Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided its CIS solar panels for a 'solar sharing' experiment on Sado Island, Niigata ...
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Mondelez International has announced that it would invest $15m to open a new global research, development & quality (RDQ) facility in Bielany Wroclawskie, Poland. The company has started the construction of the new site, which is expected ...
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Truly Spiked & Sparkling today announced its new, clean and refreshing spiked sparkling water will be available to drinkers all around the country. At 100 calories and 2 grams of carbs per serving, Truly Spiked & Sparkling (5% ABV) is the ...
VI Systems GmbH of Berlin, Germany (a fabless spin-off of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St Petersburg, Russia) has demonstrated a record transmission distance of 2.2km of multimode OM4 ...
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Swedish car company Volvo announced that it will be testing its autonomous vehicles in China with local drivers and on public roads in every day driving conditions. For this experiment, Volvo will use 100 autonomous cars. In the ...
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With China's virtual reality (VR) market heating up, China-based VR start-ups have begun to push what they calim to be their unique VR technologies. China-based first-tier Internet service providers Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have also been ...
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Something is happening with Project Ara, Google's modular smartphone project. Remember Project Ara? You might not, given the relative radio silence of the team behind it in recent months, but it's been in the works for years now. Way ...
FoldedColor Packaging has made it easy for businesses, designers, retailers and brand managers to test box sizes and styles before creating and ordering custom-printed folding cartons. Unprinted, cut-to-spec prototypes are available for ...
This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
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Researchers from the Stanford University in the US have developed renewable plastic from carbon dioxide (CO2) and inedible plant material, creating a green alternative to petroleum-based plastic bottles and other polyester products. ...
Tags: CO2, Renewable plastic, Plant material
Boston Beer Company has launched Samuel Adams nitro beers across the US, after three years of trials. The three new ales - Nitro White Ale, Nitro IPA, and Nitro Coffee Stout, are the result of Samuel Adams Nitro Project. 'Nitro' refers ...
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U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars. Images taken from the Mars orbit showed dark, finger-like markings that, typically less than ...
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The International Space Station on Monday reached another milestone: the orbiting laboratory has been home to astronauts and cosmonauts for 15 consecutive years. Although placed in orbit in 1998, the station did not welcome its first ...
Chile's ALMA observatory says it is joining forces with other space observatories around the world to create a virtual earth-sized telescope capable of visualizing objects on the moon. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or ...
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U.S. space agency NASA said Tuesday it has suspended the planned launch of a Mars lander called InSight in March 2016 due to unsuccessful attempts to repair a leak in a French-built seismological instrument. "The bottom line is that we're ...
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