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  • Pilot Uses Old-School Plane to Score Photos of New Apple Data Center
    Last week, Wired released aerial photos of a new Apple data center construction site in North Carolina. How did we get them? A drone? Google? Actually, pilot and photographer Garrett Fisher flew a 1949 Piper PA-11 (Cub Special) airplane with no electronic instruments over the building and snapped a couple photos with his Canon Rebel while leaning out the window.
    04.10.12
  • Activist Raises Dark Cloud Over Microsoft Data Center
    Big data centers are often a boon to smalltown America. They bring construction work and good jobs in the fast-growing tech industry. But when Quincy, Washington's Patty Martin looks out of her house and sees the 500,000-square-foot data center run by Microsoft, she sees something else: a growing health problem.
    04.10.12
  • Worldwide Windows XP Eradication Day Only Two Years Away
    To the 100 million Windows XP users out there, Microsoft has a message for you: It's time to move on. Seriously. In fact, the countdown to the end of the Age of XP is on. In just under two years -- on Apr. 8, 2014 to be exact -- Microsoft will dump support for its once-ubiquitous OS and it's faithful sidekick, Office 2003.
    04.09.12
  • Wired Reader Request -- Review Mission Control Software
    Every rocket launch needs a mission control, and a do-it-yourself suborbital rocket effort needs to thoroughly test its mission control software. Copenhagen Suborbitals co-founder and Rocket Shop blogger Kristian von Bengston hosts a guest post to explain how you can help.
    04.07.12
  • More Glass From Google: CEO Larry Page Gets Transparent
    It didn¿t take long for Larry Page to fulfill my prediction that he would figure out that being more public with his plans and thoughts would bring benefits to him and Google. Yesterday he did an interview with Business Week. And now he has posted a detailed memo (on Google+, naturally, as well as Google's Investor Relations site) titled "Update From the CEO 2012," where he explicitly sketches those plans and thoughts.
    04.05.12
  • Google Cools Taiwan Data Center With 'Thermal Batteries'
    As part of its ongoing effort to save power and cost in its custom-built data centers, Google will cool the servers in its new Taiwan computing facility using a technique known as thermal energy storage. With this technique, the company can run its air conditioning systems at night when electricity rates are lower, cooling insulated tanks filed with ice or liquid coolant that can then be used to dissipate heat in data centers when ambient temperatures rise during the day.
    04.04.12
  • Hardware Teardown: Nokia's Lumia 900 Flagship Smartphone
    The Nokia Lumia 900 is today's handset du jour, and with any new handset, you have to wonder: What's it hiding inside? Tech Republic has pried apart the brand-new Windows Phone handset to show us its silicon innards.
    04.04.12
  • Larry Page's First Year as Google CEO: Impatience Is a Virtue
    In January 2011, only hours before I had to send back the proofs for In the Plex, the news came out that Larry Page would be taking the helm of the company as the CEO. The transition would occur on April 4 of that year. If it had been anyone else but Larry Page to take over Google, this change would have been ruinous to the project I¿d been working on for almost three years. But as I quickly made adjustments to the copy to reflect this change, I realized that my book already reflected a reality that few understood: Page has always been the key visionary of Google and its driving force. Now that Page has been CEO for a year, everybody knows it.
    04.04.12
  • Videos: What Facebook Would Have Looked Like in the '90s
    If Facebook, Twitter and Angry Birds were built in the days of DOS or 14.4 Kbps modems, they would've looked much different. Web editor Jo Luijten sees these ghosts of technology past and captures their retrofitted charms in a series of smart, funny videos.
    04.03.12


 

 

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