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did you know 51% of people think weather affects Cloud Computing?

18 Mistakes that kill startups.

18 Startup Mistakes Everyone Should Know About - Control Labs blog If you have a list of all the things you shouldn’t do, you can turn that into a recipe for succeeding just by negating as written by Paul Graham in his essay. Below you will find the 18 startup mistakes: Single Founder – as a single founder you have almost zero chance of getting funding from Paul Gr...

NASA Hacker Claims USA Has War Ships In Space - Control Labs blog High-profile hacker Gary McKinnon claims to have some interesting information about the US Navy’s intergalactic operation – there is a top-secret fleet of “eight to ten” war ships in space, with around 25 “Non-terrestrial officers” on their books. Gary McKinnon is a British lifelong ufologist and co…

26 Crazy Facts You Never Knew About Google - Control Labs blog Think you’re a Google expert? Maybe your Google-fu skills allow you to find any bit of information that’s ever graced the World Wide Web. You know all the right search tricks, which Boolean operators are allowed, theshortcuts, the easter eggs, the games. Your friends and family know you’re the go-to…

One google search produces about 0.2g of CO2. But since you hardly get an answer from one search, a typical search session produces about the same amount of CO2 as does boiling a kettle.

160 billion emails are sent daily, 97% of which are spam.

Spam generates 33bn KWt-hours of energy every year, enough to power 2.4 million homes, producing 17 million tons of CO2.

9 out of every 1,000 computers are infected with spam.

Spammer get 1 response to every 12 million emails they send (yet it still makes them a small profit).

The first alarm clock could only ring at 4am.