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Not exact matches
Even as Piëch maneuvered, there's a sign that VW engineers were considering the use of
software that would let the company cheat on its emissions
testing, according to a recent article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, which attributed the information to a preliminary report
from VW's internal investigation.
But some people in the tech industry argue that jobs like this should go to open - source
software, which is freely available to
test and deploy, rather than proprietary commercial
software from companies like Microsoft that could include back doors and potentially be used to influence results.
According to an announcement
from testing software company ExamSoft, the Touch Bar's predictive text feature could compromise «exam integrity.»
According to the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol), the gang targeted financial transfers and ATM networks
from late 2013 by using a series of malware attacks called Anunak and Carbanak, before more recently adapting security -
testing software called Cobalt Strike into heist - ready malware.
Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout
from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run
software that cheat local emissions
tests.
Fueled by $ 154 million
from investors, Ginkgo recently opened its second «foundry,» an 18,000 - square - foot factory stocked with fermentation tanks, mass spectrometers,
software, robots, and traditional bench biology tools to design, build, and
test DNA.
Things just went
from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission
test cheating engine management
software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.
With APIs becoming the next wave in
software development, Nexus Ventures Partners - backed Postman offers a solution to build APIs faster and one that covers the entire development cycle, right
from designing, debugging,
testing, documentation and monitoring.
A listing would
test investors» appetite for entertainment
software, a group whose shares have declined an average of 18 percent
from their offer prices following IPOs this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The company notes that
testing the vehicles in real - life scenarios greatly improves the
software, as it is programmed to learn
from experience.
Graduated with a PhD in Physics
from Ruhr University Bochum, Peter is currently leading a number of
software projects as head of
test engineering.
Their security officer, Martin McKay, said that an automated security
test had noticed the problem and taken the
software offline and that «this removed Browsealoud
from all our customer sites immediately, addressing the security risk without our customers having to take any action.»
The merging of
software assets
from Micro Focus and Hewlett - Packard Enterprise (HPE) that occurred earlier this year included StormRunner, a series of load - and performance -
testing tools.
TechPresident reports that the Obama campaign
tested their new «Dashboard» system to let volunteers
from around the country make calls into Wisconsin, the AFL - CIO has trialed
software that matches voter lists with volunteers» Facebook friends to let them call targets that they actually know rather than total strangers, and the Walker campaign combined VoIP with digital voter files to automate the connection between identification calls and data entry.
When the Home Office team arrived, the company told them it had a new piece of biometric voice identification
software which it could use to
test the voice files
from the
tests for fraud.
In hopes of
testing whether the output
from proprietary voting machine hardware and
software was accurate, the Stein campaign has paid the state of Wisconsin a $ 3.5 million dollar recount filing fee, -LRB-...
Some of the recommendations
from the RAND study include waiving civil service rules that impede the hiring of talented cybersecurity professionals, maintaining government hiring of these professionals through sequestrations, funding
software licenses and related equipment for educational programs, refining
tests to identify candidates likely to succeed in these careers, and developing methods to attract women into the field.
But those results were widely criticized by educators and
software makers for lumping together the outcomes
from many different products and for
testing their impact on student achievement in the 1st year the teacher had used the material.
In mid-January, NASA announced its lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (CATALYST) programme, which will give participants access to resources including NASA scientists,
software and
testing labs in exchange for the rights to lander designs born
from the partnership.
The team's end - to - end research approach includes theoretical analysis of SOPs in the environment, building specialized
software - defined radios (SDRs) that will extract relevant timing and positioning information
from SOPs, developing practical navigation algorithms, and finally
testing the system on ground vehicles and unmanned drones.
The team
tested the program on a printer that builds objects
from plastic, but they plan to improve the
software to include multiple materials, such as metal, and give it the ability to
test models with moving parts.
Smartphone dongles performed a point - of - care HIV and syphilis
test in Rwanda
from finger prick whole blood in 15 minutes, operated by health care workers trained on a
software app.
Grading
software from nine manufacturers, which together cover 97 per cent of the US market, was used in the
test.
They've
tested dispersants to break up slicks, used cheerleader pom - poms to soak up oil, and developed
software to predict the behavior of smoke
from a burning spill.
