Supply Chain Summit: Experts see India"s and ASEAN"s opportunities in charting a middle path between US and China
A part of the Supply Chain Summit hosted by DIGITIMES Asia on September 27 in Taipei, the panel "From Economics to Politics, a Comprehensive Analysis of the Global Supply Chain Layout" included Alex Capri, research fellow of Hinrich Foundation, Greg.....»»
NHTSA clarifies odometer disclosure rule, paving path for digitized registration
Electronic signatures are permitted on all odometer disclosures, a clarification that could be crucial to the movement to digitize title and registration processes......»»
Areas with more illegal market opportunities more likely to be targeted by organized crime, study shows
Communities with higher-than-average illegal market opportunities (proxied by drug-related activities) are more likely to be targeted by organized crime groups, a new study shows......»»
Nissan has a new plan to spur sales — and it wants retailers to fund it
With a nearly triple-digit days' supply, Nissan is allowing dealers to advertise 2024 model year vehicles below invoice......»»
Ford design boss Anthony Lo leaves for "other opportunities"
Anthony Lo made the decision to leave the automaker himself, Ford said, without saying where he is moving to......»»
Intel’s and Qualcomm’s Huawei export licenses get revoked
Huawei's phone division has moved on, but laptops will suffer without Intel. Enlarge / Huawei's Intel-powered Matebook X Pro has drawn criticism from US China hawks. (credit: Huawei) The US crackdown on exports to Huaw.....»»
Researchers target spermidine production to combat emerging drug resistance in Salmonella
Food-borne diseases like typhoid, caused by Salmonella Typhimurium, are a severe threat to public health, especially in India. The indiscriminate use of antibiotics has allowed this bacterium to become resistant, posing a major hurdle in treating inf.....»»
Every drop counts: New algorithm tracks Texas"s daily reservoir evaporation rates
Summer can be an extra challenging time for Texas's 189 major water supply reservoirs. With temperatures consistently reaching 100 degrees or higher, reservoir evaporation rates see high increases......»»
GM names new leader for China after Q1 loss
Steve Hill, vice president of global commercial operations, will succeed Julian Blissett, who is retiring after four years heading GM China......»»
Study reveals late Pleistocene island weathering, precipitation in the Western Pacific Warm Pool
In a study published in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science on April 18, researchers from China, South Korea, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States have reconstructed the weathering history of the Western Pacific island arc over the past.....»»
Malaysia plans to introduce "orangutan diplomacy": minister
Malaysia intends to gift orangutans to palm oil-purchasing countries as part of an initiative similar to China's panda diplomacy, the commodities minister said on Wednesday......»»
March iPhone discounts in China may have saved Apple"s quarter
After a rough start to 2024, promotions on the iPhone appears to have buoyed Apple in China, according to official government data.iPhone doing well in China despite shrinking marketApple and its resellers cut prices in the end of February. This move.....»»
Eclypsium offers protection for GenAI hardware infrastructure
Eclypsium announced new GenAI assessment capabilities for its Supply Chain Security Platform. The new capabilities help secure the fundamental layers of the GenAI tech stack through support for NVIDIA hardware and popular GenAI foundation models. As.....»»
Z-Library Confusion as ‘Official’ Social Media Announces Crackdown in China
Last month Z-Library reported that users in China were experiencing difficulties accessing the site, with new domains being blocked very quickly. The site's official WeChat and Bilibili social media accounts seemed unaffected until a surprise announc.....»»
Why Big Tech May Never Recover in China
Although the crackdown has eased since 2022, it has left a profoundly negative mark on the sector and state-business relations. Even by its own standards, the tech sector has had an extraordinary year. The surges in valuation of fi.....»»
Doc who claimed COVID shots cause magnetism gets medical license back
She also claimed cities liquified dead bodies and poured them into the water supply. Enlarge / Cleveland doctor Sherri Tenpenny gives false testimony on June 8, 2021, saying COVID-19 vaccines magnetize people. (credit: The Ohio.....»»
North America, Europe must close EV battery supply chain gaps to compete with China, McKinsey says
Developing regional supply chains is critical to lowering the cost of electric vehicles......»»
Study demonstrate improved root growth in radio-cesium contaminated soil
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) have identified a way for plants to gain resistance to cesium, a radioactive toxin that can be found in contaminated soil. After manipulating a specific biological signaling path.....»»
From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere
In sweltering Brazil, worst-ever flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in the world's largest election in India are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsi.....»»
New Vincetoxicum species found in Yunnan
Vincetoxicum is a genus of plants in the Apocynaceae family. It is distributed in Asia, especially in mountainous areas, and most of the known species occur in China and Japan. The extended Vincetoxicum includes about 150 species. In recent years, ne.....»»
Experts provide facts about avian influenza for dairy producers
While a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus has been detected in dairy cattle in nine states—not including New York state—the commercial milk supply continues to be safe, according to a panel of Cornell, New York state and dairy ind.....»»