The Hennessey Venom GT has set a new world record to become the quickest street-legal production car ever to make the dash from 0-300km/h. With Guinness World Records officials and VBox timing specialists on hand, the Venom GT set an ...
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In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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The dream of a high school diploma became reality recently for 98 employees of Denimatrix in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Denimatrix is part of the Textile and Apparel Division of Lubbock, Texas-based Plains Cotton Cooperative Association ...
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The first mobile devices with Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon chip, which features an integrated modem, will be shown off later this month, the firm said on Monday. Device makers will show tablets and smartphones with the new ...
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In the quest for a title, protecting your own turf is key, but character and greatness are built on the road, in the harsh environs of the opponent. The away team relies on its unified energy, collective swagger and every advantage to ...
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a consortium of top semiconductor companies are handing out US$194 million to universities for research that addresses the physical limitations of semiconductors and chips. The ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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Texas Instruments has introduced a wideband frequency synthesizer with integrated low phase-noise voltage-controlled oscillator. The device combines a low noise phase-locked loop (PLL) and a phase detector in a frequency synthesiser ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has selected the 2013 recipients of the Institute Honor Awards, the profession’s highest recognition of works that exemplify excellence in architecture, interior architecture and urban ...
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Cargill has secured a deal to acquire two animal feed mills from the bankrupt Pennfield Corporation in the US for US$9.8m. Cargill said today (18 January) that the deal for the mills, located in Mount Joy and Martinsburg in Pennsylvania, ...
Environmental reviews of TransCanada's controversial Keystone XL pipeline have so far ignored the pollution potential of petroleum coke, a byproduct of the diluted bitumen that would get carried by the system, a group opposed to fossil ...
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Cornerstone National Insurance Company (Cornerstone) has deployed ISCS's SurePower Innovation Policy Administration Suite, in an effort to offer user-friendly online capabilities for insureds and independent agents. Implementation in ...
As part of the recent Plant and Animal Genomic Conference held in San Diego, Dr. Don Jones of Cotton Incorporated presented the 2012 Cotton Biotechnology Award to five outstanding researchers that were instrumental in mapping the cotton ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has announced that it will idle its beef processing facility in Plainview, Texas, on 1 February 2013, and lay off 2000 workers. The company has blamed reduced cattle supply resulting from years of ...
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Boston Scientific has treated the first US patient with symptomatic, drug refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in ZERO AF clinical trial of its Blazer Open-Irrigated Temperature Ablation Catheter. The Blazer Open-Irrigated Catheter ...