Tag: Computing - Page 9
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The Pentalobe Screw, And Apple's War Against Self-Repair
Image Credit iFixit Consumerist tells us that Apple is switching to a special new screw called by some a Pentalobe, by iFixit an "Evil Proprietary Tamper Proof Five Point Screw" (or the EPTP5PS). It is designed to make it impossible for anyone but Apple
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E. Coli Bacteria Could Become Our Next Computer Hard Drives
Researchers have figured out that data can be stored in bacteria, and that a single gram of bacteria can store more information than a giant 900 terabyte hard drive! This storing and encrypting
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National Snow and Ice Data Center Greens Up How it Cools Off
One of a data center's biggest problems is keeping servers cool, and that's true even for the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), which offers data products to researchers and businesses about Arctic and Antarctic
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Scientists Plot World's Largest Simulator to Model Disease, Climate Change, Economies
Modeling systems are incredibly helpful for anticipating the effects of everything from weather to policy decisions on the environment and human populations. They can simulate what might happen when a
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CityVille Passes FarmVille as Facebook's Most Popular Game
We had high hopes that a ridiculously popular game like FarmVille might get players to build real life gardens, or care more about where their food really comes from. However, it looks like most Facebook players are
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New Elements of War Video Game Uses Weather As Weaponry
What happens when the government's attempts at controlling weather go horribly awry and cause havoc in global weather systems? Why...weather warfare, of course! It's the premise of a new game in which armies use weather
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TED Talk: Systems of Sharing About to Revolutionize Consumerism
TreeHugger has always been an advocate for share systems -- things like tool libraries, clothes swaps, car-sharing, and product-as-a-service systems like Netflix. The fewest products possible shared among the most people is very
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i-Tree Software Puts a Price Tag on Trees To Save Them
What are city trees really worth? Just how much of a contribution do they make to cityscapes, and how can we calculate the pricetag? A software program called i-Tree helps to save urban trees by
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Cloud Computing Can Cut Data Center Energy by 38% by 2020
Photo via Jaymi Heimbuch Pike Research brought out good news this week for cloud computing. The energy efficiency benefits of cloud computing over traditional data center operations are becoming more well known as many companies switch over, and
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Kids Test Solar-Powered Computer Tablet for Schools in India
The One Laptop Per Child project might need to step up, now that tablet devices are on the scene. Rice University has partnered up with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Villages for
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Get a Grip: Robotic Hand Made From Balloon and Coffee Grounds
It is tough picking things up; one has to coordinate fingers and get feedback. It is harder still to make a robotic hand that can master the complexities. We have a tendency build these things in our own image,
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Make A Home Office Feel Just Like A Real Office With Peerdrum
There is a lot to love about having people work from home. Notwithstanding some recent naysaying, it saves a lot of energy and time, and other studies show that it increases productivity. But about half of the managers in America hate
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Trolls Die Young: Nasty People Have Higher Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke
Cave Troll from Lord of the Rings via Wikipedia Dan Blankenhorn of Smart Planet was thinking of his commenters when he suggested that "trolls die young", based on a study researchers of the US National Institute on Aging. They looked at 5,614 Sardinians
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GardenBot: An Automated, Open-Source Garden Monitoring System
Some commenters may have scoffed when Mike posted about high-tech green farming using soil sensors, but with over-taxed aquifers causing reduced yields worldwide, more intelligent monitoring and usage of water resources should
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Your Office Is Where You Are, Unless It Is A Wi-Fi Free Coffee Shop
Some have suggested that the end of the office is nigh, and that the Coffee Shop is a good alternative if you need some social interaction and a jolt of caffeine, some shops are finding that it isn't
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Working From Home Increases Productivity, Keeps Workers Happy and is Good For the Environment
Mauricio Alejo in Wired Phil Daoust of the Guardian questions the traditional home-to-office commute, First there is the actual getting to work, with the unreliable bus or overcrowded train and the time it takes to get there. He asks: " Do you arrive
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Real Time Weather Hits Google Earth
It's no surprise that we TreeHuggers love Google Earth and keeping tabs on weather across the globe. For anyone equally as fascinated with these things, or even just interested in finding out the forecast in a more interesting way than
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Energy Star Hands Out First Ever Certification For a Data Center
Recently Energy Star announced that it would be certifying not just data center equipment but data centers themselves, further encouraging IT companies to be strategic about the architecture, hardware and
