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During a long career at WRAL, David Crabtree has seen many changes to the technology used in newsrooms.

NEWS COVERAGE YOU CAN COUNT ON. >> IT'S SO HARD TO BELIEVE THIS CHAPTER OF YOUR CAREER COMES TO A CLOSE TOMORROW. I DON'T EVEN WANT TO THINK ABOUT IT. BUT FOR THE LAST MONTH THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WHAT YOU COVERED IN THE LAST 40 YEARS AND TODAY WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT HOW YOU'VE COVERED IT AND THE WAYS TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING THE NEWS. >> IT'S JUST AMAZING TO HAVE. OF COURSE, TECHNOLOGY IS SOMETHING WE'VE ALL GROWN TO EXPECT AND DEMAND. AND IN THIS PART OF THE STATE, THE LATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN IDEAS ARE AROUND ALMOST EVERY CORNER ONE CORNER IS OUR BUSINESS. THE NEWS BUSINESS WHERE HAVE WATCHED THE LATEST AND GREATEST OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS COMING. GO. AND AS WITH ANY ACHIEVEMENT, THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAILS. THE SPEED OF COMMUNICATIONS IS WONDROUS TO BEHOLD. IT IS ALSO TRUE THAT SPEED, YOU CAN MULTIPLY THE DISTRIBUTION OF INFORMATION. >> THAT WE KNOW TO BE UNTRUE. THOSE ARE THE WORDS OF A NORTH CAROLINIAN SPOKEN IN 1964, WE WANT TO SAY EXACTLY WHAT WE MEAN TO SAY. EDWARD ARMOR ON WHEN THE SPEED OF LIGHT FELT DIFFERENT. WHEN YOU HEAR THAT, QUOTE, WHAT COMES TO MIND? I THINK IT'S ONE OF THOSE IMPORTANT PIECE. IS THAT WHERE WE ARE? WE WANT TO DO THINGS QUICKLY. WE ALSO HAVE TO MAKE SURE WE GET IT RIGHT. PROFESSOR STEPHEN KING, PEACHES, FUTURE JOURNALIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA. WE'RE BOTH AMAZED WITH THE SPEED OF THE GROWTH OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRICE WE SOMETIMES PAY CREDIBILITY OF NEWS IS REALLY IMPORTANT EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE GOING TO BE FAST, THEY HAVE TO TAKE THE PRECAUTIONS AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT DOING THE RIGHT THINGS TO GET IT RIGHT AND DO IT QUICKLY. SO THEY'RE COMPETITIVE BUT NOT MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING FIRST IS BEING CORRECT. HIS SIGNAL TO WIN. JIM GOODMAN SIGNED THIS CONTRACT IN 2002 GRADUATIONS. I >> CAPITAL BROADCASTING MADE A COMMITMENT TO HIGH DEFINITION TECHNOLOGY. WHEN HD BARELY EXISTED, VISION THAT SEES BEYOND THE OBVIOUS. >> HERE'S WHY WRAL TV HAS LED THE PLANET AND HOW NEWS IS GATHERED AND DELIVERED. THE HISTORY INCLUDES A LONG LIST OF FIRSTS THINGS WE SOMETIMES TAKE FOR GRANTED SATELLITE TRUCKS. HEY, ROBERT. >> SKY 5. >> HELICOPTER WEBSITE HIGH-DEFINITION 4 K VIDEO IN FACT, THE FIRST HIGH DEFINITION NEWS CAST IN THE WORLD. YOU ARE WATCHING THE FIRST EVER ENTIRELY HIGH DEFINITION NEWS CAST OCTOBER 13TH 2000 FROM THE NORTH CAROLINA STATE. FAIR. CALL IT A TIME MACHINE TO THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION. FAST FORWARD 22 YEARS. AND WE REALIZE OUR INDUSTRY HAS BEEN DISRUPTED AND TIGHTENED BY PANDEMICS OF POLITICS. CULTURE, IDENTITY AND COVID. WITH THE PANDEMIC AND COUPLING THAT WITH THE TECHNOLOGY CONTINUING TO MOVE JUST EXPONENTIALLY. >> HAS IT MADE US BETTER TO SAY THAT TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE IT BETTER OR WORSE, I THINK IS A HARD THING TO SAY. BUT I THINK THERE ARE CASES WHERE IT'S DONE THINGS BETTER AND MADE US BETTER STORY TELLERS AND BETTER ENGAGEMENT WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND BRINGING THINGS LIKE THAT BEFORE. >> ONE MORE MERLE QUOTE, I HOPE AS JOURNALISTS AND BROADCASTERS WE NEVER FORGET THE NEWS COMPUTER CAN MERELY COMPOUND AT SPEED. THE OLDEST PROBLEM AND THE RELATIONS WITH HUMAN BEINGS AND THEN THE END, THE COMMUNICATOR WILL BE CONFRONTED WITH PROBLEM, WHAT TO SAY AND HOW TO SAY. THAT'S RIGHT. HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND HOW IMPORTANT OUR WORDS OUR MASK AND HOW IMPORTANT PEOPLE ARE THAT WE'RE TELLING THE STORIES ABOUT. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE BELLS AND IT. YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT. IT'S ABOUT THE PEOPLE HOW THEY'RE IMPACTED AND HOW WE CHOOSE TO LISTEN TO THEM. RESPOND AS A DEVIL

