Details of the new additions to Porsche Australia’s showroom in 2014. Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet (April) The Porsche 911 Turbo and Turbo S cabriolet models will arrive in April, joining their hardtop counterparts that launched in ...
This year's 30th Chaos Communication Congress (30C3) in Hamburg from December 27 to December 30 carried numerous informative presentations, including a reverse-engineering story about SD cards, which two investigators explored for malware ...
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Smarter, more efficient electricity meters aim to revolutionise energy distribution but WA researchers fear hackers could easily exploit numerous security flaws and wreck havoc on power grids. Smart meters measure a customer's electricity ...
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A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Germany has found that a species of hornworm uses nicotine it gets from eating tobacco plants, as a means of defense. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...
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Details of the new additions to Renault Australia’s showroom in 2014. Renault Megane facelift (Q2) The entire Renault Megane range will be updated with the French brand’s new family face, already seen on the Clio, Koleos and ...
Details of the new additions to Kia Australia’s showroom in 2014. Kia Soul (February) The second-generation Kia Soul retains the funky, youthful styling of the original yet promises a more mature, rounded package when it launches ...
Using the new capabilities of the upgraded Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), scientists have discovered previously-unseen binary companions to a pair of very young protostars. The discovery gives strong support for one of the competing ...
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In a study published November 20, 2013 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers looked at the association of nut consumption with total and cause-specific mortality among 76,464 women in the Nurses' Health Study and 42,498 men in ...
Details of the new additions to Honda Australia’s showroom in 2014. Honda CR-V diesel (January) A long-awaited diesel engine option joins the Honda CR-V range in January, as the Japanese brand belatedly attempts to cash in on SUV ...
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Trubodetal, a subsidiary of Russia-based pipe producer OMK Group, has announced that it has shipped mounting units for the Bubnovka compressor station. Under the order from Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, the plant produced 299 units. They ...
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In the first 29 days of December this year, Turkey's steel export volume decreased by 6.8 percent year on year and by 4.8 percent month on month to 1.43 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association ...
Tags: Steel Exports, Mineral
The Turkish Steel Producers' Association (TCUD) has said that the steel industry performance in 2014 will be dependent on the industry's competitiveness, the demand trend in the domestic market, the recovery in export markets, mainly in ...
Tags: Crude Steel Output, Mineral
According to the American Iron and Steel Institute, in the week ending December 28, 2013, US domestic raw steel production was 1,773,000 net tons while the capability utilization rate was 74.0 percent. Production was 1,785,000 net tons in ...
Major Pilbara iron ore ports including Dampier, Cape Lambert and Port Hedland had to shut down due to cyclone Christine making landfall in the north of Western Australia on Monday, December 30, according to Reuters. The ports evacuated ...
On December 30, Inner Mongolia-based Chinese steelmaker Baotou Iron and Steel Co. (Baogang) announced that it plans to issue 8.255 billion shares to its controlling shareholder Baogang Group and six other companies. The total of RMB 29.8 ...