Brian Lam
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See You Later
After five years at Gizmodo, I’m moving on to play around in the ocean a bit more and figure out what my next adventure is. Thanks for reading the site – I’ve had fun creating it. P.S. Joe Brown will be taking over for me. Congratulate him warmly!
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This Google Data Centre Is Cooled Only By Sea Water
Computers get hot. Google data centres? They’ve got lots of them. Their new centre in Hamina, Finland, was built in an old paper mill with a network of granite tunnels underneath them. Tunnels filled with cold sea water Google could pump into their centre to rob the computers of heat before Google sent the water…
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Gizmodo Foe Jim Goldman Majored In Journalism Ethics
Did you know old Gizmodo c-grade foe and former CNBC Silicon Valley Bureau Chief Jim Goldman’s moved from journalism to PR a while ago? And did you know he’s been implicated in a smear campaign against Google on Facebook’s behalf?
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Turns Out That Jet Surfboard Is Pretty Fast
Remember that crazy battery-powered jet surfboard? Turns out it’s pretty quick, pushing 20 pounds of thrust good for up to 20km/h for a run time of almost 40 minutes. That’s three times faster than most humans can paddle.