VaccinesPfizer, Biontech Announce COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate Achieved Phase 3 Success Published 9 November 2020 Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis. The study enrolled 43,538 participants, with 42 percent having diverse backgrounds, and no

EpidemicsCoronavirus: Sweden Keeps Its Laid-Back COVID-19 Strategy By David Ehl Published 9 November 2020 Despite rising infection rates, Sweden is sticking to its relatively relaxed approach to managing the coronavirus pandemic. But not everyone in the country is pleased with this tactic. “The trends are quickly going in the wrong direction,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven

EpidemicsOdds and Evens: A Strategy for Safely Exiting Lockdown 2 By Laurence Roope and Philip Clarke Published 9 November 2020 Should lockdowns be reimposed, and, if so, for how long? A key difficulty for governments in finding the right answer is that they do not know with any certainty how transmission rates might increase if

Election securityElection Security 2020: Why Did Things Go Right This Time? By Adam Segal, Connor Fairman, Lauren Dudley, and Maya Villasenor Published 9 November 2020 In the weeks leading up to the 2020 presidential election, the U.S. government and technology companies took several steps to safeguard election security in cyberspace, focusing their efforts on disinformation

ExtremismExtremism Gab Remains Extremists’ Online Destination of Choice Published 9 November 2020 Two years ago, white supremacist Robert Bowers killed eleven people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh after posting antisemitic, anti-immigrant rants on Gab. Today, supported by a founder who encourages hate speech, the social media site appears to be gaining traction

11/8/20 First responders Enable IntenseDebate Comments:  Enable IntenseDebate Comments A research team from North Carolina A&T State University has, for the first time, designed a cloud-based autonomous system framework utilizing the standard messaging protocol for the internet-of-things (IoT). This framework is robust to network-denied environments by utilizing each vehicle, along with a clustering algorithm, to

TerrorismWhy the U.K.’s Terrorism Threat Level Has Been Raised and What Happens Now By Alasdair Booth Published 7 November 2020 Most parts of the UK are now living in a state of some form of lockdown. Meanwhile, however, more police are out on the streets. This is because in the wake of the terrorist attacks

TerrorismDriven to Extremes: Vehicle Ramming as a Terrorist Tactic By Stevie Kiesel Published 7 November 2020 The use of vehicle ramming attacks (VRAs) by terrorists has been increasing. A trend toward unsophisticated tactics and weapons led to a rise in vehicular attacks, perpetrated by individuals motivated by different ideologies. On Halloween 2017, a horrific terrorist attack

Energy securityPolicy, Not Tech, Spurred Danish Dominance in Wind Energy Published 7 November 2020 In emerging renewable energy industries, are producers’ decisions to shut down or upgrade aging equipment influenced more by technology improvements or government policies? It’s an important long-term question for policymakers seeking to increase renewable electricity production, cost-effectiveness and efficiency with limited

CybersecurityWorld’s Fastest Open-Source Intrusion Detection Is Here Published 7 November 2020 Intrusion detection systems are the invisible intelligence agencies in computer networks. They scan every packet of data that is passed through the network, looking for signs of any one of the tens of thousands of different types of cyberattacks they’re aware of. A newly