An international consortium of academic research institutions have been awarded a $21 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop better ways to prevent epilepsy in patients who have suffered traumatic brain injuries. The grant will be led by seven principal investigators at five institutions: Albert Einstein College of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California, University of Melbourne and University of Eastern Finland.
Day: January 30, 2017
COMMENT: Tough times ahead for the high street in 2017
Dr Peter Jones, Dean of Staffordshire Business School , reflects on what was seen as a buoyant year for retail – but tough times ahead for the high street in one of UK’s biggest employment sectors. The retail sector is a key part of our national economy – accounting for an enormous A 325 billion of annual income.
Drop your bags, this personal bot will lug your groceries home for you
Paiggio, the company behind Vespa, has come up with an autonomous robot that will follow you around and help you with your luggage.
Earth narrowly dodges three large asteroids
A car-sized asteroid narrowly missed the Earth on Monday, January 30, six days after another asteroid the size of a house had a similar near-miss, and 10 days after a third passed by that was about the size of a killer whale. This artist’s rendition released 20 April, 2005 by NASA shows a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun Asteroid 2017 BH30 zipped past the Earth just 32,200 miles away at its closest approach.
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Given Overweight Rating at Cantor Fitzgerald
‘s stock had its “overweight” rating reissued by equities research analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald in a research report issued on Monday. They presently have a $1,000.00 target price on the e-commerce giant’s stock.
Amazon explores legal options against Trump’s immigration ban
Amazon boxes are seen stacked for delivery in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo Some of the world’s biggest tech companies have criticized President Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban citizens and refugees from seven Muslim countries from entering the United States.
NZ scientist discovers huge undersea eruption
The vast plume measures 30km long and 20km wide, not far from a newly-formed island and just 33km off the coast of Tonga’s main island Tongatapu . Photo / Nasa A Kiwi scientist has unexpectedly discovered what appears to be a huge undersea volcanic eruption near the main island of Tonga.
Recommend me a montior for my early 2013 15′ Macbook Pro Retina
Hello I have an early 2013 15″ Macbook Pro Retina and want to buy an external monitor 24″ to 27″ I think. My knowledge of Thunderbolt is VERY flakey though and so I don’t know where to start: 2. Note according to this I have Thunderbolt 1 which I think limits me somewhat I don’t know how? I read something about 10GBPS or 30mhz? 3. I run my 15″ Macbook screen at it’s native resolution of 2880×1800 and like that.
Why Intel Corporation Is Expecting Another Slow Year for Its Data-Center Group
Though Intel is a big beneficiary of the rise in cloud computing, it comes at the expense of its enterprise server chip business. is betting on its Data Center Group to be its most powerful growth engine over the long term.
SpaceX Shuffles Falcon 9 Launch Schedule, NASA Gets 1st Launch from Historic KSC Pad 39A
SpaceX is repurposing historic pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida for launches of the Falcon 9 rocket. Ongoing pad preparation by work crews is seen in this current view taken on Jan. 27, 2017.
New 3-D printing facility at ASU will help prepare students for the workforce
A student works with a Laser Cutting Machine at the manufacturing hub at ASU’s Polytechnic campus on Friday, Jan. 27th, 2017. ASU’s new 3-D printing equipment will provide research opportunities for students and prepare them for work in the modern manufacturing industry.
You actually need to win the lottery to get PSVR in Japan – CNET
When Japan’s retailers finally had the headsets in stock on January 26, they were essentially already sold-out. People had lined up outside retailers like Yodobashi Camera and Sofmap in the early hours of the morning, but even those patiently waiting had their chances of scoring a PSVR severely clipped thanks to a raffle-style system .
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos promises to fight Trump’s immigration ban – CNET
Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s CEO and founder, said his company is going into action to counter President Trump’s controversial immigration order , which temporarily blocked refugees and citizens of seven countries from entering the US. In an email to employees Monday, Bezos said Amazon is working on a number of efforts, including exploring legislative measures and drafting a declaration of support for Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s lawsuit against the immigration order .
Rihanna and Azealia Banks in Trump fight, post each other’s phone number – CNET
Commentary: You know the issue is serious when celebrities go all out to ruin each other on Twitter and Instagram. Celebrities do seem to have a lot of free time and some spend quite a bit of it on social media.
Private Clouds | @CloudExpo @RamchandaniRaj #DigitalTransformation
Enterprises are rapidly implementing private clouds for sound business reasons. Private clouds offer greater agility, enabling companies to quickly adapt to constantly changing business needs and innovate faster than competition.
Noteworthy
In this Oct. 10, 2016, file photo, Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred speaks at a news conference before Game 3 of baseball’s National League Division Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Chicago Cubs in San Francisco. Major League Baseball ordered the St. Louis Cardinals to forfeit their top two picks in this yearA’s amateur draft and pay Houston $2 million as compensation for hacking the Astros email system and scouting database.
Plasma 5.10: Spring-loading in Folder View; performance work
I was sorely remiss not to blog more during the Plasma 5.9 dev cycle. While 5.9 packs a fair amount of nice new features , there was not a peep of them on this blog.
Gift Design Company Unveils Innovative Caricature-Based Valentine’s Day Presents
Dezains.com, a gift-design firm based in Hyderabad, India, introduced a new concept for Valentine’s Day gifts in the form of romantic and well-done cartoons. These adorable items are already available in its e-commerce site so potential patrons will not find it difficult to choose and place their orders right away.
circlecli 1.3.0
**_Note: This project is currently in beta. There will be bugs._** ![Example commands] ## Features * Cross-platform * Easy, natural interaction with CircleCI’s REST API * Easy-to-read output * Add multiple environment variables to your project at once * View current CircleCI site and component status * Validate your circle.yml files * Read token from environment * **Now supporting CircleCI Enterprise!** See the [Examples] section for common types of usage.
