5/17/2023 0 Comments Snap benefits![]() Smaller reforms took place over the next few decades, but major changes to the program's structure were passed under the Food Stamp Act of 1977. Through the program, families were able to purchase food stamp booklets that cost $1, and "For every $1 in orange stamps that were purchased, an additional $0.50 of blue stamps were given to participants." In 1939, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace made changes to the program to facilitate distribution by cutting out local organizations. As the country grappled with hunger and extreme poverty during the Great Depression, SNAP initially allowed the Federal government to buy " basic farm commodities at discount prices and distributed them among hunger relief agencies." The SNAP program was enacted in 1933, under Presidnet Rosevelt, under the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Source: AS English A brief history of SNAP benefits Items that are not accessible, such as your home, personal property and retirement savings, do not count. Savings or cash in bank accounts count as assets, for instance. According to the CBPP, In 2019, the limits were "$2,250 for households without an elderly or disabled member and $3,500 for those with an elderly or disabled member."Īny resources that could be available to the household to purchase food are counted as assets. There are limits on the value of the assets held by the applicant. Like the Gross Monthly Income requirement, the USDA stipulates that a household must have a net income below equal to or below the poverty line. In 2019, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) found that this would be an average of around “ $2,252 a month (about $27,020 a year) for a three-person family.” However, those applying who live in households with a senior citizen, or someone with a disability, can surpass these income thresholds. To receive snap benefits, households must be equal to or lower than 130% of the poverty line. However, the federal government has outlined three high-level conditions that state agencies must comply with. States are allowed to establish their own requirements. The USDA has put together a tool that allows residents of all states and territories to find the agency tasked with distributing SNAP benefits. The Department of Agriculture (USDA) oversees the program, but the actual distribution is done at the state level, and those entities approve SNAP applications. SNAP eligibility depends on household income. ![]() ![]() NPR AugWho is eligible for SNAP benefits? The Biden administration approved the largest-ever single increase to SNAP benefits - what amounts to an extra $36.24 per month, per person.
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5/17/2023 0 Comments Darkest dungeon 2 areas![]() Gather your courage and ride out into the chaos of a world undone.Įach journey is less than 5 hours, and progress you make opens up new hero abilities, items, and stagecoach upgrades that can be used on your next adventure!Īs travels progress, heroes bond with each other or grate on each others’ nerves, leading to desperately needed combat synergies or journey-ending dysfunction. ![]() It is a game about hard trade-offs, nearly certain demise, and heroic acts."ĭarkest Dungeon 2 Key Features Darkest Dungeon II Uncover strange mysteries, and pit the heroes against an array of fearsome monsters with an innovative strategic turn-based combat system.ĭarkest Dungeon is not a game where every hero wins the day with shiny armor and a smile. You’ll battle not only unimaginable foes, but stress, famine, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes through twisted forests, forgotten warrens, ruined crypts, and beyond. Darkest Dungeon focuses on the humanity and psychological vulnerability of the heroes and asks: What emotional toll does a life of adventure take? You will lead a band of heroes on a perilous side-scrolling descent, dealing with a prodigious number of threats to their bodily health, and worse, a relentless assault on their mental fortitude! Five hundred feet below the earth you will not only fight unimaginable foes, but famine, disease, and the stress of the ever-encroaching dark. "Darkest Dungeon 2 is a challenging gothic RPG about the stresses of dungeon crawling. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across a decaying landscape in a last gasp attempt to avert the apocalypse. Trinkets will now also be able to grant effects and play a bigger roll in combat since they are the new main equippable items without armor upgrades.ĭarkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Most Effects from the previous game- immobilizer, stun, bleed, blind and some combo attacks have more been turned into tokens. There are no more upgrades to armor and weapons to simplify combat and Builds. Stats like hit points, speed and resistance will still remain in the game, however familiar stats like accuracy have been wiped completely from the mechanics of the game. Some aesthetic changes to characters and animations during combat have been modified. This time though, the full stress meter triggers a meltdown instead of a heart attack, affecting their vitality and relationships, which in turn also affects other Heroes' sanity.