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This Week in Logistics News (November 25 – December 1)

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The top gifts were clothes and accessories, which about half of those surveyed purchased, and toys, which nearly a third of people surveyed bought. A few examples of funding supporting the meat and poultry industry include the following: Centrillium Protein LLC will purchase meat processing equipment with $15.1

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Mining Mountains of Data for Insights

Enterra Insights

Bits and bytes are pouring in from sources ranging from satellites and MRI scans to massive computer simulations and seismic-sensor networks, from security cameras to smartphones, from genome sequencing of SARS-Cov-2 to COVID-19 test results, from social networks to texts zipping from phone to phone.”[1] Diagnostic analytics.

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The “Race” to Win the Autonomous Truck Market

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But there are questions that many would like clarity on around this cutting-edge technology. TORC and Daimler Truck held an event for journalists last week at a TORC facility in Albuquerque. This is the solution TORC is “racing” to develop. The truck that itself would be purchased or leased from Daimler Truck.