The record cold across the Midwest contributed to the cancellation of thousands of flights and stopped some trains in Chicago, Bloomberg News reported. More than 4,000 U.S. flights were canceled Monday, and Amtrak stopped service in and ...
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Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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As I look back at the more than 100 tech products we reviewed in 2013, a handful of gadgets and services deserve a second look. It's become clear that one brand rarely stands out any more in whatever product category you look at. ...
Tags: tech products, camera phones, Laptops, Internet television
Before we get started you should probably understand what the Iris is. Iris is basically a smart system for your home that really does everything except make coffee. You can detect intruders, set pin codes for your door locks, monitor the ...
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The current volatility of crude oil spreads like Brent/WTI and Brent/LLS are a sign that, when it comes to light, sweet crude in the US, refining capacity limits are being reached, Ed Morse, head of commodities research at Citigroup, said ...
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Paraxylene market participants expect another tough round of negotiations for the Asian Contract Price for October amid tight PX supplies and a bearish downstream purified terephthalic acid market, sources close to the negotiations said ...
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The 1 million square-foot Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi plant in West Point, Miss., will sit on a 570-acre site, employ 500 and include production, warehousing? and operations facilities. Yokohama Tire Manufacturing Mississippi ...
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The boss of Infiniti admits the luxury car maker needs to 'de-Americanise' its line-up to achieve success on a global scale. Sold exclusively in the US for almost 20 years from its 1989 formation until its European launch in 2008, ...
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As Leisure Trends Group broadcast its 2013 Pre-Interbike Sales Trends webinar live from a soggy and flooded Boulder, Colo., the topic of weather was impossible to ignore. ? While 2012 was the year of much sun and no rain across the ...
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The price spread between Asian paraxylene and isomer-grade mixed xylenes shrank $9/mt day on day to a one-year low of $175/mt on a CFR basis Wednesday as PX prices turned top heavy while MX remained bullish, Platts data showed. Asian ...
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Outspoken former BMW Group design chief Chris Bangle believes today’s car designers are stuck in a rut and says the industry’s inability to view itself objectively is holding back progress. Bangle told industry journal ...
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Smartphones and tablets have moved from executive toys to essential work tools, according to customers on a panel at the AirWatch Connect conference in Melbourne. However, smart mobile devices have not replaced laptops in all cases, they ...
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Solid-state drive adoption will continue to grow and it will be more than 10 years before it is ultimately replaced by a new memory technology, experts said. SSDs are getting more attractive as NAND flash gets faster and cheaper, as it ...
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Iridium and ruthenium prices drifted lower this week on lack of industrial interest and excess supply among traders and consumers. The Platts New York Dealer price range for iridium fell to $725-800/oz this week from $775-850/oz last ...
Researchers in the U.S. have managed to spoof GPS (Global Positioning System) signals to send a yacht hundreds of meters off course, while fooling the crew into thinking the yacht was remaining perfectly on course. The test, conducted ...
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