technology

Europe: AI development or Net Zero?

AI requires huge amounts of electrical power, conflicting with Europe’s commitment to achieve a net-zero power grid.

By Steve Goreham |2025-09-15T12:31:36-04:00September 14th, 2025|Comments Off

The AI energy crunch has a cure: End the “Endangerment Finding”

Americans are feeling the pinch as electric bills rise.

By Melanie Collette |2025-08-24T21:23:47-04:00August 25th, 2025|Comments Off

AI revolution drives huge gas plant build-out, including Memphis site

A boom in artificial intelligence (AI) investments now drives the United States electricity market.

By Steve Goreham |2025-07-28T23:27:27-04:00July 29th, 2025|Comments Off

Ready or not, humanoid robots are here to stay

“The future that was in ‘Star Trek’ is what we now expect,” said Pahtak.

By Duggan Flanakin |2025-06-10T22:31:24-04:00June 11th, 2025|Comments Off

AI emulates abstract thinking about Kipling, Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones

CFACT just produced an impressive example of a chatbot emulating several sorts of abstract thought.

By David Wojick |2025-03-01T11:23:29-05:00March 4th, 2025|Comments Off

Check out the poem Elon’s Grok 3 AI wrote about CFACT

We asked Grok 3 AI to "write a poem about CFACT in the style of Kipling." It gave us this in under a second.

By Craig Rucker |2025-02-25T08:58:59-05:00February 25th, 2025|Comments Off

AI’s key role in science education — grade level search

A fundamental change in K-12 science education has created a huge opportunity for large language models.

By David Wojick |2024-10-14T12:28:33-04:00October 15th, 2024|Comments Off

AI could take your computer from search to research

Could issue analysis be be the next big thing in AI?

By David Wojick |2024-09-16T10:51:59-04:00September 18th, 2024|Comments Off

How AI is outsmarting Green energy, zero carbon fantasies

The rise of ChatGPT and similar large-language AI models require huge amounts of computing power which has turbocharged data-center demand.

By Larry Bell |2024-05-06T14:17:14-04:00May 6th, 2024|Comments Off

Finding new numbers to describe the accumulation of knowledge

The sheer magnitude of information accessible today and in our near future is one of the key triggers for this consequential phase change in information.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-12-30T09:55:05-05:00January 2nd, 2023|Comments Off

Using pig skin as cornea implants for vision restoration

Three of the patients who were completely blind prior to the study achieved 20/20 vision after the procedure.

By Adam Houser |2022-10-21T13:45:25-04:00October 22nd, 2022|Comments Off

From the Pony Express to Marconi, to monolithic microwave integrated circuits

Human advancement is moving faster than ever.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-09-27T18:40:30-04:00September 26th, 2022|Comments Off

Human computers and rooms full of mathematicians to your Apple Watch in only 250 Years

Billions of smartphone users take computers for granted that have AI driven natural language voice recognition, and voice controlled machines from TVs to toasters.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-09-19T15:19:04-04:00September 12th, 2022|Comments Off

A tale of two great, must read books—Part one

The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong, argues Mark Mills in his book The Cloud Revolution, laying out a very different and hugely optimistic vision of our future.

By Dr. Jay Lehr |2022-06-06T09:11:56-04:00June 6th, 2022|Comments Off

Here it Comes — The Trashing of CO2 removal technology…. BY THE LEFT!

Who has the most to lose if the combination of US agriculture, Nuclear power and an efficient point of generation carbon capture is put together?

By Joe Bastardi |2021-07-21T08:32:01-04:00July 22nd, 2021|Comments Off