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Bellona: Electric Revolution Must Start on Land
At the COP23 climate conference in Bonn last month, Oslo-based environmental NGO Bellona held a forum on electrification of shipping. While most discussions at the summit centered on zero-emissions land transportation, Bellona held a discussion on what it would take to bring the shoreside electric revolution to the seas.
Pizza Is Partisan, and Companies Are Still Adjusting
In today’s political climate, even pizza, bourbon and coffee can be partisan issues.
1201 Pizza Is Partisan
New Web-Based Tool Detects Illegal Fishing
Environmental organizations TRAFFIC and WWF along with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have teamed up to develop a new web-based tool to address illegal fishing.
Ford Tests Exoskeletons for Assembly Line Workers
Once the purview of science fiction, exoskeletons are slowly working their way into real life. These aids are now being used on manufacturing assembly lines.
1130 Ford Tests Exoskeletons
'Borneo Atlas' to Help Palm Oil Buyers Check on Forest Damage
Researchers have created for the first time a detailed map that will help buyers and consumers of palm oil work out whether the supply chain is harming forests on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo.
Three Reasons Demand Planning Has Finally Come of Age
There’s nothing new about the idea of demand planning. Phoenician wine traders, 2,000 years ago, were savvy about staying ahead of fluctuations in demand via a network of merchant informants, and planned supply accordingly. The advent of vastly expanded computer data-processing power, along with the connectivity of the web, has been offering for 20 years or more the attractive proposition of using technology to track and predict demand for goods more accurately.
1201 Three Reasons Demand Planning
Largest Cocoa-Producing Countries Agree to Work With Hershey, Nestle, Mars
Governments of the two largest cocoa-producing countries — Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana — pledged themselves to “Frameworks for Action” with leading chocolate and cocoa companies at COP23 this month to end deforestation and restore forest areas in the cocoa supply chain.
A Fraud or World Changer? A Lot of Companies Are Talking About Cryptocurrency
J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon thinks bitcoin is a "fraud." Investor Mark Cuban called it "a bubble." Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein is still undecided. But whether or not executives believe in the potential of bitcoin, ethereum or blockchain technology, they and their companies can’t avoid talking about cryptocurrencies.
1128 A Fraudor World
Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon
A few years ago, Amazon.com Inc. triggered a robot arms race when it purchased a company called Kiva Systems, maker of automated warehouse robots. Now its would-be rivals are landing bigger and bigger cash injections to try to compete with the e-commerce giant.
1128 Robot Makers Fill Their
Tesla's Electric Semi Truck Gets Orders From Wal-Mart and J.B. Hunt
Some of the country's biggest trucking fleets are among Tesla Inc.'s first customers for its all-electric big rig.
Pharma Warns of Drug Supply Disruptions Without a Brexit Deal
Drugmakers in the EU are warning of drug supply chaos if the U.K. and European Commission can't strike a specific deal covering the approval of medicines before their governmental divorce.
Test Drive IBM's Watson in Factory Simulation
The singularly defining moment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) — even bigger than when IBM's Deep Blue beat chess master Garry Kasparov — happened back in in 2011 when the unbeatable Jeopardy! Champion Ken Jennings was finally taken down by IBM's new supercomputer, Watson.
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