He created one of the world’s biggest tech companies earning him billions but the late Steve Jobs, the man behind the iPod, iPad and iPhone, once let slip to a New York Times journalist that he strictly limited his children’s use of technology. And, as it turns out, the chief technology officer of eBay sent his children to a Waldorf school where screen time is actively discouraged and the use of screens at home is frowned upon.
Month: December 2016
Youths among dead as Philippine gunmen kill seven in ‘drugs den’
Three minors were among seven people shot dead by suspected vigilantes in the Philippines at a house storing illegal narcotics, police said on Thursday, in the latest killings during a bloody and murky war on drugs. Two unknown gunmen arrived on motorcycles and entered what police called a drugs den north of the capital Manila late on Wednesday.
django-djaffar 0.1.8
Want to keep track of what your users do even when they don’t hit the server? Set up Djaffar on the server and make a request to the client API to log user activity to the database, including URI path, user name, browser session, IP address and user agent. Requirements ———— Django .
Reflections 2016: Mary Stuart – A momentous year for the University of Lincoln
Proffessor Mary Stuart, Vice Chancellor at the University of Lincoln, is delighted to be placed so highly in the rankings. One of our proudest achievements was being placed in the top 10 nationally for student experience and teaching quality out of more than 120 universities listed in the prestigious Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2017.
One-stop-shop: Server steals data then offers it for sale
While intercepting traffic from a number of infected machines that showed signs of Remote Admin Tool malware known as HawkEye, we stumbled upon an interesting domain. It was registered to a command and control server which held stolen keylog data from HawkEye RAT victims, but was also being used as a one-stop-shop for purchasing hacking goods.
Top 10 desktop, tablet, smartphone and mobile device stories
There has been a lot of change in IT this year, but the one constant has been the continued decline of the PC industry. In March, Computer Weekly reported Windows 10 had done little to stimulate upgrades in business.
Exclusive – Bangladesh police detail suspicions of inside help in central bank heist
A top investigator into the electronic theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access. In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists last February.
Will a wireless HTC Vive 2 headset be unveiled next week?
The HTC Vive is arguably the best VR headset that money – admittedly a lot of it – can buy right now. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect though, and despite only being a few months old, a second-generation model with improved features is already reportedly on the way.
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter recovering from Protective Status
NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, which has been in service at Mars since October 2001, put itself into safe mode – a protective standby status – on December 26th, while remaining in communication with Earth. The Odyssey project team has diagnosed the cause – an uncertainty aboard the spacecraft about its orientation with regard to Earth and the sun – and is restoring the orbiter to full operations.
Relations between Obama, Netanyahu camps hit rock bottom
Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about Israeli-Palestinian policy, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the State Department in Washington. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about Israeli-Palestinian policy, Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016, at the State Department in Washington.
The Best Personal Technology of 2016
Traditional broadcast TV services have stagnated over the past couple of years, while over-the-top services such as Amazon Video, Netflix and the BBC’s iPlayer led the way. Sky’s Q dragged broadcast TV kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a modern interface, fast box and service that put time and place shifting at the heart of it.
Pocklington teenager wins prestigious engineering award
A SCHOOL girl from East Yorkshire has been picked out as a future leader in engineering after a prestigious award win. Pocklington School lower sixth student Naomi Allison has been awarded an engineering scholarship by the Arkwright Scholarships Trust at an awards ceremony in London for the UK’s most talented STEM students.
AMD Unveils Radeon Instinct Chips
The new Radeon Instinct GPU-based accelerators unveiled yesterday by chipmaker AMD are aimed at dramatically improving the capabilities of machine intelligence in server computing, the company said. In addition to the new hardware, AMD also announced new software frameworks and a new open source library for GPU-based machine learning implementations.
Climate Change: The Frightening Rise of Dangerous Manmade Global Voguing
A change in temperature is a change in climate. We worry about man-made climate change if a temperature change will last decades or centuries and if the change will disfigure the environment.
Forget the fireworks — look for a comet in the sky on New Year’s Eve
Even if you’re not a fan of New Year’s Eve fireworks, you’ll have another reason to look to the skies. NASA says as we ring in the new year, a comet will near the moon and be visible to those looking west.
