For years, tech companies have touted blockchain technology as a means to develop identity systems that are secure and decentralized. The goal is to build a platform that could store information about official data without holding the actual documents or details themselves. Instead of just storing a scan of your birth certificate, for example, a decentralized ID platform might store a…
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How Tim Berners-Lee Will Fix the Internet
“Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide Web, wants to re-make cyberspace once again,” reports Reuters: With a new startup called Inrupt, Berners-Lee aims to fix some of the problems that have handicapped the so-called open web in an age of huge, closed platforms such as Facebook….
UK Use of Software Linked To Russia-Hack Runs Deep
The little-known Texas software company that’s been attacked by suspected Russian hackers has a sprawling reach among U.K. government agencies, potentially putting clients from the National Health Service to police forces at risk. From a report: SolarWinds, which fell victim to hackers who put a “backdoor” in the software giving them access to users’ computer networks, has been deployed by the…
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine
Britain’s medicine regulator warned people with significant allergies not to get Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine after two people suffered adverse reactions, but was set to give more detailed guidance on Wednesday based on reviews of those cases. Reuters reports: Starting with the elderly and frontline workers, Britain began mass vaccinating its population on Tuesday, part of a global drive that poses one…
People with significant allergies should avoid Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, UK warns
This comes after two National Health Service members developed allergic reactions to the vaccine on Tuesday. Source: https://www.livescience.com/pfizer-coronavirus-vaccine-allergic-reactions-uk.html
Nvidia Pledges To Built Britain’s Largest Supercomputer Following $40 Billion Bid For Arm
U.S. chipmaker Nvidia pledged Monday to build a $52 million supercomputer in Cambridge, England, weeks after announcing it intends to buy British rival Arm for $40 billion. CNBC reports: The supercomputer — named “Cambridge-1” and intended for artificial intelligence (AI) research in health care — is being unveiled by Nvidia founder and Chief Executive Jensen Huang at the company’s GTC 2020…
NHS may use people’s phone data to predict mental health issues
A National Health Service trust has partnered with telecomms firm Telefonica to trial an algorithm that can identify people at risk of mental health crisis. A next step could see mobile phone data being used to make predictions Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2231423-nhs-may-use-peoples-phone-data-to-predict-mental-health-issues/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Loot Boxes Push Kids Into Gambling, Says England’s NHS Mental Health Director
Claire Murdoch, mental health director of England’s National Health Service (NHS), has reignited the loot box controversy with a report claiming they push young people into “under the radar” gambling. PC Gamer reports: “Frankly no company should be setting kids up for addiction by teaching them to gamble on the content of these loot boxes”, she said. “No firm should sell…
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time medical data and health information broadcast by hospitals and ambulances across U.K. towns and cities. The rig, operated out of a house in North London, was picking up radio waves from over the air and translating…
The UK’s National Health System Just Opened A Treatment Center for Videogame Addiction
An anonymous reader quotes Fortune: The battle against gaming addiction entered a new era this week when the U.K. public health system, the National Health Service (NHS), announced the opening of its first center specializing in ‘Internet and Gaming Disorders….’ Starting in November, the London-based center’s psychiatrists and clinical psychologists will work with patients between ages 13 and 25 whose lives…