Google has admitted its greenhouse gas emissions have risen 48% over the past five years – largely because of artificial intelligence – scuppering its climate aims. AI systems require intense levels of computational power, and this has piled pressure on the tech giant’s data centres around the world. In its latest environmental report, Google went on to warn that reducing ...
Fraud groups take billions of dollars a year out of the music industry through fake streams, a streaming technology company has warned. At least 10% of all song streams are fraudulent, and this takes between $2bn and $3bn (£1.6bn and £2.4bn) out of the global music industry each year according to Beatdapp, the streaming fraud detection platform. Global streaming jumped ...
Tiny fragments of glass fibre widely used to make small boats around the world have been found in the marine food chain for the first time. Scientists at the universities of Portsmouth and Brighton found the glass shards, just a fraction of a millimetre long, in shellfish caught off the south coast of England. The needle-shaped fragments of fibreglass, or ...
As of early Wednesday morning, President Biden had called just one congressional leader personally in the wake of his faltering debate performance: Hakeem Jeffries. That the president chose Jeffries is perhaps not surprising. The New York Democrat may be the only thing standing between Biden and a flood of panicked House Democrats — few of whom have so far gone ...
Donald Trump and his campaign hope President Biden stays in the race, according to four people familiar with private discussions, believing they can beat him even with Trump’s felony conviction and other charges. But they are also ramping up attacks on Vice President Harris. Publicly, Trump and his allies have dismissed suggestions that Biden could withdraw from the race, insisting ...
Obviously, President Biden did not do a good job pressing his case against Donald Trump in the first presidential debate last week. That said, there was one argument that was surprisingly absent: that a second Trump presidency would put American democracy itself at risk. The subject did come up, once the moderators from CNN broached it. Given his past comments, ...
As President Biden continues to face questions about whether he should end his bid to seek a second term, there are growing signs that many in the Democratic Party are willing to accept the notion of Vice President Harris at the top of their presidential ticket, a potentially significant shift. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) is signaling to members ...
Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) said Wednesday that he’s unsure what Democratic candidate could prevail over Donald Trump in November. In his first interview since penning an op-ed in the Bangor Daily News, Golden stopped short of calling on President Biden to exit the presidential contest after his faltering debate performance. But he did predict that Biden would lose to Donald ...
President Biden found himself in a growing political crisis Wednesday as Democrats on Capitol Hill, the high-dollar donor community and even members of his own senior team became increasingly vocal about his muted response to concerns about his viability as the party’s standard-bearer after Thursday’s shaky debate. The growing worry comes as Biden has told allies in recent days that ...
There are an enormous number of questions lingering around the presidential race at the moment, nearly all centered on President Biden and nearly all of them downstream from his remarkably poor performance in last week’s debate. The most obvious is whether Biden will drop out, allowing his party to nominate someone else as its candidate to run against Donald Trump ...