8,158 source-backed technology facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 72 of 82.
“Amonix was one of 16 companies (out of 27 overall) listed in Doerr’s "green-tech" portfolio to receive some form of federal support under Obama.”
“However, Wikileaks said it was confident that the documents - which it has amended to remove names and other identifying details - contain "no information that could be harmful to any individual"”
“CCTV cameras at the Royal Mail depot in Tomb Street, Belfast detected them rummaging through undeliverable or damaged parcels in July 2007.”
“We have had several discussions with Vestas, our wind turbine supplier, but we believe the problems that we have had at the Kentish flats have been overcome out here.”
“Vattenfall already owns the 30-turbine Kentish Flats wind farm and is about to finish installing the 100-turbine Thanet Offshore Wind Farm off Kent.”
“At the Kentish Flats, turbines have had serious maintenance problems and some are on their fourth gearbox.”
“The Thanet Offshore Wind Farm is expected to generate enough electricity for 240,000 homes.”
“It supplied power to the National Grid for the first time on 16 May and is expected to be fully operational in the autumn.”
“But the larger London Array project, which will have 341 turbines in the Thames Estuary and is backed by energy firm E.ON as a major backer, will enter its offshore construction phase next year.”
“It supplied power to the National Grid for the first time on 16 May”
“and is expected to be fully operational in the autumn.”
“But the larger London Array project, which will have 341 turbines in the Thames Estuary”
“and is backed by energy firm E.ON as a major backer, will enter its offshore construction phase next year.”
“Nottingham City Homes (NCH), which manages the council property, said a new boiler was installed in the house six weeks ago, and it was inspected on Friday.”
“It is one of at least four Israeli spy satellites currently orbiting the Earth.”
“Israel's last spy satellite, TecSar, was launched from India in 2008.”
“We've designed a sustainable drainage scheme that can cope with the one in 100 year flood as well as the normal flooding that happens on one part of the field.”
“"We have to make money somewhere and I think green technology is one of those things," she said.”
“The images were uncovered using new laser technology that allowed the restorers to burn off thick white calcium carbonate deposits caused by extreme humidity and lack of air.”
“One recruitment website he uses shows 963 applicants for one post he has just applied for.”
“Until it came along in 1948, photography was a tiresome business. Unless you had your own darkroom, rolls of film had to be sent away to developers or left at pharmacies, then collected days or even weeks later. Land's invention transforme…”
“Land gave photographers free access to these cameras and in return kept some of the prints they produced. The result was the Polaroid Collection... He had an artistic vision too, based on giant studio cameras he designed - behemoths the si…”
“In 2010,”
“But he also said the last government's planned tax relief for the video games industry - which has a key base in Dundee - would be scrapped.”
“When he was arrested his laptop was found to contain details for 35,000 cards, 7,000 of which came from just one garage in Maidstone, Kent.”
“A consortium led by Thales Alenia Space of France will now build the spacecraft in a deal worth some 1.25bn euros.”
“The system will comprise six satellites, with the first spacecraft likely to be ready for launch from 2016.”
“The row has added about six months to the MTG project timeline, but a top Esa official told BBC News that this was not a major issue because the current Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) spacecraft were performing so well.”
“Indeed, the launch of the next spare MSG platform has been put back by a year to hold capability in reserve.”
“Neither would the row add significantly to the cost of MTG, said the official. Any increases would still leave the contract price well inside the overall envelope for the space segment of MTG of 1.3bn euros.”
“While Esa is looking after the initial research and development of the satellites, Eumetsat will pay for ongoing commissioning and ground operations. This will be the lion's share of the total cost of MTG which could approach 3.5bn euros.”
“Under the bill before the state legislature, the California motor vehicles department would have until 2013 to research digital number plates, including the amount of revenue they would raise, restrictions on the messages they display and …”
“But when the vehicle is stopped for four seconds or more, the number would be replaced with a scrolling set of messages including advertisements for private businesses, educational institutions and other organisations that have contracts w…”
“At least one firm, in San Francisco, is developing an electronic number plate that would scroll adverts while a car is stopped at lights and in congestion. The company, Smart Plate, holds a patent on the technology but has yet to produce a…”
“the curtain could be on the market in three to five years.”
“Testing has begun at a government-approved facility and the curtain could be on the market in three to five years.”
“"The aim of the geophysical survey was to identify the size of the ancient city and the mission managed to identify a large number of houses and streets and a port inside the city," she said.”
“About half of Kenya's population has a mobile phone”
“Kenya has about 20 million mobile-phone users”
“Between 97-99% of mobile-phone users in Africa use pre-paid vouchers”
“"It has become a tool of banking, it can be used to steal data, [to] transmit unauthorised information and perpetrates huge frauds."”
“Nintendo said the novel handheld is designed to replace the existing DS and is scheduled to be on shop shelves in the next 12 months.”
“BP agreed to use the 2,041kg machines, which separate oil and water using centrifuge technology, following testing last week.”
“Once the machines have separated the oil and water, the oil is stored in tanks. Officials say the devices can process 600,000 gallons a day, achieving 99 per cent purity levels without the use of chemical or biologic agents.”
“Oyster 2 would deliver 250% more power than the original device, with only a 50% increase in footprint.”
“A new website has also been created as part of the rebranding move.”
“More than 2000 retro-computing fans descended on Bletchley Park last weekend as The National Museum of Computing hosted Britain's first Vintage Computer Festival.”
