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IEA: key oil trends 2018

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in 2018 compared to 2017, reaching a record total monthly production of over 100 million tons at the beginning of the year and remaining above this for almost all of 2018, according to the IEA. Production from the United States rose to a record high in the third quarter of 2018, and increased by 17.1%

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Tomorrow’s AI Will Reason Like Humans, IBM Watson Developer Predicts

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When David Nahamoo was a high school student in Iran, he wanted to pursue a career in mathematics or physics. But after talking over career options with his friends, he says, he was "pointed in the direction of a good career in Iran" and instead decided to become an electrical engineer. SWITCHING GEARS.

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Lockheed Martin’s CTO Steven Walker on Future Defense Technologies

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As a high school student in the early 1980s, he was concerned by the hostage crisis in Iran and the Cold War, he says. "My My desire was to join the Air Force and help build technologies to secure the nation," he says. "I One is the AI Next campaign, which has a multiyear investment of more than $2 billion that began in 2018.

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How the Huawei Fight is Changing the Face of 5G

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By the mid-1990s, China was promoting it as a 'national champion' in the country's effort to build up industrial giants that could compete on the world stage. This allowed Chinese manufacturers to build 5G equipment for their vast domestic use and export it internationally. In 2018, a U.K.

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