Small drones expand research horizons for scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, gathering massive amounts of data that, so far, is easily captured and stored.
However, as the drones get smarter and more sophisticated, employing artificial intelligence to direct data collection and advanced imaging to get clearer pictures, the storage and security picture will change for scientists out in the field.
“The amount of data and data services is just the absolute key to all these uncrewed systems, whether they are marine systems or aviation systems,” says Capt. Phil Hall, director of the NOAA Uncrewed Systems Program in the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations.
“Data archiving, data analysis, cloud storage networking — all those areas are priorities for NOAA,” he adds.
UASs Enhance Data Collection in Remote Locations
NOAA uses drones — also known as uncrewed aerial systems, or UASs — to enhance data collection for research, disaster response and wildlife monitoring.
Its Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, for example, uses drones to measure the strength and development of hurricanes; the National Ocean Service uses seaborne autonomous surface vehicles to help map the Arctic seafloor. The National Severe Storms Laboratory measured damage to rural areas in Iowa after a 2020 derecho via drones.
They drop tube-launched, fixed-wing drones into hurricanes; send vertical-launch hexacopters to count sea mammals; and borrow NASA’s uncrewed Global Hawk aircraft for missions that last more than a few hours.
“One of the nice things about the drone data is that it’s actually really small text,” says Joseph Cione, lead meteorologist at NOAA’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory Hurricane Research Division. “We measure basic things — air pressure, temperature, winds, humidity. Those are small, small data.”
Scientists who monitor seal and sea lion populations in Alaska generally don’t worry about data transmission; in some situations, they move the drone-collected data by hand.
“For our UASs, we actually have onboard memories,” says Katie Sweeney, a biologist at NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center Marine Mammal Laboratory. “So we take out the SD cards to collect the images and to collect the flight logs.”
Continue reading: https://fedtechmagazine.com/article/2021/09/noaa-data-storage-needs-may-grow-drones-become-smarter

In Asia, as in other regions, there’s rapidly-growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial services industry, with more than 60 percent of financial services organizations already accelerating their pace of digitalization in response to the pandemic.
Spending on AI by the financial services sector in the region is estimated to reach $4.9 billion in 2024. Currently, financial services spending in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) represents 15 percent of the worldwide spending on AI, indicating the significant potential for growth ahead as more financial institutions develop and deploy AI solutions.
In this context of growing AI adoption, we are seeing growing interest from our customers, from regulators, and from other stakeholders in how AI can be deployed responsibly. We’re working with customers and regulators directly, as well as through groups like the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Veritas consortium. Here are five things we are learning from these engagements.

1. Regulators are encouraging organizations to build on existing regulatory obligations, and have endorsed a principle-based, technology-neutral approach
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   Financial institutions operate in a highly regulated industry with robust requirements covering outsourced technology use, risk management, and governance. It’s clear that when it comes to the use of AI, financial institutions aren’t operating in a regulatory vacuum. Because of this, we’re seeing clear indications from regulators in Asia that they are not looking to introduce new financial services regulation specific to AI. Rather they are looking to build on existing regulatory frameworks and associated guidance such as data protection, confidentiality and bank secrecy, technology and risk management, and fair lending, among others to ensure that AI is deployed responsibly.
   Continue reading: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/industry-blog/financial-services/2021/09/09/5-learnings-on-asias-responsible-ai-journey-in-financial-services/

There has been quite a bit of hype over the last several years about how artificial intelligence (AI) would transform health care. Translating the predictive power of AI algorithms into research methods and clinical practice, however, has proved challenging, which inevitably leads to disillusionment. But rather than getting frustrated with AI and machine learning, I would argue that strategic and ethical deployment of artificial intelligence will, by necessity, be central to the success of precision health research over the next decade.
Several factors are coming together to make AI more critical to progress. One is that the sheer volume of data being generated by electronic health records, medical device data, genomics, biospecimens, imaging and digital health apps has expanded far beyond human capabilities to analyze it. Because the amount of data and the number of data sources has exploded, it’s becoming very difficult to derive further value based on standard methods of analysis.
Deployed properly, artificial intelligence can act as an intelligence layer sitting atop these massive and complex data sets, helping researchers identify patterns and correlations in order to draw useful insights that can improve health care treatment and operational efficiencies. For example, health systems are starting to use AI tools to assess all admitted patients for risk of readmission and generate recommendations for interventions intended to decrease readmission risk.
Second, there is an urgent and growing need to control the rising cost of care and to provide care that is more precise. There is a recognition that a one-size-fits-all health care model needs to change — both to offer more personalized care and to reduce the cost.
Continue reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2021/09/10/how-ai-will-drive-the-precision-health-research-revolution-through-2030/?sh=17a2b6292413

