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Photo credit:Unsplash / Steve A JohnsonA new UN report says that by 2030, the water used by Artificial Intelligence is expected to equal the needs of 1.3 billion people.123rf
Attendees watch a screen during the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) at Apple Park in Cupertino, California, on June 8, 2026. (Photo by Josh Edelson / AFP)
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University of Auckland computer science lecturer and technology consultant Ulrich Speidel.
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A smartphone displaying ChatGPT with the OpenAI logo in the background is being shown in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on 3 December, 2023.
Peter Singh and his iPhone 17.
Two gibbons who are face to face shot from the side. There is a dark black gibbon whose face we can’t see, and a paler light brown gibbon with a black patch on the top of it’s head. The brown gibbon has it’s hands on the shoulders of the black gibbon.
From left - entrepreneur Lauren Sanchez, former NASA scientist Amanda Nguyen, singer Katy Perry, TV presenter Gayle King, former NASA scientist Aisha Bowe and film producer Kerianne Flynn pose in their spacesuits ahead of an all-woman sub-orbital mission aboard the New Shepard rocket.
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Jeremy Clarkson is at the Formula 1 Qatar Airways Grand Prix of Great Britain at the Silverstone Circuit in Towcester, England, on July 6, 2024. (Photo by Jon Hobley | MI News/NurPhoto) (Photo by MI News / NurPhoto via AFP)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 27: Tolutau Koula of the Blues is tackled by Kalyn Ponga of the Maroons during game one of the 2026 Men’s State of Origin series between New South Wales Blues and Queensland Maroons at Accor Stadium on May 27, 2026 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Darrian Traynor/Getty Images)
The photo of Dame Jools Topp is used with permission from the 2013 Pink Ribbon Calendar Girls’ project. Body artist was Sofia Bue.