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Photos of the Day: Trains Collide
May 20, 2013 9:14 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsMetro-North employees work at the site of Friday's train derailment in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding 2,000 feet of track, overhead wires and signals following the collision between two trains Friday evening that injured 72 people, Metro-North President Howard Permut said Sunday.
Train Collision Disrupts Service
May 20, 2013 9:13 am | by John Christoffersen, Associated Press | News | CommentsConnecticut commuters planned for long, slow trips to and from work Monday following last week's train collision that that injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. It took Gary Maddin of Milford an hour to make what is normally a 20 minute drive from his home to the Bridgeport train station. From there, he planned to board a shuttle bus to Stamford where he could catch a train to Grand Central Station in New York.
Judge Delays Ex-BP Engineer's Trial
May 17, 2013 4:48 pm | by Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | News | CommentsA federal judge in an order Friday agreed to postpone the trial of a former BP engineer charged with deleting text messages about the company's response to its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The judge also had some stern words for attorneys on both sides.
H.B. Fuller Enters the Electronic & Assembly Materials Market with New “Eco-system” Approach
May 17, 2013 2:22 pm | by H.B. Fuller Company | H.B. Fuller Co. | News | CommentsH.B. Fuller Company has announced that the company is entering the growing electronics and assembly materials market with a total solutions “eco-system” approach that includes materials, processes and equipment support from the concept phase to the consumer’s hands.
World’s Smallest Droplets
May 17, 2013 2:21 pm | by David Salisbury | News | CommentsPhysicists may have created the smallest drops of liquid ever made in the lab. Evidence of the minuscule droplets was extracted from the results of colliding protons with lead ions at velocities approaching the speed of light. These short-lived droplets are the size of three to five protons. To provide a sense of scale, that is about one-100,000th the size of a hydrogen atom or one-100,000,000th the size of a virus.
Why Google Glass?
May 17, 2013 2:12 pm | by TED | Videos | CommentsIt's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up.
Chaos Group’s V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp Now in Open Beta
May 17, 2013 2:06 pm | by Chaos Group | News | CommentsArtists, architects and designers always want their software to do more. More detail, more speed, more quality. With the announcement of Chaos Group’s V-Ray 1.6 for SketchUp open beta, these users now have the biggest expansion to SketchUp’s rendering capabilities right at their finger tips. More is here.
TTI, Inc. Earns Distributor of the Year Award from API Technologies
May 17, 2013 2:03 pm | by TTI, Inc. | Tti, Inc. | News | CommentsAdding to the list of top supplier awards received at the Electronic Distribution Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, TTI, Inc. has announced the company has garnered the Distributor of the Year Award from API Technologies, formerly Spectrum Advanced Specialty Products.
Automation GT Speeds Up Medical Syringe Assembly
May 17, 2013 1:56 pm | by Justin Levine, Futurestech | Articles | CommentsPharmaceutical companies often assemble medical syringes by hand. Manual assembly is time-consuming, potentially dangerous and lacks the repeatability and reliability of an automated solution. Automation GT was asked to design and build a system to prepare needles for drug filling. But how do you automate a process that handles needles with a tip smaller than a pinpoint?
The Missing Piece of Einstein's Theory
May 17, 2013 1:43 pm | by Mike Wolterbeek, University of Nevada, Reno | News | CommentsA new window into the nature of the universe may be possible with a device proposed by scientists at the University of Nevada, Reno and Stanford University that would detect elusive gravity waves from the other end of the cosmos. Gravitational waves represent one of the missing pieces of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Using Earthquake Sensors to Track Endangered Whales
May 17, 2013 1:33 pm | by Hannah Hickey, University of Washington | News | CommentsThe fin whale is the second-largest animal ever to live on Earth. It is also, paradoxically, one of the least understood. The animal's huge size and global range make its movements and behavior hard to study. A carcass that washed up on a Seattle-area beach this spring provided a reminder that sleek fin whales, nicknamed "greyhounds of the sea," are vulnerable to collision when they strike fast-moving ships.
NASA: New Pump Resolves Big Space Station Leak
May 17, 2013 1:21 pm | by Marcia Dunn, AP Aerospace Writer | News | CommentsAn impromptu spacewalk over the weekend seems to have fixed a big ammonia leak at the International Space Station, NASA said Thursday. The "gusher" erupted a week ago, prompting the hastiest repair job ever by residents of the orbiting lab. Spacewalking astronauts replaced a suspect ammonia pump on Saturday, just two days after the trouble arose.
The Future of Google Glass
May 17, 2013 1:18 pm | by Kasey Panetta, Managing Editor ECN | Blogs | CommentsThere has been a lot of talk about Google Glass lately, mostly due to the prototype debut, but one interesting aspect of that public viewing is that developers –outside of GoogleLand—can take a crack at coming up with interesting uses for the technology. By allowing new voices into the conversation, the world is seeing even more possibilities for Google Glass.
UL-Certified SafeTI Software Packages
May 17, 2013 1:10 pm | by PD&D Staff | Texas Instruments, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsNew UL-certified SafeTI software packages from Texas Instruments Incorporated (Houston, TX) help make designing functional safety consumer applications using TI C2000 real-time control microcontrollers easier and faster.
Connectors Conform to M8 Form Factor Standards
May 17, 2013 1:06 pm | by PD&D Staff | Molex Incorporated | Product Releases | CommentsMolex Incorporated (Lisle, IL) supports industrial automation, aerospace, and defense network connectivity with its compact Brad Nano-Change (M8) connectors.
