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The skinny on the benefits of brown fat

As a young man, Olivier Boss’s idea of a good time was to spend a summer day cycling a few hundred miles through the mountains of Switzerland or France. La Marmotte, he says, was an especially fun day: a 108-mile road race with nearly 17,000 feet of climbing.

Akzo Mulls Breakup After Rejecting $22 Billion PPG Bid

Akzo Nobel NV, Europe’s largest coatings company, rejected an unsolicited 20.9 billion-euro takeover bid from PPG Industries Inc. and said it may separate its specialty chemicals business to boost the stock price. PPG’s bid, worth 83 euros a share at the end of February, substantially undervalued the company, Amsterdam-based Akzo said in a statement Thursday, confirming a Bloomberg News report that the U.S. company was exploring a deal.

Saudi Arabia $2 Trillion Aramco Vision Runs Into Market Reality

Saudi Arabia has said oil giant Saudi Aramco is worth more than $2 trillion, enough to consume Apple Inc. twice, and still have room for Google parent Alphabet Inc. Industry executives, analysts and investors told Bloomberg their analysis — based on oil reserves and cash flow projections under different tax scenarios — suggests Aramco is worth no more than half, and maybe as little as a fifth, of that amount. This means Saudi Arabia would earn a fraction of the $100 billion implied by its valuation if it sells 5 percent to the public in 2018, as planned.

Cell Therapy Report 2017-2026: Focus on Technologies, Markets and…

Cell Therapy Report 2017-2026: Focus on Technologies, Markets and Companies – Profiles of 303 Companies with Tabulation of 292 Alliances Dublin, Feb. 03, 2017 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Cell Therapy – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report describes and evaluates cell therapy technologies and methods, which have already started to play an important role in the practice of medicine.

10 Tips to Protect Your Business and Customers on Data Privacy Day

Having information about clients and customers is important, but ensuring that private information remains secure might be just as vital to the health of a small business. That’s according to data professionals and others who are marking this year’s Data Privacy Day on January 28. Many small businesses are not well prepared for the tricks that hackers use to extract data from their information systems or to deal with the fallout from such an occurrence, according to Bindu Sundaresan, a senior security professional for AT&T.

slideshow, The Evolution of the MacBook [slide 1] – cover

A major tool for college students and creative professionals alike, Apple’s laptops have dominated the way users approach productivity on the go. The MacBook turned 25 in late 2016 — though there have been a variety of different naming conventions and models over the years — and Apple recently highlighted the major iterations of its portables during its October rollout of the 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar.

SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion

SpaceX finances ‘on a knife edge’ following disastrous rocket explosion – and Elon Musk is relying on satellite internet service being a success to fund his Mars plans, leaked figures show Elon Musk watched in horror as SpaceX’s Falcon 9 burst into flames and rained debris over the Atlantic Ocean in 2015. The botched takeoff led to delayed launches, hindered the firm’s ability to fulfill contracts and contributed to annual loss and drops in revenue.

Nine ways the iPhone has changed our lives in the last 10 years

The iPhone, the device which redefined the mobile phone and helped make Apple the most valuable company in the world, marks its 10th anniversary tomorrow. It was on January 9, 2007, that late Apple founder and chief executive Steve Jobs went on stage at the company’s Macworld event to announce the tech giant was to reveal “an iPod, a phone and an internet communicator” – but rather than three separate products being revealed, one of the first truly smart phones was unveiled.