Japanese automakers Toyota, and Honda, and other have been hit by the recent earthquakes in the country. Toyota said it will stop production on its vehicle assembly lines in stages between April 18 and 23 because of parts shortages ...
Tags: Toyota, Honda, Earthquakes
A signing ceremony was held here Wednesday for China's donation of 1 million U.S. dollars in cash for quake relief in Afghanistan. A 7.5-magnitude devastating earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan in late October this year, leaving ...
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Corsair has demonstrated a new addition to the drivers for its RGB backlit gaming keyboards, making them able to react to feedback from games. The idea is the keyboard could use the 16.5million colours of each key to show things like your ...
Tags: Corsairm, Backlighting, Consumer Electronics
Editor's Note: The Dragon Boat Festival falls on every May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival, bearing the 2000-plus years'Chinese culture and undergoing the ablution of the long history, is still shining for its rich ...
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Teams of researchers with the Scripps Institute, NASA's JPL laboratory and NOAA are working together, representatives from each have reported at this year's meeting of the Geophysical Union, to upgrade monitoring stations in parts of ...
Tags: Scripps Institute, JPL laboratory, NOAA, monitoring stations
Virtual reality has been hyped as the next big thing for decades—and yet,it never seems to deliver.Despite the potential,particularly in the world of gaming,numerous attempts have left players dizzy with disappointment,and just plain ...
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Rare earthquake lights are more likely to occur on or near rift environments, where subvertical faults allow stress-induced electrical currents to flow rapidly to the surface, according to a new study published in the Jan./Feb. issue of ...
Tags: earthquake lights, rift environments, subvertical faults, seismology
Canterbury District Health Board has settled its quake-related insurance claim and will receive the full amount available under its policy of $320 million. Bruce Matheson, CDHB chair, said it was a relief to have the claim settled. "It is ...
Tags: United Effort, Insurance Payout
Nigel Beighton, VP of technology of hosting company Rackspace, outlined the five areas that firms should focus on in order to get the most out of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Speaking at Structure Europe in London, Beighton said ...
Tags: Computer Products, cloud
There are several things without which people cannot live. Just like the cave men cannot live without their fire, people cannot live without water, there are various metals found these days which are considered as the best in a long line of ...
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Way back in 1989, I was a wee Northern California child, but I still remember the day I was knocked off the porch railing (while reading Nancy Drew) by the force of the Loma Prieta earthquake. I was fortunately more resilient than the Bay ...
Tags: Construction, Decoration
An estimated 300 metric tons of highly radioactive water is believed to have leaked from one of the hundreds of storage tanks at Japan's tsunami-crippled nuclear power plant, the operator said on Tuesday as it battled the latest toxic water ...
Tags: Fukushima Plant, Radioactive Water
Australian shares have suffered another sharp fall, losing $26 billion more in value to close down 3.8 per cent for the week, the biggest weekly fall in a year. At 4.15pm AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 78.9 points, or 1.56 ...
Security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in the engines of several popular first-person shooter video games that could allow attackers to compromise their online servers and the computers of players accessing them. Security ...
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Security researchers found serious vulnerabilities in the engines of several popular first-person shooter video games that could allow attackers to compromise their online servers and the computers of players accessing them. Security ...
Tags: Computer Products, software, video games