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Hitachi to replace president, split off businesses

Technology / Business

created Mar 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi Ltd. said Monday that it was replacing its president and splitting off its automotive systems and consumer electronics operations as it braces for a massive loss.





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Scientists improve chip memory by stacking cells

Technology / Semiconductors

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University have developed an elegant method for significantly improving the memory capacity of electronic chips.


Aviation-based team training may influence clinicians' safety behaviors

Medicine & Health / Other

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Team training based on protocols originally developed for aviation crews may change safety-related behaviors and contribute to perceptions of empowerment among nurses and other surgical staff, according to a report in the ...


EPA, Army Corps urged to consider separating Great Lakes, river basin

Space & Earth / Environment

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The once-radical idea of somehow plugging the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to stop the flow of unwanted species from spilling between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basin is quickly picking up political support.


Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk (AP)

Stern's threat to quit Sirius could be empty talk

Technology / Business

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(AP) --Howard Stern is threatening to leave Sirius XM Radio Inc. now that the shock jock and the satellite radio provider are getting set to enter contract talks in 2010.


'Invisible bracelet' for emergency health alerts?

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

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(AP) -- Emergency health alerts for the Facebook generation? The nation's ambulance crews are pushing a virtual medical ID system to rapidly learn a patient's health history during a crisis - and which can immediately text-message ...


Intel Announces Next-Generation Atom Platform

Intel Announces Next-Generation Atom Platform (w/ Video)

Electronics / Hardware

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Intel Corporation announced new Intel Atom processors today that feature integrated graphics built directly into the CPU, enabling improved performance and smaller, more energy-efficient designs in a new generation ...


Physicists propose quantum entanglement for motion of microscopic objects

Physics / Quantum Physics

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Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have proposed a new paradigm that should allow scientists to observe quantum behavior in small mechanical systems.


Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Marketing Professor Studying Adolescents' Sources of Happiness

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lan Nguyen Chaplin, an assistant professor in the Eller College of Management, says children and teenagers, in finding happiness, do not always place material things before personal relationships.


NASA Flight Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side

NASA Tests Unique Jumbo Jet with Opening in Side; Plane's Airborne Telescope Will Be Used to Study Cosmos

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A NASA jumbo jet that will help scientists unlock the origins of the universe with infrared observations reached a milestone Friday when doors covering the plane's telescope were fully opened ...


Smarter cars are gaining traction

Smarter cars are gaining traction (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lives can depend on a vehicle's moment-by-moment traction. New European technology promises to make cars as good as experienced, alert drivers at sensing and adjusting to wet, snowy or icy ...



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