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A journalist's journey: David Crabtree reflects on the role of technology in TV news - WRAL News

We are witnessing disruptive innovations in the world of wearable technology; it has taken off in areas that were once beyond our imagination such as AI in clothing. This, in turn, has started to make a massive impact on how we live and even work. However, receiving, using, and sharing data from wearable technology is core to this fundamental shift. The Indian wearable market is witnessing tremendous growth. In fact, it grew by 93.8% year-over-year (YoY) in 3Q21 (July-Sept), shipping 23.8 million units1, with smartwatches continuing to be the fastest-growing category with 4.3 million shipments in the same period.

Wearable and Health

Wearable technology has the potential to disrupt the healthcare industry. It is becoming an inherent part of our quotidian life- from fitness devices, which track our healthy habits and encourage us to achieve that set target of ten thousand steps per day, to more sophisticated AI-enabled devices that can even track previously undetectable diseases before they are clinically diagnosed. Wearable technology also enables personalized healthcare by real-time, continuous, and longitudinal health monitoring. As a result, healthcare practitioners are now beginning to adopt wearables for patient monitoring, which is handy for prediction, prevention, and timely intervention. Al-enabled wearable devices can monitor patients admitted to a hospital and measure their pulse, oxygen saturation, respiration, temperature, mobility, and other vitals.

With todays pandemic, wearable technology can play an important part in tracking the long-term impact on long-haulers- a term coined for peopleliving with the post-COVID syndrome. While we are aware of the impact of Covid 19, its long-term impact on long-haulers with chronic symptoms is more complex to measure. By using wearable devices, their vital data can be tracked in real-time and analyzed. The data tracked from wearable devices provides a unique opportunity to learn more about a disease, its evolution and offer personalized healthcare services and real-time medicine to the patients.

Data at the center

Due to the proliferation of wearable technology or devices, data is collected at an unprecedented rate today with an estimated 41.6 billion connected devices generating 79.4 zettabytes (ZB) of data in the year 20252. While wearable devices provide opportunities to improve healthcare in various settings, including rural areas and low-resource environments, robust data architecture is critical to properly capture, preserve, access, and transform this data in its journey, which is not just in cloud data centers but also at the edge, within servers, and endpoints. There is a need for high-capacity drives now reaching 20TB to store massive amounts of data at the cloud. At the endpoints, where wearables generate data, the key is to reduce network latencies and increase throughput between these layers (cloud-to-edge, edge-to-endpoints).

The Future

As telehealth and remote healthcare continue to progress, data from wearable technology can create more personalized and proactive treatments. It can be transformed into daily, monthly, and yearly trends that identify opportunities to improve health habits using data-informed decisions. However, the storage strategy must be designed to meet specific requirements. A purpose-built architecture uses devices, platforms, systems, and solutions that maximize the value of data for real-time use cases.Taking advantage of the evolving wearable data landscape means moving from storage to value creation using purpose-built data architecture. From embedded to removable flash storage solutions, it is imperative that value from that data can be extracted at every step of the data journey.

As technology continues to unlock new possibilities, the future of healthcare can be redefined through continuous and long-term monitoring, data collection, and analysis which can play an integral role in early detection and prevention.

Views expressed above are the author's own.

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Google is making an interesting and potentially controversial decision with Android 13, deploying a file system developed by Huawei.

