NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...
The dollar's coming of age as a global reserve currency has resulted in a $200 billion buying spree by central banks and sovereign wealth funds since the global financial crisis, adding an estimated US6c-US8c to the dollar's value, ...
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Three months from its next edition, Première Vision can already pride itself on a growing number of exhibitors. At this time last year there were 717 registered exhibitors. Today, 753 exhibitors have already confirmed their presence ...
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Forrester founder and CEO George Colony has touted the shift from IT to business technology and urged CIOs to get closer to their marketing colleagues in the age of the customer. Speaking at Forrester’s CIO Forum in London and in an ...
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According to Biing-Jye Lee, chairman of Taiwan-based LED chipmaker Epistar, global shipments of LED light bulbs in 2013 are likely to reach 600 million units compared to 200 million units in 2012, showing an on-year growth of 300%. ...
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A study finds that just 35% of businesses can quickly detect security breaches and 58% store big security data for three months or less. McAfee have released a study that reveals how organisations around the world are unable to harness ...
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In May 2013, the total retail sales of consumer goods reached 1,888.6 billion yuan, up by 12.9 percent year-on-year (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 12.1 percent. The follows are nominal growth rates if there’s no ...
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Despite the hype, only a tiny proportion of firms have moved towards cloud email or cloud office systems, says analyst firm Gartner. There have been a steady flow of headlines about large organisations adopting cloud-based ...
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Choosing a car for a teen can be tough, as there are so many factors to consider. We emphasize safety, reliability, and ease of use for inexperienced drivers in making our ultimate recommendations. We recently posted "Best used car deals ...
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The US saw its biggest ever yearly rise in oil production last year as its booming shale oil industry continues to transform the global oil market, BP said Wednesday. At the same time, global proven oil reserves continue to grow and are ...
Custom MMIC of Westford, MA, USA has added to its growing monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) library of standard products by launching the CMD187 wideband gallium arsenide (GaAs) MMIC amplifier die for RF and microwave ...
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Antilock brakes (ABS) have the potential to reduce motorcycle crash fatalities by 37 percent, according to research by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). To help riders find models equipped with this potentially life-saving ...
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Fujitsu Laboratories of Kawasaki, Japan has developed compact gallium nitride high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT)-based transceiver module technology with an output of 10W operating at frequencies up to the millimeter-wave band. ...
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Northwestern University's Center for Quantum Devices has developed a suface-plasmon (SP) enhancement technique for ultraviolet (UV) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) produced on silicon substrates [Chu-Young Cho et al, Appl. Phys. Lett., vol102, ...
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