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“Four students in New York have raised $200,000 (£136,000) to build an open alternative to Facebook.”
“The students used the fundraising site Kickstarter to raise a total of $200,642 to build the technology.”
“The team had originally aimed to raise $10,000 to kick-start the venture.”
“However, in the end the three computer scientists and one mathematician raised $200,642 from nearly 6,500 people.”
“Facebook was recently forced to simplify its privacy settings, following an outcry from users, privacy experts and regulators.”
“Global wind is a tremendous source of energy - carrying nearly 870 terrawatts in global tropospheric winds," says Mr Bevirt of Joby Energy”
“In comparison, the global demand is 17 terawatts.”
“The devices are portable and relatively inexpensive to build when compared to conventional wind turbines and can generate twice the amount of power.”
“Operating at five times the height of a conventional turbine increases both wind speed and consistency resulting in more power, more often," said Mr Bevirt.”
“The technology can potentially navigate to altitudes of 35,000 feet (10,600m)”
“but the company has had to restrict their flying altitudes to 2000 feet or less due to concerns expressed by the US Federal Aviation Administration.”
“After testing more than 20 different prototypes, the company has settled on a 30kW system”
“If successful, it intends to pilot test a 100kW prototype within the next year.”
“The firm's goal is to create an initial line of systems with a power capacity of 300kW which would be capable of generating enough energy to power around 150 homes.”
“Larger systems of 3MW or more could potentially power 1500 homes.”
“The notion of tapping into high altitude winds was first posed in the 1970s”
“A picture on a screen tells the surgeon which area of bone needs to be removed - with an accuracy of within a millimetre.”
“Mr Bush's Facebook account was given the thumbs up, or "liked", by over 20,000 users within its first few hours.”
“He has listed the Bush Clinton Haiti Fund and the Barbara Bush Foundation as two of his favourite pages on the site.”
“A Twitter account apparently set up by the former president also drew 5,000 followers within its first three hours on the same day.”
“The plan would see stones representing Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars in Sighthill Park, Jupiter on Strathclyde University Campus, Saturn by the Science Centre, Uranus and Neptune on Maryhill Road and Pluto on Cathkin Braes.”
“the replicas are set to be put on display in the new Royal Victoria Building when it is complete in 2012.”
“He is continuing treatment for the condition at Frenchay and is now fitted with two tracking devices in case he disappears again.”
“BP is drilling two relief wells to permanently stop the leak but they are not expected to be completed until August.”
“The group said it was well placed to take advantage of growth in the sector, which is forecast overall to reach £68bn by 2016.”
“below the 7-inch screen”
“It will launch the end of Q3, maybe Q4.”
“The average price of a PC is now 300 to 400 dollars or euros.”
“Internet Service Providers have identified 5,000 net connections which have been involved in sharing the film via peer-to-peer networks.”
“The page was set up hours after 17-year-old Dylan Aaron's body was found in a pond in Hindley, Wigan, on Sunday.”
“Facebook has now removed the group.”
“Iridium has ordered 81 spacecraft to upgrade its global network.”
“Thales Alenia Space of France will build the satellites - 66 to form the operational constellation, the remainder to act as spares.”
“Iridium has selected Thales Alenia Space to be our prime contractor for Iridium Next, and our agreement constitutes a $2.1bn commitment. We signed an authorisation to proceed yesterday with TAS to immediately begin work designing and buil…”
“The current network consists of 66 satellites.”
“The Next constellation order encompass 81 satellites in total.”
“TAS will build 66 for operational use, a further six will act as in-orbit spares, and nine spares will be held on the ground.”
“The Next constellation is expected to work until at least 2030.”
“Globalstar operates 48 spacecraft in a slightly higher orbit and will see its first next-generation platforms launch later this year.”
“It was an Iridium satellite that collided with a defunct Russian spacecraft in 2009.”
“The organisation will strive to be open and accountable by publishing expense costs online and continue to deliver the best transport solutions for our customers.”
“The authors said the development of the internet and mobile computing had led to a 'vast increase in citizen science projects, which can faciliate collection and distribution of all kinds of taxonomic data from a wide geographic area at mi…”
“Nanoparticles are 1,000-times smaller than the width of a human hair”
“The BBC has revealed 154 web addresses other than bbc.co.uk and bbc.com that it has registered.”
“But complaints about repeat silent calls still account for 70% of the complaints lodged with Ofcom.”
“The number of complaints received by Ofcom about silent calls has fallen from 1,300 in October 2000 to 825 in March this year, but it is still a considerable problem.”
“Abandoned calls are already supposed to be limited to no more than 3% of all calls made in any 24-hour period.”
“It is proposing to ban firms from dialling a number with an answer phone more than once in a day.”
“The regulator wants to bring in a new dialling rule early in 2011.”
“In just six years it has become a global phenomenon, with over 400 million users worldwide.”
“Hewlett-Packard (HP) says it plans to spend $1bn (£686m) and shed 9,000 jobs over three years as it creates fully-automated commercial data centres.”