Ĭombat will remain similar to the first edition of the game, but will appear in 3D. This time the run will only take five hours, so character Quirks may be more dynamic and affect gameplay early on for the rest of the party. Players will be given the chance to focus on just four Heroes this time compared to the faster turnover rate of the previous game, where replacing crazed heroes was the norm. Players can expect shorter runs, rather than the first large campaign. 5/17/2023 0 Comments Inboard boats![]() This summer we want to invite you to come visit the Marina and test-drive one of our beautiful MasterCraft Boats. This year at Ottawa Boat and Sportsman Show stop by the Len’s Cove Marina booth to sign up for one of our “Test Drive an Inboard Days”. You’ve got to experience it to believe it! Though they are the higher priced option on the market, their quality is second to none, and their passion to make the best towboat in the world certainly shines through. You have not driven an inboard until you sit in the luxury of a MasterCraft. From experience, each of them have their own look and feel, and at the end of the day MasterCraft is the company that has stolen my heart above all the rest. Over the past 10 years I’ve had the privilege of driving and riding behind various brands such as MasterCraft, Malibu, Nautique, and Tige. There are many different Inboard (towboat) Boat companies on the market today. ![]() They are also the only type of boat that is safe to wakesurf behind! ![]() ![]() This is why inboards are watersports enthusiast’s first choice! You can comfortably drive them at any speed (even at the uncomfortable speed of 10-20mph in most boats). In regards to waterskiing and wakeboarding, having the prop in this location makes it easier to design the hull design specifically for how you want the wakes to be shaped. This can easily be overcome and learned by anyone willing to heed their coaches's advice. The slow docking control is different, and requires slightly more planning in your approach. The placement makes for superior maneuverability on plane. This results in an all around faster acceleration, superior balance, tighter control, less bow raise, and not to mention a great safety feature. The most noticeable physical difference is the placement of the propeller, which is located underneath the hull about 2-3 feet in from the swim platform. From their physical appearance, to the way they maneuver, inboards are a class of their own. Inboards have a unique hull shape (particularly at the transom) in comparison to any other type of boat on the market. “How different can it be?” is the question I often get asked by those whom are not familiar with inboard boats. Or let us know if you have any suggestions on how we can improve your experience on OnlyInboards.Although every boat is a "solid in a liquid" and are handled the same way (manipulating the boat's drift to your advantage), the similarities often end there. So, please take a look at the website and feel free to ask any questions about our used wakeboard boats for sale. If you don't know the tubing diameter of your wakeboard tower, chances are one of our specialists know it off the top of their head. If you are looking for a rack or ballast system for a specific make and model year boat, we can help. We've been doing this for over 10 years and have the knowledge to help you out with anything you need (except mechanical issues - sorry). Not only can you buy or sell your boat here, you can also outfit it with new wakeboard racks, wakeboard towers, tower speakers, boat ballast, Perfect Pass, bimini tops and more. OnlyInboards is dedicated to be your one stop resource for everything related to inboard boats, wakeboard boats, waterski boats and wakesurf boats. These are replacement wakeboard forks for your 2000's Malibu, Nautique or Su. Replacement Surf Forks for 2000's Malibu, Nautique, Supra 5/17/2023 0 Comments Clevlenad connects syte![]() ConnectHome aims to offer affordable online access to more low-income Cleveland families, bringing them technological awareness and increased opportunity in our online world. Less than half of the country's poorest families have a wired Internet subscription at home, and more than 60 million Americans lack basic digital literacy, according to the Federal Communications Commission. "Having access to the internet opens so many doors." "People with kids can communicate with teachers over email, or be able to read a syllabus," Patterson says. A personal computer serves as a writing tool for young people and a communication device for their parents. When not coaching up the adult population on computer use, Cleveland Connects makes available mobile WiFi devices to K-12 Cleveland Metropolitan School District ( CMSD) students.Ĭleveland's housing group owns more than 4,600 family units, with over 50 percent of those units having at least one child. "Just having email is going to put them in a position for jobs or school."