Growing up in Baltimore, positive interactions with the tech community helped propel Christabella Palumbi’s career interests.
Palumbi is on her way to the University of Michigan and its school of engineering. As the 19-year-old looked back and reflects on her journey to college through Baltimore, it was her formative experiences at the Federal Hill-based Digital Harbor Foundation tech center and summer internships at Hunt Valley-based Big Huge Games with mentors like gaming entrepreneur Tim Train that set her on this trajectory.
“So many of the things I’m talking about come back to having affirming and confidence-boosting experiences with technology,” said Palumbi. “Tech is hard, coding is hard and it’s so easy to feel like you can’t do it or you’re not good enough. As a technology community — businesses, tech centers, makerspaces — we have an obligation to make sure people get affirming experience in technology because that is the only way they’re going to want to pursue a career in that field.”
Showing curiosity and plenty of ability, Palumbi has been working on tech side projects from an early age. Back in 2016, Technical.ly covered Palumbi while she was in middle school. She was already earning plaudits after learning skills in 3D printing at Digital Harbor and creating mobile games with Unity. And she picked up a nomination for a 2017 Baltimore Innovation Award along the way.
Continue reading: https://technical.ly/baltimore/2021/09/08/christabella-palumbi-internships/

According to reports, women are severely underrepresented in tech. They have long faced challenges in getting equal pay to their male counterparts, to issues relating to workplace culture.
According to Statista, women made up 28% to 42% of the workforce in Google, Apple, Facebook, and Amazon. According to Gartner, 31% of IT employees are women.
While these statistics offer some relief that some representation of women can be seen in top companies, there’s still a long way to go in narrowing the skills gap.
One such company that is playing a role is Amazon Web Services (AWS) alongside The Dream Collective – a diversity, equity, and inclusion consultancy – through the SheDares initiative. 
SheDares is an online learning program that aims to inspire and encourage professional women to consider a career in the technology industry, and show them pathways to consider – for free. While it was designed to target women in Australia, it is available globally. 
The program was developed based on research that confirmed barriers to women considering infiltrating the tech sector. Studies found that women perceived steep learning curves, confusion in knowing where to start, which careers to explore, and a lack of visible female role models to learn from. 
With SheDares, women across the globe will be able to overcome these barriers.
Continue reading: https://u2b.com/2021/09/08/shedares-women-in-tech/

In pre-pandemic times, the world of work was already being re-shaped by a number of major trends: advancing digitalization, constant change – and a large degree of uncertainty concerning future workplaces. Covid times have not only brought these trends to the fore, but have caused them to sky-rocket. For the digital industry in particular, it’s quite clear as to which of these accelerating trends is massively advantageous – namely, digitalization. But as with all other industries, the digital sector is not immune to issues of high-voltage change and uncertainty. This is prompting employers to intensively mull over the question of: What can we do to ensure that we have a thriving working life for our company as we move into the future?
Here, a contemporary analyst of the future of work, Kevin Empey, provides solid advice. For a future-proof workplace, two key factors which companies require are:
1) agility (think of adaptability and resilience);
2) a sustainability agenda, replete with progressive labor practices.
For such a sustainability agenda to function, a core element for each and every company is a diversity-based culture. For tech companies in particular, this is an absolute must. As highlighted in a recent webinar on Diversity in Tech held by the European Internet Forum (EIF), diversity is not just a prerequisite for innovation and creativity, but is also essential for building trust – both internally within the company, and externally with customers. Ultimately, with the rising significance of the digital industry’s role for society and the economy, there is simply no sector for which a full representation of society is more important.
Continue reading: https://www.dotmagazine.online/issues/sustainable-transformation/workplace-sustainability-women-in-tech

