IDG News Service-President Barack Obama pledged on Monday to keep science and technology funding strong following the success of NASA's Curiosity rover landing on Mars. Obama made the commitment in a phone call to the Curiosity team at ...
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The colour of night-time skyglow may be about to undergo a radical change worldwide, according to scientists of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries. They predict that with ...
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The Industrial Designers Society of America(IDSA)has honoured Fluke Corporation with a Gold Award in its International Design Excellence Awards(IDEA®)program,the premier international competition honouring design excellence in ...
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Nowadays we are more and more care about our healthy concerns. And the society has become more aware of the prevalence of germs and bacteria on every surface that we touch. As a result, we are extremely health conscious. We make sure than ...
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Solid-state lighting,the LED in particular,has advanced to become a promising light source because of its ability to save energy and money,reduce environmental pollutants,and provide custom,quality lighting.This advancement could not have ...
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IDG News Service-The U.S.House of Representatives voted late Thursday to send a message to the United Nations'International Telecommunication Union that the Internet doesn't need new international regulations.The vote was unanimous:414-0. ...
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In July, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index was 55.6 percent, 1.1 percentage points lower over the previous month, still staying above the threshold. In view of different industries, non-manufacturing purchasing manager index ...
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Filter Characterisation’ is the main theme of the Filtration Society’s annual conference and exhibition, which returns on 2-3 October 2012 at the Mercure Chester East Hotel, Christleton, Chester, UK. The main one-day event is ...
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July June Increase Rate over Last Month Historical Average in July Non-manufacturing PMI ...
In July, China's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) was 50.1 percent, down by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month, slightly higher than the threshold. In view of the sizes of enterprises, the PMI of large-sized enterprises was ...
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July June Increase Rate over Last Month Historical Average in July Manufacturing PMI ...
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NatWest has admitted the outage it suffered on Thursday 26 July was down caused by a hardware failure in one of its datacentres. The error hit customers around 3pm, leaving them with no access to online banking and unable to use debit ...
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Network World - LAS VEGAS -- To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Black Hat Conference here, a panel of experts got together to expound on what they see as the privacy and security mess of our times, and they had plenty to say about the ...
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The timber trade has given further positive reaction to the publication of the Independent Panel on Forestry’s final report to government. As reported in TTJ, the panel has made the bold recommendation that incentives be used to ...
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The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for immediate action to ensure enough young people study science,technology,engineering and maths(STEM)subjects at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Without ...
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