In a sign that owner Toshiba Corp is more seriously weighing a Chapter 11 filing as an option to help it rein in a multibillion dollar financial maelstrom, U.S. nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric Co LLC has hired bankruptcy attorneys. The nuclear engineering company had not yet taken a decision on a bankruptcy filing but had…
Text to speech has phenomenal application across industry sectors. Turns out Baidu has been working on other projects alongside its self-driving car project at its AI center in Silicon Valley. As reported by the MIT’s Technology review, the company has been busy creating a text-to-speech system dubbed as Deep Voice which it claims is more…
It would appear that the British government waging a war on the solar industry. The solar industry is facing a new hurdle in the United Kingdom with certain businesses and schools who have opted for the greener alternative facing an astounding tax hike of 800% w.e.f from April. This is an upper cut to the…
Intended to fill a gap in its lineup that Airbus Group SEis exploiting by racking up order after order for its A321neo, Boeing Co. is nearing a decision to build a longer 737 Max targeted for lengthy routes such as Boston to Los Angeles. Boeing’s newest single-aisle plane can’t come soon enough, for one key customer, Air…
Renewing concerns about the security of consumer electronics and embarrassing yet another U.S. intelligence agency, anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks published what it said were thousands of pages of internal CIA discussions about hacking techniques used over several years. In order to capture text and voice messages before they were encrypted with sophisticated software, CIA hackers could…
Despite wide spread speculations that the anticipated revision of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could result in tariffs being slapped on trade and products between the U.S. and Mexico, especially those that are produced in Mexico and exported to the U.S., car maker Renault-Nissan has clarified that it has have no plans whatsoever…
In a row over who should shoulder billions of dollars in liabilities sparked by delays and cost blow-outs, producers in Australia are now locked in legal battles with contractors after splurging $200 billion building the world’s biggest gas export plants. Among energy heavyweights trying to claw back funds are Impex Corp. and Santos Ltd. along with…
The Trojan is doing the rounds in specially crafted word documents. Be especially careful on receiving and opening word documents from unknown sources. Malware in the form of Remote Access Tool (RAT), that use a set of internet address to run, can be relatively easy to cripple by blocking the addresses that it is wanting…
The new battery tech is not only eco-friendly, it is more cost effective and offers superior performance too. Even at 94, John B. Goodenough, a professor at the University of Texas, isn’t done with changing the landscape of today’s battery technology. The Austin-based professor who has widely been credited for the invention of lithium-ion batteries…
The rebate program kicks in only after April 1. Before you signed on the dotted line ensure that the EV that you have been eyeballing can avail of the tax credit. With more than three quarters of the states in the U.S. offer some kind of financial incentive to consumers, the State of New York…
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