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Study links PM2.5 pollution to increased risk of diabetes; even low levels pose risk

Green Car Congress

This is important because many industry lobbying groups argue that current levels are too stringent and should be relaxed. The measure of how many years of healthy life are lost is often referred to as “disability-adjusted life years.”). Evidence shows that current levels are still not sufficiently safe and need to be tightened.

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How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

Cars That Think

About a decade ago, artificial neural networks began to be applied to a wide variety of semistructured data that had previously been very difficult for computers running rules-based programming (generally referred to as symbolic reasoning) to interpret.