Drone Visual Line of Sight Restriction Delays Medical Delivery
San Francisco based robotics startup Zipline will test drone delivery of medical supplies to remote U.S. regions. The Deliveries will include lifesaving blood, medicine,...
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...
UPS Tests Drone Delivery Options
Shipping giant UPS has launched testing of drones to deliver packages to remote and difficult to reach locations.
UPS begun the tests recently using a...
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...
WATCH: Underwater Robot That Will Clean Fukushima
After an earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastated Japan’s coastal areas and badly damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in 2011, plans were...
The number of labs handling deadly germs grows, and so do...
The number of labs handling dangerous pathogens continues to grow, and so does the number of accidents involving dangerous pathogens.
The number of reported accidents...
2015 Will Be Remembered As A Turning Point In Israeli Robotics
Olga Grosman
Professor. Zvi Shiller is the Chairman of the Israeli Robotics Association, a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics Faculty of...
US military planes arrive at epicenter of Ebola
Monrovia, Liberia: Six U.S. military planes arrived in the Ebola hot zone Thursday with more Marines, as West Africa's leaders pleaded for the world's...
Anonymous To Fix Flint Water Crisis
Flint, Michigan has had a fraught history. In the past the city was a major manufacturing centre of the American automotive industry, but the...
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....
Location Data For First Responders
How can first responders be sure they’ve taken care of everyone in the scene? And what if one of the injured, unconscious behind the...
Information leaks – For Human Rights
North Korea continues to be a main source for global and regional instability due to its reckless behaviour. Every so often threats are made...
Video Technology – for Monitoring in Prisons and Hospitals
A UK startup wants to turn digital video cameras into monitors for use in prisons, hospitals, and assisted-living homes.
Oxehealth is one of five finalists...
Nanotechnology to Help Airport Security Process
Public health has become an important consideration when talking about airports, including security checks. How clean are airport security trays? Everything goes in those...
FEMA preparing for possible shortages of bio-hazard gear as Ebola fears...
The Obama administration is looking into evoking the Defense Production Act to stem possible shortages of bio-hazard protective gear as fears of an Ebola...
Ransomware Rises – The Growing Threat To International Security
Over the last few years a new menace has emerged: ransomware. Hackers now routinely take control and hold hostage the computer systems of businesses,...
U.S. air marshal in quarantine after suspected Ebola syringe attack at...
An American federal air marshal was placed in quarantine in Houston, Texas yesterday after being attacked Sunday night at the Lagos airport in Nigeria....
Four DARPA projects that could change the world
Forty years ago, a group of researchers with military money set out to test the wacky idea of making computers talk to one another...
First Responders’ New Best Friend – Tele-Medical Drone
Two new disaster drones delivered medical packages to victims and rescue personnel in a simulated mass casualty event recently at John Bell Airport in...
Clear and present danger: hazardous materials
Experts have recently alerted the authorities to the Hazmat risk posed by hundreds of contaminated, closed nuclear weapons facilities in the U.S.
Hundreds of ramshackle...
iHLS Worldwide News – Keeping You In the Loop
An American Jihadist, Douglas Mccain, 33, was killed in Syria last weekend fighting for the ISIS extremists, he was killed in a battle with...
Are we protected from Agroterrorism ?
The word “terrorism” is typically associated with bomb and bullets, but security experts say that there are other types of terrorism which may bring...
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Metal That Behaves Like a Gel Could Redefine High-Temperature Systems
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...
