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AUSTIN, Texas – Just nine people accounted for nearly 2,700 of the emergency room visits in the Austin area during the past six years at a cost of $3 million to taxpayers and others, according to a report.

After years of secrecy, Google revealed the inner workings of its ultra-energy efficient data centers at yesterday’s Data Center Efficiency Summit. Each of Google’s servers comes with its own 12-volt lead-acid battery as a back-up to the main power supply, and all of its data centers are made up of standard shipping containers. Individual centers […]

G-20 includes announcements of agreement in several areas, but leaders “deferred many of the trickiest decisions or forwarded them to international institutions unaccustomed to the responsibility.” The International Monetary Fund was the biggest recipient, with a quadrupled financial commitment worth over $1 trillion. But expecting the IMF to fix the global economy is a stretch.

For the second time in the past few weeks, Hugo Chavez has jailed a political opponent, smacking down opposition from all corners as the country experiences an economic downturn. Former Defense Minister Raúl Baduel was arrested on corruption charges, just two weeks after an arrest warrant was issued for Chavez’s 2006 election opponent Manuel Rosales.