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Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty, consuming as much as 500 milliliters of water – a single-serving water bottle – for each short conversation a user has with the GPT-3 version of OpenAI’s ChatGPT system. They use roughly the same amount of water to draft a 100-word email message. That figure includes the water used to cool the data center’s servers …

Democrats fret the Zohran Mamdani effect will cost them next year  Politico Rent control’s winners are the well-off and the well-connected  The Boston Globe With endorsement still elusive, Zohran Mamdani again meets with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries  CNN NYC mayoral race: Zohran Mamdani failing to secure endorsement from top Democrats like Kathy Hochul, Hakeem Jeffries  ABC7 New York For Jeffries and Schumer, backing Mamdani could …

When Lego Pokémon launches next year, it’s set to feature one of the largest and most expensive Lego sets ever. Until recently Mattel had been the only company making Pokémon-themed building block sets in the West, under its Mega brand of bricks. However, in March it was announced by The Pokémon Company and the Lego Group that Lego Pokémon sets …

Taylor Swift’s Rhode Island beach house has hosted everything from her famous Fourth of July parties to quiet renovations that sparked fan theories about her future with Travis Kelce. (Earlier this summer, she skipped Watch Hill entirely for a half-million-dollar getaway at Montana’s Yellowstone Club.) But now her shuttered “Holiday House” is back in headlines for a different reason: Rhode …

Time to consider the community cost of offshore wind in Maryland  Maryland Matters Orsted’s American Dream Becomes a Multi Billion-Dollar Nightmare  Bloomberg.com Why did Trump halt their project? Union wind workers want answers  USA Today Transportation Dept. Cancels $679 Million for Offshore Wind Projects  The New York Times How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?  The Economist Source link

Florida taxpayers could lose nearly all of the $218 million the state poured into its controversial Everglades detention center after a federal judge upheld her order shutting it down. The facility, which has been dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” was quickly converted from a remote training airport into a sprawling detention complex. State officials opened it at the beginning of July as …

Summary: A new large-scale study finds that the long-observed “unhappiness hump,” where mental distress peaked in midlife, has disappeared. Instead, younger people now report the highest levels of anxiety, depression, and stress, with ill-being declining across the lifespan. Data from millions of participants across 44 countries suggest this is a global trend. Researchers point to economic pressures, healthcare gaps, pandemic …

Apple’s big September event is coming up fast, with the company expected to unveil four new iPhones: iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. Here are the rumored prices for each new iPhone 17 model, most of which could see a higher cost. iPhone 17 prices expected to increase for most models Despite the …

Samsung unveiled its newest gigantic television, the 115-inch Q90F, at an event in New Jersey this week. The $27,000 TV appeared alongside the company’s other 115-inch Micro RGB TV, which costs even more: $30,000. But what do these LCD TVs give you that smaller, cheaper models can’t? I saw both TVs on display, and this is what I think.  The QN90F …

The plume of blue smoke could be seen from across the River Mersey. It came from the top of Everton’s new £800million Hill Dickinson Stadium, after the club had positioned pyrotechnics on the roof, and temporarily submerged fans in the two-tier South Stand across the other side of the pitch. In this, the city of Liverpool’s new waterfront development, a …