Month: September 2026
Amazon is spending $20 million to support water conservation on the Colorado River — but still won’t say how much water it uses
Amazon pledges $20 million to a new Colorado River Basin Collaborative targeting $100 million in two years, with $32 million in commitments so far Amazon only reported one figure: 2.5 billion gallons of global data center withdrawals, but no basin, warehouse, historical, or power-generation water figures were made public AWS…
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Xbox just unveiled Mythic Achievements, which are basically PlayStation platinum trophies
They signal to the world that someone has fully completed a game. And they apply retroactively to titles you've already finished. Source
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A family almost let their dad sleep through a stroke, until ChatGPT told them to get help
There are plenty of grand ideas about what AI could eventually do for healthcare, whether discovering new drugs or acting as an interactive medical historian for everyone. But a viral Reddit post offers a better, and much simpler vision for AI doctoring. According to the poster, the family was eating…
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Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point
Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a new wheel system and an improved telescoping handle. Source
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Sweden tells citizens to be ruder to phone scammers as criminals take advantage of good manners
Swedish celebrities are fronting a campaign to be rude to phone scammers The majority of Swedish phone scam victims are over 60 Swedish police state that fraudsters collect around 5.7 billion SEK a year, over £431 million Swedish celebrities have been hired to help the national government promote the use…
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AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,” Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It’s one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says…
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