5 Reliable Ways To Make a City More Inclusive
For social development and performance, cities must focus on everyone’s needs and offer solutions. Learn five reliable ways to make a city more inclusive.
Border Control Forces Receive New Technology
Regulating the movement of people, goods, and animals across country borders is vital. As such, border control forces need the best technology. In this article, we’re exploring the latest advancements in technology that are helping in border control. A sense of space: drones and holographic printers VICE has reported that a company called Zebra Imaging, at the Tenth Annual Border Security Expo in San Antonio, Texas, was noted to be selling holographic printers for a cool $1 million. According to the report, these machines were already being utilized at Border Control stations in El Paso, San Diego and Tucson — having initially been sold to the US military for use…
The Battle Against Botnets (And What You Can Do)
While battling botnets sounds like an early ‘90s computer game, the kind that would have you jamming on the joystick while digitized Beethoven came muffling through your speakers, rest assured that battling botnets is actually a very contemporary undertaking, one that is growing increasingly important with each passing day.
The Opioid Crisis: a National Public Health Emergency
In mid-October, Ex-DEA Agent Joe Ranazzisi appeared on 60 Minutes to expose details of how pharmaceutical lobbyist and the US Congress have worked in conjunction to knowingly derail DEA efforts at curtailing the opioid epidemic. “Rannazzisi accuses the distributors of fueling the opioid epidemic by turning a blind eye to pain pills being diverted to illicit use,” says 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker to the viewing audience. Then, to Rannazzisi, he asks: “You know the implication of what you’re saying, that these big companies knew that they were pumping drugs into American communities that were killing people?” “That’s not an implication,” responds Rannazzisi, “that’s a fact. That’s exactly what they…
Is Cyber Security Dead?
If anybody in the U.S. hadn’t heard about cyber security before 2016, you can bet that they’ve heard about it by now. From Russian hacking and interference during the 2016 election, to the Dyn DDoS attack that shut down Internet traffic on the East Coast for half a day in October the same year, cyber security began to dominate the headlines, especially toward the end of the year.
Cyber Threats Amid Growing Global Tensions
As global tensions continue to climb in the wake of to North Korea’s nuclear activity, many are focused on the physical aspects of a possible global conflict. Unfortunately, what many aren’t focused on are the aspects that are not so physical.
Why Common Core Education isn’t Progressing in Schools
The Common Core Education Standards developed as a response to the need for American students to excel in an international marketplace. Now adopted by most states, these standards have become increasingly controversial in how they are taught. Designed to help generate innovation and world leadership in education and repair some of the residual damage of the No Child Left Behind program, they are now seen as increasingly divisive and ineffectual.
The VA Benefits Backlog in Numbers
The Department of Veterans Affairs had set a goal to get through their claims backlog by the end of 2015, but they missed the deadline by about 70,000 cases. But should that number actually be even higher?
There Were Never Any Polish SS – Open Letter And Petition
The statement "Polish SS" is not only a lie, but also highly offensive and disrespectful to the memory of all the brave Polish men and women who gave their lives fighting against the German invaders from the very first to the last day of World War II.
How to Defend Earth Against an Asteroid Strike
This sounds like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a real threat to the whole planet. It can happen any time. A medium sized asteroid of a few kilometers in diameter crashing into the Earth can completely destroy our civilization and exterminate the whole human race, just like it happened to the dinosaurs.