The Artemis II astronauts witnessed a total solar eclipse from space during their historic flyby of the moon. Observing the eclipse was a late addition to the mission's agenda for the four-person crew ...

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 ...

Meta now plans to spend $10 billion on its AI data center in El Paso, Texas, up from a prior commitment of $1.5 billion. The data center aims to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity online by 2028. Meta is ...

A new study finds that certain patterns of AI use are driving cognitive fatigue, while others can help reduce burnout. by Julie Bedard, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes and ...

A report copublished by WIRED sparked a probe into opt-out pages hidden by data brokers. Now congressional Democrats say breaches tied to the industry have cost people tens of billions of dollars.

In pet genetics, cancer research, and beyond, Charlie Lieu, MBA ’05, SM ’05, has spent her career harnessing massive data sets to make the world better for everyone. A photogenic green-eyed Russian ...

Northern Virginia is home to the world's largest data center market. That could soon change, as Big Tech ramps up data center construction across the US. West Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Ohio are ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Shares of Caterpillar, the maker of mining and construction machinery, are up more than 30% since year-end, making it the biggest contributor to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. WSJ’s Jonathan Weil ...

SpaceX has acquired Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, xAI, creating the world’s most valuable private company, the spaceflight company announced Monday. Musk, who is also the CEO of SpaceX, ...

A 5-year-old boy and his father who were taken into custody by ICE during the agency’s illegal immigration crackdown in Minneapolis were freed over the weekend after a federal judge ordered their ...

The 5-year-old immigrant boy taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement alongside his father in the Minneapolis area earlier this week has an active and pending case in immigration ...