THE future is female and recognition must be given to local leading ladies dominating the technology industry.
Currently, women hold 19% of tech-related jobs at the top 10 global tech companies, according to a report by PwC.
Here is a look at four local women, who are making strides in the South African technology industry.
Avashnee Moodley, head of marketing at OPPO South Africa
The OPPO head of marketing has years of experience and holds a wealth of knowledge that is geared towards unlocking a brand’s potential, no matter the climate. Successfully building Huawei into a household name, Moodley’s next challenge saw her not just build, but catapult OPPO into a leading smartphone giant locally, during an ongoing pandemic.
“As a woman and one in technology, you would often hear the word ‘no’. It’s become a driving force for me, to highlight the capabilities that exist when one is brave enough to step up to the plate and unashamedly hold their position. Technology is growing, and so are the women who lead it, and I’m proud to be a part of that,” Moodley said.
Continue reading: https://www.iol.co.za/technology/women-in-technology-creating-opportunities-in-south-africa-68734a4e-fe4b-48ec-98bb-28a2fca72d5b

EDWARDSVILLE - Although many strides have been made to increase diversity within science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, Black and Hispanic workers, specifically women, remain underrepresented in the technological workforce, according to the Pew Research Center.
By participating in an Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) program uplifting women of color in STEM, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville School of Engineering alumna Dr. Tyria Riley is working to increase the representation of women of color at senior levels in technology.
An East St. Louis native, Dr. Riley graduated from the SIUE in 2002 with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. Currently, she serves as the Boeing Defense Space and Security (BDS) mission systems model-based engineering Senior leader at The Boeing Company. In this role, she is responsible for leading the adoption and implementation of model-based engineering and model-based systems engineering technologies across the mission systems enterprise function.
Continue reading: https://www.riverbender.com/articles/details/siue-alumna-riley-champions-women-of-color-in-stem-52977.cfm

Two women leading the way in health tech, Elisa Costante  from Forescout Technologies and Helen Marsden at Medichecks, tell us how they got to where they are today. 
Elisa Costante  is the Vice President of Research at Forescout Technologies 
I started my career as a software engineer. I then moved to the Netherlands to do my PhD in privacy and security, looking into cybersecurity, privacy, intrusion detection, and machine learning - all the topics that are now becoming "hot". 
Towards the end of my PhD I was lucky enough to meet some cool people that had just founded a startup, so I went into the industry and started looking at how to apply my knowledge to issues like protecting critical infrastructures. I carried on as a researcher, working on the edge of the technology and how we can apply innovation to solve our problems. 
I basically grew there - from researcher I became Chief Technology Officer because I was applying a lot of technology to the products so I was very close to the production. Today I am Vice President of Research at Forescout globally, as a result of  10 years' of experience in the security of OT (operational technology), IoT and critical infrastructures.
Continue reading: https://healthcareglobal.com/technology-and-ai/how-get-more-women-healthcare-technology

In 2018, Kishawna Peck was looking for a conference to attend. At the time, the Toronto data scientist was working at a financial technology company and hoping to find an event that focused on women, or at least featured something beyond panels of all-male speakers. There was nothing.
“Maybe I can do it,” she thought to herself. Over a six-week period, Ms. Peck and some friends put together a small event they initially thought would take place in the back room of a library. By the time it ran, Ms. Peck had gathered over 100 attendees, hosted at a formal venue.
While it was satisfying to see the event happen, “I noticed the room was not as diverse as it could be,” Ms. Peck recalls. She decided to launch Toronto Womxn in Data Science, making it intersectional to attract and promote BIPOC women in the field.
The spring conference has run annually ever since, featuring sessions on topics such as responsible AI, data feminism, health equity and confidence and self-advocacy. The group now runs a podcast aimed at young women called Data Drop, and Ms. Peck is developing a fellowship that will support an emerging professional in developing a data product.
Continue reading: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-data-science-is-booming-so-where-are-the-women/

