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A little less than six months from now, organizers of the Champlain Valley Fair hope to welcome tens of thousands of visitors to the exposition grounds in Essex Junction. Yet the fair can’t plunge into planning for summer without the state of Vermont telling organizers what to expect. “We need some guidelines, some road marks along the way to reopen,” said Tim Shea, executive director of the Champlain Valley Exposition, which oversees the state’s largest fair. “The big issue for us is what capacity will look like and what social-distancing measures will look like for the end of A...

John Minchillo / AP A Brookhaven Town environmental committee has rejected the proposed expansion of an ash landfill to handle the growing solid waste crisis on Long Island. The Brookhaven landfill is expected to reach capacity by 2024. The committee recommended in a report released Friday that the landfill be closed at or before then. Instead, they said the town should outsource solid waste collection and disposal to a private industry while the town retains fiscal and regulatory control over the process. “This would be a positive economic gain for Long Island. Instead of exporting Lo...

FEATURE-3D-printed homes build hope for U.S. affordable housing Reuters 2/15/2021 * 3D construction market could be worth $1.5 billion by 2024 * The process builds homes faster, cheaper and with less labor * Structures are more resilient to natural disasters By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After years of homelessness and hard living, Tim Shea has swapped the sharp corners in his life for the round, flowing design of his new 3D-printed home in Austin, Texas. In August, Shea became the first person in the United States to move into a 3D-printed home, accord...

Dec. 10, 2020 3:25 pm ET Experimental computer chips that try to mimic the way human brains work could accelerate the use of voice and gesture commands in automobiles, researchers at Intel Corp. and Accenture PLC say. The cutting-edge technique, known as neuromorphic computing, could use significantly less energy than traditional computer- and graphic-processing units that connect wirelessly to a car via the cloud. Today’s cars don’t have the AI capabilities to recognize many speech and gesture commands, in part because of the energy requireme...

ladies and gentlemen. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this monday, july 2nd. there's a lot going on today, including the election of a new 45-year-old president in mexico who's been drawing huge crowds on the campaign trail. we'll break down whether his soap opera star wife had anything to do with it. plus, rupert murdoch, the media mogul also in charge of twentieth century fox studios engages in a twitter war with scientology, calling it a cult. we'll have the details and reminisce about the marriage of tomcat later in the show. but first, let's get to the news...