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Study: 15% of US alcohol-related motor vehicle fatalities involve alcohol under the legal limit

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A new open-access study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that motor vehicle crashes involving drivers with blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) below the legal limit of 0.08% accounted for 15% of alcohol-involved crash deaths in the United States. In 2018, Utah became the first state to do so. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2019.12.015.

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Weaponized Robots Letter Calls for Policy, Tech Fixes

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Yesterday, six companies that build or support sophisticated mobile robots (led by Boston Dynamics). Along with Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics, and Unitree, Boston Dynamics’ letter seeks to ensure that its robots are used safely and ethically, in a way that helps rather than harms.

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Avis Budget group to acquire car-sharing company Zipcar in cash deal for approximately $500 million

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Significant revenue growth opportunities exist, including by leveraging Avis Budget’s fleet to meet more of Zipsters’ weekend demand, which is currently constrained by fleet availability. Avis Budget Group expects to fund the purchase price primarily with incremental corporate debt borrowings, as well as available cash.

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GM Files Voluntary Chapter 11; Agreements with US Treasury and Canada; New GM Expected in 60-90 Days

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Boston, Mass. court filings or court-supervised process, and these filings have no direct legal impact on GM’s plans and operations outside the US. billion of other, primarily international debt, but excluding Europe. $9 Cravath, Swaine, & Moore LLP is providing legal advice to the GM Board of Directors. Earlier post.)

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How the Graphical User Interface Was Invented

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A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. The Mac’s success during the 1980s spurred Apple Computer to pursue legal action over ownership of many features of the graphical user interface. In 1964, Douglas Engelbart , a research project leader at SRI International in Menlo Park, Calif., And menu design has evolved.

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Apps Put a Psychiatrist in Your Pocket

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Leow suspects that fewer than a dozen are currently available to consumers.) Such apps can’t legally claim to treat or diagnose disease, at least in the United States. If there aren’t legal protections, somebody is going to take this technology and use it for nefarious purposes,” he says.

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When New York City Was a Wiretapper’s Dream

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Squibb, were at the time locked in a nasty legal battle over the commercial rights to the antibiotic tetracycline. But at the time, the story was plausible enough to occasion internal handwringing among Bell system providers. It was also entirely legal to hire someone else to do it for you. The two firms, Bristol-Myers and.