Harvard University physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says Google uses a lot of energy. Specifically, two Google searches on a computer can generate almost the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. When you consider the millions of Google searches users do daily, that's a lot of boiled water. But Google is throwing cold water on the metrics.
If you or your company is already on Facebook, chances are your account is already cluttered with friends you may not even know. Well, if you can think of 10 of them you want to remove, Burger King will give you a Whopper, for free. The fast-food giant Burger King released a Facebook application that gives you a free Whopper burger for every 10 friends you delete. On the Web site Whopper Sacrifice, Burger King keeps a tally that records the number of friends who have been sacrificed for the companys signature sandwich offering.
Oracle is preparing to release a critical security update for a number of its products. The update brings a total of 41 security fixes, including 10 for its database products and several for vulnerabilities with the highest possible severity rating. The most serious of the bugs being patched affect Oracle WebLogic Server Plugin for Apache, Sun and IIS Web servers as well as the Windows versions of Oracle Secure Backup. Those vulnerabilities have a CVSS (common vulnerability scoring system) rating of 10.0.
The first flying automobile, equally at home in the sky or on the road, is scheduled to take to the air next month. If it survives its first test flight, the Terrafugia Transition, which can transform itself from a two-seater road car to a plane in 15 seconds, is expected to land in showrooms in about 18 months' time. Terrafugia claims it will be able to fly up to 500 miles on a single tank of unleaded petrol at a cruising speed of 115mph. Even at $200,000 per automobile, they have already received 40 orders.
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