Planting more seeds per acre in an effort to maximize yields won't always maximize your return on investment, says Brent Myers, University of Missouri Extension corn specialist. The drought of 2012 and 2013's roller-coaster weather showed ...
Tags: Corn, Agriculture, Food
Solid catalysts based on precious metals, such as palladium, are widely used in industry to promote a range of chemical reactions. Finding ways to minimize the consumption of expensive catalytic materials, however, remains a critical ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Hybrid
While the indoor location market is relatively nascent, companies are already aggressively addressing next-generation, high accuracy (sub-5m) technologies to ensure they are best placed to dominate the emerging multi-billion dollar retail ...
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Based in Grand Rapids, MI, Tekton is a family owned company specializing in affordable, quality, tools, designed with the DIY'er in mind. Their budget friendly line-up covers just about all bases and as anyone who's ever dealt with them ...
Tags: Tekton, ratchets, composite ratchets, Hybrid Hose, air hoses
Cars that park themselves, radar-guided safety sensors and infotainment systems with web access; automakers are competing for customers who now expect constant innovation. The speed at which the new features are migrating from premium ...
Tags: Car, Auto Parts, Transportation
Specialty bedding producer Dormeo Octaspring is rebranding itself as Dormeo N.A. in a move to better reflect its commitment to North American retailers and to U.S. manufacturing, the company said. Along with the new name and a logo ...
Tags: Dormeo Octaspring, Dormeo N.A., rebrand, logo change
When SDSU plant scientist Peter Sexton needed a new row-crop planter at the Agricultural Experiment Station's Southeast Research Farm near Beresford, he looked to the future - in terms of equipment and networking. With support from the ...
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German automaker Audi has unveiled its new crossover concept car, Audi allroad shooting brake, at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. Audi allroad shooting brake is a two-door show car with the combination of ...
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Hybrid Technology, led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, has bid $55 million for Fisker Automotive's assets, just days after a bankruptcy judge in Delaware rejected Hybrid's plan to take over the failed electric-vehicle maker in a ...
Tags: Hybrid, Bankrupt Fisker, Bid War
Some people believe that developing new manufacturing techniques for na noscale devices, like new types of epitaxy in which crystals are grown on a substrate, may in fact be more critical to producing the next generations of chips than ...
Tags: two-dimensional hybrid material, graphene, boron nitride
A hybrid-electric delivery truck leaving a FedEx distribution center in Charlotte, N.C. The “hydrogen economy” just got a nice push from the Obama administration, which is now partnering with the private sector to facilitate a ...
Tags: hydrogen economy, fuel cells, transportation sector, fuel vehicles
Analysts at both Gartner and IDC reported the seventh straight quarter of declining PC shipments, although both firms saw a light at the end of the tunnel. Of the top PC vendors, Lenovo widened its lead over HP and Dell on a worldwide ...
Tags: PC, replacement
Infiniti Cars Australia has officially updated the names of its model range in line with a new nomenclature framework first announced in 2012. Replacing the outgoing G coupe and convertible, M sedan and FX SUV, the new Infiniti Q ...
Tags: Infiniti, Q QX, nomenclature framework, Australia
The United States just nudged out China to be Volvo Car Group’s (Volvo Cars) number one market last year with 61,233 cars sold. December isolated showed a 20.5 per cent decrease due to extraordinary one-time effects in December ...
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Infiniti Cars Australia has officially updated the names of its model range in line with a new nomenclature framework first announced in 2012. Replacing the outgoing G coupe and convertible, M sedan and FX SUV, the new Infiniti Q family ...
Tags: Infiniti Q, FX SUV