According to Esper, Google is planning on including the Enhanced Read-Only File System (EROFS) in Android 13, making it the default read-only system. The file system was created by Xiang Gao when he was working as an engineer at Huawei. EROFS offers significant benefits over existing file systems, including space-saving compression and speed. This could lead to much faster updates and less storage space being used.

Huawei developed EROFS for inclusion in the Linux kernel, which forms the basis of Android. Despite eventually being locked out of the Android ecosystem by US-led sanctions, the file system officially became part of the Linux kernel, beginning with Linux 5.4. It has also been used on millions of Huawei devices and is being adopted by other manufacturers.

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Google now plans to make it the default file system for read-only partitions, such as those used by the core Android system. Since the system partition is usually read-only, compressing it is an appealing option to save space on files that only change when a system update is performed. Unfortunately, most compression systems have significant performance hits, a limitation that EROFS specifically addresses.

Google throwing its weight behind EROFS doesnt mean that all devices will automatically use it. The change will only impact devices that launch with Android 13 by default and only those that have Googles services built in. That means devices running AOSP (Android Open Source Project) will not use EROFS.

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Phones shipping with Android 13 will require a technology created by...Huawei? - Android Authority

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Hyundai Motor said on Sunday it plans to invest $5 billion in the U.S. by 2025 to further develop mobility technologies in areas like autonomous driving, robotics, and A.I.

The investment comes alongside the automaker's recentannouncementof a plan to spend $5.54 billion to build its first dedicated electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the U.S., located outside of Savannah, Georgia. That facility is expected to open during the first half of 2025 and is projected to have an annual production capacity of 300,000 vehicles.

Some $10 billion of new investment will be used to further Hyundai's "goal to provide sustainable and smart mobility solutions," the company said.

Hyundai is aiming to be one of the top three electric vehicle providers in the U.S. by 2026 and is one of several global automakers establishing new supply chains and production facilities in America to take advantage of what is expected to be adecade ahead of exponential growth for the category.

The company hadpreviously announced a planto sell 3.23 million fully electric vehicles worldwide annually by 2030.

It also dovetails with a push from the Biden administration to have companies set up electric vehicle supply chains in the U.S. as opposed to overseas. The administration announced a $3.1 billion plan earlier this month toboost the domestic manufacturing of batteries, which followed the president invoking the Defense Production Act in April toencourage domestic productionof minerals that are required to make electric vehicle batteries. The White House has set a goal of50% electric vehicle salesby 2030.

This newly announced investment from Hyundai will allow it to strengthen its partnership with "U.S. public and private entities to offer innovative products and mobility solutions to our valued customers in the U.S. while supporting global carbon neutrality efforts," Euisun Chung, executive chair of Hyundai Motor, said in a statement.

That will include areas like robotics, advanced air mobility, artificial intelligence, and autonomous driving, the company said.

Hyundai Motorbought an 80% stakein robot maker Boston Dynamics from Softbank in December 2020, The company, known for its four-legged dog-like robot Spot, was valued at $1.1 billion. Boston Dynamics, which was previously financed by Google, started selling its first robot commercially in June 2020.

The automaker is also pushing into driverless technology through Motional, a venture formed with U.S.-based mobile technology company Aptive. Motional is currently testing its robotaxi service on U.S. public roads and intends to start offering commercial service in 2023, one of several efforts tobring autonomous vehicles to roads across the country.

In November, Hyundai formed Supernal, which is aiming to develop a family of electric air vehicles in the burgeoning advanced air mobility industry. The company said it plans to launch its first commercial flight in 2028.

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Hyundai plans $5 billion investment in U.S. on mobility technology such as autonomous driving and robotics - CNBC

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tebra, a leader in practice growth technology and cloud-based clinical and financial software, today announced that its Senior Vice-President of Product, Andrea Kowalski, was named in The Healthcare Technology Reports list of Top 25 Women in Healthcare Software for 2022. The annual list recognizes the most accomplished women executives celebrating the accomplishments at their companies and their impact on the broader healthcare IT industry.

This years list comprises a broad range of women with impressive experience, all of whom had a profound contribution on making healthcare more agile and accessible. An extensive process was run to evaluate the nominees this year. Read the full report here.

