Global Fishing Watch Uses AI to Reveal That Up to 75% of Large Fishing Vessels Avoid Being Tracked

Way back in 2015, we posted – Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed? The post described a new project in which Google partnered with SkyTruth and Oceana to produce a tool to track global fishing … Continue reading

Can Big Data Stop Overfishing? Will Google’s Global Fishing Watch Succeed?

Overfishing of the world’s oceans is a huge and immediate problem. Back in 2002, the nations participating in the World Summit on Sustainable Development agreed to end overfishing by 2015. Suffice it say, it didn’t happen.  Indeed, some scientists are predicting … Continue reading

Google’s Giant Magical Mystery Barges — Data Centers, Google Glass Stores or Borg Ships?

Google has been causing quite a stir on the waterfront.  Two mysterious barges have appeared, one on the Pacific in San Francisco bay and one on the Atlantic coast in Portland, Maine. The San Francisco barge is reported to be 250 feet … Continue reading

Scurvy and the Google Orange

Today the Google “doodle,”  the image that appears above the Google search box, was an orange. Why an orange?  If you clicked on the doodle it took you to a search for Albert Szent-Györgyi,  the Hungarian physiologist who is credited with discovering … Continue reading

Wind Power and Hot Air – Cape Wind Still in Doubt as Google Shows Some Backbone

According to one study the US has enough offshore wind to power the country four times over.  In Europe there are currently 830 wind turbines now installed and grid connected, totalling 2,063 MW in 39 wind farms in nine European … Continue reading