The Texas Instruments (TI) 25th Annual Teachers Teaching with Technology (T3) International Conference will open and close with inspiring STEM-focused keynotes, kicking off with a welcome address by former astronaut and NFL playerLeland ...
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Netherlands-based petrochemicals company LyondellBassell expects to eliminate imported naphtha from its US feedstock mix within the next few years, a company executive said Wednesday. Speaking at the IHS CERAWeek conference in ...
Fast Company and Target Corp. announced plans for the Co.Labs & Target Retail Accelerator, where developers will vie to create a new mobile experience for Target. Fast Company will chronicle the developers’ efforts on its new ...
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China is considering to make changes to its oil pricing mechanism by both shortening the price review period and removing the price fluctuation limitation of a basket of crudes used to adjust retail oil product prices, the official Xinhua ...
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Alstom and NaturEner Energy Canada Inc. have entered into an agreement for the supply of up to 414 MW of wind turbines to be installed at NaturEner’s Wild Rose Projects in Alberta. The agreement includes 138 ECO 110 3.0 MW wind ...
No stranger to agriculture, the eighth plague of Exodus is back, but at least not over American crop fields. Sometimes described as “hell from above,” Egypt and the Middle East have been hit with a massive swarm of locusts some ...
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Off-the-shelf consumer handheld computers are showing up in some of the most precarious of workplaces. For instance, about 1,700 NextEra Energy wind turbine technicians recently began using Apple's iPod Touch handheld devices to help them ...
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Heart attacks and cardiac events are the leading cause of firefighter Line of Duty Deaths (LODDs), resulting in over half of LODDs in 2011. But new technologies, such as the Wearable Advanced Sensor Platform (WASP), show promise in reducing ...
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News Corporation has taken the wraps off its new tablet computer for the school market, saying the device would use "digital innovation to transform teaching and learning". Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate showed the Amplify device at ...
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BOSTON — Sales via mobile devices are rising fast for Joss & Main, a private sale site for home furnishings and decor, the company reports. The two-year old flash sale retailer, which exceeded 3 million members earlier this year, ...
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A Fibertect® decontamination wipe having bleached cotton outer layers around a non-particulate activated carbon center — developed by researchers at Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, Texas — has been demonstrated to ...
McGraw-Hill Education today announced its entry into the higher education gaming market with the launch of McGraw-Hill Practice, a suite of hands-on, experiential learning games that provide the next generation of digital, personalized ...
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IDC is predicting a growth rate of 6% in IT spending in the U.S. this year, an amount that's virtually unchanged from last year. The market research firm blamed a number of economic uncertainties for this flat spending increase, including ...
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A Texas IT services firm has been indicted by federal authorities for using H-1B visa workers to create an inexpensive "as needed" labor force. A multi-count indictment filed last month charged that Dibon Solutions of Carrollton, Texas ...
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Hewlett-Packard's effort to build ARM servers will get a boost from Texas Instruments, which will provide chips based on the latest ARM processor design. The TI chips will be offered as part of Project Moonshot, which is HP's effort to ...
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