ĬMHA officials are working with the city of Cleveland on getting newly connected learners free or low-cost broadband access. "Having a computer at home means they can compete on a level playing field," says Patterson. Students can use their new skills to apply for employment, pay bills or tackle any number of other issues one faces in a technology-based society. Residents who attended a minimum of six classes received a free desktop computer during a October 19 certification ceremony. "This program focuses on digital literacy."Ĭleveland Connects is the locally branded version of the ConnectHome pilot venture utilized in 28 communities nationwide. "For a lot of people, technology is intimidating," says housing authority chief executive officer Jeffery Patterson. Classes were taught at the Connect Your Community Center on Pearl Road, a satellite location of the Ashbury Senior Computer Community Center ( ASC3). Join us for Cleveland Connects: The First 2000 Days, as the CEO of The Fred Rogers Co. Microsoft Word and Excel program basics were also part of the course package for adults and seniors from three CMHA properties - Scranton Castle, Crestview Apartments and Manhattan Tower. These are the questions guiding the next year of Cleveland Connects, a forum series sponsored by PNC Bank and presented by ideastream, Northeast Ohio Media Group and the Plain Dealer Publishing Company. ![]() Called Cleveland Connects, the program recently graduated 22 CMHA residents from a four-week training class covering proper mouse usage, keyboarding and email skills. To better that statistic, the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority ( CMHA) is bridging the digital divide through a federal initiative providing Clevelanders with computer training and internet access. Approximately 31 percent of residents have no online availability at home, according to statistics from the National Digital Inclusion Alliance ( NDIA). In terms of internet access, Cleveland is not the most well-connected city. ![]() Why do magic squares work?ġ4) Egyptian fractions: Egyptian fractions can only have a numerator of 1 – which leads to some interesting patterns. ![]() 3,4,5 triangle).ġ1) Mersenne primes: These are primes that can be written as 2^n -1.ġ2) Magic squares and cubes: Investigate magic tricks that use mathematics. There is a $1 million prize for solving the Riemann Hypothesis and $250,000 available for anyone who discovers a new, really big prime number.ġ0) Pythagorean triples: A great introduction into number theory – investigating the solutions of Pythagoras’ Theorem which are integers (eg. The great Indian mathematician Ramanujan discovered some amazing examples of these.ħ) Patterns in Pascal’s triangle: There are a large number of patterns to discover – including the Fibonacci sequence.Ĩ) Finding prime numbers: The search for prime numbers and the twin prime conjecture are some of the most important problems in mathematics. Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous such equations.Ħ) Continued fractions: These are fractions which continue to infinity. For example, Mod 3 means the remainder when dividing by 3.Ģ) Goldbach’s conjecture: “Every even number greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.” One of the great unsolved problems in mathematics.Ĥ) Applications of complex numbers: The stunning graphics of Mandelbrot and Julia Sets are generated by complex numbers.ĥ) Diophantine equations: These are polynomials which have integer solutions. Suitable for Applications and Interpretations students (SL and HL) and also Analysis and Approaches students (SL and HL).ġ) Modular arithmetic – This technique is used throughout Number Theory.
5/17/2023 0 Comments Opera neon march 2018![]() Subsequent versions have given users the choice of seeing banner ads or targeted text ads from Google. ![]() With version 5.0, released in 2000, Opera became ad-sponsored, displaying ads to users who had not paid for it. To this point, Opera was trialware and had to be purchased after the trial period. Opera 4.0, released in 2000, included a new cross-platform core that facilitated the creation of editions of Opera for multiple operating systems and platforms. Development for mobile device platforms started in 1998. Opera was initially released on 10 April 1995, and then it was released publicly in 1996 with version 2.10, which ran on Microsoft Windows 95. In 1994, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner and Geir Ivarsøy started developing the Opera web browser while working at Telenor, a Norwegian telecommunications company. Main article: History of the Opera web browser The company released a gaming-oriented version of the browser, Opera GX, in 2019, and a blockchain-focused Opera Crypto Browser into public beta in January 2022. Opera users also have access to Opera News, a news app based on an AI platform. There are also mobile versions called Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (Safari WebKit engine). In 2013, it switched from the Presto engine to Chromium. It was commercial software for its first ten years and had its own proprietary layout engine, Presto. Opera was initially released on 10 April 1995, making it one of the oldest desktop web browsers still actively developed. The browser is based on Chromium, but distinguishes itself from other Chromium-based