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Times of London:
Revealed: the environmental impact of Google searches — Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea — Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Are We Killing The Planet One Google Search At A Time? — Right now the top stories on Techmeme revolve around a new piece in The Times of London that focuses on The Environmental Impact of Google Searches. In it, Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross (a star MIT graduate who is now at Harvard) …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Intel to bring out chip for lower-cost thin laptops — Intel will bring out a new Core-architecture processor for lower-cost ultra-thin laptops later this year, according to Intel sources at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. — The processors will distinguish themselves by targeting …
Daniel Lyons / Newsweek:
The Search For The Next Steve Jobs — From the magazine issue dated Jan 19, 2009 — Who will run Apple after its visionary CEO and product guru Steve Jobs leaves? The question has been hanging over the company since last summer when Jobs appeared onstage at a conference looking terribly ill. Jobs …
Google Open Source Blog:
Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released — Blog authors around the world, Google would like to remind you that it's your blog, your data. Now that Blogger allows users the ability to export all contents of their blog, the Data Liberation team would like to announce the Google Blog Converters project.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles — I spent a lot of last year urging people to work on stuff that matters. This led to many questions about what that “stuff” might be. I've been a bit reluctant to answer those questions, because the list is different for everyone.
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heise online UK:
Storm Worm botnet cracked wide open — A team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using …
Tom Harvey / Salt Lake Tribune:
Technology company SCO Group proposes sale of assets — Litigation » Bankruptcy reorganization would allow it to continue Linux lawsuits — The embattled SCO Group Inc. is proposing to auction off its core products and use proceeds to continue its controversial lawsuits …
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Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog:
Here's where we stand — I know many of you have had issues with the Windows 7 Beta site over the last 24 hours. As you may have noticed the download site has been up and running smoothly since this morning. That said, we apologize for the inconvenience that it caused some of you.
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John Markoff / New York Times:
In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates — BEFORE the personal computer, and before the Web, there was Theodor Holm Nelson, who almost half a century ago understood how computers would transform the printed page. — Mr. Nelson anticipated and inspired the World Wide Web, and he coined the term …
BBC:
Texting a signal of wider trends — Ask anyone over 25 what digit they use to ring a doorbell and most people will pop up their index finger. — But ask a youngster and they are much more likely to extend a thumb. — “Where texting is happening they use the thumb,” Anand Chandrasekher …
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Rupert Neate / Telegraph:
CES 2009: World's first dishwasher safe keyboard to help beat superbugs — The world's first dishwasher safe keyboard, specifically designed to help eradicate superbugs from hospital, will soon go on sale in the UK. — Seal shield, a US healthcare company, unveiled its new range of fully submersible …
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
CEA confirms Apple-related exhibits at CES 2010 … The Consumer Electronics Association has confirmed plans to host a Mac-centric area at CES 2010, but Apple has still not commented on whether it plans to participate. — Jason Oxman of the CEA confirmed Saturday that the group …
