5 Sites That Want Your Janky Gadgets: Amidst the flurry of carbon credits, lead-free electronics and green everything, the truth of the matter is that folks who are truly green don’t buy a lot of stuff. At least the tech industry’s providing online communities and services aimed at keeping consumption down and recycling activities up. Check out Earth2Tech’s handy guide to five web sites devoted to electronic reuse and recycling.
Tracking Texas Truants: Consider it a win for surveillance and the Midland County Justice Court in Texas. The courts popped GPS and cellular tracking anklets from Omnilink onto 15 juveniles that had been sentenced by the courts for truancy and other crimes. All but one of the participants ended up back in school and one was kicked out of his gang because it’s not cool to rat out the gang’s movements to the feds.
Cool at the Core: Intel’s new quad-core Xeon chips for servers are cool. Seriously. The chips operate at about 50 watts per chip, or 12.5 watts per core, and are 37 percent more efficient that previous Quad-Core 5400 chips. That’s good because I’m pretty sure we’re using more computing power, meaning electric bills for data centers might stay about the same.
Sleepless on DirecTV: Boston RedSox fans had a rough night. No, the BoSox didn’t lose miserably to the Oakland A’s in Japan. Instead DirecTV somehow stopped broadcasting the game. ESPN and NESN were among the channels that went dark before coming back online in the sixth inning.
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