An immunotherapy drug has been described as a potential “game-changer” in promising results presented at the European Cancer Congress.
In a study of head and neck cancer, more patients taking nivolumab survived for longer compared with those who were treated with chemotherapy.
In another study, combining nivolumab with another drug shrank tumours in advanced kidney cancer patients.
Immunotherapy works by harnessing the immune system to destroy cancer cells.
Advanced head and neck cancer has very poor survival rates.
In a trial of more than 350 patients, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% treated with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab were alive after one year compared with 17% who received chemotherapy.
Patients also experienced fewer side effects from immunotherapy.
I would note that since this drug is not approved by the FDA, you could not try it even if you were terminally ill because Harry Reid blocked Senator Ron Johnson’s “Right to Try” bill.
In a discussion on CNBC Monday morning, Robert Murray, CEO of coal-mining company Murray Energy Corp, took a shot at electric car manufacturer Tesla over the taking taxpayer subsidies and failing to turn a profit. Following the attack, Elon Musk took to Twitter to refute the claims and challenge Murray’s beliefs head-on.
In the CNBC discussion (viewable here), Murray said “Tesla is a fraud. [Musk has] gotten $2 billion from the taxpayer, has not made a penny yet in cash flow, here again it’s subsidies.” The Trump-supporting CEO continued on to say that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton intends on giving subsidies to “Elon Musk, Warren Buffett,” and her other rich “friends” and that it would have “nothing to do with supporting the environment.”
Following the live footage, Musk tweeted out a link to the interview and another one stating, “Real fraud going on is denial of climate science. As for ‘subsidies,’ Tesla gets pennies on dollar vs coal. How about we both go to zero?”
I would note that it is in Big Coal’s best interests to support electric cars like Tesla. After all, a lot of electricity is produced by coal while zero cars with an internal combustion engine are. Notice that Musk doesn’t actually refute the point.
The Commission on Presidential Debates released a vague statement on Friday simply saying: “Regarding the first debate, there were issues regarding Donald Trump’s audio that affected the sound level in the debate hall.”
The commission didn’t elaborate any further, but the statement did not indicate that there were any issues with the television feed.
Apache (APA) revealed the huge find this week after more than two years of stealthily buying up land, extensive geological research and rigorous testing.
The Houston company estimates the discovery, dubbed “Alpine High,” could be worth at least $8 billion.
Remember when Clinton swore under oath that she had handed over all of her work-related emails? Yeah, I do too.
The State Department says about 30 emails that may be related to the 2012 attack on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya, are among the thousands of Hillary Clinton emails recovered during the FBI’s recently closed investigation into her use of a private server.
Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta on Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department’s lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.
Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.
The FBI warning, contained in a “flash” alert from the FBI’s Cyber Division, a copy of which was obtained by Yahoo News, comes amid heightened concerns among U.S. intelligence officials about the possibility of cyberintrusions, potentially by Russian state-sponsored hackers, aimed at disrupting the November elections.
Those concerns prompted Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to convene a conference call with state election officials on Aug. 15, in which he offered his department’s help to make state voting systems more secure, including providing federal cyber security experts to scan for vulnerabilities, according to a “readout” of the call released by the department.
Johnson emphasized in the call that Homeland Security was not aware of “specific or credible cybersecurity threats” to the election, officials said. But three days after that call, the FBI Cyber Division issued a potentially more disturbing warning, entitled “Targeting Activity Against State Board of Election Systems.” The alert, labeled as restricted for “NEED TO KNOW recipients,” disclosed that the bureau was investigating cyberintrusions against two state election websites this summer, including one that resulted in the “exfiltration,” or theft, of voter registration data. “It was an eye opener,” one senior law enforcement official said of the bureau’s discovery of the intrusions. “We believe it’s kind of serious, and we’re investigating.”
The bulletin does not identify the states in question, but sources familiar with the document say it refers to the targeting by suspected foreign hackers of voter registration databases in Arizonaand Illinois.
Real-world tasks like these, particularly if they involve human interaction, are challenging or even impossible for conventional, rigid robots – which are much more comfortable in the structured, repetitive environment of the factory floor.
I imagine that the researchers will soon receive a grant from the porn industry.
Given how much video is a part of trials nowadays – particularly with the increasing use of police body cameras – we really need to be careful with how it is used.
The FBI warned the Clinton campaign that it was a target of a cyberattack last March, just weeks before the Democratic National Committee discovered it had been penetrated by hackers it now believes were working for Russian intelligence, two sources who have been briefed on the matter told Yahoo News.
In a meeting with senior officials at the campaign’s Brooklyn headquarters, FBI agents laid out concerns that cyberhackers had used so-called spear-phishing emails as part of an attempt to penetrate the campaign’s computers, the sources said. One of the sources said agents conducting a national security investigation asked the Clinton campaign to turn over internal computer logs as well as the personal email addresses of senior campaign officials. But the campaign, through its lawyers, declined to provide the data, deciding that the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive, the source said.
A second source who had been briefed on the matter and who confirmed the Brooklyn meeting said agents provided no specific information to the campaign about the identity of the cyberhackers or whether they were associated with a foreign government. The source said the campaign was already aware of attempts to penetrate its computers and had taken steps to thwart them, emphasizing that there is still no evidence that the campaign’s computers had actually been successfully penetrated.
But the potential that the intruders were associated with a foreign government should have come as no surprise to the Clinton campaign, said several sources knowledgeable about the investigation. Chinese intelligence hackers were widely reported to have penetrated both the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain in 2008.
