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This little box provides on-demand power when off the grid

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EcoFlow’s Alternator Charger helps keep all your tools and toys charged when driving away from civilization.

Thomas Ricker
Justine Calma
Justine Calma
How much water and energy does it take to write an email using ChatGPT?

About as much water as a single-use bottle holds, the The Washington Post reports. The electricity it takes is about as much as 14 LED light bulbs might burn through in an hour.

These are rough estimates, but they come with helpful illustrations to show the environmental costs of operating data centers for new AI tools.

Andrew J. Hawkins
Andrew J. Hawkins
SpaceX slams — but doesn’t sue — the FAA.

The Federal Aviation Administration can’t “keep pace with the commercial spaceflight industry” and “lacks the resources” to respond to mission changes, SpaceX said in a letter sent in response to $633,000 in federal fines for launching two missions with unapproved changes. SpaceX owner Elon Musk has promised to sue the agency, but it seems as if we’re still in the “strongly worded letter” phase of this particular feud.