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Thorny Pay Point Arises in Dow Chemical Feud

2014-11-17 17:23:06| Chemicals - Topix.net

Third Point LLC would pay two potential Dow Chemical Co. board nominees more if the firm's stock rises during their board tenure, reviving a controversial compensation structure and adding to tension between Dow and the activist hedge fund.

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Thorny Issues Revealed in US-EU Trade Talks

2014-06-23 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US & EU - US Agriculture Secretary was in the European Union last week, emphasising the importance of agricultural trade in negotiations over the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP). Stumbling blocks to progress appear to include GM crops, hormones in beef and food processing technology.

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AMD tackles thorny problem of laptop battery life

2014-06-20 23:53:55| InfoWorld: Top News

Advanced Micro Devices is reworking its core PC chip design to be 25 times more energy-efficient over the next six years, possibly resulting in laptop battery life of up to 50 hours on idle time. So said Sam Naffziger, corporate fellow at AMD, adding that estimated battery life on active use would also be significantly better, although he couldn't quantify that expected improvement.

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MIT's new algorithm could solve thorny optimization problems

2014-01-09 00:51:51| InfoWorld: Top News

A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potentially more effective way of helping computers solve some of the toughest optimization problems they face. Their new algorithm is more computationally effective than other approaches, because it scales in a "near-linear" fashion, according to Jonathan Kelner, an associate professor of applied mathematics at MIT and a member of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, who co-authored the new algorithm.

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