A privacy debate has erupted in Japan over a new service from a major rail operator that sells private e-ticket records as marketing data. This week East Japan Railway (JR East), the country's largest rail company, has begun offering for ...
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The Department for Education's (DfE) new English National Curriculum framework is "too focused on the development side of computing", Joanna Poplawska of The Corporate IT Forum's Education and Skills Commission has told Computing. While ...
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The first official images and details of the Opel Monza concept have been revealed ahead of the striking coupe’s Frankfurt motor show debut in September. Despite bearing a name that harks back to the 1970s, Opel CEO Dr Karl-Thomas ...
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The 2013 Next Generation Luminaires (NGL) Outdoor Design Competition was opened on July 8, 2013. The NGL Competition partners include the Illuminating Engineering Society, the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the US ...
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You probably wouldn't expect the topic of human growth hormone (hGH) to cause an uproar at one of the most prestigious cosmetic dermatology conferences in the world. But at the International Academy of Cosmetic Dermatology's 9th World ...
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) today announced a communications campaign urging its membership to enter the "Rebuild by Design" multi-stage regional design competition announced by Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
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Richard Hancock, chief executive officer, National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR). The 14th annual Queensland Supply Chain and Logistics Conference program is now available, listing an extensive line-up of senior executive guest speakers ...
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SIOUX CITY | City officials are considering ending curbside glass recycling and encouraging people to cash in bottles for refunds instead. They said decline in the value of glass has made processing it impractical without passing higher ...
Fujitsu, a leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company, has announced the start of field trials for the production of low-potassium vegetables. Through this field trials, the company plans to produce cultivate ...
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China has built glittering metropolises in the span of roughly three decades of reform and opening. But in an equal span of time, shiny urban centers risk losing their shining façades or even descending into slums thanks to poor ...
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The Einstein Award for 2013 from solar module maker SolarWorld AG of Bonn Germany has been awarded to professor Eicke R. Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) Freiburg, Germany (the largest solar energy ...
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According to the Federal Highway Administration, in 2011 143,899 bridges were either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete, with a surface area exceeding 89 million square meters. The American Society of Civil Engineers' 2009 ...
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The federal government is happy to point out that more than 50 percent of physicians and 80 percent of hospitals are using electronic health record (EHR) systems, with those users having received some $14.6 billion in meaningful use ...
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Whatever your reason may be to have plastic surgery, it is not a decision to be taken lightly. In choosing a plastic surgeon to perform very risky operations, one should be educated in the background of the chosen physician. Dr. Kevin ...
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"Absolutely, categorically untrue. An urban myth." That's how National Lighting Bureau Chair Howard P. Lewis (Visioneering Corporation) describes claims that compact-fluorescent lamps (CFLs) pose a fire hazard when they reach the end of ...