Earthquake detection is improving, and there is actually a California law that says the state needs to put an early warning system in place. But that has yet to happen on a wide scale.
Algorithms to manage connected thermostats and collect their data have become a hot property in 2013. Alarm.com snaps up startup EnergyHub for its thermostat management software.
Will an energy management option that is free, web-centric and doesn’t require utility permission be a hit? That’s the idea behind Earth Aid, a startup that launched its beta site about a year and a half ago, and has raised its first round of funding.
Locations identified within the 10 or 20 meters possible by GPS today are far too inaccurate — we need to know where we are we are right down to the millimeter! One futurist says with millimeter accuracy enabled by photographs, augmented reality will actually become possible.
Each year, the WWF encourages individuals, businesses and communities to participate in a global rolling blackout campaign called Earth Hour, which calls for shutting off the lights for a solid hour and leans heavily on social media. But is WWF tweeting up the wrong tree?
This morning, we’re hosting the latest GigaOM Bunker Series event here at our San Francisco offices. The topic this time is next-generation applications for the smart-grid sector. We’ll examine what applications and services will be delivered on top of the current smart grid infrastructure buildout, including home and commercial building energy management, smart EV charging, and next-gen demand response and billing — all potentially billion-dollar markets. The underlying question is, how can tech companies, utilities and investors create an environment that delivers a future of innovation, energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions? Andrew Tang, senior director of PG&E’s Smart Energy Web; Scott Lang, CEO of Silver Spring Networks; Warren Weiss, partner at Foundation Capital; and John Steinberg, CEO of EcoFactor, will lead the conversation. Join us here for a livestream, along with exclusive video, post-game analysis, and live blog coverage starting at 9:30 a.m. PST.
The forward-thinking scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey are trying to figure out what they can do with a set of user-contributed data, and started the Twitter Earthquake Detection Program using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
[qi:_earth2tech] Cisco this morning announced its official game plan for the smart grid market, which it believes represents a $20 billion-a-year opportunity…
This morning Earth Class Mail said it has signed up Switzerland’s mail operator Swiss Post as the first national mail provider that will offer the service for a fee to its customers. The company says it also recently raised $5.1 million in bridge financing and is currently raising a $15-30 million Series B round.
We’ve got the “in-a-box” versions of nuclear power, data centers and biofuels. Why not wind power? Courtesy of Muskegon, Michigan-based company EarthTronics,…
Despite their enormous success, despite the zillions of smart people working there, there are still things that confound, upset, and annoy us about Google’s various operations. Sure, we get that sometimes there are other things on their mind, and that writing good software takes time, and that it’s even tougher when you have to work in a variety of browsers. Even so, here are the top 25 things (give or take) we hate about Google.
[qi:_earth2tech] Virtualization and on-demand computing are giving companies new reasons to worry about code efficiency. Once upon a time, lousy coding didn’t…