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Rising Concentration in Agricultural Input Industries Influences New Farm Technologies Highlights: Concentration in several global agricultural input industries has risen significantly; by 2009, the largest four firms in the crop seed, agricultural chemical, animal health, animal genetics/breeding, and farm machinery sectors accounted for more than 50 percent of global market sales in each sector.Factors influencing changes in market structure and concentration vary by industry and include market forces, the emergence of new technologies, and government policies.The largest agricultural input firms are responsible for a large and growing share of global agricultural research and development (R&D), and higher input prices paid by farmers partially reflect the higher quality of inputs created through private-sector R&D. Market Concentration is Increasing in Research-Intensive Agricultural Input Industries Factors Driving Market Concentration Vary by Industry

Android (operating system) Free and open-source operating system for mobile devices, developed by Google Initially developed by Android Inc., which Google bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007, with the first commercial Android device launched in September 2008. The current stable version is Android 10, released on September 3, 2019. The core Android source code is known as Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which is primarily licensed under the Apache License. TuneChecker - Compare cheap CDs, MP3 singles & album downloads ASIMO Development history[edit] P3 model (left) compared to ASIMO Honda began developing humanoid robots in the 1980s, including several prototypes that preceded ASIMO. It was the company's goal to create a walking robot which could not only adapt and interact in human situations, but also improve the quality of life. The E0 was the first bipedal (two-legged) model produced as part of the Honda E series, which was an early experimental line of humanoid robots created between 1986 and 1993.

MicroSD Secure Digital (SD) is a non-volatile memory card format for use in portable devices, such as mobile phones, digital cameras, GPS navigation devices, and tablet computers. The Secure Digital standard was introduced in 1999 as an evolutionary improvement over MultiMediaCards (MMC). The Secure Digital standard is maintained by the SD Card Association (SDA). SD technologies have been implemented in more than 400 brands across dozens of product categories and more than 8,000 models.[1] Technology: Green Living Electric fins and inflatable paddleboards Unbelievable to hear yet true, this amazing electronic machine is a universal electric conversion kit for stand up paddleboards, long boards and Kayaks. This electric motor can be installed in less than a minute and has a highly efficient battery that propels you for almost six hours on a single charge. Electric fins and inflatable paddleboards Read more... Categories: Technology Tags: comfort, Conventional, designed, Electric fins, featured, inflatable, installed, paddleboards, personal water, replace, Top

The Phone Call Is Dead photo © 2008 mike | more info (via: Wylio) In the tech industry saying that something is dead actually means “It’s on the decline.” And yes, the phone call is on an inexorable decline. My original title for this post was “The Phone Call Will Be Dead In __ Years” but as consumer inertia is somehow still keeping our parent company Aol in the dialup business, I thought it might be prudent not to include an ETA on the death of the call. Windows 9: Goodbye, Charms bar, hello virtual desktops? Reports about the next major Windows release keep getting better and better. It looks like Microsoft has finally come to its senses and will dump the Charms bar in Windows 9 (also known as Threshold) slated for release next spring. Even better, Microsoft is planning a surprise for multi-taskers with the addition of multiple virtual desktops. Microsoft hasn't released any official details, but multiple news sites report these changes are for real.

Intel turns its attention to desktop performance, unveils 8-core Haswell-E processor Intel took the wraps off its most powerful consumer CPU at the PAX video-game conference in Seattle, WA, today. Intel’s Core i7 High-end Desktop Processor Family, code-named Haswell-E, consists of three unlocked processors that support hyperthreading, DDR4 memory, and Intel’s all-new X99 chipset. The top-of-the-line Core i7-5960X boasts eight cores (16 processor threads), 20MB of cache, and 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes. This $999 processor runs at a base clock frequency of 3.0GHz and torques up to 3.5GHz in turbo mode. ​$100,000 awaits woman who threw away rare Apple 1 computer An e-waste recycler hopes to find a woman who threw out an Apple 1 computer that has been sold for $200,000. Recycling company CleanBayArea in Milpitas, California, has written out a $100,000 check for a mystery woman, aged around 60 to 70 years old, who dropped off the rare computer in April without leaving any contact details. According to the company's website, the woman left "a couple of boxes of e-waste", apparently without realising the value of one item inside it -- an Apple Computer 1 that was buried beneath a bunch of cables and old keyboards.

3D Printer Gives You Chocolate When You Work Out If being chased by imaginary zombies doesn’t speed up your run, you may need to take more drastic measures—like rewarding yourself with chocolate. EdiPulse, a project from Rohit Ashok Khot, Ryan Pennings, and Florian "Floyd" Mueller at Exertion Games Lab in Australia, combines the wearables trend with 3D printing in order to gamify exercise and produce visible rewards. The EdiPulse uses a Polar heart rate monitor that measures beats per minute, and sends that information through to a mobile app. The data gets saved on the Polar website, and once the workout is complete, the app translates the data for the 3D food printer.

New York City is Turning Trash Cans Into WiFi Hotspots 458 1ShareNew Solar-powered trash bins in New York City might soon provide more than just waste disposal. Bigbelly, a waste management company with trash and recycling cans located across the city, wants to turn its garbage centers into free WiFi hotspots that can support the bandwidth equivalent of an entire small business.