Coming Home: FEMA offers a tip sheet on what to look for when returning to your place of residence after a disaster

By Editor|2021-10-05T12:29:55+00:00October 5th, 2021|

Looking to help those who have been temporarily displaced from their homes after a natural disaster, FEMA has released a new tip sheet offering advice on what to do and what to watch for. Focusing [...]

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A Social Disaster: How Social Media can be best used to identify critical information after a hurricane

By Editor|2021-10-05T12:27:52+00:00October 5th, 2021|

With social media being a key source for information and news, companies need to pay careful attention to it when crafting their messages after a disaster. A new study, published in Risk Analysis, suggest that [...]

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Mechanical Assistants: The University of Michigan is training robots to help in terrain too dangerous for first responders

By Editor|2021-10-05T12:25:45+00:00October 5th, 2021|

Looking to help with disaster zones which may be unsafe for first responders, the University of Michigan is using funds awarded by the National Science Foundation to help train their bipedal robots to navigate unmapped [...]

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Service Denied: DDoS are growing in frequency and severity

By Editor|2021-10-05T12:22:56+00:00October 5th, 2021|

Those behind distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting more creative in their approaches, and that’s meaning more headaches for cybersecurity experts. With attacks of this type up by 11 per cent over last [...]

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Underwater and Overwhelmed: Scientists investigate the conditions that made the recent floods in Germany so severe

By Editor|2021-10-05T12:19:05+00:00October 5th, 2021|

The scale of the damage after the recent floods in Germany surprised researchers, with the effects being far worse than what was predicted by the existing models, and opening up questions as to whether they [...]

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