Some 240 tonnes of food spoils during transit and in storage every year, but using mobile to track trucks and monitor the temperature of storage facilities could save enough food to feed 40 million people in 2017 - equivalent to the entire population of Kenya - it said.

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The conference included many papers on various aspects and issues in energy assisted magnetic recording (HAMR is one version of this) as well as a technology called shingled magnetic recording where magnetic recorded tracks are written offset from each other giving a higher track density and thus more storage capacity.

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They trade like a stock but track the price of the commodity, with metal put into storage to back the shares.

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