Dec 28 Britain’s FTSE 100 index is seen opening 0.07 percent higher on Wednesday after a four-day Christmas break, according to financial bookmakers, with futures up 0.1 percent ahead of the cash market open. * BOVIS HOMES: Bovis Homes said it would not deliver the number of houses it originally expected in 2016, after about 180 sales failed to complete before the end of the year, resulting in a likely miss against market profit forecasts.
Month: December 2016
Gold Shakes Off Trump Slump With Third Advance as Year-End Nears
Gold may be emerging from its Trump slump as 2016 winds down. Prices rose for a third day to head for the longest run of gains since early November, the period just before the reality-television star seized the White House and kick-started a push for risk assets that’s hurt prices.
Global Stocks Advance While Crude Extends Rally: Markets Wrap
Global equities climbed in thin trading, while oil headed for the longest winning streak in almost seven years. The yen weakened for a second day.
Mexico Gasoline Prices to Surge by the Most in Two Decades
Mexico will raise gasoline prices by as much as 20 percent in January, stoking inflation that’s already running at the fastest pace in almost two years. A month after the increase is implemented, prices will start to adjust on a daily basis as the government loosens its control of the gasoline market, the Finance Ministry said in an e-mailed statement Tuesday.
Switcher: Android joins the ‘attack-the-router’ club
Recently, in our never-ending quest to protect the world from malware, we found a misbehaving Android trojan. Although malware targeting the Android OS stopped being a novelty quite some time ago, this trojan is quite unique.
China’s Zhizhen eyes global push on artificial intelligence
Shanghai-based software company Zhizhen Network Technology, which sued Apple four years ago over a voice recognition patent for the iPhone Siri “personal assistant”, plans to expand into the US in 2017 with ambitions of becoming a global leader in artificial intelligence. It will set up offices in Hong Kong and Silicon Valley to develop software to cater to local clients, a fresh sign that Chinese technology firms are speeding up their “go-global” drive to take on big-names such as Microsoft and Amazon for world markets.
A Sparse Nonlinear Classifier Design Using AUC Optimization
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Infants segment continuous events using transitional probabilities.
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Qualcomm to provide more details about Snapdragon 835 processor at CES 2017
Snapdragon 835 comes with Quick Charge 4.0 support that is claimed to offer five hours of power in five minutes of charge. All those who have been still battling battery woes are in for a treat in the coming year as Qualcomm prepares to unveil its next processor which aims to significantly take the battery efficiency notches up.
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Samsung Electronics announced it will unveil its first ever, award-winning Wind-Freea wall-mounted air conditioner at CES 2017 in Las Vegas, following the huge success of its floor-standing Wind-Freea air conditioner in South Korea. The AR9500M air conditioner has integrated Samsung’s exclusive Wind-Freea Cooling technology into its design – providing customers with a cooler indoor climate and optimal energy efficiency without the discomfort of direct cold airflow.
Top 10 retail IT stories in 2016
Computer Weekly looks over how the shifting consumer landscape has changed the retail industry during 2016, with increased collaboration, growing consumer power, and mergers and acquisitions The retail space has been in a state of flux over the last decade, with some retailers succeeding in catering to digital customers whilst others still struggle to connect their online and offline offerings. Access this guide to aid you in facing the challenges, opportunities and key actions need to consider in preparing your organisation for GDPR.
Top 10 mobile stories of 2016
In the mobile world, some of the biggest stories of the year had a distinctly political flavour to them. BT had its takeover of EE waived through at the start of 2015, but the concurrent acquisition of O2 by Three was denied due to competition concerns.
Editorial: End of grocery line?
Americans spend — waste — a year or two of their lives waiting in line, wishing it would move faster, staring daggers at any potential interlopers, fixing with disdain anyone who dawdles or delays the line’s steady clip. For those trying to avoid long queues, the grocery store is one of the most daunting challenges.