Why connecting all the world’s robots will drive 2017’s top technology trends
If you want to make predictions for the future, you need to find the trajectory of events in the past. So to work out what shape digital technology will likely take next year, we should look back to the major developments of 2016.
Invasive parakeets muscle in on native bird’s nests in Israel
There just aren’t enough palm tree homes to go around. Invasive ring-necked parakeets have prompted a rapid decline in Israel’s native hoopoe population, probably because of their aggressive takeover of nesting cavities in palm trees.
Scotland’s papers: Jobs lost to robots and religion in classrooms
A report warns a robot revolution will place millions of British jobs under threat from automation, according to the Herald and the Scotsman which both lead on the story. The Times claims a poll for their paper shows majority of Scots believe that rules should be changed to ensure that children are not made to take part in religious observance at school.
Have a High Speed Secured Browsing With Retail Secure In Ireland
Dec. 29, 2016 – PRLog — United Kingdom – Retail Secure is now offering PCI compliance guest WIFI solutions in Ireland at an affordable cost. Retail Secure is a popular name in the UK for providing the most secured legally complaisant guest WIFI solutions.
Dylann Roof won’t work to spare his life in church massacre
Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof says he won’t call any witnesses or present evidence while representing himself during the punishment phase of his death penalty trial, but he is working hard to keep secret potentially embarrassing evidence about himself and his family. Just exactly what that evidence is remains a mystery.
Asia Stocks Follow U.S. Lower as Yen Strengthens: Markets Wrap
Asian stocks followed U.S. equities lower and the yen climbed as investors prepared to close out a volatile year for financial markets. Oil dropped from its highest close in 17 months.
Oil IPOs Seen Ready to Bloom Across U.S. as Crude Heads Higher
Rising crude prices and a deregulatory push in Washington may spur as many as 40 companies to hold initial public offerings over the next two years, potentially tripling 2016’s activity, according to Maynard Holt, chief executive officer at Houston-based investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. After a year in which explorers in the Permian shale basin straddling Texas and New Mexico dominated the business, interest in new oil-industry offerings is likely to spread wider.
Nvidia Falls as Citron Research Says Stock – Belongs at $90′
Shares of graphics chipmaker Nvidia Corp. fell the most in almost month after an investment newsletter run by activist short seller Andrew Left said the stock “belongs at $90.” Nvidia has more than tripled this year to $117.32 at Tuesday’s close.
Why 2016 a vibrant season to the computing industry
As the semiconductor industry matures and consolidates, the year 2016 has been a vibrant season to the computing industry with latest breakthroughs. A year ago, analysts were divided over whether virtual reality would gain traction in 2016 or just crash and burn again.
invoice2data 0.2.40
Tested on Python 2.7, 3.4 and 3.5 – extracts text from PDF files – searches for regex in the result – saves results as CSV – optionally renames PDF files to match the content With the flexible template system you can: – precisely match PDF files – define static fields that are the same for every invoice – have multiple regex per field – define currency Go from PDF files to this: “` {‘date’: , ‘invoice_number’: ‘30064443’, ‘amount’: 34.73, ‘desc’: ‘Invoice 30064443 from QualityHosting’} {‘date’: , ‘invoice_number’: ‘EUVINS1-OF5-DE-120725895’, ‘amount’: 35.24, ‘desc’: ‘Invoice EUVINS1-OF5-DE-120725895 from Amazon EU’} {‘date’: , ‘invoice_number’: ‘42183017’, ‘amount’: 4.11, ‘desc’: ‘Invoice 42183017 from Amazon Web Services’} {‘date’: , ‘invoice_number’: ‘12429647’, ‘amount’: 101.0, ‘desc’: ‘Invoice 12429647 from Envato’} “` ## Installation 1. Install pdftotext If possible get the latest … (more)
China aims to be on Mars by the end of 2020
China is aiming to own the race for space in the next decade, the country’s space agency has said. China’s ambitious and fast-growing space programme is targeting a landing on the dark si China is aiming to own the race for space in the next decade, the country’s space agency has said.