browsers ( Chrome, Edge, etc.) through its user interface and other features. Opera is a multi-platform web browser developed by its namesake company Opera. (Formerly FreeBSD, Nintendo Wii, and Nintendo DSi) Opera is already contributing code to WebKit and expects to start rolling out products at MWC this month.4 (March 1, 2023 37 days ago ( ) ) With Apple and Google (with its WebKit adaptation Chrome) dominating mobile and now tablets, it is no secret which engine is poised to dominate in the coming years. That means there are now three major browser engines: Mozilla’s, Microsoft’s, and now the WebKit engine that Apple adopted from KHTML/Konqueror. Opera will contribute to the WebKit and Chromium projects, and we have already submitted our first set of patches: to improve multi-column layout.” “It makes more sense to have our experts working with the open source communities to further improve WebKit and Chromium, rather than developing our own rendering engine further. It supports the standards we care about, and it has the performance we need,” says CTO of Opera Software, Håkon Wium Lie. “The WebKit engine is already very good, and we aim to take part in making it even better. To provide a leading browser on Android and iOS, this year Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers. A button will appear in the browser address field, from which the user can see and change location (more locations will appear later), check whether their IP is exposed and review statistics for their data used. Mac users just need to click the Opera menu, select “Preferences” and toggle the feature VPN on. Once installed, follow the instructions below to activate the feature. Opera’s developer browser is a free download. ![]() If accessing content from other regions is your primary interest, the browser currently allows you to virtually travel to the USA, Canada and Germany, but more regions will follow once the feature makes it into the stable version. With a free, unlimited, native VPN that just works out-of-the-box and doesn’t require any subscription, Opera wants to make VPNs available to everyone. Until now, most VPN services and proxy servers have been limited and based on a paid subscription. Usually you have to pay for these, but the latest developer version of the Opera for Mac has one built right into the browser, and it’s completely free to use. Virtual Private Networks are becoming increasingly handy things to have, offering greater security on public Wi-Fi networks, making it harder for websites to track you and accessing content only available in particular countries. 5/17/2023 0 Comments Mango habanero salsa![]() Stem and de-seed the bell peppers, too, then slice them into quarters lengthwise. Next, remove the stems from several habaneros and jalapeno peppers and slice in half lengthwise. Slice some tomatoes in half and set them onto a lightly oiled baking sheet. I'll love you forever!Ĭheck out our other Salsa Recipes, my salsa loving friends.How to Make Roasted Mango-Habanero Salsa - the Recipe Methodįirst, set your oven to broil. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! If you make this, take a pic, share it with the world! Please tag #ChiliPepperMadness. Take it out of the freezer a day ahead of time to let it thaw and serve it up as normal. ![]() Use a freezer proof container, or pour the salsa into freezer bags and seal it. Yes! Fresh mango salsa doesn't freeze very well, unfortunately, but cooked salsa can be frozen without issue. It's the perfect topping! Can You Freeze Mango Salsa? Try it over grilled chicken or pork, or toss a few scoops with grilled shrimp. It really adds a pop of heat and flavor to many a dish. You want to bust out the chips, right? So do I! But! Consider serving a salsa like this over grilled foods. You'll still get a nice kick from them.Īnd as mentioned, if you feel the salsa is too thick for your tastes, add in a bit more vinegar or some water to help thin it out. You can also reduce or skip the serranos, and go with jalapeno peppers only. However, if you'd like to dial back the heat level, skip the habanero pepper. I LOVE a good heat factor, so I chose to include 1 jalapeno pepper, 2 serrano peppers and 1 habanero pepper. Choosing Chili Peppers for your Mango Salsa - Tweaking the RecipeĪs you already know, I LOVE my salsa nice and SPICY. It's even better the next day, so make a good sized batch ahead of time if you're having a party.Ī few notes on making salsa. I like to store my cooked salsas in the refrigerator in a sealable container to let the flavors mingle and develop even more. Remove it from the heat and let it cool.Īdjust it to your personal taste with a bit of salt and pepper then let it cool completely. Reduce the heat and let the whole thing simmer for 20 minutes or so. Next, add the ingredients to a pan and bring it to a quick boil. NOTE: If you feel the salsa is too thick, add in a bit more vinegar or water to help thin it out. With a fresh salsa, you can leave it chunkier if you'd like, but with a cooked salsa, you want a smoother consistency to help the flavors blend more evenly. Pop them into a blender or food processor and process them until the mixture is nice and smooth.