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"Thirsty work: how the rise of massive datacentres strains Australia’s drinking water supply"
#Australia #Technology #Energy

"Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'"
#Apple #Technology
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Apple Watch and Mac Mini No Longer Advertised as 'Carbon Neutral'
As spotted by the French blog WatchGeneration, the Apple Watch and Mac mini are no longer advertised as "carbon neutral" products on...

"Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests"
#Peru #Technology #AmazonRainforest

Indigenous women in Peru use technology to protect Amazon forests
In 2017, when Betty Rubio began patrolling the forests of her ancestral land, she began to question why she was doing it. It wasn’t easy. She knew that tackling environmental crimes such as illegal logging and mining came with risks, and that as a woman, those risks were even greater. “My children would say to […]

In this episode of Pointless Surveys;
WhatsApp: How was the call quality?
Me: 5 Stars, but the person I called is just downstairs, in the same home, on the same network. So, 🤷‍♂️
#technology #surveys

"Amazon strategised about keeping its datacentres’ full water use secret, leaked document shows"
#Amazon #Technology

Now this is really cool!
Not just the 3d effects (actually 4d as the #drones are moving) but also the #technology with drones recharging on the fly.

How 3,000 drones recreated Michelangelo’s masterpieces above the Vatican
The lightweight tech is custom-made, with drones swapping in and out seamlessly to create halos of light—and the hand of God.

"AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI-powered oil spill prediction system can improve emergency response accuracy by up to 25%
Oil spills can be among the most devastating environmental disasters, with the potential to severely damage marine ecosystems, disrupt coastal communities, and impose lasting economic damage. Traditional numerical models, such as MEDSLIK-II, simulate the movement and transformation of oil particles in seawater, but their accuracy has been limited by dependence on expert judgment for tuning critical physical parameters. This manual calibration process, while informed by experience, is not always…

♻️ 'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
#technology

'Old things work': Argentines giving new life to e-waste
Need a new gaming console? Just make one yourself with an old ventilator. Got an old payment terminal? Turn it into a camera.

I can imagine a future where personal passenger vehicles are banned from city streets and autonomous vehicles of different sizes move us to our destinations. They, of course, should be integrated with walking, cycling, and mass transit. There's gotta be a cost benefit to eliminating tired, aggressive, or inattentive drivers from the road, and cities should fund all larger vehicles (6 passengers? ) to keep corporations from owning the streets.
#Technology #AutonomousVehicles
https://youtube.com/shorts/EqNU2jUQNcI?si=FlN0PdkJj6XcZaNb

"Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water"
#PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Technology

Eco-friendly technology removes toxic PFAS from water
Rice University researchers, in collaboration with international partners, have developed the first eco-friendly technology to rapidly capture and destroy toxic "forever chemicals" (PFAS) in water. The findings, recently published in Advanced Materials, mark a major step toward addressing one of the world's most persistent environmental threats.

15.6" Acer portable monitor for $90? Run, don't walk, to a Costco warehouse.
#technology #Costco #savings #gadget #monitor

Obscure #Technology, #Malware #Investigations, #OpenSource

"How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom"
#Batteries #Energy #Technology

How Batteries, Not Natural Gas, Can Power the Data Center Boom
Tech companies are turning to natural gas to help power the growing number of A.I. data centers in the U.S. Jigar Shah, a former Energy Department official, explains how installing batteries instead can help balance the grid, lower electricity bills, and support renewable energy.

Public repo with text of a "Read Only License" and nothing else in the repo. So, can anyone else use that license text in their project? 🤔
(No license info -> no license grant, including no downloading, but would it kill to include a LICENSE.md?)
#technology #licenses #conundrum

✍️ New post: Play On
#blogtober #music #play #technology

Play On · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

⚡ Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
#technology

Coin-sized device uses nut waste and drops of water to generate green energy
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an inexpensive device that generates enough electricity to power a calculator using only waste walnut shells and drops of water. Their work is published in the journal Energy & Environmental Materials.

"Google's huge new Essex datacentre to emit 570,000 tonnes of CO2 a year"
#Google #Climate #ClimateChange #Technology

*AI* crawlers ignoring *robots*.txt file. The irony. 🤦‍♂️
#AI #technology #conventions #web

"Al: Five charts that put data- centre energy use - and emissions - into context"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI: Five charts that put data-centre energy use – and emissions – into context - Carbon Brief
Many have warned that the rapid expansion of data centres could slow down or even reverse the global shift towards net-zero.

"AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds
A new study published in Environmental Research Letters finds that continued growth in artificial intelligence (AI) use across the United States could add approximately 900,000 tons of CO₂ annually. This is not a small amount but equates to a relatively minor increase when viewed in the context of nationwide emissions.

✍️ New post: What Could Go Wrong?
#blogtober #ai #technology #society

What Could Go Wrong? · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

"From e-waste to e-winner: Amazon’s bet on resale for a more circular electronics economy"
#Amazon #EWaste #Technology

#Wanted: Vegan, vegetarian alternative to "Hamburger Menu"
#webdev #technology #labels #vegan #vegetarian #nomenclature

Now, if I can use the RPi 500 's keyboard as an external keyboard for another computer. 🤑
(The included RPi can be headless server for all kinds of uses).
#technology #computers #RaspberryPi #nerd

What's worse: "AI", or the people hyper-selling AI and want no consequences?
(OK, that's an easy answer)
#OpenAI #AI #LLM #technology #ethics #society #accountability

Now pouring over:
- BCP 47
- ISO 639
- ISO 15924
- ISO 3166
- ...🤓
#wipWednesday #occupation #service #standards #technology

You should always have a backup fiddle because you'll never know when your main fiddle goes wonky.
#AI #LLM #Copilot #Microsoft #technology

"Virgin Media 02 to scale tech reuse programme in Coventry"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Coventry #Technology

Yet another dev bitten by YAML parser stripping out underscores from strings that otherwise contain only digits. ✋
#technology #webdev #softwareEngineering #frustration

I wonder if the Schrödinger's cat knows what actually goes on. 🐈🤔
#quantum #cats #technology #physics #question #joke

A very special "hello" to the folks who came up with HTML `title` attribute. An even more special "hello" to those who decided that an anchor's tooltip will be marked up as its "title".
🙄
#technology #design #webdev #html ##markup #sarcasm

Petition to discount boosts by bots from both stats and notifications. 📝🤖
#bots #socialMedia #technology #petition #idea #distraction

What the actual font? Bolding outrageously changes glyphs? 😮
(Kannada text "mo" rendered in three fonts: without and with bolding. Bolding the text in Nirmala Text font in MS Word changes the glyph to something non-existent in Kannada.)
#font #Kannada #technology #fail #UX #localization #internationalization #i18n #MS_Word #Microsoft

Yes, use AI to organize tabs and save time because placing a tab in a group is such a demanding and complex task. 🙄
#AI #hype #Microsoft #MicrosoftEdge #technology #misuse #sarcasm

"ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults"
In other words, they're desperate for money. Society be damned. 🥺
#OpenAI #chatGPT #sexting #chatbots #AI #business #technology