The AirPods represent Apple’s vision of the mobile future. The company announced them at the same time that it unveiled the iPhone 7, the first model of its smartphone to lack a headphone jack.
Day: December 30, 2016
Hubble Gazes at A Cosmic Megamaser
This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way.
Pulsations Detected in A Hot, Helium-Atmosphere White Dwarf
Astronomers have recently discovered non-radial oscillations in a hot, helium-atmosphere white dwarf designated PG 0112+104. The newly detected 11 independent pulsation modes in this white dwarf could be essential for researchers testing the radial differential rotation and internal compositional stratification of highly evolved stellar remnants.
The 20 games you shouldn’t miss in 2016
Since I last presented a year-end videogame wrap-up for Boing Boing readers, it’s become an exponentially harder task. The number of games released per day has – even just since 2014! – risen a few times over , so narrowing a list down means leaving amazing and creative work behind.
More than 20,000 dead fish mysteriously washed up in Nova Scotia
Tens of thousands of fish, starfish, scallops, crabs, lobsters, and other ocean life washed up dead this week at Savory Park on the western coast of Nova Scotia. The cause of the massive fish death is not yet known.
Snowden Leak Suggests the NSA Could Prove Identity of DNC Hackers
A previously unpublished top-secret document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests the National Security Agency has the ability to conclusively determine who hacked Democratic Party servers during the 2016 election season. Sam Biddle at The Intercept explains: “The agency tracked a similar hack before in the case of a prominent Russian journalist, who was also a U.S. citizen.”
5 things you can’t miss at Hacker Connect
Inman’s Hacker Connect can provide just that for real estate techies, with discussions, debates and collaborative sessions that will reveal insights on some of the industry’s most pressing and upcoming tech issues. . It has a robust list of engineers, developers, designers, product managers, database architects, webmasters and technology executives from around the world both speaking and attending.
Police charge three more hacker suspects
THE military has handed over three more suspected hackers to police for their alleged involvement in the recent cyber attacks on government agency websites, a Royal Thai Police spokesman said yesterday. Police Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen, deputy spokesman for the police force, said that the three suspects, all men, had been charged with taking part in a criminal syndicate, in addition to violations against the Computer Crime Act.
The real political divide is education
The two main political parties in this country are about to face a challenge that will create a complete realignment as politicians are forced to choose between robots and people. Vespasian ruled Rome from AD 69 to AD 79. The emperor was one of the first heads of state to encourage the development of art, science and technology.
Softbank’s humanoid robot Pepper is amusing, but is it also practical?
While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall. But don’t dismiss it as mere child’s play.
Ethiopia: Sharing Animal Husbandry Experience
In spite of the fact that Ethiopia has abundant resources of livestock, it has not exploited the prevailing potential due lack of skilled power and proper technology. In spite of some efforts to encourage crossbreeding between local and exotic breeds of almost all domestic livestock, the number of crossbreeds remain to be negligible.
Poles bid farewell to truck driver killed in Berlin attack
The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral ceremonies. less The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral … more The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral ceremonies.
Israel’s Netanyahu denies ‘baseless’ reports of new scandal
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot, left, and Israel’s air force commander Maj.General Amir Eshel attend a graduation ceremony for new pilots in the Hatzerim air force base near the city of Beersheba, Israel, Thursday, Dec. 29, 2016.
Leighton’s Mat presents a Snowman to Tim Peake
Mat Williams, 30, was commissioned by Lupus Films in December 2015 to produce a drawing of the astronaut floating with The Snowman and The Snowdog because Major Tim had tweeted to say he was a fan of the film and its composer, Ilan Eshkeri. Mat, a background artist for the 2012 animation, had to scan the drawing to send an image of it to the International Space Station, but a few weeks ago the artist finally got to meet Major Tim in person, giving him the special picture.
Odd News salutes the most useless inventions of 2016
Conventional wisdom holds that “necessity is the mother of invention,” but if that’s the case, some inventions that made headlines in 2016 must be downright motherless. There were plenty of inventions and breakthroughs in 2016 that filled important needs for humanity, but we here at UPI Odd News are more concerned with a less-recognized category of innovations — those that seemingly serve only to promote lazy, bizarre, or downright dangerous behavior.
Maximizing propulsive thrust of a driven filament at low Reynolds number via variable flexibility
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. At low Reynolds numbers the locomotive capability of a body can be dramatically hindered by the absence of inertia.
U.S. Said to Plan Release of Evidence Showing Russian Hacking
The FBI and Homeland Security Department will release a report Thursday with technical evidence intended to prove Russia’s military and civilian intelligence services were behind hacking attacks during this year’s presidential campaign, according to a U.S. official. The documentation will be offered in tandem with sanctions that the Obama administration announced Thursday in retaliation for the breach of Democratic National Committee e-mails as Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump were campaigning for the White House.