Graphene NanoChem wins first order for its smart fluid in China
Shares soared in Graphene NanoChem on Wednesday after the nanotechnology provider announced it had won its first contract order for its smart fluid in the shale gas market in China worth about $360,000. The order is for 4,000 barrels of PlatDrill, a smart fluid that speeds the drilling and quality of shale gas as well proving environmental and economic benefits, at two well in Changning, China.
myks-gallery 0.6
Rather than use a photo manager, I just create a new directory for each event and put my photos inside. I include the date of the event in the name of the directory and I rename photos based on their date and time.
django-rest-secureview 0.0.2
At the moment, it focuses on enforcing specific model keys in POST params, or requiring that a User has a foreign key relation to a model they are accessing.
Outdoors
Eleven-year-old Leo Rotar, a fifth-grader at Minocqua J1 School District, was happy to have a successful hunt this year on his uncle’s land near Marshfield. His plan at the beginning of the season was to shoot a buck, and that is exactly what he did, bagging a 9-point buck.
Stanford scientists see big potential for tiny wires
Assembled with the help of diamondoids, the microscopic nanowires can be seen with the naked eye because the strong mutual attraction between their diamondoid shells makes them clump together, in this case by the millions. At top right, an image made with a scanning electron microscope shows nanowire clusters magnified 10,000 times.
Ohio Governor Vetoes Bill to Extend Freeze on Renewable Energy
Ohio Governor John Kasich rejected a bill to extend a freeze on a law that requires utilities in the state to buy more electricity from renewable sources including wind and solar power.
Amazon reports best holiday season ever with 1 billion items sold
The company said it shipped more than 1 billion items worldwide this holiday season – which the top online retailer called its best ever – and its shares rose 1.6% in afternoon trading Tuesday. The Amazon Echo home assistant and its smaller version, Echo Dot, topped the best-sellers list, Jeff Wilke, chief executive of Amazon’s worldwide consumer division, said in a statement.
Bringing the Internet of Robotics to Life
KUKA Connect is a cloud-based software platform that securely leverages cloud computing technologies and big data analytics to provide customers maximum visibility into their connected robots. The Internet of Robotics – recently a vision of the future – now has a name: KUKA Connect.
Why this iPhone costs a whopping $6500
The company, known for its encrypted communications gear, has designed the product with military personnel, politicians and businessmen in mind. What makes this modified iPhone so special is that it has been made into a mobile broadband satellite communicator, capable of receiving signal anywhere on the planet.
Patent No. 616696A: Hose Cleaner
Today in 1898, US Patent 616696 A was issued, an invention of John R. Cochran, for his “Hose Cleaner.” There’s no Abstract, although in the description it includes these claims: My invention relates to methods of cleaning and cleaners for the interior of hose or pipe, and more especially such hose or pipes as are used by brewers in racking off beer.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
After many years serving in d… )–Opus Bank announced today that it completed on December 23, 2016 the securitization of approximately $509 million of its multifamily loans th… )–ALS and AD bioinformatics reports confirm GM6’s role as regulator of disease-relevant pathways.
Is your favourite shop spying on you? High Street giants ‘are…
High Street giants including Marks & Spencer and Topshop secretly track the movements of their customers using wi-fi on their mobile phones. New technology allows retailers to see where customers move around stores by picking up signals sent by phones when they look for internet networks to join.
Streaming devices that bring your TV back to life
Whether you choose Google’s Chromecast, the Amazon Fire Stick with Alexa Voice Control, or Roku Express+, a number of devices are available that can be connected to your TV to enable you to watch streamed programming Like it or not, internet streaming is now ubiquitous in modern-day living. Whether you live a “Netflix and chill” kind of life, or enjoy watching YouTube tutorials or video blogs, you may find that you’re spending far more time on your tablet or laptop and neglecting your TV.
Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ValueWalk: A robot designed by a veteran of science fiction blockbusters which bear a striking resemblance to the military robots seen in the movie Avatar has taken its first baby steps . The robot standing in a room on the outskirts of Seoul, South Korea stands four meters tall and weighs 1.5 tons.
