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Top tech companies plug into renewable power
2013-03-04 13:36:26| InfoWorld: Top News
Microsoft is building a data center next to a Wyoming landfill in order to use its methane gas to power the facility. Apple now uses a massive 100-acre solar energy farm to power its Maiden, N.C. data center. And Google has placed data centers in Oklahoma and Iowa so they can plug into wind farms. America's top tech companies are going green in a big way, so much so that the availability of clean energy resources is now a key consideration in where they locate corporate offices and data centers. The move is designed to save them millions of dollars in long-term energy costs.
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DHS built domestic surveillance tech into Predator drones
2013-03-02 20:30:56| CNET News.com
Homeland Security's specifications say drones must be able to detect whether a civilian is armed. Also specified: "signals interception" and "direction finding" for electronic surveillance. [Read more]
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Tech groups question new do-not-track bill
2013-03-01 21:40:31| InfoWorld: Top News
New legislation in the U.S. Senate that would allow Internet users to tell companies to stop tracking them is unnecessary and could slow e-commerce growth, some tech groups said.
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The sequester will hurt tech nationally
2013-03-01 13:17:20| InfoWorld: Top News
The federal government's automatic budget cuts, due to begin Friday, may accelerate cost savings measures already in place via sharing of services across agencies, IT consolidation, and an increasing reliance on off-the-shelf products and cloud-based services, as opposed to customized development.
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Robotic balls among odd tech trends
2013-02-28 23:14:56| Wireless - Topix.net
There were no major announcements and no breathtaking new gadgets, but this year's Mobile World Congress did offer up more than its fair share of unexpected uses for digital technology.
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