Police Find Paris Attackers Coordinate Via Unencrypted SMS - Slashdot
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Tor is getting a major security upgrade | ExtremeTech: Tor has become a laughing stock in the hacker community -- can it shore up its vulnerabilities, and reassert the public's right to privacy?
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A fingerprint test for ivory has been developed to help identify poachers: Police officers may soon be able to identify wildlife poachers by retrieving fingerprints from smuggled ivory, new research has revealed. Around 50,000 African elephants are thought to be poached each year, but it had been thought...
Source: independent.co.uk
Zimbabwe on track to achieve virtual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: In 2010, when the project began, Zimbabwe had one of the highest burdens of new HIV infections in the world, with a mother-to-child HIV transmission rate of approximately 30 percent. Today, the rate of transmission...
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Study finds that Ebola vaccine is safe and stimulates strong immune response: A clinical trial of a new Ebola vaccine has found that it is well tolerated and stimulates strong immune responses in adults in Mali and in the US, according to a study published in the latest issue of the journal Lancet Infectious...
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Why suicide is on the increase among the UK’s police and firefighters | Natalie Roberts and Ann-Marie Abbasah
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'A destructive vicious circle': what does the future hold for health and social care?: Jill Mortimer is Age UK's Health and Care Policy Adviser and tweets at @Age_UK. What’s really happening in health and social care services? Over the last few years, we used in Age UK’s Care in Cris...
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Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector - Slashdot. "The new algorithm is dubbed SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) and is based on homomorphic encryption"
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Robots, Robots, Everywhere (at San Francisco Startup Launches): Robotic hands-free luggage, door-to door-delivery bots, and more
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Media demonstrate ignorance of correlation vs. causation by reporting the coffee study in Circulation - Association of Coffee Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality in Three Large Prospective Cohorts. See reports in Telegraph, Tribune, BT news, South Wales Argus!, Harvard's own press release....
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What are regression trees? « Healthcare Economist
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Does tying payment to quality improve quality? In one Medicare Advantage Program the answer is no.
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US firefighter has world's most extensive face transplant - BBC News: US surgeons say they have carried out the world's most extensive face transplant to date, including the entire scalp, ears and eyelids.
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Cornwall, Bristol Channel and Wales at sunset from from Space - NASA February 2000. Lovely glint of light on the sea. Found this on the NASA search page.
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The NHS Confederation has asked people if they want cake and seem encouraged that the answer is yes. In the confederation's parallel universe people can (1) have their cake and eat it, (2) it will be better cake than before, (3) they won't need to wait for it, and (4) it will be free! They are shrewd...
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Lava Field Image, Iceland - National Geographic Photo of the Day: Rivers flow in the fractures of a lava field in southern Iceland in this National Geographic Photo of the Day.
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Welsh government in drive to recruit junior doctors from England: Health minister Mark Drakeford’s recruitment campaign extols opportunities for young doctors and devolved government’s ‘partnership’ approach
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Coursera for Apple TV: Bring online learning to your living room | University Business Magazine
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NASA Earth Observatory : : Modern international shipping meets the ancient world in the famous canal.
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Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver’s License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds: Just over the border from New Hampshire in the Massachusetts city of Lowell, a woman identifying herself as a follower of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), otherwise known as Pastaf…
Source: immortal.org