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The mysteriously disappearing drive: Are power outages killing your SSDs?
2013-10-22 16:31:37| Extremetech
A bit of investigation shows troubling failure rates for SSDs if power is suddenly cut. It's something enthusiast users should be aware of.
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Remote Antarctic glacier is disappearing from below
2013-09-15 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Scientists watching Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier from space have noticed with some alarm that it has been surging toward the sea. If it were to melt entirely, global sea levels would rise by several feet. The glacier is really, really remote. It's 1,800 miles from McMurdo, the U.S. base station in Antarctica, so just getting there is a challenge. Scientists have rarely been able to get out to the glacier to make direct measurements. "This was a granddaddy of a problem," says Tim Stanton, oceanography...
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Italy factory jobs 'disappearing overnight'
2013-09-10 21:16:57| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Struggling Italian business relocates to Poland overnight
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BBC News Magazine Profiles Disappearing Kivalina, Alaska
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indian Country News: With studies about rising sea levels flooding in, Kivalina, Alaska is on the map as the place most likely to be wiped off of it next. BBC News Magazine has profiled the town of 400 Alaska Natives, who have been busy looking for a new place to live for the past several years as rising sea levels overtake the slender peninsula on which their village is perched. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers predicts that Kivalina will be uninhabitable as soon as 2025, BBC News reported in a July 29 story. As the...
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In this time-lapse video, you can see Texas reservoirs disappearing
2013-07-30 17:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: In 1965, the federal government dammed up a river to create Lake Meredith in Texas. Its a reservoir that provides drinking water to 11 cities, and locals use it to swim and boat and be outdoors, as well, Next City reports. But its been shrinking, as you can see in the video below. The time-lapse begins in 1984, with a full, deep lake, and it ends in 2012 with a stub of water. Whys the water disappearing? Many reasons, Next City says: One study found that there was no single factor causing the...
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