Energy Efficiency

When he tired of arguing with climate change skeptics, one programmer wrote a chatbot to do it for him. Would you argue climate science with this fellow? Nigel Leck, a software developer by day, was tired of arguing with anti-science crackpots on Twitter. So, like any good programmer, he wrote a script to do it [...]

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Two critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in mission-critical systems used in 500 million devices, including VoIP phones, telecom equipment, military routing devices, automobile controls and spacecraft. Last week at the Security B-Sides and DEFCON conferences in Las Vegas, HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 (and founder and chief architect of Metasploit), disclosed two critical [...]

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It’s a moot point that the word sustainability has become part of the jargon used by all and sundry to project an understanding of the complexity of cause and effect of energy consumed by humans in their endeavours to harness a ‘better quality’ lifestyle. My quest to understand the science of energy started at an [...]

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