According to the American Chemical Society, we use more than 2.7 million tons of plastics (polycarbonates) to make things you use every day: baby bottles, CDs, LED screens, eyeglass lenses and smartphones. Over time those plastics decompose and leach a industrial toxic chemical called bisphenol (BPA) into the environment.
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This piece was co-authored with Marzieh Nabi, Ph.D., PARC researcher, working on distributed control and optimization, autonomous and networked dynamical systems, machine learning and data mining, robotics, and flight dynamics.
Smart cities hold the promise to potentially make urban areas more efficient, more secure, and even more, um, health conscious?
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Chicago venture capitalists are riding a surge of confidence off recent successful exits, as well as a new study putting the city at the top of a list – ahead of both Silicon Valley and New York – for strong returns from startup investments.
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Forget the talk about analytics talent, and focus in on your own needs.
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No amount of social media wizardry likely could have overcome the lack of Will Smith in ‘ID:R,’ while ‘The Shallows’ leveraged a digital heavy campaign to reach distinct genre target audiences and outperform at the box office.
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For those that don’t play on a service like Xbox Live or PSN, this is a huge deal: not only can it shut down all the progress you’ve made in any internet-connected game, it can also invalidate your digital purchases. Both the Xbox One and PS4 are digital natives, and your account is your key to most everything you do.
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Microsoft nos tiene acostumbrados a una serie de versiones edición limitada de su consola y sus gamepads, pero la última versión que Xbox Francia se ha sacado de la manga es algo completamente diferente a lo que habíamos…
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Published specification help to create an open industry where multiple vendors can provide products and services with interoperability. This provides the multi-vendor support that customers seek and also helps to create lower costs storage solutions that minimize the negative impacts of proprietary storage systems. These recent advances to create distributed non-volatile memory in storage systems and data centers as well as data preservation will help to feed the continued growth of digital storage.
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Founder Ford Blakely has obtained PR mentoring from a familial source—sister Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx
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