Ethereum is a blockchain ecosystem as much as a digital currency, with real-world use cases ranging from gaming to finance. XRP helps to facilitate cheaper, faster, and easier cross-border payments on ...

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 ...

In the spring of 2020, the Federal Reserve faced a challenge: The COVID-19 pandemic was upending daily life with shutdowns, social distancing, and heightened uncertainty, but the traditional economic ...

Data incidents have become so common that you may be tempted to throw away notification letters. Don’t do that, experts say. By Ann Carrns Do you feel that you get an awful lot of data breach notices ...

In an appearance at BlackRock’s U.S. Infrastructure Summit on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman offered a surprisingly clear articulation of how he imagines the future of artificial intelligence—it’s ...

Anthropic is expanding the capabilities of its AI assistant, Claude, by rolling out new features that allow the tool to work more closely with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. The update is designed to ...

Anthropic has this week introduced new Claude capabilities for professionals using Excel and PowerPoint, aimed at streamlining workflows in data-driven projects. One key feature is Claude’s new Skill ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...

Millions of New Yorkers could receive up to $500 in refunds on rising gas and electric bills under a measure proposed by Assembly Democrats. Households with incomes under $150,000 would get a rebate ...

Communities are protesting new data centers due to environmental impacts and rising utility costs. Data centers require significant amounts of electricity and water, with consumption expected to grow.

Seven major technology companies that rely on power-guzzling data centers to train their AI models signed a pledge promising to pay more for electricity in a bid by the Trump administration to tamp ...

Texas, which already leads the country in electricity generation from natural gas, coal and wind, has passed California to become the leader in utility-scale solar. Data for 2025, released last week ...