Using a low-cost apparatus designed to quickly and accurately measure the properties of handheld laser devices, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, an agency of the US Department of Commerce) have tested ...
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Argex Titanium Inc. has joined the American Coatings Association (ACA), a non-profit trade organization representing the paint and coatings industry, including manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and associated technical professionals. ...
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Los Angeles, California, United States of America (Free-Press-Release.com) March 11, 2013 -- Industrial Engineering is a division of engineering working with the optimization of complicated procedures or techniques. It is involved with the ...
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Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new method to convert pulp from crushed wine grapes into a food preservative, biodegradable packaging materials and a nutritional enhancement for use in baked goods. For the study, ...
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Ming Ma, a doctoral student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), has been named the winner of the 2013 Lemelson-Rensselaer Student Prize which (along with prizes for students ...
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IBM's Jeopardy!-winning supercomputer, Watson, may have started out the size of a master bedroom, but it will eventually shrink to the size of a smart phone, its inventors say. The supercomputer is currently performing "residencies" at ...
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In April, AATCC will honor Charles Yang as the 2012 recipient of the Olney Medal for outstanding achievement in the field of textile chemistry. The Olney Medal is the Association’s highest honor. Yang is a world-renowned scholar in ...
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AKHAN Technologies Inc of Hoffman Estates, IL, USA has been granted exclusive diamond semiconductor application licensing rights to low-temperature diamond deposition technology developed by the Center for Nanoscale Materials (CNM) at the ...
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Roszdravnadzor, the Russian healthcare agency, has granted regulatory approval to SpineGuard's handheld, wireless device PediGuard. Available as classic, curved and cannulated designs, PediGuard detects possible vertebral cortex ...
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A U.S. district court judge has ruled that 13 Motorola Mobility patent claims related to digital video are invalid in a patent licensing case brought by Microsoft. Judge James Robart of U.S. District Court for the Western District of ...
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A unique event in the annual schedule is the get-together of journos and industry execs in Santa Cruz. The uniqueness of it is that the journos come from, literally, all over the world: China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Europe, India, ...
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The maker of the Path social networking app will pay a $800,000 civil penalty to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that it illegally collected personal information from children without parental consent, the agency said Friday. ...
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The operator of the Path social networking app has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived users by collecting personal information from their mobile device address books without their knowledge and consent. The ...
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Social networking app Path settled a case with the Federal Trade Commission today, paying $800,000 for allegedly violating kids' privacy on its site. The FTC also released a new privacy report, with recommendations for protecting consumers ...
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Medtronic has completed patient enrollment in controlled, multicenter, prospective IN.PACT SFA II clinical trial of its IN.PACT Admiral drug-eluting balloon device for treating patients with peripheral artery disease in the superficial ...
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