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UNIVERSITY of Strathclyde engineering experts will be enlisted to support the drive to make the Shetland Isles an international clean energy hub.

eXtensions - Monday 10 May 2021 Monday Diversion: Notes on iPad Pro Delays; MacBook Pro Coolness; The iPod Touch Lives By Graham K. Rogers Some iPad Pro delays extending to July. The cool M1 MacBook Pro. The machines stopped last week albeit only for a few hours. Apple surveys on the Apple Watch here and in Brazil. Colors for the future MacBook Pro. The Gates divorce turns in a different direction. I am even more pleased about having choosen the 11" iPad Pro over the 12.9" version as there are now reports that delays on delivery are now extending to July (Joe Rossignol, MacRumors). I was n...

Wooden satellites: Can space answer NZ's productivity question? 13 minutes to read OPINION: On April 14 this year, just two days after the 60th anniversary of the first human space flight by Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1 on April 12, 1961, more than 100 Kiwis attended the Auckland Aerospace event in Auckland. Since those days of Gagarin and Nasa's original Mercury 7 astronauts, humans have extended their reach a fair way, including creating something of a traffic jam around Mars in 2021, with three missions from national space agencies in North America, Asia and...

Andrew Watson and Angela Flippo of Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge Andrew Watson and Angela Flippo have been assigned new roles at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge. Watson has been appointed the university’s associate vice president. He recently served as the school’s director of financial aid. Watson, who has been with the school for 10 years, has also served as admissions counselor, director of admissions and head coach of cross-country/track and field. Flippo will be the director of the Joy Ring Student Success Center. She worked in the admissions office at Will...

As­sess­ing risks more ac­cu­rate­ly Format International joint project RIESGOS 2.0 to support risk management for natural hazards begins. Practical methods and technologies for multi-risk analysis are being developed for particularly vulnerable regions in Chile, Ecuador and Peru. The course and interactions of various natural hazards - including earthquakes, landslides, volcanoes, floods and tsunamis - can be simulated and displayed via a web platform. Focus: Space, Earth observation, security, digitalisation Increasing numbers of people worldwide are being exposed to natural hazards, p...