Some major gains on the Chinese stock market this week trickled through to the ship-recycling sector to boost both sentiment and price. Several weeks ago, levels in China rocketed up to excess those of the Indian sub¬continent (with ...
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The developer of the popular Instapaper software has speculated that Apple’s long-rumoured “iPad Mini” will include some of the same components as the low-priced iPad 2 tablet. Marco Arment, the creator of Instapaper, ...
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Future warfare could be fought by soldiers using bullets and bombs as well as people hunched over laptops according to experts in cyber conflict. The analysis comes in response to a recent article, titled “U.S. Admits to Cyber ...
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Steve DelBianco is worried that the U.S. Congress will soon pass a law allowing states to collect sales taxes from most online sellers. An expected push for online sales tax legislation in Congress in 2013 is a "clear and present danger ...
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Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and Saudi Arabia have imposed a ban on Brazil beef imports, over concerns of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. This move comes after Brazil's recent report, which revealed ...
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Spatial pattern recognition Spatial pattern recognition (SPR) looks for relationships among defect locations on the substrate surface. When detected, spatial patterns can often lead to rapid identification of the defect's root cause (Fig. ...
Tags: MOCVD, MOCVD epitaxial process
LED manufacturers invested heavily in production equipment in 2010–2011, driven primarily by demand for backlighting for flat panel displays in TVs and computers. Although this driver has moderated and there is currently an oversupply ...
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Just like a great family recipe, a good quilt often has a little bit of dash and pinch thrown into its design. To honor this time-honored method, AccuQuilt has released the GO! This and That Die Collection at the International Fall Quilt ...
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Buying gifts for loved ones can be hard. You balance between what they need and what they want, what's reasonably priced, and what is an indulgent luxury. The same could be true for cars. No doubt there are those who have spent time in ...
Tags: Car gifts, Practical gifts, vacuum cleaner, home-made survival kit
Years ago the typical hacking scenario involved a lone attacker and maybe some buddies working late at night on Mountain Dew, looking for public-facing IP addresses. When they found one, they enumerated the advertising services (Web server, ...
SteriPack, a supplier of cleanroom sterilized packaging solutions, has opened a new ISO 13485 Certified manufacturing facility in Lakeland, Florida, US. The new facility will manufacture Pouches, Header Bags, SteriBags , Die Cut Lids ...
Microsemi has developed a new die packaging technology to reduce the size of radio modules employed in implantable medical devices such as pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators by 75%. In addition to implantable medical devices, the ...
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Nicira, the software-defined networking (SDN) startup that VMware purchased for $1.2 billion earlier this year, plans to release an SDN product that runs independent of the underlying hypervisor and hardware that will work in VMware ...
Tags: casado, CTO, data centre, hardware, hypervisor, nicira, OpenFlow
Life Ball Fashion Show 2012 20 years on, the Life Ball in Vienna has become an internationally acclaimed major event and an established recognized platform in the fight against the HI virus. This year’s Vienna Life Ball has ...
Intel’s new 335 series solid-state drives, which were announced Tuesday morning, feature improved performance, lower power consumption and, the company says, better bang for your buck. The 20nm flash memory process is the smallest ...
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