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Big tech's carbon footprint is drawing fresh scrutiny today, as new data shows Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's data centers are now collectively emitting roughly a third of the carbon output of the entire nation of France. The numbers land at a moment when all three companies have made ambitious climate pledges, and the gap between promise and reality is getting harder to ignore.
Shifting from the planet to the palm of your hand, Apple has detailed a suite of child safety updates arriving in iOS twenty seven. The changes span iPhones and other Apple devices and represent the company's most significant push yet to protect younger users, though the specifics will draw the familiar debate about where platform responsibility ends and privacy begins.
And in a story about what cinema could become, a German theater in Nuremberg is about to install the world's largest LED screen — thirty meters wide, sixteen meters tall, wall to wall and floor to ceiling, delivering native eight K plus resolution across forty four million pixels. It is, by any measure, a genuine rethinking of what a movie screen can be.
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