President Trump on Friday announced more than $180 million in grants to boost educational and trade programs for the mining industry, part of a bid to increase critical mineral production. Mr. Trump ...

Bitcoin cloud mining platforms have become a popular alternative to traditional cryptocurrency mining, allowing users to mine Bitcoin without investing in expensive hardware or dealing with the ...

An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world’s largest untapped reserves of ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

The Senate on Thursday overturned a mining moratorium in Minnesota's Superior National Forest, a boon for a Chilean mining conglomerate Antofagasta. The chamber voted 50-49 to overturn a 20-year ...

Publicly listed bitcoin miners are facing unsustainable economics, losing roughly $19,000 per coin produced, and are rapidly pivoting toward artificial-intelligence and high-performance computing ...

The cryptocurrency investment firm says Bitcoin mining is being unfairly lumped with AI data centers, arguing miners act as flexible grid demand, not constant energy drains. The rapid buildout of AI ...

While today’s data center conversation revolves around AI, bitcoin mining was the original energy disruptor — and its operators are now poised to cash in on the new demand. Bitcoin, the most popular ...

If you’re going online to buy some last-minute gifts this holiday season, there’s a chance the price you pay will be influenced by what’s known as “surveillance pricing.” Some retailers are using ...

One afternoon in June 2024, I stood up against the fence of a sprawling industrial facility a few miles outside of Corsicana, Texas. Over a metal gate, I watched a bright yellow excavator claw at the ...