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By GCN Staff Mar 02, 2021 The Department of Veterans Affairs is installing 5G networks at its Miami and Puget Sound health care facilities. Working with T-Mobile, which currently provides the in-building 4G LTE wireless connectivity at the Miami Health Care System, the VA will install in-building 5G radios for 2.5 GHz spectrum to deliver speeds of 300 megabit/sec with peaks up to 1 gigabit/sec. The faster network will allow medical teams to quickly move and access large, complex data files, su...

Smart Ass Cripple: Amtrak’s History of Dodging Access Laws The service was given two decades to become fully accessible after the signing of the ADA. It’s been more than thirty years, and it’s not even close. Here’s a plea to the lawmakers of the future: If you’re going to make a historic, comprehensive civil rights law, make a historic, comprehensive civil rights law. Please don’t riddle it with a bunch of waivers, loopholes, grace periods, and grandfather clauses...

FD7 Ventures FD7 Ventures Launches $250M USD Micro-Fund in India to Invest in Projects Building on Cardano and Polkadot Ecosystems Monday, March 1, 2021 10:23AM IST (4:53AM GMT)   Bangalore, Karnataka, India:   FD7 Ventures today announced the opening of their Bangalore office. The new location is home to an FD7 micro-fund targeting $250 million USD that will focus on investments in teams building out projects that further the Polkad...

By GCN Staff Feb 26, 2021 To improve the quality of medical care for military service members, researchers are adopting artificial intelligence and markerless motion-capture technology to assess the biomechanical skills of medical trainees and provide feedback for improvement. “Simulation-based medical skill training, both initial and refresher training, require systematic, objective, high quality trainee evaluation and feedback,” the Army’s Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium said i...

By Raj Parameswaran Feb 26, 2021 As we look down the road, many promising technologies are finding greater use across the federal government. In my opinion, no technology holds more promise in the immediate future than intelligent automation using robotic process automation (RPA). RPA will continue to grow as a valuable tool for government IT leaders because it allows the immediate expansion and scaling of human labor without impacting existing systems. Whenever agencies try to automate tasks, ...

By GCN Staff Feb 25, 2021 The Defense Logistics Agency has ordered up a 3D printing factory housed in a shipping container. Now under development, the rugged 3D printing pod would be up to 40-feet long and be set up in a standard 40-foot container so it could be deployed directly to the field to manufacture parts in support of battlefield operations, disaster relief or other remote missions. With a $1.6 million contract to ExOne, DLA plans to use the company’s military-edition 3D printer for ...

Skip to main content Verano Launches on the Space Coast, Opening its 31st MÜV™ Florida Medical Cannabis Dispensary on Merritt Island PRWeb FacebookTwitterEmail CHICAGO (PRWEB) February 25, 2021 Verano Holdings Corp. (CSE: VRNO) (“Verano” or the “Company”), a leading multi-state cannabis operator, today announced the upcoming opening of its newest MÜV™ Dispensary located at 925 N Courtenay Pkwy, Merritt Island, Florida. It is scheduled to open February 27, 2021 at 10am-ET (pending ...

By Natalie Alms Feb 25, 2021 Of the $400 billion in CARES Act unemployment benefits distributed last year, states paid over $5.4 billion in potentially fraudulent unemployment claims between March and October of 2020, according to the Department of Labor’s inspector general. The actual number may  reach tens of billions of dollars, the watchdog said. In California alone, at least 10% of the benefits paid since the start of the pandemic have been to fraudulent claims, and that number could be...

By GCN Staff Feb 24, 2021 FirstNet added nearly 100,000 square miles of coverage in 2020, bringing the nationwide wireless broadband public-safety network’s communications capabilities to a total of 15,000 subscribing agencies and organizations via 1.9 million LTE connections across more than 2.71 million square miles.  The network, which AT&T started to build out in 2017, is ahead of schedule deploying Band 14 coverage, company officials said in a statement.  The company also plans to ins...

The ADA is urging U.S. lawmakers to give dental startups access to the Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program.