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Information technology outsourcing firm Infosys is opening a design and innovation hub in Rhode Island and plans to add 500 jobs in the stat ...
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The India-based outsourcing and information technology company Infosys is opening an office in Rhode Island. ...
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Credit: Leremy/Shutterstock.com The fight against online abuse has put increasing pressure on social media corporations to take responsibil ...
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Credit: Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) A new Finnish invention by EEE Innovations Ltd and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finl ...
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain If you're an old fart like me, you'll remember the days when the internet had magical powers—when it had ...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study by ANU has found Australia can easily meet its 2030 carbon emissions target by replacing coal-fired p ...
Credit: Shutterstock Hundreds of the world's top websites routinely track a user's every keystroke, mouse movement and input into a ...
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This combination of photos show journalists visiting the Tokyo Electric Power Co.,'s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant, top photo t ...
Scientists detected "extremely high" levels of the nuclear isotope ruthenium-106 near the Mayak nuclear facility in Chelyabinsk, t ...
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The company behind internet gambling website PlaySugarHouse.com became the first in the U.S. to let gamblers bet real money online on the ou ...
Shape memory alloy pioneer Cambridge Mechatronics has been named Company of the Year at the TechWorks Awards. Amongst the applications for the company’s technology are autofocus and optical image stab
Uber has admitted that a 2016 data breach put at risk the personal information of 57 million Uber users worldwide and at least 600,000 drive ...
A labor union says workers at a half dozen Amazon distribution centers in Germany have walked off the job, the latest in a string of walkout ...
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Social media is viewed as a potential goldmine of information. The key is to work out how to mine this abundant s ...
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Some information technology companies are growing so concerned about not find enough digital talent that they're training their own. ...
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Dominos DRU delivery robots RE currently in the trial stage but will be able to deliver piping hot food and ice cold drinks to the customers ...
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A new report from ClimateWorks Australia has found that the national demand for gas could be reduced by 25% by 2030 through better energy ef ...
The latest figures from the International Distribution of Electronics Association (IDEA) show demand for semiconductors from European companies continues to grow strongly, with the UK and Ireland maki
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A software tool to be released by the end of this year will show people whether they engaged with Facebook pages or Instagram accounts of th ...
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Researchers from Swiss materials research lab Empa and the University of Geneva (UNIGE) have devised a new battery prototype. Said to be ‘all solid state’, the sodium based battery is claimed to store
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Credit: CC0 Public Domain Power stored in electric cars could be sent back to the grid - thereby supporting the grid and acting as a potent ...
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Singapore has so far avoided the massive traffic jams choking other Asian cities like Manila and Jakarta Driverless buses will appear on s ...
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Makame Makame from the Zanzibar Malaria Elimination Programme holds one of the drones used to map malaria vectors. Credit: Andy Hardy On a ...
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School students have little exposure or understanding of engineering, which is leading most to choose subjects which effectively rule out this career path early in their schooling, according to a repo
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Remy Wenmaekers performed measurements with mannequins on stage to determine the effect of the presence of an orchestra on the acoustics. Hi ...
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