Day: January 25, 2017

Hugo Barra joins Facebook to lead VR team – CNET

Having announced his departure from Xiaomi to return to Silicon Valley, the former Googler will now be leading the Occulus team as vice president of VR. The former global lead of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer had announced his departure earlier this week to return to Silicon Valley and he appears to quickly found an exciting new gig.

Raytheon completes factory acceptance testing of flight operations system for NASAa s telescope

With seven times the light-collecting power of its predecessor, the Hubble Space Telescope, this next-generation telescope will gather data and images of dust clouds, stars and galaxies deeper into space. More than 800 requirements were successfully verified on the JWST ground control system during the testing conducted at Raytheon’s Aurora, Colorado, facility, bringing NASA’s next space observatory one step closer to the scheduled 2018 launch.

Air Force photograph by Staff Sgt. Peter Thompson

The 33rd Fighter Wing loaded and released the Air Education and Training Command’s first live bombs from an F-35A. The 33rd Fighter Wing loaded and released the Air Education and Training Command’s first live bombs from an F-35A at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Jan. 17, 2017.

If You Happen To Find Yourself In The Alleged Live Music Capital Of…

Once upon a time, cantstopthebleeding.com was one of the nation’s top sports blogeterria destinations, appealing to the friendless and socially challenged and/or persons hungry for LOTS & LOTS RECRIMINATIONS. As the nu media wars wore down, the site retreated into near dormancy, maintained by an automated system devised by the same brilliant minds behind I’m not sure how familiar you are with the phenomena of “artifical intelligence”, but about 9 years ago the cyborg in question began organizing an annual free show in the middle of March at a respected Red River venue.

Boeing unveils the new ‘Starliner’ NASA spacesuit

Henry Bevil, 6, high-fives a space-suited person during the arrival of the Space Shuttle Trainer Crew Compartment in NASA’s Super Guppy aircraft at the Museum of Flight in this file photo from June 30, 2012. Boeing debuted its newest space suit on Wednesday which is a much lighter design that past suits.

Hugo Barra’s next job: Head of Oculus VR

Mark Zuckerberg just revealed the next landing spot for former Google and Xiaomi executive Hugo Barra : Facebook. As Barra revealed a couple of days ago, he’s coming back to Silicon Valley and will “lead all of our virtual reality efforts, including our Oculus team.”

Acer eyes new technologies in digital era

Acer Inc, the world’s fourth-largest computer maker, is tapping into emerging technologies like the Internet of Things and virtual reality to connect digital devices to the internet. The development is intended to generate new revenue streams and promote sustainable growth, said Alan Chiang, managing director of Acer Computer, the local operating unit of the Taiwanese company.

‘Celebgate’ Hacker Sentenced to 9 Months in Prison

A federal judge railed against anonymous “intrusion into the affairs of people’s private lives” as he handed a Chicago man a nine-month prison sentence Tuesday for his role in a Hollywood hacking scandal that exposed nude photographs of dozens of A-list celebrities, reports CBS Chicago. Edward J. Majerczyk, 29, admitted last fall that he hacked into the Apple iCloud and Gmail accounts of more than 300 people, including at least 30 celebrities.

ROK Technologies, LLC Expands Its Expertise to Include AWS Certification

CHARLESTON, SC ROK Technologies, LLC the premier provider of location analytics, Cloud Management, WebGIS and IoT, today announced that two of its top programmers are now Amazon Web Services Certified Developer Associates. This new capability will enhance ROKs existing offerings to include AWS setup and development for GIS and non-GIS companies and organizations.

Genealogy site raises …

FamilyTreeNow.com, a free genealogy site, garnered attention and criticism for the free data it makes available about individuals, but it’s all easy to find online elsewhere. Experts say it’s hard to restore privacy that U.S. law has not protected.

Nikkei surges to more than 2-week high on strong Wall Street; financials gain

TOKYO, Jan 26 Japan’s Nikkei share average surged to more than a two-week high on Thursday morning tracking strength in Wall Street, while financial stocks were in demand after U.S. yields rose. The Nikkei gained 1.5 percent to 19,345.85 in midmorning trade after hitting as high as 19,354.48 earlier, the highest level since Jan. 11. U.S. Treasury yields increased overnight with benchmark yields hitting a four-week high, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed atop the 20,000 mark for the first time.

