Ford Motor Company is introducing a new Obstacle Avoidance System, designed to enable auto-driver mode and takes control of the steering when a risk of crash is detected. The new system will first warn the driver about collision risks and ...
Tags: Ford, Auto-Driver Technology
Many consumers are shying away from LED lighting due to potential harm blue LED bulbs can have on the retina of the eye. The media has even confused blue lights emitted from blue-ray and blue LED light. So what exactly are blue LEDs then? ...
China has this week ordered 58 companies, ranging from steel, coke and cement producers, to cut excess production capacity by the end of the year, in the latest attempt to ease overcapacity in bloated sectors. This is the third batch of ...
Tags: Overcapacity, Metallurgy
A new hatchback will reportedly join the body style line-up for the new-generation Mercedes-Benz C-Class that will make its debut at the 2014Geneva motor show debut next March. US site Edmunds says Mercedes insiders have revealed the new ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, C-Class
Office furniture,?especially the desk, often reflects the personality of the person sitting behind it as well as the values of the company. It's important to put some thought into what you purchase. While buying a used desk can save you ...
Tags: Furniture, Furnishing, Desk
Companies in China, whose tainted milk powder scandal in 2008 left six dead and more than 300,000 sick, are vaunting tie-ups with French dairies to shore up their image but some fear this could backfire for Paris. Chinese firm Biostime ...
Tags: Dairy Firms, milk powder
The New York Times website was unavailable to its readers yesterday afternoon in the US, after a cyber attack on the organisation's web host, Melbourne IT. Twitter, which uses Melbourne IT as a domain name registrar, was also affected by ...
Tags: Computer Products, webservice
Germany-based researchers claim a record on-current for an enhancement-mode (e-mode) gallium nitride (GaN) metal insulator semiconductor heterostructure field-effect transistor (MISHFET) on silicon (Si) substrate [Herwig Hahn et al, Jpn. J. ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, E-Mode
The Audi A8 and S8 have been teased ahead of the duo’s world premiere next week. Shown in the clip hidden under covers with only a grille, cross-drilled ceramic brake package and headlight partially shown, the luxury pair is all but ...
Tags: Audi A8, Luxury Limousines
Toyota has launched two hybrid versions of the Japanese domestic market’s 11th-generation Corolla. Launched together –and differing from the Australian, European and US markets’ small car of the same name – the ...
Tags: Corolla Axio, Toyota
GP practices could be investigated by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) if they fail to warn patients that identifiable data will be extracted from their electronic health records to be used by the National Health Service (NHS) ...
Tags: GPs, EMIS Group software
The web porn filter praised by David Cameron recently is operated by Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications firm that politicians in the UK and US have voiced concerns about. According to the BBC, UK-based employees of Huawei have the ...
Mercedes-Benz has used the Open Championship at Muirfield in the UK to unveil its take on the humble golf buggy. Dubbed the Mercedes-Benz Vision Golf Cart, the design study is the result of an international competition that saw people ...
Tags: Mercedes-Benz, Golf Cart
The Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) gave shippers and consumers a heads up today that, once again, delays and prices could increase due to flooding. Flooding this year in southern Manitoba is expected to "rival that of 2009, which ...
Tags: Transportation, Auto Parts, truck
To reduce driver distraction, Garmin is introducing an aftermarket heads-up display that works with smart phones to shine navigation information on the windshield. The benefit is seen as reducing the distance the driver's eyes need to ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics