Robots can be used to fight Ebola in Africa
How does the United States allow health workers to help West Africa while minimizing their risk? One answer that the White House may be...
MDA’s new cellular positioning technology
A traffic accident in some remote road in the middle of the night. Someone calls 911, at which point the call center asks 'what...
Drones are taking pictures that could demystify a Malaria surge
Four hundred feet above a Malaysian forest, a three-foot eBee drone hovers and takes pictures with a 16-megapixel camera every 10 to 20 seconds....
UC Santa Cruz Professor Builds Model of Low-Cost Ebola Sensor
A quick, low-cost test for Ebola may be available within a few years, thanks to UC Santa Cruz researcher Ahmet Ali Yanik. Similar to...
Scientists identify weak spots in Ebola’s defenses
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have identified weak spots on the surface of Ebola virus that are targeted by the antibodies in ZMapp, the...
NASA Monitoring Hurricane Matthew – Using a Drone
NASA announced recently that it’s been using a drone to track Hurricane Matthew. The space agency said that the tool being used is a...
Next-Gen 911: Two States, Two Approaches to Implementation
Connecticut and Kansas are working to install next-generation 911 systems, which some say are a necessity in an ever-burgeoning wireless mobile society.
A citizen at...
iHLS TV – Ebola bomb, police drones and data fusion
Articles and issues discussed in this week's report:
Miami police tests new surveillance drones
New armored mini-tractor for law enforcement agents
Possible Ebola "dirty bomb" worries experts
U.S....
iHLST TV Special Edition – Ebola: the new epidemic that is...
The Ebola epidemic is continuing to spread, with the current death toll at 1500 and the number of patients estimated at 2500. This outbreak...
Ambulances go high-tech to prevent crashes
In an emergency, every second counts. But driving at high speeds can compromise the safety of first responders and civilians.
There is a new device...
iHLS TV – Ebola possibly weaponized, Safe City projects, next gen...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (28 October 2014):
Ebola possibly weaponized
Safe City projects
US next generation bunker-buster bombs
New Hovermast unveiled
Euclid antenna pedestals
DNA synthesis may pose a risk of resurrecting deadly viruses for...
Homemade deadly viruses?
Scientists are warning that decades of public research on the sequencing of virus DNA are now posing unforeseen threats, as synthesis technologies...
Portable 15-Minute Ebola Virus Test Trials in Guinea
British health charity The Wellcome Trust recently announced that a new 15-minute Ebola virus test will become available on a trial basis in Guinea...
iHLS Worldwide News – Keeping You In the Loop
Isis is trying to develop biological weapons. Foreign Policy quotes information found on a laptop computer seized from an ISIS operative in the Irbil...
iHLS Worldwide News – Keeping You In the Loop
Secretary of State John Kerry urge world powers to unite against "the cancer f ISIS", saying the only way to defeat tem is for...
Belgian Expert: WHO Messed Up Ebola Response
A Belgian scientist who helped discover Ebola in 1976 has accused the World Health Organization (WHO) of mismanaging the current outbreak response.
Peter Piot, an...
DOD civilians can opt out of the Ebola quarantine
Defense civilian workers deployed to West Africa can choose one of two options upon their departure from Ebola-stricken countries, if they do not show...
Emergency Water Supply
Water shortage is a form of weapon. Without water, no army can function and the civilian population crumbles to the point of violent clashes...
Sierra Leone Orders Lockdown to Combat Ebola, Experts Unconvinced
Authorities are ordering people in Sierra Leone to stay inside their homes for three days later this month as part of an effort to...
An iHLS Startup: Augmented Reality Used for Medical Emergency
Most of us have heard stories, if we haven't witnessed them firsthand, of close family relatives having some sort of seizure or being severely...
Quarantines among legal tools available if Ebola outbreak widens
Questions about the U.S. government’s legal authority to contain the Ebola virus are increasing, even as federal officials attempt to keep public panic at...
iHLS TV – The FBIs Next Gen system, airborne intelligence, India’s...
iHLS Israel Homeland Security
In this weekly report (4 November 2014):
The FBIs Next Gen system
Airborne intelligence
India's defense deal
Gun violence in the US
Bio-hazard protective gear
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A research team at Texas A&M University has developed the world’s first metallic gel — a new class of material that combines the strength...
