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Five ways Justin King turned around Sainsbury's

2014-01-30 13:27:09| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Five ways Sainsbury's turned itself around

Oil giant's old grounds to be turned into a $1 billion...

2014-01-19 01:19:43| Chemicals - Topix.net

The 35-acre Exxon Mobil Chemical campus on the Katy Freeway in west Houston has been purchased by developer planning to build $1 billion mixed-use project with office buildings, shops, a hotel and residential units.

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How the Green Deal turned into the green disaster

2014-01-18 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: It would be, the climate minister said, the "biggest home improvement programme since the second world war" and "a massive economic and job opportunity". But the Green Deal, launched in January last year as the government's main way of encouraging householders to make their homes more energy efficient, has been more of a whimper than the "transformational" scheme that Greg Barker promised. While more than 100,000 people have signed up for the first stage of the deal an assessment where an expert...

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Youll be amazed at how these government researchers turned your smartphones camera into a radiation dose meter.

2014-01-13 15:52:20| Extremetech

Government researchers have written an Android app that lets your phone's camera act as a gamma radiation detector. We're not talking about the same quality of detection as a commercial detector or dosimeter, but if you spend a lot of time in planes, or you live in an area with high levels of natural background radiation (granite, limestone, high altitude), you might soon use your smartphone as a cheap, fairly accurate gamma radiation detector. Such a smartphone app could be a huge boon for emergency services who are first on the scene at a radiation leak and aren't equipped with the correct radiation gear, too.

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