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Microsoft Kills MIX 2012, Promises Other Major Developer Conferences Instead

Microsoft has just announced that it does not plan on hosting the MIX 2012 conference at all. Instead, the company will have the event merged with another developer conference this year. Apparently, Microsoft is keen on making changes related to the conferences it participates in, as the announcement on MIX 2012&rs...

25 January 2012
07:16 GMT

Monitoring How 7 Billion People Strain Resources

The American space agency and the US Geological Survey (USGS) say that they will continue to monitor the rate at which global resources are extracted, consumed, and therefore diminished. As more than 7 billion people now live all over the world, this is becoming an increasingly important issue. The fact that the rat...

17 November 2011
03:59 GMT

Collecting Rainwater Inside Cities

Spanish researchers at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) say that building a particular type of roof can lead to the collection of more rainwater than currently possible with gravel-paved roof tops. Such a resource could have significant applications, the team adds. Experts say that sloping roofs are cap...

25 October 2011
19:01 GMT

African Cities Are Growing Exponentially

At this point, the population of most African countries is growing out of control. Most people realize that the already-present lack of resources that they are enduring will only prevail in the future. This rise in population will force the infrastructure of major cities to cope or be destroyed. Providing shelter and...

24 October 2011
03:45 GMT

Aliens May Frown Upon Our Ecological Behavior

In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Acta Astronautica, experts from the Pennsylvania State University say that alien civilizations may detect Earth based on its changing climate. When this happens, we may be in a world of trouble.Highly-advanced, highly-intelligent alien lifeforms may not...

20 August 2011
04:01 GMT

Investigating the Rise of Mesopotamian Cities

For the first time in more than 20 years, foreign, non-Iraki investigators carried out an expedition in the Tigris-Euphrates delta. The goal of the research was to assess the potential links between the resources that these wetlands provide, and the emergence of cities in ancient Mesopotamia. For centuries, this was ...

1 April 2011
03:46 GMT

Legal Issue Still Boggles Down Lunar Exploitations

There is currently no doubt in people's minds that we will someday end up exploiting the Moon for resources, and some believe that that day may come sooner than anyone expected. Still, experts say that legal issues are still a challenge in this area, and that future companies need to solve this issue first. Thi...

19 January 2011
01:48 GMT

Maybe We Should Fear Aliens, Experts Say

Given the wealth of recent studies showing that it wouldn't be at all impossible for other planets to host forms of life, it stands to reason that the international scientific community has began wondering whether actually going out of our way to contact extraterrestrial civilizations is indeed the way to go.For...

10 January 2011
10:53 GMT

Turning Cities into Gold Mines

For the most part, cities are currently the biggest consumers of natural and processed resources. But what if they could be turned into the largest sources of such resources? Certain chemicals and minerals may now be found in ampler supplies in cities than in deposits located elsewhere.Changing the way we think about...

27 December 2010
07:00 GMT

The Moon Offers Strategic Resources

An important debate going on in the United States right now is whether the country should consider the Moon as being a source of strategic materials, such as for example rare-Earth metals (REM).These are chemical elements that are very hard to come by in nature, hence the name. At this point, China controls this mark...

4 October 2010
10:51 GMT

No Armed Conflict Over the Arctic

Over recent years, a war of statements concerning the Arctic region broke out, with numerous countries bordering the area claiming large swaths of it for their own. With the effects of global warming making themselves felt more and more, new shipping lanes are opened in northern waters, and maritime companies and gov...

4 January 2010
14:01 GMT

Experts Wonder Who Will Own the Moon

Between 2007 and 2011, eight missions were flown, or will be flown to the Moon, in a genuine flurry of exploration. Undoubtedly, it won't be too long until we will send astronauts there again, and lay the foundation of permanent lunar bases, at first only for research, but later on for habitation as well. But, t...

17 October 2009
05:53 GMT

Windows Vista SP1 RTM Resources - the Whole Shebang

On February 4, 2008, Microsoft released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 to manufacturing. The RTM deadline of the first service pack for Vista coincided with Windows Server 2008 going gold, as Microsoft client and server platforms were joined at the hip, starting at kernel-level, a move designed not to repeat the disjun...

29 March 2008
08:57 GMT

AdSense Gets Help Tab

Since AdSense is one of the top technologies coming from Googleplex, it is very important to keep its customers up-to-date with the latest information and updates concerning the product. That's why AdSense provides detailed help manuals and optimization tips which are supposed to help the registered members impr...

5 November 2007
15:06 GMT

How to Disguise a Hydroenergetic Power Plant in a Small Island

Energy, in its various forms, is all around us. We have been the most intelligent beings on the planet for around 80,000 years, yet only about two centuries ago we started to need vast amounts of energy, to power up big and small devices that our imagination came up with. And since we rely on one particular form of ...

30 July 2007
10:33 GMT

Space Empires IV Cheats (PC)

Space Empires IV is a turn-based strategy computer game developed by Malfador Machinations and published by Strategy First as part of the Space Empires series in which players control an alien race in an attempt at galactic conquest. The gameplay is similar to Civilization style games in the sense that one controls ...

18 June 2007
05:48 GMT


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