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A free vending machine that dispenses the overdose-reversal drug naloxone was unveiled this week at Santa Clara University, the first such campus resource in the Bay Area, school officials said.The machine at the school's Benson Memorial Center will dispense two-packs of Narcan, a nasal spray for delivering naloxone, with instructions on how to recognize signs of an overdose, how to administer the spray and to call 911, university officials said in a statement.

Clean-air or low-emission zones are being rolled out in more UK cities, and the London mayor is proposing to extend the ultra-low emission zone to the suburbs.These zones are designed to speed up the attainment of legal limits for air pollution and to lessen the health burden from breathing poor air.

Ben Kingsley in "DalíLand."(Rekha Garton/Magnolia Pictures) StarOutline StarOutline (1.5 stars) Spanish artist Salvador Dalí was a towering figure in 20th-century art history, as famous for his surrealist paintings as for his larger-than-life personality.So how, you might wonder, could a biopic about him - especially one starring Sir Ben Kingsley as the flamboyant provocateur with a paintbrush - be dull?

The Moscow-based cybersecurity company Kaspersky says iOS devices are being targeted by a previously unknown malware.The firm discovered the threat while monitoring the network traffic of its own corporate Wi-Fi.Kaspersky is calling the new campaign Operation Triangulation.The campaign report reveals how the attack works and details the exploitation's technical properties.

Street demonstrations and transport strikes disrupted France again on Tuesday as another day of protests against a widely unpopular pension overhaul took place, in what appeared to be a last-ditch effort to pressure the authorities into scrapping the changes.Tuesday's protest, the 14th day of nationwide demonstrations since January, reflected the lingering anger at the government's decision to raise the legal retirement age to 64 from 62 a move that put France on edge and led to the biggest political threat in President Emmanuel Macron's second term.

Humans crave comfort, familiarity, and routine.It applies to our work and life.For example, I take my routine to the next level.I start each morning the same way: I turn on my computer and open the apps I need - all in the same order.Maybe I'm a bit obsessed?But this behavior goes further.It also applies to the way I build websites.

There are many lessons still to learn from the pandemic, but there is no mystery about Boris Johnson's conduct.He broke the rules of lockdown and lied about it.The exposure of his behaviour drained public support away from him and his party.Those facts are not altered by news that fresh allegations relating to the use of the prime ministerial country retreat at Chequers have been reported to police.

Over the last few years, I've been reading unappreciated and erased novels by Black artists from the twentieth century.They've helped me think about the idea of illegibility-about what the literary world has historically deemed too wild, complex, radical, experimental, or challenging to be included in the precarious and burgeoning Black canon.

Google has made it easy to install spyware apps on Android smartphones, according to researchers at the University of California in San Diego, New York University, and Cornell.Said Rahul Chatterjee of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an expert on spyware who was not involved in the research, "The researchers show how these Android spyware apps are built and use rather simple Android APIs to achieve such invasive spying capabilities.

Commentary: After analyzing a lot of recent Microsoft developer content, expert Simon Bisson says there is a big clue into how Bing Chat will work.If there's one thing to know about Microsoft, it's this: Microsoft is a platform company.It exists to provide tools and services that anyone can build on, from its operating systems and developer tools, to its productivity suites and services, and on to its global cloud.

When a collection of Jai Paul demos leaked online in 2013, it had the makings of a celebration, not a catastrophe.Paul had previously released two rapturously received singles, and anticipation for his music was high.The songs on that collection were shared widely, and beloved.But rather than capitalize on the good will generated by the unintended release, Paul retreated, making almost no public noise or appearances for the following decade.

Can medicine and culture work in unison?by Sayanen Sawmynaden, Tiffin School (Image: Sayanen Sawmynaden) Medicine and culture seem like two completely different things that would never be used in the same sentence.Medicine is complex science stuff that's put into practice to help cure people's sickness while culture, well that's probably just as complex, but it's got nothing to do with science; culture's a range of beliefs and customs shared by a large group of people which can range from cultures surrounding Marvel superheroes to music to ethnicity.

