Google’s operating system challenges Microsoft

Nasa combines old data with the new Aster observations to improve the global map.

Smartphone technology comes good

UPDATE.
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This Is Not About Niall McElwee
Niall McElwee and the PC Gestapo
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I never heard of Dr Niall McElwee until about four days ago when it emerged that he had been forced to resign from his job at the Athlone Institute of Technology where he had been lecturing in the area of social care [...]

How does Google make money?

Some headlines just grab you, don’t they?

What?? Yep, there it is on the front page: Plan for power stations to burn meat.

It seems this is part of the government’s plan to reduce greenhouse emissions. Apparently meat and bone-meal are considered to have zero emissions because they’re renewable, and therefore they can be burnt [...]

I don’t know much about this. I rely on very clever people to keep me safe from viruses and I don’t want to know what’s going on while their very clever programs seek out and destroy the invaders in my machine. I don’t know, and I don’t want to know what they do.
But [...]

I was in my study, contemplating the beingness of nothingness and slugging back a quiet whiskey when a powerful rumbling shook the Bockschloss to its foundations.
What the- I ejaculated as I sprang upright and dashed to the window.
Outside, on the rolling lawn, I could see a familiar little figure gesticulating at me. He seemed [...]

I see that Bertie is still adamant we won’t ever use nuclear power. Ever.
That’s because Bertie is a nuclear scientist and he knows all the ins and outs of nuclear power. The same as he used his deep knowledge of computer security to call us all Luddites when we questioned the e-voting machines.
Bertie [...]

I know absolutely nothing about the technology behind this blogger thing, and I don’t want to know. I couldn’t care less about HTML or XML or MCMLXXXVIII. I don’t give a toss about all that. I just want to sit down and write, which is what happens. Fine. That’s good.
However, [...]