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Cloud computing and Internet use suck energy and emit CO2, says Greenpeace. “Clicking on all those viral videos, chain emails, celebrity tweets and paparazzi photos online sucks up enough energy to rank the Internet — if it were a country — fifth in the world for electricity use, reports Tiffany Hsu.
Photo: Facebook displays a new server that is part of the company’s efforts to become more energy efficient. Credit: Kimihiro Hoshino / AFP/Getty Images
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Washington Post Co. launched its venture into social media on Wednesday with news aggregation website Trove, which filters content from more than 10,000 media sources according to a user’s preferences. We’re still diving into Trove ourselves, but by far the most amazing part of the site is the intro video, created by Next Media Animation.
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Lady Gaga hit Google on Tuesday for an interview with questions from fans on YouTube and Google employees — at least a few of which seem to be Little Monsters.
Not surprising — we got a huge reader response on this one.
But your answers range from hyper-tech addicted to low-key.
Here’s how a few of you answered:
jacobtv said: Every 15 minutes!
crosberg said: About every 20-30 min, assuming I am NOT with other people. I yell at my friends for being antisocial & hiding behind their phones @ bars.
miyamdimaporo said: like every other minute? LOL! and yes, i often eat with my cellphone on the table :D
princedanterose said: Every 5 minutes…
jonesybob said: Not as often as you think
dgaflife said: if I’m not at work, every 30 minutes or so… its disgusting
Great Gatsby for Nintendo.
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The Great Gatsby for NES; The Great Gatsby on NPR
From Times’ Technology:
Gartner Inc. on Wednesday predicted that mobile application revenue will nearly triple in 2011, to $15.1 billion, from $5.2 billion last year.
That will come from 18 billion downloads of the programs that run on a growing variety of smart phones and tablets from Apple Inc., Android, BlackBerry and others.
Apps were largely popularized by Apple after the release of its App Store in July 2008, which at the time had about 500 apps available for the company’s iPhone and iPod Touch.
The store now has 350,000 apps available, including 60,000 designed for its iPad tablet computer. Last weekend Apple said it had sold 10 billion apps since the store had opened. Gartner analyst Carolina Milanesi estimated that Apple drove 90% of app downloads in 2010.
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
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Computers are now so essential a part of the workings of the world that it’s difficult to imagine a time when they weren’t literally everywhere. But how did these devices, in their almost unimaginable array of shapes and sizes, make their way into the very fabric of our daily lives? Herein, a far-from-exhaustive, rigorously semi-scientific survey of the pivotal technological and cultural moments, the visionaries, and (of course) the machines themselves that transformed computers from novelties into now-ubiquitous necessities.Above: A woman works at an IBM computer in 1955.
Quote of the day. Wozniak on technology, while at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA:
“We’re dependent on it,” he said at the museum (which sits about six blocks from Google’s headquarters), according to CNN. “And eventually, we are going to have it doing every task we can in the world, so we can sit back and relax.”
“All of a sudden, we’ve lost a lot of control,” the always-provocative Wozniak added. “We can’t turn off our Internet. We can’t turn off our smart phones. We can’t turn off our computers.”
