Tag: Risk

How much more water and power does AI computing demand? Tech firms don't want you to know

Every time someone uses ChatGPT to write an essay, create an image or advise them on planning their day, the environment pays...

Earthquake risks and rising costs: The price of operating California's last nuclear plant

SAN LUIS OBISPO —  Under two gargantuan domes of thick concrete and steel that rise along California’s rugged Central Coast, subatomic particles...

As human cases of bird flu grow, feds say flu vaccine could help prevent a new pandemic

Although health officials say the risk of H5N1 bird flu infection is still low for the general population, they announced on Monday...

New drug's potentially fatal side effects obscured by 'soothing acronym,' doctors say

Seventy-nine-year-old Genevieve Lane volunteered to take the Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi in a clinical trial because she was forgetting words and misplacing her...