Day: January 11, 2017

Art in MTR Exhibition Displays Students’ Innovative Design on Hostels for People with Dementia

Jan. 11, 2017 – PRLog — Retreat hostel models for elderly people with dementia and their families are showcased in the latest “Art in MTR” exhibition which runs from today at MTR Sheung Wan Station and Sai Wan Ho Station until 5 April 2017. Organised by the World Green Organisation, the “Social Innovation Inventor – Elderly Retreat Hostel Design Competition Exhibition” features 20 winning hostel designs.

DASO to get 164 new handguns

The DoA a Ana County Sheriff’s Department will get 164 Glock 9 mm handguns in the coming months, The purchase of two more DASO patrol units, a new dash cam system for some vehicles and GPS tracking for the agency’s vehicles also was appro DASO to get 164 new handguns LAS CRUCES – The DoA a Ana County Sheriff’s Department will get 164 Glock 9 mm handguns in the coming months, The purchase of two more DASO patrol units, a new dash cam system for some vehicles and GPS tracking for the agency’s vehicles also was appro Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2ilCqyf County Commissioner Benjamin Rawson,left, Isabella Solis, center, is the new chair for the County Commission with John Vasquez, right, as vice chair, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at the first DoA a Ana County Commissioners meeting of the new year.

Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28G ransom

A Los Angeles college reportedly paid hackers a $28,000 ransom after a cyberattack kept students and faculty locked out of their accounts. The Valley Star , the Los Angeles Valley College school newspaper, reported Friday that hackers locked students and staff out of files, emails and messaging systems and threatened to delete everything if the ransom wasn’t paid within a week.

How 8×8, Inc. Gained 27% in 2016

The provider of internet-based voice and communications services put together a remarkable financial record last year. 8X8 beat Wall Street’s earnings and sales estimates handily in each one of the year’s quarterly reports,citing strong organic revenue growth among larger customers along the way.

Trump’s has an opportunity to help protect internet freedom – here’s how he can do it.

The rise of cybersovereignty – or, as it might be more accurately called, cyberfascism – has ushered in a global wave of censorship, surveillance, monitoring, and filtering that could directly hamper, or even reverse, the spread of a free and open internet. Couple that with Russian interference into not only the US election but potentially others around the world , and digital warfare puts core freedoms at risk globally.

Kepler’s unusual orbit

A couple more interesting things about the just-launched Kepler telescop e – then we’ll let it get on with the business of searching for distant planets. The spacecraft will be controlled, at times, by college kids working alongside professional operators.

a Of Kites and Kingsa looks at Benjamin Franklina s moving life

Andy Hafer as William Franklin, Addison Turner as William Temple and Christopher Jones as Benjamin Franklin in the Theatre on the Ridge’s “Of Kites and Kings.” Paradise >> A historical two-act drama, brimming with humor and wit, “Of Kites and Kings’ opens the new season at Theatre on the Ridge in Paradise on Jan. 19 and runs through Feb. 11. This little known look into the life of America’s patron saint of common sense, Benjamin Franklin, is directed by Jerry Miller with costuming by Lupe Fischer. Born in 1706, Franklin achieved fame as an author, editor, printer, inventor, philosopher, diplomate and humorist.

Apple’s New MacBook Pros Helped Boost Mac Shipments In Q4 2016

Apple’s 2016 MacBook Pros are expensive, but it seems that despite their hefty price tag, they might have actually helped Apple in terms of shipments in Q4 2016. According to the recent numbers from Gartner , it has been revealed that Apple’s Q4 2016 shipments has actually improved compared to the previous year’s quarter.

UK’s Funding Circle, an online marketplace lender, raises $100 mln

Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace used by small- and medium-sized companies, has raised $100 million in an investment round led by venture capital firm Accel. Existing investors including Baillie Gifford, DST Global and Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Rocket Internet, Sands Capital Ventures, Temasek and Union Square Ventures also participated in the round, the company said.

Security concerns push Asian organisations to outsource IT

Security needs are persuading organisations in Asia Pacific to adopt managed IT, and hybrid services are crucial for digital transformation, according to a CenturyLink study Managed and hybrid IT services, a mix of in-house and outsourced, are terms that have been doing the rounds in enterprise IT circles, but until now there hasn’t been much data to show how and why organisations in Asia Pacific have been adopting them. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.

