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Other countries have 200 mph passenger trains. Why has high-speed rail not tracked here?

August 23, 2026 / 7:00 PM EDT / CBS News

What's bogging down the data center trade has nothing to do with demand

The stakes are incredibly high for the U.S. to maintain its lead in data centers. It seems to be getting harder and harder in this election year.

The Terror: Devil in Silver review

Expect gory set pieces and jump scares galore in the return of the supernatural anthology series, with Dan Stevens among the many poor souls terrorised by an evil spirit haunting their ward

Greg Abbott says data center developers 'dug their own grave'

Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) said technology companies that develop data centers “dug their own grave” when they failed to win the support of local communities.

Ella Baron on AI and the drought

While the use of water-hungry AI becomes normalised, many areas of Britain are suffering from drought

China postpones Chang'e-7 moon launch as mission fails to meet launch conditions, officials say

August 23, 2026 / 11:05 AM EDT / CBS/AP

America's AI Backlash: How the Effort to Keep Worker Trust Is Evolving Inside Companies

Trust remains the cornerstone of an ideal AI communication strategy, whether for an AI-native startup or legacy enterprise facing yet another cultural shift.

Iranian hackers disabled UK power plant for four days: Report

Hackers affiliated with Iran managed to disable a small-scale power plant in the United Kingdom for four days, according to a new report.

An AI ‘debt bomb’ crisis? No. This isn’t Enron 2.0

Fears of a datacenter buildout debt crisis are exaggerated. The risks are different than in the past and they are recoverable

Aardman's Peter Lord and David Sproxton: 'At the Oscars, I went to the gents and had a pee with Jack Nicholson!'

The studio's co-founders on accidentally creating Morph, not wanting a yacht in the Maldives and being each other's best ally.

United's Next Decision: What to Do With All Those Boeing 737 Max 10 Seats It Ordered Years Ago

United Airlines wanted to put lie-flat premium seats on its Max 10 planes once they were certified, but that has been delayed by years.

Coding costs nothing now. America is about to strike gold

The heat beams down on me. It’s another blistering hot day in Las Vegas, the last place you would expect SpaceXAI to host a hackathon, an event where programmers see what they can build in a few hours. I lift large packs of soda up the stairs — SpaceXAI hasn’t provided volunteer organizers with a humanoid robot (yet) to help with the manual labor of a hackathon.