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Don't chase demos for using artificial intelligence on your projects, without preparing to make it actually work.

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Over 2.5 years, Scania Senior Engineer Anders Gaasedal has turned a pilot-series battery-electric truck into a rolling roadshow, travelling to 21 countries ...

While polling has shown that a majority of Americans favor the legality of the practice for terminally ill patients, people are more split on the morality.

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In the AI era, insurance can’t risk shared infrastructure, so we went single-tenant — and it turned isolation into a growth advantage.

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The 30 tribal nations in the watershed — the river’s most senior water users — were deliberately excluded from the Colorado River Compact negotiations, a blatant attack on tribal sovereignty. In doing ...