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In 2005, servers accounted for an estimated 1.2% of all power consumption in the United States and 0.8% worldwide. Koomey says that server power consumption in the United States was the equivalent of

IBM project around Arabic - English translation

Peter Neubäcker, a former German guitar maker turned programmer, has done what many in the computer-music business believed impossible.

New Technologies in Spain is an eight-part series highlighting Spanish innovation and is produced by Technology Review’s custom-publishing division in partnership with the Trade Commission of Spain.

The best face-recognition algorithms now perform more accurately than most humans can manage.

The online auction giant wants developers and niche marketers to tie into its infrastructure, says eBay Research Labs' senior director, Eric Billingsley.

Fairly conservative analysis of web 2.0 social networking

"메시지 맨"이라는 별명, 딱 어울린다.

The inside (sort of) story of why Apple's industrial-design machine has been so successful.

Big Blue strikes again

The car that drives itself

A solution to the 'gummi-bears' issue; cheap ubiquitous biometrics are in the pipeline.

Yet more solar-panel-roof-tiles. Still no word on commercial availability though.

Human-recommendation-based searching? *sniff* *sniff* I smell... *sniff*... Web2.0 memes! Nice idea, but still a fair way off, IMHO, at least in fully-implemented and genuinly useful forms. We shall s

Why use invasive surgery to place electrodes in the brain when you can feed polymer nanowire through tiny blood vessels to the same locations?

Technology Review takes a look at the latest Vernor Vinge novel, and gets it almost right.

Seth Lloyd, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT, is among the pioneers of quantum computing: he proposed the first technologically feasible design for a quantum computer.

Technology Review talks to leading AI boffin Marvin Minsky, on the 50th anniversary of artificial intelligence as a discreet field of study.

New brain-imaging techniques could teach people to strengthen the parts of the brain that control attention. Hey...hey, wake up, damn it!

"New Web-based services don't just store your data online -- they keep it synchronized across your laptop, desktop, and mobile phone." TechnologyReview discusses online archiving.

Technology Review has a nice round-up of stuff about global warming, climate change, and the technologies we already have to ameliorate the problems. Link via Bruce Sterling.

That's right, folks - because what we need is a wonder-pill to treat the symptoms, rather than detailed research into the causes - it's working just fine for mental illnesses, so why not for the 'dise

"A California startup, with strong venture backing, says it can slash the cost of solar power with its concentrator technology." There's a lot of companies saying this at the moment, so odds

Does what it says on the tin - animal tests showing promising results.

Scientists have identified a gene that just might be the key to the unique evolution of the human brain.