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oneM2M specifications approved by more than 190 ITU member countries as ITU standard to simplify IoT adoption

More than 190 ITU-T member countries have approved oneM2M specifications as ITU standard, simplifying the IoT ecosystem lifecycle by minimizing development, deployment, and maintenance costs. The ITU-T’s SG20 Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities and communities (SC&C) approved oneM2M’s security specifications for IoT systems as part of the ITU-T Y.4500.3 series, making the entire… Read More »

How Road Salt Does More Harm Than Good

Sodium Chloride (NaCl), also known as table salt or rock salt, is the most common compound used for deicing roads and highways in the U.S.1 While it’s extremely effective at melting snow and ice, the 20 million tons of salt used for highway deicing annually2 in the U.S. doesn’t stay put on the roads. Road… Read More »

Covid-19 news: Blood clot risk higher after infection than vaccination

By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool A woman receives the AstraZeneca Covid19 vaccine. NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Latest coronavirus news as of 11am on 27 August Study compares risk of blood clotting problems after covid-19 infection and vaccination… Read More »

More than 1/3 of health organizations hit by ransomware last year, report finds

Dive Brief: More than a third of healthcare organizations were hit by a ransomware attack in 2020 and of those, 65% said the cybercriminals were successful in encrypting their data, a report from cybersecurity company Sophos found. The report also found that roughly a third of organizations that had data stolen paid the ransom to recover… Read More »