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As Julia Roberts celebrated her 55th birthday yesterday, a video surfaced on Twitter from an event a month ago where the actress opened up about a surprising couple that was involved in her birth. The couple involved was Martin Luther King Jr., that’s right the civil rights leader, and his wife Coretta Scott King. The actress was taken aback by the question from Gayle King, remarking that “her research is very good.” She then dove into the story of why the Kings helped her family out during her talk for HistoryTalks. In…

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One of the largest hospital operators in the U.S. is wrestling with downed systems and disruptions to patient care at hospitals in several states following a ransomware attack last week.CommonSpirit Health, which operates over 140 hospitals and 2,000 other healthcare sites across 21 states, said in an update posted to its website Wednesday that it shut down electronic health records and other systems after it detected a ransomware attack disclosed on Oct. 4. The intrusion has had minimal impact on Dignity Health, part of…

Manipulation and sensing have long been considered two key pillars for unlocking robotics’ potential. There’s a fair bit of overlap between the two, of course. As grippers have become a fundamental element of industrial robotics, these systems require the proper mechanisms for interacting with the world around them. Vision has long been a key to all of this, but companies are increasingly looking to tacticity as a method for gathering data. Among other things, it gives the robot a better sense of how much pressure to…

A large U.S. hospital chain has been suffering from a serious security breach that has led to its computer records being taken offline. What seems to be a ransomware attack could be affecting the quality of health care provided, possibly even putting lives at risk. According to the industry-focused news site HealthCareDive, the attack was described as an IT incident by CommonSpirit Health and reported on October 3, 2022. This is a huge hospital chain with 1,000 care sites and 140 hospitals nationwide so thousands of…

Brandy was reportedly hospitalized following a possible seizure.According to TMZ, which cited law enforcement sources in its report on Wednesday, Brandy is currently recovering in a hospital after experiencing what’s believed to have been a seizure. At the time of the incident, which is said to have occurred around noon on Tuesday, Brandy was at home in the Los Angeles area.This story is being updated. Brandy was reportedly hospitalized following a possible seizure.According to TMZ, which cited law enforcement sources…

Patients at hospitals in one of the largest healthcare systems in the United States are facing delays in care due to a cyberattack. The disruption is stretching into its second week. CommonSpirit Health, which operates more than 700 healthcare sites in over 20 states, said in a statement on October 4th that it was “managing an IT security issue” and that it needed to take some systems offline — including electronic medical records. The issue was caused by a ransomware attack, a source told NBC News.Doctors rely on IT…

| Drew Ford of It's Alive Press, a graphic novel publisher that specialises in bringing out-of-print indie comic books back into print, as well as continuing and concluding stories where it can, and generating brand new ones, is currently in hospital at the NYU Langone hospital in Brooklyn. Drew Ford's wife Kiki De Coeur has been posting about his situation on Facebook and has asked people to share it. Drew Ford, photo by Kiki, used by request This is Drew wife Kiki. Please understand l we are at ICU IN Brooklyn…

Hackers who crippled a French hospital and stole a trove of data last month have released personal records of patients online, officials have confirmed.The cyberattackers demanded a multimillion dollar ransom from the Corbeil-Essonnes hospital near Paris a month ago, but the institution refused to pay.The hospital said the hackers had now dumped medical scans and lab analyses along with the national security numbers of patients."I condemn in the strongest possible terms the unspeakable disclosure of hacked data," health…

VR is making great strides in the healthcare industry, offering new opportunities to specialists Virtual reality is becoming a part of our daily lives at an astonishing pace. While VR is generally used in the gaming and entertainment industries, the technology has definitely made its way to more crucial purposes, including becoming a vital element for treatment. Based on recent innovations, virtual reality is transforming the healthcare sector. There are many benefits that the industry is realizing from virtual reality.…