

Roughly one in five student interactions with generative artificial intelligence on school technology involved cheating, self-harm, bullying, and other problematic behaviors, according to data ...

I had an interesting conversation with my son Tristan the other day. Because he’s so engrossed in his PhD research in machine learning at Simon Fraser University, I often try to steer our discussions ...

Most of the world's information is stored digitally right now. Every year, we generate more data than we did the year before. Now, with AI in the picture, a technology that relies on a whole lot of ...

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate a new robotic data storage system that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now ...

Researchers at Microsoft have created a data-storage system that can remain readable for at least 10,000 years — and probably much longer. In the digital age, the need for data storage is ballooning.

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Driven by the artificial intelligence frenzy, Microsoft is internally projecting that water use at its data centers will more than double by 2030 from 2020, including in places that face shortages.

Excel has outlasted many tech trends, and in the age of AI, it remains very much in the mix. While new platforms promise automation and out-of-the-box intelligence, many teams continue to rely on ...