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Hundreds of millions of kilometers from earth, a European spacecraft made history Wednesday by successfully landing on the icy, dusty surface of a speeding comet - an audacious first designed to answer big questions about the universe.

Current trouble spots have low influence on electronics production
"While VDMA has corrected its forecast for the overall machinery industry to one percent for 2014, the sentiment in electronics production is very robust", says Rainer Kurtz, CEO of kurtz-ersa Group and chairman of the VDMA Sector Group Productronics. "The current trouble spots are of minor importance for electronics production locations. The generally lower growth in China does not effect our industry much, either. It is compensated by other regions like e.g. the US. The devaluation of the Euro currency is very helpful in this respect", Kurtz resumes at the end of the customers' trade show electronica in Munich. Here the "Internet of Things" has prominently been presented as the driver for new markets.

U.S. undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, technology and logistics said that the technological dominance enjoyed by the U.S. military force that fought the first Gulf War a quarter century ago is threatened today.