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Town Meeting preview: Tunbridge eyeing dip in tax rate, town garage expansion Published: 5/19/2021 11:27:34 PM Modified: 5/19/2021 11:52:26 PM Related stories Budget: Voters at Tunbridge’s Town Meeting on Saturday are being asked to approve a $611,504 general fund budget and $961,140 for the highway fund. All told, that’s about $35,000 less than passed in fiscal year 2021, and could result in a 1-cent-per-$100-of-valuation drop in the town tax rate, or a $25 savings on a home assessed at $2...

Apr 23, 2021 Class 8 self-driving company TuSimple is taking its time with testing--and why not? Nobody wants bad headlines particularly carriers, some of whom have been hit with record nuclear verdicts. TuSimple A Tesla crash on Saturday in Texas that claimed the lives of two men, one of them being a doctor, has stirred up legitimate concerns about self-driving technology. These concerns, however, should be governed by facts which will continue to arise as investigations continue with Texa...

In the light of increasing cyber attacks on critical national infrastructure, what are the immediate risks to industrial control systems and other operational technology, and what steps can be taken to address them?

Five things COVID-19 has changed about education in Utah The pandemic has “really, truly acted as the catalyst” to transform education, one educator says. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Self-portraits of students wearing masks hang on a wall at Crescent Elementary in Sandy on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. As Utah school districts struggled to make the most of the pandemic school year, they’ve come away some innovations that are expected to stay long after the coronavirus has subsided...

Dr Qudsia Gani Einstein has said that computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid; humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination Computing, Coding Stephen Hawking had once said: “Whether you want to uncover the secrets of the Universe or pursue a career in the 21 st century, basic computer programming is an essential skill to learn.” Computing is synonymous with counting and calculating.  However, as a discipline, it is the st...

After Tesla announced that it bought US$1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin, you might be wondering what Bitcoin is?––Here, we round up five things to know.

We, humans, are the only species that “thinks about thinking”. Douglas Hofstadter said, “It is an inherent property of intelligence that it can jump out of the task which it is performing, and survey what it has done”. To my mind, this observation should also be our hope and prayer. Nuclear war, environmental disaster, religious fanaticism, species loss and much more are all the doing of the ‘intelligent man. But here, as a marketer and business leader, I am going to discuss human cre...

Lies or stupid or both Published: 12/10/2020 1:26:11 PM Modified: 12/10/2020 1:26:01 PM I have been a software developer for 25 years and there is no possible doubt that the transfer of 6,000 votes from Trump to Biden in Antrim County, Michigan proved the software had the capacity to cheat. It is further proof beyond any reasonable doubt, in my opinion, that it was intended to cheat. Recent statements by Michigan government officials and others that it was a “glitch” or “user error” are...