This is in Manchester. Seal actually got her to sing on stage just before his gig last year after spotting her singing on the street.
The city government is committed to using the data it collects to improve the lives of Louisville residents. As a first step, their service is focused on helping people track and monitor air quality.
A security expert has proposed enforcing the use of “digital birth certificates” to protect medical devices and patient data.
The breadth and scope of cyberattacks have increased in recent years. It is now not only consumer PCs, enterprise networks, or government agencies which are the intended targets of individual attackers or state-sponsored groups; instead, mobile products, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and medical devices are now also under scrutiny.
Patient data breaches which release the personally identifiable information (PII) of patients are the most common types of attacks which hit the headlines. As in the cases of the UK National Health Service (NHS) data breach which released the PII of HIV sufferers, a US government subcontractor which accidentally exposed the data of medical military personnel and health insurer Anthem’s data breach, such incidents cause outrage and can be serious for users.
However, when attackers compromise medical devices, this can also lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, medication tampering, and vulnerable devices becoming the avenue for greater and more debilitating attacks on medical and enterprise networks.
Speaking to ZDNet, Jim DeLorenzo, solutions manager at Thales e-Security said that as a greater range of IP-enabled medical devices come online, “security will be a very big issue” — and internet connections lay at the heart of potential problems.
Once a device is plugged in and is given Wi-Fi capabilities — such as medical devices which allow patients to record their data or control a device through mobile applications — a path is paved for attackers should a device be vulnerable to exploit.
Today’s devices can be laden with security problems such as outdated firmware, hard-coded device credentials, and unaddressed security bugs and vulnerabilities, and the sheer volume of medical devices already on the market only adds to the problem.
One solution, DeLorenzo says, to enforce so-called “digital birth certificates” in modern medical devices. Digital birth certificates are signatures based on strong cryptographic protocols which create unique identification patterns for each medical device at the time of manufacture.
When unique prints are set in place before these devices are exposed to patients or rigged up in hospitals, they can leverage trusted public key infrastructures (PKIs) for legitimate software updates.
According to DeLorenzo, this can protect them against specific types of malicious behavior, such as the “introduction of unauthorised code or attempts to use the device’s trusted status in order to access enterprise networks.”
When a digital birth certificate is embedded in medical devices, they can also reject remote attacks which may introduce malware or alter device functions — such as changing which firmware updates are accepted, and from where.
Taking advantage of encryption is a key element of implementing digital birth certificates in medical devices. According to internal research conducted by Thales e-Security, a third of healthcare organizations now use IoT devices to store patient data. Therefore, encryption is increasingly important to protect and preserve the confidential nature of patient data — which can demand a high price when sold in the Dark Web.
When private healthcare information finds its way into underground forums, this kind of PII has high value as these records are often permanent and will not change — unlike other forms of PII, such as credit cards or physical addresses. This can lead to patient data being utilized for creating fraudulent lines of credit or for the purpose of identity theft.
“Many elements of an electronic patient record are permanent, so the stakes are much higher,” the executive says.
In June last year, a hacker offered over 10 million alleged US health records for sale on the Dark Web, demanding 750 Bitcoin — approximately $486,000 at the time — for the files, which included names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and social security numbers.
The security of medical devices has not been explored as much as the “Wild West” of IoT device security, but as researchers switch their focus and some medical device bug reports go so far as prompting legal action, such as in the case of St. Jude cardiac devices, more emphasis is now being placed on protecting these kinds of products.
Thankfully for patients, the ball has at least begun to roll. Back in 2014, the Centre for Internet Security and Medical Device Innovation, Safety and Security Consortium issued medical device security guidance for manufacturers and users, IEC/TR 80001-2-2. In more recent times, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have released recommendations for protecting devices against evolving security threats.
“As is the case with IoT devices, the level of built-in security in medical devices varies widely, and guidance and initiatives are sharpening the focus on device authentication and data protection,” DeLorenzo says.
Government agencies haven’t done much, but at least it’s a start. However, if security can be enforced and improved at the manufacturer level through digital birth certificates, the potential damage medical attacks can cause can be mitigated in the future.
Recent demonstrations have suggested that 5G will support 1 Gbps data throughput rates. Combining 5G with other networking enhancements and technologies would allow operators to support TV-equivalent services which could eat into the $500Bn global TV and video market currently served by cable, satellite, IPTV and terrestrial broadcast service providers.
“Data rates get the headlines, but other network technologies will also make or break the business case for 5G TV services,” says Sue Rudd, Director, Service Provider Analysis. “The efficiency of the end-to-end network will determine whether 5G TV is possible, but we have seen enough from early demonstrations by operators like Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, SK Telecom, AT&T and BT to suggest that it will arrive sooner or later in many parts of the world.”
The number of households and devices supported by a 5G TV service within any cell will make or break the 5G TV business case. The number of termination locations can be increased by a factor of three or more by deploying several network enhancements that deliver”trunking’ efficiency in the Radio Access Network (RAN). These include MIMO and beamforming for optimal spectrum use, virtualization of cell sites, dynamic throughput over backhaul networks and network slicing to guarantee data rates to the household.
“Television is already being transformed by new digital services like Netflix and Amazon,” notes Michael Goodman, Director, TV and Media Strategies. “The arrival of 5G TV wireless services could herald another wave of TV disruption through the 2020s and beyond.”
“The emergence of 5G TV would represent a further stage in the convergence of media and communications, and wireless and fixed services,” says David Mercer, VP and Principal Analyst at Strategic Analytics. “It would also raise important questions relating to the roles of different ecosystem players and the future structure of the media value chain.”
