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No evidence of data misuse has been found so far. Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), a health center in Connecticut, experienced a criminal cyberattack on January 2, according to a press release. A hacker accessed and stole some data but did not disrupt operations or delete files. Some 1,060,936 individuals were affected in this breach,…

At its core, strategy entails deriving insights from facts and data, developing real options based on those insights, making hard-to-reverse choices, and executing initiatives that convert those choices into value. Data analytics has assisted in this work for several decades, but never before has technology been able to not only augment and partially automate inputs…

Canada-wide capacity for renewable power generation from wind, solar or energy storage inputs has grown by nearly 7,600 megawatts, or 46 per cent, since 2019. Newly released data from the Canadian Renewable Energy Association (CanREA) pegs current installed capacity from those sources at about 24,000 MW, while another 10,000 MW is in development and slated…

In a recent school pilot, a robot patrolled Santa Fe High School around the clock to survey the sprawling campus for potential threats and send messages to authorities—even enabling a remote security team to question an intruder. Robots on school grounds are only one of many ways that American schools can keep students, staff, and…

The $172.5-million, eight-story, 350,000-square-foot building is expected to open in 2027. The Wichita Biomedical Campus (WBC) represents a partnership among Wichita State University (WSU), The University of Kansas (KU) and WSU Tech. The consortium of schools looked to the design team of Kansas City-based Helix Architecture + Design and Los Angeles-based CO Architects to create…

With extreme weather events on the rise, constructing more resilient facilities requires taking extra steps. As the deadly Los Angeles wildfires have affirmed, the stakes are high for institutional and commercial facilities with facility executives establishing a goal of restoring operations as soon as possible following natural disasters. Beyond the substantial capital required for repairs,…