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Assassins Creed Unity for the PC: Benchmarks and analysis of its poor performance
2014-11-13 16:37:39| Extremetech
Assassin's Creed Unity is being dogged by reports of low performance on PCs. We go under the hood, investigate GameWorks-specific performance, and look at the overall engine to see if this is indeed a shoddy PC port.
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VIDEO: The socialite feeding Malaysia's poor
2014-11-11 01:16:54| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Ruby Khong describes her transition from socialite to full-time volunteer, running Malaysia's biggest soup kitchen.
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Climate change is hurting poor countries right now. Why won't rich countries act?
2014-11-05 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Republic: All politics is local, Tip ONeill, the legendary Capitol Hill pol, used to say. He wasnt talking about the politics of climate change, but he might as well have been. Powerful governments around the world have failed to act in a significant way to fight climate change, and its pretty clear why: Their constituents dont feel in any real sense that climate change is affecting them locally. This is the fundamental inconvenient truth that advocates of tougher climate action face, and its underscored...
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U.S. Climate Envoy Says All Nations, Rich and Poor, Must Curb Emissions
2014-10-15 18:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: U.S. Climate Change Envoy Todd Stern The negotiating architecture that has governed the decades-long pursuit of an international climate agreement is outdated, said Todd Stern, the U.S. special envoy for climate change at the State Department and the nations lead climate negotiator. In remarks delivered at Yale Universitys Law School on Tuesday, Stern reiterated the U.S. position that all nations -- both rich ones and developing ones -- must be brought together under one agreement that includes...
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Poor nations urged to leapfrog harmful HFC refrigerants
2014-10-13 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Efforts to rid the world of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of powerful greenhouse gases mainly used as refrigerants, may depend on developing nations being able to leapfrog these chemicals to less harmful alternatives, an environmental group has warned. HFCs were introduced following the 1989 Montreal Protocol as a replacement for chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which deplete the ozone layer, part of the atmosphere that helps to absorb harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But while HFCs...
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