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The history of this error, and they it went undetected for 7 years calls into question the data quality checks and the homogeneity checks of GISS.

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Under the plan, which launched last year, T - Mobile divided its customers into blocks of about 120,000, who are each assigned to a specific group of a few dozen employees at a specific call center.

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

Not many CEOs have engineered the kind of transformation that van Houten has executed at Philips, steering the 126 - year - old Dutch firm through a «radical pivot,» as he calls it — transforming an Old World maker of electronics and lighting into a leader in health care technology.

In what one software engineer calls «the most demonically clever computer security attack I've seen in years,» researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a way to insert a hidden security flaw into a microprocessor chip that can't be detected by any known method of security analysis.

Hilarious post-game interview from 36 - year - old Scott Foster, who was called into action as the Blackhawks Emergency Backup Goaltender tonight pic.twitter.com/p4ExOQz 8oA

«A few markets were softer than we anticipated going into the year,» CEO Inge Thulin said Tuesday during a call with analysts.

This is just the latest in a series of blows for the company, which began with a high - profile exposé from The Wall Street Journal last year that called the company's underlying technology into question.

Plunging sales two years ago sent Fitbit's shares into a tailspin — they're down more than 70 % from their 2015 initial public offering price — although it has unveiled a well - reviewed watch of its own called Versa.

This week's American Inventor highlighted Michael Osayi, a 53 - year - old call center employee who had developed a version of the beloved national pastime that substituted numerals through nine for variously valued letters and called some legal issues into question.

Swinburne has been called «the architect of Mifid II» for her role in shaping the far - reaching European financial legislation that took six years to complete and came into force in January.

Last year, the Building 8 lab was set up to help Facebook develop its own hardware and keep consumers locked into its ecosystem — the news feed, Facebook live, video calling and more.

Analysts say some of the rebound is a result of what happened last year, when large numbers of advertisers put less into the upfront market and kept more of their spending for what is called the short - term «scatter» market, where ads are bought on an as - needed basis.

Last year it launched a new service, called Attribution, that allows advertisers, brands and publishers to measure how their media spending translates into actual visits to retail locations.

Fifteen or twenty years down the road, when homeowners are more likely to have depleted their savings, they can convert the HECM credit line into a so - called tenure payment.

In recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technology.

So the 25 - year - old did a little troubleshooting: he bought every substance the body needs in raw, chemical form and combined them into a thick, beige meal - replacement liquid he calls Soylent.

The company now has more than 3 million users, with 78 percent falling into the so - called millennial age category of 18 to 35 years old.

A recruiter called his house in the Florida panhandle at 10:30 a.m. on a weekday in the midst of a senior year in high school in which he would fail a class and realize he didn't have the transcript needed to get into a four - year college.

Twenty - five years after turning her Princeton senior thesis into a national education reform program called Teach for America, Kopp is taking her model global.

Peering into the Gear VR isn't what I'd call pleasurable, but that's in part because I've used superior, pricier alternatives like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive over the years.

Now, the master chef is branching into tech, with a new food delivery app called Maple that will launch early next year.

«In addition to Canada's 270 percent tariff on milk, a program called the «Class 7» pricing program, a market - distorting supply management system, has caused severe pain to New York dairy producers like Avon's Anderson Farm and their fellow Upstate Niagara Co-Op dairies since it came into force last year,» Schumer said earlier this week.

The oldest university in the state, Columbia called several locations across New York City home after its founding in 1754 — including a schoolhouse adjacent to Trinity Church in the financial district and a 40 - year occupation in Midtown — before settling into its iconic campus on 116th Street.

Trump administration officials have railed against what they call «catch - and - release» policies that allow people requesting asylum to be released from custody into the US while their claims make their way through the courts in a process that can last a year.

Using an app created by a company called Medical Realities, viewers from around the globe, each presumably with an iron constitution, witnessed a surgeon at the Royal London NHS Hospital delve into the bowels of a 70 - year - old cancer patient.

