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Ford wins reversal of $105 million industry secrets and techniques U.S. courtroom award

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million for breaching a 2004 licensing assurance and misappropriating industry secrets and techniques. He additionally mentioned jurors had refuse foundation to decide how lengthy Ford would have had to form 3 industry secrets and techniques it allegedly stole, and that this additionally required voiding the damages award.

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Google’s technology campaign for autonomous driving

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Search engine giant Google is looking for partners within in the auto industry to help launch one of the most significant applications of artificial technology over the next several years, the self-driving car. by Bill Cooke. We’re not perfect; the technology is nowhere near ready. —Anthony Levandowski.

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What Happens When a Happening Place Becomes Too Hot

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“Living in Milan has become really difficult,” she said, adding that it was only after a decade of pleading with unresponsive local administrators that she and the other residents had decided to go down the legal route. Still, she and others doubted that the new ordinance would change much, and that enforcement would be a problem.

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EPA Grants California Vehicle GHG Regulations Waiver

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In September 2004 the California Air Resources Board (ARB) passed regulations to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) from new passenger vehicles starting in 2009. EPA also found that the California program meets legal requirements regarding the protectiveness of public health and welfare as well as technological feasibility.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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By 1980, customers in many industries were telling their IBM contacts to enter the fray. As developers began writing software for the IBM PC, they embraced DOS as the industry standard. It was already clear that Microsoft was going to become one of the most successful firms in the industry. A large software industry grew up.

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Study: California will hit climate targets >100 years too late at current pace of reductions; transportation, wildfires & landfills

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The industrial, residential, and transportation sectors have only seen small declines, while California’s large commercial sector is moving in the opposite direction, with emissions increasing more than 64%. Over the last 17 years, the industrial, residential and transportation sectors have cut their emissions by less than 5 percent.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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At issue is the 2012 expiration of the Kyoto Protocol, a binding but effectively unenforceable 1997 treaty that had set greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction targets for 40 industrialized countries, referred to as Annex 1 countries, yielding an average GHG reduction of 5.2% ” [ 1 ]. ºF) increase. Earlier post.)

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