įiery Mango Salsa - Just after the Ingredients are Processed Peel and chop the mango, then chop the peppers, onion, garlic and cilantro. The first thing you'll need to do is gather up your ingredients, including mango, chili peppers, onion, tomatoes, garlic, cilantro, lime juice, red wine vinegar, and a bit of salt and pepper. Making this salsa requires a bit more time than making the fresh version of the salsa, but not much more. How to Make Mango Salsa - The Recipe/Method You'll still noticed the individual flavors of each ingredient, but each will be more subtle. With each ingredient flavor blended as such, the overall flavor of the salsa becomes mellower and more nuanced. Why Cook Your Salsa?įresh salsas are great for their pure, almost raw flavors, but cooking the salsa brings them all together into a certain harmony, allowing them to work together as a whole. There is no cooking involved.Ī cooked salsa, on the other hand, heats the processed ingredients and simmers them to let the flavors mingle and develop. Cooked Salsa?įresh salsa is made with raw ingredients that have been either chopped or processed with some sort of acid, usually vinegar or citrus, then served as an appetizer. This is a continuation of that Fresh Mango Salsa, only we're taking that recipe a step further and we're processing, then cooking the salsa.Ĭooking? Yes! What's the Difference Between Fresh Vs. I recently posted a spicy Habanero Salsa Recipe, which turned out AWESOME, btw, as well as a Fresh Mango Salsa Recipe that I made with habanero peppers, jalapenos and serranos. ![]() Summer is well on the way and to me, summer means SALSA, so I've been busting out some great Salsa Recipes lately. ![]() It's the perfect appetizer or party food, and you can easily adjust it to your own preferred heat and spice level. A tasty mango salsa recipe made with sweet mangos and spicy chili peppers, including jalapenos, serranos, and habanero peppers. ![]() Layer editing is possible, which allows GIMP to do more than just a basic crop and color edit. GIMP has several of the same tools as Photoshop. As an open-source program, GIMP is free to download for Mac, Windows, and Linux. While there are a handful of free Photoshop alternatives, the open-source program GNU Image Manipulation Program (often shortened to GIMP) comes closest to Photoshop’s advanced tools. Includes most basic and mid-level editing controls.The best free Photoshop alternative: GNU Image Manipulation Program Mark Coppock/Digital Trends Gimp Serif, Affinity’s parent company, also offers Affinity Designer and Publisher, but doesn’t have a RAW management program to compete with Lightroom. Likely the biggest perk for Photoshop is the easy integration with the RAW editor and organizer Adobe Lightroom, which is included in the subscription price when you sign up for the Photography Plan. Photoshop also has a more familiar interface for experienced editors, a plethora of tutorials, and plenty of plug-ins. Layers are more easily resized, and EXIF data can be edited, for starters. ![]() Photoshop, however, still has some perks over Affinity. Layers and masking are also a big part of Affinity. The two programs aren’t identical, but Affinity Photo still includes many of the more advanced tools, like photo merging for HDR composites, panoramas, and focus stacking. While Affinity Photo’s incremental updates are free, moving from version 1.0 to 2.0 will not be.Īs the newer program, Affinity Photo launched with a cleaner, more modern design - many users say that the program feels more like using a mobile app. The developers at Affinity Photo know that the program is competing directly with an industry-standard, so the company has worked to include all the major features that Photoshop is known for. That means Affinity users can pay once and be done, whereas Photoshop users will lose access to the program if they cancel their subscriptions - but they are also automatically kept up to date with the latest version without any additional upgrade fee. Right off the bat, however, there are clear differences between the programs - because while Photoshop costs $10 a month, Affinity Photo has a one-time fee of $50. But, even for photographers that don’t own an iPad, Affinity Photo has one of the longest lists of features of any Photoshop alternative.Īffinity Photo and Photoshop have a lot in common, including non-destructive layer editing and both RGB and CMYK color spaces. While the UI is re-designed for iPad, Affinity Photo has the same tools on the mobile app as it does on Windows and Mac. While Adobe may be slowly bringing the Photoshop iPad app up-to-speed with the desktop app, Affinity Photo already has a fully-fledged iPad version. The best Photoshop alternative: Affinity Photo Affinity Photo The best Photoshop alternative for ease of use: Pixelmator Pro.The best Photoshop and Lightroom alternative: Corel PaintShop Pro.The best free Photoshop alternative: GNU Image Manipulation Program.The best Photoshop alternative: Affinity Photo. 5/17/2023 0 Comments Remove duplicate contacts iphoneClick the Link option available on the top-right corner and then tap Done to complete the merging.