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Canada refuses to permit seabed mining absent regulatory regime

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In April 2019, Fisheries and Oceans Canada announced its new protection standard for new federal Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The MPA Protection Standard is a federal baseline of a common set of activities that are prohibited or further restricted. Further prohibitions may apply according to each MPA law.

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New Emissions Analytics study suggests pollution from tire wear now 1,850 times worse than exhaust emissions

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Since that study, which was transparently designed to quantify the worst-case tire emissions under legal driving, Emissions Analytics has been testing and analyzing tire wear emissions in more detail across a wider range of driving conditions, and has performed a detailed chemical analysis of hundreds of new tires. mg/km for mass and 6.0

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How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?

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In order to address the legal and ethical issues that an autonomous weapons system (AWS) can raise, it’s important to look at the many technical challenges that arise along the full spectrum of autonomy. the IEEE Standards Association is working on this, but they need your help. Determining legal obligations. Assessing risk.

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AI Has Created a Battle Over Web Crawling

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It became the de facto standard in the age where websites used it primarily for directing web search. Longpre: The tragedy of this is that robots.txt is machine-readable but does not appear to be legally enforceable. Whereas the terms of service may be legally enforceable but are not machine-readable. Longpre: Exactly.

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Who’s at Fault if Your Self-Driving Tesla Crashes?

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The next step would be to take photos of your damaged Tesla for insurance and legal purposes. Though their vehicles have some automated features, Tesla’s cars max out at Level 2 autonomy , according to SAE International’s standards. No street-legal vehicles have reached Level 3 autonomy. What to Do if Your Tesla Crashes.

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Big Data Could Accelerate Drug Approvals

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A reliable, standardized QA tool could augment or even replace traditional audits, he suggests. The benefits of an industry group To better understand how applying data analytics for QA processes would work, Roche and a handful of other pharmaceutical companies formed the Intercompany Quality Analytics industry group in 2019.

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Study finds ride-sharing companies biggest contributors to growing traffic congestion in San Francisco

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Ridesourcing is the preferred international standard, but we refer to TNC throughout this text because it is the legal term used in California, where this study was conducted. Erhardt, Sneha Roy, Drew Cooper, Bhargava Sana, Mei Chen and Joe Castiglione (2019) “Do transportation network companies decrease or increase congestion?”