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Northern China's air pollution reduces life expectancy by 5.5 years
2013-07-08 21:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Air pollution causes people in northern China to live an average of 5.5 years shorter than their southern counterparts, according to a study released on Monday which claims to show in unprecedented detail the link between air pollution and life expectancy. High levels of air pollution in northern China much of it caused by an over-reliance on burning coal for heat will cause 500 million people to lose an aggregate 2.5 billion years from their lives, the authors predict in the study, published...
Siris creator shows off Bright, a predictive assistant that reduces stress, increases productivity
2013-07-02 14:42:30| Extremetech
SRI, the creators of Apple's voice-controlled assistant Siri, is developing a new computerized assistant that watches and analyzes your actions in certain situations, and then helps you by predicting what you will do next. This assistant, called Bright, will overcome the physical bottleneck with human-machine interaction.
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Netflix switches from Silverlight to HTML5 in Windows 8.1, reduces CPU usage dramatically
2013-06-28 13:55:45| Extremetech
With the release of Windows 8.1 Preview, Netflix now supports streaming over HTML5 instead of Microsoft's proprietary Silverlight plug-in. The caveat is that only Internet Explorer 11, which is bundled with Windows 8.1, supports the necessary HTML5 extensions; if you're a Firefox or Chrome user, you'll continue to use the Silverlight plug-in. In our initial testing, the switch to HTML5 sees a massive reduction in CPU usage -- about one third of Silverlight's CPU usage.
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Hose-Continuity Tester Reduces Static-Electric Charge Risk in Transfer Hoses
2013-06-27 06:00:00| Chemical Processing
During product delivery, tank-cleaning or spill-recovery operations, merely grounding the transporting vehicle may not be enough. Static electricity can still accumulate to dangerous levels in isolated metal components of commonly used helix-wire transfer hoses.
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Optical and X-Ray Inspection Software reduces cycle time.
2013-06-26 14:28:31| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
SI v7.46 includes Library Manager, allowing inspection patterns to be assigned efficiently and for convenient use of local and global inspection libraries. With AOI Desktop system S2088-II, software allows live capture of defect image under different perspectives and in color. Product features SPI Closed Loop, for 3D solder paste inspection, supporting automatic correction of print stencil if print image is displaced. Automatic cleaning of paste printer can also be initiated. This story is related to the following:Inspection & Testing Software
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