We think a lot about where products come from when we buy them, less so about where they go when we’re finished. When we throw things away, this is “away”: mountains of garbage across acres of land, with tens of thousands of people shifting through it, in places like the African nation of Ghana.
In Ghana, e-waste exported by the West is mined for valuable metals and other materials.
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It is not the kind of image we see in the glossy advertisements enticing us to buy a new cell phone, laptop or TV, but they should be part…
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Mills City Council adds state electronic system as future public notice option to newspaper ads
MILLS, Wyo. — On Tuesday, City of Mills councilmembers approved further changes to an amended ordinance — changes that add an option to advertise public notices using a centralized electronic system maintained or authorized by the State of Wyoming.
At their Oct. 10 regular meeting, Mills City councilmembers, on the second of three readings, passed the city’s newest version of a proposed ordinance addressing legal advertisements.
The newly added clause would give the City of Mills the option to use a central electronic publication system through the state if the state established such a system, City Attorney Pat Holscher said…
Georgia’s controversial electronic voting machines face their biggest test yet
ATLANTA — A federal judge will soon rule on whether Georgia’s hotly contested Dominion voting machines are vulnerable to hacking and violating voters’ constitutional rights, a decision that threatens to scramble the battleground state’s election procedures heading into the 2024 presidential campaign.
A sprawling six-year-long legal fight over the integrity of Georgia’s elections wrapped up in a federal courthouse in Atlanta on Thursday afternoon, teeing up a ruling that could shake voters’ faith in their electoral system and further fuel unfounded claims of fraud on the right.
The trial is not about the massive voter fraud former President Donald Trump…
Navy Refining Plan for its $17B Destroyer Electronic Warfare Backfit with 4 Test Ships
USS Pinckney (DDG-91) underway in San Diego Bay on Nov. 7, 2023. San Diego Web Cam Photo
ARLINGTON, Va. – A quartet of destroyers will be the test case for the Navy’s $17 billion plan to add a major electronic warfare upgrade to Flight IIA destroyers, service officials outlined last week.Late last year, USS Pinckney (DDG-91) wrapped up the first part of a two-step modernization availability and left General Dynamics’ NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif., for sea-trails with what some in the service have compared to Carrie Fisher’s double bun hairstyle in Star Wars.
Standing two decks high, the…
Canada’s electronic spy agency faces a staffing crisis
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), one of the federal agencies tasked with countering foreign interference, is experiencing a “major staffing crisis,” a former CSE spy told Radio-Canada/CBC.
The CSE intercepts and decodes communications of foreign targets that seek to harm Canada. It is also responsible for protecting the federal government’s computer network and advising critical infrastructure operators, such as banks and hospitals, on how to protect themselves against cyberattacks.
In a rare interview, the CSE’s chief, Caroline Xavier, did not deny that there is a crisis, but said the shortage of cybersecurity experts is a global problem.
“Talk to any…
WVU selects Huron Research Suite as electronic research administration platform | E-News
Following a thorough assessment of potential solutions and a competitive public bidding process, WVU has selected the Huron Research Suite as its new electronic research administration platform.
The Huron Research Suite will replace WVU+kc (Kuali) for proposal submission, award management, protocol management, conflict of interest and more.
The WVU Research Office, Information Technology Services and other partners across the University will begin implementation this year.
WVU will implement six modules from the Huron Research Suite, including:
• Grants
• Agreements
• Conflict of Interest (COI)
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)
• Institutional Review Board (IRB)
• Animal…
BU Music faculty welcome guests for evening of electronic folk – News
A pair of Brandon University (BU) School of Music faculty members are collaborating with visiting musicians Tommy Crane and Thom Gill for an evening of genre-bending electronic folk this week.
The Brandon Chamber Players present Dance Music For All Occasions, by Tommy Crane on Saturday, Jan. 27 at 7:30 p.m., in BU’s Kinsmen Rehearsal Hall. The performance will feature Crane (drums, percussion, synthesizer, electronics) and Gill (guitar synthesizer, vocals) along with School of Music faculty members Leanne Zacharias (cello) and Marika Galea (bass), as well as BU music student Anil Ramgotra ( percussion).
“It’s a pleasure to present my dear…
Mitigating the temporary loss of access to UK Electronic Legal Deposit – The Library of Trinity College Dublin: News & Alerts
The disruption of the Library’s access to publications normally available via UK Electronic Legal Deposit is ongoing, following the cyberattack on the British Library at the end of last October. As a UK Legal Deposit Library, the Library of Trinity College Dublin along with the other legal deposit libraries, the British Library the National Library of Scotland, the National Library of Wales, the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford and Cambridge University Library, share the infrastructure for UK electronic legal deposit publications.
This incident has since received wide press coverage, eg in the Financial Times and the New Yorker. For up-to-date…