Smart Farming: Data Enabling the Future of Agriculture

How will we double food production by 2050 with less land every year? Data and analytics have many benefits in our world today, and agriculture has more data than almost any other industry. This short film explores how farmers around the world are using data to increase food production and meet the ever-growing demand. This video is part of the 3M documentary series, Data Driven, exploring the future of sustainability and data. Watch “Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.” Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.

What is the future of the cloud? Take an inside look at the rise of our data driven world and the environmental impact of the energy consumption that data centers have today. Explore the science and technology that will sustain our expanding digital landscape into the future. A short documentary from 3M on the future of data centers, featuring industry leaders, engineers and sustainability experts. Hear from the Open Compute Project, Datacenter Dynamics, Allied Control and others about the scale of the challenge and the potential for transformational change through new energy efficient technologies such as immersion cooling. Explore this topic further at 3m.com/datadrivenlife Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Bitcoin Energy Consumption: An Inside Look

What’s the physical cost of a digital currency? The amount of energy that Bitcoin mining consumes is about the same amount as some medium-sized countries – and that will only increase. Take a look behind the scenes of one Bitcoin mining operation that is optimizing its energy costs through the science of immersion cooling. This video is part of the 3M documentary series, Data Driven, exploring the future of sustainability and data. Watch “Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.” Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Trailer: Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.

What is the future of the cloud? Take an inside look at the rise of our data driven world and the environmental impact of the energy consumption that data centers have today. Explore the science and technology that will sustain our expanding digital landscape into the future. A short documentary from 3M on the future of data centers, featuring industry leaders, engineers and sustainability experts. Hear from the Open Compute Project, Datacenter Dynamics, Allied Control and others about the scale of the challenge and the potential for transformational change through new energy efficient technologies such as immersion cooling. Explore this topic further at 3m.com/datadrivenlife Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Smart Farming: Data Enabling the Future of Agriculture

How will we double food production by 2050 with less land every year? Data and analytics have many benefits in our world today, and agriculture has more data than almost any other industry. This short film explores how farmers around the world are using data to increase food production and meet the ever-growing demand. This video is part of the 3M documentary series, Data Driven, exploring the future of sustainability and data. Watch “Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.” Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Data driven. Advancing a sustainable future.

What is the future of the cloud? Take an inside look at the rise of our data driven world and the environmental impact of the energy consumption that data centers have today. Explore the science and technology that will sustain our expanding digital landscape into the future. A short documentary from 3M on the future of data centers, featuring industry leaders, engineers and sustainability experts. Hear from the Open Compute Project, Datacenter Dynamics, Allied Control and others about the scale of the challenge and the potential for transformational change through new energy efficient technologies such as immersion cooling. Explore this topic further at 3m.com/datadrivenlife Learn more about immersion cooling at 3m.com/datadriven.

Global stocks hit hard on trade war fears

Global stock markets dropped on Friday amid rising trade tensions between the United States and China.

Global stocks hit hard on trade war fears

Global stock markets dropped on Friday amid rising trade tensions between the United States and China.

Asian Stocks Tumble as Sell-Off Over Trade Fears Continues

A brewing trade war between China and the United States sent markets reeling across Asia on Friday, and Europe looked ready to follow suit.

Op-Ed Columnist: Macron-Trump, a Friendship that Must Deliver

President Emmanuel Macron of France and President Trump at the United Nations in September.

Trump’s Appointment of John Bolton Raises Concern in Asia

John Bolton, named by President Trump as his new national security adviser, in Texas last year. He has “very bad chemistry” with the South Koreans, an analyst said.

Trump Hits China With Stiff Trade Measures

President Trump announced the tariffs in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on Thursday.

Editorial: Young Slovaks Show Extremism in Europe Can Be Defied

Antigovernment demonstrators marched in Bratislava, Slovakia, last week.

Responding to Trump, China Plans New Tariffs on U.S. Goods

Chinese border police officers watching the arrival of a container ship at a port in Qingdao in Shandong Province. On Friday, China said it planned to impose tariffs on a wide range of American products.

Congress Approves $1.3 Trillion Spending Bill, Averting a Shutdown

Speaker Paul D. Ryan walking to the House floor on Thursday. The spending bill would provide big increases to the military and to domestic programs.

Europe Edition: Tariffs, Strikes, Facebook: Your Friday Briefing

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Emmanuel Macron Becomes France’s Answer to Strongman Populism

The National Assembly in Paris. The symbiotic relationship between President Emmanuel Macron and the legislature made in his image is a hopeful sign to his many supporters that sclerotic French politics have given way to an era of renewal.

RPT-Activist investor critical of Vivendi's T.Italia 'delay tactics'

MILAN, March 23 (Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott Advisors slammed as "cynical and self-serving" a move by French media group Vivendi to force Telecom Italia to have to name a new board after a majority of directors resigned.

Protests Grip Sacramento After Police Fatally Shoot Unarmed Black Man

People gathered on Wednesday outside the home where Mr. Clark, who was unarmed, was fatally shot by Sacramento officers. Video footage released on Wednesday shows the officers yelling that he had a gun, but no gun was found.

Man in the News: John Bolton, an Undiplomatic Voice for American Might

John R. Bolton in February at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland.

BRIEF-Walgreens Boosts Alliance (Hong Kong) Gets Green Light To Acquire China National Accord Medicines' Unit

March 23 (Reuters) - China National Accord Medicines Corp Ltd:

Japan machinery makers with China exposure take big hit amid trade war fears

TOKYO, March 23 (Reuters) - Shares of Japanese machinery makers with heavy exposure to China plummeted on Friday as China and the United States moved closer to a trade war that could damage global growth.

UPDATE 1-GSK pulls out of $20 bln race for Pfizer assets

LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline has withdrawn from the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, the British drugs company said on Friday, endangering an auction for an asset some said could fetch as much as $20 billion.

UPDATE 1-Nissan says aims to sell 1 mln electric vehicles annually by 2022

* Self-driving tests safe, no plans to stop after Uber accident (Adds details on Nissan's plans from briefing)

Ex-Playboy Model Karen McDougal Details 10-Month Affair With Donald Trump

“He always told me he loved me,” Karen McDougal told CNN, speaking of the affair she said she had with Donald J. Trump.

GSK pulls out of $20 bln race for Pfizer assets

LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline said on Friday it had withdrawn from the race to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, which the U.S. drugmaker believes could be worth as much as $20 billion.