Set your timer. Look at your watch. Let about 20 seconds pass. Done? Someone, somewhere, died during your count from lack of clean water. She may have been a pretty little girl not yet 5 years old, or a beloved boy child, possibly younger. Odds are one in four that she, or he, was just a child.

These days cops might be trolling for bad guys online in a chat room as often—maybe even more often—than chasing them down a back alley. Although there’s still plenty of crime that requires a police force on our streets, the internet neighborhood has created another crime arena that grows larger every day. And that’s where computer forensics comes in, a field where e-forensic experts spend their time chasing bad guys through file recovery of every kind. To do the job, a computer forensics expert needs lots of training, plenty of hands-on experience with data and file recovery, and the psychological stamina to wade through sometimes pretty dark data bits. It’s not a career for everyone.

Snapchat has taken its sweet time to go public since co-founder and CEO Evan Spiegel hinted in 2015 that the company needed an IPO. But the time for Snapchat (whose official name is now Snap Inc) to go public has finally arrived. This week,  200M Class A Common stocks went public, and what an entrance it made. Up 44% in its debut and another 10% the day afterwards, there’s a lot being priced into the hopes and dreams of this millennial phenom. Whether shares hold their value or have it disappear

To beat a hacker, you first have to think and act like a hacker. Fast. Adept. Pervasive. IT super-savvy. Skills like that are hard to get but imperative to meet the ever-changing ways network systems get challenged, penetrated and cracked—ways that IT professionals need to anticipate, meet and defeat if they want to do their job right. The cost of these infiltrations is staggering, and only increasing. Global estimates run between $375 billion and $575 billion each year. [1] The reach of cyber-c

Tough. Ask your Ford dealer for one word to describe their vehicles, and that’s what they’ll come up with. Tough. Then they’ll tell you about Ford performance and durability. They’ll say that Ford owns work. And the people who work with their vehicles will tell you the same thing. They own a Ford because they can depend on it to do the work that has to get done. And that’s also why the Ford Explorer and Ford Taurus, and to a lesser extent the Ford Mustang remain top picks by police departments

This report is the Second National Climate Assessment. It summarizes the science of and the impacts of climate change on the United States, at present and in the future. It is largely based on results of USGCRP research, and integrates those results with related research from around the world. This report discusses climate-related impacts for various societal and environmental sectors and regions across the nation. It is an authoritative scientific report written in plain language, with the goal