We live in an age where many of us utilize various websites and computers for financial transactions and this has opened up an entire illegal industry in stealing people’s money and identities from behind a keyboard. That doesn’t mean we have to make it easy for them.
To the lady a couple of months ago who made a credit card donation to a charity while on a plane… yes, several people could see you enter in your credit card number, CCV, zip code, etc. Your credit card might be stolen.
To the other lady who was next to me on a flight a while after that and set up a bank withdrawal to pay some bills… yes, I saw your bank, routing number, account number, name, address, and social security number. The people behind us probably saw it too if they were paying attention.
The House of Representative’s Science, Space and Technology Committee released its investigative report on Wednesday.
It presents the FDIC’s bank regulators as technologically inept — and deceitful.
According to congressional investigators, the Chinese government hacked into 12 computers and 10 backroom servers at the FDIC, including the incredibly sensitive personal computers of the agency’s top officials: the FDIC chairman, his chief of staff, and the general counsel.
When congressional investigators tried to review the FDIC’s cybersecurity policy, the agency hid the hack, according to the report.
Investigators cited several insiders who knew about how the agency responded. For example, one of the FDIC’s top lawyers told employees not to discuss the hacks via email — so the emails wouldn’t become official government records.
COLLEGE STATION – Researchers at Texas A&M are working on a big development that could help people suffering from cystic fibrosis: breathable ibuprofen.
Carolyn Cannon is a pediatric lung doctor. Many of her patients have cystic fibrosis. While, she knows ibuprofen can help their lungs, the drug can hurt their digestive tracks.
“You can actually erode and have bleeding, huge bleeding so it can be very scary for a patient,” said Cannon.
Cannon is working with a team of researchers at Texas A&M to bypass the side effects by creating “breathable ibuprofen.” The drug goes directly to the lungs to help inflammation and kill bacteria, clearing up lung infections.
Travellers seeking visa waiver entry to the US may soon be asked to list their social media profiles – if a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) proposal is enacted.
An update to application forms would ask users to identify what social networks they use and their “social media identifier” such as a username.
However, revealing this information would be “optional”.
How many times have we seen someone commit a heinous act only to find out after the fact that they were total nutjobs on social media? Why would we let those people into our country? And if we find that they failed to disclose an account, that should be grounds for denying a visa.
It’s now clear the global banking system has been under sustained attack from a sophisticated group — dubbed “Lazarus” — that has been linked to North Korea, according to a report from cybersecurity firm Symantec.
In at least four cases, computer hackers have been able to gain a dangerous level of access to SWIFT, the worldwide interbank communication network that settles transactions.
Symantec revealed evidence on Thursday that suggests hackers used the same technique to slip into a bank in the Philippines in October. Symantec (SYMC) did not name the bank.
(CNN)Want to launch a nuclear missile? You’ll need a floppy disk.
That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using 1970s-era computing systems that require “eight-inch floppy disks.”
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The report says the Pentagon is planning to replace its floppy systems — which currently coordinate intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), nuclear bombers and tanker support aircraft — by the end of 2017.
To be fair, many of those missile systems were also created in the same time period, but still… I suppose there is something of an advantage that hackers will have a hard time hacking a floppy without physical access to it.
British cultural critic Stephen Bayley, in an interview with this author, stated, “Driving a car is the act of projecting your personality through visual metaphors; this is central to erotica.” It is safe to assume Mr Bayley does not drive a minivan, because minivans are the mom jeans of the automotive world.
But the grocery-getting emasculation-mobile — now entering its mid-thirties — might be ripe for a midlife sexual awakening.
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“Work done by Tesla and Google shows that people very, very quickly learn to trust the technology,” says Barrie Kirk of the Canadian Automated Vehicles Centre of Excellence. “They do silly and stupid things, like brushing their teeth, eating meals, and climbing into the back seat.”
“With a minivan,” he continues, “it’s a big temptation to put the seats down and have sex while the computer’s driving. That’s very dangerous. People are there for a Plan B when the computer can’t deal with the situation.”
The city of Milwaukee applied for a $20 million federal grant to extend the streetcar line approximately 1.2 miles to the new Milwaukee Bucks arena.
The city will find out in mid-September if the grant is approved.The new line would build a track between the Milwaukee Intermodal Station on St. Paul Avenue north to Fourth Street and Highland Avenue.
Ghassan Korban, commissioner of the Department of Public Works, said the city is confident the grant will be approved.
“Overall, we’re obviously excited for this opportunity to get closer. As we’ve always stated, the original route of 2.1 miles needs an extension for it to be meaningful,” Korban said. “This gets us closer to the Bronzeville neighborhood, or to Walker’s Point, one mile at a time.”
The plane, an Airbus A320 with 132 passengers and five crew on board, was on its final descent into Heathrow when it was struck.
“A pilot on an inbound flight into Heathrow Airport from Geneva reported to police that he believed a drone had struck the aircraft,” a spokeswoman for London’s Metropolitan Police said.
“The flight landed at Heathrow Terminal Five safely. It transpired that an object, believed to be a drone, had struck the front of the aircraft”.
City of West Bend
On 04/14/16, at 1:45 PM, the City of West Bend participated in the state wide tornado watch & warning exercise. During the exercise the city’s tornado sirens did not activate.
We are currently investigating the cause of the malfunction and anticipate they will be operational for the tornado warning test activation at 6:55 PM.