“If you were getting ready for bed and you wanted a quick game, you could just choose space invaders”
“Is it because there's a generation of middle-aged geeks who are nostalgic about their teenage years, like us? Whatever it is, we approve”
“People come along, look at them, get engaged and interested, and that's our next generation of computer scientists”
“A lot of the sounds are really useable so it's fantastic, I think it's reminiscing back to my childhood”
“I like to think of the objects that we use as tools as being pieces of autobiography”
“The row has blown up following Google's admission that its Street View cars "accidentally" grabbed data from unsecured wi-fi networks as the vehicles were snapping stills of street scenes in 30 nations.”
“Google has now stopped gathering information about wi-fi networks.”
“Tech news site IDG reported that CNIL had spotted passwords for e-mail services and chunks of text from messages in its first glance at the data.”
“Google boss Eric Schmidt said there was "no harm, no foul" in collecting the snippets of information. "Who was harmed? Name the person," Mr Schmidt said at during an interview at the company's annual Zeitgeist conference held in Watford in…”
“A Deepwater Horizon rig worker has told the BBC that he identified a leak in the oil rig's safety equipment weeks before the explosion. [...] "We saw a leak on the pod, so by seeing the leak we informed the company men," Mr Benton said of …”
“Mr Benton said his supervisor e-mailed both BP and Transocean about the leaks when they were discovered.”
“Transocean said it tested the device successfully before the accident.”
“It is investing £7m in new information technology to back up its distribution.”
“The first giant offshore turbine, named Britannia, will be complete by 2012.”
“It will tower 574ft (175m) above the North Sea, with blades that sweep a circle more than 100ft (30m) wider than the diameter of the London landmark.”
“Offshore turbines are commonly capable of generating either 2.5 or five megawatts of power, but the Britannia will produce 10 megawatts.”
“That translates into enough electricity to power about 10,000 homes, and replace some two million barrels of oil during its lifetime.”
“They'll get bigger than 10 megawatts, is my feeling. How much bigger? I don't know.”
“There might be a limit to the size that people want to put into the field; if a 20 megawatt turbine failed, that's a big chunk of electricity to lose.”
“But then, if a power station goes off-line you've lost 300 megawatts, so I don't think that's a limit either.”
“Each of its blades will be 236ft (72m) long and will weigh more than 30 tonnes.”
“He was extremely lucky as the smoke detector in his living room was not working and he was saved by a second detector in the stairwell of the property.”
“the college has its own wind turbine generating 20% of its power”
“"A lot of these technology changes require a complete restructuring of a bank's operating systems, so it's a massive piece of work," he points out.”
“and with Bill Gates among its 720 members that would be a difficult thing indeed to benchmark.”
“Ancient but modern - the WCIT emblem is full of IT symbolism”
“Soteria said they would also provide new aircraft - believed to be the Sikorsky S92 helicopter - to replace the ageing military Sea King helicopters over a three-year period.”
“The new fleet would travel 30% faster and have the capability to attend low-level overland night-time incidents.”
“218 cameras”
“It has been pushing ahead with a different, 1,300 megawatt windfarm in the Moray Firth, in which it has a 25% stake with Portuguese company EDP Renovaveis.”
“Mr Oudot released details of 13 separate unpatched vulnerabilities he found in some of the most popular malware kits used to attack websites.”
“The 31 futuristic air-filled plastic cushions are being used in the concourse of the redeveloped station.”
“Work on the new roof, created using two layers of film measuring around two to three strands of hair in thickness, marks the last phase of work at the station, which is due to open to passengers in September.”
“It is only 1% of the weight of glass and transmits more light, while Network Rail said it is also cost‑effective as it means less steel is needed to support the roof.”
“Work on the new roof, created using two layers of film measuring around two to three strands of hair in thickness, marks the last phase of work at the station...”
“It is only 1% of the weight of glass and transmits more light...”
“He said that the GPS satellite system that tracked the voyage provides evidence that the boat had not touched land during the trip.”
“"The robots will follow the system using a series of laser beams which will tell it exactly where it is," he explained. Computers on board the robots will be able to tell doors to open, and sensors will tell the robots to stop if anything…”
“Sky Sports News was launched on Freeview in 2002”
“BSkyB has announced that Sky Sports News is to become a pay-TV channel, after eight years of being available on Freeview.”
“The move would take place "later this year", Sky added.”
“"Sky Sports News has been a great success over the last 12 years and we have big ambitions to make it even better," said Barney Francis, managing director of Sky Sports.”
“"As part of a subscription service, customers can look forward to expanded coverage and the launch of Europe's first HD sports news service."”
“As part of a subscription service, customers can look forward to expanded coverage and the launch of Europe's first HD sports news service.”
“just two months later”
“SBP said 106 cameras are Automatic Number Plate Recognition devices that are only trained on car registration plates at road level.”
“They are already working together on two big projects - the Galileo satellite-navigation system and Gmes, an Earth observation programme.”
“The EU is also considering other areas of activity, including the very expensive realm of human spaceflight.”
“The 3G network of mobile phone company O2 was out of action in some parts of England for up to 3.5 hours on 17 June.”
“The telescope has been taking science data for six months but is now operating from dusk-dawn each night.”
“Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) is expected to map one-sixth of the sky every month.”
“The facility boasts a huge digital camera: a 1,400 megapixel (1.4 gigapixel) device that can photograph an area of the sky as large as 36 full Moons in a single exposure.”
“The giant digital camera will take over 500 exposures each night”
