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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Bethpage NY (SPX) May 18, 2009In the blue skies over St. Augustine, Fla., Northrop Grumman's E-2D Advanced Hawkeye System Development and Demonstration program aircraft recently reached its 1,000th hour of flight testing. The aircraft, currently in flight testing at Northrop Grumman's East Coast Manufacturing and Flight Test Center, continues to successfully meet, or exceed, all major program and performance milestones. ... more  
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) May 18, 2009Lockheed Martin completed a successful System Design Review (SDR) with the Canadian Navy, marking a major milestone toward modernizing the combat systems on the Navy's 12 Halifax-class multi-mission frigates. The SDR, a government-mandated review of a contractor's progress and planning for all elements of a program, covered in detail all of Lockheed Martin's plans for shipboard systems, tr ... more  
Minneapolis MN (SPX) May 18, 2009Alliant Techsystems, the U.S. Navy, and the Italian Air Force successfully fired an AGM-88E Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake on April 13, 2009. The firing marks the fifth consecutive successful AARGM live fire in the program's System Development and Demonstration (SD and D) phase and continues AARGM's progression toward Independent Oper ... more  
Denver CO (SPX) May 13, 2009Intermap Technologies has announced that its Intermap Federal Services subsidiary has received a USD $1.2 million contract to provide 3D digital elevation data and other map products for an international project. The Company is generating uniformly accurate elevation datasets under a new product line, TopoSAR, that serve a client's need for large and difficult to access geographic regions ... more |
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Osmium dye boosts long wavelength solar hydrogen outputTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 09, 2026 Generating hydrogen from sunlight offers a route to low carbon fuel production by converting solar energy into chemical energy stored in hydrogen. Researchers use photocatalysts to absorb light and ... more  
SwRI tests rooftop solar fire behavior and mitigation optionsLos Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Southwest Research Institute has carried out a series of large scale fire tests to examine how flames spread beneath photovoltaic panel installations on flat commercial and industrial rooftops. The ... more 
Theory links photon condensation and heat engine physicsLondon, UK (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 Physicists at Trinity College Dublin have developed a new theoretical framework that connects photon condensation in optical microstructures with the fundamental limits of heat engines, potentially ... more
  
EAST experiments point to density free regime for fusion plasmasTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 05, 2026 Researchers working on China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have experimentally accessed a theorized density-free regime for fusion plasmas, maintaining ... more 
Volvo Cars pauses battery factory after fruitless partner searchStockholm (AFP) Jan 13, 2026 Swedish automaker Volvo Cars said Tuesday that it was pausing operations at a battery factory under construction, dismissing all 75 workers there, after failing to find a partner for the business. ... more 
Perovskite betavoltaic cell sets record efficiency using carbon 14 sourceTokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 A research team at DGIST has developed a perovskite based self powered betavoltaic battery that achieves what they report as the worlds highest conversion efficiency for this class of device while m ... more |
 
New Delhi (AFP) May 11, 2009India is expected to acquire its first Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) next week, officials said Monday, crowning its drive to achieve air dominance over rival Pakistan. The delivery by Israel of the sophisticated Phalcon early warning radar surveillance system, set for May 20, will also mark another milestone in growing military ties with the Jewish state. The AWACS "will be ... more  
Boulder CO (SPX) May 12, 2009The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding of these often-deadly weather events. The collaborative international project, involving scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a number of other organiz ... more 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) May 11, 2009Raytheon has been awarded a new contract to continue "Pure Fleet" upgrades of U.S. Army Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command contract provides $115 million to upgrade four additional U.S. Army Patriot Air and Missile Defense Systems to Configuration-3 status. The upgrades involve enhancements to Patriot system ground components, particularly ... more |
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Netanyahu says Israel won't let Iran restore ballistic missile programmeJerusalem (AFP) Jan 5, 2026 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would not allow arch-foe Iran to restore its ballistic missile programme, just days after US President Donald Trump issued a similar threat. ... more 
Germany puts ballistic missile defence shield into serviceBerlin (AFP) Dec 3, 2025 Germany's military put into service Wednesday the first part of a roughly $4 billion ballistic missile defence system, to better protect Europe at a time of high tensions with Russia. ... more 
What is Taiwan's T-Dome?Taipei (AFP) Nov 30, 2025 Taiwan's government has proposed $40 billion in extra defence spending over several years, with the focus on developing a multi-layered air defence system dubbed "T-Dome". ... more
  
Bayesian neural net sharpens thorium 232 fission yield dataBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2026 A research team led by Chun-Wang Ma has developed a Bayesian neural network framework to predict independent and cumulative fission product yields for thorium 232 under neutron irradiation across a ... more 
Meta partners with US nuclear companies to power AI data centersSan Francisco, United States (AFP) Jan 9, 2026 Tech giant Meta announced Thursday major agreements with three US nuclear energy companies that it says will add up to 6.6 gigawatts of clean power by 2035. ... more 
Microbes join forces to quickly clean up uranium pollutionTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 27, 2025 Chinese scientists have discovered a quick and effective way to remove toxic uranium from water using helpful bacteria that work together. These bacteria can change uranium from a dangerous form tha ... more
  
Sri Lanka seeks Chinese aid to rebuild after deadly cycloneColombo (AFP) Jan 12, 2026 Sri Lanka asked China to help rebuild key infrastructure damaged by Cyclone Ditwah, which killed at least 641 people and caused extensive damage, the island's foreign minister said on Monday. ... more 
'Are You Dead?': Chinese app for solo dwellers goes viralBeijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2026 "Are You Dead?", an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn't check in every 48 hours, was one of China's top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country's growing class of solo dwellers flocked to download it. ... more 
Japan nuclear plant operator may have underestimated quake risksTokyo (AFP) Jan 6, 2026 A Japanese nuclear plant operator said it may have presented data underestimating earthquake risks to regulators, as Japan moves to revive nuclear power nearly 15 years after the Fukushima disaster. ... more |
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