Peter Fox-Penner

Director, Institute for Sustainable Energy, and Professor of Practice, Questrom School of Business, Boston University
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. is seeing fiscal second-quarter profit slip 3 percent despite growing sales because of costs related to improper vehicle checks in Japan and a massive global air-bag recall in the U.S. Nissan, allied with Renault SA of France, reported Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017, a July-September profit of 141.6 billion yen ($1.2 billion), down from 146.1 billion yen the same period last year.
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This July 25, 2017, frame grab from video shows the Nest Cam IQ camera. Nest’s newest home security camera is supposed to be so smart that it can recognize anyone entering its sight line after it has been introduced to someone. That skill comes from facial recognition technology made by sister company Google. As The Associated Press discovered, the Nest Cam IQ has an uncanny knack for recognizing people, even when they’re disguised.
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