ĭeleting Duplicate Contacts on iPhone One by One Step #6: After locating the contact, click it to open it. Now locate the contact you wish to merge with the current contact you are editing. Step #5: After tapping the link contacts… option, you will be taken to your contact list. Scroll down the page to the bottom where you will find the link contacts… option. Step #4: On the contact-screen top-right corner, tap on Edit. Step #3: Scroll through your contact list until you locate the duplicated contact that you would like to merge. Step #2: At the bottom of the screen tap Contacts. Step #1: In your iPhone Home Screen, click the Phone icon. The steps we have outlined below should help you learn how to merge duplicate contacts on iPhone: ![]() A better solution would be merging the contacts. This is because by deleting the contacts, you will be losing important information. In such a case, deleting the contacts is not the best solution. Sometimes you will have duplicate contacts on your iPhone but the contacts will have different details. ![]() Delete/Merge Duplicate Contacts on iPhone One by One Merging Duplicate Contacts on iPhone Manually ![]() We will also show you how to merge duplicate contacts on iPhone. In this article, we will show you how to clean up duplicate contacts on iPhone. Any solution you choose should work perfectly and help you clear the mess that duplicate contacts create in your contact list. The best solution to this problem is to either delete the duplicate contacts if they have no useful information or if they have useful information, you should consider merging them into one master contact that contains all the details in it. It can be annoying when you need to find a certain contact and then you find yourself having to go through multiple entries that belong to the same people. If you have been using your iPhone for a long time, your device contact list can become cluttered with duplicated contacts. 5/16/2023 0 Comments Embedded image cyclerIncreased amounts of consumer data exposure, fake news and videos, and biased AI, have caused organizations to shift from trusting central authorities (government registrars, clearing houses) to trusting algorithms. Other emerging technologies under this trend include packaged business capabilities, data fabric, private 5G and embedded AI. Composable enterprise thinking creates more innovation, reduced costs and better partnerships. This modular business model enables organizations to move from rigid, traditional planning to active agility. Although many organizations apply these principles in a piecemeal fashion, a composable enterprise applies all four across all parts of its organization - from business models to how employees work. The composable enterprise has four core principles: Modularity, efficiency, continuous improvement and adaptive innovation. This modular design enables organizations to “recompose” when needed, like during a global pandemic or economic recession. This allows the enterprise to respond to rapidly changing business needs.įor example, a “composable enterprise” supported by a composite architecture offers increased business resilience. ![]() A composite architecture is made up of packaged business capabilities built on a flexible data fabric. In the face of rapid changes and decentralization, organizations need to shift to more agile, responsive architectures. This year’s list highlights five unique trends:īecome a client: Learn how Gartner can help you achieve your mission-critical priorities. The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is a unique Hype Cycle that distills more than 1,700 unique technologies into a list of must-know technologies and trends. “It includes technologies that enable a composable enterprise, aspire to regain society’s trust in technology and alter the state of your brain.”ĭownload roadmap: 2021-2023 Emerging Technology ![]() “This Hype Cycle highlights technologies that will significantly affect business, society and people over the next five to 10 years,” says Brian Burke, Research VP, Gartner. The sheer populations in India and China using health passports pushed this technology to a 5% to 20% market penetration, an unprecedented number for a technology just entering the Hype Cycle. ![]() The United Arab Emirates recently launched ALHOSN UAE, which also indicates via color if a person is okay, infected or need to be quarantined, but also has an option for “hasn’t been tested.” ALHOSN UAE is currently being used to grant access to air travel.Īll of these apps, called health passports, are examples of a pandemic/epidemic response technology and one of the new additions to the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2020. In India, the Aarogya Setu app indicates which travelers are “safe” to use rail and air travel. “ The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is a unique Hype Cycle that distills more than 1,700 unique technologies” A green screen means the person is free to travel, yellow indicates required quarantine and red means a confirmed infection. In most cities in China, citizens and visitors must download Health Code - an app that indicates COVID-19 status - to access many public and private spaces and services. |