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Quota Time: Connecticut Troopers May Have Faked 1000s of Citations

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For bringing this shameful practice to light, it seems we can thank one Ken Barone, a person who toils as an associate director at the University of Connecticut. It’s no secret that those holding the levers of power sometimes look to such statistics when planning new roadways or adjusting speed limits, for example.

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Inexpensive 3D-Printed Microscope Can Spot Coronavirus in Blood

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He is the director of the Multidimensional Optical Sensing and Imaging Systems Lab at the University of Connecticut in Storrs. The light emitted from the laser diode illuminates the red blood cells, which is then magnified by the microscope objective lens. That's according to one of the machine's developers, IEEE Fellow Bahram Javidi.

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EV Chargers for All!

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Wading through the wealth of rental statistics from sources like the National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and the Urban Institute , I discovered the full scope and complexity of the impediments involved. light-duty vehicle sales. One company, Atom Power, just might have the solution everyone is looking for. households.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Xerox executives made all sorts of promises: we’ll buy 20,000, just talk to this executive in Virginia, then talk to this executive in Connecticut. The names were not merely clever but were also functional; for example, a user could “chat” with Ivy to learn statistics on disk space, the status of a particular file, or other information. “If

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