disaster
Tesla’s governance autopilot heads for disaster
NEW YORK, May 17 (Reuters Breakingviews) – Portraying a CEO as a father figure is one way to tell there’s a lack of judicious oversight. Backing the company’s board despite obvious shortcomings is another. Tesla shareholders did both on Tuesday, with one of them playing the part of boss Elon Musk’s “son,” a robot the …
How a California Disaster Inspired the First Earth Day
Happy Earth Day. As you probably know, April 22 is a day set aside for appreciating the environment and demonstrating support for laws that protect it. The tradition dates back to the first Earth Day in 1970, which led to the passage of landmark environmental legislation in the United States. It was a momentous event …
Search and rescue efforts bolstered in Philippine disaster – KSNF/KODE – FourStatesHomepage.com
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — As search and rescue efforts increased with the arrival of equipment, the death toll has risen to at least 56, with 28 others missing, after a summer tropical depression that unleashed days of pounding rain caused landslides and floods in the central and southern Philippines, officials said Wednesday. Nearly 200 villagers …
Omnitracs’ New Technology Combats Inattentive Driving By Intervening Before a Disaster » Dallas Innovates
Omnitracs’ Inattentive Driving+ [Photo: Omnitracs] Dallas-based Omnitracs, a pioneer in transportation technology that provides SaaS-based fleet management and data analytics solutions, has released new technology that aims to detect and alert distracted or drowsy drivers. Omnitracs, which was acquired by Solera, a local global leader in technology, has developed its next generation of SmartSense, a …
Nasa asteroid simulation ends in unavoidable disaster for Earth
There is currently no technology on Earth that could stop a massive asteroid from wiping out Europe, according to a simulations carried out by leading space agencies. The week-long exercise led by Nasa concluded that catastrophe would be unavoidable, even given six months to prepare. The hypothetical impact scenario, which took place during a planetary …
Lifesaving NEC drone technology quickly locates missing natural disaster victims by mobile phone
HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NEC Laboratories Europe has prototyped new, AI-enabled drone technology that quickly locates natural disaster victims using their mobile phones or smart devices in areas with damaged or no cellular infrastructure. Finding disaster victims is slow and resource intensive. To locate victims, emergency response teams rely on line-of-sight or …
Japan’s triple disaster 10 years on: The day ‘tomorrow didn’t come’
It’s 10 years since Japan was hit by a giant 9.0-magnitude earthquake, triggering a massive tsunami. Along the north-east coast dozens of towns and villages were engulfed by the wave. The disaster triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daichi nuclear plant 250km north of Tokyo. The BBC spoke to Kiyokazu Sasaki who lost his entire …
Fukushima tsunami 2011: Survivor clung to a tree for hours to escape death in Japan’s worst natural disaster
“I felt like the ocean was all around me. The water was so cold it chilled me to the bone,” he recalls. As the water came up to his knees, Kurosawa saw people in cars gripping their steering wheels as their vehicles were washed down the road. Others who had been hanging on to trees …
Leveraging Technology and Innovation for Disaster Risk Management and Financing – World
This joint report by ADB and the OECD examines how emerging technologies and innovation can improve the management of disaster and climate risks and the availability and affordability of financial protection tools. The report looks at three areas: i) access to data through earth observation technology, street-level imagery, connected devices and volunteered geographical information; (ii) …
Greenland review – Gerard Butler v comet in solid disaster thriller | Gerard Butler
In a year when many of us obsessed over anti-escapist films about disasters engulfing the world while also being presented with a junkier than usual lineup of wannabe blockbusters (both the obvious result of the dreaded C-word), there’s something fitting about us closing the year out with Greenland, a chaotic comet thriller presenting the apocalypse …
