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Category Archives: Tech
Flying Windmills
Nice article at the BBC on a variety of approaches being pursued to increase the efficiency and flexibility of wind generation. One company pioneering flying turbines in Germany’s EnerKite. The team has designed a carbon fibre wing that is “controlled … Continue reading
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World’s Worst Ideas, January 2015 Edition
President Barack Obama said Friday that police and spies should not be locked out of encrypted smartphones and messaging apps, taking his first public stance in a simmering battle over private communications in the digital age. Apple, Google and Facebook … Continue reading
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Hacking You
A member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) hacker network claims to have cloned a thumbprint of a German politician by using commercial software and images taken at a news conference. Jan Krissler says he replicated the fingerprint of defence … Continue reading
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Narrowing the ‘Digital Divide’
The lowest-income Americans find it harder to progress than ever if they lack access to quality Internet connections. The New York library system has an innovative way of dealing with this: checking out the Internet! New York City is expanding … Continue reading
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Creative Engineers
Engineering needs to emphasise its creative side to encourage more young people to take it up as a career, says a leading member of the profession. Engineers should embrace the arts, Sir John O’Reilly, a fellow of the Institution of … Continue reading
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That’s a Big Twinkie …
The world’s largest crane ship, which is capable of lifting oil rigs, has set sail from its shipyard in South Korea for Rotterdam Port in the Netherlands. The Pieter Schelte, which left South Korea on Wednesday, is due to arrive … Continue reading
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Recycling Waste Heat at Amazon
From the Seattle Times: Partnering with other companies, Amazon will use waste heat from a data center in a Seattle skyscraper to warm its soaring new Denny Triangle campus across the street. The project, believed to be the first of … Continue reading
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Ambition
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Subprime Shenanigans
Well, America really learned its lesson about subprime lending in the financial crisis, right? Wrong. As reported in the N.Y. Times, there’s a new subprime boom in marginal car loans. And the real kicker is that lenders are protecting themselves … Continue reading
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That’s Bad
Bad news for Linux users: A “deadly serious” bug potentially affecting hundreds of millions of computers, servers and devices has been discovered. The flaw has been found in a software component known as Bash, which is a part of many … Continue reading
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