Think you have a God-given right to be off the day after the Super Bowl?
Kraft Heinz agrees with you. So the food company’s giving all of its salaried employees the day off on February 6 after Super Bowl LI.
The food giant says more than 16 million people call in sick the day after the big game, which costs the country about $1 billion in lost productivity. And the rest who do show up for work are just plain cranky.
In addition to letting its employees stay home, Kraft Heinz is launching a campaign to push for everybody to be off after Super Bowls. It’s started an online petition to essentially create a new national holiday it calls “Smunday,” which extends Sunday’s Super Bowl fun into Monday.
If the petition gets over 100,000 signatures, Kraft Heinz will send it to Congress. (And we’re sure our lawmakers will get right on it.)
As of this morning, it had almost 70,000 backers.
When we set out, Uber was designed to be an efficient and affordable way to get from point A to point B, almost anywhere in the world. Yet, India isn’t just anywhere in the world -it’s a world in itself, with a culture that is unique and diverse. Think festival shopping, family get-togethers, big fat weddings or back to back business meetings, we are always on the go.
That’s why riders have always asked us if they could hold onto their Ubers while they are out and about — and that’s why we’re launching UberHIRE: an Uber that takes care of all your travel needs for the day.
UberHIRE is a time-based Uber that’s available on-demand, to let you explore and travel around cities knowing that your Uber will wait for you. It’s perfect for travellers exploring a new city, senior citizens who need to make trips punctuated with multiple stop overs, or for business travellers who have multiple meetings -while ensuring it is an economical option for everyone.
After a successful pilot run in Kochi, starting today, UberHIRE will go live in New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Vizag and Nagpur, with more cities slated for launch in the weeks to come.
How it works:
The ad shows a woman frowning at a man who is eating branded tortilla chips, then using her voice to place an order for her snacks of choice—and clarifying that she wants the order “from Prime Air.” Soon afterward, a branded drone is seen hovering just outside a home’s window. At the bottom of the screen, Amazon offers a fine-print disclaimer: “Prime Air is not available in some states (or any really). Yet.”
Amazon’s only publicly announced commercial trial for Prime Air began this past December utilising a single distribution centre in Cambridge, England. How soon those may start in the USA is unclear, however, though the high-profile placement of the hardware in a Super Bowl ad, and its real-world example of how shoppers could easily request it, suggest Amazon is ramping up its efforts.
The Federal Aviation Administration approved rules for commercial drone flights in June, but those rules only include approval for “line-of-sight’ drone operation, as opposed to the kind of automated or centralized drone-flight operations required by a shipping center such as Prime Air. Last summer in the UK, however, Amazon struck a deal with the Civil Aviation Authority so that it could test the drones without line of sight.
This year’s Super Bowl broadcast employed drones of its own during the game’s halftime show. Super Bowl LI’s Lady Gaga concert was bookended with footage of light-mounted drones flying in the Houston sky and forming images of the American Flag, Intel’s logo, and the halftime sponsor Pepsi’s logo. However, because of FAA restrictions regarding drones flying over the game’s venue, those drone-related shots did not actually take place during the concert.
Fresh drinking water comes mainly from rivers, lakes and reservoirs. a person who studies these is a limnologist. Lakes are ecosystems which can serve as sentinels of climate change. Global and warming and pollution damages the natural balance.
Water in “still”, large bodies can become unfit for drinking purposes through a process called climatic eutrophication. It can get so bad that fish cannot survive there. People cannot drink such water. It is toxic.
Humans are to blame because eutrophication is when nitrogen and phosphorus from fertilizers is washed into lakes. Sewerage treatment plants add to the problem. Others factors are air pollutants, fuel products and general erosion.
These nutrients feed algae which float to the bottom when they die. Decomposition absorbs oxygen causing dead zones in waters. No life can live in hypoxic layers. Warming surface water stops the strata from being mixed in winter and autumn. Thus, the body of water remains lifeless.
http://tysaustralia.blogspot.com.au/2017/01/fresh-water-is-becoming-undrinkable.html
I see this being used for far more than just ads. Imagine if you are building a home and as you go from one vendor to another deciding on lighting, plumbing fixtures, furniture etc., you could bring up a hologram of your home and immediately see how those decisions will integrate into the 3D model?
Nobody likes hearing someone crunching their food, but for some it’s more than just an annoyance — the sound triggers a full “fight or flight response.” These people has a rare condition called “misophonia” that makes them extraordinarily sensitive to everyday sounds, and new research confirms that their brains really are wired differently.
For a study published this week in the journal Current Biology scientists scanned the brains of 20 people with misophonia and 22 without. All participants listened to unpleasant sounds including screaming, neutral sounds like rain, and what people considered their “trigger” sounds, like certain eating or breathing sounds. Nobody enjoyed the annoying sounds. But when people with misophonia heard their trigger noises, they started sweating and their heart rates went up.
By looking at the brain scans, the researchers saw that the wiring between different regions of the brain is different in people who react that strongly. One region of our brain is called the anterior insular cortex and it influences what we pay attention to. For people with misophonia, that region was more active when they listened to trigger sounds. Not only that, but their AIC connected a lot more to other regions, which also contributed to the extreme response.
Misophonia is pretty rare, but knowing more about how the brain creates this emotional response could help us develop better treatments for it — and maybe also help the rest of us who don’t have the condition but still want to shudder when we hear loud breathing.