Andreas positive energy is infectious to everyone that works with her, and she is a powerful ambassador of Tebras vision and culture, Dan Rodrigues, CEO for Tebra, said. Andrea continues to challenge the status quo and is in constant pursuit of creative solutions and innovation. We are lucky to have her as part of our team.

Its such an honor to be in the company of such an esteemed list of hard-working women, Kowalski said. The recognition also highlights the teams passion for healthcare, product development and the companys mission of being the digital backbone of practice success.

About Tebra

In 2021, with a combined mission to unlock better healthcare, Kareo and PatientPop joined forces to form Tebra the operating system for the connected practice of the future. With an all-in-one, purpose-built platform to drive practice success and modernize every step of the patient journey, Tebra provides digital tools and support to attract new patients, deliver modern care, get paid quickly, and operate efficiently. To learn more how Tebra is committed to improving the success and well-being of both patients and providers, visit http://www.tebra.com.

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The Healthcare Technology Report Names Andrea Kowalski on List of Top 25 Women in Healthcare IT in 2022 - Business Wire

Within a few days the Union cabinet will give the go-ahead for 5G auctions. Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi has last week made clear that the government will support the roll-out of 5G as an important step toward self-reliance in critical and modern technology, the timelines are going to hold.

Given that, it is important now that the telecom regulator, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai), the group of secretaries, the Digital Communications Commission (DDC) and the Union cabinet get the prices and the range of airwaves offered to the industry just right. India ...

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We like to think of technological innovation as a gradual, steady, and fairly linear process. However, this is not necessarily the case. Archaeological excavations throughout the world reveal that, once in a while, ancient civilizations developed inventions that were decades if not centuries ahead of their time.

It is sometimes said that these inventions rival or outmatch modern science. This, too, is a misconception. While many ancient super technologies from Roman concrete to Damascus steel were once lost, they have since been recreated by present-day researchers. Usually, any difficulty in recreating them stems from the lack of original instruction rather than an inability to comprehend the invention itself.

Equally erroneous is the notion that ancient civilizations stumbled upon these technologies by accident, or that they were designed by idiosyncratic geniuses who were not representative of their day and age. Although many inventors mentioned in this article were indeed considered geniuses, they cannot and should not be separated from their surroundings. Their work is not anachronistic, but a testament to the ingenuity and scientific potential of their respective civilizations.

When the Muslim fleet of the Umayyad Caliphate attempted to lay siege to the Byzantine city of Constantinople in 674, their ships were doused in flames. At first, the Muslims were not alarmed; fire was often used in naval warfare and could be put out easily with cloth, dirt, or water. This, however, was no ordinary fire. Once ignited, it could not be extinguished, and after the entire fleet had burned down, even the sea itself was set ablaze.

The Umayyad Caliphate met its doom at the hands of a new military invention known as Greek fire, Roman fire, liquid fire, or sea fire, among many other names. No recipe survives, but historians speculate it might have involved petroleum, sulfur, or gunpowder. Of the three, petroleum seems the likeliest candidate, as gunpowder didnt become readily available in Asia Minor until the 14th century, and sulfur lacked the destructive power described by Arab observers.

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However, what makes Greek fire so impressive is not the chemistry of the fire itself but the design of the pressure pump the Byzantines used to launch it in the direction of their enemies. As the British historian John Haldon discusses in an essay titled Greek Fire Revisited, researchers struggle to recreate an historically accurate pump that could have propelled its content far enough to be of any use during naval battles, where enemy ships may be dozens or even hundreds of meters removed from one another.

The Antikythera mechanism was found off the coast of Antikythera, a small Greek island located between Kythera and Crete. Its discovery occurred in 1901, when divers in search of sea sponges stumbled upon a deposit of sunken wreckage from classical antiquity. The titular contraption was incomplete and in poor condition, but seemed to have consisted of some 37 bronze gears stored inside a wooden box.

Scholars initially speculated that the Antikythera mechanism, which was found to be over 2,200 years old, had functioned as an ancient computer. This hypothesis was written off as being too improbable, only to be reaffirmed by more detailed studies from the 1970s. The current consensus holds the mechanism was an orrery: a model of the solar system that calculates and tracks celestial time.

CT scans reveal the contraptions mindboggling complexity. A 2021 attempt at replicating the Antikythera mechanism referred to it as a creation of genius combining cycles from Babylonian astronomy, mathematics from Platos Academy, and ancient Greek astronomical theories. It could calculate the ecliptic longitudes of the moon and sun, the phases of the moon, the synodic phases of the planets, the excluded days of the Metonic Calendar, and the Olympiad cycle, among a myriad of other things.

