Park staff in South Africa have installed GPS devices into Rhino horns to help protect them from poachers. Rusty Hustler, head of security for North West Parks Board, explains: “There are a number of alarms that can be programmed: one for excessive movement, so if the rhino starts running, and another that goes off if … Continue reading Rhinos Protected by GPS
IBM has posted an online simulation game called CityOne, where you can try and make a city as disgusting and dirty…ahem, I mean as clean and efficient as possible: Think you know what it takes to make the energy systems that serve a city more efficient? Given the opportunity, could you make the city’s water … Continue reading Clean City Simulation, Sponsored by IBM
Segmentation in virtual environments was the topic of a call I was on this morning. It reminded me that virtualization gets a hard time for something that exists in many other areas of “emerging” technology. Take wireless, for example, which now includes co-tenancy multi-mode configurations on devices like the RFS 7000 Wireless RF Switch from … Continue reading Wireless Segmentation
Another study has been released that says US healthcare needs reform. The researchers call out weak regulation as a primary factor since other countries with stronger regulation have not seen the same deterioration. In this paper we explore changes in fifteen-year survival at middle and older ages, alongside per capita health care spending, in the … Continue reading US Healthcare Blamed for Low Life Expectancy