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By Catherine Iste
 An Apple employee recently leaked an internal memo in which Apple warns employees to stop leaking information. While it is hard not to enjoy the irony of a leaked memo warning against leaked information, the incident has highlighted a sensitive issue that reaches far beyond Silicon Valley. Whether you run a medial office, law firm or restaurant, information about the inner workings of your organization is valuable.
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Government Technology
What does it mean to be a “smart city” in 2018?
All over the world, smart trash cans are turning what used to be 14 trash collections a week into just three pick-ups by utilizing smart compactors. Philadelphia has installed more than 1,100 smart trash cans around the city and saved about $1 million.
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Route Fifty
Homeowners with the lowest median incomes tend to live in the highest flood hazard areas in 41 states, according to a Federal Emergency Management Agency report released Tuesday.
Of the households both inside and outside the Special Flood Hazard Area, or SFHA, flood insurance policyholders had higher median incomes than non-policyholders in every state, per “An Affordability Framework for the National Flood Insurance Program”.
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Forbes
As a former NASA scientist and current professor at a major university, one of my primary research areas has been how urban environments interact with weather and climate processes. One of the things that I have feared throughout my career is the prospect of tornadoes ravaging densely populated cities.
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Local government officials at a Senate Commerce hearing Thursday stressed the need for Federal Emergency Management Agency funds upfront for hazard mitigation ahead of a 2018 hurricane season where forecasters are anticipating 14 named storms.
The 2017 season saw 17 named storms and three Category 4 hurricanes, which also happened to be three of the five most most damaging on record, for comparison.
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By Mashaal Hashmi
 Flu season, illnesses, tough political times, economic hardships, grief, difficult relationships — all of these things and more are affecting your employees on a daily basis. Obviously, a lot of this is happening outside of your company's walls, but it can still cause problems during work hours. There's scientific research based on the correlation between your work and your health. There's also research based on how being a good boss means taking care of your employees' wellness.
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Domestic Preparedness
The increased reliance on emergency text alerts to receive warnings of natural or manmade disasters is a capability that most people have come to expect. Listening to broadcast radio warnings of severe weather happening miles away has transformed into more precise, geo-located alerts that target specific locations.
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By Catherine Iste
 The amount of information available at our fingertips is amazing. At any given moment, we can accomplish more, quicker. We can connect with more people, easily. And we can capture data, ideas and potential issues, simply. In many ways, this accessibility has had positive effects on our productivity. However, there are well-documented, notable downsides like increased stress, negative impacts on sleep and strains on interpersonal interactions.
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The Weather Channel
The National Hurricane Center will yet again improve their forecast and communication products with a number of changes for the upcoming hurricane season.
Their swiss army knife of products, including their well-known hurricane cone along with many lesser-known, but just as important tools, is updated each year based on the latest state of the science.
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Homeland Security News Wire
We’re all aware of the impact of intense weather systems that make headlines, like 2017’s hurricanes Harvey and Irma. But even slight adjustments to weather patterns — like historic changes in precipitation levels and the increasing frequency of heat waves — can drastically change living conditions.
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