Toyota Australia has announced the production and sale of its two-millionth locally built car for the domestic market. The milestone comes exactly 50 years after Australia became the first country to build Toyota vehicles outside Japan, ...
Toyota will introduce autonomous driving technologies by the middle of the decade as it aims to improve the safety and convenience of its vehicles and reduce their environmental impact. The Japanese manufacturer’s advanced driver ...
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The BMW i3 range-extender hybrid will cost almost 10 per cent more than the pure-electric variant when it launches in 2014. BMW USA confirmed the petrol-assisted i3 city car would be priced from US$45,200 ($47,800) – a premium of ...
Last week's flat-rolled price hikes appear to be having difficulty gaining traction, particularly in the southern US, buyers said Thursday. "Nothing has changed," said one service center executive in the South. "I don't know, it's going ...
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Rail-delivered (CSX) Central Appalachian thermal coal for November closed higher for the fifth consecutive session on Thursday, rising 25 cents/st to $53.75/st. The CSX spot contract continued to track the price movement in the ...
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EU local and regional authorities want the EU "to urgently introduce mandatory environmental impact assessments for all shale gas and oil projects," the EU Committee of the Regions said Thursday. The committee is the EU's assembly of ...
BlackBerry's co-founders, Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin, are considering weighing in with a counter-bid for the ailing smartphone maker, according to a financial filing made on Thursday. A bid by the pair would represent an ...
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NANOTECHNOLOGY is a hot topic in science. Not a day goes by without news of some clever device forged using components measuring billionths of a metre. But as is often the case, Mother Nature got there long before humans did. Living cells ...
The chief of US spy organisation, the National Security Agency (NSA), Keith Alexander, believes that the US government needs to speed up the process of getting cyber security legislation in place in order to defend the US from attacks. ...
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China's corn production could hit a record high of 215 million tons in 2013 despite drought and flooding in the country's major breadbaskets, according to estimates by two industry organizations. This year's corn output is about 7 million ...
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Stockpiles of iron ore at a sample of 25 major Chinese ports declined last week, according to Tuesday's Xinhua-China iron ore index report. At the end of the Sept 24 to Oct 7 period, inventories of imported iron ore at the ports stood at ...
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German fertilizer supplier K+S AG (SDF.XE) Thursday said its supply capacity hasn't been affected by a recent gas eruption that killed three miners at a German potash mine. "Existing orders are being processed by the K+S sister plants," ...
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Mobile networks have been left outraged at Ofcom's decision to increase the fees that they should pay for mobile spectrum that they have acquired. The communications regulator published a consultation on revising annual licence fees for ...
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Facebook is removing a privacy feature that enables users to remain hidden from searches. Elimination of the "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" setting means Facebook users will no longer have any control of who can look up their ...
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Sumitomo Electric has successfully developed Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) for LED applications that can tolerate high temperature of 150 degrees Celsius, according to a report by Nikkei. The new FPC is developed and manufactured by ...