The data breach at Target Corp. that exposed millions of credit card numbers has focused attention on the patchwork of state consumer notification laws in the U.S. and renewed a push for a single national standard. Most U.S. states have ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics
Changes in the sun's energy output may have led to marked natural climate change in Europe over the last 1000 years, according to researchers at Cardiff University. Scientists studied seafloor sediments to determine how the temperature of ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
According to a new IBM study, 82 percent of CFOs see the value of integrating enterprise-wide data, but only 24 percent think their team is up to the task. This marks a 205 percent increase in the gap between the importance of data and ...
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The Tor Foundation which has made it possible for privacy-bent Tor users to anonymously browse the web is now turning to enabling people to autonomously do instant messaging with a Tor-enabled service, dubbed Tor Instant Messaging Bundle ...
Food packaging is not dangerous, Australian experts have said Australian experts have reassured Australians that the chemicals in plastic food packaging are not harmful to human health. Dr Ian Musgrave, a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty ...
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The French consulting company Yole Développement releases this month its Sapphire Applications and Market: From LED to Consumer Electronics report. This technology & market report provides a detailed analysis of the status and ...
When researchers in Borneo set up camera traps to monitor tropical mammals on the ground, they didn't expect to be photobombed by orangutans. In the wild, humans rarely see the red apes come down from the trees, says Dr. Rahel Sollmann, ...
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The ability to locate and count small numbers of impurity atoms could lead to advances in modern electronics and optical fiber communication networks. In research published today in Physical Review Letters, physicists from Monash ...
Tags: Spectrum Imaging, Measure Atom Concentrations, Atomic Resolution
In the mid-1970s, the first available satellite images of Antarctica during the polar winter revealed a huge ice-free region within the ice pack of the Weddell Sea. This ice-free region, or polynya, stayed open for three full winters before ...
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US environmental authorities made a rare move Friday to block a massive copper and gold mine in Alaska before it even gets under way, in a bid to protect wild salmon. The Pebble Mine project has the potential to be one of the biggest open ...
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Free-standing organ recovery centers could markedly improve efficiency and reduce costs associated with deceased organ donation, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation. The study's findings have ...
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Smartphones rank among the top technology products owned and/or used, and both smartphones and tablets rank among the top five devices used to connect to the Internet across all the countries surveyed in the Consumer Electronics ...
Maple Leaf Foods Inc. today reported its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2013. Adjusted Operating Earnings(1)(2)(3) for the fourth quarter was a loss of $21.7 million compared to Adjusted ...
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Pack-Partners was established in 2007 when it became obvious that the packaging supply chain was confronting a constantly evolving, competitive market place and the traditional "do it in house" paradigm was being challenged in many ...
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Cal Sensors announces the launch of a new line of single channel detectors (SCD) that block unwanted radiation below 1.2 microns.? Exploiting the innate transmission bandwidth of Silicon, the new SCD-Si detectors are packaged with ...
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