This is the first of three feature articles Ars is publishing to explore the financial, technical, and competitive dimensions ...

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate ...

Modern software increasingly depends on data structures that go far beyond basic arrays and trees. Some of the most powerful systems rely on designs that rarely appear in traditional programming ...

Traditional ETL tools like dbt or Fivetran prepare data for reporting: structured analytics and dashboards with stable schemas. AI applications need something different: preparing messy, evolving ...

Over the past year, robotics and embodied AI have entered the public imagination. Humanoid robots walk more confidently. Manipulation demos look smoother. Perception, navigation and grasping ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) companies may be booming, but they’re still struggling to get around a fundamental constraint: an insatiable demand for electricity. The federal government isn’t likely to ...

Voyager Technologies CEO Dylan Taylor said data centers in space will become a reality, but cooling issues still need to be resolved. Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted space-based data centers as a ...

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced plans to put a million data centers in space, a program he hopes will help meet the growing demand for existing facilities on earth driven by the increasing use of ...

If data centers come to Florida, FPL has a plan to keep current ratepayers from paying the tab. As data centers fuel the digital economy, powering everything from artificial intelligence to cloud ...

You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted but elated. The view of the city below is gorgeous, and you want to capture the moment on camera. But it’s already ...

Ambuj Tewari receives funding from NSF and NIH. You’ve just finished a strenuous hike to the top of a mountain. You’re exhausted but elated. The view of the city below is gorgeous, and you want to ...