Clean Energy Innovation On April 30, 2017, Germany set a new national record for renewable energy use. During a portion of the day, 85% of all electricity at use was produced by renewables. Biomass, hydroelectric, ...
To tackle the problem of distracted driving, the U.K. is testing out road signs that detect if motorists are using cell phones. If the signs detect someone is using a cell phone, they light up with ...
A former employee whom Tesla Motors labeled as disgruntled and a saboteur has filed a whistleblower complaint against the electric car manufacturer. Martin Tripp, the whistleblower, also hired the services of Meissner Associates, a New ...
A federal grand jury in Kentucky indicted eight former managers at Armstrong Coal for deceiving coal mine safety organizations and exposing coal miners to dangerous coal dust that causes black lung disease. The indictment alleges ...
How one online pharmacy safety organization is partnering to combat the opioid addiction epidemic. Where there is a demand, there will be supply, and as the cost of healthcare and prescriptions has risen, the industry ...
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contends that Medicare fraud is a serious issue. This type of fraud typically involves intentionally submitting false claims or making false referrals for health services. While unethical ...
These days, with the Supreme Court in the news so much, you may feel that you’ve heard it all about the American court system. However, there is a special court, called the vaccine court, which ...
Researchers from Northeastern University in Boston decided to test out the popular consumer paranoia that smartphones secretly listen to your conversations. While they didn’t find evidence of smartphones recording your audio, they did find that ...
Scientists at the NanoPhotonics Centre and the Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis have developed an intelligent toilet that can analyze urine to determine health information and the presence of any drugs or alcohol. As soon ...
Visitors and dignitaries at the Ethiopia Information and Communication Technology Expo of 2018 held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were wowed by the appearance of Sophia the robot. Sophia’s visit to Ethiopia, which is also where ...
In today’s world, people are inundated with personal technologies meant to make their life easier but that same tech could also potentially compromise their privacy and personal security. A new report from Inside Big Data ...
Epidiolex, a new drug to treat seizures is the first-ever FDA approved cannabis-based drug. Imagine being a parent with a child who has hundreds of uncontrollable seizures each week. This is the heartbreaking fate of ...
What Is The Credit Protocol? Blockmason is an Ethereum blockchain company which is attempting to revamp how credit and debt settlements are agreed upon, paid off, and cannot be erased by either party after both ...
Several Amazon Echo users have reported that their device snoops on their conversations. But the manufacturer says the product only misbehaves when it misinterprets voice commands. This has raised concerns that consumer privacy is not ...
“You are one of five visionary tech entrepreneurs who are changing the world.” This was the New York Times description of Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, who was charged with massive fraud by the Securities and ...
What’s The Big Deal About E3? The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is a yearly video game convention which has been running yearly since its inception in 1995. It gives corporate gaming publishers a platform to ...
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump announced in December 2017 that laws protecting net neutrality would be repealed. Now, six months later, the F.C.C. made good on its promises. On Monday, it repealed ...
On May 29, President Trump said during a campaign rally in Nashville, Tennessee, that opioid-related deaths have dropped and implied it was due to the $6 billion his administration committed to fighting the epidemic. But ...
Suboxone is a drug treatment for addiction to opioids. A visit to the suboxone.com website shows pictures of caring doctors and the “we’re here to help” mantra. It’s all well and good, but the big ...
An Australian woman, 64, has died after consuming frozen pomegranates. Her death was linked to Hepatitis A. The frozen pomegranates were grown in Egypt and marketed by Creative Gourmet. Just two months ago, about 2,000 ...
Hedge Clippers, an organization dedicated to exposing the political and economic havoc wreaked by hedge funds and billionaires on the American people, has released a new report titled Hedge Papers No. 57: Stopping the Opioid ...
Just the mention of the word Ebola is enough to send chills down the spines of many folks. The killer disease endemic in Central Africa is viewed as a death sentence and is responsible for ...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) condemns Amazon’s facial recognition tool, Rekognition, as invasive and dangerous. Rekognition is powered by artificial intelligence. It is capable of identifying faces from photo databases with several millions of ...
The highly anticipated General Data Protection Law (GDPR) took effect on Friday. This new privacy law, developed by the European Union (EU), aims to protect internet users’ privacy in hopes that the data breach scandal ...