“EyeSpyFX, a software development company, was established by University of Ulster academic Anthony Hutton in 2002 and was initially based in the business incubation centre at the University of Ulster's Magee campus.”
“The app, Ireland; Myths and Legends, should be available by the middle of this month.”
“Mr Hutton said that the collaboration with Jim Fitzpatrick came about as a result of a chance conversation at an international trade show in Barcelona in February this year.”
“EyeSpyFX applications are available on multiple platforms, including Blackberry, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Nokia, Android and iPhone.”
“Joe Harley, the IT Director General and Chief Information Officer at the Department for Work and Pensions, who gets £249,999”
“One of the piece of software Ruta Tamo uses is an open-source programme called Scratch, which was developed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.”
“Older children are introduced to Google Earth and Google SketchUp to work in 3D and rebuild the areas that were destroyed by the earthquake.”
“They are also taught about social networking sites so that if there is another earthquake, they can exchange vital information with outside groups.”
“After its initial two-week tour across the region”
“the plan is for Ruta Tamo to return in July and then again later in the year.”
“Meanwhile, a US-based scientific survey has installed a number of photographic cameras in the Everest region to record the rate of melting ice and snow.”
“The cameras are programmed take a photograph every 30 minute to provide a time-lapse record of changing conditions.”
“It follows an engineer's report saying there could be "multiple fatalities" from faulty stage equipment.”
“Cern, the organisation operating the LHC, said it had taken until Monday morning for the machine to recover.”
“The outage after 2300 local time on Friday was probably caused by storms, but proton beams should be back in the machine by Wednesday.”
“The collider is currently in a technical stop to allow technicians access into the 27km-long tunnel housing the giant machine.”
“A previous outage in November 2009 which halted the machine is thought to have occurred when a bird dropped a baguette it was eating at one of the points where the mains electricity supply enters the collider from above ground.”
“"You have to bear in mind that many of the big computer systems have not declared their existence," said Dr John Lockley, manager of the Oxford Supercomputing Centre. "You never get any details of those but they are big drivers of the tech…”
“"They are still being widely used in particular segments such as finance, retail, health and government," said Jim Porell, an IBM evangelist for the machines.”
“One IBM System z10 Enterprise Class mainframe, the biggest, is equal to 1,500 Intel servers and occupies 85% less space.”
“"We measure meantime between failure in decades," he said.”
“The machines range in computational power from smaller models that can manage 26 million instructions per second to the biggest machines that crank through 30 billion instructions per second.”
“And, said Mr Porell, it is theoretically possible to chain 30 of the biggest machines together in one giant cluster. "While he admits that no-one has done that yet..."”
“"There is in the order of 350,000 people running Boinc on their computer," he said.”
“"Currently the largest supercomputers are 1-2 petaflops machines," he said. "We have 3 or 4 times as much power on tap."”
“"The volunteer computing approach works for a surprisingly large fraction of all scientific tasks, about 95%," said Dr Anderson.”
“The Cray computer, which is owned by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has a top speed of 1.75 petaflops.”
“One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.”
“Its fastest has a top speed of 1.20 petaflops, more than double the speed of its previous top supercomputer.”
“However, it has a theoretical top speed of nearly 3 petaflops, which would make it the fastest in the world.”
“A teraflop is the equivalent of one trillion calculations per second.”
“An exascale computer has been proposed to process data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)... one quintillion (one million trillion) calculations per second.”
“"The Top 500 list definitely has an element of flag waving," said Dr Jon Lockley, manager of the Oxford Supercomputing Centre.”
“Dawning, the company behind the fastest Chinese machine, is reportedly building an even faster machine for the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin.”
“In addition, it is also developing home-grown silicon chips to power the behemoths.”
“An exascale computer has been proposed to process data from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a series of thousands of telescopes spread over 3,000km. The telescope will be based in either Australia or South Africa.”
“It is also a voluntary list and therefore does not include all machines, such as those at the Oxford Supercomputing Centre and many classified machines owned by governments.”
“Eight of the 12 teams currently competing in F1 are based in Britain.”
“She said Rome had provided a unique setting for the 27,000 sq/m ultra modern building.”
“The building was designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid, who began work on the project 11 years ago.”
“the 27,000 sq/m ultra modern building”
“The fundamental difference is new technology allowing African professionals in the West to transfer their skills and do some teaching,”
“Institutional and technological barriers remain that prevent seamless sharing of information”
“Institutional and technological barriers remain that prevent seamless sharing of information.”
“It is estimated that tens of thousands of mobiles are lost or stolen every year”
“A 200m (656ft) queue formed outside Apple's flagship Sydney store in Australia”
“One million iPads were sold in 28 days after its launch in the US.”
“The international launch date was pushed back by a month after huge demand in the US where the product went on sale in early April.”
“In Japan, more than 1,000 gadget enthusiasts lined up in front of Apple stores and major electrical shops in Tokyo.”
