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Heinz-Christian Strache has been accused of offering business deals to a woman claiming to be Russian in exchange for her help in Austria’s 2017 election. German media published a recording of the meeting. (18.05.2019)  

A grim local affair, the death of Victor Collins would never have attracted international attention if it were not for a facet of the investigation that pitted the Bentonville authorities against one of the world’s most powerful companies – Amazon. Collins’ death triggered a broad debate about privacy in the voice-computing era, a discussion that makes the big tech companies squirm.

Personal data is often compared to oil—it powers today’s most profitable corporations, just like fossil fuels energized those of the past. But the consumers it’s extracted from often know little about how much of their information is collected, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. Every day, hundreds of companies you may not even know exist gather facts about you, some more intimate than others. That information may then flow to academic researchers, hackers, law enforcement, and foreign nations—as well as plenty of companies trying to sell you stuff.

(A) Reflection image of the pattern, where the etched-off parts showed higher reflectivity. (B) WPS image of the same area. (C) First derivative of the intensity profile along the line shown in (B) as squares. a.u., arbitrary units. Gaussian fitting (red line) showed an FWHM of 0.51 μm. (D) Reflection image of 1 μm of PMMA particles. (E) WPS image of the same area with the pump at 1728 cm−1. (F) Off-resonance image showed no contrast. Scale bars, 10 μm.

By design. “We don’t just do things because they look good. It’s by design – through research, testing and design we know a feature will provide value to passengers and crew. For example, the B777X architecture was tested with 4,000 people to assure their sense of spaciousness in the passenger cabin.”

Many cruise ship windows use traditional window shades, and are also highly tinted in an attempt to reduce the amount of time the shades must be down due to excessive light, glare or solar heat. While this reduces somewhat the time the shades have to be down, it remains ineffective for many lighting conditions. Even when the shade is up, the tint of the window limits the passengers’ views outside the ship during dusk, nighttime and pre-sunrise hours. Vision Systems’ SPD-SmartGlass solutions eliminates this problem with its ability to be in an optically clear state whenever desired.

Chaired by a former Nazi functionary and SS officer more than 60 years ago, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) has taken a controversial path through the decades. The latest allegations surround corruption. (19.05.2019)  

The company’s large three-dimensional (3D) patterning solution enables removal of thin-film coatings such as transparent conducting film or low-emissivity coatings on large curved glass sheets, such as windshields or other transportation glass substrates. A new system covers a 3D processing volume of 1000 × 1000 × 300 mm3, and can create tracks at a resolution down to 100 µm as needed to produce electrical features or deleted coating areas to enhance RF transmission or to enable camera operation. The 3D XL solution is designed as an inline system, matching production line speeds of OEM automotive glass lines.FIGURE 2. A glass substrate with large-area laser patterning is shown.(Image credit: 4JET microtech)

"Slowly" is the operative word; typical smart glass takes several minutes to reach its darkened state, and many cycles between light and dark tend to degrade the tinting quality over time. Colorado State University chemists have devised a potentially major improvement to both the speed and durability of smart glass by providing a better understanding of how the glass works at the nanoscale.

“Our collaboration with Avery Dennison on the Vela Display System is to get people thinking about projection technology in a whole new light. The NEC PX1004UL which is used with Vela Display is a powerful installation laser projector with a laser/phosphor light source that makes it perfect for all-new applications,” said Dave Adams, partner programme manager at NEC Display Solutions of America. The overall experience is being driven by software from YCD Multimedia, a global provider of digital signage software solutions.

"I plead for elections, if possible at the beginning of September," the president said in Vienna, while protesters gathered outside singing the Vengaboys’ 1999 hit "We’re Going to Ibiza!"

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