Tag: Computing - Page 7
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Street View-Style Tour Of National Park Hiking Trails Coming to Your Computer
Thanks to Nature Valley, you will soon be able to hike from the comfort of your office chair.
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Apple to Install Solar Farm at iCloud Data Center
Apple has begun work on a large solar farm next to an iCloud data center. Nobody knows how large. But this is a very good sign...
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DARPA Wants to Recycle Space Junk Into New Satellites (Video)
DARPA has a plan to repurpose parts from old satellites in the "graveyard orbit" to complete new satellites and cut costs.
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NASA and Japan Create Spectacular Map of Earth (Video)
The most complete topographical map is free, and simply gorgeous to see.
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Facebook Launching "Social Energy" App for Improving Energy Efficiency
Can Facebook do for energy monitoring what Google and Microsoft couldn't?
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Wireless Brakes for Bikes Developed by Computer Scientists
Scientists at Saarland University have come up with a brake system for bikes that may take awhile to trust. The brakes work wirelessly. It sounds a little
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Disneyland Paris Will Turn Heat from Its Computers Into Energy
Part of the magic of Disneyland is that you never see what's behind the "magic" - the workers in the mascot costumes, the networks of underground tunnels, and all the computers that keep everything running. But for once, it's
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Why Software Is Eating The World
There is an excellent article by Marc Andreessen on the Wall Street Journal about how the world's goods and services are morphing into software programs. We discuss the idea of digitalization and dematerialization, looking at the environmental pros and
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Homemade Computer Crafted with Legos, Crunches Numbers for Medical Research
What do you do when your hobby is building computers, and you have a keen desire to build a highly energy efficient computer that can be utilized by supercomputers for computations for medical research? Oh,
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HP Unveils EcoPOD Data Center with 95% Efficiency
While all the attention was on Apple's iCloud this week, HP quietly slipped out some news that is not so insignificant. The company revealed EcoPOD, short for "Performance Optimized Data Center," a modular data center that claims a Power
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Ecosia Search Engine Raises $330,000+ For Amazon Rainforest
Green search engine Ecosia was already making waves at its first birthday, by which point it had contributed $160,000 to WWF's Jureuena rainforest project in Brazil. Now, six months later, the search engine (which is
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Building a Town In A Computer in Four Dimensions
3D modelling is pretty common these days; Google even gives away Sketchup so that anyone can do it. BIM, or Building Information Modelling, is more sophisticated; with BIM you build the project in your computer, with every hidden 3D
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Smart Grid Comes To The Netherlands
It's no secret that there are vast concerns in major utility companies operating a large smart grid connected to household smart meters that charge consumers a variable rate based on
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Google Experimenting With World's First Seawater-Cooled Data Center
Google has never been a slouch when it comes to trying out new ways to make its data centers as energy efficient as possible. Some ideas have been ocean-centric, such as its wave-powered data center concept.
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Data Center Infographic Explains Our Enormous Information Energy Footprint
Cleantechnica has a cool infographic detailing data center energy consumption, as well as ideas for how to turn expenses into opportunities for energy efficiency. It's a great way to understand strategies for efficiency, such as how virtualization can
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Felt Computer Mouse Molds to Your Hand, Leaves Toxic Plastic Behind
TreeHugger is all about natural, healthy materials in our houses and our wardrobes, yet we spend our day with a lump of hard, unyielding plastic in our hands. Designer Joey Roth has consistently demonstrated how to build new
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Is the Internet Bad for the Environment?
For Earth Day, the folks at WordStream decided to take a look at just how much of an impact the Internet has on the environment, and they've packaged it in a handy infographic. There's some interesting facts wrapped up in there, but of course, you need
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Cloud Computing Companies Can Curb Carbon By Cutting Coal, Says Greenpeace Report
The use of "the cloud" in technology is becoming more and more pervasive, with large parts of our online lives stored on servers in data centers somewhere out there. But while cloud computing can make our lives easier
