Weekly Reports

“RANSOMWARE IS ESSENTIALLY A DIGITAL HOLDUP. Though your life is not in danger, you face the imminent threat of catastrophic consequences from the loss of irreplaceable data” when malware ‘freezes’ your computer and thieves demand a ransom (often in the... Continue

WE’RE BREATHING BETTER THESE DAYS. Air pollution in America is dramatically better than in Europe, where diesel engines are more prevalent, based on World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines. WHO has developed ‘average hourly limits’ about what levels of pollution constitute... Continue

THE MOST COMMON CAUSE OF PERSONAL STRESS IS TIME PRESSURE relating to money, work, family, or all three. According to the American Psychological Ass’n, stress leads to anxiety disorders for women at a rate twice as prevalent as men, is... Continue

FACE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY IS A “CUTTING-EDGE PRIVACY NIGHTMARE… The ethical and regulatory quandaries posed by artificial intelligence technology are not theoretical: they’re here already – inside your smartphone… with capacity to completely destroy the expectation of anonymity in public.” Concerns... Continue

“GLOBAL WARMING APPEARS TO HAVE GONE INTO OVERDRIVE, with the northern hemisphere growing 2 degrees Centigrade (3.6 Fahrenheit) which has long been held as the point above which climate change may be ‘dangerous’ to humanity… It took from the dawn... Continue