Items filtered by date: Tuesday, 02 December 2014

Mar 22, 2018  - Germany - The hometown of famed German philosopher Karl Marx has installed traffic lights in his image to mark the 200th anniversary of his birth.

Biomimicry is the strategy of modeling designs and structures in technology after nature writes Isaac Maw for engineering.com  Building a two-armed assembly robot to have wrist, elbow and shoulder joints, like a human, is a good example of biomimicry.

This infographic presents summaries of GDP by New Zealand region in 2017.

Mar 21, 2018  -  Duncan Coull, Chairman of the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council, said Farmers would welcome the increase in the forecast Farmgate Milk Price to $6.55 kg/MS but that the interim results announcement as a whole painted a disappointing picture for the first half of the financial year.

Mar 21, 2018  - WASHINGTON (AP) — When Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross held up a can of Campbell's soup in a CNBC interview to make the case that the Trump administration's steel and aluminum tariffs were "no big deal," the canning industry begged to disagree — and they were hardly alone.

“A supermarket with empty shelves is completely pointless. Ensuring our millions of customers can get what they want, whenever they need it is absolutely critical,” says Chris Quin, CEO Foodstuffs North Island. “Equally important is the ability to transport products safely and efficiently – reducing time spent on the road and the impact on our environment."

Let us take you to one of the most iconic races on the US motorsporting calendar: the Indy 500.   The Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the world’s largest spectator sporting facility with over 250,000 permanent seats & this is your chance to be there, LIVE! With over 200 laps of pure endurance racing “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” will certainly live up to its name & this bucket-list event is sure to please every motorsport fan the world over.

Mar 21, 2018  - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The world's top financial officials made a call Tuesday for open trade and more dialogue at a time of growing criticism that tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump might trigger a global trade war.

A new Future Technology Leadership Group will help New Zealand harness some of the $1.5 billion a year estimated value to the economy from Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) as well as the social benefits they create, Transport Minister Phil Twyford said today.