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Strange fish behavior in Florida sparks emergency government response
Ripley’s Aquariums plan to take up to six smalltooth sawfish into their facilities. A spokesperson said that a majority of the company’s animal care team will help with the effort, including by transporting sawfish to its Marine Science Research Centers and caring for them.The Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium said in a release that it, …
Pandemic sparks flurry of smart-home products to boost health and efficiency
Spending so much time working remotely over the past two years, we’ve had plenty of opportunity to note what’s unsatisfactory about systems and products around the home and to dream about technology that would make life better. Manufacturers got the message with a range of new or soon-to-be-introduced products. Among them: Devices that not only …
NCAA tournament: Drew Timme sparks Gonzaga comeback against Memphis
PORTLAND, Ore.—As the extended Timme family sat down at a local coffee shop Saturday afternoon, they had yet to shift their focus to Gonzaga’s tricky match-up against surging Memphis. Hours still remained before the top-ranked and top-seeded Bulldogs would tip off in the second round of the NCAA tournament, their championship hopes bolstered by the …
Kamala Harris trip to New Hampshire sparks 2024 White House speculation
Vice President Kamala Harris will be out of Washington on Friday and traveling closer to the border – the Canadian border. Harris is scheduled to make stops in New Hampshire to promote the Biden administration’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan, the proposal for helping upgrade infrastructure in the U.S. The visit to the traditional early-primary …
Trust and Failure in Technology. One way we’re failing to establish… | by Caro Williams-Pierce | Sparks of Innovation: Stories from the HCIL | Apr, 2021
In my day job, I design videogames that support mathematics learning. Despite my training in more traditional classroom-based mathematics teaching and learning, I chose videogames as a platform specifically because people playing a good game have trust in the game. When you experience failure during gameplay, you look automatically for feedback paired with that failure …
Use of facial recognition tech sparks privacy fears
The Lucknow police’s decision to use facial recognition technology (FRT) to monitor women’s expressions to prevent street harassment has spurred privacy concerns among Indians. The government needs to create strict and clear regulations before it allows law enforcement agencies to use facial recognition for policing, privacy advocates said. “Considering the explicit and expansive findings on …
Murder suspect’s suicide sparks looting, unrest in Minneapolis
A murder suspect in Minneapolis committed suicide as police were about to capture him Wednesday — sparking looting and unrest in a city still reeling from the death of George Floyd. The man, who is black, shot himself in front of several bystanders outside of a building on Nicollet Mall in the city’s downtown area, …
Bubonic plague in China sparks health warning
“There is a risk of a human plague epidemic spreading in this city,” Bayannur’s local health commission said in a statement. Over the past year, China has reported five cases of the disease associated with some of the deadliest pandemics in human history. The plague caused the Black Death that devastated the population of medieval …
COVID-19 Sparks Technology Innovation | Voice of America
CHICAGO, IL – On Northwestern University’s sprawling campus, down a long corridor in the school’s Technological Institute, Josiah Hester is practicing safe social distancing as part of a small engineering team working on the front lines of a technology war against the COVID-19 pandemic. Detecting potential COVID-19 cases is labor-intensive and often intrusive. Hester’s team hopes …
B.C. food security report sparks debate on technology and agricultural land reserve
Critics of a recent report from a provincial task force say it champions corporate food producers over small family farms and could put the Agricultural Land Reserve at risk. In January, the province released The Future of B.C.’s Food System, a report that recommends technology like moisture sensors, indoor growing on vertically stacked shelves and robotics to increase …
