Stock Alert (US): RPi 4 Model B - 4GB RAM is In Stock at Adafruit 63 units in stock.
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Stock Alert (US): RPi 4 Model B - 4GB RAM is In Stock at Adafruit 63 units in stock.
Stock Alert (US): RPi 4 Model B - 8GB RAM is In Stock at Sparkfun 2 units in stock.
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Stock Alert (US): RPi 4 Model B - 8GB RAM is In Stock at Sparkfun 2 units in stock.
Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
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Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
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Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
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Stock Alert (US): RPi CM4 - 1GB RAM, No MMC, No Wifi is In Stock at Digi-Key
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US hospitals are so overloaded that one ER called 911 on itself
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 7 November, 2022 - 23:03
Enlarge / An isolation tent for an emergency department in Walnut Creek, California, in March 2022. (credit: Getty | Gado )
Although COVID-19 remains in a lull, hospitals across the country are in crisis amid a towering wave of seasonal respiratory illnesses—particularly RSV in children—as well as longer-term problems, such as staffing shortages.
Pediatric beds are filling or full, people with urgent health problems are waiting hours in emergency departments hallways and even parking lots, and some hospitals have pitched outdoor tents, conjuring memories of the early days of the pandemic.
In one of the most striking examples, the emergency department of a Seattle-area hospital became so overwhelmed last month that the department's charge nurse called 911 for help , telling the fire department that they were "drowning" and in "dire straits." There were reportedly over 45 people in the department's waiting room and only five nurses on staff.
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US officially added to WHO’s list of poliovirus outbreak countries
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 13 September, 2022 - 23:06 · 1 minute
Enlarge / A Pakistani health worker administers polio vaccine drops to a child during a vaccination campaign in Karachi on December 10, 2018. Pakistan is one of only two countries in the world where polio remains endemic. (credit: Getty | RIZWAN TABASSUM )
The United States, one of the world's richest and most developed countries, has met the World Health organization's criteria to be listed as a country with circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Tuesday.
The US now joins the ranks of around 30 other polio outbreak countries , largely low- and middle-income, including Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia, and Yemen. Notably, the list includes just two other high-income countries—the United Kingdom and Israel—which have detected the circulation of a poliovirus strain genetically linked to the one spreading in the US .
Specifically, the US met the criteria for WHO's list by documenting a patient with vaccine-derived poliovirus and having at least one environmental sample of vaccine-derived poliovirus. In July, health officials in New York's Rockland County reported a case of paralytic polio in an unvaccinated resident who had not recently traveled. Since then, New York officials and the CDC surveilled the spread of the virus in wastewater, finding 57 positive samples from four New York counties and New York City. The dates of the positive samples span from April to a recent sampling in August.
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Data privacy bill would give you more control over info collected about you
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 24 August, 2022 - 14:58
Enlarge (credit: Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images)
Data privacy in the U.S. is, in many ways, a legal void. While there are limited protections for health and financial data, the cradle of the world’s largest tech companies, like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta (Facebook), lacks any comprehensive federal data privacy law . This leaves U.S. citizens with minimal data privacy protections compared with citizens of other nations . But that may be about to change.
With rare bipartisan support , the American Data and Privacy Protection Act moved out of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce by a vote of 53-2 on July 20, 2022. The bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate, and negotiations are ongoing . Given the Biden administration’s responsible data practices strategy , White House support is likely if a version of the bill passes.
As a legal scholar and attorney who studies and practices technology and data privacy law , I’ve been closely following the act, known as ADPPA. If passed, it will fundamentally alter U.S. data privacy law.
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Russia wants a better look at what America’s newest spy satellite can do
news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 3 August, 2022 - 16:46
Enlarge / The NROL-87 mission successfully launched on February 2, 2022, from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a Falcon 9 rocket. (credit: NRO)
A Russian Soyuz rocket launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on Monday around midnight local time. The military mission's payload was classified but has been designated Kosmos 2558 for tracking purposes.
The Russian satellite has since been placed in a nearly circular, 435 km by 452 km orbit, with an inclination of 97.25 degrees. This is notable, satellite trackers say, because it will allow the Kosmos 2558 satellite to come very close to a recently launched US spy satellite, which was designated NROL-87.
This US national security payload was designed and built for the National Reconnaissance Agency and launched on February 2 into orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
