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Nvidia announces Earth-2 digital twin to forecast planet's climate change | VentureBeat

Nvidia unveiled Earth-2 Cloud Platform for predicting climate change across the entire planet, using simulation by AI supercomputers.

U.S. in rare earth quandry | Network World

In the face of China wielding menacing control over 97% of the world's rare earth materials, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a bill that would bolster R&D of the key elements and help find substitutions for the materials.

Japan earthquake, rare earth mining changes could change landscape for U.S. | Network World

Sometimes, when you are so far behind in a particular game of strategy, it's OK to fallback, regroup and slowly reevaluate your plan of attack .

First Earth-like planet likely a world of fire | Network World

University of Washington astronomers this week said that the first rocky planet discovered outside our solar system is on fire, almost literally.

40/100G Ethernet needed, but too pricey | Network World

Though demand for 40G and 100G Ethernet is on the rise, prices need to come down to earth before mainstream adoption can occur, experts at an Ethernet conference said here this week.

Largest Retailer Has World’s Most Underpaid CIO | Network World

I tend to equate the salaries of celebrity CIOs (an oxymoron, I know) with the compensation packages of today's professional athletes: They're all seemingly excessive and incomprehensible to most salt-of-the-earth people. HP CIO Randy Mott, for instance, took home more than $28 million in compensation in 2008, while New York Yankees' slugger Alex Rodriguez earns $15,856 every time he sees a pitch, according to The Wall Street Journal .

EarthLink suffers Earth Day crash | Network World

EarthLink was hit with a major outage today, with EarthLink users unable to access their e-mail or any Web pages hosted by the company.

The Smart Grid | Network World

The Department of Energy has called the U.S. electrical power grid the largest machine on Earth. It has over 9,200 generating units that produce more than 1 million megawatts of electricity. And they're connected to a network with more than 300,000 miles of transmission lines. In 2003, the National Academy of Engineering identified electrification, made possible by the national power grid, as "the most significant engineering achievement of the 20th century."

Atlantis astronauts: Final spacewalk, preparing for Earth trip | Network World

Heading into their second week of space travel the crew of NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis have a lot on their schedule. Today two of the astronauts will venture out for the mission’s third and final space walk.

Burt’s Bees | Network World

Without even knowing its mission statement -- to be "the greenest personal care company on earth" -- you might expect the people at Burt's Bees Inc. to be environmental activists. After all, the quirky company with the bearded man on its labels is proud to proclaim that its products are made from 99% natural ingredients.

Iridium creates link from iPhones to satellites | Network World

Satellite service provider Iridium is introducing a new satellite phone and access point that enable communications anywhere on the face of the Earth from Blackberry and Android mobile devices, and will offer support for Apple's iOS-based gear later this year.

Better than locks: A security approach to ‘free’ | Network World

In January, Kevin Kelly wrote an essay entitled "Better Than Free" that explained which concepts held value on the Internet. This generated a lot of interest, mostly around the question of how best to make money out of these concepts. As a career security guy, I found myself wondering how on earth my field will respond -- how does security need to adapt to support business models based on these values? When we're used to locking everything down, how do we respond when people start calling for openness?

Google Earth captures China’s new ballistic-missile sub | Network World

Google is offering a rare public glimpse of China's new ballistic-missile submarine, according to a researcher at the Federation of American Scientists.

Billionaire ex-Microsoft developer set for space travel | Network World

Next month, billionaire software developer Charles Simonyi, will become the fifth civilian to fly in space when he rockets to the international space station aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-10 capsule. He will be joined by Russian cosmonauts Fyodor Yurchikhin and Oleg Kotov and return to Earth 11 days later with the systems current orbiting crew -- Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and Spanish-born U.S. astronaut Miguel Lopez-Alegria, according to reports. Simonyi is spending over $20 million for the trip.

‘The Hobbit 2.0’ — How mobile technology would improve J. R. R. Tolkien’s famous work | Network World

"The Hobbit," J.R.R. Tolkien's famous story of which the movie version opens Dec. 14, was first published in 1937. The world of Middle Earth was set in an indeterminate time, but looked remarkably like an idealized early 19th-century England, though well-stocked with wizards, dwarfs, elves, dragons, trolls, goblins and of course hobbits. But techwise, it was, and is, the Stone Age of Middle Dearth.

Google Earth to address Indian security concerns | Network World

Google is in talks with the Indian government to allay concerns that Google Earth may be jeopardizing India’s security by showing high resolution images of Indian defense and other installations.

Microsoft boosts Virtual Earth’s imagery | Network World

To sharpen the quality of images in its Virtual Earth mapping application, Microsoft has signed a deal with DigitalGlobe's GlobeXplorer, a provider of aerial and satellite photos.

Astronaut controls robot on Earth from the ISS | Network World

An astronaut aboard the International Space Station used an extraterrestrial remote control system on Friday to maneuver a robot rover at NASA's Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.

NetFlash: Cisco in space | Network World

If you are a router company with as much as 80% market share and a $3.2 billion R&D budget to play with, why not bolt a router to a rocket and shoot it into orbit? This is what a group of engineers at Cisco did as part of its Cisco Low Earth Orbit (CLEO) project, which recently completed its second year orbiting Earth. Cisco in space http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/103105widernetcisco.html?net&story=103105widernetcisco

Data creation outstrips available storage for first time, IDC report states | Network World

Digital information is being created at a faster pace than previously thought, and for the first time the amount of digital information on Earth has exceeded the world's available storage space, according to an IDC report issued Tuesday.

Space-station commander controls Lego robot on Earth with futuristic network | Network World

Late last month in Germany, a robot made its first moves on Earth under commands from an orbiting spacecraft.

Discovery Earth Live gives 3-D view of changing weather patterns | Network World

A Discovery Channel Web application provides near-real-time views of the climate on a three-dimensional interactive globe.

Sophos beams up free Klingon antivirus app to Star Trek fans’ PCs | Network World

Hard on the heels of renewed interest in the Star Trek franchise, security company Sophos has released a Klingon-language version of a free malware scanning tool it uses to show Earth-bound customers how its technology stacks up against rivals' apps.

Ellison: Oracle will deliver world’s ‘most comprehensive cloud’ | Network World

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison declared the company is ready to offer "the most comprehensive cloud on the planet Earth," during a webcast event on Wednesday.

Protecting the Earth and the bottom line | Network World

As the 27th anniversary of Earth Day approaches on Sunday, more companies are realizing that embracing energy conservation is good business, not just good public relations.