Leawo Celebrates 2016 Christmas Day by Offering 50% Discount for Apple Utility Products
Christmas is one of the most important holiday for people. To celebrate the approaching of 2016 Christmas Day, Leawo Software starts the second period of its 2016 Christmas Giveaway and Special Offers activity today.
Bill fast-tracked to attract LakePharma
The bill , filed just earlier this month, emerged Tuesday morning from the House Ways and Means Committee and was whisked through the House by noon. Senate Majority Leader Harriette Chandler, D-Worcester, said she hoped to shepherd the bill through the Senate on Tuesday.
Hour Of Code aspires to create digital India
Code.org an NGO from the US with support from Facebook, Microsoft, Infosys and many others has come up with one of the largest learning events in history ‘The Hour of Code’. Vidyanidhi Info Tech Academy at Vile Parle, Mumbai hosted the ‘Hour Of Code’ event during the computer science education week in December for students of their school, and also for Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Gandhigram school, in their neighbourhood.
Skinners barefoot running socks are so durable you can walk on broken glass
Back in June of 2016, we featured Skinners as an awesome piece of new tech that wasn’t available for purchase yet. Having recently exceeded their Kickstarter funding goal by leaps and bounds, Skinners are now being shipped to backers around the world and are available for preorder on their Kickstarter page .
Wisconsin mall evacuated due to threats, a day after mall fight spree
A mall near Appleton, Wisconsin, was evacuated on Tuesday as a precaution due to “an unsubstantiated threat,” a county official said, adding the incident does not appear to be linked to fights that broke out at several U.S. malls a day earlier. There was a heavy police presence at the Fox River Mall in Grand Chute, an official with Outagamie County said.
BRIEF-Hunan Huakai Cultural and Creative issues prospectus for Shenzhen IPO
NEW YORK, Dec 27 Three Chinese citizens have been criminally charged in the United States with trading on confidential corporate information obtained by hacking into networks and servers of law firms working on mergers, U.S. prosecutors said on Tuesday.
The Humble Elevator and the Rise of Modern Civilization
Elevators, though they might not seem like it at first, are one of those inventions-like the telephone, the car, indoor plumbing, or vaccines-that are nearly miraculous in the degree to which they have changed the way we live and yet tend to fade unnoticed into the background of modern life. Nick Paumgarten wrote about the centrality of the elevator to the modern metropolis in his 2008 story ” Up and Then Down .”
The Patent Troll Abides: 2016 in Review
Patent trolls were down but certainly not out in 2016. After a massive burst of litigation at the end of last year , we saw a noticeable drop in patent troll lawsuits at the start of this one.
NASA telescopes find clues for how giant black holes formed so quickly
Using data from NASA’s Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive black holes. Researchers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope to identify these possible black hole seeds.
Art goes 3D
Ed Hanlon made a big investment in equipment for his art classes at the middle school this year, but in doing so he’s sparked the imagination and creativity of students, teachers and administrators in School District 209-U. Joliet Junior College unveiled its new maker lab last spring, and Hanlon attended an open house to see its 3D printers and laser cutters.
Pluristem Therapeutics And New York Blood Center To Collaborate In…
Pluristem Therapeutics And New York Blood Center To Collaborate In Evaluating PLX-R18 As An Adjuvant Therapy To Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation, Winning $900,000 Funding From BIRD Prior research has suggested that PLX-R18 helps cord blood cells to engraft more rapidly and effectively Grant of $900,000 from Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation to fund the research Constitutes a 3rd potential hematologic indication for PLX-R18 HAIFA, Israel, Dec. 27, 2016 — Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. , a leading developer of placenta-based cell therapy products, today announced that it will collaborate with the New York Blood Center on preclinical studies of its Placental eXpanded -R18 cells to enhance the efficacy of umbilical cord blood transplantation.
How Can Device and Smart Home Solution Developers Help Service…
The smart home market is evolving from a collection of siloed connected devices aS’ each with their own connectivity protocols, their own gateways, and their own monitoring and control apps aS’ into a complete unified solution of services. This new market concept, which is called smart home as a service , changes the entire market paradigm to be more in line with what consumers actually want.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
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