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Temp rising faster in Finland than anywhere else
2014-12-22 23:35:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Temperatures in Finland rose almost twice as fast as in the rest of the world over the past 166 years, meteorologists said Monday, supporting claims global warming hits higher altitudes hardest. Since 1847 "the average temperature in Finland has risen by more than two degrees," the Finnish Meteorological Institute said. "During the observation period, the average increase was 0.14 degrees per decade, which is nearly twice as much as the global average." The meteorologists based their statement...
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Software as a service: Transforming logistics and everything else
2014-10-29 06:02:55| Logistics - Topix.net
In our increasingly interconnected world, technology is constantly providing new tools and new opportunities, creating business models that were almost unthinkable only a few years earlier. Many of these new tools involve the use of "software-as-a-service" , in which a vendor or service provider makes a software application available for widespread use through an Internet site or mobile app.
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Sergio Marchionne to call it quits at Chrysler, Fiat by end of 2018 to 'do something else'
2014-10-08 15:50:11| Automakers - Topix.net
Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat and Chrysler, will reportedly call it quits at the end of 2018 and "undoubtedly do something else." That's what the 62-year-old Marchionne told Bloomberg in a story that posted on Bloomberg's website on Wednesday morning.
Tesla teases the D but is it a diesel hybrid, self-driving Model S, or something else entirely?
2014-10-06 17:16:24| Extremetech
Later this week at the Paris Auto Show, CEO of Tesla Elon Musk will 'unveil the D.' Assuming this isn't just a thinly veiled reference to part of Musk's anatomy, what might he be showing off on October 9? Does the 'D' allude to a Diesel-electric plug-in hybrid? Or perhaps it's a version of the Model S with some semi-self-Driving tweaks? Or is it as simple/boring as a Dual-motor -- all-wheel drive -- version of the Model S? There's even a possibility that the D is some kind of brand-new car entirely, to accompany the Model S, X, and 3.
Can Big Ag Put the Cloud in the Crops Before Someone Else Does?
2014-09-09 09:25:01| Food - Topix.net
Another of the big agricultural giants has joined the race for software-powered farming. Via the WSJ's Jacob Bunge : Cargill Inc. is developing a software service that guides farmers on how to plant crops, a foray that pits the agricultural conglomerate against a host of rivals seeking to harvest reams of data to sell "prescriptive planting" technology in North America.