Day: January 11, 2017

Play virtual reality mind games at Palmer’s VR Cafe

It can be hyper-realistic, such as standing on a capsized ship in the ocean while schools of fish zip by all around and a lazy whale rolls over next to you. It can be cartoony, as in the “Job Simulator,” a game in which robots have replaced all human jobs and you can perform familiar tasks in places such as a kitchen, an office or a convenience store.

Idea Cellular announces data and calling plans for customers who switch to 4G

New Delhi , Jan.11 : Sophos has empanelled key products of its next-generation Sophos XG Firewall to National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated , a Government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. [NK Telecom] The products include Hardware appliances , Enterprise Guard and Full Guard Subscription , Sophos Firewall Manager and LAN/WAN Modules and Transceivers.

StarTek, Inc. (SRT) Downgraded to “Hold” at Zacks Investment Research

According to Zacks, “StarTek, Inc. is a global provider of process management services and owns and operates branded vertical market Internet web sites. Their process management service platforms include E-commerce support and fulfillment, provisioning management for telecommunications systems, high-end inbound technical support, and an offering of supply chain management services.

Trump denies reports on Russia ties: ‘a disgrace’

Opening his first news conference since the election, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to suggestions that U.S. intelligence agencies leaked unsubstantiated reports to the media about his relationship with Russia, calling it a “tremendous blot on their record if they did that.” “I think it’s a disgrace that information would be let out.

Tesla nabs another Apple employee – this time, it’s one of…

Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Tesla nabs another Apple employee – this time, it’s one of the key designers on the Mac team One of the key designers behind some of Apple’s most daring Mac products in the past few years has moved to Tesla to work on electric cars.

Digimarc’s End-to-End Retail Solutions Drive Greater Efficiency and Engagement

Digimarc will be showcasing numerous demonstrations of its growing partner ecosystem and the integration of Digimarc technology into every stage of the value chain. The 2017 NRF show is being held at the Javits Center in Booth demonstrations will highlight Digimarc’s partnerships with leading scanning and machine vision systems, enabled variable measure devices, and major product packaging print partners.

Corporate Financial Data Theft and Customer Information Breaches: Top …

Financial and customer information, brand reputation, intellectual property, and employee information were also listed as critical assets to protect against security breaches. New business priorities and technologies also create challenges for IT and security teams, with 65% of respondents indicating that public clouds have the biggest security implications.i 1 2i 1 2 also found that security transformation impacts both the technology choices enterprises make to ward off cyber thieves and the way companies organize internal stakeholders, assess risk, and prioritize future investments.

CENTRI Wins Inaugural IoT Breakthrough Award

The IoT Breakthrough Awards recognizes the IoT innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, IoT Security, Wearables, Industrial IoT, M2M, Enterprise IoT and many more. More than 2,000 award nominations from organizations and individuals representing 15 nations were submitted to the awards this year for consideration.

Chrome, Safari, Opera form autofill can be easily tricked into leaking sensitive data

Your browser or password manager’s form autofill feature can be a big time saver, automatically entering data like your name, address, and phone number on those lengthy sign up or check out screens. But as Finnish web developer and hacker Viljami Kuosmanen points out , you might be inadvertently giving away more information than you are willing to share with a particular website.

Search Technologies Launches the ST Search Stacka , a Replacement…

Global search and big data consulting company releases the Search Technologies Enterprise Search Stacka – an open source replacement solution for the discontinuing Google Search Appliance “We stand ready to help customers transition seamlessly to a next generation and cost effective search solution.” – Kamran Khan, CEO, Search Technologies Search Technologies, the leading IT services firm specializing in the design and implementation of enterprise search and big data analytics applications, has recently launched the Search Technologies Enterprise Search Stacka as a cost-effective, risk-free alternative to the Google Search Appliance .

Hubble Looks at Voyager’s Future

Nothing built by humans has ever gotten as far from our planet as Voyager 1, which is now almost 21 billion kilometers from Earth. We’ve talked about the future of both Voyagers before in these pages – Voyager 1 passes within about 1.6 light years of the star Gliese 445 in some 40,000 years, its closest approach to a neighboring star.

Trump denies, denounces reports on Russia ties: ‘a disgrace’

Trump, Vice President-elect Mike Pence and incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer were defiant as they denounced reports that Russia had obtained compromising personal Opening his first news conference since the election, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to suggestions that U.S. intelligence agencies leaked unsubstantiated reports to the media about his relationship with Russia, calling it a “tremendous blot on their record if they did that.”