Rocket Lab said Wednesday it signed a five-launch contract with European satellite data company Kinéis, adding to the space company’s backlog.
Kinéis is building an Internet of Things connectivity constellation with 25 satellites, all of which will be launched to orbit by Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle. The Kinéis missions are scheduled to begin launching in the second quarter of 2023.
“It’s a very sophisticated customer, a very sophisticated spacecraft with really tough requirements … Electron’s demonstrated orbital accuracy and insertion enables this constellation to be launched like this,” Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck told CNBC.
The Kinéis deal is the latest multilaunch win for Rocket Lab. Earlier this year, the company announced a contract with satellite imagery company BlackSky for five launches – and Beck sees a trend of bulk launch buying.
Continue reading: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/08/rocket-lab-signs-launch-deal-with-kinis-european-iot-satellites.html

Foreword
There were 12.4 billion IoT devices estimated to be connected around the world in 2020, a number expected to more than double to 26.4 billion by 2026 alone.[1] This rapid growth generates cybersecurity risks, with potential vulnerabilities that hackers could exploit.
Ensuring the cybersecurity of connected products, and thereby enhancing our digital resilience, has therefore become a top priority for Europe. This is reflected in the Commission’s landmark Digital Decade goals, the COVID recovery funds and the new EU budget.
Our approach to product legislation must now evolve to encompass safety of connected devices. This is not an easy task: cybersecurity is a relatively new development, compared with decades’ worth of product rules.
Continue reading: https://www.digitaleurope.org/resources/setting-the-standard-how-to-secure-the-internet-of-things/

A report released by trade association DigitalEurope on Wednesday (8 September) underlined the lack of baseline cybersecurity requirements, saying the existing rules were insufficient and calling for horizontal regulation as the EU is working on updating its cybersecurity legislation.
Vulnerability to cyberattacks is growing, as the number of devices connected through the Internet of Things (IoT) in people’s homes and everyday lives rapidly increases.
A recent test by ethical hackers at Euroconsumers found that an alarmingly high number of commonplace smart home devices such as WiFi routers, baby monitors and alarm systems suffer from serious weaknesses, leaving them susceptible to what could be very sensitive breaches.
According to DigitalEurope’s report, however, existing product legislation falls short when it comes to addressing cybersecurity.
“Because its scope and conformity assessment methods are generally designed to address physical product functions, existing product legislation cannot properly address administrative or organizational aspects, which are more prominent and common to more types of devices,” it said
In December last year, as part of its new EU Cybersecurity Strategy, the European Commission launched a proposal to revise the cybersecurity standards set in the Network and Information Security (NIS) Directive, the first EU-wide legislation on the topic.
The new legislation, so-called NIS2, is intended to strengthen and expand upon its predecessor in regulatory scope and volume, responding to a general rise of cyber threats but also to growing vulnerability caused by the pandemic-induced increase in dependence on network and information services.
Continue reading: https://www.euractiv.com/section/cybersecurity/news/internet-of-things-is-missing-horizontal-cybersecurity-standards/

Recently, it’s become clear to those who understand it that BSV is winning the battle for Bitcoin. While the current market price of various tokens might suggest otherwise, a neutral analysis of the data shows that BSV is winning by the number of daily transactions, block sizes, and frequently miner profitability.
On September 3, the BSV blockchain officially hit double the size of BTC. It’s only going to keep growing from here. Let’s take a look at why BSV is growing and what it means.
Why is the BSV blockchain growing?
If you’re not familiar with the difference in approach between BSV and BTC and why the BSV blockchain growth is a good thing, consider the following:

1. BSV follows the original Bitcoin whitepaper and scales without limits. This allows for data to be stored on the BSV blockchain.
2. BTC developers have deliberately limited the block sizes and stripped out as much data as possible, including the digital signatures that make Bitcoin transactions legal.
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   BSV’s approach comes from a fundamental understanding of what Bitcoin is; a data management system and a stable protocol upon which developers can build, while BTC centralized protocol devs continue to promote and live by the false narrative of digital gold/store of value.
   Continue reading: https://coingeek.com/bsv-blockchain-now-twice-as-large-as-btc/

