The service declined to answer a Freedom of Information request asking how often police were stepping in for ambulances, saying it would have "to look through each individual call record" to find out.

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Normally, the agency takes its multibillion-dollar annual budget and allocates it to defence contractors, academic institutions and individual scientists who bring ideas to the agency or answer a request for proposals.

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And when you are performing the equivalent action on Siri, your device is passing that information to a remote server which is processing the request and then returning an answer, in pieces, back to your device.

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Exec has streamlined its technology so that the wait time to get an answer for a job request is just two minutes, Kan says.

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In their letter to the Republican chairs of the Committee on Energy and Commerce (Fred Upton) and the Subcommittee on Energy and Power (Ed Whitfield), the two Dems want the committees to request documents from Koch Industries that would answer this question.

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The company did not answer its phones when CNN called repeatedly, and did not respond to an e-mail request for comment.

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On the contrary, the concrete answer to how we define smart-grid investments will be resolved by every state utility commission when they evaluate utilities request to recover investment costs.

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