Resolution 2017: Create a professional development plan

The symbolism of January for new beginnings and forward-facing intentions is common throughout the world, and often the resolutions are inward-facing. What are you going to do to help yourself be a better person this year? Well, what about your professional goals? Where can you turn for professional development in 2017? In this article we’ll consider some of the available options.

Chinese humanoid robot turns on the charm in Shanghai

“Jia Jia” can hold a simple conversation and make specific facial expressions when asked, and her creator believes the eerily life-like robot heralds a future of cyborg labour in China. Billed as China’s first human-like robot, Jia Jia was first trotted out last year by a team of engineers at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Uranium Gains 10% as Top Producer Plans Output Cut Amid Glut

Uranium surged the most in more than three weeks as Kazakhstan said it will reduce production by 10 percent this year after prices slumped in 2016 amid a global inventory glut. Spot uranium rose $2.25, or 10 percent, to close at $24.25 a pound on Tuesday, the highest level since September, according to data from Ux Consulting Co.

These Swedish Stocks Will Pay You the Best Dividends in 2017

Sweden may have negative interest rates, but its biggest firms are about to deliver some hefty payouts to their shareholders. Of the 29 names listed on Sweden’s index of its most-traded stocks, phone companies Tele2 AB and Ericsson AB offer the highest projected dividend yields over the next 12 months, according to Bloomberg BDVD forecasts.

Intel adds Hyper-Threading to all Kaby Lake Pentiums

Intel has confirmed that all Kaby Lake Pentium processors will include Hyper-Threading support, creating four logical cores from two physical, but in adding the feature has dropped support for ECC memory. Intel has officially confirmed that it is bringing Hyper-Threading support back to its Pentium family in the Kaby Lake microarchitecture, but in doing so is sacrificing support for Error Correcting Code memory.

Alphacool releases Eiswand 360 external AIO cooler details

Alphacool’s Eiswand 360 offers high-performance liquid cooling for even the most cramped of cases, providing you can spare the desk space. Liquid cooling specialist Alphacool has unveiled plans to launch an all-in-one external water cooling system, dubbed the Eiswand 360, which offers to bring high-performance cooling to even the most cramped of case – if you can spare the desk or floor space, of course.

Android SMS for iChat review: Unlock Messages on your Mac with your Android phone

While Android users who have switched from iPhone already lament the loss of the superb Messages app, they’re also giving up another neat feature: the ability to send and receive texts from their Mac. As a recent full-time switcher to Android, keeping track of conversations on my Macbook is one of the main things I’ve missed, and I’ve learned to keep my phone within arm’s reach whenever I’m at my desk.

New WiFi Standard Syncs Home Devices In Real-Time

Wireless connections within the Internet of Things may soon rival the capabilities of wired systems, based on new standards being released by Wi-Fi Alliance. The new standard, called TimeSync, is a Wi-Fi feature that brings precise timing and synchronized operation to wireless devices by aligning them to the same internal clock.

Cyber Investing Summit 2017 Keynote Speaker Announced

Anti-Virus Pioneer John McAfee to Deliver Cyber Investing Summit Keynote Address May 23, 2017 at the New York Stock Exchange Few people understand the opportunities and challenges of building a successful cyber company from the ground up better than John McAfee John McAfee, CEO of MGT Capital Investments and founder of the global computer security software company McAfee, Inc, will deliver the keynote speech at the 2017 Cyber Investing Summit being held Tuesday, May 23rd at the New York Stock Exchange. The Cyber Investing Summit is an all-day conference focused on the investment opportunities and strategies in the cyber security industry.

Charleston church gunman, who discussed the a Jewish problem,a sentenced to death

Charleston church gunman Dylann Roof, whose racial manifesto said the Jewish “problem” would be solved “if we could somehow destroy the Jewish identity,” was sentenced to death on Tuesday for killing nine black worshippers. Roof was sentenced in federal district court in Charleston, South Carolina, late on Tuesday afternoon for the June 2015 massacre of African-American worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Swiss clinch U.S. data exchange pact along lines of EU deal

Switzerland has struck an accord on exchanging personal data with the United States along the lines of a deal Washington and the European Union agreed last year aimed at ensuring Europeans’ data privacy, the government said on Wednesday. Under that Privacy Shield agreement that came into force in August, the United States agreed to limit the collection of and access to Europeans’ data stored on U.S. servers because of EU concerns about data privacy and mass U.S. surveillance.

Greenpeace calls out AWS on renewable energy targets

A new report from Greepeace has cast doubt over Amazon Web Services goal to become solely reliant upon renewable power. The cloud giant has set goals of being powered by 50% renewable energy by the end of this year, but Greenpeace says that an increase in data centre construction in Virginia will play a role in making goals like that, and the 100% goal, elusive.