Ascend Performance Materials experienced a plant-wide outage that caused unauthorized emissions at its Chocolate Bayou, Texas, chemical facility on Monday, the company said in a filing Tuesday with the Texas Commission on Environmental ...
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Sustained weak demand from North Asian LNG end-users, reflected in the slump in spot prices, has shown little sign of recovering despite the start of the traditionally stronger summer season. Coming out of the April-May shoulder months, ...
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The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
NYMEX July crude settled $1.48 higher at $93.45/barrel Monday, largely holding to overnight gains following better-than-expected eurozone manufacturing data. Weak US manufacturing data put downward pressure on the US dollar, which ...
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Mobile telecoms operator Three UK has gone down for the second time in 24 hours. It comes just five hours after the company said that the problems on its network had been resolved, with services in London being restored first, ahead of ...
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Tom Butler, an electrician for the City of Newton Public Buildings Department, uses tape on a sensor to make an LED street light turn on. Newton, Massachusetts - City crews have installed a series of energy efficient LED street lights ...
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Twitter was back in working order on Monday afternoon after experiencing multiple technical issues earlier in the day that caused some users' tweet streams to not update, among other problems. Due to "an error in a routine change," the ...
Cloud storage service Dropbox users were hit with a widespread service outage this morning that lasted a little more than an hour. Tweets from outraged users around the world appeared to show the breadth of the service outage. According ...
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Seeing a “404 error” or the Twitter “Fail Whale” can really kill a good online buzz. Those kinds of service outages, though, occur on the Internet on a daily basis, as the latest numbers from Outage Analyzer ...
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The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has once again given the major sharemarket operator ASX Ltd a clean bill of health, in line with both of their obligations, but for the second time in two years ASX found itself dealing ...
At least three US PVC producers have announced June price increases, looking to increase June contracts by 2 cents/lb, sources said this week. The initiative was led by OxyVinyls, which announced an increase Monday, and was followed by ...
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The smart grid advancements underway at San Diego Gas & Electric, including the installation of 2.3 million smart meters and an advanced Outage Management System using real-time data from the smart meters, have recently earned the utility ...
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Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys. "Syrian Internet down again since 07:01 UTC (10:00 Damascus time), Wednesday, 15 May ...
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Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts. Internet traffic began flowing across Syria's borders again at 6:26 p.m. Damascus ...
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How do you see what you can’t see? With thermal imaging, you view the radiation or infrared wavelengths emitted by objects. Infrared wavelengths — too long for the human eye to detect — are part of the electromagnetic ...
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