Fallout From Cambridge Analytic Data Usage The conversation surrounding digital security is in the international spotlight following Cambridge Analytica filing for bankruptcy. Data and security experts have begun looking towards blockchain technology as a possible ...
“At some point, I realized I could not in good faith recommend anyone join Google, knowing what I knew. I realized if I can’t recommend people join here, then why am I still here?” About ...
The battle to save net neutrality continues. Wednesday afternoon the Senate voted to allow debate on reversing the FCC’s decision to repeal net neutrality protections. The vote passed with a 52 – 47 split, with ...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Chinese space station—and this one just crashed into Earth. The eight-ton spacecraft named Tiangong-1 (“Heavenly Place”) was predicted to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere sometime during a six-day ...
Recent studies of carrageenan, which is made from seaweed, suggests the food additive may be safer and better for you than previously thought. What comes to mind when you think of food additives? If you’re ...
Cambridge Analytica, the consultant company accused of manipulating millions of Facebook users’ data for political purposes, announced on Wednesday it will shut down. But is Cambridge Analytica really shutting down or just rebranding as Emerdata? ...
(The Conversation, by Jamie Smolen) For the first time in a while, pundits and politicians were talking about the drug that kills more people than any other each year in the U.S. I’m talking about alcohol, ...
The Digital Age Has Brought Security Risks Well-known brands such as Equifax, Sonic, and Western Union recently encountered security breaches that put their customer’s private information at risk. However, data breaches in the digital world are ...
Facebook is under criticism following the data breach that affected 87 million users worldwide during the course of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. That number is much higher than the tens of thousands that Cambridge Analytica ...
The current waste in the United States healthcare system is estimated to be in the range of $750 billion – $1 trillion. A 2012 study by The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine found ...
Chairman of Commission I of the Indonesian House of Representatives Abdul Kharis Almasyhari, who is overseeing defense and foreign affairs, said that the head of Facebook’s Southeast Asia division will address parliament this week in ...
Every March, a diverse and inventive group of people converge in Austin, Texas to attend South By Southwest (SXSW), an event best known as a music festival founded in 1987. Since then, however, it has ...
Over three decades ago, the United States Congress passed the Orphan Drug Act (ODA) in 1983. The act focused on encouraging drug development for rare diseases, which the agency defined as “affecting fewer than 200,000 ...
Blockchain technology, a major coding breakthrough developed by Bitcoin, has the potential to revolutionize healthcare in America and knock big pharma down a notch or two, and Coral Health is going to do it. Coral ...
Stephen Hawking — author, theoretical physicist, lecturer and one of the brightest minds in his field — passed away at age 76 in the early hours of March 14, 2018 at his family home in ...
CORL Could Be A Look Into The Future Banks have traditionally been hesitant to give loans to startup business ventures, for a number of reasons. Recent advances in technology and blockchain cryptocurrency are providing alternatives ...
Both the CEO and President of Theranos, a once promising tech and medical startup that raised billions in venture capital, are now facing fraud charges. “You are one of five visionary tech entrepreneurs who are ...
It is been roughly four years since the Ebola virus hit West Africa, locals and ebola victims are still traumatized to date. The epidemic left over 11,000 people dead, with another 29,000 infected. Though it ...
Opioids are in the headlines again as drug company, Insys Therapeutics, faces another accusation of fraudulent marketing and bribing doctors. New York has become the latest state to take legal action against Insys Therapeutics. Eric ...
Patient dumping often happens to patients who are uninsured or who have financial troubles. In Maryland a bystander recorded a patient being “dumped” in 30 degree weather. A Maryland hospital is being accused of “patient ...
“This is a Shkreliesque move, and is near to first degree murder as one can get without risking jail,” said one critic, referencing the Big Pharma CEO that infamously raised the price of an AIDS ...
Congress wants to spend millions peddling corporate talking points on GMOs. (OtherWords) While Congress hasn’t accomplished much in 2017, it did manage to pass a budget resolution — and within that budget, a sum of ...
An international group of dentists are warning against the effects of fluoride in our drinking water and calling attention to the dangers of water fluoridation. On January 25th, 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan became the first ...
Suicide risk factors: some studies show a positive relationship between altitude and suicide. (The Conversation, Hoehun Ha, Auburn University at Montgomery ) Suicide is one of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S. In ...