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 ...

Brunt Workwear is taking the plunge into retail. The North Reading, Mass.-based boot and apparel brand will open its first flagship at 70 Main St. in North Reading, Mass., early next month. “In the ...

DEDHAM — A Norfolk Superior Court judge cleared the way for Karen Read to use what her lawyers have dubbed racist and homophobic text messages on former Massachusetts State Police trooper Michael ...

The US federal government’s central energy information agency is planning to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use, according to a letter seen by WIRED.

Some users have complained that they cannot insert a picture in Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. Some users can add images by copying and pasting or dragging and dropping, but the Pictures option is greyed ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

Google Play Store now allows users to find relevant information buried in app reviews. A search bar now appears at the top of reviews, where users can look for specific terms. The feature is beginning ...

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5:46 p.m. on Wednesday, April 1, 2026 to correct who Karen Read intends to sue. Karen Read is asking a judge to let her use records from fired Massachusetts ...

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...