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Northlanders walk for healthy hearts
DULUTH,MN– Walking for a cause; donors, volunteers, and survivors gathered at Leif Erickson Park Saturday morning for the American Heart Associations Northland Heart walk. The heart walks are meant to spread awareness of heart disease and raise funds for research. Heart disease is one of the leading causes of death among women and very common among …
Plan for massive facial recognition database sparks privacy concerns | Technology
If you’ve had a driver’s licence photo or passport photo taken in Australia in the past few years, it’s likely your face will end up in a massive new national network the federal government is trying to create. Victoria and Tasmania have already begun to upload driver’s licence details to state databases that will eventually …
Sterlite Tech is betting big on technology boom driving India’s optical fibre market
For Sterlite Technologies, the last 12 months have been rocky at the bourses. Even while recording a 60% top line growth and 68% jump in profits, the stock has lost nearly two-thirds of its value. This took down the company’s market capitalisation from Rs 13,249 crore as on September 26 last year to Rs 6,506 …
Marcy Kelly’s “Double Spiral,” CRISPR, and the bioethics of genetic editing.
Franco Zacharzewski Read a New Short Story About Genetic Testing, Privacy, and Profit The Scars of Climate Change–Related Migration Read a New Short Story About Climate Change, Migration, and Family Secrets Announcing Future Tense Fiction: Stories of Tomorrow An expert on the ethical, legal, and policy implications of biomedical technologies responds to Marcy Kelly’s “Double …
IRIS R&D wins Hamilton’s Lion’s Lair contest with technology that spots potholes on city roads
Oakville’s IRIS R&D won the $35,000 top prize Thursday night at Hamilton’s Lion’s Lair entrepreneurship competition for its technology to spot potholes with AI-assisted dashboard cameras. The platform to be piloted in Hamilton aims to improve roads and reduce the cost of manual patrols of city streets by analyzing video data captured via dash cams …
Geisinger Health’s plan to keep aging Pennsylvania population healthy
Geisinger, a health system based in central Pennsylvania, is investing heavily in the basic care it provides, starting with seniors. The hope is that by focusing on primary care and prevention, the health system, which also runs a health plan, could keep more people healthier and out of the hospital. Geisinger’s efforts to care for …
Battle Ground schools receive $300,000 grant for technology
Battle Ground — Battle Ground Public Schools received a $300,000 grant from the Federal Communication Commission’s E-rate program to replace the district’s entire wireless network this year. The new network will provide enhanced capabilities, bandwidth, security features, ease of use and improved network support, with roughly half of the cost coming from the E-rate program, …
SSDs are on track to get bigger and cheaper thanks to PLC technology
Enlarge / This listing image is honestly a bit of a bait-and-switch: Optane isn’t a NAND technology at all, and is about as far away from PLC as you can get. Intel Corporation Wednesday, Intel announced it’s joining Toshiba in the PLC (Penta-Level Cell, meaning 5 bits stored per individual NAND cell) club. Intel has …
Health district hosts chronic-disease support program
Claire Kowalick, Wichita Falls Times Record News Published 6:11 a.m. CT Sept. 28, 2019 CLOSE Live Well with Chronic Disease programs are at the Wichita Falls Wichita County Health District. (Photo: Contributed graphic) For individuals living with a chronic disease, knowing there are others experiencing similar issues can be life changing. The Wichita Falls Wichita County …