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New FINDER Technology Can Detect a Heartbeat Buried in Rubble New radar-based technology developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has the potential to assist rescue workers to pinpoint the human heartbeat of victims buried in rubble—which can potentially save a lot of lives. |
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Greenpeace Questions the Cloud’s Environmental Sustainability The cloud is often sold as the perfect option for increasing computing and storage needs by reducing the cost and energy usage required to perform these functions with in-house hardware. But what are the true environmental tolls of simply shifting the energy costs to someone else's data center? |
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Is the Gaming Industry Shifting to Free-to-Play? A few years back games were typically introduced as pay-to-play games or game packages with a monthly subscription, but this model is undergoing a lot of change in order to attract more gamers. Providers are actively scouting ways to provide games that are both free-to-play and profitable. |
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Combining DevOps with a Hybrid Cloud Architecture Organizations that have adopted DevOps can take the collaborative practice even further by using a hybrid cloud architecture. Sumit Mehrotra explains how a hybrid cloud's benefits of automation, self-service, and visibility all contribute to DevOps' ability to rapidly accelerate development. |
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Heart-to-Heart Security Proposed for Implanted Medical Devices Like any wireless device that can be accessed remotely, implanted medical devices are vulnerable to hacking. The FDA acknowledged that embedded medical devices are a potential target for cyber security breaches and issued a warning to device manufacturers. Pamela Rentz looks at a proposed solution. |
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