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Data centers are wasting energy by running processors at full speed

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Data center power consumption has become a major concern as demand grows and utilities struggle to keep up. Operators are looking for ways to reduce energy use and costs, with many developing novel ways of cooling equipment and maximizing data center design.

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Alaska Airlines issues ground stop in Seattle after tech problem causes ‘significant disruption’

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An Alaska Airlines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Alaska Airlines experienced a “significant IT outage” on Sunday evening that delayed flights and forced it to request a ground stop at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The Seattle-based airline first noted the outage around 8 p.m. PT in response to messages on X.

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Microsoft's Copilot key remapping option comes with a frustrating limitation

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With the latest Windows 11 insider preview build (22635.4225 for beta testers), Microsoft has added the ability to reprogram what the Copilot button launches. The new option can be found buried in the Settings app under Personalization > Text Input. From there, you can pick an "MSIX packaged and signed" app.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 15, 2024

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Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 15, 2024. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Amazon ‘will return to being in the office the way we were’ before the pandemic, CEO tells employees Amazon expects employees to start working from the office in the same way as they di

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Streamlining Scripts & Schedulers: How to Tame Disconnected Automation Tools

For many IT admins, business as usual is a juggling act. Job schedulers and scripts run on autopilot, applications and operating systems can’t speak the same language, and other tools—like RPA or MFT solutions—operate in isolation. On a good day, everything runs smoothly. But good days are rare; more often than not, something goes wrong and you’re stuck putting out fires.

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Sky Glass customers fume as widespread outage leaves TVs non-functional for days

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A major outage has left hundreds of Sky Glass smart TV and Sky streaming service customers across the UK in a nightmare of boredom and frustration. The devices have been stuck on a blank screen and there's seemingly no fix yet.

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Can Amazon change how we watch football? Testing ‘Prime Vision’ on Thursday Night Football

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Yuval Noah Harari on whether democracy and AI can coexist

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Israeli historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari speaks at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit Forum on July 9, 2017, in Hangzhou in China’s Zhejiang Province. | <span style="font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif;">Visual China Group via Getty Images</span> If the internet age has anything like an ideology, it’s that more information and more data and more openne

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Former Apple designer Jony Ive confirms partnership with OpenAI to develop AI hardware

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The New York Times mentioned the existence of this stealth project in a new profile on Ive published this week. According to the report, Ive met OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for dinner last year after an introduction from Airbnb chief Brian Chesky. Over multiple meals, the pair hatched a plan.

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Forget the games: Halo raked in a whopping $1.8 billion from merchandise alone

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That figure, revealed in a recent License Global magazine feature, underscores just how massive Master Chief and his world have become globally. The magazine spoke to John Friend, Xbox's head of consumer products, who suggested that when you have an IP as gargantuan as Halo, you can go to town.

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Android versions used to be named after dessert foods. They were also released.

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It's commonly known that Android versions were once named after desserts, and if you knew the names of more than one release, you might have noticed they.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Chechen warlord claims Elon Musk remotely disabled Cybertrucks he "gifted"

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According to a report by CNN, the Putin-backed leader claimed the high-tech vehicle had been "performing well" in combat until Musk hit the kill switch, forcing it to be towed away.

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