Khalid Masood is certainly not the first terrorist to use the encrypted text phone application WhatsApp, which was linked to the Paris and San Bernardino attacks in 2015, among others, but this latest assault has brought renewed concerns to police, security and intelligence professionals on how to track suspected terrorists. The parliament attacker used WhatsApp […]
Heavy rains associated with exceptionally warm water in the Pacific Ocean have brought some of the worst flooding in decades and mudslides along the arid landscape along coastal Peru. At least half of the country has been impacted, including Lima, which has been without power since Monday. Some 800 cities and towns have declared a […]
With 21 state legislatures debating whether to eliminate or change “spring forward,” along with countless slept deprived journalists and tweeters voicing their displeasure, one article wonders if DST is “running out of time.” The DST idea is that less energy is consumed if there is more light in the late afternoon/early evening for commuting and […]
A doctoral student at SUNY Binghamton has created a model for predicting terrorist attacks based on the patterns of previous attacks, whose framework reportedly “can predict attack characteristics with a 90 percent accuracy.” The model, called the Networked Pattern Recognition Framework (NEPAR), is populated with data from 150,000 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2015. Like […]
New Orleans began celebrating Mardi Gras with its largest parade known as Endymion, but during the event, a man in a pickup truck raced down side streets and smashed into several cars before hitting parade onlookers. The driver, who had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit, injured 28 people, including […]
A group of seven teenagers were saved after they plunged through the surface ice at The Pond, near the southeast corner of Central Park in Midtown Manhattan. A group of onlookers, including two visiting tourists, immediately went into action and pulled the teens to safety by swimming out to the victims and even using a […]
Khalid Masood is certainly not the first terrorist to use the encrypted text phone application WhatsApp, which was linked to the Paris and San Bernardino attacks in 2015, among others, but this latest assault has brought renewed concerns to police, security and intelligence professionals on how to track suspected terrorists. The parliament attacker used WhatsApp […]
Heavy rains associated with exceptionally warm water in the Pacific Ocean have brought some of the worst flooding in decades and mudslides along the arid landscape along coastal Peru. At least half of the country has been impacted, including Lima, which has been without power since Monday. Some 800 cities and towns have declared a […]
With 21 state legislatures debating whether to eliminate or change “spring forward,” along with countless slept deprived journalists and tweeters voicing their displeasure, one article wonders if DST is “running out of time.” The DST idea is that less energy is consumed if there is more light in the late afternoon/early evening for commuting and […]
A doctoral student at SUNY Binghamton has created a model for predicting terrorist attacks based on the patterns of previous attacks, whose framework reportedly “can predict attack characteristics with a 90 percent accuracy.” The model, called the Networked Pattern Recognition Framework (NEPAR), is populated with data from 150,000 terrorist attacks between 1970 and 2015. Like […]
New Orleans began celebrating Mardi Gras with its largest parade known as Endymion, but during the event, a man in a pickup truck raced down side streets and smashed into several cars before hitting parade onlookers. The driver, who had a blood alcohol level that was three times the legal limit, injured 28 people, including […]
A group of seven teenagers were saved after they plunged through the surface ice at The Pond, near the southeast corner of Central Park in Midtown Manhattan. A group of onlookers, including two visiting tourists, immediately went into action and pulled the teens to safety by swimming out to the victims and even using a […]
