* Posts by gonerogue

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Microsoft scrapes Windows Azure name off cloudy kit

gonerogue
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Branding realignment? Maybe not...

The linked article states that they think it is just a billing change, not an overall branding realignment.

"The company isn't clear on whether or not they'll be retaining the Azure branding though, or if this is just a simple change to billing. It appears to be the latter, however, to simplify the way that customers are billed to avoid using the services' names multiple times in one statement."

Lost cities found beneath sands of Sahara by satellites

gonerogue

It's called remote sensing...

The process they probably used is remote sensing, which can be used to detect composition of buried material and things otherwise not discernible to the naked eye. Here's a great primer on what remote sensing is about and how it's applied: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/RemoteSensing/