ZelaaPayAE is hyped up with rumors going on about having granted a license to work and scale their platforms and ideas on the blockchain from somewhere in the region.
The United Arab Emirates has always been a region widely appreciated for its ease of doing business and diversity in terms of people, culture and economy. It has become a haven for tech companies from around the world due to its flexibility to maneuver and execute ideas that are from the future.
In light of the same, blockchain industry has been growing rapidly and evolving into the future of finance, data and transparent transfers which has made applications around it develop and grow hugely. Now with many projects and ventures moving to UAE to build on the blockchain, it has been uncertain in terms of regulations and how does that pan out for firms trying to establish themselves in UAE that is at core focused on utilizing blockchain tech to develop and expand massively.
Continue reading: https://www.coinspeaker.com/blockchain-industry-uae/

If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent the last decade hearing about blockchain technology and all the ways it’ll change the world. And at some point, you’ve probably wondered, “Hey… what the heck even is a blockchain?”
So, like Gandalf giving Bilbo a few Tolkien-themed cryptocoins and sending him on an adventure (pretty sure that’s how the story goes), The Verge told me to try to learn about and demystify the tech that underlies everything from cryptocurrencies to NFTs. Possibly because my editors want to drive me to the point where I build an actual red string board.
So, shall we begin?
WHAT IS BLOCKCHAIN?
I’ve read 1,000 analogies trying to explain the blockchain. Could you give me another one?
You can think of a blockchain like an obsessive club filled with members who love to keep track of things. The club has a ton of complicated rules to make sure that every member writes down the exact same set of records about what happens each day (whether it’s bird sightings, or beer tastings, or flower sales) and that once data is recorded and accepted, it becomes exponentially more difficult to change as more and more records are added on top of it. Then, usually, outsiders can come by and check out all their records and go, “Oh, wow, a cardinal flew by at 10AM in front of Mike’s house. Cool.”
Continue reading: https://www.theverge.com/22654785/blockchain-explained-cryptocurrency-what-is-stake-nft

Throughout the global pandemic, people in every step of life were forced to interact with and rely on technology in new ways. Older generations adopted new habits like online grocery shopping, businesses quickly shifted to virtual meetings, and processes like vaccine distribution required a collaborative use of both AI and mass notification technology across all levels of government and industry.
These experiences demonstrated how the intentional use of advanced technology can help to improve the lives and well-being of people during times of volatility. Particularly in the last 18 months, an unprecedented level of instability has upended business as usual. As a result, organizations of all kinds are now preparing for unpredictability more than ever before and are turning to modern technology, such as AI and big data, to help them manage these uncharted waters.
I recently sat down with enterprises, small businesses and state and local government leaders during OnSolve Nexus 2021 to discuss how AI and big data can play a big role in managing uncertainty. From climate change and global COVID-19 disruption to domestic terrorism and ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure, uncertainty will be constant in the future. Using AI and machine learning to deal with the unexpected, forecast actions and anticipate potential risks will increase in demand. IT leaders must take center stage to help improve their adaptation and bolster resiliency, yet there are key challenges they face as it relates to leveraging AI and data to do so.
Continue reading: https://www.informationweek.com/ai-or-machine-learning/managing-uncertainty-with-ai-and-big-data-beyond-the-pandemic

Swarms of drones have gotten a lot of time in the spotlight lately, mostly for their use in potential military operations. The U.S. military is testing out swarm operations in simulations, while the British Army is using live drones operating in swarms during actual training operations. Other militaries are also interested in deploying swarms.
One of the biggest advantages a swarm of drones has when performing military operations is its resiliency. If a swarm enters combat and several individual drones get shot down or otherwise incapacitated, it really doesn’t reduce the combat effectiveness of the swarm, nor the tactics that it uses. A swarm of 550 drones is just about as powerful and flexible as a swarm of 600, even if the former has “lost” almost 10% of its initial strength.
And while that is noteworthy, it’s probably the least interesting aspect of swarms. What makes them really amazing in both military and civilian applications is their so-called swarm intelligence, a term first coined by Gerardo Beni and Jing Wang in 1989 when describing the potential for cellular robotic systems.
Swarm intelligence can enable drones to act very similar to how swarms of insects behave in nature. Take bees, for example. Individual bees each have their own intelligence and jobs within a colony. But when a bee finds something good, like a patch of blooming flowers, it will report that information back to other bees that happen to be nearby when it flies back to the colony. Interestingly enough, bees generally communicate the distance, direction and elevation of the discovered resource, as well as any dangers that might exist along the way. These are exactly the kinds of things that an artificial swarm of flying robots would need to know about a target or a potential point of interest. The bees that receive the message can then either go off to gather juicy pollen from those newly discovered flowers, or share the information with more nearby bees until it becomes well-known within the swarm.
Continue reading: https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2021/09/swarms-may-offer-next-level-artificial-intelligence/185177/

