Sentences with phrase «kind of technology called»

Their eventual goal is to recirculate pressurized steam back to the surface to test a new kind of technology called an enhanced geothermal system (EGS).

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Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

That's a big deal because Alnylam's drug is based on an extremely early - stage kind of medical technology called RNAi, or RNA interference, which uses basic biological building blocks to tackle problematic genetic discrepancies.

Ben Thompson, a technology analyst who happens to run his own one - man media company — a subscription - based newsletter and podcasting venture called Stratechery — thinks there is a broader lesson about how writing of any kind can be monetized in an era when pageviews are worth less and less.

Instead of rocketing astronauts off into deep space, the Asteroid Redirect Mission would send a robotic spacecraft to a small asteroid, secure it (potentially by grabbing it and stuffing it into a giant high - tech bag) and tow it back to orbit the moon using a hyper - efficient kind of rocket engine technology called solar electric propulsion.

Described in the January 7th issue of Neuron, the technique uses «deep,» highly sensitive whole - genome sequencing of single neurons and a new technology that identifies inserted bits of DNA caused by retrotransposons, one of several kinds of so - called somatic mutations that can arise as the brain develops.

Now, those of you who listened to the Obama state of the union, he said, here we are again at another kind of Sputnik moment where science, he hopes and his administration hopes and I certainly hope, will help lift the U.S.'s performance in science education — STEM education as they call it: Science, Technology, Engineering, Math — will help make this country stay competitive and stay involved on the world scene.

Today's so - called digital natives still interact with a mix of paper magazines and books, as well as tablets, smartphones and e-readers; using one kind of technology does not preclude them from understanding another.

The research team — including Anibal Ramirez - Cuesta, Luke Daemen, and Yongqiang Cheng of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as Timothy Jenkins and Craig Brown of the National Institute of Standards and Technology — used spectroscopic tools, including the state - of - the - art inelastic neutron spectrometer called VISION at the Spallation Neutron Source, to examine the atomic - level dynamics of a special kind of molecular structure called a clathrate.

After leaving office, Bush created the Foundation for Excellence in Education to promote the kinds of reforms that he had backed in Florida, started an organization for reform - minded state education leaders called Chiefs for Change, and launched, with former West Virginia Governor Bob Wise, the initiative Digital Learning Now to promote the smart use of technology.

In order to cultivate the kind of technology literacy in our students called for by leaders in the field, it must simultaneously be cultivated in our teachers.

The author articulated a framework called critical software studies, which seeks to unpack the way software, which is what comprises modern technologies, demands a kind of scrutiny few acknowledge and consider when preparing future educators.

The kinds of activities described in this article heed this call, as they emerge from previous pedagogical tasks that I believed could be augmented through the integration of geospatial technologies.

As we already wrote, a new feature called high - tech rearview mirror makes new 2019 Armada the first SUV to use that kind of technology.

HP TouchPad is the first tablet from the company, running the latest HP WebOS 3.0, featuring 9.7 ″ display of the IPS - LCD kind with 768 × 1024 pixels of resolution, and «EZ - clean» oleophobic coating, «true multitasking,» Touch - to - share, 1.3 megapixels front - facing camera with support for video calling, 16 GB or 32 GB of on - board memory (no memory card slot), 1 GB DDR2 RAM, internal stereo speakers, Beats Audio technology, 6300mAh battery, integrated GPS, Amazon's Kindle e-book store, 802.11 b / g / n Wi - Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, A-GPS, HP Synergy, cloud syncing services.

Today's so - called digital natives still interact with a mix of paper magazines and books, as well as tablets, smartphones and e-readers; using one kind of technology does not preclude them from understanding another.

Starcraft: Ghost was set to take place about 4 years after the events of Brood War and placed players in the shoes of a Terran ghost named Nova, who was sent on a mission to uncover the truth behind a secretive project called Shadow Blade that seemed to involve some kind of hybrid of Terran and Protoss technology.

Called a p.U.M.p. (purifying Urban Modular parasite), the new kind air purification technology would be manufactured in the industrial district adjacent to the Lower Concourse, spurring development of new green industries in the Bronx.

The team, led by Professor Giacinta Parish, is calling their new technology a new kind of sensor.

While great strides have been made in rechargeable battery technology, the vast numbers of batteries bought and consumed every year are the so - called «disposable» kind (which are claimed by manufacturers to be «non-hazardous» and are said to be able to be disposed of with normal household waste).

Look, globalization information technology and what I often call the kind of blurring together of traditional categories like law versus business, or global versus local, or public versus private, these three things are reshaping everything about our world and as lawyers of course we should think they're going to reframe us about what it means to be a lawyer, the market for legal services, how we connect with our clients, the kinds of things that we do and how we do them.

The problem is not with «blogs» and personal publishing technologies per se, but with the reductionist tendencies of certain kinds of people (bloggers or not)-- particularly people who see the enormous potential of so - called «semantic web» technologies, but have little «wisdom» in the particular domain.

Now we are starting to see kind of an emerging role in a lot of the bigger technology companies, where they have something called product counsel and that's specifically what they do is they take a look at the product and approach it from a legal standpoint.

A group of Ottawa - based technology providers have won a major victory over the Competition Bureau following an eight - month trial and what is being called one of the biggest bid - rigging cases of its kind in Canadian history.

Whether it is seen as a cost - saving maneuver, a productivity booster, or a means of maximizing IT resources, cloud computing has become the approach advocated by all kinds of technology vendors, primarily through what are called software - as - a-service or infrastructure - as - a-service offerings.

And was just recently invited to join a board on a group called Voices for Innovation, came back from Washington DC last week for my first meeting there and I'm kind of driving the Women in Technology initiative and advocacy for that group and very excited about being part of that and really trying to raise awareness, getting more educational opportunities for our younger, especially the elementary school age group to get involved in technolTechnology initiative and advocacy for that group and very excited about being part of that and really trying to raise awareness, getting more educational opportunities for our younger, especially the elementary school age group to get involved in technologytechnology early.

Be prepared for plenty more smart speakers to come though: technology company Qualcomm has unveiled something called a «Smart Audio Platform», which it hopes will give consumer - tech manufacturers a running start making these kinds of devices.

In addition to Sony's latest processing technology, the TV packs, of course, 4K resolution with HDR for increased contrast and color expansion, as well as what Sony is calling «first of its kind audio technology.»

«Part of that means looking at a person throughout their day,» Soltero explained, «looking at opportunities and the different kinds of places where... an assistant technology or product experience or whatever you want to call it can provide.»

In Las Vegas at CES 2013 Samsung just announced a new kind of technology, called Green LCD and it has been developed with power efficiency i...

They're built on a technology called blockchain, which is a kind of ledger that records and verifies transactions made on it.

Meanwhile, the monero community is working with a technology called Kovri, which is kind of like a Tor browser in that it bounces your connection all over the place so it is extremely difficult to track or censor the user's internet access.

Using what the company calls «first of its kind technology», the folks at MyKronoz are set to show off prototypes of this watch soon.

We've got people from all kinds of backgrounds - retail, sales professionals, ex-tradespeople, telesales, call centre environments, graduates... all with an interest in technology.

CREA says the Realtor Action Network (RAN) is the first of its kind for a grassroots lobby in Canada, calling it «a leading - edge technology solution for advocacy.»