China's strangehold on the global supply of rare earth metals is shaking up diplomatic and trade ties in Asia as rival economies seek alternative sources of the key industrial materials. World Politics Review (paywall) reports that ...
Tags: China, Japan, Kazakhstan, Rare Earth, Rare Earths, USA
China's People's Daily on Tuesday weighed in on the current stand-off with Japan over the Diaoyu islands – the Japanese calls them the Senkaku islands – and how it could affect the rare earth industry. The paper is the ...
Tags: China, Japan, Rare Earth, Metallurgy
Japan's Finance Ministry has uncovered evidence of a major Trojan cyber-attack on its computer systems that lay undetected for almost two years, according to local sources. Ministry officials have admitted that the unspecified Trojan, ...
Tags: Japan, Finance Ministry, Trojan cyberattack, computer systems
Celebrated lighting designer Sean Burke is taking Europe by storm with dramatic Vari-Lite powered lighting on Jennifer Lopez's world tour. Burke - who has designed lighting for many of the world's biggest stars including Seal, Miley ...
Tags: lighting designer, lighting, Jennifer Lopez, Philips
Packaging is increasingly recognised as a vital weapon in the fight against food waste. Philip Chadwick reports on how the flexible plastics sector is innovating to play its part in packaging's biggest challenge It's a staggering figure ...
Tags: food, drink, wasted, Packaging, flexible plastics, keeping food fresh
The National Rifle Association(NRA)today proposed placing armed guards at every U.S.school to safeguard against another mass shooting like the one that took place in a Connecticut elementary school last week. "The only thing that stops a ...
Tags: NRA, Smart gun technology, biometrics, RFID technology
In the latest James Bond film, Skyfall, smart gun technology prevents a bad guy from using Bond's own Walther PPK to shoot him. Far fetched? Not at all. And, in the wake of the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, ...
Tags: smart gun, smart gun technology, weapons ban, NJIT
I did something online the other day that I don’t often do. But heck, if you’re honest, you’ve probably done it too. I bought a Christmas gift on Amazon. After all, it ‘tis the season for online shopping. My real ...
Tags: Amazon, online shopping, online retailer, Supply chain
Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to experts in cyber conflict. The analysis comes in response to a recent article, titled “U.S. Admits to Cyber ...
Tags: cyber war, cybercrime, Future warfare
An Evanston Township High School student has been charged with disorderly conduct after he brought a toy gun to school this week, authorities said. Adel Mohammed Sobhi, 19, of the 800 block of Mulford Street, was charged Wednesday with ...
Public cloud updated Sega's courier distribution to testers How a combination of public and private cloud helped Sega Cloud project yielded cost-control benefits for Sega Overcoming interoperability issues in private and public cloud The ...
New York City is using a new data aggregation and real-time analytics tool to combat crime and terror threats in the city. The new Domain Awareness System (DAS), developed jointly by the New York Police Department and Microsoft, gives ...
Tags: New York Police Department, Microsoft, DAS, analytics tool
The first round of Windows 8 tablets and laptops coming out later this year will be "just the beginning" of a range of form factors and styles that will evolve as the operating system matures, according to the president of a major Taiwanese ...
Tags: Acer, computer, form factors, highlightedpost, jim wong, laptops, tablets
Even as the dog at the center of a global animal rights battle was put to death on Wednesday, social networks proved to be a massive weapon for protestors. Lennox, a seven-year-old black dog who lived with his family in Belfast, Ireland, ...
Tags: Belfast Dog, Supporters, Facebook, Twitter
A Missouri University of Science and Technology effort to investigate environmentally benign, corrosion-resistant coatings for military aircraft and other weapons systems has received national recognition from the U.S. Defense Department. ...
Tags: Environmentally Benign Coatings Project, National Award