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US indicts 7 individuals and 3 companies in alleged $100M biodiesel RINs fraud in Indiana

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Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, announced the return of two indictments against six individuals and three companies for offenses involving federal renewable fuel programs, allegedly creating losses to victims totaling more than $100 million. The defendants.

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice?

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He said he’d try to get his boat, a 42-footer with three people on board, back to Atwood’s , a lobster company on Spruce Head Island, Maine. Secret Service claims to be able to identify an unknown person in a voice-only lineup, comparing a recording of an unknown voice with a recording of a known speaker, as a reference. A 2020 U.S.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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IBM is a remarkable company, known for many things—the tabulating machines that calculated the 1890 U.S. Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Rerouting Intention And Sensation In Paralyzed Patients

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Today I’m talking with Chad Bouton , who’s at the forefront of this electrifying field of research. Chad, welcome to the program, and can you please introduce yourself to our listeners? Chad Bouton: Yes, thanks so much, Eliza, for having me. And my name is Chad. The highway is blocked, right? Bouton: That’s right.

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The Top 10 Semiconductor Stories of 2023

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But you’re also a discerning and forward-looking person. A rival group at Google responded that it didn’t, but the company wouldn’t publish the rival’s results. The Practical Power of Fusing Photons Chad Hagen Silicon solar cells are relatively cheap and plentiful, but they miss out on a lot of energy in sunlight.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? Chad Hagen In December 2020, a fishy distress call from a boat off the coast of Maine opened up an investigation into its authenticity—an investigation that played into the resurgence of something called “voiceprinting.” So even in the future, try not to misplace a security key.

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A Small Startup Fights Rare Diseases With Big Data

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Steven Cherry: One of your company's slogans, at least on Twitter and you alluded to this before, is "Build the haystack, find the needle.". It involves such things as looking for one incriminating statement in three years of all the company's emails, but this " discovery ," as it's called, is yet another of your use cases.