Background activity can drain your battery and use your mobile data without you seeing it happen. Apps refresh in the background to keep content updated, which helps you pick up where you left off.

POWER breaks down the top insights from Data Center POWER eXchange, its unique one-day summit curated by POWER’s editorial team and convened to examine the collision between accelerating data center ...

High-voltage power lines in Florida (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Surging power demand from new data centers is reaching unprecedented — and potentially unrealizable — heights. Over the next five years, U ...

You might not think twice about that flashlight app you downloaded or the cute game your grandkids recommended. Yet with a single tap, your private data could travel ...

Q. How do the TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions in Excel work? A. Excel’s TEXTBEFORE and TEXTAFTER functions allow users to quickly split up text in ways that used to require combinations of ...

“AI” needs a lot of computing resources, which is why new data centers are cropping up anywhere there’s cheap land. But powering all those hungry servers takes a lot of energy, and overburdened power ...

The utility plans to ask state regulators for approval to add 10 gigawatts of power, enough to support major new industrial growth. The company says it needs to prepare for potential demand from data ...

Think of them as AI factories, churning out your responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and all the other generative AI tools. The costs are staggering. Corin Cesaric is a Flex Editor at CNET. She ...

Google announced the first phase of a $4-billion data center project in West Memphis, Arkansas, an initiative that state officials have called one of the largest economic investments in state history.

NEW YORK, Oct 2 (Reuters) - U.S. public power utilities are seeing explosive electricity demand from data centers, with some requests exceeding the total energy currently used by all of their ...

Starting with iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS 26, Apple provides app developers with access to a new Foundation Models framework that allows their apps to tap into the on-device large language model at ...

Microsoft is rolling out its Copilot Chat AI assistant directly into its core Microsoft 365 applications. Starting today, users of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote will find a new unified ...