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Amazon Echo: A Rising Rock Star?

2016-04-11 15:30:32| Wireless - Topix.net

Amazon's Echo device and its Alexa digital assistant are changing the consumer online shopping experience and integrating it into the home. Perhaps it's only Apple envy, but it's been evident for a long time that Amazon wished it had its own market-leading consumer device.

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Have we dramatically underestimated rising sea levels?

2016-04-10 20:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

World Economic Forum: Coastal cities across the world are threatened by rising sea levels, but a new study has found that we might be significantly underestimating the risk. The study, published in the journal Nature, shows that Antarcticas ice cap is less stable than previously thought and sea levels could rise more rapidly than predicted. Previous studies had predicted sea level rises of up to a metre this century, however these projections failed to anticipate any significant contribution from Antarctic ice....

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Clouds May Be Contributing to Rising Temperatures and Climate Change

2016-04-09 23:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Wingate: Studying the make-up of mixed-phase clouds, they found that clouds today actually hold more liquid, instead of ice. So as the planet warms, these clouds have less ice available to turn to water, which is a problem, because water is good at reflecting sunlight away from earth, and we were kind of banking on this whole ice-to-water transition as a natural way to slow warming. "According to the study published Thursday in the journal Science, computer model simulations say there is more ice and less...

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Toronto stock market end four-day losing streak, heads higher on rising crude

2016-04-07 15:16:23| Energy - Topix.net

A decline in U.S. crude stockpiles helped push oil prices and energy stocks higher as North American markets rallied at the close on Wednesday. Energy stocks were among the biggest gainers as the May contract for North American benchmark crude rose US$1.86 to US$37.75 a barrel.

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