Astronomers Watch Black Hole Twist Spacetime As Einstein Predicted Over 100 Years Ago

Astronomers have seen spacetime itself wobble near a spinning black hole for the first time. The discovery, revealed during a star’s destruction, confirms a major prediction of Einstein’s theory of ...

The Brain’s Strange Way of Computing Could Explain Consciousness

Consciousness may emerge not from code, but from the way living brains physically compute.
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A quarter century of design: The 25 biggest creative moments of the last 25 years

In the 2010s, skeuomorphism began to die on the vine. Gradients vanished. Shadows flattened. Design got efficient, scalable, ...

Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space

In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation ...
IEEE

Online Transient Stability Assessment Under Concept Drift: An ARF-Method-Assisted Federated Learning for Data Streams

Abstract: Transient instability poses a critical challenge to the reliable operation of modern power systems (PSs), often leading to large-scale blackouts. Despite the success of data-driven transient ...
IEEE

UniT: Data Efficient Tactile Representation With Generalization to Unseen Objects

Abstract: UniT is an approach to tactile representation learning, using VQGAN to learn a compact latent space and serve as the tactile representation. It uses tactile images obtained from a single ...
MLive

At least 16 sites eyed for data centers in Michigan amid AI boom. Here’s where

Michigan may remember 2025 as the year of the data center. Developers have eyed at least 16 sites in 10 counties across the Lower Peninsula for the power-hungry server warehouses supporting artificial ...
The New York Times

Senators Investigate Role of A.I. Data Centers in Rising Electricity Costs

Three Democrats are seeking information from tech firms about the growing energy use of data centers and the utility bills of individuals and other businesses. By Ivan Penn and Karen Weise Three ...
Forbes

As AI Booms, Data Centers May Create Electricity Scarcity Among Users

In the sunbaked outskirts of El Paso, Texas, construction crews are laying the foundations for Meta’s “AI‑optimized” 1.2-million-square-foot data center, designed to house thousands of servers and ...
The Washington Post

Supersized data centers are coming. See how they will transform America.

This coal plant in central Pennsylvania, once the largest in the state, was shuttered in 2023 after powering the region for over 50 years. Earlier this year, wrecking crews blasted the plant’s cooling ...
NBC4 Columbus

Report links data center to rare cancers, raising questions about central Ohioans’ safety

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A report linked Amazon data centers to miscarriages and rare cancers, drawing concerns about data centers’ presence in central Ohio. According to a report from Rolling Stone, ...
Reuters

Oracle denies report on OpenAI data center delays

Oracle denies delaying OpenAI data centers to 2028 due to shortages Investors worried about Oracle's debt-fueled AI infrastructure buildout Market sensitive to AI delays, scrutinizing spending payoffs ...