Новости за 19.01.2021

Charter cannot impose data caps until May 2023, won't ask Biden FCC to nix ban.

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Budding entrepreneurs living or working in the Waikato district will have the opportunity to attend a free ten-day business course this March Waikato District Council and Ministry of Social Development is working together to bring the PopUp Business School ...

(Telecompaper) AE Aerospace, West Midlands-based manufacturing business, is set to become the first SME in the UK to deploy a 5G private network, as part of a trial...

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 - Lithium-ion batteries are critical for modern life, from powering our laptops and cell phones to those new holiday toys. But there is a safety risk - the batteries can catch fire.

Zinc-based aqueous batteries avoid the fire hazard by using a water-based electrolyte instead of the conventional chemical solvent. However, uncontrolled dendrite growth limits their ability to provide the high performance and long life needed for practical applications.

Corvallis OR (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 - Researchers in the Oregon State University College of Engineering have developed a battery anode based on a new nanostructured alloy that could revolutionize the way energy storage devices are designed and manufactured. The zinc- and manganese-based alloy further opens the door to replacing solvents commonly used in battery electrolytes with something much safer and inexpensive, as well as abundant: seawater.

"The world's energy needs are increasing, but the... Читать дальше...

Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 20, 2021 - India has an energy problem. It currently relies heavily on coal and consumer demand is expected to double by 2040, making its green energy targets look out of reach. Part of the solution could come from harvesting energy from footsteps, say Hari Anand and Binod Kumar Singh from the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies in Dehradun, India. Their new study, published in the De Gruyter journal Energy Harvesting and Systems, shows that Indian attitudes towards... Читать дальше...

The owner of Auto Shelby says snow blocking the entrance has halted business since Saturday.

Biden is not expected to immediately prioritize jump-starting Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have been frozen for six years.

One Direction star Zayn returns with his third studio album, which unfortunately for him does not include another duet with Taylor Swift.

Qatar Stars League 2020/2021 - Matchday 15 - Played 19-Jan-21 - Posted by binger

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As the arrests have mounted, many of the suspects are accused of having ties to far-right fringe groups such as the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys

System issues alerts whenever there is any overcrowding

Trainman wrote:

I hoped it wouldn’t be this way but the 2021 season is about the survival of the sport in this country. Anything else is secondary to that (I’m obviously talking in rugby terms and not making light of anything happening in the world before anyone gets on their high horse).

If that means we start later, have more or less games, have the magic weekend or not is all irrelevant.

IMO the WC needs to be pushed back, some countries are already talking about travel restrictions for the duration of 2021... Читать дальше...

Syfy's upcoming Day of the Dead TV show connects to the original 1985 George A. Romero movie, confirms episode director Steven Kostanski.

Cape Town, South Africa (SPX) Jan 19, 2021 - Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope. These galaxies are thought to be amongst the largest single objects in the Universe. The discovery has been published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society .

Whereas normal radio galaxies are fairly common, only a few hundred of these have radio jets exceeding 700 kilo-parsecs in size, or around 22 times the size of the Milky Way. These truly... Читать дальше...

Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 - NASA and the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland have agreed to cooperate on a NASA heliophysics mission, the Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP). The agreement, signed Dec. 30, 2020, will allow the Space Research Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CBK PAN) to design and build one of IMAP's 10 instruments - the Global Solar Wind Structure (GLOWS) instrument - as well as provide ground support and personnel necessary... Читать дальше...

Volunteer presenters at Wrexham's Calon FM are hoping to save the Ofcom licence used by the station which is due to close this week.

Leeds UK (SPX) Jan 05, 2021 - Drones, robots and autonomous systems can transform the natural world in and around cities for people and wildlife.

International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University of Leeds, assessed the opportunities and challenges that this cutting-edge technology could have for urban nature and green spaces.