“Conversational AI” startup PolyAI, based out of London, has raised $14 million in a funding round led by Silicon Valley’s Khosla Ventures, with participation from existing investors (Point72 Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Sands Capital Ventures, Passion Capital and Entrepreneur First). This follows their $12 million Series A, and will provide resources for further U.S. expansion beyond its existing U.S. team. The startup has now raised $28 million to date.
PolyAI builds and deploys voice assistants for automating customer services, which, claims the startup, sound like real humans. This helps companies get an infinite and cheaper supply of their best human voice operators, which reduces customer waiting times, and increases customer satisfaction and retention, says the company.
Co-founder Dr. Nikola Mrkšić said: “The technical term for our technology is ‘multi-turn conversational AI’, but all the caller has to do is talk to it, like they would to a human. Compared to existing call centers, our assistants can boost customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores by up to 40% and reduce handling times by up to five minutes.”
“We build these systems very quickly (relative to the competition) — we get experiences like these up and running in 2-4 weeks thanks to our transformer-based language understanding models and the underlying dialog management platform,” he added.
Continue reading: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/08/ai-driven-voice-assistant-polyai-raises-14m-round-led-by-khosla-ventures/

Officials in Napa County, Calif., plan to install IQ FireWatch systems as part of its efforts improve the county’s early fire detection capabilities.
The pole-mounted, artificial intelligence-based system uses optical and heat sensors to detect and analyze smoke plumes that may indicate fire. When smoke that indicates a possible fire is spotted, the system alerts authorities, sending images so officials can rapidly confirm a fire and dispatch appropriate response.
Besides helping improve wildfire detection, the system will help first firefighters respond to fires before they get out of control and ensure that the public receives critical information in a fire emergency, officials with Illumination Technologies, the manufacturer of IQ Firewatch, said in their announcement.
Continue reading: https://gcn.com/articles/2021/09/08/fire-detection-sensors-napa.aspx

In September last year, Google’s cloud unit looked into using artificial intelligence to help a financial firm decide whom to lend money to.
It turned down the client’s idea after weeks of internal discussions, deeming the project too ethically dicey because the AI technology could perpetuate biases like those around race and gender.
Since early last year, Google has also blocked new AI features analyzing emotions, fearing cultural insensitivity, while Microsoft restricted software mimicking voices and IBM rejected a client request for an advanced facial-recognition system.
All these technologies were curbed by panels of executives or other leaders, according to interviews with AI ethics chiefs at the three U.S. technology giants.
Reported here for the first time, their vetoes and the deliberations that led to them reflect a nascent industry-wide drive to balance the pursuit of lucrative AI systems with a greater consideration of social responsibility.
“There are opportunities and harms, and our job is to maximize opportunities and minimize harms,” said Tracy Pizzo Frey, who sits on two ethics committees at Google Cloud as its managing director for Responsible AI.
Judgments can be difficult.
Microsoft, for instance, had to balance the benefit of using its voice mimicry tech to restore impaired people’s speech against risks such as enabling political deepfakes, said Natasha Crampton, the company’s chief responsible AI officer.
Continue reading: https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2021/09/09/305872.htm

