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Mar

Do We Have the Ethical Guardrails for What’s Next in Tech?

March 12, 2022
Source: https://www.govtech.com/opinion/do-we-have-the-ethical-guardrails-for-whats-next-in-tech Opinion March 2022 •  Paul W. Taylor As technologists continue to introduce bleeding-edge ideas like the metaverse that could change how we work, live and play online, is government prepared to regulate those new spaces? Historian Robert Hughes coined the elegant phrase “the shock of the new” to describe the influence of technology on imagination....
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11
Mar

BERENIS Newsletter 28th March 2022

March 11, 2022
Newsletter of the Swiss expert group on electromagnetic fields and non-ionising radiation (BERENIS) https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/electrosmog/newsletter-of-the-swiss-expert-group-on-electromagnetic-fields-a.html PDF https://www.emfsa.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Newsletter-BERENIS-Nr.-28-ENGLISH-1.pdf
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05
Mar

IUA and International Partners urge UN to protect Dark and Quiet Skies

March 5, 2022
Source: International Astronomical Union (IAU) The IAU, together with partner organisations, has submitted a new Working Paper to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), seeking to protect dark and quiet skies from interference by human activities. The paper was accepted for discussion at the opening of the 59th session of the COPUOS...
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05
Mar

ENISA: Security in 5G – Challenges and Best Practices

March 5, 2022
Source: European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) February 24, 2022 NFV Security in 5G – Challenges and Best Practices This report explores relevant challenges, vulnerabilities and attacks to the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) within the 5G network. NFV changes the network security environment due to resource pools based on cloud computing and open network architecture....
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04
Mar

EMFSA Early March 2022 Newsletter

March 4, 2022
Win an Acoustimeter AM 11! Details: https://mailchi.mp/emfsa/win-an-acoustimeter-am-11
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17
Feb

Immune cells that clear away Alzheimer’s disease protein are controlled by circadian rhythms

February 17, 2022
Citation: Clark GT, Yu Y, Urban CA, Fu G, Wang C, Zhang F, et al. (2022) Circadian control of heparan sulfate levels times phagocytosis of amyloid beta aggregates. PLoS Genet 18(2): e1009994. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1009994 http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1009994 The findings provide a mechanism that links Alzheimer’s disease with circadian rhythm disruptions Peer-Reviewed Publication PLOS Researchers report that the immune cells...
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15
Feb

Dark-sky advocates confront threats from above and below

February 15, 2022
Source: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20220209b/full/ In his 1965 book, Starlight Nights, amateur astronomer and renowned comet finder Leslie Peltier recalled looking down at Los Angeles from Mount Wilson Observatory and noting the city lights encroaching on the mountainside. He was also concerned about the reflection of sunlight off growing fields of space debris. He wrote, “I realize that I...
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08
Feb

ESO and international partners petition UN for the protection of the Earth’s dark and quiet skies

February 8, 2022
Source: https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22001/ 7 February 2022 An international collaboration involving ESO has submitted a new paper to the United Nations Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) seeking better protections for the Earth’s dark and quiet skies. The paper was accepted for discussion today at the ongoing session of the COPUOS Scientific and Technical Subcommittee,...
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30
Jan

EMFSA January 2022 Newsletter

January 30, 2022
Image File: Public Domain Celebrating the 2012 National Medal of Science awardees (16594480462).jpg The Lightbulb Campaign Read more at: https://mailchi.mp/emfsa/5g-satellites-ehs-solutions-health-lightbulb-campaign
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