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Google’s Goal: Get Rid of Coal Google has set its sights on decreasing global dependency on coal Tuesday with the announcement of a new project intended to produce affordable renewable energy. The effort, dubbed “RE<C”, will initially focus its efforts on solar thermal power, wind power technologies and enhanced geothermal systems. Specifically, Google wants to [...]
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100 Gb/s Internet2 completed
October 19th, 2007 
admin The Internet 2 consortium announced that its updated infrastructure is ready to go online and provide an initial capacity of 100 Gb/s to researchers and educators. (click to enlarge)
Hard disk pioneers win physics Nobel
October 10th, 2007 admin Gadgets from powerful laptops to iPods owe their existence to the discovery. France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Gruenberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces. The 10-million Swedish crown ($1.54 million) prize, awarded by The Royal [...]
A New Map of the Internet
October 6th, 2007 admin A global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. (how international cities are connected) The Chris Harrison project has created a series of maps that show the geographical structure and distribution of the Internet. At the site you can view a global, geo-spatial map of the global internet. The visualizations were put together using data from [...]
UC Berkeley Posts Full Lectures to YouTube
October 4th, 2007 admin YouTube is now an important teaching tool at UC Berkeley. The school announced on Wednesday that it has begun posting entire course lectures on the Web’s No.1 video-sharing site. Berkeley officials claimed in a statement that the university is the first to make full course lectures available on YouTube. The school said that over 300 [...]
LA Airport Uses Random Numbers to Catch Terrorists
September 30th, 2007 admin Officials at LAX are introducing a bold new idea into their arsenal: random placement of security checkpoints. Can game theory help keep us safe? Anxious to thwart future terror attacks in the early stages while plotters are casing the airport, LAX security patrols have begun using a new software program called ARMOR, to make the [...]
Americans Can Go Without Sex Longer Than The Internet, Study Finds
September 21st, 2007 admin If they can’t access the Internet when they want to, Americans say they worry that they’re missing out on something important. Not tonight, Honey. I’m online. Sound familiar? A survey of about 1,000 Americans showed that the Internet has become such an essential part of their every-day lives that 28% said they spend less time [...]
New Nuclear-powered Spaceship Design Revealed
September 20th, 2007 admin An innovative propulsion system that could significantly shorten round trips from Earth to Mars (from two years to only six months!) and enable our spaceships to reach Jupiter after one year of space traveling.
End of Moore’s Law (Again) in 10 to 15 Years?
September 19th, 2007 admin Gordon Moore, the unassuming billionaire co-founder of Intel, says the end of the technology maxim bearing his name is drawing to a close, perhaps as soon as 10 years from now. “In 1965 Gordon Moore — Intel’s co-founder — predited that the number of transistors on integrated circuits would double every two years. Moore’s Law [...]
German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light
August 17th, 2007 admin A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. One of the [...]