«One of the unique features of µSCALE is that it allows researchers to rapidly isolate a single desired cell
from hundreds of thousands of other cells,» said Bob Chen, a doctoral student in Cochran's lab who wrote the
software to examine and detect signs of interesting protein activity within the
test tubes.
While the Greenland Telescope is still being commissioned, support staff
from both GLT and JCMT are working on aligning the instrument and
testing it's
software.
We want you to have
software that fits the bill for all of these,
from straight - forward protocols such as open field or Morris water maze
testing, to high - throughput
testing, such as zebrafish larvae activity monitoring in 96 - well plates.
The included CE - marked LymphoTrack Dx bioinformatics
software reliably identifies, separates, and analyzes data generated
from any combination of samples and assays, so researchers and clinicians can sequence, analyze data files, and generate
testing summaries within their own laboratories without uploading data to the Internet.
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The settlement in the class action on behalf of such students will let them use oral presentations, spell - checkers, voice - recognition
software, help
from test proctors, and other state - approved accommodations on the Alaska High School Graduation Qualifying Exam.
Assigning paper - based quizzes ensures that almost all of the information on student mastery will be lost, while the
software produced by a dozen or more firms is able to quickly read the results
from electronically administered
tests into an evolving portfolio of data that tracks student learning.
Today, for instance, there is essay - grading
software, commercially available
from companies like Vantage Learning or the Educational
Testing Service, that can quickly and efficiently analyze pieces of writing on dimensions such as sentence construction, language, and mechanics.
In addition to an increase in the number of poor students, the funding for schools declined, Common Core standards were introduced, the use of educational
software increased, and, in many schools, time spent on
test preparation expanded (which often detracts
from learning).
There was an interest
from several parties in conducting research studies that could correlate
software measures with commonly used interim measures (like the NWEA MAP
test or the DIEBLS reading assessment) and then ultimately with PARCC and Smarter Balance
Tests, to suss out which products had the best correlation with these t
Tests, to suss out which products had the best correlation with these
teststests.
From Wikipedia about de - «personalized education», in the Debate section - «What personalized learning really means is adjusting the difficulty level of prefab skills - based exercises based on student
test scores... (and) requires the purchase of
software...»
From the first Wikipedia paragraph, citing 2017 US NETP,»... (students and teachers) talk about learning progress, process and / or PRODUCTS (my caps)».
Here in Connecticut, the new Common Core
testing scheme will not only impact students
from Kindergarten through 11th grade, but will cost state and local taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars for new
software, textbooks, computers, training and consultants to oversee it all.
The proposal to purchase the
software drew criticism
from teachers, community members and at least one school board member for using student
test scores to evaluate teachers.
Aside
from selling more computers (Chromebooks)
software and SBAC
test analysis ($ 22 - $ 27 per student), new CCSS aligned textbooks, workshops for educators etc. the money to be made lies in turning over public schools to charter schools, which use public funds, in many cases to turn a profit.
They admitted that, though they felt confident SBAC
test results could not be data - mined, schools and parents had to be careful in protecting students
from many other
software programs that did not have such protections.
In order to help schools prepare for computer - based
testing, which may require as much as one computer per student, the money
from the settlement is being offered to school districts and charter schools in the form of «vouchers» to purchase hardware and
software.
That figure comes in part
from test support materials,
software and new textbooks aligned with the Common Core, but much of it will come
from the expansion of charter schools.
Getting this myth «believed» meant new opportunities to turn tax dollars into profits — profits
from, for example, paying a few teachers more and many teachers less; profits
from designing standardized
tests; profits
from renting school facilities; profits
from managing schools; profits
from data management systems and
test - scoring systems; and profits
from selling
software platforms and computing devices.
There are some PS - specific
tests that you can run as well (
from the computer version of the
software).
VW must also remove all so - called «defeat devices» — the
software at issue that evades emissions
tests —
from any remedied car.
Volkswagen Group's so - called «defeat - device» emissions
software has allowed hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles
from the 2009 - 16 model years to emit nitrogen oxide at illegal levels while thwarting emissions
tests.
Test cars
from tuners often come shackled to a company engineer, a professional apologist who's constantly tweaking
software and explaining why that squirrel in the road back in Boise caused magnetic interference that's killing the torque curve under 3000 rpm.