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Global Temperatures to Surpass 1 Degree Celsius Above Pre-Industrial Levels
Dec 29, 2015Global mean temperature at the Earth's surface is set to reach one degree Celsius above pre-industrial levels this year. The data was released by Britain's Met Office on Monday. Director of the Met Office Hadley Center, Stephen Belcher, ...
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The Department for Business Innovation and Skills Outlines Its Plans
Nov 4, 2013Better data sharing, an improved national data infrastructure and recognising and developing data science as a professional discipline are the main commitments the government is making in "seizing the data opportunity", according to a ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Sophistication Is Starting to Impinge on Privacy
Oct 21, 2013The sophistication of information gleaned from "big data" has reached such a level that it is starting to impinge on privacy, warns Menno van Doorn, a director at VINT Research, which is part of the Sogeti IT services company. Van Doorn ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The California Academy of Sciences Morrison Planetarium Deployed Avere's FXT Edge Filers
Sep 19, 2013The California Academy of Sciences Morrison Planetarium, the world's largest all-digital planetarium, has deployed Avere's FXT Edge filers in a bid to boost visual effects and computer-generated imagery. Avere Systems, a provider of ...
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Rovio Has Deployed Riak to Aid Scalability and Management of Data Volumes
Sep 11, 2013Rovio, the Finnish studio behind the popular Angry Birds computer game, has deployed Riak, the open source NoSQL database from Basho Technologies, to aid scalability and management of data volumes from its games and animated Angry Birds ...
Tags: Computer Products, webgame
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We're in The "Decade of Data" and It Will Dwarf The Revolution
Sep 4, 2013We're in the "decade of data" and it will "dwarf the revolution that came from the internet" and change every part of society across the globe. That's what one of the world's top data scientists, Alex 'Sandy' Pentland, founder and ...
Tags: Data, software, Computer Products
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There's a "Lump in The Learning Curve" for Some Organisations
Aug 6, 2013There's a "lump in the learning curve" for some organisations to overcome in the adoption and use of NoSQL databases. That's what James Tomkins, Met Office Portfolio Technical Lead, told Computing while discussing the organisation's use of ...
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The Bigger Jobs Have Been Rolling in for Us This Month at SunGift
Apr 12, 2013The bigger jobs have been rolling in for us this month at SunGift, as our commercial team has been working hard on winning contract with highly-regarded installations. So we're delighted to announce that we've completed work on a 250 kW ...
Tags: Solar, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, vacuum cleaner
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Public Accounts Committee Has Said in Its Report on The Government's Transparency Agenda
Dec 17, 2012The government lacks a clear evidence-based policy on whether or not to charge for data and should investigate the economic benefits of making all data free, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said in its report on the government's ...
Tags: government, PAC, data
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The Government Recently Published Its White Paper on Open Data
Jul 13, 2012The government recently published its white paper on open data,with the newly-created Open Data User Group having met to discuss the next phase.But despite these moves,campaigners are worried that plans to create a£16bn stimulus to ...
Tags: Government, Data, OpenCorporates, White Paper
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Businesses with Commodity Supercomputer Services Are Targeted by Cambridge University
Jun 26, 2012Paul Calleja, director of the high performance computing service at the University of Cambridge, maintains that supercomputers should be accessible to as wide a range of businesses and academic researchers as possible. And that means one ...
Tags: supercomputers, commodity chips, specialist hardware, powerful computers