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AI summaries that are using serious amounts of energy. Some estimates put it nearly 6.9-8.0 WH of energy per search. Ten searches and you've already used a lightbulb for an entire hour.
They also found that generating two images with AI could use as much energy as the average smartphone charge.

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Bill Gates: How Paul Allen and I landed on the idea for Microsoft

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https://fortune.com/2025/02/04/bill-gates-source-code-software-microsoft-origins/

How Paul Allen and Bill Gates landed on the idea for Microsoft after cycling through many other startup ideas

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates recalls his early thinking on hardware vs. software in an excerpt from his latest book.

Fortune

Hunters, Dancers, and Busybodies: New Study Examines the Three Main Internet Research Styles

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/internet-research-styles-study

Hunters, Dancers, and Busybodies: New Study Examines the Three Main Internet Research Styles

Your online research method may say something about you.

Mental Floss
This Was the Year of the Influencer Political Takeover

Politicians fully embraced the creator economy in 2024, blurring the lines between punditry and journalism. By 2028, the lawmakers could become creators themselves.

WIRED

How the Rubik’s Cube has lived to 50 years—and continues to find fans among Gen Z

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https://fortune.com/europe/article/rubiks-cube-selling-millions-50-years-gen-z-digital-shift/?

Rubik’s Cube is still selling millions after 50 years. Here’s how the old-school toy is keeping up with Gen Z’s digital shift

For 79-year-old Erno Rubik who founded mind-bending puzzle in Hungary, there's more to the Cube than what meets the eye.

Fortune
How to disappear completely

The promise of the internet is that it would last forever. But that has proven to be largely untrue, as huge swaths of the web are vanishing, quickly and at random.

The Verge
A complete month-by-month breakdown of the most important pop culture moments of 2024

From 'Wicked' to Moo Deng the pygmy hippo.

Fortune

Graveyard vs. Cemetery: What’s the Difference?

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https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/graveyard-vs-cemetery

Graveyard vs. Cemetery: What’s the Difference?

Eventually, we’re all going to end up in a graveyard. Or is that a cemetery?

Mental Floss

What do we mean by “luck”? We might say that someone has been lucky, or unlucky, if they have benefited or been harmed by something that was unpredictable and beyond their control. Luck has been called “the operation of chance, taken personally”.

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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/07/the-big-idea-should-we-be-thinking-about-luck-differently/

The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?

We tend to focus on good or bad fortune, successes and failures. But what about the fact you’re here at all?

The Guardian