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Seismographers To Use Accelerometers In Hard Drives To Track Earthquakes |
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About the organization IBM: Type: Business Sub-Types: Computer, Computer Software, Computer Hardware, Website |
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Notable Organizations: IBM, Techcrunch |
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This is rather interesting. As you may know, most hard drives include accelerometers for the purpose of determining the drive’s orientation and movement, so that (presumably) the drive head can compensate for it. Seismographers have used distributed networks on laptops for this purpose before, but it seems that the data from laptops is just too unreliable.
Fortunately, there’s… |
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