Have you changed any of your online passwords lately? It’s probably not a bad idea to do so. Recently, e-mail address and password data from Dropbox, an online collaborative file hosting service, have been leaked from a 2012 data breach.…
One shoe company has now sold more than 19 million pairs of its very first shoe. While this is certainly an impressive feat of business, one doctor has an even more heartwarming story of footwear. Though he hasn’t quite hit…
People have been fantasizing about drone delivery programs for a long time and it looks like it’s finally happening. According to Packaging Digest, Google, Amazon, Walmart and plenty more organizations are working toward aerial drone delivery programs. Imagine ordering an…
The ongoing battle against Malaria continues, but scientists are getting closer to a potential cure.According to Quartz, scientists at the University of Cape Town’s Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), along with the help of Medicines for Malaria Venture, have discovered a…
Approximately 35% of construction site injuries and 14% of construction site deaths are caused by machine-related accidents, but job sites could be getting a lot safer in the not-so-distant future. The use of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) will allow temporary structures…
A lot can happen in the 6,000 miles between tire alignments and oil changes, but crashing into a parked police vehicle usually isn’t one of those things. Although the introductory screen of Pokemon Go explicitly tells users to “be alert…
Workers’ compensation laws are changing around the country to better protect American workers. The U.S. Supreme Court is now reviewing Florida’s workers’ comp system after permanent partial disability benefits were cut by the state in an effort to save money.…
Health authorities are bewildered by a case of Zika virus found in Utah as no one can explain how one patient became infected. Zika virus is known to spread through bites from the Aedes aegypti mosquito or through sexual transmission.…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Foreign Agricultural Service’s Global Agricultural Information Network recently released a report detailing Russia’s biofuels industry, offering some good news. Biomass pellets are used as a heating source and the use of…
In an effort to provide in depth and around-the-clock coverage of both the Republican National Convention (July 18-21 in Cleveland) and the Democratic National Convention (July 25-28 in Philadelphia), ABC News and Facebook have announced a partnership that promises audiences…