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Public lighting that dials into the Internet of Things could use billions of fixtures to collect data about things as diverse as traffic congestion and a shopper in the cereal aisle.
Prosecutors seeking to charge individuals over the ignition defect linked to 124 deaths are stymied by loopholes the auto industry helped create.
Pressure from competitors has compelled the company to make the upgrade free and to find new ways to profit from some of its big moneymakers.
Pope Francis has forcefully staked out ideological ground opposite that of Speaker John A. Boehner and his Republican Party.
Matsui, 41, a retired Yankees slugger, played alongside accountants and bond traders during the Nippon Clubâs President Cup tournament on Randalls Island in New York.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 15, 2015, covering July 20, 2015.
Meek Mill
Miguel
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
James Taylor
2015Wayne Carson, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1943)[â ]
Wayne Carson, sometimes credited as Wayne Carson Thompson, was an American country musician, songwriter, and record producer. He played percussion, piano, guitar, and bass. His most famous songs as a writer include "The Letter", "Neon Rainbow", "Soul Deep", and "Always on My Mind".
2015Fred Else, English footballer and manager (born 1933)[â ]
Fredrick Else was an English footballer, who played as a goalkeeper. Else gained over 600 professional appearances in his career playing for three clubs, Preston North End, Blackburn Rovers and Barrow.
2015Dieter Moebius, Swiss-German keyboard player and producer (born 1944)[â ]
Dieter Moebius was a Swiss-born German electronic musician and composer, best known as a member of the influential krautrock bands Cluster and Harmonia.
2015A huge explosion in the mostly Kurdish border town of Suruç, Turkey, targeting the Socialist Youth Associations Federation, kills at least 31 people and injures over 100.[â ]
The Suruç bombing was a suicide attack by the Turkish sect of Islamic State named Dokumacılar against Turkish leftists that took place in the Suruç district of Ćanlıurfa Province in Turkey on 20 July 2015, outside the Amara Culture Centre. A total of 34 people were killed and 104 were reported injured. Most victims were members of the Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) Youth Wing and the Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF), university students who were giving a press statement on their planned trip to reconstruct the Syrian border town of KobanĂź.
2015The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.[â ]
The United States of America (USA), also known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It is a federal republic of 50 states and a federal capital district, Washington, D.C. The 48 contiguous states border Canada to the north and Mexico to the south, with the semi-exclave of Alaska in the northwest and the archipelago of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean. The United States also asserts sovereignty over five major island territories and various uninhabited islands in Oceania and the Caribbean. It is a megadiverse country, with the world's third-largest land area and third-largest population, exceeding 340 million. Its three largest metropolitan areas are New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and its three most populous states are California, Texas, and Florida.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]