Google is expanding into alternative energy in its most ambitious effort yet to ease the environmental strain caused by the company's voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers.
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"Gaza's last gasp
Sonja Karkar, The Electronic Intifada, 23 January 2008
Palestinians in Gaza gather in front of the Rafah border crossing at the border with Egypt, 22 January 2008. (Wissam Nassar/MaanImages)
By now, people watching their news programs around the world...
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"Is Microsoft cooking something extra juicy for Linux/open source? The Redmond company announced earlier this week that a prominent member of the open source security world has jumped onboard, switching sides from Linux to Windows. Michael Howard, Senior Security Program...
"LISBON - A light aircraft crashed into a mountain near the Angolan city of Huambo on Saturday killing all ten people on board, Portugal's Lusa news agency said on Saturday.
Lusa cited a source close to the Angolan government as saying two of the victims were...
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U.S. President George W. Bush's daughter Jenna and her fiance, Henry Hager, will marry on May 10, People magazine reported on its Web site on Wednesday, citing two sources it did not identify.
The wedding will be held at the president's 1,600-acre (646-hectare) ranch in...
"Thursday, January 17, 2008
Unsafe at any price: World's Cheapest Car Environmentally Costly
By Praful Bidwai
NEW DELHI, Jan 16 (IPS) - Nothing has generated as much hyperbole in the global automobile industry in recent years as the unveiling, last week, of an ultra-cheap...
"When discussing enterprise database installations worldwide, as of today, it will be impossible not to consider Sun Microsystems along with Microsoft and Oracle. This morning, Sun announced it has reached an agreement with MySQL -- which by some accounts may have become the...
It's a root veggie...it's a tuber...no, it's supercarrot! That's right--US scientists have apparently engineered a high-calcium carrot that could fortify your bones without fattening up your butt. "Someone eating...
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UPDATED: "What
is Macworld without rampant speculation? This year, though, someone is
going the extra mile and is using Wikipedia to spread what looks to be
a fake outline for the Stevenote tomorrow. Many blogs...
"The photo agency that employs Britney's creepy BFF is denying reports that they are shopping around nude pics of Britney Spears. But we've learned they most certainly are. Pants on fire!! TMZ has confirmed that...
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"Iran dismisses US navy video as fake
Neither the Iranian nor U.S. government has a great track record for honesty in these matters. However, consider the timing of U.S. charges of Iranian provocation:
* It comes soon after the release of the CIA's National Intelligence...
"Used-cooking-oil, the golden-brown waste product left over from making French-fries, doesn’t strike most of us as a particularly valuable commodity.
But recycled grease represents a source of cheap energy to...
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"A research team from Sandia National Laboratories is trying to reverse the combustion process and turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel.
The process works something like this: concentrated solar power from a giant...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorNow that Jamie Lynns Show Zoey 101 has been cancelled, one can only assumed Jamies parents may have to start counting their pennies, and downsize Big Time and look for a...
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"Ethanol has been a cornerstone of U.S. energy strategy for decades, but the process of creating ethanol from corn is less energy-efficient than other possible sources, like switchgrass and other "woody" plants.
And ethanol is just one part of the alternative-energy mix,...