July 30, 2010 — Network independent data center provider TelecityGroup has been awarded the Carbon Trust Standard across its operations in the UK and achieved ISO 14001 certification for environmental management, highlighting its commitment to maximising the energy efficiency of its operations.
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Most of the action took place at the back of the grid in today’s FIA GT1 World Championship qualifying race at Spa in Belgium.
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For the past couple of weeks I have been collecting paint chips to try and choose a new color for my bedroom walls. It is amazing just how many colors of each color there actually are. See, you don’t just have blue, you have Deep Blue Sea, Caribbean Coast, Rushing Rapids and Deep Sea Diving.
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( DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ) One month a year, the nuclei of lead atoms traveling near the speed of light will collide in the Large Hadron Collider’s (LHC) ALICE experiment. Ten percent of all of the data collected in this month will travel from Switzerland to NERSC at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Northern California …
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Dave Bailey, Computing , Friday 30 July 2010 at 12:35:00 It’s a choice between revenue now or universal broadband later This month the government dropped a bombshell. Minister for communications Ed Vaizey and culture, media and sport secretary Jeremy Hunt announced that the national rollout of next-generation broadband would be delayed by three years. It was originally planned for 2012 but is …
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