Rare Consulting, a division of infrastructure consultancy pitt&sherry, is working with the NSW government's Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) agency to build an evidence bank demonstrating the performance of environmental technologies. ...
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Google said Thursday it will by default encrypt data warehoused in its Cloud Storage service. The server-side encryption is now active for all new data written to Cloud Storage, and older data will be encrypted in the coming months, wrote ...
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Intel, increasingly customising server chips for customers, is now tuning chips for workloads in big data. Software is becoming an important building block in chip design, and customization will help applications gather, manage and ...
Some level of government surveillance is “essential” if the nation is to minimize the incidence of terrorist strikes like the Boston Marathon bombing, according to Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. In a rare interview with CBS This ...
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The administration of U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday launched a review of whether the country uses optimally advancements in technology to protect its national security while preventing unauthorized disclosure and maintaining public ...
Businesses are collecting more information about individuals than ever, but almost two thirds of people aren't aware what data about them is being collected or don't know it's being collected at all. Further reading Ninety per cent of ...
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We’re now into our sixth year since the amended Canadian hours-of-service regulations came into effect on Jan. 1, 2007. Remember those heady days? I remember being impressed by the sleep research that had been done leading up to those ...
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Alpha Packaging, a manufacturer of bottles and jars, has selected InfinityQS ProFicient to automate data collection, take control of quality, and achieve visibility across its manufacturing operations. The company, which deployed the ...
Alpha Packaging, a maker of bottles and jars for nutritional and pharma products, has implemented InfinityQS ProFicient to automate its data collection, quality control, and achieve full visibility across its manufacturing process. The ...
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Industrial Production Operation in July 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 15:38:20 In July 2013, the total value added of the industrial enterprises above designated size was up by 9.7 percent year-on-year (the ...
Investment in Fixed Assets for January to July 2013 National Bureau of Statistics of China 2013-08-09 15:43:56 From January to July 2013, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 22,172.2 billion yuan, up by ...
From January to July, the private investment in fixed assets reached 14,120.1 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.3 percent in nominal terms, down by 0.1 percentage point over the first six months. The proportion of private ...
Government requests to Twitter to reveal private information about users has rocketed by 40 per cent in the first six months of this year, the social media company has revealed as part of its bi-annual transparency report. The report, ...
A skeptical but mostly respectful crowd of Black Hat security attendees Wednesday listened intently as National Security Agency Director Keith Alexander defended controversial U.S. surveillance programs in a keynote address. The nearly ...
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Several U.S. senators will push for changes in the way the National Security Agency collects the telephone records of millions of U.S. residents, with lawmakers saying they will focus on making the NSA program more transparent to the ...
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