Month: December 2016

Solstice sun to reach southernmost point

The December solstice takes place when the sun reaches its southernmost point for the year. In 2016, it happens at 10:44 UTC on December 21. That means that, here in North America, the solstice falls in the early morning hours on December 21 .

LG Electronics to unveil service aid robot and new OLED at CES

South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. will unveil its self-developed guide robot at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to showcase its prowess in converging artificially intelligence and Internet of Things. LG which has been grooming and applying computer deep learning technologies on home appliances will deploy guide and cleaning robots at the Incheon International Airport from next year, a company official said.

NASA’s far-flung space robots keep findings signs of water

Robotic explorers have found signs of long-lost water on Mars and extensive ice still present on the dwarf planet Ceres – evidence that water truly is almost everywhere we look. The results were announced last week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union – the world’s largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.

Tempe company VirTra awarded $2.1 million Arizona contract for police simulators

The local company has been awarded a $2.1 million state contract to provide virtual-reality simulators for use-of-force training to police officers throughout Arizona. Tempe company VirTra awarded $2.1 million Arizona contract for police simulators The local company has been awarded a $2.1 million state contract to provide virtual-reality simulators for use-of-force training to police officers throughout Arizona.

Suresh Prabhu calls on IRCTC, other agencies to expand e-marketing reach

New Delhi, Dec.20 : Minister for Railways Suresh Prabhu has emphasised on the need for effective utilisation of IRCTC e-catering platform for marketing of handicrafts, ethnic foods, tourism destinations, housekeeping services being offered by various self help groups across the country. [NK Business] Addressing a Railway Board meeting earlier this week, Prabhu asserted that NABARD should become a nodal agency for channelising the association of various SHGs providing such services and that other departments and ministries should also come up with action plan for similar projects.

Deskera Partners With Visa on SaaS

Deskera Holdings Ltd. – a global leader in Software as a Service , today announced its partnership with Visa, the world’s largest digital payments network, to provide SaaS to Small and Medium Businesses through the Visa Business Hub in . The Deskera and Visa collaboration is part of Visa’s commitment to empower businesses to leverage on innovative technologies through cost effective SaaS platforms.

Gen-next toys may be controlled by your thoughts

Some of the most popular toys on the children’s list to Santa on Christmas eve like remote-operated cars, helicopters and toy robots may soon be controlled via a headset using the power of thoughts, scientists say. Researchers from the University of Warwick in the UK have developed a technology which allows electronic devices to be activated using electrical impulses from brain waves, by connecting our thoughts to computerised systems.

What is Microsoft Azure and Who Is It For?

The informative article explains the breadth, depth and power of Microsoft Azure, the technology giant’s signature cloud services offering. Considering the confusion they have encountered among business leaders and IT professionals alike, eMazzanti’s cloud experts have assembled material from a variety of sources to paint a clearer picture of the broad collection cloud services known as Microsoft Azure.

Nintendo Switch CPU and GPU Leaks Reveal Console’s Power

And boy, do they spill the beans on a lot of stuff, including Project Scorpio, VR, HoloLens and even Nintendo! Joaby has taken Arkane’s stealth sequel, Dishonored 2, to the whaling review shores and back, read his full verdict! We explore more than just space in this year’s Call of Duty entry from Infinity Ward in our Infinite Warfare review! A lot of the times it’s hard to gauge the power of a console based of the hardware specifications. Taking a look under the hood of either the PS4 or Xbox One and you’ll find graphics hardware that many would see as ancient in the PC gaming space.

Trend Micro Provides IoT Buyers Guide for Holiday Shopping Security Concerns,

Infographics and an interactive quiz are also available, highlighting product features that threat actors can use for accessing personal information and monetary exploitation. “Our goal with these resources is to help parents and guardians keep their families safe from online privacy and security risks,” said Lynette Owens, founder and global director of Internet Safety for Kids & Families at Trend Micro.

django-machina 0.5.0

Django-machina is a forum framework for Django providing a way to build community-driven websites. It offers a full-featured yet very extensible forum solution: Django-machina was built with integration in mind: the application is designed to be used inside existing Django applications.

How IIoT happened at Hirotec

Tier-one automotive supplier Hirotec recently completed a successful test-bed application project that exploits the latest technology advances in industrial connectivity and analytics. The newly implemented system melds operations and maintenance data, and by doing so, it can help employees identify trends that lead to contextualized, actionable insights.

