Wall Street Journal

FTC Warns Retailers on Using Private Consumer Data to Raise Prices

Merchants have become increasingly skilled at using consumers’ personal data, including their online shopping habits and smartphone use, to calculate an individual’s tolerance for higher prices. Now ...
The Straits Times

Forget silicon chip servers, Singapore’s newest data centre needs to be fed

Unlike traditional server farms running on silicon chips, this facility processes data using living human brain cells. Every three days, laboratory technicians feed the brain cells a cocktail of sugar ...
CNBC

Nvidia backing $105 billion in financing for OpenAI data center in Ohio

Nvidia will provide up to $105 billion for the credit and compute for an OpenAI data center in Ohio SB Energy will build and manage the data center in Pike County, Ohio The deal is Nvidia's latest to ...
Reuters

Brazil's Vale studies extracting rare earths, gold from mining waste

BELO HORIZONTE, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Brazilian miner Vale (VALE3.SA), opens new tab is studying the possibility of extracting rare earths, gold ‌and other minerals from mining waste as part of its ...
PC Magazine

Check Your Phone Now: These 10 Data-Hungry Apps Are Secretly Tracking You

Think your phone is private? A look at over 5,000 app disclosures reveals the surprisingly sneaky ways big tech collects and profits off your data. I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, ...
World Bank

Metals and Minerals

Latin America Seeks to Transform its Mineral Wealth into Jobs and Development https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2026/07/13/latin-america-seeks-to-transform ...