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Study finds significant shortage of educational technology to help children with disabilities
An ‘astonishing’ deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report. Despite widespread optimism that educational technology, or ‘EdTech’, can help to level the playing field for young people with disabilities, the study found a significant …
Parents of virtual learners say their kids have worse mental health, less time outside, CDC survey finds
article One year after the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools nationwide, a CDC survey released Thursday shows that remote learning has taken a toll on the mental and physical health of both parents and children. The survey of 1,290 parents found that 45.7% of children were in remote learning only, 30.9% were going to school …
Technology investments at airports accelerated, finds ACI World Survey
The survey found that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, airports have significantly accelerated their investments in technology in order to adapt better to the changing health and safety requirements. Airports Council International (ACI) World has issued a new report revealing that airports have accelerated investments in technology to aid in recovery from the …
Carbon Capture Technology Faces a Difficult Few Years, Finds IDTechEx Research
BOSTON, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), or carbon capture and storage (CCS), is a set of technologies used to strip carbon dioxide from industrial waste gases or directly from the atmosphere. Once the carbon dioxide is captured, it is either stored permanently underground (carbon storage) or it is used …
JPMorgan and Citi are using blockchain technology, and other banks are considering allowing clients to hold crypto in bank accounts, Bank of America research finds | Currency News | Financial and Business News
Reuters Bank of America research published Tuesday shows banks like JPMorgan and Citi use blockchain technology. Other smaller banks said they are open to allowing clients to hold cryptocurrencies in the future. The research sheds on light on where traditional financial institutions stand on blockchain amid bitcoin’s massive rally. Sign up here for our daily …
Large-scale study finds genetic testing technology falsely detects very rare variants
A technology that is widely used by commercial genetic testing companies is “extremely unreliable” in detecting very rare variants, meaning results suggesting individuals carry rare disease-causing genetic variants are usually wrong, according to new research published in the BMJ. After hearing of cases where women had surgery scheduled after wrongly being told they had very …
WHO Wuhan mission finds possible signs of wider original outbreak in 2019
The lead investigator for the WHO mission, Peter Ben Embarek, told CNN in a wide-ranging interview that the mission had found several signs of the more wide-ranging 2019 spread, including establishing for the first time there were over a dozen strains of the virus in Wuhan already in December. The team also had a chance …
Childhood Colds Do Not Prevent Coronavirus Infection, Study Finds
The theory was simple and compelling: Children are less vulnerable to the new coronavirus because they carry antibodies to other common coronaviruses that cause the common cold. The idea might also explain why some people infected with the new virus have mild symptoms while others — presumably without antibodies to common cold coronaviruses — are …
State health report finds alarming rate of cancer diagnosis among children in 5th ward
Dianna Cormier Jackson has lived in the Kashmere Gardens area for over 60 years. Jackson said she’s lost family members and neighbors to several types of cancer in that time. “My mom, my uncle, two of my brothers, one of them worked for Southern Pacific, but they just brushed it off, my ex-husband died, my …
The Latest: Japanese Health Ministry finds new virus variant | National
TOKYO — The Japanese Health Ministry has found a coronavirus variant in people arriving from Brazil that’s different from the ones in Britain and South Africa. The variant was found in airport tests on a man in his 40s, a woman in her 30s and two teens, the ministry said Sunday. Japan was working with …