Damascus steel swords originated in the Middle East during the 9th century and were renowned for their appearance as well as their durability, being multiple times stronger and sharper than the Western swords used during the Crusades. Their name, derived from the Arabic word for water, references not only the Syrian city from which they hailed but also the flowing pattern that adorns their surface. This pattern was created during a unique forging process where small ingots of wootz steel sourced from India, Sri Lanka, or Iran were melted with charcoal and cooled at an incredibly slow rate.

The demand for Damascus steel remained high for centuries, but gradually diminished as swords were replaced with firearms in armed conflicts; by 1850, the secrets of its production process appeared lost.

Interest in the swords was revitalized by C.S. Smith, a metallurgist who worked on the Manhattan Project. Unfortunately, Damascus steel can never be recreated authentically as wootz steel is no longer available. Since the 1960s, however, researchers have tried to develop new forging techniques that achieve similar results. This development is still ongoing; one study from 2018 claims adding small levels of carbide-forming elements like Vanadium (V) is the way to go.

Created almost 2000 years ago, the Houfeng Didong Yi holds the honor of being the worlds first seismoscope. Its place of origin was China, a country that has been plagued by earthquakes for as long as its inhabitants can remember. Its creator was Zhang Heng, a distinguished astronomer, cartographer, mathematician, poet, painter, and inventor who lived under the Han Dynasty from 78 to 139 AD.

The design of the Houfeng Didong Yi is as functional as it is aesthetically pleasing. The mechanism consists of a large, decorated copper pot. The pot was fitted with eight tubed projections that were shaped to look like dragon heads. Below each dragon head was placed a copper toad with a large, gaping mouth.

Zhangs seismoscope, one 2009 study from Taiwan explains, is respected as a milestone invention since it can indicate not only the occurrence of an earthquake but also the direction to its source. While primary sources are unclear as to how the seismoscope actually worked, researchers suggest that vibrations caused a pendulum inside the pot to swing, causing a small ball to release through a dragon head and into the mouth of its corresponding toad, indicating the direction of an earthquake.

Many architectural projects of ancient Rome would not have been possible without Roman concrete. Also known as opus caementicium, Roman concrete was a hydraulic-setting cement mix consisting of volcanic ash and lime that, in the words of Pliny the Elder, bound rock fragments into a single stone mass and made them impregnable to the waves and every day stronger.

The earliest-known reference to Roman concrete dates to 25 BC and comes from a manuscript titled Ten Books on Architecture, written by the architect and engineer Vitruvius. Vitruvius recommends builders use volcanic ash from the city of Pozzuoli in Naples, called pozzolana or pulvis puteolanus in Latin. Pozzolana should be mixed with lime at a ratio of 3:1 or 2:1 if the construction is under water.

When Vitruvius wrote his Ten Books on Architecture, Roman concrete was still considered a novelty and used sparingly. This changed in 64 AD, when an urban fire destroyed two thirds of the imperial capital. As the survivors set out to rebuild, Neros building code called for stronger foundations. The switch to Roman concrete which, true to Plinys words, does not crack enabled the construction of architectural projects like the Pantheon, the worlds oldest and biggest unreinforced dome.

Archaeologists use the term Baghdad battery to refer to a ceramic pot, copper tube, and iron rod that were found in Iraq near what was once the capital of both the Parthian and subsequent Sasanian Empire. They believe the three distinct objects once fitted together to create a single device. The purpose of this device, which seems to have been capable of generating electricity, remains unclear.

Wilhelm Knig, director of the Iraq Antiquities Department the same organization whose employees first found the battery originally theorized that it was used as a galvanic cell to electroplate objects. This theory, though widely accepted upon its initial publication, does not hold up as no electroplated objects from the same time period and region have been discovered so far.

In 1993, Paul Keyser from the University of Alberta in Edmonton formulated a different, less anachronistic and therefore more plausible hypothesis. The battery, he argued, functioned not as a galvanic cell but a local analgesic that could relieve pain through transmitting an electrical charge. In doing so, it would have replaced electric fish, which in Greco-Roman societies were sometimes used to treat headaches, gout, and other conditions.

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