Most people treat Excel as a rigid calculator, completely missing its capacity for chaos. Excel's built-in randomization tools can generate numbers, shuffle existing lists, and build mock timelines in ...

If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative ...

It’s been three-and-a-half years since generative AI exploded onto the scene. In this past year, progress has continued its relentless pace: Vibe coding took off, companies embraced agentic workflows, ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI—Late at night, or when her 18-month-old daughter is napping, Jessica Sharp logs onto Chat GPT and asks it to help her in her fight to stop a data center from being built just steps away ...

A new holographic storage technique uses light in three dimensions to dramatically increase how much data can be stored. It encodes information throughout a material using amplitude, phase, and ...

A broad majority of Americans have heard about data centers – the often-sprawling computing facilities that are popping up nationwide. But the public has mixed opinions about data centers’ impact in ...

Starlink says it may also share personal data with partners to help it "develop AI-enabled tools that improve your customer experience.” Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, ...

The Trump administration may have shuttered Direct File — the IRS’s short-lived experiment in tax-preparation software — but it doesn’t mean you have to pay to file your taxes. There are plenty of ...

IRS Direct File, a free online system for filing federal taxes, has been scrapped for 2026. Almost 300,000 people used IRS Direct File in 2025. So, are they out of luck, along with millions of others ...

AT&T customers are eligible to receive compensation from the telecommunications giant as part of a $177 million settlement over two data breaches last year. AT&T notified millions of customers that ...

Eligible AT&T customers have until Dec. 18 to file a claim in a data breach settlement. Here's how to find out if you're eligible. There were two data breaches where customer information was stolen in ...