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EPA proposes slight ease in 2018 renewable fuel volumes compared to 2017; gearing up for future reset

Green Car Congress

Relative to the levels finalized in 2017, the proposed 2018 volume requirements for advanced biofuel and total renewable fuel are lower by 40 million gallons. EPA is also taking comment on addressing concerns that some RFS obligations are increasingly met with imported fuel from Brazil, Argentina and Indonesia. Final 2017.

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15 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2024

Cars That Think

It’s interesting to note that Google’s 2017 transformer model , which introduced the architecture that underpins almost all of today’s large language models, was trained for only US $930. However, he notes that China leads in other categories including AI patents granted and installation of industrial robots.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S. He was honored for his contributions with the 2017 IEEE Canada Presidents’ Make-a-Difference Award. After that, Hepburn continued to work on international projects in countries including Indonesia, Nepal, and Pakistan. Zahn, who was granted more than 20 U.S.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. Henn Tan, shown here in 2017, fought a series of mostly losing battles against those who pirated Trek 2000’s ThumbDrive design and against rival patent claims. So it’s not surprising that overlapping and competing claims surround the origin of the thumb drive.

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The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

Baua Electric

KEVIN PANG 534 North Clark Street, Chicago; 312-595-1616; brindille-chicago.com West Loop Tasting Menu After closing their three-Michelin-starred Grace in 2017, the chef Curtis Duffy and his partner, Michael Muser, nearly immediately set about expanding upon that restaurant’s vision.

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Why Cyberwarfare Is Overhyped

Cars That Think

And a lot of people were asking when the book came out in 2017, “What about cyber war? And what happened during his fieldwork, he went in the late ‘70s to Indonesia to a rice village because he was really interested why do peasants not revolt more often. What about cyber war?” And so I got interested in, “What about cyber war?”

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