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Auto Industry Squabbles With FCC, Promises to Use Allocated Bandwidth Self-driving Vehicles

Auto Industry Squabbles With FCC, Promises to Use Allocated Bandwidth

By Matt Posky on April 24, 2020 Way back in 1999, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) set aside frequencies so automobiles could communicate with surrounding infrastructure. Concepts included traffic monitoring, speed mitigation, data analysis, new opportunities for law enforcement, and improved self-driving capabilities. The industry never made much use of it,…
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April 24, 2020
COVID-19 Is Not Unprecedented Nor Unpredictable. Here’s What You Can Do About It. Black Swan

COVID-19 Is Not Unprecedented Nor Unpredictable. Here’s What You Can Do About It.

The COVID-19 pandemic is neither unprecedented, nor an unpredictable Black Swan event. It is causing massive and still unknowable suffering. But to soften the blow of that suffering, we have a collective responsibility to accurately understand the root causes and repeatable elements of this pandemic so that we can learn…
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April 24, 2020
Identifying FSB’s Elusive “Elbrus”: From MH17 to Assassinations in Europe BUK-Missile

Identifying FSB’s Elusive “Elbrus”: From MH17 to Assassinations in Europe

Previously in this series: In previous joint investigations with Der Spiegel and The Insider, Bellingcat identified the killer of a Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian-Chechen asylum seeker shot at point blank in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten last August, as Vadim Krasikov, a 54 year old Russian linked to at least two contract…
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April 24, 2020
Identifying FSB’s Elusive “Elbrus”: From MH17 to Assassinations in Europe BUK-Missile

Identifying FSB’s Elusive “Elbrus”: From MH17 to Assassinations in Europe

Previously in this series: In previous joint investigations with Der Spiegel and The Insider, Bellingcat identified the killer of a Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian-Chechen asylum seeker shot at point blank in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten last August, as Vadim Krasikov, a 54 year old Russian linked to at least two contract…
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April 24, 2020
EU negotiator blasts UK for refusing to ‘budge’ ahead of ‘short’ Brexit deadline Brexit Negotiator

EU negotiator blasts UK for refusing to ‘budge’ ahead of ‘short’ Brexit deadline

EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has lambasted the UK for imposing a "short" deadline for trade talks and then refusing to "budge" on key issues - but the UK has accused the EU of not treating it as an "independent state".Speaking at a Brussels news conference following the conclusion…
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April 24, 2020
Brexit: Disappointing progress in trade talks, says Michel Barnier Brexit Negotiator

Brexit: Disappointing progress in trade talks, says Michel Barnier

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionMichel Barnier says Britain has “failed to engage substantially” in trade talks with the EUThe progress made in post-Brexit trade talks between the UK and EU has been disappointing, Michel Barnier has said.The EU's chief negotiator said "genuine progress" and a decision…
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April 24, 2020
The $30 Trillion Trend That’s Bigger Than the Entire US Stock Market Be Evil

The $30 Trillion Trend That’s Bigger Than the Entire US Stock Market

LONDON, April 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- While the current market is trouncing traditional investment themes, sustainable investing--already a $30-trillion mega trend--is calling all the shots in a world where big money has realized one critical truth: This is a game of survival, and the key is mitigating risk. Mentioned in today's…
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April 24, 2020