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...PCAOB inspection data show overseas affiliates of the global firms are more likely to produce deficient audit work than the US partnership....
...These ads are fast and cheap to produce at massive scale with the fine-tuned customer targeting optimised by the vast troves of data now collected on individuals....
...However, in a sign that the fledgling technology remains a work in progress, staff were cautioned that the new tool may produce inaccurate information about people, places and facts....
...The Buckskin Mine produces 27mn tons of coal a year, making it “one of the most productive mines in the US”, according to its website....
...Carbon emissions in the industrial era have already lowered the pH of seawater by 0.1. This can affect the survival of marine organisms and kill coral reefs....
...Quantum computers struggle to produce useful results because the quantum bits, or qubits, they are based on only hold their quantum states for a tiny fraction of a second....
...In an overall ranking that takes in both the number and quality of patents, Japan came first in patents related to fluoride-ion batteries, whose capacity could be as much as 10 times that of lithium-ion...
...Transforming soil quality can take years, depending on factors including existing quality, methods and products used....
...Its model is to produce algorithms that try to predict the price movements of various financial instruments, typically equities, and then take advantage of inefficiencies in the markets....
...Musk suggests this is one quality that separates him from Jeff Bezos, whose own space company, Blue Origin, has fallen behind SpaceX....
...These combined qualities constitute an extraordinary asset, an energy buyer of last resort that can be turned on or off at a moment’s notice anywhere in the world....
...The price of the high-quality iron ore the company produces has risen more than 85 per cent over the past year, according to data from S&P Global Platts....
...Despite presenting themselves as apolitical, many are what researchers have dubbed “pink slime”: outlets that push low-quality, partisan material through their own sites and social media pages....
...Electric cars are easier than autonomous ones, yet Volkswagen's plan to produce 26m emission-free vehicles in the next nine years — while making them as profitable as petrol ones and leapfrogging Tesla to...
...Just west of Cahors, Rigal produces an early picked Colombard Côtes de Gascogne that is only 9.5%, but the acidity is pretty punishing....
...A handful of pH-balancing material is added every fortnight to counterbalance the acidic qualities of the biodegrading waste, along with a similar amount of “worm tonic”....
...The quality of the targeted ads that Google produces is the primary driver of organic growth in its paid clicks, which is a key value driver for Google’s business....
...In 2016, Travis Kalanick, founder and then-chief executive of Uber, said that if a carmaker could produce a truly autonomous vehicle, he would buy half a million of them immediately....
...But it has also trickled down to artists like Ms Kapoor, who is due for an estimated $80,000 pay cheque per episode to write and produce the upcoming series....
...She argued that the US Chamber of Commerce has failed to produce verifiable evidence that research reports are error prone....
...Users will be able to upgrade to a higher quality service for $9.99 a month, with games streamed in 4K....
...Its maritime unit, which produces more than half of the group’s ebitda, faces growing competition. A dividend cut to preserve cash flow has not helped....
...“Programmatic advertising does not reward quality journalism; podcasts can.” Laudable aims to create “cross-company podcasts”, involving journalists from multiple publishers....
...It’s the ultimate vision for digital entertainment: generate high quality content in a massive data centre, then stream it instantly to any device, anywhere....
...There is an equally obvious model, the licence fee-funded BBC, which for a modest cost per UK household produces many popular and high-quality services, including one of the world’s most trusted news services...
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