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The Trump administration wants underwater datacenters. One Great Lakes non-profit is already preparing

Tech companies like the idea, as they largely eliminate community opposition, and could cut down on utility costs While Elon Musk has often touted putting datacenters in space, reports suggest that another geographic area may soon become a widespread target: our lakes and oceans. Two underwater datacenters are already in operation off the coast of China, and recent reports suggest that the Trump administration is considering plans for four proposed underwater, sealed-pod datacenters to be built off the shores of Maine and Alaska. Continue reading...

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Thunderstruck: what does the future hold for lightning?

Humans have always been awed by the power and beauty of lightning. How does the experience and understanding of it change in a warming world? In a rock shelter in Kakadu national park in the north of Australia is an image of a being the Bininj people call Namarrkon. His flesh bleached away to reveal the bones beneath, he wears stone axes on his head, elbows and knees, and wields a great band of lightning that runs from his ankles up, over his head. Namarrkon is one of the most important of the Bininj creation ancestors: his journey from the coast to the Arnhem Land escarpment helped shape the

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Hollywood banks on Ebenezer to bring Johnny Depp in from the cold

Dickens character is actor’s first big studio role after years overshadowed by legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard “It’s good to be back,” Johnny Depp declares in the trailer for Ebenezer, in which he stars as Charles Dickens’s miserly Scrooge – his first big Hollywood studio production in eight years. The message is clear: this is Depp’s comeback, after years in which his career was overshadowed by legal battles with his former wife Amber Heard. Continue reading...

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Standing in the way of slop bowls: the woman blocking food delivery robots

Semi-retired professor Carolyn Marvin became a local celebrity facing down Philadelphia’s growing robot delivery army: ‘It’s my first amendment right to protest’ “One of you needs to be on the lookout for cops, while I block the robot, OK?” It is a crisp fall morning in Philadelphia. Tucked away in a dingy alley, opposite a garage called Patriot Parking, 78-year-old Carolyn Marvin is laying out some ground rules for a robot-disrupting expedition. Once a suitable target is identified, we will follow it to a busy sidewalk and Marvin will stand in front of the robot, blocking its way. The photogr

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