Harmless fun tipped over into something darker in 2013 when Armstrong fired an employee on a live conference call in front of dozens of his colleagues, and again this year when he blamed a reduction in employee benefits to «distressed babies» recently born to two new mothers.

A few years later, Hollywood came calling and turned The Book Thief into a major motion picture.

About two years ago, Stibel and his assistant snuck into the office at night and created what they called a Failure Wall.

Additionally, Tchir argues that European investors have shown a proclivity to rush into trades leading to what he calls «periods of violent indigestion,» pointing to the big swing in German bund yields seen early last year following the European Central Bank's announcement of more QE as a prime example.

The threat in question is the so - called fiduciary rule, a regulation approved by the Department of Labor last year and scheduled to go into effect this April.

Within two years after completing the all - stock merger, DowDuPont (which is what the two sides are calling it) would split the combined company into three independent, publicly traded entities via tax - free spin - offs.

As his hedge fund Pershing Square heads into its fourth straight year in the red, investing titan Bill Ackman is calling it quits on one of the most high - profile activist battles on Wall Street: Herbalife.

Gurle brings more than 20 years of experience to Symphony, founding a predecessor company called Perzo in 2012, which he merged into the current concern.

There's been a lot of attention focused over the past year on the rise of so - called «fake news,» a term that has even made its way into tweets by President Trump.

They were still settling into their new home, a comfortable, Spanish - style house in the lush enclave that had been called «el Country Club» before wealthy families abandoned it in the early years of the revolution.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 21 - Alphabet Inc said on Thursday its Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt will step down in January, ending a 17 - year - run in which he played a central role in building a promising startup called Google into a global technology powerhouse.

Simon pumped more than $ 20 million over the past two years into small tech companies, among them a dress - rental service for weddings called Union Station, and Fashion Project, a marketplace for deeply discounted clothes.

Connor Schell, executive producer of ESPN Films, told reporters on a conference call earlier this week that, when he first discussed the project that became Made in America with the director Edelman more than two years ago, they had no idea to what extent the Simpson trial would reassert itself into American popular culture after two decades — not to mention the surge in popularity of the true crime genre, as seen recently with documentary series like Netflix's Making a Murderer and HBO's The Jinx.

Carson didn't plagiarize in anything directly related to his campaign, but it was discovered last year that portions of his book America the Beautiful — which was published in 2012 and clearly designed as part of the retired neurosurgeon's entry into politics — were taken directly from other sources, including a website called SocialismSucks.net, without consistent attribution.

Porat kicked off Alphabet's third - quarter earnings call with a lengthy defense of the corporate restructuring that took place a year ago and was intended to turn Google into a collection of independent, game - changing companies.

And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current level of 2140.»

Though Bonobos initially started out as an online retailer, the e-commerce startup dipped into brick - and - mortar this year and launched a new kind of store, called a guideshop, on Fifth Avenue.

Starting in August of this year, Quebecer Dominic Lacroix collected funds from investors buying into an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)-- basically a fundraising round wherein people buy digital tokens from a startup — for a token called PlexCoin.

«The tweets, all the behaviors that have been called into question over the last year among legislators, citizens, etc..

In the past few years, Alphabet has poured money into its self - driving car company, Waymo, the anti-aging project Calico, a life sciences division called Verily, an energy - kite company called Makani, balloon internet project called Project Loon, a drone delivery project called Project Wing, and more.

The dispute had deteriorated over the years into a contentious affair that bordered on the uncivilized on many occasions, like when Fernandez called the 85 - year old judge who presided over the case «senile» or referred to Singer as a «Vulture Lord» and «bloodsucker.»

But, as Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne reminded analysts in 2015 in perhaps the most interesting earnings call I've listened to, the sell - side has a purpose that goes beyond chucking numbers into a spreadsheet to forecast where the stock will be by year - end:

Last year Judy Kucharuk of Footprint Management Systems, collaborated online with a group to create an interactive mobile «sustainability» game called Get Your Green On that was embedded into the Event Camp Vancouver mobile event application.

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