File this under ‘ironic’ (and we mean the proper sense of ironic and not the Alanis Morissette version) but were Irish social media users tweeting away during Earth Hour?
According to Google’s Realtime search results the greatest number of tweets about Earth Hour from Irish users came at exactly 8:30pm, just when the event started in Ireland. It then took another hour before the massive spike of #earthhour tweets subsided.
But it wasn’t just Twitter users who were busy for the hour, Google’s transparency report, which monitors the amount of traffic on Google’s servers, suggests that we may have been turning off our lights on the night but not our Wi-Fi. At about 8:30pm Irish time most of Google’s websites, including Gmail and YouTube saw an increase in traffic.
Okay, so it’s not the end of the world (yet) but does using energy hungry computers undo some of the good?
For startups the world over, the ability to master the art of a good pitch…
As the global population ages, the burden of degenerative disease rises, including a higher prevalence…
Since the 1980s, when the number of families in Brazil headed by women almost doubled,…
Apart from 'extended human spaceflight' for what other purposes could DARPA GO serve? perspective DARPA…
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) has joined the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as one…
Amid several years of shifting global dynamics, it’s become increasingly clear that we are entering…