Russian hackers could go after Congress next a ” and not just to read their email

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday took turns questioning top intelligence officials, who say investigative agencies found compelling evidence of Russian cyber-hacking throughout the 2016 election cycle. Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the committee’s hearing Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on Russian intelligence activities.

Trump’s boldest campaign promises are getting a reality check

President-elect Donald Trump holds his first news conference since July 27, 2016, on Jan. 11, 2017, in New York City. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters a “big, beautiful wall,” an Obamacare replacement ” immediately ” and a new era for a Veterans Affairs agency that had “failed” service members.

U.S. bioengineers develop low-cost, hand-powered blood centrifuge

Bioengineers at Stanford University in west coast of the United States have created an ultra-low-cost, hand-powered blood centrifuge with rotational speeds of up to 125,000 revolutions per minute . The device, capable of separating blood plasma from red cells in 1.5 minutes, applies the same mechanical principles in a whirligig, which is built by threading a loop of twine through two holes in a button, grabbing the loop ends, then rhythmically pulling.

Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings

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UNC Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies dies at age 91

Oliver Smithies, D.Phil., who was recruited to North Carolina with grant funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 20 years later, died today at the age of 91. In 1987, the Biotechnology Center helped recruit seven researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison to start the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s molecular biology and biotechnology research program. The Biotech Center’s faculty recruitment grant program, inaugurated to help attract that group of Wisconsin scientists, was named to honor Smithies after he became a Nobel laureate in 2007.

Obama Plan to Shake Up Coal Leases Could Restrict Trump

The outgoing Obama administration issued a blueprint for overhauling the way coal on federal land is sold, making it tougher for President-elect Donald Trump to resume sales under decades-old procedures. The report released Wednesday lays out a menu of potential options for policy makers to consider, including tacking a carbon fee onto coal leases to account for climate change, requiring payments into a fund that could help out-of-work miners and devastated communities — and even halting sales altogether.

Tesla’s Head of Autopilot Departs as Musk Hires Apple Engineer

Tesla Motors Inc.’s head of Autopilot, the driver-assist system packaged with its Model S and Model X electric cars, has left the company as a top engineer from Apple Inc. joins as chief of software. Sterling Anderson, director of Autopilot programs since November 2015, departed Palo Alto, California-based Tesla in December, his LinkedIn page shows.

Bull Market Masks Australia’s Year of 20%-Plus Stock Swings

Last year, the S&P/ASX 200 had 27 instances of a constituent rising or falling more than 20 percent on a single day, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Comparisons with other developed markets in Asia aren’t equal because Japan enforces limits on how much some stocks can move, and the main gauges in Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand have 50 members at most.

Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old

In this Feb. 13, 1971 file photo, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. conducts an experiment near a lunar crater, using an instrument from a two-wheeled cart carrying various tools. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, a California-led research team reported that the moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system.

Singapore’s Garena Said to Pick Goldman for $1 Billion IPO

Garena, Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to lead a planned initial public offering that could fetch about $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based online gaming portal and e-commerce provider plans to select additional banks as soon as this month, the people said.

Improving E911 Services Should be a Service Provider Priority

In today’s technology landscape, emergency services have evolved to facilitate faster response times, ensure better accuracy and accommodate a broader range of users and channels. It is becoming increasingly easier to connect to emergency personnel through alternative means like text-to-911, which can be useful for victims with hearing loss or in situations where a voice call could prove dangerous.

New MacBook Pros stop Apple’s skid in worldwide PC shipments

Apple’s new MacBook Pros have put the brakes on a free-fall of Mac shipments globally, though they haven’t provided the significant boost the company was looking for. The company’s Mac shipments totaled 5.3 million units during the fourth quarter of 2016, a decline of just 0.9 percent compared to the same quarter in 2015.

Energy assurance is critical to Air Force missions

Imagine that you’re looking at the camera feed of an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft-commonly known as a “drone,” but which we in the Air Force call an “RPA”-flying somewhere in the Middle East and tracking a known member of an international terrorist organization. This aircraft is controlled by a pilot at an Air Force Base in the United States.