In 2019, Daniel Regueira became absolutely engrossed in the world of rum - its history and how it related to his family's Cuban roots.It was only a matter of time before he was trying to make his own.Then he met Sean Ellis Hussey, a kindred spirit who shared an infatuation with rum, its infusions, and the fraught history of sugar cane.

We don't believe in ghosts.We do, however, believe in the specter of the Illinois boondoggle, a tax revenue-devouring phantasm that haunts taxpayers with empty promises of job bonanzas and an economic nirvana.That specter has taken various forms over the years.The Illiana tollway was a proposed trucking highway that Illinois didn't need and couldn't afford.

Nam June Paik, a Korean-born artist who blazed a trail in the fine art world by using video as a medium, is the subject of the new documentary Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV.Above, the artist in 1982.Elliott Erwitt/ Elliott Erwitt / Magnum Photos In a world saturated with digital technology, video art now seems like a given.

This week we welcome Claudio Jolowicz (@cjolowicz) as our PyDev of the Week!Claudio is the author of an upcoming book titled Hypermodern Python Tooling.Claudio writes about Python on Medium.You can also see what Claudio has been working on over on GitHub.Let's take a few moments to get to know Claudio better!

Understanding a student's "Why?"can be a first step in nurturing their success.At Rochester Institute of Technology's Academic Success Center, staff and student employees work with students to find their intrinsic values and inspire them to work in accordance with those values.In partnership with the Career Services and Cooperative Education Office, RIT students can explore their motivations to learn and work, as well as plan for a future of values-based living.

Findings from a recent study on the role of technology-enabled academic success coaching to close equity gaps at community colleges validate the benefits of both providing such coaching and ensuring that coaches stay with their assigned students.The study's story: Over three years, 11 North Carolina Community College system institutions used a Watermark student success and engagement platform-which flags at-risk students, enables easy communication between student and success coach, provides an early-alert system when problems may exist, and includes predictive analytics-along with dedicated success coaches for four terms.

Never-married women are the fastest growing cohort in the labor market.Yet, as their ranks have swelled their wage gap has, too.The group's median weekly earnings are 92.1% of what men who have never married make, a new report from Wells Fargo released Wednesday found.That gap has increased from a decade ago, when they brought in 95.8% of what men did.

The man who shot off blank rounds inside a San Francisco synagogue last week has now been charged with hate crimes, in addition to other charges.A day after rabbis at the Outer Richmond's Schneerson Center, where the gunfire took place last Wednesday, publicly demanded such charges, SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that hate crime charges have been filed against 51-year-old suspect Dimitri Mishin.

There is no hotter team in the Eastern Conference right now than the Boston Celtics.After using a genuine team effort on both ends of the floor to defeat the team right behind them in the standings, the C's traveled to Charlotte to face a hungry ball club that was desperate for a win.Behind a quiet 51-point outing by Jayson Tatum on Martin Luther King Jr Day and 69 combined assists in the two games in the Queen City, Boston heads home brimming with confidence.

Wilfried Zaha's goal and 1-0 victory capped a fine debut season for Vieira in the Palace dugout, a 12th-placed finish secured and the safety and pragmatism of Roy Hodgson's reign replaced by swagger and progress more swiftly than most had imagined possible.There had been a trip to Wembley for an FA Cup semi-final as well.

Crooks are using an Android banking Trojan dubbed Godfather to steal from banking and cryptocurrency exchange app users in 16 countries, according to Group-IB security researchers
The security firm first detected Godfather in June 2021 and as of October, the credential-stealing malware has targeted the users of more than 400 applications.

Hope sounded like high-pitched shrieks.Dreams looked like the awestruck smiles of the kids wearing hockey jerseys and shirts and holding encouraging signs at Crypto.comArena on Monday while the U.S. women's hockey team faced Canada in the latest edition of one of the fiercest rivalries in sports.Not in women's sports - in all sports.