Jon Swartz

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Amazon, Google, Meta Are Going Super Nuclear by 2050

March 12, 2025

Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. on Wednesday signed a pledge to at least triple nuclear energy worldwide by 2050, the latest and boldest effort yet by Big Tech to quench insatiable energy demand in the U.S. as they build out artificial intelligence data centers.

Starlink Is Being Misused from Modern Slave Compounds: Investigation

February 27, 2025

Elon Musk’s Starlink is being exploited by criminal organizations to run modern slavery compounds in Myanmar, a Wired investigation has unearthed. The compounds, where thousands of individuals have been coerced into committing digital scams, are using Starlink’s satellite technology for internet connectivity after traditional access was blocked. Wired’s revelations, shared by workers from fraud companies in Tai Chang, suggest extensive use of Starlink.

Microsoft’s Quantum Computing Chip Comes With Promise, Questions

February 20, 2025

In this exclusive article, Jon Swartz discusses Microsoft’s groundbreaking claim of developing the world’s first quantum computing chip, Majorana 1, which leverages a newly discovered state of matter to revolutionize computing within years. While hailed as a major milestone in the quest for practical quantum computing, skeptics emphasize the need for concrete proof, as similar past claims were later retracted.

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