The fact is that this strategic tariff aversion plan, which is as legal and common as off-the-shelf tax minimization software at Best Buy, was the brainchild of the U.S. domestic furniture industry before it filed the case in 2004.

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So for his Ignite NYC talk, he performed a series of experiments to find just what sorts of obscuring techniques can defeat a common facial recognition algorithm known as Eigenfaces, testing an off-the-shelf implementation of that algorithm in a program called Neurotechnology.

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Promotional allowances between manufacturers and retailers--discounts in exchange for ads or shelf space--are common in the grocery business, and they occasionally veer off into less ethical incentives consisting of under-the-counter rewards to a retailer's employees.

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