Greenpeace Scolds Facebook

Greenpeace made a complaint to Facebook about its data server now located in Oregon running on coal. They said that it is vital for big companies like Facebook to start converting to renewable energy sources, instead of continuing to pollute.

However, Facebook replied to this complaint by explaining that in Oregon's cooler climates, they dont need to use fans and cooling systems which uses less energy than running them somewhere else on renewable enrgy sources. Most experts agree with Facebook and say that Greenpeace si being a little too harsh.

Japanese Create "Elastic Water"

At Tokyo University scientists have revealed a new substance called elastic water. Its made of 95% water, along with clay and a number of other organic materials. The substance looks like jelly, but it is strong and malleable. People are saying this could be a great alternative to plastic because its less damaging to the Earth and works just as good.

Government Uses Odd Methods to Fight Wars

It has been found that over the past three years the Pentagon has spent over $15.5 billion funding research to combat IEDs (improvised explosive devices.) IEDs are one of the biggest struggles the military deals with in wars, and it is extremely difficult to defeat them. So, the government is funding new and curious ways to fight them, including using robots, lasrs, chemical detectors, and even specially trained bees.

Farmville Is World's Biggest Video Game

Farmville has become the world's largest video game with over 20 million active users. That's more people than use twitter and the entire population of the United Kingdom. Zynga, the company who runs Farmville form San Francisco is said to make over $ 150 million a year from Farmville and other games and applications they own.

School Spy on Students

A school in surburban Philadelphia was caught activating the cameras in school issued laptops used to spy on the students at home and at school. The school said the feature was originally activated to monitor thefts of laptops. Students were outraged and put tape over the cameras and microphones. Since the discovery the spying has stopped.

"Please Rob Me" Website

A new website has been created called "Please Rob Me" that tracks all location based updates from sites like Foursquare and Twitter, which allows people to see who is home, and who is not. Hopefully the upside to this site may be that people may become more aware of what they tweet about.

Man Smashes TVs in Walmart

Yesterday at a Walmart in Atlanta a man named Wesley Strellis walked into the electronics section of the store and began smashing flat screen televisions with a steel baseball bat. The other shoppers stood by and watched, before he finally put down the bat and was arrested, after destroying over 29 TVs. The man reportedly got the bat from the sporting goods section of the store, and destroyed over $22,000 worth of merchandise. Police are still not sure what prompted the outburst.

Solar Flares Interrupting GPS Signals

UK researches from Cornell say that the sun is heading into a new period where its solar flares will give off extra radiation and elevated surface activity. This isn't threatening our planet, but it will affect the transmitting between Earth's satellites and many GPS systems.

The interruptions they say should not be dangerous, but will ultimately result in triangulation errors.

iPad Interest is Low

Public interest in the iPad has shown to be very low. A study taken by an online marketplace did a survey and results showed that 61% said they did not have interest and did not need an iPad. Only 9% said they planned on getting one while other factors depended on the others purchasing one or not.

Google Develops Real-Time Translator

Google is in the process of developing a speech-to-speech translator for phones. This would allow a person to speak on the phone with someone who is speaking in a different language and the phone will translate it to your native tongue. The translator would let you set the translated language to whatever language you want, in real time, allowing you to have a normal paced conversation with someone who doesn't speak your language. The feature is said to be being developed for the Android.