High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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Those popular mobile apps that everyone's buying from the official Android and Apple apps stores for business and fun are being torn apart by hackers who turn around and post these abused apps filled with malware, their content pirated or ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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Privacy campaign group Europe vs. Facebook has threatened to take the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to court if it is not satisfied with the DPC's final responses to its 22 complaints about Facebook's privacy policies, and appealed for ...
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ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth around USD 130 million from Kraftnät Åland AB to supply a new power transmission link between the Finnish mainland and Åland. The high-voltage ...
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The outgoing chairman of Jaguar Land Rover parent company Tata Group has personally influenced the design of a number of the premium British marques'vehicles,including the all-new Range Rover. Australian-born engineer and director of Land ...
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The boss of Land Rover Australia says Germany's three powerhouse luxury brands are taking more notice of the premium British SUV manufacturer today than ever before. Jaguar Land Rover Asia Pacific managing director David Blackhall said ...
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The Chinese people's main goal in most negotiations is to establish a relationship for future business opportunities. Guanxi is more important in these cases. The Chinese will spend considerable time on bargaining, drafting agreements, ...
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Google has admitted to the Information Commisioner's Office that it failed to delete all the Wi-Fi data collected by its Street View vehicles. Last month, the ICO demanded proof that the Wi-Fi data collected by the Google Street View ...
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USA - With eight stages of electronic music scattered around downtown Miami Florida and an estimated record attendance of 165,000 over a weekend, the Ultra Music Festival (UMF) is North America's second largest electronic music event. Since ...
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Boeing has announced it will build in Wi-Fi connectivity into its lines of 747-8 and 777 planes from the end of 2013. Boeing said the technology would be installed at the production line stage and enable passengers to use mobile phones, ...
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Companies that specialize in data recovery are still getting many calls for help from businesses and institutions whose equipment was damaged by the effects of Hurricane Sandy. There are multiple efforts underway by services firms to ...
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Google yesterday made good on a promise from earlier this year and shipped Chrome 23 with the "Do Not Track" privacy feature. In September, Google added a Do Not Track (DNT) option to Chrome's precursor, the open-source Chromium, and ...
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Google's Android mobile software platform, as we know, has caused quite a conflict with Oracle, given Oracle's failed lawsuit that claimed Java-like Android infringed on Java patents and copyrights. But now, might Oracle and Google, or even ...
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Hey, Siri, you better look behind you. Google on Tuesday upgraded its Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad, giving the feature a voice search functionality that poses a challenge to Apple's Siri. The app, which is available for free ...
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