The Nicaraguan government has granted a concession to a mysterious Chinese company owned by Jing Wang, a little-known Hong-Kong based businessman, to build an inter-oceanic canal. This would provide an alternative to the Panama Canal that, ...
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On a rooftop in the Bronx far from the skyscrapers of Manhattan, 4,760 panels soak up the winter rays. Welcome to the solar power boom in New York state. Robert Kline, director of commercial sales for the Ross Solar Group that installed ...
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Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. have failed to settle their latest patent dispute despite a daylong meeting between top Samsung executives and Apple CEO Tim Cook hosted by a mediator earlier this month. The companies detailed ...
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Samsung unveiled two new computerized wristwatches on Sunday, this time including health sensors and related fitness features to give people a reason to buy one. Samsung's first Galaxy Gear smartwatch came out last fall amid much fanfare, ...
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Volcanoes spewing Sun-reflecting particles into the atmosphere have partly offset the effects of Man's carbon emissions over a 15-year period that has become a global-warming battleground, researchers said Sunday. A so-called hiatus in ...
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When the next super-fast mobile network launches in 2020 you will be able to download a high-definition movie in one second flat. But the future fifth generation, or 5G, network is not really being designed for you. In fact, it will be ...
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According to a new report ‘GaN Semiconductor Devices (Power semiconductors, Opto semiconductors) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013-2019’ from Transparency Market Research, the ...
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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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A high-tech collar attachment that will allow pet owners to monitor their dogs at a distance, checking how much they sleep and how many calories they are burning, was unveiled Thursday in Japan. NTT Docomo, the country's largest mobile ...
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Selecting a Chevy Volt, Tesla Roadster, Nissan Leaf—or one of many other new models—shoppers in the United States bought more than 96,000 plug-in electric cars in 2013. That's a tiny slice of the auto market, but it's up ...
The Facebook deal for WhatsApp drew attention for its whopping price tag, but has also brought out fresh criticism over security for the billions of messages delivered on the platform. WhatsApp, which is to be acquired for $19 billion, ...
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Longstanding Myer CEO and managing director Bernie Brookes has put pen to paper on a new, open-ended contract worth $2 million per annum, plus performance based cash and equity bonuses. At the same time, the experienced retail head as ...
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Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we shop, doctors and insurance companies gather our medical test results, and ...
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Fractals—patterns defined by their scale-invariance that makes them look the same on large scales as they do on small scales—are found in nature everywhere from snowflakes to broccoli to the beating of the heart. In a new study, ...