NEW YORK - A recently released report from the United Nations Conference On Trade And Development provides an interesting snapshot of the industrial hemp industry. Released last week, the “Commodities At A Glance: Special issue on industrial hemp” looks at the various uses of the crop, production and trade statistics, and how developing countries could
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NOVI - ITC Michigan President Simon Whitelocke provides a summary of what ITC-Holdings did to strengthen the power GRID in Michigan during 2022 and the electricity transmission company's plans to strengthen the GRID in 2023. In this video interview, Whitelocke answers the following questions: Would you mind kicking things off by reminding our viewers who
DETROIT - Cyber Patriot is a cyber training program for not only grade-school students, but also senior citizens who want to use the Internet to keep in touch with their children and grandchildren. Plus Michigan Director Tamara Shoemaker works with auto companies to teach engineers how to design vehicles that won't get hacked. Tamara answer
Vehicle registration plates can be scanned in real-time using Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR). This is also known as License Plate Recognition (LPR), which employs sophisticated image processing and optical character recognition on video streams/images to provide vehicle location data. What is license plate recognition? So, what is licence plate recognition exactly? License plate recognition
Photo by Sammyayot254 on Unsplash With speedier and more reliable access to data increasingly becoming the norm, and users trying to access information more frequently and parallelly, real-time replication continues to grow its clout. It essentially one-ups legacy storage and transfer technologies, offering a paradigm shift in optimized data availability, with a wide range of use cases, across
Software security threats and vulnerabilities result in disastrous security compromises. The victims of these compromises vary from individuals, companies, and government secrecy agencies. The frustrating aspect of common software vulnerabilities is that they often manifest themselves in a concealed manner that software developers cannot trace, detect, and mitigate. But even more alarming is the increased
Many people are curious about how to get into business. Some don’t know what to begin with, others don’t understand: what are the reasons? Why should I start my own business? If you are one of those people who need to know the reasons to open their own business and are still confused, this article
GRAND RAPIDS - The industrial market in West Michigan remained marginally negative during November, but some key indicators recovered lost ground, according to a survey of West Michigan manufacturers by Grand Valley State University’s Seidman College of Business. Employment and gross output (production) indices showed improvement from the October survey, which Brian Long, director of
MOSCOW - According to a report from Kaspersky, 40 percent of American consumers who do most of their shopping after December 16 are willing to shop on sketchy-looking sites if the offer is enticing enough, compared to just 29 percent of shoppers who are mostly done shopping by December 15. A number of similar findings
