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The association recently called on the Government to introduce strict regulations protecting commercial airlines and passengers before allowing large-scale drones to be flown in UK airspace. BALPA says its members are already concerned after a number of run-ins with smaller drones that are not yet regulated as strictly as pilots...
At the corner of Sixth Ave and Bell St in downtown Seattle, Washington (USA) sits a parking lot. That parking lot is within a reasonable distance of a newly built Amazon data centre as well as numerous high-rise office buildings and ongoing development projects. If a company known as Clise...
Energy security in the 1970s was anything but a settled issue. Rolling blackouts and other interruptions were common in an era when energy production was dependent almost entirely on coal. Although strides have been made in the decades since, there are new concerns over energy security that could cause significant...
What would you say if you were an oil rig manager and you received a call from a new start up claiming that they could save you as much as 3% of your fuel by harnessing the heat produced by diesel generators? If you spent millions of pounds every year...
Adoption of the cloud within Australia's government agencies has not been as successful as hoped which has led federal officials to establish a new 'cloud first' policy that goes into effect immediately. The policy was recently set forth in a document drafted to outline the responsibilities of each agency in...
Unused Phone Boxes Getting New Lease of Life There is only one thing in London that has achieved the same iconic status as the red double-decker bus: the red phone box. Unfortunately, mobile phones have made London's thousands of red phone boxes obsolete. So much so that city officials are...
The Internet is certainly a wild frontier on many levels, including how the world's Internet service providers (ISP) offer connectivity to customers however even we are sometimes amazed at what lengths some players will go to in order to dominate an industry. Such is the case with Google and Facebook;...
If there were ever an example of how easily the tech wars can become petty, it is the recent announcements from Google and Apple regarding encryption. The dual announcements are meant to alleviate consumer concerns about security by revealing new encryption methods that both companies will be offering on upcoming...
We have a rare piece of data centre news to share with you today courtesy of the people over at Facebook. Apparently, the social media giant recently ran a system-wide stress test by completely shutting down an entire data centre for a full day. The idea was to see how...
The unsealing of important documents relating to the NSA data spying scandal reveals details that support claims from Yahoo! and others about threats made against them by the US government. Yahoo! has said that the National Security Agency (NSA) threatened them with fines of up to $250,000 per day for...
The UK Government has staked out its position for the upcoming climate change summit that is scheduled for Paris next year. Through a recently released document, officials have made it clear that they are undertaking an ambitious plan to make a global climate deal reality as a result of the...
When Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) IT guru Perry Gliessman set about to design and build the university's new data centre, he knew he had a brilliant plan that was well outside the norms of data centre construction. Rather than building a concrete box as so many others do,...