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How Shall We Communicate Risk in an Era of ‘Manufactured Reality’?

Emergency Planning

We might further tie these concepts into the model of information dissemination propounded by Herman and Chomsky in their book Manufacturing Consent. However, we live in an age in which, increasingly, information is manufactured and thus so is reality, simply because people believe the information. Durkheim, E. Herman, E.S.

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Artificial [Un]intelligence and Disaster Management

Emergency Planning

However, we now live in a world in which 'manufactured reality' has loomed as large as objective reality as a result of the need to deal with beliefs, opinions and expectations that differ from what science and objectivity would inform and prescribe. It is unlikely that this need will ever be satisfied by artificial intelligence.

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Experts Warn of Electric Vehicle Fires After Hurricane Ian Damages Lithium-Ion Batteries

National Fire Protection Association

RELATED: Read more about stranded energy and thermal runaway in an NFPA Journal feature story published in 2020 Because of these risks, Hutchison and other experts have recommended that Florida first responders and the public “remain on high alert” for fires involving damaged EVs in the wake of Ian.

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FlashBlade//EXA Has Arrived – The Data Storage Platform to Transform Large-scale AI and HPC

Pure Storage

What do high-performance car manufacturers and Pure Storage have in common? A blog we published last year offered insight into how service providers think and how automation and brutal standardization are critical to their operations. Second, service providers subscribe to the core tenet of avoiding any resources running idle.

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Storage and Data Protection News for the Week of September 15; Updates from Continuity, IBM, Scality & More

Solutions Review

All to meet the demand for what its editors do best: bring industry experts together to publish the web’s leading insights for enterprise technology practitioners. The Nutanix Cloud Platform will enable Micron to optimize its infrastructure resources, efficiently operationalize new cloud-ready applications, dramatically reduce costs.

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U.S. House Passes Bill to Requiring FCC to Limit New Authorizations for Chinese Equipment, Prohibit Revocation

Security Industry Association

19, the FCC had published a proposed rule that would prohibit new authorizations for equipment considered part of the FCC’s “Covered List.” This means the marketing, importation and sale of new video surveillance equipment from these Chinese manufacturers without current FCC authorization will be prohibited. Steve Scalise (R-La.)

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Why Women in the Fire Service Need Better-Fitting Gear

National Fire Protection Association

In an interview published by NFPA Journal® in 2021, Dr. Meredith McQuerry, a Florida State University professor and expert in clothing comfort physiology, said female firefighters have a 33 percent higher risk of on-duty injury than their male counterparts.

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