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Acapulco International Airport - 1 views

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    Also known as Juan Álvarez International Airport, Acapulco International Airport. It is the biggest international airport in Mexico's southern Pacific region.
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Clark International Airport - 1 views

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    Previously known as Diosdado Macapagal International Airport. It is the fastest growing airport in the Philippines with a recorded 71% growth in passenger traffic from 2011 to 2012.
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Global Tech I Offshore Wind Farm - Power Technology - 1 views

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    Global Tech I (GTI) is a 400MW offshore wind farm being built in the North Sea in Germany. It is situated in the German Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 180km away from the Bremerhaven Emden in the north-west.
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4 tips to monetise cloud computing - 1 views

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    Louis Hall, CEO, Cerillion Technologies, tells CBR how businesses can make billing pay. The attraction of recurring revenue is making the subscription business model increasingly appealing. Many established businesses are transitioning from selling products to becoming service providers, while entrepreneurs often start out with a service-based approach from day one.
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10 ways to spend Bitcoins online and in the UK - 1 views

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    A rundown of some of the best places to splash your virtual cash. Bitcoin has enjoyed a rapid rise in prestige over the last few years, with more and more businesses accepting the currency every week. But where in the UK can you actually spend your hard-earned digital moolah?
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Digging big - the world's biggest draglines - 1 views

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    Caterpillar, Joy Global and OMZ produce some of the biggest draglines used in surface mining operations. Mining-technology.com profiles the ten biggest draglines in use based on bucket capacity. Caterpillar's Cat 8750 series draglines have a bucket capacity ranging from 76m3 to 116m3 (100 to 152 cubic yards).
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Hidden Valley Gold-Silver Mine - Mining Technology - 1 views

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    Hidden Valley is an open pit gold-silver mine located in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea. Newcrest and Harmony Gold Mining of South Africa own the mine through a 50/50 joint-venture (JV) called Hidden Valley JV (HVJV), which is one of three JVs between Newcrest Mining and Harmony Gold, collectively known as the Morobe Mining JVs (MMJV).
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Energy in the east - the ten biggest power stations in Russia - 1 views

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    The ten biggest power stations in Russia include four hydroelectric power facilities, four nuclear power stations, and two gas-fired power stations. Power-technology.com profiles the ten biggest Russian power stations by installed capacity.
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Scarce supply - the world's biggest rare earth metal producers - 1 views

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    Rare earth elements (REE) such as scandium, yttrium and 15 other minerals are sought after for their unique technology applications, but their scarcity means those countries lucky enough to contain them hold significant sway over global supply. Mining-technology.com profiles the eight biggest rare earth producers based on latest production and reserve data.
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Five of the best iTunes alternatives - 1 views

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    A rundown of some of the other music playing tools around. More and more of us are using our devices, whether desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone, to listen to music every day. However, the breadth of the programs we use to do this is very small; with many people choosing to use the iTunes software bundled with their iPod or iPhone.
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Onshore power for offshore platforms - 1 views

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    Supplying power to offshore platforms from land-based plants could have a major impact on the industry's carbon emissions. Norway is the world leader in the laying of subsea cables to power offshore facilities, but a recent disagreement over the electrification of the Utsira High region has sparked a new debate over how and where to make use of this promising technology.
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5 best Nokia Lumia phones - 1 views

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    This week Microsoft Devices released the Nokia Lumia 530, but what are you other options in the world of Lumia?
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Serrote da Laje Project - Mining Technology - 1 views

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    The Serrote da Laje deposit owned by Aura Minerals is located in Alagoas, Brazil, which hosts five of the world's biggest iron ore mines. The installation license (LI) authorising the project construction was obtained in August 2009 and the definitive feasibility study was completed in September 2012.
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6 businesses that Google is in - 1 views

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    From social media to mobile Wi-Fi, Google has most bases covered. Google, founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has become one of the most synonymous names in technology over the past 16 years. Starting off as a search engine pioneering the 'pagerank' method of retrieving results, Google has grown into many areas, six of which are detailed below.
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5 mobile phone ideas that never caught on - 1 views

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    From before-their-time gamers to the phone shaped like a teardrop, here are five devices that just didn't work. Most mobile phones look the same these days, and it turns out that's really not such a bad thing. Before standardised forms and fucntions and the dominance of Android and iOS, manufacturers tried all sorts of crazy things to sell phones.
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Leading the way - CCS fitted coal-fired power stations now a reality - 1 views

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    Despite being touted as the best way to clean up dirty fossil fuels, commercial deployment of carbon capture storage (CCS) in the power industry has been near non-existent. Now, for the first time ever, a coal-fired power plant is being retrofitted with CCS.
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Moapa Southern Paiute Solar Project - 1 views

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    Moapa is the first large-scale solar power project to have gained construction approval on a tribal land in North America.
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Everything you need to know about Splice Machine's SQL-on-Hadoop database - 1 views

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    Startup Splice Machine recently rolled out its relational database management system (RDBMS) into public beta. Introduced in May 2014, the Splice Machine system combines the Java-based Apache Derby relational database with technology from the Apache HBase NoSQL database,
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Radical shake up planned for Australia's Hobart-class destroyers - 1 views

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    Australia's navy plans to buy three new air warfare destroyers
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