The Target credit and debit card and personal information breach, which last week was revealed to have affected more consumers than originally thought and which may be linked to attacks on other retailers, is expected to prompt U.S. ...
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A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Sunlight
The EU will announce climate change targets for 2030 next week but sharp differences over priorities and an unwillingness to take the lead while global rivals hang back may result in a modest compromise deal. The 2020 programme is widely ...
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Google is working on contact lenses with special sensors to monitor diabetes blood sugar levels. The lens measures blood sugar levels in tears using a tiny wireless chip and miniature blood-sugar sensor embedded between two layers of soft ...
Tags: Google Crafting Contact Lenses, Google, Health, Medicine
US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of the job cuts came a day after Intel reported that its net profit last year sank ...
NICHICON CORPORATION is aiming for net sales of 200 billion yen in fiscal 2019: 100 billion yen in capacitors and 100 billion yen in NECST (Nichicon Energy Control System Technology) circuit products. To this end, on November 21, 2013, we ...
Tags: NICHICON, NECST Business Headquarters, electric energy
If Google's latest project is successful, the finger prick test for blood sugar levels could eventually become a thing of the past for diabetics. Google X lab is developing a smart contact lens that can measure glucose levels in tears ...
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LED chip, lamp and lighting fixture maker Cree Inc of Durham, NC, USA has introduced the CXB High Bay LED luminaire, claimed to be the first LED fixture designed to compete directly with the 67 million traditional high-bay luminaires ...
Tags: Cree, LED lighting fixtures, CXB High Bay LED luminaire, LED fixture
For fiscal first-quarter 2014 (to end-November 2013), LED chip and component maker SemiLEDs Corp of Hsinchu, Taiwan has reported revenue of $3.4m, down 45% on $6.2m a year ago but level with last quarter. However, LED chip, component and ...
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VeriFone Systems, Inc. announced that The Jones Group Inc. has selected VeriFone solutions to enable mobile payment acceptance and enhance customer experience for its internationally recognized brands, including Jones New York and Nine ...
Tags: Mobile Payment Acceptance, Textile
A team made up of researchers from several countries has succeeded in creating a chip that allows for observation of the interference between silicon photon-pair sources. In their paper published in Nature Photonics, the team describes the ...
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This is a rebound from a 2.5 percent annual decline in 2012 driven mainly by strong growth in DRAM and NAND flash memory markets, the market research firm said. These are expected to rise by 35.0 and 27.7 percent respectively in 2013. This ...
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Epistar Corp (Taiwan’s largest LED chipmaker) says that lots of forward-looking technologies have been developed and now applied to LED chip production, such as novel transparent conductive thin film, compound mirror structures, and a ...
Google recently sent several of its employees to meet with staff from FDA’s medical device branch. Bloomberg speculates that the new product could be tied to biosensors. The employees in question hail from the company’s Google ...
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The proportion of China's demand for LED chips suplied by China-based makers in 2013 increased to 80%, according to LEDinside. China-based LED chip makers generated production value of US$992 million in 2013, up 16.8% on year, and the ...