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Ice Age Extinctions Could Predict Modern Die-Offs

2014-10-30 13:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

LiveScience: During the last Ice Age, huge mammals roamed North America. Those mammoths, saber-toothed cats and giant sloths disappeared about 12,000 years ago -- the same time as humans arrived and Earth's climate warmed from its glacial chill. Scientists have long debated the cause of the mass extinction, whether humans or climate change. But now, researchers are beginning to turn from investigating the cause to better understanding its impact. The loss of so many of those large species, or megafauna, could...

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Finding Amelia Earhart: How modern forensics finally plotted a course to Gardner Island

2014-10-30 13:09:48| Extremetech

On July 2, 1937, American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart was attempting to circumnavigate the globe in a modified twin-engine Lockheed Electra 10E when she -- and her navigator, Fred Noonan -- mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the Pacific, near Howland Island. Now, at long last, it seems that dogged investigation and advanced technology may have finally solved the mystery of what happened to Amelia Earhart.

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27/11/2014 to 27/11/2014 - BIFM_Workplace SIG Technology, Workplace and the Modern FM

2014-10-23 11:43:27| BIFM Events

Market Insight on the role of Technology in the Workplace, from the BIFM Workplace Special Interest Group in an evening seminar format, followed by (early!) SIG Xmas drinks.

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The iPad Air 2, with a tri-core CPU, is almost as fast as a modern PC

2014-10-22 15:32:59| Extremetech

This morning, the first reviews of the iPad Air 2 started to roll off the presses. If you want me to save you 10 minutes, here's a summary: The iPad Air 2 is a thinner and lighter version of its predecessor, the first iPad Air. Yes, the camera is better -- but it's still not as good as the iPhone 5S or 6. Yes, it now has a Touch ID sensor, which will utterly blow your mind -- and yes, the new "bonded" display feels like you're touching the pixels. What interests me the most, however, is that the iPad Air 2 is powered by the A8X SoC -- a chip with three billion transistors, and a tri-core CPU that gets uncomfortably close to laptop levels of performance, and a decent GPU to boot.

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