US environmental gurus have released an interactive Google Earth map showing bunches of contaminated land sites that could be developed to provide renewable energy. Talk about using technology for the green revolution. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hopes the Renewable Energy Interactive map will encourage the use of contaminated lands for renewable energy production by [...]
Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Google may be totally trying to hide something and as I always appreciate a nice juicy conspiracy theory, I’m going to go with this theory. From what it sounds like, a [...]
Our troops are deployed in the most rugged of locations, from the mountains of Afghanistan to submarines a hundred feet below the surface of the ocean. Yet all will be able to tune in Sunday to the Super Bowl thanks to new technology. They’ll watch the game on the American Forces Radio and Television Service, [...]
Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th U.S. President on Tuesday in Washington. Th number of people who braved the frigid D.C. weather to watch the historic event could have been anywhere between 800,000 and 3 million, depending on which count you take. Researchers have projected widely varying figures for the event’s attendance, based [...]
The once superior German military commissioned its first spy-in-the-sky (not to be confused with the pie-in-the-eye) earth satellite map system enabling the organization to take high definition photographs of locations regardless of darkness or cloud cover. Similar to how dolphins speak to one another and see underwater, the synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system uses five satellites [...]