Inside Telstra’s top secret ‘shielded room’

From the outside, you would never know this building holds a labyrinth of switches, signals and secrets, most famously a “shielded room” that has shaped the way the nation communicates for the last three decades. One nondescript corridor leads us in to a series of interconnected buildings filled with gadgets and instruments.

T-Mobile Asks Regulators to Open Up More Licensed Spectrum

Wireless carriers often and predictably cite a severe shortage when it comes to the airwaves that cellular networks are built on. This is nothing new, even if in some cases the public posturing is only that; AT&T currently has approximately 40 MHz of unused spectrum and Verizon has been known to hoard spectrum in the past.

Japan’s SoftBank to invest $1 billion in OneWeb sat factory

Japanese telecoms and energy company SoftBank has agreed to invest $1 billion in the U.S. company OneWeb Ltd., which plans to build a factory in Florida that the companies say could create 3,000 jobs. The two companies announced late Monday that OneWeb had obtained pledges of $1.2 billion from SoftBank and other investors.

Mistry Steps Down From Tata Companies Amid Fight With Scion

Ousted Tata Sons Ltd. Chairman Cyrus Mistry resigned as director of group companies on the eve of shareholder meetings to remove him and pledged to take the fight with the scion of the $100 billion conglomerate to a “larger platform.” Mistry stepped down as a director in Tata Steel Ltd., Tata Chemicals Ltd., Tata Global Beverages Ltd. and Indian Hotels Co., and as chairman of Tata Motors Ltd., the five companies said in stock exchange filings.

Cyber Insurance Now Critical as Data Breaches Wreak Havoc

While 2016 may have been one of the worst years in history for network security, there is at least one silver lining for According to the Insurance Information Institute, more than 60 different insurance companies are now offering standalone cyber insurance policies, with an estimated U.S. market of more than $3.25 billion in gross written premiums this year. That figure is the direct result of two related trends.

SIMCom Wireless Solutions Selects Sequans for Suite of LTE for IoT Modules

December 19, 2016 – LTE for IoT chipmaker Sequans Communications S.A. announced that SIMCom Wireless, global leading machine-to-machine wireless modules and solutions supplier, has adopted Sequans’ LTE chip technology for a suite of M2M and IoT modules. SIMCom will use Sequans’ LTE Cat 1 Platform, Calliope, and its newest LTE Cat M1/NB1 platform, Monarch, for a suite of module solutions.

Pan-STARRS Releases Largest Digital Sky Survey to the World

The Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy is publicly releasing the world’s largest digital sky survey today from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is among the partners who contributed to the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys.

Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R’s for the internet age

This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on Amazon or take a break to watch a holiday movie on Netflix, we are making use of what might be called “the three R’s” of the Internet Age: rating, ranking and recommending. Much like the traditional “three R’s” of education “reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic” no modern education is complete without understanding how websites’ algorithms combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.

Printers as a Security Threat

In today’s digital age, everybody knows just how important security is. We look at PCs and smartphones-and the valuable data they hold-and immediately understand how rich a target those devices are to cyber criminals.

Telecom Cloud Billing Market Worth 8.22 Billion USD by 2021

According to a new market research report ” Telecom Cloud Billing Market by Type of Billing , Cloud Platform, Deployment, End User, Service, Rate of Charging Mode, and Region – Global Forecast to 2021″ , published by MarketsandMarkets, the market size is estimated to grow from Browse 75 market data Tables and 59 Figures spread through 160 P ages and in-depth TOC on ” Telecom Cloud Billing Market ” Lower operational & administration costs, advancement & increase in adoption of cloud-based technologies, increasing mobile penetration and high subscriber growth, need for real-time billing, and increased demand for bundled services are some of the driving forces in the Telecom Cloud Billing Market.

Replacing missing gut bacteria could help treat children with rare autoimmune disease

Defects in the body’s regulatory T cells cause inflammation and autoimmune disease by altering the type of bacteria living in the gut, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered. The study, “Resetting microbiota by Lactobacillus reuteri inhibits T reg deficiency-induced autoimmunity via adenosine A2A receptors,” which will be published online December 19 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that replacing the missing gut bacteria, or restoring a key metabolite called inosine, could help treat children with a rare and often fatal autoimmune disease called IPEX syndrome.