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The late Mitch Hedberg once joked about the process of buying a donut.

Access to potable water remains one of the world’s biggest challenges. In an effort to help that challenge, researchers have created a solar-powered device that pulls drinking water from even the driest desert air. We talked about a company doing moisture farming in Israel late in 2015 and...

There are a lot of things we ask of those interested in working at Dickson, but there is one quality we’re always on the lookout for. It’s curiosity. The desire to learn is fundamental to one’s success. That’s true in life as much as it is here at our company.

To an untrained eye, data can look like a lot of 1’s and 0’s with no discernible pattern. To an experienced observer, the data turns into a picture. It shows us things we’d have never realized before its compilation. Machine learning is able to look even deeper and help turn a picture into a...

A freezer malfunction at the University of Alberta has melted some of the world’s largest collection of Canadian Arctic ice core samples. The university says about 12 percent of the collection was damaged when temperature in the storage freezer soared to 40 C over the weekend.

Yesterday, we at Dickson held our first formal webinar of the year where we discussed our newest feature: Alarm Escalation. We have heard that there were a few issues with logging into the webinar by some of our registrants. For that reason, we wanted to make sure a recording of the presentation...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a part of our daily lives right before our eyes, and as that happens, more of the security issues the IoT brings with it will be exploited. That’s a scary thought at first, but this is part of the growing pains of any new technology. It’s even something...

There are few things more heart wrenching than hearing about American soldiers being wounded, or worse, in combat. There are also few things more inspiring than listening to America’s wounded warriors talk about moving on after a personal tragedy.

Published on March 23rd at 11:50 am

Expediency is often an appreciated trait for someone to have when one’s life is at stake. While that should work the same way when an organization is involved, you’ll rarely, if ever, hear anyone say the FDA is expedient about anything.