BASF is expanding its range of the melamine resin foam Basotect with a version which has been developed specifically for use in visible applications. The new Basotect B is white and meets the highest demands when it is used as a sound ...
The Bon-Ton Stores, Inc. announced its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Daniel T. Motulsky to its Board, effective August 1, 2014. Mr. Motulsky, 52, was a Managing Director and Global Head of Consumer & Retail of Lazard from ...
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H. Kenneth Greeson of Cotton Incorporated and Adam R. Varley of Vartest Laboratories Inc. were honored by the AATCC Technical Committee on Research (TCR) with the TCR Service Award in recognition of their achievements and service to AATCC. ...
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The first room-temperature light detector that can sense the full infrared spectrum has the potential to put heat vision technology into a contact lens. Unlike comparable mid- and far-infrared detectors currently on the market, the ...
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Research into the emerging field of quantum computing will be carried out at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS) at Tsinghua University in Beijing using recently purchased plasma systems from UK-based etch and ...
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Packaging and distribution of goods is a multi-billion dollar industry. Yet damage to goods while in transit has a financial impact on companies and consumers, also in the millions of dollars, according to national industry advisory ...
Colorful, see-through solar cells invented at the University of Michigan could one day be used to make stained-glass windows, decorations and even shades that turn the sun's energy into electricity. The cells, believed to be the first ...
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As well as giving gamers the chance to enter an online world as a double agent and infiltrate a corrupt government, new online alternate-reality game Apocalypse of MoP also uncovers players' perceptions of provenance and how this affects ...
As Fashion Week closes in Manhattan, New York's outer boroughs are offering a glimpse of what the best-dressed techies will be wearing this Valentines Day: electronic-embedded costumes for a video game that demands hand-holding. There's ...
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What people who are increasingly demanding graphene commercialization avenues often miss is that a good portion of the research into the “wonder material” remains just figuring out what it can do. In the continuing research to ...
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A streetwear clothing store in Bergenfield, N.J., will sell you a camouflage hoodie for about 0.10862 bitcoin. It's received bitcoins for online orders, but so far no one has walked into the Jeffersons storefront and asked to pay with it. ...
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Even if you're not shouting it from the housetops, there's a good chance the structure of your Facebook neighborhood will identify your romantic partner. From a map of Facebook friends, a computer algorithm developed by Jon Kleinberg, the ...
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Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO:Satya Nadella,who as executive vice president of the company's Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company's back-end server ...
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It's an annoyance for the individual computer user:You've updated your operating system,and now you need to reboot.This is so the computer can switch to the modified source code. Imagine,however,having to update and reboot hundreds or ...
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From the world of nanotechnology we've gotten electronic skin, or e-skin, and electronic eye implants or e-eyes. Now we're on the verge of electronic whiskers. Researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley ...
Tags: Sensors, nanotechnology, Electrical, Electronics