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GOP Lawmakers Boycott Oregon Legislature After Climate Change Bill Advances Global Warming

GOP Lawmakers Boycott Oregon Legislature After Climate Change Bill Advances

(SALEM, Ore.) — Republican lawmakers on Monday boycotted the Oregon Legislature, denying Democrats a quorum in an attempt to doom a contentious climate change bill. Senate Majority Leader Ginny Burdick, a Democrat from Portland, accused Republican senators of “a dereliction of duty.” “These Oregon Senate Republicans are denying their constituents…
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February 24, 2020
SwRI’s Motion Prediction Algorithms Enhance Safety Features for Automated Vehicles Machine Learning

SwRI’s Motion Prediction Algorithms Enhance Safety Features for Automated Vehicles

SAN ANTONIO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southwest Research Institute, a leading innovator of machine learning technologies, has developed a motion prediction system that enhances pedestrian detection for automated vehicles. The computer vision tool uses a novel deep learning algorithm to predict motion by observing real-time biomechanical movements with the pelvic area being a key…
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February 24, 2020
Ethics in Silicon Valley Meritocracy

Ethics in Silicon Valley

In the paper Owning Ethics: Corporate Logics, Silicon Valley, and the Institutionalization of Ethics by Jacob Metcalf, Emanuel Moss and Danah Boyd the authors investigates the role and pitfalls of ethics in big cooperate firms in Silicon Valley and how underlying logic in the industry influences how ethics is understood…
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February 24, 2020
Fiat Restricts Access To Italian Facilities Following Coronavirus Spread In The Country Geely

Fiat Restricts Access To Italian Facilities Following Coronavirus Spread In The Country

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is taking precautionary measures at its facilities Europe, following more than 220 cases of coronavirus in the country. The car maker is restricting access to all of its facilities in Europe to everyone that has been in one of the 13 Italian municipalities affected by the virus…
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February 24, 2020
Mallinckrodt considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for generics unit: WSJ Oxycodone

Mallinckrodt considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for generics unit: WSJ

Business Drugmaker Mallinckrodt Plc is considering a Chapter 11 filing covering its U.S. generics business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday citing people familiar with the matter. (https://on.wsj.com/3c3rwqH) FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkillers Hydrocodine Bitartrate and Acetaminopohen, 5mg/325mg pills, made by Mallinckrodt sit on a shelf at a…
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February 24, 2020
Xi Jinping Is Fighting a ‘People’s War’ Against Coronavirus That Many People Don’t Believe in Free Internet

Xi Jinping Is Fighting a ‘People’s War’ Against Coronavirus That Many People Don’t Believe in

BEIJING—Returning to China in mid-February, I had seemingly stepped into a parallel universe. Much of Beijing looked, and even smelled, like the familiar metropolis in which I’ve lived for decades. Except for one thing. Where were all the people?  The Chinese capital has more than 20 million residents. But the…
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February 24, 2020
The adidas Skateboarding Copa Nationale Is The Next Evolution Of Skate Footwear Skateboard

The adidas Skateboarding Copa Nationale Is The Next Evolution Of Skate Footwear

The new adidas Skateboarding silhouette you see up top is known as the Copa Nationale. Labeled as the future of skate footwear, the Copa Nationale is inspired by the brand’s deeply rooted history in sport.  The progressive silhouette pushes the boundaries of adidas’ core offerings, culminating in the most versatile…
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February 24, 2020
Mallinckrodt considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for generics unit: WSJ Oxycodone

Mallinckrodt considering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for generics unit: WSJ

(Reuters) - Mallinckrodt Plc is finalizing a settlement proposal of at least $1.6 billion that would place its U.S. generic drug business into bankruptcy to address the debt maturities and liabilities arising out of the opioid crisis, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.The proposed deal includes a Chapter 11…
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February 24, 2020
New report says evidence suggests China lied about origins of coronavirus outbreak Biological Warfare

New report says evidence suggests China lied about origins of coronavirus outbreak

Despite China's claim that the coronavirus outbreak was traced back to a market in Wuhan that sold live animals, there have been rumblings that the disease escaped from a biology lab or was part of a biological warfare experiment. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (Ark.) has perhaps been the loudest voice…
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February 24, 2020