This morning, a friend of mine waited in the cold outside of Brooklyn’s Micro Center retailer, specifically to buy this pre-built desktop. It’s a good deal, and they’d been wavering on a long-overdue PC upgrade…
It’s been hard to avoid tech giant Google’s AI ventures lately. You might find all those new AI services and features useful, or you might find them annoying—but either way, one thing is absolutely true:…
“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power grids…
Training next-generation AI models compounds the problem. On top of running existing AI models like those that power ChatGPT, OpenAI is constantly working on new technology in the background. It’s a process that requires thousands…
Walking through aisles and aisles of quality computer hardware has a charm that just can’t be beat. And doing so alongside other enthralled nerds is even better—which is exactly what drew out PCWorld’s Adam Patrick…
Although big participants in the technology industry may be able to lobby the administration to “loosen up” restrictions on new power sources, small to medium-sized players were in a “holding pattern” as they waited to…