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Sorghum, Targeted by Tariffs, Is a U.S. Crop China Started Buying Only Five Years Ago
When China slapped import duties on U.S. sorghum last week, it targeted an annual trade flow worth almost $1bn that didn't exist five years ago.
Robot Conquers One of the Hardest Human Tasks: Assembling Ikea Furniture
Robots have taken our jobs, learned our chores and beaten us at our own games.
Better Than Amazon? How Bradley Jacobs Turned a $63M Bet Into a $12Bn Transportation Empire
Decades ago, Bradley Jacobs studied math and piano (classical and jazz) at Bennington and Brown before dropping out to make money. Now the balding 61-year-old CEO of XPO Logistics invokes that background to explain how he's parlayed sequential roll-ups in the gritty businesses of garbage collection, heavy equipment rentals and delivering stuff into a $2.6bn net worth.
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U.K. Manufacturing Quality Hampered by Supply Chain Issues, Survey Says
Achieving quality in the supply chain is a major concern for manufacturers, and access to good raw materials is a growing issue, a survey of 200 U.K. manufacturers has found.
U.S. Navy Explores 3-D Printing With Explosive Materials
A small consultancy in Chattanooga, Tennessee is helping the U.S. Navy turn explosives into custom shapes using commercial 3-D printing techniques.
Meatless “Meat” Maker Spars With FDA Over Safety of Secret Ingredient
Biochemist Patrick Brown, founder of Impossible Foods Inc., invented a “magic ingredient” that solves what he calls the planet’s biggest environmental problem: beef.
IMF Says the Global Smartphone Boom Has Reached Its Peak
The global smartphone boom that’s helped propel Asia’s economic growth and reshape trade channels in recent years may have peaked.
Amazon Is Launching International Shopping From the U.S.
Amazon is expanding the reach of its U.S. store.
‘Try Before You Buy’: A Huge Logistics Challenge for E-Tailers
Selling apparel and other merchandise over the internet is difficult enough for retailers as it is. Now they want to make it even tougher on themselves.
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The Staggering Environmental Footprint of All the Food That We Throw in the Trash
The mass quantities of food Americans waste every year has staggering environmental consequences, according to a study published this week.
Opinion: Aviation Industry May Be Vulnerable to Cyberattack Through Its Global Supply Chain
In March, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a troubling alert: Since the same month two years before, Russian state-sponsored hackers had been infiltrating the nation’s electricity grid and various infrastructure industries, including aviation, collecting information on how the networks were organized and what systems’ controls they had in place.
Bringing Blockchain to the Coffee Cup
Do you take your coffee with cream, sugar or blockchain?
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