Believing that radon is only a problem in some parts of the country is just one of the myths surrounding the radioactive gas that's responsible for 21,000 lung cancer deaths a year. Elevated radon levels have been found in one in 15 homes ...
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LED lighting firm Philips is currently showcasing new products in Lighting Japan 2013. According to Philips, LED lighting and digital control will become a new market opportunity. Klaas Vegter, chief technology officer of Philips Lighting, ...
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At the recent Consumer Electronics Show, companies unveiled cameras with built-in Wi-Fi, as well as a variety of apps and accessories, to help connect your camera wirelessly—much the way smart phones work. Panasonic has now included ...
Manufacturers who want to keep selling all-metal hips will have to prove that they're safe and effective, according to proposed new rules from the Food and Drug Administration. Incredibly, for the past decade manufacturers have been ...
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The US Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) and DARPA will spend $194m in the next five years under the STARnet initiative to fund six university microelectronics research projects. C-FAR at University of Michigan: Research future ...
The duty-free quota for softwood plywood imports into the EU has been depleted at about the same rate as last year so far in 2013, the European Commission’s DG Taxation and Customs Union has announced. Some 134,417 m3 or 21% of the ...
South Korea-based tier-two LED lighting firms Kumho Electric and Posco LED saw 2012 revenues grow 121% and 184% respectively on year. The firms' 2013 revenues are forecast to show on-year growth of 42% and 150%, reaching KRW123.3 billion ...
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Due to oil and electricity price hikes, the second wave of energy-saving home appliance subsidies introduced by Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in 2012 showed positive effects. According to MOEA, total sales stimulated by the ...
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The China government is likely to levy punitive tariffs on polysilicon makers from Europe, the US and South Korea in the first quarter of 2013. Recently, domestic material makers have been aiming for a price increase. Market observers ...
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New Zealand-based DB Breweries (DB) has deployed SAP's web channel experience management (WCEM) software to set up a web shop. The web shop, which went live at the end of November 2011, will provide online ordering for trade customers and ...
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TDK Corporation announces the opening of TDK-Lambda's new EMEA Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) in Bristol. Located at the Bristol and Bath Science Park, the Advanced Technology Centre has been set up to accelerate TDK-Lambda's current and ...
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At this year’s Summernats 26 car festival in Canberra, the Guinness World Record was broken for the most number of cars in a simultaneous burnout. A total of 69 cars took part in the tyre-frying, record-breaking event, creating a ...
A Philips information management system, which is used in making administrative chores in hospital more efficient, contains vulnerabilities that can be exploited to gain full control of the product, a security vendor said on Thursday. ...
At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, Israeli firm PrimeSense showed how their depth sensor, called Carmine, is being put to use in myriad applications. And a smaller version of the sensor may soon be ...
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Researchers from a Poland-based vulnerability research firm on Friday announced that they had found vulnerabilities in Java 7 Update 11 that can be exploited to bypass the software’s security sandbox and execute arbitrary code on ...
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