According to a posting on the ARRL website, the legislation, H.R. 4006, also known as the “Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act,” is intended to support the ability of amateur radio operators to install “reasonable” antennas and antenna structures on property or land that they own or control.
Congressman Bill Johnson (OH), one of the sponsors of the proposed legislation, noted that passage of the bill would help “remove barriers to disaster and emergency communications and training,” as well as “promote education in STEM subjects related to critically needed wireless technology.”
The bill is backed by the ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio.
According to a posting on the yahoo!finance website, the company, Carrar, has developed a two-phase battery thermal management solution that minimizes the risk of thermal runaway, thereby significantly increasing battery safety. At the same time, by optimizing the operating temperature range of the battery, the company’s innovative thermal management technology can help to double the effective battery life, thereby reducing the environmental impact of battery waste.
Carrar has recently announced a partnership with Rochling Automotive, a German-based supplier of customized plastic solutions, to develop a fully-sealed module for EV batteries that incorporates both Carrar’s advanced thermal management technology and Rochling’s lightweight plastic solutions.
The Guidance, “Content of Premarket Submissions for Device Software Functions,” is intended to cover a variety of software-driven functions available in today’s advanced medical devices, including firmware, software accessories, and software-only functions, such as functions intended to be operated on commercial OTS computing platforms. The Guidance does not apply to automated manufacturing or quality system software.
According to the Guidance, specific areas of software functionality that should be documented in premarket submissions include:
- Software description
- Risk management file
- Software requirement specifications
- System and software architecture design
- Software design specifications
- Software development, configuration management, and maintenance practices
- Software testing as part of verification and validation
- Software version history
- Unresolved software anomalies
As a reminder, Guidance documents issued by the FDA are intended only to represent the current thinking of the agency and are not binding on either the FDA or the public.
According to an article posted on the website of the New York Times, the Parliament has voted to adopt a revised version of a Proposal from the EU Commission that would help to ensure that AI technologies and systems are “safe, transparent, traceable, non-discriminatory, and environmentally friendly.” The final version of the draft A.I. Act passed by Parliament will now be negotiated between the Parliament, the Commission, and the Council of the European Union, with a final agreement expected to be reached by year’s end.
The Parliament’s revision of the Commission’s Proposal includes bans on “intrusive and discriminatory uses of AI systems,” including certain biometric identification systems, the scraping of biometric data from social media to create facial recognition databases, and biometric categorization systems using sensitive characteristics, such as gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or political orientation.
Policymakers in other countries have also initiated discussions on potential steps to control the use and control of AI technologies. But the actions by the EU represent the most significant advancement of potential AI regulatory controls to date.