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Google Maps is getting a lot more detail

The Verge

The new map design (right) does a better job at distinguishing between Iceland’s ice caps and greenery. Google Maps is being redesigned to make it easier to distinguish between natural features in the environment, whether they’re mountainous ice caps, deserts, beaches, or dense forests. Image: Google.

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Green IT for Dummies

Robert Weiner

Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT. They describe it as: Green IT for Dummies … is intended to give organizations simple and straight-forward ideas on how to reduce the environmental impact of IT systems and harness the power of IT to reduce the wider environmental impacts of climate change in society.

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Valorant’s new character Skye lets you summon a magic green pup to scout the map

The Verge

The character, a more passive agent with a penchant for nature and non-human companions, can summon birds for scouting and even a dog you can embody and scour the map with to perform reconnaissance and stun opponents.

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Wiring the Green Movement for Earth Day

Amy Sample Ward

I wanted to use today to focus in on a question recently posed by my good friend Joe Solomon on Twitter : What are the nonprofit/orgs that are working 2 wire the green movement, like what @ netsquared does 4 nonprofits, @ sunfoundation for politics; which orgs are working to expose data, leverage soc media, connect the orgs together?

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Carbon Maps helps the food industry reduce their climate impact

TechCrunch

Meet Carbon Maps , a new French startup that raised $4.3 While there are quite a few carbon accounting startups like Greenly , Sweep , Persefoni and Watershed , Carbon Maps isn’t an exact competitor as it doesn’t calculate a company’s carbon emissions as a whole. million (€4 million) just a few weeks after its inception.

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DeepMind creates ‘transformative’ map of human proteins drawn by artificial intelligence

The Verge

AI research lab DeepMind has created the most comprehensive map of human proteins to date using artificial intelligence. Two examples of protein structures predicted by AlphaFold (in blue) compared with experimental results (in green). Image: DeepMind.

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Ford's BlueCruise gets the green light for hands-free vehicles on British motorways

TechSpot

Ford announced that a new ruling by the UK's Department of Transportation allows drivers to experience Ford's BlueCruise driver assistance technology on more than 3,200 kilometers (2,000 miles) of pre-mapped roads in England, Scotland, and Wales. Ford's 2023 Mustang Mach-E will be the first vehicle to receive access to the.

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