This story is co-published with The Daily Poster As governors in New York and Florida face political crises over their handling of the pandemic, the scandals have spotlighted how a disproportionate amount of COVID casualties have occurred in the nation's nursing homes. The situation is a cautionary tale not only about political corruption, but about the consequences of a nursing home infrastructure being run by for-profit corporations—and now a study documents some of the body count. The analysis found that between 2004 and 2016, more than 20,000 Americans perished as a consequence of living in nursing homes run by private equity firms. The data showed that going to a private-equity-owned nursing home significantly "increases the probability of death during the stay and the following 90 days" as compared to nursing homes with a different ownership structure. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and New York University evaluated data from … [Read more...] about The Villain in the Deadliest Nursing Home Scandal Is Wall Street, Not Andrew Cuomo
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Seagate unveils Lyve Cloud mass storage platform
Seagate on Wednesday introduced a new storage-as-a-service platform called Lyve Cloud that the company said is an S3-compatible storage-only cloud designed to help enterprises extract more value out of data. Featured Your home office tax deductions checklist The best tax software for small businesses and personal preparation Smart pills and the future of medicine: Insights from your insides Best VPN services: Safe and fast don't come free Lyve is comprised of a suite of hardware, software, and services that aim to complement existing cloud infrastructure. For the distributed enterprise, Seagate said Lyve removes the cost and complexity of storing, moving, and activating data. Seagate developed Lyve in partnership with digital infrastructure company Equinix, and the platform's infrastructure is available in Equinix's metro edge colocation data centers. As a more than 40-year-old legacy technology company, Seagate said the move signals its focus on mass … [Read more...] about Seagate unveils Lyve Cloud mass storage platform
California startup targets self-driving car market with package of sensors
Neural Propulsion Systems , or NPS , on Wednesday released a product aimed at packaging all the sensors needed to guide a self-driving vehicle, a departure from most other players in the field. The Pleasanton, California-based company's first product contains multiple sensors to help self-driving cars navigate: cameras, three types of radar sensors and a proprietary lidar sensor, which uses laser beams to help generate a three-dimensional map of the road. The company is entering a crowded field for self-driving sensors, with several lidar companies such as Luminar Technologies Inc and Velodyne Lidar Inc already publicly listed and others such as Ouster Inc and Aeva Inc in the process of going public. Those rivals are focused on providing the key lidar sensor, leaving it to automakers or technology firms to combine them with other sensors to form a complete self-driving system. Intel Corp 's Mobileye and Alphabet Inc's Waymo, for example, are developing systems for … [Read more...] about California startup targets self-driving car market with package of sensors
My In-Laws Died in a Nursing Home. I Took on Cuomo in Their Names | Opinion
A 25-year career in broadcasting and meteorology has given me plenty of opportunities to cover major weather events. There have been category five hurricanes, blizzards that have buried towns and cities, devastating flash floods, ice storms that took out power for weeks and tornadoes carving paths of destruction for hundreds of miles. Never in my life did I ever predict that I would find myself in the middle of a raging storm involving one of the most powerful leaders in America. But after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo effectively issued a death warrant that helped kill thousands of elderly, including my husband's parents, I felt it was important to use my voice to speak out for those that no longer had one. Born and bred in Brooklyn, New York, Mickey and Dee Newman were married 60 years ago this month. We lost them both to COVID last spring as the virus ravaged their long term care facilities. Little did we know that before they died, Governor Cuomo signed an executive order … [Read more...] about My In-Laws Died in a Nursing Home. I Took on Cuomo in Their Names | Opinion
Kaia Gerber sports a summery tank top with jeans while making a coffee run by the beach in Malibu
Like many, she narrowly avoided making a mess of her car with a simple mistake. But thankfully, Kaia Gerber remembered to grab her to-go cup from the roof of her car before driving off, when she was seen making a coffee run in Malibu, California on Tuesday. The gorgeous model, 19, kept things casual in a pair of jeans and a gray crop top as temperatures reached into the high 70s on a winter day in Southern California. Coffee run with dog: Kaia Gerber was seen making a coffee run in Malibu on Tuesday Kaia’s skimpy shirt had slender spaghetti straps and was hemmed just above her belly button into a crop top. The daughter of Cindy Crawford had her adorable white dog Milo with her as she picked up a hot beverage. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next Kaia Gerber is seen leaving her Pilates class alone in... Cindy Crawford reminisces with old home videos as she gushes... Cindy Crawford is accompanied by her daughter Kaia Gerber... … [Read more...] about Kaia Gerber sports a summery tank top with jeans while making a coffee run by the beach in Malibu