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Oklahoma Sooners use beacons, sensors to find rooms on massive campus
2015-12-02 15:31:11| Wireless - Topix.net
The University of Oklahoma has begun rolling out beacon technology to help students find study rooms and class information in its central library and other buildings by using their smartphones as they move about the vast campus in Norman, Okla. Bluetooth Low Energy beacon hardware and new analytics software from Aruba , accompanied by GPS and new sensors working over Wi-Fi, can put the power of smartphones, carried by virtually all 29,000 students, in direct contact with the massive and growing amounts of university data.
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Massive El Nio sweeping globe is now the biggest ever recorded
2015-12-02 12:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: The current extreme El Nio is now the strongest ever recorded, smashing the previous record from 1997-8. Already wreaking havoc on weather around the world, the new figures mean those effects will probably get worse. Climate change could be to blame and is known to be making the extreme impacts of El Nio on weather more likely. The 1997-8 El Nio killed 20,000 people and caused almost $97 billion of damage as floods, droughts, fires, cyclones and mudslides ravaged the world. Now the current...
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Utility steps up efforts to plug massive California methane leak Tuesday, December 1
2015-12-02 06:49:42| Energy - Topix.net
The head of Southern California Gas Co said it would take at least three more months to plug a massive underground leak of natural gas that has been seeping into the air since mid-October and now accounts for a quarter of the state's entire methane emissions. The utility's president and chief executive officer, Dennis Arriola, also said on Tuesday the company would begin this week drilling a relief well designed to intersect the damaged pipeline hundreds of feet beneath the surface and inject it with fluids and cement.
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Massive Hack Attack on Educational Toy Company Exposes Parents, Kids
2015-11-30 23:17:48| TechNewsWorld
Officials of several U.S. states on Monday have opened investigations into a massive data breach that occurred last month at VTech. The award-winning Hong Kong-based maker of electronic learning toys for kids on Friday announced that its Learning Lodge database was breached in a hack attack on Nov. 14. Learning Lodge offers apps, learning games, e-books, and other educational content.
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A Massive Climate Summit Is About to Happen in Paris
2015-11-27 19:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Desk: On Monday, roughly 40,000 heads of state, diplomats, scientists, activists, policy experts, and journalists will descend on an airport in the northern Paris suburbs for the biggest meeting on climate change since at least 2009--or maybe ever. The summit is organized by the United Nations and is primarily aimed at producing an agreement that will serve as the world`s blueprint for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of global warming. This is a major milestone in the climate...
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