On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk – Go Health Pro

On cusp of storm season, NOAA funding cuts put hurricane forecasting at risk – Go Health Pro

Eyes in the sky Weather satellites that monitor tropical storms from space provide continuous views of each storm’s track and intensity changes. The equipment on these satellites and software used to analyze it make increasingly accurate hurricane forecasts possible. Much of that equipment is developed by federally funded researchers. For example, the Cooperative Institutes in … Read more

Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts – Go Health Pro

Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts – Go Health Pro

Consider the PlayStation 2. Not all of the PS2 Slim’s streamlining came from chip improvements—it also shed a full-sized 3.5-inch hard drive bay and a little-used IEEE 1394 port, and initially required an external power brick. But shrinking and consolidating the console’s CPU, GPU, memory, and other components took the console from its original design … Read more

Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering – Go Health Pro

Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering – Go Health Pro

Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole soldering was also a pain for a firm that has made more than 60 million products with it. Raspberry Pi boards have a combination … Read more

Eve Hill represents a coalition of leading disability rights advocates along with individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop unlawful cuts to social security services. – Go Health Pro

Eve Hill represents a coalition of leading disability rights advocates along with individual plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Social Security Administration and DOGE to stop unlawful cuts to social security services. – Go Health Pro

The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD), Deaf Equality, the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, and Massachusetts Senior Action Council, along with individual plaintiffs, filed a federal lawsuit today against the Social Security Administration (SSA), Acting Commissioner Leland Dudek, DOGE Acting Administrator Amy Gleason, … Read more

New Trump Administration Department of Education Cuts Spell Risks for People With Disabilities – Go Health Pro

New Trump Administration Department of Education Cuts Spell Risks for People With Disabilities – Go Health Pro

By Eve Hill Last week, the Trump administration took a massive slash at the Department of Education’s staff, cutting nearly 50% of all staff, shuttering 7 out of 12 civil rights offices and gutting the Digital Access Team. The effects of these cuts aren’t limited to those who were fired, or to bureaucratic processes. They … Read more