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The world's first positive energy building planned for Abu DhabiHere's something you have never heard off or seen before - an eco-friendly building that generates more power than it consumes. Sounds unreal? But this is exactly what The Masdar Headquarters outside Abu Dhabi is all about thus creating history. Designed by Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill, the $300 million, 1.4 square foot structure will see its solar roof being built first to power the rest of the construction – another first! Offering the lowest energy consumption per square... Indian State shuts Windows, schools to use only LinuxIndia's southern state of Kerala will be the first in the country to completely switch from Microsoft Windows to only GNU/Linux free software. Linux will be used in the mandatory IT test at the state SSLC examinations that half a million students will appear for from next week. Till last year, they could take the exam using either free software or the Microsoft platform. Not anymore. The move came after the Government formally ordered that only free Linux-based software... A blast from the past - Mechanical CalculatorsBefore the invention of micro chips and vacuum tubes there were Mechanical calculator's, which were on every desk from the early 1900's to the 60's. These devices were motor-driven, and had movable carriages where results of calculations were displayed by dials.In these machines, Addition and subtraction were performed in a single operation, as on a conventional adding machine, but multiplication and division were accomplished by repeated mechanical additions and subtractions. (More images after the jump)... More Recent Articles
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