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Scary Monsters, Super Sales

2016-10-30 15:08:05| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

The Halloween market in Britain has risen from 12m to spooktacular 300m in 14 years. How has the marketers' spell been cast?

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'Super yeast' has the power to improve economics of biofuels

2016-10-17 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] MADISON, Wis. — Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) have found a way to nearly double the efficiency with which a commonly used industrial yeast strain converts plant sugars to biofuel. The newly engineered “super yeast” could boost the economics of making ethanol, specialty biofuels and bioproducts. Though Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been the baker's and brewer's yeast of ch…

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This week in space: gravity waves, NASAs Mars shot, and a new super Jupiter

2016-10-14 16:15:06| Extremetech

This week in space: Obama wants a Mars shot, you can help NASA search for gravity waves via the magic of distributed computing, and a Jupiter-class planet with rings so huge, they'd nearly reach the Sun from Earth.

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Italy mulling 250% 'super depreciation' for ultra-broadband

2016-10-07 10:47:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) Telecommunications operators who help to roll out an ultra-broadband network throughout Italy could qualify for significant tax breaks under the government's 'Industry 4.0' plan to boost innovative business investment, according to economic development minister CarloCalenda. In an interview with business daily Il Sole 24 Ore, the minister revealed that the government is considering the possibility of adding a 250 percent "super depreciation" tax shield on capital goods related to digitalisation to the budget on ultra-broadband investment.

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