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Are big high-tech companies green hypocrites? Green sells, whether the product in question is a hybrid car or a laptop computer. Tech firms know this.Apple has a "My Greener Apple" campaign -- lauded as a huge success among ecology-conscious Apple customers Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Best Robot Love Stories, From Wall-E to Weird Science : When cute trash compactor Wall-E first lays eyes on Eve, a flying, laser-gun-equipped fembot, it's binary love at first pixel. Although Pixar Animation Studios' Wall-E takes inspiration from classic sci-fi films, the G-rated galactic adventure that hits theaters Friday is, at he Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Best Robot Love Stories, From Wall-E to Weird Science : When cute trash compactor Wall-E first lays eyes on Eve, a flying, laser-gun-equipped fembot, it's binary love at first pixel. Although Pixar Animation Studios' Wall-E takes inspiration from classic sci-fi films, the G-rated galactic adventure that hits theaters Friday is, at he Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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US Navy robot kill-choppers to drop auto-snort podules Suspect sailors' crack sniffed out by droids The US Navy has awarded funds to develop a self-contained remote electronic sniffer unit which could be delivered to the holds of suspect vessels by a robot helicopter to detect "chemical, explosive, and illegal drug residues".… Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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DARPA: Self-repairing, learning kill-robot tech is go Beware, aware 'ware! Once again the observant techbeat watcher finds his or her lower-torso garments endampened by fear, as news emerges that heavyweight US military nerds believe that they have developed IT tech which can "regenerate" autonomously, allowing it to self-repair in the face of shutd Home > Rss Directory > General > The Register |
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Gibson's Robot Guitar--exposed! Teardown specialists take apart the automatic self-tuning guitar at a conference in San Jose to see how it works. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > CNET |
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Testing of station's Dextre robot gets underway - Spaceflight Now KOMOTesting of station's Dextre robot gets underwaySpaceflight Now - 47 minutes agoBY WILLIAM HARWOOD The Canadian Space Agency's $209 million space station robot, Dextre, was subjected to joint-by-joint brake tests today to make sure the gangly mechanical handyman's 1 Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Astronauts Fix Robot Power Trouble - The Associated Press Canoe.caAstronauts Fix Robot Power TroubleThe Associated Press - 48 minutes agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts got power flowing to the international space station's new robot Friday night, overcoming a problem that had threatened to disrupt shuttle Endeavour's Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Moving Day for Space Station Robot - The Associated Press PRESS TVMoving Day for Space Station RobotThe Associated Press - 1 hour agoCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Astronauts moved Dextre the robot to its new perch outside the international space station on Tuesday after devoting nearly a week to putting together and creating t Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Interop spotlights green IT Is green IT about saving money or social responsibility?The topic was tackled during two conference sessions at this week's Interop New York trade show. The consensus was that it could be both -- but the real dr Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Dell ships laptops, desktops with self-encrypting drives Dell announced Monday that it is offering Seagate 's self-encrypting hard drives in its Latitude laptops, Precision Mobile Workstations, and OptiPlex desktops as a security precaution to those machines being lost or stolen. Seagate also announced today that it has beg Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Bill Self staying at Kansas - United Press International Seattle Post IntelligencerBill Self staying at KansasUnited Press International - 1 hour agoLAWRENCE, Kan., April 10 (UPI) -- Bill Self decided Thursday to remain the men's basketball coach at Kansas University. The decision came after rumors that fellow Big 12 Confe Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Establish a 'green baseline' now says Forrester IT departments must establish a "green baseline" for their operations, according to new advice from Forrester Research.Without a well-defined environmental baseline, IT leaders will not be able to respond effect Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Space Station Will Get Help From Giant Robot Seven astronauts scheduled to blast off on Endeavour Tuesday morning will be tasked with assembling an enormous two-armed robot and attaching it outside the space station. Named Dextre for its dexterity, the 3,400-pound robot will assist spacewalking astronauts and take over some dangerous outdoor w Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Space Station Will Get Help From Giant Robot Seven astronauts scheduled to blast off on Endeavour Tuesday morning will be tasked with assembling an enormous two-armed robot and attaching it outside the space station. Named Dextre for its dexterity, the 3,400-pound robot will assist spacewalking astronauts and take over some dangerous outdoor w Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Companies put off green IT by cost More than 80 percent of organizations have moved green IT further up their list of priorities, although it still lags well behind issues such as security, legacy software, data quality, and server consolidation. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Spacewalk begins to continue Dextre robot assembly - Spaceflight Now KPICSpacewalk begins to continue Dextre robot assemblySpaceflight Now - 1 hour agoBY WILLIAM HARWOOD Running 34 minutes ahead of schedule, astronauts Richard Linnehan and Michael Foreman switched their spacesuits to battery power at 7:49 pm, kicking off a planned seven Home > Rss Directory > General > Google News |
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Vendors vie for green IT appeal Green IT was a major theme at Interop this week as vendors outbid one another on how well their networking gear could lower power consumption to help save the planet.Some of the green IT claims were not-so-veile Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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CIOs lack the 'green' to go green, survey says CIOs and senior IT executives lack the "green" to go green, even though they overwhelmingly believe that a more energy-efficient datacenter will become mission-critical, according to a recent survey.Seventy-six Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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IBM, HP lead the way on green IT If your IT department has decided to "go green," you probably need help from your strategic IT vendors. But which ones?In an attempt to find out, Gartner analyst Simon Mingay, in partnership with the World Wildl Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |