NPR

Matt Wagner of Danish Maid Butter on the art and tradition of Easter butter lambs

NPR's Don Gonyea talks with Matt Wagner, co-owner of Danish Maid Butter in Chicago, about the little Easter lambs made of butter that sell around the country this time of year. Palm Sunday today marks ...
housedigest

The Ancient Growing Technique That Turns A Simple Spider Plant Into A Work Of Art

What happens when a centuries-old Japanese planting art meets a popular, easy care houseplant? Tiktokker Kristy Hawk explored that convergence in an exuberant 2025 video that shows how to grow a ...
CNBC

Meta boosts investment in West Texas AI data center by over sixfold to $10 billion

Meta now plans to spend $10 billion on its AI data center in El Paso, Texas, up from a prior commitment of $1.5 billion. The data center aims to bring 1 gigawatt of capacity online by 2028. Meta is ...
Wired

Senators Demand to Know How Much Energy Data Centers Use

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 ...
NPR

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry ...
Wired

Are Digital Wall Calendars Worth It?

I won’t lie to you: I hated the first digital wall calendar I tried. I tried the Hearth Display last year and was left unimpressed, but to my surprise, digital wall calendars as a whole have only ...
The Washington Post

A movement to ban data centers gains steam across the U.S.

Sen. Bernie Sanders will introduce legislation Wednesday to block the construction of new data centers until lawmakers enact regulations on artificial intelligence, laying down a marker on the ...
The White House

President Trump Announces Appointments to President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

Today, President Donald J. Trump appointed the first members to his President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). Established by Executive Order, PCAST brings together the ...
PBS

Iran threatens to target tourism sites worldwide and says it's still building missiles nearly 3 weeks into war

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three weeks into an escalating war in the Middle East, Iran threatened Friday to expand its retaliatory attacks to include recreational and tourist sites worldwide, ...
IEEE

Debun: Detecting Bundled JavaScript Libraries on Web using Property-Order Graphs

Abstract: Detecting front-end JavaScript libraries in web applications is essential for website profiling, vulnerability detection, and dependency management. However, bundlers like Webpack transpile ...
Consumer Reports

AI Data Centers: Big Tech's Impact on Electric Bills, Water, and More

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 ...