NEW YORK -- Two days after a devastating Hurricane Sandy came ashore in New Jersey and wreaked havoc across greater New York, furniture retailers in the area were reporting store closing disruptions, but no serious damage. However, those ...
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Five design projects that received Architectural Lighting magazine's Ninth Annual Light&Architecture Design Awards incorporated lighting solutions from Acuity Brands,Inc.(NYSE:AYI).These awards recognize lighting design excellence in ...
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You remember the iPod.The iPod created jobs,but a majority of those jobs were overseas.Electronics manufacturing jobs are mostly overseas,which helps to keep one million workers at China's Foxconn plants busy. In contrast,the majority of ...
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memBrain Licensing,a Beverly Hills based licensing and brand marketing firm,announced that Evy of California,a premier manufacturer of apparel for Girls and Juniors,has been appointed to develop and manufacture an"Emily the Strange"fashion ...
At its annual TECHCON technology conference in Austin,TX(at which the latest results of SRC-funded research are shared among university students,faculty and industry experts),university-research consortium Semiconductor Research Corp(SRC)of ...
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Located in the shallows of the UC Berkley's California Native section you will find a sanctuary of glowing light and glass, Sol Grotto. Sol (or sun) and Grotto (cave like area usually located in a garden space), began as a collaborative ...
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With downward price pressures, the excess capacity that providers must have on hand for peak traffic becomes a drag on profits. After the cloud gold-rush era is over, providers will need to find ways to turn that cost center into a profit ...
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The heat-death of the universe need not bring an end to the computing age.A strange device known as a time crystal can theoretically continue to work as a computer even after the universe cools.A new blueprint for such a time crystal brings ...
IBM has climbed back to the top of the global supercomputer list with Sequoia,a 1,572,864 core BlueGene/Q system installed at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory-which has achieved 16.32Pflop/s on the Linpack benchmark. ...
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More than a century after General Electric Co. (GE) built its first research laboratory in an upstate New York barn, it’s wooing Silicon Valley engineers in a bid to connect machines the way Facebook Inc. (FB) links people. New hires ...
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A research database compiled by IP Checkups contains over 100,000 patent documents from worldwide patent authorities, which are filtered into more than 50 LED categories. On a regular basis, LEDs Magazine reports on issues relating to ...
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One report says California is making great strides in residential energy, while another study says growth will do little to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. California is on track to meet an ambitious goal of putting solar panels on up to ...
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One report says California is making great strides in residential energy, while another study says growth will do little to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. California is on track to meet an ambitious goal of putting solar panels on ...
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Despite the hit it took when Solyndra's 1,000 jobs went away, the solar industry is adding positions at a pace that far outstrips the rest of the economy. The solar industry has been in the post-Solyndra dumps. But here comes a timely ...
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The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt,National Design Museum will celebrate outstanding achievement in design this fall with its 12th annual National Design Awards program.Today,Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners and ...
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