Experts Increasingly View SolarWinds Breach as Attack on US, Opening Way for Retaliation
On 12/18/20 at 7:44 PM EST
The unprecedented hack that appears to have first hit software company SolarWinds before spreading to some of the highest levels of the U.S. government is testing the definition of what constitutes cyber espionage and what the Pentagon defines as an actual attack on the nation.
If it is determined to be an attack, experts warn it would open the way for retaliation, including in the physical realm. But defining exactly what constitutes an attack in cyberspace, even in the 21st century, remains a murky issue.
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Fever monitoring has developed something of a bad reputation under COVID-19. While having a fever is one of COVID-19’s telltale symptoms, temperature checks capture only a moment in time. Unless someone is stricken with fever, they tell us very little about a person’s state of health. But a new report suggests that body temperature can play a far more useful role in understanding health we’re just using it wrong.
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Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, San Diego, have shown that constant temperature surveillance could be a promising method for detecting and predicting the onset of fever in COVID-19. In a 50-person feasibility study, researchers used the Oura Ring, a finger-worn sleep tracker, to monitor temperatures of participating healthcare workers and adult volunteers.
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Highmark Health, in collaboration with Google Cloud, today announced its Living Health model and corresponding platform that aims to reshape how healthcare is delivered to be a more coordinated, personalized and technology-enabled experience.
Throughout the companies’ six-year strategic partnership, Highmark will support its Living Health model through the development of the Living Health Dynamic Platform, which will be built on Google Cloud.
Approximately 125 new jobs are being created at Highmark to support the development of the Living Health Dynamic Platform, the company said.
“This is a very exciting time because we’ve been working for the last couple of years to transform the health experience,” Karen Hanlon, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Highmark Health, told
December 17, 2020
A little shop in San Francisco is now offering what it says is the highest-resolution space radar imagery on the market.
Capella Space released the first images taken by one of its orbiting spacecraft, demonstrating the ability to capture imagery at a resolution of 50 cm per pixel the legal limit imposed by US regulators to prevent too-detailed reconnaissance imagery from falling into the wrong hands.
Founded in 2016, the company has launched two synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites that beam radio energy at the Earth from orbit, and decode its reflection back with a novel antenna design. After its first prototype was tested in orbit, Capella had to redesign the second satellite, launched earlier this year, to reach this level of detail. Over the next six months, the company plans to launch six more satellites and begin selling the data they collect worldwide.