Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of water in some of the world's driest areas and are building many more, an investigation by SourceMaterial and the Guardian has found. With Donald Trump pledging to support them, the three technology giants are planning hundreds of datacentres in the US and across the globe, with a potentially huge impact on populations already living with water scarcity. "The question of water is going to become crucial," said Lorena Jaume-Palasí, founder of the Ethical Tech Society. "Resilience from a resource perspective is going to be very difficult for those communities." Efforts by Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, to mitigate its water use have sparked opposition from inside the company, SourceMaterial's investigation found, with one of its own sustainability experts warning that its plans are "not ethical".

It has been 113 years since the Titanic sank beneath the waves, claiming the lives of more than 1,500 passengers and crew. But new evidence has finally cleared the tragedy's Scottish scapegoat: First Officer William Murdoch. For years, Officer Murdoch has been accused of taking bribes, abandoning his post, and was even depicted shooting a passenger in the James Cameron movie. Now, more than a century later, 3D scans show that Officer Murdoch did not flee his position, but died while helping passengers escape until the very end. Deep sea scanning company Magellan has snapped 715,000 photos of the Titanic wreck 12,500 feet beneath the Atlantic.

Apple's new iPad Air is here, but you wouldn't know it just by looking at it. For this version, Apple decided to leave the tablet unchanged on the outside, save for the new (optional) Magic Keyboard. Inside, however, the Air has Apple's M3 chip, which means it supports Apple Intelligence, the company's AI assistant. Once again, the iPad Air comes in two sizes, one with an 11-inch display, and the other with a 13-inch display. For my Apple iPad Air (M3) review, I tested the 13-inch version.

Boston Dynamics is at it again, wowing us with some seriously cool robotic moves. Their latest video of Atlas, their bipedal robot, has blown up online with its mind-blowing human-like movements, including breakdancing. These impressive moves are the result of a collaboration between Boston Dynamics and the Robotics and AI Institute. Get security alerts & expert tech tips – sign up for Kurt's'The CyberGuy Report' now. Breakdancing, including the famous "coffee grinder" move, is just one of the many impressive feats Atlas can perform.

The new essay collection "Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age," by Vauhini Vara, opens with a transcript. "If I paste some writing here, can we talk about it?" Her interlocutor, the large language model ChatGPT, responds, "Of course!" The chatbot asks what specific themes it should focus on. "Nothing in particular," Vara replies.

I've never played Minecraft in my life--but then I'm not a Christian, either, and have always delighted in the distinctly Mormon cinematic universe of Jared Hess, the director of "A Minecraft Movie." He's best known for "Napoleon Dynamite," from 2004, which evokes its spiritual milieu only implicitly, by the absence of secular pop culture and of teen-age ribaldry. He followed it with "Nacho Libre," starring Jack Black as a friar who enters the wrestling ring to save a convent, and, in 2009, with "Gentlemen Broncos," a celestial gross-out vision of an adolescent gospel. His satire "Don Verdean," from 2015, is explicitly set in church communities and involves relic smuggling in Israel; his 2016 comedy, "Masterminds," is a heist film that's centered on grace and holy innocence. With "A Minecraft Movie," I was impatient to see what Hess would do with another world of extreme fantasy, akin to that of "Gentlemen Broncos." The short answer is, too much and not nearly enough; the I.P. is the boss, the characters are its minions, and Hess--constrained both by a script that he didn't write and by the demands of complex C.G.I.--struggles to live up to his own œuvre, which is among the most substantially loopy (or loopily substantial) in modern cinema.

'The White Lotus' creator Mike White drops a hint about the Season 4 location Mashable Tech Science Life Social Good Entertainment Deals Shopping Games Search Cancel * * Search Result Tech Apps & Software Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity Cryptocurrency Mobile Smart Home Social Media Tech Industry Transportation All Tech Science Space Climate Change Environment All Science Life Digital Culture Family & Parenting Health & Wellness Sex, Dating & Relationships Sleep Careers Mental Health All Life Social Good Activism Gender LGBTQ Racial Justice Sustainability Politics All Social Good Entertainment Games Movies Podcasts TV Shows Watch Guides All Entertainment SHOP THE BEST Laptops Budget Laptops Dating Apps Sexting Apps Hookup Apps VPNs Robot Vaccuums Robot Vaccum & Mop Headphones Speakers Kindles Gift Guides Mashable Choice Mashable Selects All Sex, Dating & Relationships All Laptops All Headphones All Robot Vacuums All VPN All Shopping Games Product Reviews Adult Friend Finder Bumble Premium Tinder Platinum Kindle Paperwhite PS5 vs PS5 Slim All Reviews All Shopping Deals Newsletters VIDEOS Mashable Shows All Videos Home Entertainment TV Shows'The White Lotus' creator Mike White drops a hint about the Season 4 location "I don't think we're gonna go South America." By Sam Haysom Sam Haysom Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time. Read Full Bio on April 9, 2025 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Flipboard Watch Next'The White Lotus' Season 3 trailer teases debauchery in Thailand'The White Lotus' Season 3 cast meeting Moo Deng is the crossover you didn't know you needed'The White Lotus' Season 3 star Natasha Rothwell shares BTS of meeting her lizard co-star'The White Lotus' Season 3, episode 6 trailer teases rising tension The White Lotus has so far taken place in Hawaii, Italy, and most recently Thailand -- but where might be a good spot for Season 4? Speaking to Howard Stern following the Season 3 finale, creator Mike White revealed that he's about to set off for Colombia to get out of LA. "Are you thinking maybe the next season will take place in Colombia, so you're going to do research?" asks Stern. "I don't think we're gonna go South America, I think probably not," responds White.

TL;DR: Replace your AI subscriptions with DeskSense while a lifetime subscription is only 38 (reg. AI has practically become an essential part of the professional world almost overnight. Though many people have settled into using AI all the time, one thing that hasn't quite become sustainable is AI pricing. All those subscriptions are seriously expensive. It's a good thing you don't have to pay for all of them, even if you rely on them every day.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) could face a penalty of 1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation over a chip it made that ended up inside a Huawei artificial intelligence processor, according to two people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Department of Commerce has been investigating the world's biggest contract chipmaker's work for China-based Sophgo, the sources said. The design company's TSMC-made chip matched one found in Huawei's high-end Ascend 910B artificial intelligence processor, according to the people, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the matter. Huawei -- a company at the center of China's AI chip ambitions that has been accused of sanctions busting and trade secret theft -- is on a U.S. trade list that restricts it from receiving goods made with U.S. technology. TSMC made nearly 3 million chips in recent years that matched the design ordered by Sophgo and likely ended up with Huawei, according to Lennart Heim, a researcher at RAND's Technology and Security and Policy Center in Arlington, Virginia, who is tracking Chinese developments in AI.

Corrin says they don't "feel great" about its potential impact on their profession. "Obviously, I think it's scary, but it's also a massive conversation, right? There are aspects of it that are terrifying to me as an artist. I love the creative process. I love that this art is born out of being in a room with people and things coming from the depths of someone's human experience or imagination. And I really don't think we'll lose that, or I hope not. "And I think there are also aspects of AI I probably don't understand, and that could be used as tools for good.