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IBM is confident. Mills is confident. SWG is confident. It really showed through at Connect this year. Expect some specifics tomorrow.
IBM is RedMonk’s biggest client.
(via Ric Hayman and James Governor’s Monkchips » Jumping Off IBM Connect 09: looking back)
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Miniature Robots to Swarm the Oceans
Swarms of soup-can-sized robots will soon plunge into the ocean seeking data on poorly understood phenomena from currents to biology.
With $2.5 million in new funding from the National Science Foundation, researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography will create and deploy fleets of autonomous underwater explorers (AUEs) to explore the depths.

- Iven Mareels FTSE is Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering, as quoted in Abandoning Babylonian principles to rebuild irrigation infrastructure (via Science Alert)
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Surface Area Required To Solar Power The World | Information Is Beautiful
According to the United Nations 170,000 square kilometers of forest is destroyed each year. If we constructed solar farms at the same rate, we would be finished in 3 years.
New: I did a little revisioning, adding another power source we possibly haven’t considered. From LandArtGenerator.org.
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