Author: markdickinson

AdvertisementWashington: Scientists have been using tracking devices on large animals for decades to monitor the health of a herd, or study an animal's range and habits.
Now, a group of University of Washington researchers has figured out how to put a tiny tracking sensor on a bumblebee.
Illustration: Matt DavidsonCredit:
The sensor 'backpack' weighs as much as seven grains of dry rice, and can be glued to the back of the insect. One day, a fleet of bees equipped with these sensors could help farmers monitor the health of their crops, and give biologists insights into how bees forage for food, find pollen and navigate through the environment.
To put a backpack on a bee, researchers had to solve two riddles: How to make a sensor lightweight enough to be bee-friendly, and how to use it to track the insect's location.
AdvertisementThe work grew out of an earlier engineering challenge the university team tackled: an effort to create a wireless, robotic flying insect. R..

Continue reading

Got News to Share? Send 2 FREE Releases
↓

News Search
|
All News Topics
>
Technology News Topics:

By Country
|
By State

;
Press Releases by Industry Channel

>
All Technology Press Releases

OttoLearn Agile Microlearning Wins Gold in the 2018 Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards

The OttoLearn Agile Microelarning platform has won a coveted Brandon Hall Group Gold award for Excellence in the Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology.

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA, December 13, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ — Neovation Learning Solutions, a disrupter in the online training field, won a coveted Brandon Hall Group gold award for excellence in the Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology category for their OttoLearn Agile Microlearning platform. Neovation’s win was announced on December 6th, 2018. The winners are listed at http://www.brandonhall.com/excellenceawards/past-winners.html.
“We are thrilled to have our OttoLearn platform win a Gold award,” said Dan Be..

Continue reading

General News of Saturday, 15 December 2018

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2018-12-15

Former Attorney General, Dominic Ayine

Former Attorney General, Dominic Ayine, has refuted a call by the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) for the medical drone deal to be suspended.

The Bolga East Member of Parliament says although it was wrong for the controversial agreement to be approved by Parliament without the GMA’s input, the call for suspension may be misplaced.

“I don’t agree with them because if you look at the agreement itself, in accordance with its own internal logic, there is no provision made for suspension.

“So if there is a unilateral suspension, for instance on the part of the Ministry of Health, then that could be counted as an event of default…and in that case it means it would trigger dispute resolution, and subsequently if we are found wanting…then you can be sure that we can be made to pay a judgement debt,” the MP said.

He notes for instance that the Ghana Health Service (GHS) ..

Continue reading

TUNIS, Tunisia, December 14, 2018/APO Group/ —

Eight pilots have successfully passed their drone flight training in Tunisia following a two-week intensive training period organized by the Ministry of Agriculture of Tunisia, the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and Busan Techno Park.
EXPOSED!! The secret asian tonic that will regrow your hair
The training which focused on handling, maintenance and the security aspects of flying drones, took place in Tunis from 19-30 November 2018. The eight were the first batch out of 40 candidates selected for the exercise, which envisages training a total of 400 young Tunisians by 2021.

How I make $10,000 monthly in Online SALES? apply the *Social Pipeline Marketing Strategy* and watch your account balance skyrocket. Buy eBook NOW!!!
The project will also see the setting up of a training center equipped with training drones as well as computer simulation tools for drone control. This center is expected to be upgraded to a center of excellen..

Continue reading

Ghana Not Ready For Drone-Healthcare Delivery System – Biomedical Laboratory Scientist

|

14-Dec-2018

Comments (
5

)

Email

Print

Immediate past General Secretary for the Ghana Association of Biomedical Laboratory Scientists, Micheal Amo Omari has disclosed that no laboratory Scientist has been consulted on the drone healthcare delivery programme.
“I am saying this for a fact that no Laboratory Scientist or any of our stakeholder bodies have been consulted on the 12.5 million-dollar drone contract project,” he said.
According to him, no laboratory Scientist is against the introduction or implementation of the Zipline project, but the country at its health delivery level presently is not ready to welcome such a programme and has no credentials to efficiently manage it.
He stated that the state will benefit more should government use the loan allocated for the Zipline contract to build more laboratory centres in the places targeted for the project, since there are a lot of p..

Continue reading

The best holiday shopping deals may be long gone, but you can still find good drone deals for last-minute gifts. Whether you're shopping for someone looking to take to the skies with a new camera drone or simply cruise around your living room with a toy quadcopter, there are options out there at good prices.
And these aren't old drones with old technology either. Advanced features have trickled down to even small inexpensive models, so drones available today are much more advanced than they were a few years ago.
Disclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the sale of the products featured on this page.

DJI Mavic 2 Pro for $1,399, Mavic 2 Zoom for $1,149 ($100 off each)

Joshua Goldman/CNET

This is the best deal you'll find on these two drones at the moment. Wellbots will knock $100 off on both the Mavic 2 Pro and Zoom models, DJI's top travel-friendly camera drones for enthusiasts and professionals. You'll need to enter coupon code DJI100 at checko..

Continue reading

Print

Wednesday 12th December, 2018
Govt ready for further consultations on drone delivery system – Hadzide

By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA

Accra, Dec. 12, GNA – Government says its
doors are open for further engagements and consultations with health
stakeholders regarding the implementation of the drone health delivery system.

Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister for
Information, said this to journalists at the bi-weekly media encounter, in
Accra, on Wednesday, in reaction to the concerns expr

By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA

Accra, Dec. 12, GNA – Government says its
doors are open for further engagements and consultations with health
stakeholders regarding the implementation of the drone health delivery system.

Mr Pius Enam Hadzide, a Deputy Minister for
Information, said this to journalists at the bi-weekly media encounter, in
Accra, on Wednesday, in reaction to the concerns expressed by various
stakeholders in the health sector, and urged them to support the progra..

Continue reading

Filmmaker: Ashraf Mashharawi

On December 15, 2016, a 49-year-old Tunisian man was shot dead outside his home in Sfax, 270 kilometres south-east of Tunis.

Mohammed al-Zawari had been known locally as an aviation engineer interested in drone technology, but in fact, he had led a double life, heading a drone development project for the military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades.

According to Al Jazeera Arabic's investigation by Tamer Almisshal, several parties were involved in a coordinated plot against al-Zawari, who up until his death was called 'Mourad' by many of those who knew him, including his wife.

Almisshal believes it has all the hallmarks of an extrajudicial killing by Israel's intelligence agency, Mossad, but these cases are notoriously difficult to prove and must for the moment remain speculation.

Al-Zawari first left Tunisia in 1991 as a dissident against the regime of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. He managed to travel using a fake passport and worked in..

Continue reading