The idea of a street-legal, reliable, largely stock 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine making nearly 300lbft of torque might have seemed ludicrous 10 years ago, but the components of the MP275 Focus ST performance upgrade not only combine to ...
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The Taiwan Cabinet or its executive ministry plans to spend roughly NT$36 billion (US$1.16 billion) over the next nine years on its “Productivity 4.0” project beginning this year, with the aim of boosting the island's total ...
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Communications and information technology company Nokia has signed a deal to sell its HERE digital mapping and location services unit to a consortium comprising Audi, BMW Group and Daimler in a deal worth €2.8bn. The transaction, ...
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The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has for the first time, it is claimed, combined a novel synthesis process with commercial electron-beam lithography techniques to produce arrays of semiconductor junctions ...
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German engineering and electronics firm Bosch has joined hands with Dutch map and traffic information provider TomTom (TOM2) to develop high-precision maps with a view to assisting automated driving. As part of the agreement, TomTom is ...
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A mapping of sustainable textile initiatives by Norden – a regional partnership of Nordic countries – shows that many different perspectives and stakeholders are now working with environmental impacts associated with textile ...
Blue Gold's 2012 drilling program will focus primarily on testing the Main Target, a 1,400 metre by 500 metre zone of gold-copper mineralization associated with monzonite porphyry bodies. A total of 43 holes, averaging only 180 metres in ...
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Garmin International Inc.'s DownVM scanning sonar technology does not infringe upon any patented aspect of Navico Holdings AS’s downscan technology, according to an initial determination made by an administrative law judge (ALJ) at ...
Japanese computerised knitting machine producer Shima Seiki will exhibit at the Première Vision show in New York which runs from July 21 to 22, 2015. “On display will be an updated version of the ‘SDS-ONE ...
KTH-Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has used corrugated epitaxial lateral overgrowth (CELOG) to create heterojunctions consisting of n-type indium phosphide (n-InP) and p-type silicon (p-Si) [Y. T. Sun et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., ...
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Dutch navigation and mapping solutions firm TomTom has launched Trucker 6000 for the benefit of those earning their livelihood driving heavy vehicles. Offering customized routes with a user-specific vehicle type, size, weight, cargo and ...
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Two years after the Rana Plaza disaster killed over 1000 garment factory workers in Bangladesh, the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK, has launched a master’s degree in fashion ethics to answer a wider international industry ...
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G&K Services is now offering Dickies WorkTech Premium Performance Shirts designed with AeroCool performance mesh, which provides ventilation in key areas, ideal for people who work in high heat. Created using body heat mapping technology, ...
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Chinese leaders and economists have said China must up its game to boost export growth against the backdrop of an anemic global economic recovery. SIX-PERCENT GROWTH Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said on Saturday that China is confident ...
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Ford Motor Company displayed an e-bike developed with Dahon Monday that uses rear sensors to warn cyclists of approaching vehicles. The car maker said the bikes are the result of a new experiment to study how electric bicycles can work ...
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