Lowering the Energy Overhead For Data
U.S. data centers are now eligible to receive Energy Star certification, if they are sufficiently energy efficient.
Don Monroe
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Opening the Doors of Deception
IT managers may incorporate a variety of deceptive tactics into their protective strategies to fend off hackers.
Gaze-Based Inattention Management
How do you reduce distractions to office workers, while satisfying their need to stay current?
Eye-Tracking Interfaces Look For Killer App
Eye-tracking interfaces have made great strides but their costliness keeps them in premium markets. The key to broad accessibility is a mass application like gaming to drive down costs.
Designers of the German supercomputers that won the latest Green500 prize, which rewards not just computing power but energy efficiency, did not set out to win the award, but they did think carefully about energy consumption. "Nowadays, supercomputers use so much energy that it's probably more money than the purchase price," says physics professor Tilo Wettig of the University of Regensburg, so "power efficiency is extremely important."
Rewiring Cities For a More Convenient Future
Over the next few years, several Chinese cities aim to add broadband and other services that establish them as "e-cities" or "digital cities." The cities will use a combination of communications and computing infrastructure to help create "a more convenient society for citizens, business and the government," according to a company that will manage e-city implementations for Nanjing and Haineng.
Recommender systems that provide consumers with customized options have redefined e-commerce, and are spreading to other fields.
Medical researchers have long dreamed of "magic bullets" that go directly where they are needed. Now micromedicine and nanotechnology are making a range of molecules formerly inaccessible as drugs available to be delivered at the right place and time to affect specific actions.
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