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EPA tightens national annual PM2.5 standard to 12 µg/m3

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In response to a court order, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized an update to its national air quality standards for harmful fine particle pollution (PM 2.5 ), including soot, setting the annual health (primary) standard at 12 µg/m 3. This includes an annual standard of 15.0 ?g/m standard of 35?

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Opinion: GM Shouldn’t Kill Apple CarPlay, Android Auto

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Hmm so why would GM drop CarPlay and Android Auto – features that are either currently standard on base models or available as standard on volume trim levels on many of the company’s vehicles – when it could now offer some of the apps that make CarPlay and Auto appealing to drivers as part of its own infotainment systems?

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Your Life As A Digital Ghost

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Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wendy, thanks so much for joining me on Fixing the Future.

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Earth Day 2024: each day is about reducing emissions | Autocar Professional

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Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries, and beginning to raise public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and links between pollution and public health.

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Why Rip Off Creatives, If Generative AI Can Play Fair?

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Spectrum : I recently read Joy Buolamwini’ s book Unmasking AI , in which she documents her painstaking process to put together a dataset that felt ethical. For that one, we have several checkpoints as part of the standard quality management system. It was really impressive.

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

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IBM's essential contributions were to position the technology as suitable for wide use and to set a technology standard. IBM's strategic error in not retaining rights to the operating system went far beyond that $27 billion; it meant that Microsoft would set the standards for the PC operating system. Gerstner Jr.

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Volkswagen AG timeline on diesel emissions scandal

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Under the strictest standard in the US at the time, only 31 mg/km of NO x were allowed to be emitted—about six times less than under the EU5 standard applicable in Europe at that time. As previously announced, Volkswagen will report preliminary results of the investigation in the second half of April.

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