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If Powerset isn’t on Wikipedia, does that mean it doesn’t exist?

2 Nov 2007 – 22:50

Powerset is not on Wikipedia! I thought Wikipedia had the answer to everything, no? So with no Wikipedia entry, then Powerset must be, what, made-up? In fact some might claim exactly that…
But not so, and I can prove it with my new account on PowerLabs! PowerLabs is a collection of demos of Powerset’s technology using [...]

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environmental impact of the internet

7 Aug 2007 – 16:16

Second Life has a non-negligible environmental impact! This article from Treehugger reports that the average Second Life avatar consumes as much electricity as the average Brazilian! Daily energy requirements for Second Life’s 4000 servers, hosting ~12,500 avatars at any one time, total 60,000 kilowatt-hours, or 4.8kWh per avatar. Annualized, avatars consume 1,752 kWh, which is [...]

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