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Image copyright Stephane Corvaja/ESA Image caption Flying under the Copernicus badge secures the programme’s long-term future The next satellite tasked with maintaining the “gold standard” measurement of sea-level rise is about to enter final testing. Sentinel-6a will pick up from the long-running Jason series of spacecraft when it launches in November 2020. These missions track …

NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Recon Technology, Ltd. (NASDAQ:RCON) (“Recon” or the “Company”), today announced that Sinopec Huabei Oilfield Branch Oil Extraction First Factory (“Huabei Oilfield”), a client of Recon’s wholly-owned subsidiary Beijing Bright Petroleum Technology Co., Ltd (“Beijing BHD”), recently received a wastewater test report, showing all the indicators of the sample wastewater …

Image copyright BLOODHOUND LSR Image caption The airbrakes are panels that open into the air stream, producing drag to slow the car The Bloodhound supersonic car returned to racing on Wednesday after four days of repairs in the workshop. The vehicle swept down its desert track at 200mph (320km/h) – well short of its current …

BEIRUT—Renewed clashes between Kurdish and Turkish forces on Friday tested a shaky cease-fire in northern Syria, as the Russian-backed Syrian government moved troops into the area as part of efforts to reclaim territory it ceded during the country’s eight-year war. Following a pact struck between Ankara and Moscow this week, Turkish forces suspended their military …

A police convoy was passing through a small town in western Mexico on Monday morning when bullets began to fly. It was an ambush by one of Mexico’s most violent criminal groups. In a matter of minutes, 14 police officers were killed and several of their vehicles set on fire. Handwritten messages left at the …

As associate medical director of clinical immunopathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Sarah Wheeler has received many calls from clinicians about diagnostic testing in the hospital, including those dealing with human immunodeficiency virus. However, one call made her realize the limits of modern medical technology. “We received a call from (UPMC) Magee–Womens Hospital …

As associate medical director of clinical immunopathology at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Sarah Wheeler has received many calls from clinicians about diagnostic testing in the hospital, including those dealing with human immunodeficiency virus. However, one call made her realize the limits of modern medical technology. “We received a call from (UPMC) Magee–Womens Hospital …

NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 25 promising space technologies for testing aboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital rocket ships — including Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft. Blue Origin, the space venture created by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and headquartered in Kent, Wash., will be involved in testing 11 of the technologies. The company has …

TOKYO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–NEC Corporation (NEC; TOKYO: 6701), a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies, today announced that its face recognition technology achieved the highest matching accuracy in the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2018 (*1) performed by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with an error rate of 0.5% when …

Find out how the graduate programme at Accenture helped Jill Egan make the career change she thought might not be possible. Something you often learn once you step into the world of work is that career paths aren’t always straightforward. Jill Egan, a music graduate who is now working in business and technology integration at Accenture, …