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Paice files complaint against VW Group with ITC alleging hybrid patent infringement

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and Kia Motors Corp, ending its legal action against those companies. When the companies were unable to reach a licensing agreement on subsequent patents, Paice was forced to pursue legal action in 2014. In December 2015, Paice reached an agreement to license all of its hybrid vehicle technology to Hyundai Motor Co.

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Hidden Cameras: What Travelers Need to Know

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Like other businesses, hotels and vacation rentals use surveillance cameras for two reasons, said Michael McCall, a Hilton Hotels Fellow in the School of Hospitality Business at Michigan State University: To protect their customers and their property. But it’s the illegal use of hidden cameras that have shocked travelers.

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Europe Mandates Automatic Emergency Braking

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Formal requirements came long afterwards—in Europe in 2004 and in the United States in 2012. That’s because it’s moving toward the dream of self-driving vehicles, which demands universal standards. Deferring to the guy behind the wheel checks a lot of boxes—human pride, legal niggling, and the engineer’s fear of false positives.

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

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But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. In December 2004, IBM announced it was selling its PC business to Lenovo for $1.75 in modern European history from Florida State University. And he continued to research, write, and publish during his IBM career.

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

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May, 2009 : Testifying at a public hearing conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Stanford University professor Mark Jacobsen urged the EPA to incorporate black carbon into calculations of greenhouse gases. “ We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook. Earlier post.) and 5.0%.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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The first such vehicles were introduced by Volkswagen in 2003, and by 2004, they accounted for more than 17% of the Brazilian auto market. Current Legal Requirement for Use of Anhydrous Ethanol in the United States. When the car is filled at the pump, an internal system analyses the mix of the two fuel types and adjusts accordingly.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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Coast Guard To verify the caller’s identity and solve the apparent crime, the Coast Guard’s investigative service emailed the files to Rita Singh , a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University and author of the textbook Profiling Humans From Their Voice (Springer, 2019). A 2020 U.S.

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