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When good computers go bad

Personal computers are complex devices. We use them every day to do so many things and quite frankly, I don't know how I got along without one back in the olden days (that's the '70s in case you were wondering). Their complexity ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (3) | comments 3




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N. Korea jamming affects flights: Seoul official

Electronic jamming signals from North Korea have affected scores of civilian flights in and out of South Korea, a Seoul official said Wednesday, amid rising tensions with Pyongyang.

Technology / Internet

created May 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Finding solutions to Achilles' heel of renewable energy: intermittency

(PhysOrg.com) -- William F. Pickard introduces the February 2012 special issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE by quoting the Bible: “The wind bloweth where it listeth.” That, in  so many words, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 121 | with audio podcast

Researchers find energy storage 'solutions' in MetILs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sandia researchers have developed a new family of liquid salt electrolytes, known as MetILs, that could lead to batteries able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Liquid batteries could level the load

The biggest drawback to many real or proposed sources of clean, renewable energy is their intermittency: The wind doesn’t always blow, the sun doesn’t always shine, and so the power they produce ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Satellite observes spatiotemporal variations in mid-upper tropospheric methane over China

As a principal greenhouse gas, atmospheric methane is important to atmospheric chemical processes and climate change. In Vol. 56 of the Chinese Science Bulletin, a paper identified spatiotemporal variations of methane in the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

With changes, the grid can take it

Over the next two decades, the U.S. electric grid will face unprecedented technological challenges stemming from the growth of distributed and intermittent new energy sources such as solar and wind power, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

BlackBerry services 'normal' despite earlier probe tweet

Research In Motion said late Wednesday that BlackBerry services are working normally after earlier announcing a probe into reports that users hit by a recent outage were still experiencing email woes. ...

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blackberry users complain of ongoing email delays

Research In Motion said Wednesday it is investigating reports of Blackberry users still experiencing email woes, after a service outage affected millions of people worldwide last month.

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

BlackBerry outage triggers lawsuits

Research In Motion is being sued in the United States and on its home turf in Canada for a BlackBerry service outage that affected millions of people worldwide.

Technology / Business

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

How far can wind power go toward reducing global carbon emissions from electricity production?

With the world’s energy needs growing rapidly, can zero-carbon energy options be scaled up enough to make a significant difference? How much of a dent can these alternatives make in the world’s to ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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