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Smart phones forcing Global Travel Retail to adapt - Diageo GTR head

2016-11-01 06:42:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com

Diageo's Travel Retail head has said the channel's business model needs to adjust as technology changes the way consumers shop.

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Climate change forcing builders to rethink how they design structures: expert

2016-06-26 16:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

City News: A trailer park damaged by the wildfires is seen in Fort McMurray, Alta., in a May 9, 2016, file photo. Severe weather events such as fires and floods are becoming more frequent and more difficult to predict, and it's forcing architects and engineers to rethink how they design buildings, infrastructure and cities. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz, File TORONTO -- Severe weather events like wildfires and floods are becoming more frequent and more difficult to predict, forcing architects and engineers...

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Two L.A.-area wildfires threaten to merge after forcing evacuations

2016-06-22 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Two rapidly growing wildfires burning a few miles apart in parched foothills just northeast of Los Angeles threatened to merge on Tuesday after forcing the evacuation of more than 700 people, officials said. The blazes came as California and other southwestern U.S. states baked in a heat wave. The so-called Fish Fire and the Reservoir Fire, which both broke out on Monday in the Angeles National Forest, more than doubled in size overnight and were entirely unconfined, the U.S. Forest Service...

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Verizon refuses to repair copper infrastructure, still set on forcing fiber conversion

2016-04-13 14:05:42| Extremetech

Leaked documents point to Verizon's deliberate campaign to shove home customers off copper networks and into fiber deployments, whether they're interested in using those services or not.

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