The smartest way to use AI may not be letting it interact with your files, but asking it to write software that handles them ...

As much as it’s easy to build a basic web scraper (assuming you have rudimentary computer literacy), it’s equally hard to scale your effort and enjoy meaningful success. The internet has grown highly ...

You don’t need expensive software for basic PDF tasks. In fact, all you need is a handful of free web-based apps. Given the ubiquity and popularity of the PDF, it's no surprise that commercial PDF ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

A hot potato: GitHub has announced that starting April 24, the company will begin using interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users to train and improve its AI models unless they opt out.

Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren and Republican senator Josh Hawley are urging the US’s central energy information agency to provide better information on how much electricity data centers actually ...

Website scraping can seem complex, particularly for those without programming experience. Eliot Prince explains how to approach this task using Claude Cowork, a conversational AI platform, alongside ...

Amazon released the 5.19.2 update a couple of weeks ago, and one feature that flew under the radar concerned PDF files. In the past, the only way to annotate and edit PDF files was to use Send to ...

SerpApi, a company that scrapes data, has asked a court to throw out a DMCA lawsuit that Google filed against them. SerpApi says that Google Google lacks standing as it doesn’t own the copyrights to ...

Multiple reports show the data centers used to store, train and operate AI models use significant amounts of energy and water, with a rippling impact on the environment and public health. According to ...

File - In this Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, photo, a woman stands at her well at her property on the outskirts of The Dalles, Oregon. She said the water table that her well draws from dropped 15 feet in the ...