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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: amazon, texas power plant, xai

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Amazon backs power plant that may become top source of US climate pollution (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: amazon, texas power plant, xai

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Orange Crush: TAG Heuer Drops a Bright Revamp of the Original Metal F1 Watch (wired.com)

2026-08-10 | by Simon Hill | tags: tag heuer, formula 1, solar-powered

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Anker SOLIX says most portable power stations waste up to 30% of their stored energy (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: anker, solix, portable power stations

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Interstellar Travel May Soon Be Within Reach (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: interstellar travel, probes, laser sails

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The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-10 | by Mark Zuckerberg | tags: superintelligence, openai, ai safety

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Amazon’s new 7.65GW Texas AI data center power plant could become the largest source of CO₂ pollution in the US — custom 35-turbine gas plant authorized to emit 33 million tons of annual greenhouse gases (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-09 | by Etiido Uko | tags: center, data center, data centers

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8 Best Workout Headphones & Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-09 | by Boutayna Chokrane | tags: best, earbuds, headphones

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An Amazon data center could have the worst polluting power plant in the country (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Terrence O'Brien | tags: amazon, greenhouse, gw ranch

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AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: centers, data centers, emissions

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Texas Avoids Blackout by the Grace of Solar Power (futurism.com)

2026-08-08 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: demand, electrical, grid

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NASA modded space station's laptops so everyone could use the same charger — standardizing ISS chargers eliminated useless weight and reduced failure points (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Mark Tyson | tags: laptops, modem, nasa

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Best Solar Generators for Off-Grid Trips, RVs, and Home Backup (wired.com)

2026-08-08 | by Simon Hill | tags: generators, port, power

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Nitecore’s latest power bank is the lightest and most compact yet (theverge.com)

2026-08-08 | by Thomas Ricker | tags: bank, battery, lights

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NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Elizabeth Howell | tags: instruments, nasa, officials

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NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-08 | by Elizabeth Howell | tags: instruments, nasa, officials

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Upcoming Hack to Keep NASA’s Voyager 1 Alive Exploits a Quirk in Its 1970s Hardware (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-07 | tags: bang, bang power, big bang

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Trump administration has spent nearly $4B to cancel offshore wind farms (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: natural, natural gas, plants

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SpaceX’s Terafab will rely on natural gas power plants, not Tesla solar panels (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-07 | by Tim De Chant | tags: billion, gas power, natural

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Disney Plus tries a new AI-powered search (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Jay Peters | tags: disney, espn, plus

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The 5 Best Laptop Power Banks I've Personally Tested (2026) (wired.com)

2026-08-07 | by Simon Hill | tags: bank, best, charge

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Werewolf transformed my old gadgets into USB-C powered ones (theverge.com)

2026-08-07 | by Sean Hollister | tags: charger, monitor, plug

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SpaceX and Tesla plan their own natural gas power plants for massive $16.8 billion Texas chip factory (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: expected, factory, going

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This Kentucky family rejected a $26 million data center offer to protect their farmland (techspot.com)

2026-08-07 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: center, cooling, mason

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An Interesting Fourier Transform – 1/F Noise (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-07 | by Steve Smith | tags: fourier transform, power law, gamma function

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Jony Ive’s first OpenAI gadget is reportedly a hockey puck-sized smart speaker (theverge.com)

2026-08-06 | by Stevie Bonifield | tags: apple, battery, battery powered

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After severe 76% electricity price hikes due to AI data centers, Virginia requires firms to pay for all dedicated upstream electrical infrastructure — state regulators crack down, governor says move will save civilians ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Jowi Morales | tags: centers, data centers, power

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PC gamer vibe-codes a safeguard against RTX 5090 power connector failures — monitors per-pin power draw, shuts down system if it exceeds 9.5A for more than 15 seconds (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Zak Killian | tags: asus, cards, connector

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SoftBank Uses OpenAI Stake to Borrow $10 Billion (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-08-06 | tags: ai data, ai powered, builder

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Two Fossil Fuel Companies Are Betting Big on Data Centers (wired.com)

2026-08-06 | by Molly Taft | tags: centers, data centers, plants