2016: When Linux containers became mainstream
In truth, 2016 wasn’t The Year of the Container. That was 2015, when the possibility and promise of containers came along and knocked IT for a loop .
Govt mulls ‘cashless’ ride for commuters on Mumbai-Nagpur expressway
The proposed 710-km Mumbai-Nagpur Super Expressway will be going cashless with the Maharashtra government planning to use modern technology for toll levy as part of its efforts to boost digital payments. “Instead of toll nakas, there will be RFID censors to enable commuters to pay toll,” PWD Principal Secretary Ashish Kumar Singh said.
Rats and cockroaches among thousands of pests found in NHS hospitals
Thousands of pests including cockroaches and rats have been found in NHS hospitals in each of the last five years as the cost of tackling them has spiralled, new figures show. Data obtained by the Press Association under Freedom of Information laws shows there were nearly 5,000 pest control call-outs by NHS trusts to hospitals in England in 2015/16 – equivalent to around 13 a day.
The Year in Review – 2016 Most Read Stories on Hospitality Net
As 2016 comes to an end, we took an opportunity to look back at what sparked our readers’ interest this past year on Hospitality Net. We would like to share the top opinion articles published on our website in the last 12 months.
Southeast Asia’s Best Stock Seen Extending Rally on Cost Cut
PT Adaro Energy, Southeast Asia’s best-performing stock this year, is expected by analysts to extend gains in 2017 as it benefits from rising coal prices and cost-cutting initiatives. The coal miner’s measures to reduce expenses resulted in an earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization margin of 36.2 percent in the third quarter, the largest among Indonesia’s five biggest listed coal miners, and the highest quarterly reading in three years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Oil and Gas Explorers Headed for IPO Are Finding Buyers Circling
As oil prices stabilize and confidence returns to the patch, there’s been an uptick in oil and gas companies filing to go public. With prized assets in the industry’s promised lands, not all of them make it that far.
Northern lights’ festive show captured in stunning NASA image
The northern lights – the swirling, cloud-like features in this image – stretched across northern Canada during the nighttime hours of Dec. 22, 2016. The northern lights put on a festive show over northern Canada just before Christmas, and a NASA satellite captured a stunning infrared image of the spectacular display.
Red Solo Cup inventor Robert Hulseman dies at age 84
Robert Hulseman, who in the 1970s invented the Red Solo Cup for family picnics only to see it embraced as the go-to beverage holder at college keg parties and football tailgates – and even the inspiration for a country music party hit – has died. He was 84. The former president and chief executive of his family’s Solo Cup Co.
Couchtuner – A Review Of One Of The Most Popular TV Show Streaming Sites.
Hi friends, today we are reviewing the popular streaming site Couchtuner. If you are in need of a website to view the latest and most popular TV shows from the USA and abroad, then read on to hear our verdict about this site.
The consortium powering India’s space race
ISRO has an opportunity to be the one-stop shop for satellite manufacturing, and Alpha Design is just the booster it needed. Raghu Krishnan reports.
News 1 mins ago 5:37 a.m.Rep. Franks: If Russia hacked, it was a public service
Rep. Trent Franks addresses the Luke Air Force Base F-35 Lightning II Unveiling Ceremony in Glendale, Ariz., March 14, 2014. “I’m all for doing what’s necessary to protect the electorate but there’s no suggestion that Russia hacked into our voting systems or anything like that,” Franks said on MSNBC Thursday.
News 13 mins ago 5:25 a.m.Look to the sky for New Year’s Eve comet
“Say farewell to 2016 in cosmic style by looking up to see the #NewYearsEve #comet on December 31,” the laboratory said in a Wednesday Instagram post. Say farewell to 2016 in cosmic style by looking up to see the #NewYearsEve #comet on December 31 YZ< #NewYear #astronomy #nightsky #comet45p #planets #NASA #JPL #WhatsUp #NYE #newyears The comet, NASA said, was expected to appear in the western horizon on Dec. 15 and had a bluish-green head by Dec. 21. The comet is a periodic comet, which returns to the inner solar system about every 5 years.
Van Gaal’s ‘sex masochism’, ‘sore loser’ Ronaldo & Rambo Ibrahimovic – The best quotes of 2016
Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho and Zlatan all feature as Goal’s Mark Doyle brings you the most memorable comments of the past 12 months The end of another year is always an apt time for reflection. Unless, of course, you’re Jurgen Klopp, who had no interest in celebrating his first anniversary as Liverpool boss.
Top 10 Predictions for Biz Robotics
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CES 2017: Cars, robots are expected to star
CES 2017: Cars, robots are expected to star Think Alexa, but with a personality for robots, at next week’s sprawling trade show. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://usat.ly/2iNbRzi Jefferson Graham previews what to look for at the world’s biggest trade show, with robots, drones, connected cars and virtual reality gear leading the pack.