When I started off in electronics, it was the heyday of lead through-hole technology. I used to love all the colors associated with various components, such as the colored bands on the resistors shown below. It wrote in a September blog ...
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Amazon on Friday yanked gibberish translations of classic works from the shelves of its online ebooks shop. An array of titles including "Treasure Island" and "War of the Worlds" billed as translations of famed books into French, Italian, ...
Shoppers struggling to find the right homeware will be helped by the launch of stylishly-curated Unique Home Things. The new online boutique is stocked with an exclusive range of homewares and gifts that are not available on the high ...
Tags: Homeware, Unique Home Thing, furniture, collections
Emser Tile will introduce an extensive line of new product offerings at this year's Surfaces Trade Show in Las Vegas Jan. 28-30. Emser's new introductions will include two porcelain wood look recreations called Parquet (parquet wood/ ...
Tags: Emser Tile, new product, Surfaces Trade Show, Parquet, Modena
One of the most ambitious missions in the history of space goes into high-risk mode on Monday when Europe rouses a comet-chasing probe from years of hibernation. "The most important alarm clock in the Solar System" will end the scout ...
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Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...
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POC has partnered with Volvo Car Group to explore new ideas for protecting road cyclists. Engineers and product designers from both Swedish brands will work together and plan to apply the findings to upcoming products. "With POC's ...
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Steve Ballmer, still Microsoft CEO , is nearly $3.2 billion richer than he was a year ago, his good fortune driven by a 34.5% increase in Microsoft's share price during 2013. Ballmer, who as of September 2013 owned more than 333 million ...
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Lowell Observatory's iconic Clark Telescope is about to undergo a much-needed facelift. After 117 years of constant use, the instrument will be closed for more than a year as engineers and technicians carefully remove telescope components ...
Seattle-based Nordstrom, Inc. announced plans to open a Nordstrom Rack at the Plaza at Jordan Creek in West Des Moines, Iowa. The approximately 35,000-square-foot store is scheduled to open in fall 2014. The Plaza at Jordan Creek is ...
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(By Stefania Fumo) Rome, December 10 - A sensational collection of 180 rare Venetian glass works, paintings, drawings, and furniture donated by Anna Maria Miele and the late Adalberto Vinciguerra opens December 21 in the city of Pesaro's ...
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Should newspapers get into the online learning business? Digital strategist Amy Webb floated the prospect at October's Online News Association conference as one of the top 10 tech trends for 2014 for media companies. As massive open ...
Fed up of buying the usual gifts for loved ones this Christmas? Then why not escape the madness of the High Street this festive season and discover something they’ll treasure forever with a visit to Glass by DnR in south Lincolnshire. ...
When the Chinese meet someone for the first time, they usually ask his/her surname by saying: "May I have your family name?" The family name is an important way of addressing each other. Chinese family name culture, which has survived for ...
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Alzheon announced the launch of the company, the securing of initial private financing, and the signing of an exclusive license agreement to a novel clinical drug candidate for Alzheimer’s disease, a family of analogs, and a drug ...
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