Collaborate Disseminate
Thieves managed to trick the Puerto Rico government into making $2.6 million worth of payments to the wrong recipient in an elaborate phishing scheme. Tricking local government officials into making payments to bogus accounts is not as uncommon as you … Continue reading Email Fraudsters Trick Puerto Rico’s Government into Wiring $2.6 Million to Bogus Accounts
Hurricane Florence will make landfall in the Carolinas on the same day the US Department of Energy announces that the US has likely surpassed Russia and Saudi Arabia in crude oil production. Continue reading Climate Change Exacerbates Hurricane Florence as America Becomes World’s Leading Crude Oil Producer
The official number still sits at 64, but new research shows the number may be more than 70 times higher. Continue reading New Estimate Puts Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Maria Death Toll at Nearly 5,000
With a talent for building DIY powerwalls, Jehu Garcia has become the “reluctant battery king.” Continue reading The YouTuber Who Is Redefining Renewable Energy
After two massive hurricanes impacted Puerto Rico three months ago, the island was left with extensive damage to its electrical infrastructure. Part of the problem was that the infrastructure was woefully inadequate to withstand a hurricane impact at all. It is possible to harden buildings and infrastructure against extreme weather, and a new plan to restore Puerto Rico’s power grid will address many of these changes that, frankly, should have been made long ago.
Among the upgrades to the power distribution system are improvements to SCADA systems. SCADA allows for remote monitoring and control of substations, switchgear, and other equipment …read more
“Currently, people in Vieques are struggling to survive. That needs to be a priority.” Continue reading The Puerto Rican Island the US Military Destroyed Has Been Forgotten After Hurricane Maria
Some of the biggest names in technology have offered their help in rebuilding Puerto Rico’s infrastructure. The newest name on the list? The X division of Alphabet, who want to help fill the huge communications gap using Project Loon, their high-altitude balloon network. It looks like X is going to get their wish, as they have just been granted license from the FCC to deploy LTE cell coverage to both Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
The plan is to launch 30 balloons that will act as a network of floating cell towers to radiate an LTE signal originating …read more
The Brigade’s efforts also highlight the limits to approaching disaster relief with code and information systems. Continue reading A Hurricane Maria ‘Tech Brigade’ Is Helping Connect the Puerto Rican Diaspora
The Brigade’s efforts also highlight the limits to approaching disaster relief with code and information systems. Continue reading A Hurricane Maria ‘Tech Brigade’ Is Helping Connect the Puerto Rican Diaspora
When natural disasters strike, particularly if they are in some of the less remote parts of the world, we see them unfolding in real-time on our television screens. They become a 24-hour rolling news exercise in disaster titillation, each fresh horror ghoulishly picked over by breathless reporters live-telecasting from windswept streets, and endlessly rehashed by a succession of in-studio expert guests.
Then once the required image of a dusty child being pulled from the rubble or a tearful mother describing her daughter being swept away is in the can, a politician somewhere is found in bed with a model or …read more
