For $249, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1060 will offer the performance of a GTX 980, vastly improved power efficiency, and the company claims it’s ‘easily overclockable’ to a blistering 2GHz. Let the sweet spot GPU war begin.

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How do we expect students to be ready for college-level work when more than half of them are reading 15 minutes or less a day beginning in first grade? That means that by 12th grade they have encountered 1.5 million words. Sounds like a lot of words until you consider that reading a half an hour or more a day translates into 13.7 million words by senior year.

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Not many worldwide organizations have to quickly start a human resources (HR) system from scratch, but this is precisely what happened at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise. Following M&A activities last year, the company, now a mid-sized, leading-edge telecommunications solutions provider, needed to quickly ramp up a new HR system for 2,800 employees in over 50 countries. Johannes Neumann, HR Project Manager at Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, was recently at the SAPPHIRE NOW + ASUG Conference, where he described why his company turned to SAP SuccessFactors.

“It was the first tool we brought in for the new company, and we couldn’t believe it would be possible to go live in just six months,” said Neumann. “But we were able to bring all employees in every country on the system, providing the master data that feeds all of our important systems to connect the layers with employee information.”

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Tesla Motors has a huge governance problem. And in the last few weeks, that problem has cast a dark shadow over those who hope to ride their love of Tesla’s products to stock market riches.

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Pokemon Go is developed by Ingress makers Niantic Labs, and represents a pretty stark departure for both Nintendo and the Pokemon series: it’s only the company’s second mobile game, but it could be shaping up to be a big one.

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Since it was founded in San Francisco in August 2008, Airbnb has developed a truly global presence. These days, the website boasts over 2 million listings in 191 countries around the world. Apartments and rooms are available in at least 34,000 cities, but which destinations are proving the most popular?

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It’s a legal case in which DuPont truly believes it is right. Yet, a jury yesterday awarded a man $5.1 million, believing that the chemical it once produced called C-8 was linked to a handful of different cancers.
In “on background” conversations with attorneys involved on both sides of this issue, the likely outcome will be that DuPont pays “hundred of millions into a fund.” That money will then be dispersed to those individuals whose illnesses are linked to C-8 — a chemical used in Teflon and in Stain Master carpet fibers.
In the case of Wednesday’s verdict, a jury from the U.S. District Court in Southern Ohio awarded David Freeman compensatory damages, or actual damages. He has testicular cancer. The jury will begin deciding today whether it will force DuPont to pay “punitive” damages that are intended to teach the company a lesson.

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So far there have been few real bargains among Amazon’s Prime Day Countdown Deals. Perhaps the Prime Day deals will be bigger barn burners, but I think we’re seeing something else at play here: Impatient investors want profits. And that means Amazon has to stop selling at a loss.

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