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TAIPEI: Taiwan also plagued by 'too big to fail' notion
2013-12-20 07:44:23| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Kao Cheng-li, the beleaguered chairman of Tatung Changchi Foodstuff Co., on Monday was sentenced to 16 years in prison and hit with stiff fines of NT$1.85 billion on charges of fraud and violations of the Act Governing Food Sanitation.
Delicious irony: iPhone 5S and iOS 7 plagued by Blue Screen of Death
2013-10-11 20:26:47| Extremetech
In the most incalculably ironic twist of fate ever devised by the computer gods, the iPhone 5S with iOS 7 is afflicted by a bug that results in a random Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) and then a complete reboot. While the iPhone BSOD lacks the mumbo-jumbo of mostly useless information that's present on the Windows BSOD, the similarities between the iPhone 5S/iOS 7 and Windows BSODs are shocking -- even the shade of blue is virtually the same.
Hinkley: No Hollywood ending for town plagued by toxic water
2013-07-13 14:47:31| Energy - Topix.net
Home furniture items are left outside an abandoned home in Hinkley on Saturday, March 16, 2013.
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Windows RT 8.1: Still slow, still plagued by the Desktop, still useless
2013-06-27 12:56:07| Extremetech
Despite an additional year of trying to get Windows RT right, the ARM version of Windows 8.1 remains sluggish on the Surface RT -- and by association, any other Windows RT tablet powered by the Tegra 3 SoC. Despite its status as a vestigial stump, the Desktop remains -- and you still can't run anything other than a handful of Microsoft-approved Desktop apps. Some changes, such as the ability to side-by-side apps and the beefed up Metro Control Panel, make Windows RT more usable -- but in reality, these updates are meaningless until some updated, faster hardware arrives.
Logging studies plagued by sampling problems
2013-03-18 14:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Although research into the impact of selective logging in tropical forests has been booming recently, much of it is undercut by basic research flaws, according to a new study in mongabay.com's open access journal Tropical Conservation Science. Selective logging means targeting certain species or only a particular number of trees per hectare, and as such is considered generally more environmentally-friendly than clearcutting, which strips entire forests. "Selective logging has been proposed as...
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