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Alcoa splitting into two companies; expecting 2.4x increase in automotive revenues to $1.8B in 2018

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The Value-Add Company will include Global Rolled Products, Engineered Products and Solutions, and Transportation and Construction Solutions. It has a low 19 th percentile position on the global bauxite cost curve. The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2016. in 2008 to 20.9%

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alamouti first noticed the potential for the spread of disinformation on the Internet in 2010, when he began working as group R&D director for Vodafone in London. Alamouti says tokens, enabled by distributed ledgers, could replace cash as a method of exchange, with low-cost transaction fees. Wireless innovator.

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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It took some 30 years of effort by engineers and computer scientists in universities, government laboratories, and corporate research groups, piggybacking on each other’s work, trying new ideas, repeating each other’s mistakes. In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., Menus list choices of action.

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