Time has come for city to make broadband decision

ROCK FALLS – After 4 years of vetting and planning with its technology consultants, the time has come for the city to make an important decision about its broadband future. Representatives from Denver-based Magellan Advisors were in town Tuesday to make one last presentation to the City Council during a Committee of the Whole meeting.

Time has come for city to make broadband decision

ROCK FALLS – After 4 years of vetting and planning with its technology consultants, the time has come for the city to make an important decision about its broadband future. Representatives from Denver-based Magellan Advisors were in town Tuesday to make one last presentation to the City Council during a Committee of the Whole meeting.

This pair of glasses can change focus based on what you look at

If you need different pairs of glasses for seeing different things or wear bifocals or progressive lenses, the future is looking bright: Someone has invented a pair of glasses with lenses that can adjust themselves on the fly. A team of computer and electrical engineers at the University of Utah has unveiled a device with lenses that can change focus depending on what the wearer is looking at.

Windows 10 Game Mode will prioritize games for smoother play

Remember that “Game Mode” feature that Twitter user WalkingCat found in Windows 10 build 14997? When we first heard about it, we were left wondering exactly what it did. Windows Central got to speak with Kevin Gammill from Microsoft’s Xbox team, and the short version is that Game Mode is an OS feature that should slightly improve performance consistency in both UWP and Win32 games when it’s activated.

Sumana Harihareswara’s keynote will close LibrePlanet 2017

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, USA – Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – The Free Software Foundation announced today that Sumana Harihareswara will be a keynote speaker at LibrePlanet, the annual free software conference, on Sunday, March 26th, 2017. The annual free software conference will close on the evening of March 26th with Harihareswara discussing her experiences within free software and the things she has learned over the years, in a talk tentatively titled “Lessons, Myths, and Lenses: What I Wish I’d Known in 1998.”

This 20-second NASA video shows how Earth temperatures have…

NASA and NOAA scientists both take information from various weather stations all over the globe – at this point in time, NASA uses approximately 6,300 weather stations, Antarctic research stations, and ship- and buoy-based measurements of sea temperatures. All those records indicate that this warming is part of a long term trend, with most of the warming happening in the past 35 years.

Russia halts Proton-M launches for ‘technical checks’

Russia’s space agency said on Wednesday it had ordered extra checks to be made on its Proton-M rockets, meaning it might be forced to delay some satellite launches this year. Roscosmos, the Russian equivalent of NASA, made the announcement after the Kommersant daily reported that manufacturing problems had been detected in some Proton-M rockets.

Juno Views Jupiter’s Little Red Spot

The JunoCam imager on NASA’s Juno spacecraft snapped this shot of Jupiter’s northern latitudes on Dec. 11, 2016 at 8:47 a.m. PST The image was taken as the spacecraft performed a close flyby of the gas giant planet. The spacecraft was at an altitude of 10,300 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops.

Web Scale IT Market Headed for Growth and Global Expansion by 2022

IT organizations are increasingly adopting a portfolio of cloud services including Infrastructure as a Service , Platform as a Service , and Software as a Service . Adoption of cloud computing has benefited organizations by significantly reducing the infrastructure cost and further allowing these organizations to focus on their core competencies.

Federal agents are reinvestigating Syrian refugees in U.S. who may have slipped through vetting lapse

Migrants and refugees, many of them Syrian, rest on the ground as they wait to enter a registration camp after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border on Nov. 18. Migrants and refugees, many of them Syrian, rest on the ground as they wait to enter a registration camp after crossing the Greek-Macedonian border on Nov. 18. Federal agents are reinvestigating the backgrounds of dozens of Syrian refugees already in the United States after discovering a lapse in vetting that allowed some who had potentially negative information in their files to enter the country, two U.S. law enforcement officials said.

FTC Sues Qualcomm for Using Anticompetitive Tactics to Maintain Chip Monopoly

Last week, the FTC filed a complaint against Qualcomm, a manufacturer of baseband processors, which are chips included in cell phones and other products with cellular connectivity that allow the devices to connect to cell networks. Qualcomm holds patents to technologies incorporated in the standards that allow all cell phones to communicate with one another, referred to as standard-essential patents or SEPs.

eBay Inc. (EBAY) Releases FY17 Earnings Guidance

The company provided EPS guidance of $1.98-2.03 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.07. The company issued revenue guidance of $9.3-9.5 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $9.37 billion.eBay also updated its Q1 guidance to $0.46-0.48 EPS.