Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

It's been a few exhausting weeks since the outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has gone public.  First case in China in November ...

With all the devastation going on around Houston and the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Harvey... I thought it would be nice to just take a...

Sheer chaos on the Washington, D.C. Metro this morning.  A water main break suspended the running of the Orange, Blue, and Silver lines. ...

This week Adm. Michael Rogers, the Director of the National Security Agency and head of U.S. Cyber Command issued a stark warning to the...

No this is not an alert, but some strategic thinking about alerts.  As a kid, we get our first alerts usually from the fire alarm going ...

If you read the Wall Street Journal , then you heard today about the attack that took place last April on the power grid in San Jose, Ca...

BBC News Technology  (9 July 2013) reports on how the U.S. Emergency Alert System (EAS) was hacked.  The EAS is a program of the Fed...

So the Chinese have invented an amazing life-saving device for whenever a great life-threatening catastrophe strikes. Rather than an ark...

I watched on TV, a congressman from Staten Island talk about the complex response to Hurricane Sandy--in particular, how people whose home...

Unbelievable. The Halo Counter-terrorism Summit (Oct 29-Nov. 2, 2012) is hosting a mock Zombie Invasion as part of its emergency response...

This is the DARPA Pet-Proto Robot (a predecessor to the Atlas model) showing some pretty cool initial operating capabilities for navigatin...

This the the first fire fighting robot and is built by Howe and Howe called the Thermite.  Key features: - Moves steadily on treads i...

The Huffington Post (28 June 2012) ran an article this weekend called " Land of the Free, Home of the Unprepared ." This at a...

Awesome coat called the Raincatch that catches/stores rainwater and purifies it for drinking. Designed by students at the Copenhagen In...