June 18, 2021
(Wired) – After years of failed attempts to curb surveillance technologies, Baltimore is close to enacting one of the nation’s most stringent bans on facial recognition. But Baltimore’s proposed ban would be very different from laws in San Francisco or … Read More
June 17, 2021
(Wired) – This new system, which continually monitors and collects patient data, has recently gone wireless. It is being tested on patients in a hospital in Birmingham, England, but it and similar remote systems might be used in patients’ homes … Read More
June 14, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – More than eight years later, those suggestions are becoming demands. The government is now calling on big tech companies like Tencent, online retailing giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and TikTok owner ByteDance Ltd. to open up … Read More
June 11, 2021
(Wired) – One afternoon in late November of last year, Timnit Gebru was sitting on the couch in her San Francisco Bay Area home, crying. Gebru, a researcher at Google, had just clicked out of a last-minute video meeting with … Read More
June 11, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – A ransomware attack on a national hospital chain nearly brought Las Vegas hospitals to their knees. Another attack in Oregon abruptly shut down alerts tied to patient monitors tracking vital signs. In New York, one county’s … Read More
June 7, 2021
Genetics in Medicine (vol. 22, no. 6, 2020) is available online by subscription only. Articles include: “Blood RNA Analysis can Increase Clinical Diagnostic Rate and Resolve Variants of Uncertain Significance” by Htoo A. Wai, et al. “The Cardiac Genome Clinic: … Read More
June 4, 2021
(Wall Street Journal) – Revelations of cyberattacks on transportation systems in New York and Massachusetts heightened concerns about the threat to U.S. businesses and essential services Wednesday, after hackers held hostage the world’s largest meat processor this week. (Read Full … Read More
June 3, 2021
(NPR) – Military-grade autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. Such weapons are known to be in development, but until recently there were no … Read More
May 28, 2021
(Wired) – Researchers, industry executives, and government officials have long puzzled over how self-driving cars might change the planet. If you could do something else while stuck in traffic, would it change the way you use your car? Would you … Read More
May 28, 2021
(Medscape) – The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Wednesday announced charges against 14 defendants across the country who allegedly engaged in healthcare fraud schemes that exploited the COVID-19 pandemic and resulted in over $143 million in false billings to … Read More
