News tagged with convenience stores

New surveillance camera can search 36 million faces for matches in one second

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new surveillance camera by Hitachi Kokusai Electric can look at footage that contains an image of someone, either still or video, and then search other video or still images on file for ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast weblog

Beach replenishment a tough issue in Florida

(AP) -- The St. Joseph Peninsula is picture-perfect Florida: 17 miles of sugar sand beach interrupted by a few clusters of homes, each with a million-dollar view of the Gulf of Mexico.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Forests under threat from exotic earthworm invasion

It is widely acknowledged that human beings are largely responsible for the widespread alteration of ecosystems on the planet. A recent study by Dara Seidl and Peter Klepeis of Colgate University in New York traces the ways ...

Biology / Ecology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Redbox's golden opportunity: higher Netflix prices

(AP) -- Netflix is giving Redbox a golden opportunity to gain some ground.

Technology / Business

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exploratory Study: High BMI Linked to Proximity to Convenience Stores

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the University at Buffalo conducting a neighborhood-scaled exploratory study that tested the association between the food environment, the built environment and women's body mass index (BMI) ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jul 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Proximity to convenience stores fosters child obesity

Childhood obesity is directly related to how close kids live to convenience stores, according to the preliminary findings of a major Canadian study presented at the Entretiens Jacques-Cartier in Lyon, France. The ongoing ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 1