CHICAGO (WGN) — Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says he will sign a bill limiting students’ access to cell phones during class after it passed the Senate on Sunday. Senate Bill 2427 requires schools to set ...

California's almond farms consume 4.2 billion gallons of waters per day, according to Reason's Christian Britschgi. Data centers consume just 46 million gallons per day. Those numbers will certainly ...

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. Being a gamer all his life and enjoying everything from ARPGs like Diablo to JRPGs like Pokemon and Persona, ...

Thursday is the final day for Californians to use any remaining funds on their Middle Class Tax Refund debit cards, a one‑time “inflation relief” payment approved by state lawmakers in 2022. Between ...

Frost Bank is facing two proposed class-action lawsuits alleging the bank failed to adequately protect customer data following a cyberattack attributed to a prominent ransomware group. Both complaints ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...

In 2025, Cisco's annual benchmark study found that 64% of people worried about inadvertently sharing sensitive information with generative AI tools — yet nearly half admitted to inputting personal or ...

Harvard College admitted its final round of students to the Class of 2030 on Thursday, completing the admissions cycle on Ivy Day without publicly disclosing any statistics about the incoming class.

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 ...

John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he ...

Red pandas are tree-dwelling mammals adapted to life in cold, mountainous forests. They rely heavily on bamboo despite its low nutritional value, requiring energy-efficient behavior. Their specialized ...