Google Earth is one of the great “wow” applications in Google’s stable, especially on touch devices like Android smartphones or the iPad, whether it’s showing undersea formations or cities in 3D . It’s also surprisingly useful, and Google’s always adding elements to it to give it more utility and/or fun. The newest is the clouds layer, which now shows rain and snow in real-time weather patterns, across the globe
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Google Earth Now Shows Rain and Snow in Real Time
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The BBC put together a great interactive graphic that traces the percentage of a nation’s populace that uses the internet every year, from 1998 to 2008–kind of a shorthand for development over the last decade.
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A Visual Guide to Global Internet Use: Internet Addicts, Don’t Move to the Democratic Republic of Congo
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We’d like to think that lithium-ion battery costs will drop enough in the coming years to make electric vehicles accessible to the masses, but that might not be the case according to a study from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
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Study Says EV Batteries Will Remain Ultra-Expensive for Foreseeable Future
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Determining where you want to have your ads show is, surprisingly, often neglected. We often times see when conducting our AdWords account audit and strategy sessions , or when beginning work with a new client that geographic targeting is set up incorrectly. This is primarily due to new Google AdWords campaigns automatically adding Canada as a target country.
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Geotargeting: Do your ads accurately reflect your service area?
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Portugal is a country with a problem: it has no domestic coal, natural gas, or oil resources, so Western Europe’s poorest nation is forced to import most of it’s energy. The quandary makes the country an ideal candidate for renewable energy, and in fact Portugal already produces over a third of its energy from renewable sources. Now the country is taking its commitment to renewable a step further by setting goals for a nationwide recharging network for electric cars.
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Will Portugal Become a Leader in the Electric Car Industry?
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Europe’s ITER project is blowing $14 billion on the creation of a nuclear fusion power plant, but the bloated project might be outrun by General Fusion , a Vancouver, Canada startup that claims it can build a prototype plant in under a decade for $500 million–pocket change in nuclear fusion terms. ITER’s project, which won’t be ready for nearly 30 years, is so expensive because it uses pricey superconducting magnets (tokamaks) and lasers to contain plasma for a fusion reaction. General Fusion takes a different tactic: the company plans to create a fusion reaction that gives off more energy than is required to sustain it by using low-tech brute force
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How to Build a Nuclear Fusion Device on the Cheap
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