Do you know where your woolen jumper came from?
It’s unlikely that you do. That’s because, despite wool being one of Australia’s oldest industries, there’s been very little technological change in the way that it is produced — until now.
With electronic identification (eID) tags due to become mandatory for sheep across the country by 2025 to help in the case of a biosecurity incursion, some woolgrowers have seen another benefit in the new technology.
“We see value in these tags purely from a commercial level,” said Alister Persse, a woolgrower near Goondiwindi on the New South Wales/Queensland border.
The…
USS Pinckney (DDG-91) underway in San Diego Bay on Nov. 7, 2023. San Diego Web Cam Photo
ARLINGTON, Va. – A quartet of destroyers will be the test case for the Navy’s $17 billion plan to add a major electronic warfare upgrade to Flight IIA destroyers, service officials outlined last week.Late last year, USS Pinckney (DDG-91) wrapped up the first part of a two-step modernization availability and left General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif., for sea-trails with what some in the service have compared to Carrie Fisher’s double bun hairstyle in Star Wars.
Standing two decks high, the…
The disruption of the Library’s access to publications normally available via UK Electronic Legal Deposit is ongoing, following the cyberattack on the British Library at the end of last October. As a UK Legal Deposit Library, the Library of Trinity College Dublin along with the other legal deposit libraries, the British Library the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford and Cambridge University Library, share the infrastructure for UK electronic legal deposit publications.
This incident has since received wide press coverage, eg in the Financial Times and the New Yorker. For up-to-date…