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Shares of retailers held up relatively well during the volatility last week.
2015-12-14 19:49:02| Footwear - Topix.net
Outside of the earnings-related disaster that was yoga apparel maker Lululemon , shares of retailers held up very nicely, last week. Nike continued to outperform the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500.
How one word nearly killed the climate deal
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: The proposed accord was just hours from a final vote when the glitch was spotted. Someone had changed a single word in the draft text -- from a should to a shall -- and suddenly the entire climate deal appeared at risk of faltering. Secretary of State John F. Kerry phoned his old friend, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, in exasperation over a tiny revision that implied huge new legal and financial obligations. We cannot do this, Kerry warned. Less than four hours later, the...
A climate deal, 6 fateful years in the making
2015-12-14 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: It took almost two weeks for negotiators from 195 countries to finally pass the landmark climate accord this weekend after several espresso-fueled all-nighters and long, passionate debates over the meaning of a single word, such as "shall." But the story of how the deal came together started long before that - in December 2009, with the failure of the last such summit meeting, in Copenhagen. That gathering was, in hindsight, a case study in how not to do a deal. The hosts of the event had set...
Obama: Paris climate pact can be a turning point for the world
2015-12-14 14:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: President Obama is celebrating victory in getting an international climate accord Saturday, saying it will help stop some of the worst effects of climate change from occurring. In a Saturday evening address at the White House, Obama took significant credit for the United States leading role in the the process toward the agreement. Today, the American people can be proud, because this historic agreement is a tribute to American leadership, he said, highlighting both the domestic climate actions...
Why AI still sucks in video games and how DirectX 12 could change it for the better
2015-12-14 13:14:40| Extremetech
It's 2015 -- why does the AI in most games still suck? We delve into why AI has actually gotten worse as graphics have gotten better, and explore how DirectX 12 could indirectly improve things by giving graphics room to scale across threads.
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