Data mining is the process of extracting potentially useful information from data sets. It uses a suite of methods to organise, examine and combine large data sets, including machine learning, ...

A cryptomining device manufacturer has developed a portable data center that redirects residual heat from Bitcoin mining into municipal heating grids. Latvia-based Power Mining estimates that one of ...

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DRAGOON, Ariz.—In the boulder-strewn desert east of Tucson, miners are using sulfuric acid and bacteria to bring online the first new U.S. copper production in more than a decade.

In June, 2014, a man began digging into the soft red earth in the back yard of his house, on the outskirts of Kolwezi, a city in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the man later told ...