Technology
Medtech – 10 Year Review & Preview | Technology
MEDTECH: What worked during the last 10 years and the new technologies that will shape us for the next decade, by Dr Jason Arora “I’m a health systems guy and these lists are about health technologies that have moved health systems forward, rather than deep or niche technologies. “When I left medical school in 2011, …
Specialization, technology and culture erode traditions, discourage participation | Sports
Back in Hoosier Hysteria’s heyday, stretching from the 1940s clean through the early 1990s, playing high school basketball was the ultimate goal for the stereotypical Indiana schoolboy. Even many small schools had not only varsity teams chock full of players, but robust junior varsity and freshman squads, as well. Schools of just a few hundred …
New technology delivers age-old story on Easter Sunday
THE Reverend Dr Desiree Snyman live streamed the Easter Sunday service inside an empty St Bartholomew’s Anglican Church this morning, as the parish watched on from their homes amid coronavirus restrictions. “I felt quite tearful that I was doing it alone. Preparing the service, it’s not only the climax in terms of our liturgy – …
Remote Working to Bandwidth Preservation — 5 ways Coronavirus will impact the technology trends
Things around the world have changed dramatically over the past 4 weeks and I can’t help but think that in a few months when the world starts to recover, the baseline of what we consider “normal” will change as we ease into the “new normal”. COVID-19 will disrupt the industries and the way of working …
How a 5G Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory Fueled Arson and Harassment in Britain
LONDON — On April 2, a wireless tower was set ablaze in Birmingham. The next day, a fire was reported at 10 p.m. at a telecommunications box in Liverpool. An hour later, an emergency call came in about another cell tower in Liverpool that was going up in flames. Across Britain, more than 30 acts …
How technology is tackling virus-induced isolation in Norway | Tech/Gadgets
Karen Dolva, CEO of Norwegian start-up No Isolation, shows the company’s technological devices aimed at helping the vulnerable such as older people and children with chronic illness beat loneliness during the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. — AFP pic OSLO, April 12 — Widower Per Leif Rolid lives alone on his farm, a two-hour drive from Oslo. …
The Vacate Manifesto: How Today’s Technology Can Solidify Abolitionist Goals
20 years ago the cypherpunks of the new internet era came up with vast ideas describing privacy, anonymity, and encryption. Some of them brought these ideas to practice. ***The following is a featured manifesto written in 2015 by Jamie Redman that first appeared on the website notbeinggoverned.com (the site is no longer under maintenance). There’s …
Technology eases demands of working from home
As we work to cope with sheltering in place, many people are turning to technology to assist them in at least some interaction with friends, family, and co-workers. Although the virtual meetings lack some of the benefits of being in the same physical space with others, they do provide visual and verbal communication, and protect …
Equip-A-Student campaign hopes to bring technology, necessities to Fort Bend ISD students
One objective of the Equip-A-Student campaign is to raise money for additional technology in Fort Bend ISD. (Courtesy Pexels) The Fort Bend Education Foundation and the district’s department of collaborative communities’ Shared Dreams program launched a fundraising effort April 3 to help students obtain the equipment they need for educational success during the coronavirus pandemic. …
Faith and technology | The Sunday Dispatch
February 20, 2020 PITTSTON – When Pittston Area girls basketball coach Kathy Healey was informed she was the recipient of the 2019 Sunday Dispatch Joseph F. Saporito Lifetime of Service Award, she immediately thought of her mother, Rosaleen, who passed away in 2006. “She was the person that taught me to give back,” Healey said. …
