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Microsoft has collaborated with PricewaterhouseCoopers to deliver a report, describing the potential growth in global GDP and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions if AI is fully utilized.

The company has expanded its energy portfolio via two new deals with EDP Renewables and Invenergy. This is another step towards the firm's goal of 60% carbon-neutral data center operations by 2020.

Featuring the same cell as found in the batteries inside its Model S and X electric vehicles, Tesla has released its own portable battery for those looking to add a little more Tesla to their lives.

While most may prefer off the shelf solutions, such as Tesla's Powerwall product, for domestic energy storage, enterprising individuals have scavenged batteries to build their own homegrown versions.

Tesla has won a contract to build a battery for South Australia for storing energy produced by renewables. This follows a collapse of the grid which caused 1.7 million residents to lose power.

Scientists revealed the first artificial photosynthesis triggered by blue light without rare materials and a new way to make bricks from Martian soil. Also, Cassini's Grand Finale has begun.

A day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Prime Minister Turnbull about energy storage solutions and the provision of reliable electricity, Aussie competitors have called for a level playing field.

Microsoft has made new deals which will allow it to run one of its datacenters entirely on renewable energy. The company says this will also help the local community by keeping energy rates low.

Google is putting its Go-winning digital mind at work, as DeepMind develops AI systems to cool down data centers. The new machine-learning system used 40% less energy than normal.

After ten different labs set out to determine if the energy consumption claims of TVs are accurate, Samsung came under the spotlight for a feature which some claim bypasses the test.

With PC gaming on the rise, a new study has found gaming computers are using $10 billion or 75 terawatt hours' worth of electricity a year, worldwide, 10 times more than consoles.

Microsoft is adding a new setup screen for Xbox One consoles that will more prominently display the choice between their instant-on and energy-saving modes following criticism.

A teenager has won an Intel innovation award for a supercapacitor design, which she hopes will revolutionise battery technology, offering rapid device charging and efficient energy storage.

In a new blog post, Microsoft has defended its energy practices that it uses for its data centers and says it is working harder to make its centers more energy efficient.

Data centers could be mankind's most wasteful invention since the Hummer. By running at full power 24/7, they're wasting more energy than you'll use in a lifetime, and that's just for idling.

Two Greenpeace demonstrators dressed as iPhones ended up getting arrested in front of Apple's Cupertino HQ after projecting anti-Apple messages and climbing into a 'pod' bearing the Apple logo.

Here's something to think about: when you ask some of your fellow geeky friends what they find best about the recently released Internet Explorer 9, see what responses you get back. You will most likely...

Google, who have been recently claiming to make moves towards an ecologically friendly future, had some potentially embarrassing news about their infrastructure made public. In a keynote, Jeff Dean revealed that in the past decade...

LED light bulbs are not a new invention but currently they are a costly alternative to the more traditional incandescent light bulbs. A report from London based Metro newspaper indicates that scientists have discovered a...

A partnership between the Google-founded Climate Savers Computing Initiative and a National Governors Association program has already yielded a commitment from two state governments to buy more energy-efficient computers. The governors of Kansas and Minnesota...

The growing popularity of hi-tech devices, such as flat-screen TVs and digital radios, threaten to undermine efforts to save energy, a report says. UK consumers spend £12bn a year on electronics, much of which...

Governments and development organizations in Eastern and Southern Africa are starting to adopt solar energy to bolster energy resources for Information and Communication Technology in rural areas. The e-school project in Africa is already using...

When introduced in mid-2006, Advanced Micro Devices' lineup of dual-core energy efficient processors with 65W thermal design power (TDP) consisted of just five models (3800+, 4000+, 4200+, 4400+ and 4600+) and the dated roadmap indicated...

When Intel launched its Core 2 line of processors we saw AMD's performance and power advantages vanish into thin air but the comparison, at least on the power side, wasn't totally fair. Intel had been...

Thanks everyone who reported about this in the Back Page News forum. Preparing for the release of Windows Media Center 2005 tomorrow, Microsoft has released the official Media Center 2005 theme (Royale) today for Tablet...