Mayo Clinic researchers alongside the Google Research Brain Team developed a new artificial intelligence algorithm to improve brain stimulation devices to treat movement disorders and epilepsy.
For millions of people who struggle with epilepsy or movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, electrical stimulation on the brain is currently a widening treatment possibility. In the future, electrical stimulation could even potentially help those with psychiatric illness and direct brain injuries, including stroke.
However, according to researchers, examining how brain networks interact with each other is complicated. Brain networks can be studied by delivering brief pulses of electrical current in a specific area of a patient’s brain while also measuring the voltage responses in other areas.
In principle, researchers say they should be able to infer the structure of brain networks from the data. However, it becomes problematic with real-world data since recorded signals are complex, and only a limited number of measurements can be made.
Continue reading: https://healthitanalytics.com/news/artificial-intelligence-tool-enhances-brain-stimulation-devices

Out of the different innovative technology-driven solutions and platforms, 'drones' must be one of the most intriguing and mind captivating in nature. In other words, a very 'cool' one. It is very easy to appreciate the unique angle they provide on things and to imagine the endless opportunities they can offer. However, it is another thing to actually create such solutions in a practical manner or that are economically viable. Moreover, it is even harder to 'translate' the relevance of it to the end users, should it be a small farmer or a construction worker.
It is not surprising then that the global interest in drones' civil applications is growing at an exponential speed. Beyond the obvious commercial applications, advancements in technology and reduced costs, together with their respected advantages (including reach and versatility) are some of the reasons fueling this rapid growth.
In this respect, it is well understood why the recent announcement by The Ministry of Civil Aviation on the liberalization of 'Drone Rules' was so well received and perceived as a bold and welcoming move, from which India could soon emerge as a global drone hub.
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi voiced on Twitter: "The new Drone Rules usher in a landmark moment for this sector in India. The rules are based on the premise of trust and self-certification. Approvals, compliance requirements and entry barriers have been significantly reduced". The Prime Minister also added that, "The new Drone Rules will tremendously help startups and our youth working in this sector. It will open up new possibilities for innovation & business. It will help leverage India's strengths in innovation, technology & engineering to make India a drone hub".
Continue reading: https://www.socialnews.xyz/2021/09/09/new-avenues-for-collaboration-between-india-israel-in-drone-related-technology-and-solutions/

Inmarsat, the world leader in global mobile satellite communications, today announced the launch of its advanced new Velaris connectivity solution, which is uniquely positioned to serve as a catalyst for the safe and rapid growth of the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) industry. 
Powered by the Inmarsat ELERA global satellite network, Velaris will provide secure communications for commercial UAVs – commonly known as drones – to fly beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and seamlessly integrate with aircraft in commercial airspace. Backed by military grade cybersecurity, it allows operators to send their UAVs on long distance flights and access various applications, such as real-time monitoring, to ensure safe integration with other air traffic. In addition, Velaris allows a single pilot to remotely operate multiple UAVs at scale, making operations more commercially viable. 
Over the next seven years, the commercial UAV market is projected to increase from $2.32 billion in 2021 to $11.29 billion in 2028, marking a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25.39% during this period1. This will have a far-reaching impact on various aspects of business and society, ranging from cargo delivery, urban transport and surveillance to emergency services and disaster relief, including the supply of critical items such as medicine, test kits and food for remote communities. 
Continue reading: https://www.suasnews.com/2021/09/inmarsat-launches-first-uav-connectivity-solution-to-safely-integrate-drones-into-managed-airspace/

Drones successfully delivered automated external defibrillators to the locations of suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, according to a speaker at the European Society of Cardiology Congress.
In 64% of cases, the AED arrived nearly 2 minutes ahead of the ambulance, researchers reported.
For every minute without treatment for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the chances of survival decrease by approximately 7% to 10%, and, in Sweden, the median ambulance response time is about 11 minutes, according to the presentation. Therefore, researchers posited that drone delivery of AEDs directly to cases of suspected cardiac arrest may not only be feasible but may arrive faster than an ambulance.
“Last year, we conducted a study where we looked at the use of drones to deliver [AEDs] to patients suffering from cardiac arrest,” Sofia Schierbeck, MD, physician at Karolinska University Hospital and PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, said during a presentation. “We found that AEDs can be carried by drones to real-life cases of cardiac arrest outside of hospitals, and we also found that there can be a time benefit as compared to the emergency medical services (EMS) or ambulance, in the cases where the drone arrived first.”
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