Savers Value Village, the national chain of thrift stores that sells secondhand merchandise, announced this week that it’s using AI to help price its goods in dozens of its 375 stores. But the company ...

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, ...

Apple has updated its surprisingly lax requirements for buying its products with an educational discount. Students and teachers will now need to verify their educational status using UNiDAYS in order ...

If your child uses an iPhone, Apple’s Ask to Buy feature lets you control what they download or purchase without taking the device away from them. Once Ask to Buy is enabled through Family Sharing, ...

New York grocery store inspection reports have revealed hundreds of food safety violations at supermarkets, delis and other food-related businesses in the greater Rochester area. Details of each ...

With so much data stored on ephemeral mediums like hard drives and magnetic tape, what will remain of our civilization in the millennia to come? Thanks to an innovation from Microsoft researchers, the ...

Microscoft’s glass storage method can store 4.8 terabytes of data.Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft have developed a method to store massive amounts of digital information inside small ...

The takeaway: Microsoft and other data center operators are racing to develop new methods for storing massive amounts of data on permanent media. Redmond is pursuing a technology based on glass and ...

Long-term preservation of digital information has long challenged archivists and datacenters, as magnetic tapes and hard drives degrade within decades. Existing archival storage solutions have limited ...

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method could preserve research data for millennia with minimal storage costs.