Machine Makers Set To Drive A New Low-Carbon Industrial Revolution

Heavy industry, industrial conglomerates and electrical equipment makers have the potential to be at the vanguard of an industrial revolution by making products that help wide swathes of the economy to decarbonise through the use of technologies such as microgrids, clean energy and energy storage.

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Don’t Blame Pittsburgh Pirates For Idea Linking Gambling Revenues To Stadium Construction

Many attribute the idea of using sports gambling revenues to fund stadium construction to the Pittsburgh Pirates and their owner Frank Coonelly. However, the argument of legalizing sports betting to pay for building sports stadiums actually is traced back to an Illinois legislative bill from 1990.

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‘@JeffBezos: We need to talk ASAP’ – Congress Gets A Demonstration of Facial Recognition’s Biases

There’s three reasons why the ACLU’s experiment with Amazon’s facial recognition technology struck a nerve: it approached the issue of bias in facial recognition technology in a novel way, made an abstract concept more tangible, and personally targeted the people who have agency over these matters.

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