Asked about Russia sanctions, Trump says ‘we ought to get on with our lives’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested that the United States and Russia lay to rest the controversy over Moscow’s computer hacking of Democratic Party computers, saying, “We ought to get on with our lives.” Trump has cast doubt on the findings of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian hackers took information from Democratic Party computers and individuals and posted it online to help Trump win the election.
Playbook: Crowdsourcing for modern day packaging innovation
In the field of packaging, crowdsourcing, the process of seeking contributions from a large pool of online community for services or ideas, rather than using traditional means, is being used extensively for graphic designs and logos. The big breakthrough is coming in the use of crowdsourcing for packaging innovation.
Stanford women top 100 points in rout of Yale
Karlie Samuelson made four 3-pointers and scored 21 points, Erica McCall had 19 points and six rebounds, and No. 13 Stanford beat Yale 102-44 on Wednesday.
San Jose: Work begins on Midtown project with 800 housing units
This rendering shows what the mixed-use project that began construction last month at the corner of Auzerais Avenue and Sunol Street in San Jose will look like. After a decade-long planning process that weathered neighborhood resistance and the economic recession, local developers recently broke ground on the first phase of a large residential mixed-use project in Midtown San Jose.
El Granada man pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
A 20-year-old El Granada man pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he tried to force his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend to have sex with him at a San Mateo County beach, according to prosecutors. Erick Mendez-Corona is charged with one felony count of assault with intent to commit rape, one felony count of attempted sexual battery and one misdemeanor count of completed sexual battery.
One small step for man, one giant step for robot suit with man inside – CNET
When you mention South Korean tech companies the name Hankook Mirae Technology isn’t the first to come to mind. But yesterday, the company made its 13-foot 1.5 ton manned-robot, the Method-2, take a step.
BRIEF-Hanmi Semiconductor signs contract worth 3.52 bln won
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
BRIEF-Systems Technology to buy facilities for 6.71 bln won
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 The Obama administration plans to announce on Thursday a series of retaliatory measures against Russia for hacking into U.S. political institutions and individuals and leaking information in an effort to help President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
Finally, a robot vacuum you can control with Amazon Alexa
Samsung’s robot vacuums, which go by the name “Powerbot,” are learning new tricks faster than much of their peers, and now you can even control the autonomous beasts with your voice, thanks to new compatibility with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The Powerbot VR7000 is Samsung’s the newest top-of-the-line robo-vac, and it’ll work with Amazon’s Echo devices right out of the box.
Dark Skies for International Copyright: 2016 in Review
It’s hard to imagine that a year ago we were celebrating “positive movement” towards reforms to European copyright law, expecting that the European Commission would be soon proposing new copyright exceptions and other measures to modernize Europe’s aging copyright regime. Instead, what we got was a proposal to force user-generated content websites to do deals with copyright holders to scan and filter users’ uploads , along with a proposal to give news publishers the power to impose a link tax on third-party websites such as news aggregators.
Does This Amazon Prime Offer Even Make Sense?
Prime membership programhas become something of the industry gold standard for retail loyalty programs. For $99 a year, members receive free two-day delivery on virtually everything they purchase on the site, including groceries, plus get access to movies, musics, e-books, and more.
Fireworks crushed in a hydraulic press
The hydraulic press is the greatest invention in online destruction that you’ll ever see. It’s consistent, it’s unstoppable, and it’s hilarious (or at least the operators are). Here it is crushing some fireworks.
ARI Network Services Inc. (ARIS) Upgraded at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “ARI Network Services, Inc. is a provider of business-to-business Internet e-commerce solutions for manufacturers with shared distribution and service networks. The company currently serves segments of the manufactured equipment market, including Outdoor Power, Recreation Vehicle, Floor Maintenance, Marine, and Construction.
Analysts’ Updated EPS Estimates for December, 28th (ACFC, ADVOF,…
According to Zacks, “Atlantic Coast Financial Corporation, formerly known as Atlantic Coast Federal Corporation, operates as a savings bank through its subsidiary Atlantic Coast Bank, a federally chartered and insured savings bank serving northeastern Florida and southeastern Georgia markets. The products offered by the bank includes checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, demand deposit accounts, time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit, family residential first and second mortgage loans, home-equity loans, commercial real estate loans, commercial and residential construction loans, land and multi-family real estate loans, commercial business loans, and automobile and other consumer loans.