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Iran's internet blackout left people in the dark. How does a country shut down the internet?

3 days ago | techxplore.com | Mohiuddin Ahmed |Paul Haskell-Dowland |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

In recent days, Iranians experienced a near-complete internet blackout, with local service providers—including mobile services—repeatedly going offline. Iran's government has cited cybersecurity concerns for ordering the shutdown. Shutting off the internet within an entire country is a serious action. It severely limits people's ability to freely communicate and to find reliable information during times of conflict.
UK aims to tackle Google dominance of online search

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Andrew Zinin

Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday proposed measures aimed at tackling Google's dominance in online search, with the US tech giant warning that "punitive regulations" could impact UK economic growth. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it proposes to designate Google with "strategic market status," subjecting it to special requirements under new UK regulations.
NTSB set to meet on door plug investigation of terrifying Alaska Airlines flight

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Josh Funk |Andrew Zinin

The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday will be focused on preventing another terrifying event like the one involving a panel that flew off a Boeing 737 Max midair in January of 2024. The board will discuss what NTSB investigators have uncovered over the past 17 months, including their revelation that bolts securing the so-called door plug panel were removed and never replaced during a repair.
New York state to build nuclear power plant

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Andrew Zinin

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced plans Monday to build a nuclear power facility, enlisting a state agency for the first major new US nuclear construction since 2009. Hochul tapped the New York Power Authority to develop a nuclear plant with combined capacity of at least one gigiwatt of electricity, according to a New York state press release.
OpenAI scrubs mention of Jony Ive partnership after judge's ruling over trademark dispute

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Andrew Zinin

A budding partnership between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive to develop a new artificial intelligence hardware product has hit a legal snag after a federal judge ruled they must temporarily stop marketing the new venture. OpenAI last month announced it was buying io Products, a product and engineering company co-founded by Ive, in a deal valued at nearly $6.5 billion.
Here's why the public needs to challenge the 'good AI' myth pushed by tech companies

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Arshin Adib-Moghaddam |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

While there's been much negative discussion about AI, including about the possibility that it will take over the world, the public is also being bombarded with positive messages about the technology, and what it can do. This "good AI" myth is a key tool used by tech companies to promote their products. Yet there's evidence that consumers are wary of the presence of AI in some products.
AI is consuming more power than the grid can handle. Nuclear might be the answer

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Goran Calic |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

New partnerships are forming between tech companies and power operators—ones that could reshape decades of misconceptions about nuclear energy. Last year, Meta (Facebook's parent company) put out a call for nuclear proposals, Google agreed to buy new nuclear reactors from Kairos Power, Amazon partnered with Energy Northwest and Dominion Energy to develop nuclear energy and Microsoft committed to a 20-year deal to restart Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear plant.
How the end of carbon capture could spark a new industrial revolution

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Andres F. Clarens |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

The U.S. Department of Energy's decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an unexpected opening for American manufacturing. Many of the grant recipients were deploying carbon capture and storage—technologies that are designed to prevent industrial carbon pollution from entering the atmosphere by capturing it and injecting it deep underground.
To spur the construction of affordable, resilient homes, the future is concrete

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Pablo Fernandez |Pablo Fernández |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

Wood is, by far, the most common material used in the U.S. for single-family home construction. But wood construction isn't engineered for long-term durability, and it often underperforms, particularly in the face of increasingly common extreme weather events.
Where did the wonder go, and can AI help us find it?

4 days ago | techxplore.com | Lucy Gill-Simmen |Lisa Lock |Andrew Zinin

French philosopher René Descartes crowned human reason in 1637 as the foundation of existence: "Cogito, ergo sum"—"I think, therefore I am." For centuries, our capacity to doubt, question and think has been both our compass and our identity. But what does that mean in an age where machines can "think," generate ideas, write novels, compose symphonies and, increasingly, make decisions?