Seaboard Triumph Foods (STF) is set to begin commercial operations at its new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa from 5 September 2017. STF said that the new facility will make use of robotics and other technologies to supply a ...
In a bid to get more of you fooling around in virtual reality, Nvidia has launched a cracking new deal on some of its VR-ready graphics cards. Starting from Tuesday, April 25, anyone who buys one of the following graphics cards will get ...
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The outline for China’s 13th five-year plan isn’t exactly summer beach reading: The 65,858-character document, which lays out in broad terms how China’s leaders want the country’s economy to develop between now and ...
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Archaeologists unveil the tragic story of a historic sea battle more than a century ago as they excavate an ironclad warship, Wang Kaihao reports. An iconic Chinese warship and the 245 officers-soldiers and crewmen who have been keeping a ...
Tags: Archaeologists, Sunken Heroes
Microsoft has finally made good on long-awaited plans to stream Xbox One games via the Oculus Rift. In the summer of 2015, Microsoft excited Xbox fans and early VR adopters with an announcement that the Oculus Rift would eventually ...
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We take a look at nine phones that helped Android become the world's most popular mobile OS. Android may be the world's most popular mobile OS (currently, around 87% of smartphone users are Android adherents) but it didn't get there ...
Appvion has expanded its Triumph Treated High-Speed Inkjet Paper line with the introduction of Triumph Treated Universal. Triumph Treated Universal High-Speed Inkjet Paper is engineered to run smoothly and effectively on both dye-based ...
Oscar-winning French director Jean-Jacques Annaud denounced Academy Award organizers yesterday after his Sino-French co-production, Wolf Totem, was dropped from the Oscar race for being insufficiently Chinese. Annaud said he was ...
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When the 13th-century Italian merchant and traveler Marco Polo finished his famous book The Travels of Marco Polo, he couldn’t have imagined that seven centuries later his adventures in China would be adapted into a seven-hour film. ...
Tags: film, China's film industry, co-production
When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
Tags: corn, Pork, Smithfield Foods
Northwest Iowa has become the epicenter of the bird flu story that's developed over the last few weeks, with continued culls ordered as more birds -- now more than 20 million -- become exposed to the virus. Yet, now there's news that the ...
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Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods have formed a joint venture to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The site work is expected to begin this summer and construction wil be completed by July 2017. The plant is ...
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In an announcement on March 31, Montana-based Daily’s Premium Meats disclosed plans of setting up a new pork factory in St. Joseph, Missouri, with operations to start in May 2016. With construction to commence in summer, the $41.5m ...
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From Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Minions to Bing! and The Clangers, our Retail Advisory Panel believes that strong film and TV licenses will help the industry to another successful year. Growing consumer confidence and the ...
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Webber triumphed over 11 other children at the live Grand Final of the word game tournament, held at the Magic Circle. Ten-year-old Louis Webber of Woodside Junior School in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, has beaten 15,000 other primary ...