North Carolina Bar Exam applicants will need to disable the Touch Bar on their MacBook Pros
Those that are taking the Bar Exam in North Carolina and are planning to use their brand new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar will be required to disable the function when it comes time for the test. In order to be prepared, those taking the exam in February will want to disable the feature before arriving to the testing site.
Super Bowl ad rejected by NFL amid questions
Supplement retailer GNC had a deal to run its first Super Bowl ad. Then came questions and a rejection Monday that blindsided the company.
Why cybercriminals target patient data
The health care industry is under siege. Data breaches of patient information have become all too common, with both external and insider threats trying to gain access to patients’ electronic health records , and it does not appear that the number of attacks will ease up anytime soon.
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Before Hidden Figures won for outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture at the Screen Actors Guild awards Sunday night, Taraji P. Henson summed it up perfectly: “This movie, I believe, is a movement … [it’s] is bigger than all of us,” the film’s star said on the red carpet. She wasn’t kidding: The true story-about three brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit-is inspiring real young women to consider careers in science and technology.
Crowd Sourcing Algorithms for Mission to Mars
Every Friday afternoon, about a dozen computer science students gather in a lab in Sierra Hall at CSU Channel Islands and work for hours on robot prototypes that NASA could someday send to Mars. “We have about 24 students working on this,” said Jason Isaacs, assistant professor of computer science.
STEM: Educators, companies stress collaborations between schools, industry
Maxwell Pace is 15 years old, but he already knows how to wire a circuit, weld a metal helmet and write basic code. “That’s more how I learn – with projects, not textbooks,” said Pace, a high school freshman with plans to become a biomedical engineer and develop prosthetics.
Aerojet Rocketdyne hiring 100 to build new rocket engine in Alabama
It’s the commercial satellite launch market illustrated by this launch that Aerojet Rocketdyne’s new engine is designed to serve. The company will build the new engine in Alabama and have it operational in 2019.
AMD’s Last Report Before Ryzen: What to Expect
The company’s fourth-quarter results aren’t as important as its outlook. Ryzen needs to be a success for AMD to return to profitability.
3 Reasons Amazon.com Is Taking Over the World
If you’re wondering what the best stock of the past 20 years is, there’s a far-and-away winner. In other words, $1,000 invested at that time would today be worth more than $420,000.
NextVR puts NBA fans ‘courtside’ with virtual reality broadcasts
Testing a virtual reality telecast before an NBA game. Newport Beach-based virtual reality firm NextVR Inc. is broadcasting at least one live NBA League Pass game per week during the 2016-17 season.
What is a Planet?
Humanity’s understanding of what constitutes a planet has changed over time. Whereas our most notable magi and scholars once believed that the world was a flat disc , they gradually learned that it was in fact spherical.
Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR) Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “Darling Ingredients Inc. is a provider of rendering, cooking oil and bakery waste recycling and recovery solutions. It collects and transforms all aspects of animal by-product streams into broadly used and specialty ingredients, such as gelatin, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstock, green energy, natural casings and hides.
Actor says he’ll leave the iconic sci-fi series after three seasons.
Capaldi first stepped into the TARDIS in 2013, and will leave the iconic role in the 2017 Christmas special after spending three seasons on the iconic BBC America series. “One of the greatest privileges of being Doctor Who is to see the world at its best,” he said.
Man caught in vast FBI sting gets 3 years for child porn
Standing before a federal judge on Monday, a Virginia man apologized for using a secret website to download images of naked children and to discuss his urges to touch them. Edward Joseph Matish III told the judge he knows children in the photos are now “haunted by the fact these images continue to circulate.”
A commuter’s dream: Entrepreneurs race to develop flying car
Even before George Jetson entranced kids with his cartoon flying car, people dreamed of soaring above traffic congestion. Inventors and entrepreneurs have long tried and failed to make the dream a reality, but that may be changing.
One startup company created by Purdue University students plans to…
Tri-D Dynamics co-founder Alex Finch said a 3-D printer and other manufacturing techniques can create rocket engines. “When you’re looking at rockets that, you know, can range $10 million, $70 million, $400 million in some cases, it can get pretty expensive” said Finch.
European Bioinformatics Institute And Collaborate To Enhance Global…
Red Hat, Inc. , the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that the European Bioinformatics Institute , part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, is using Red Hat OpenStack Platform to deliver the scale and flexibility required to drive its Embassy Cloud project. The goal of Embassy Cloud is to transform the way collaborative research, such as pan-cancer analysis, tackles the world’s toughest biological challenges.
Intralink Spine??’s R??juve Treatment Nears Completion Of Safety…
With extremely positive clinical results at the six-month juncture from its early safety and feasibility study in Malaysia, Intralink-Spine, Inc. confirms that the RejuveTM System is now poised to begin its multi-site pivotal study beginning with sites in Southeast Asia. “We’ve demonstrated the safety of this device, and based on my 30-plus years of experience in this field, the prospects for this revolutionary microinvasive treatment are unique compared to all other existing and emerging surgical and minimally invasive treatments for degenerative disc disease and chronic low back pain.”
Qiagen N.V. Hereditary And Rare Disease Solution Chosen By Genomics England
HGMD is the leading content knowledgebase for interpretation of genomic data in hereditary and rare diseases, providing a deep resource of expertly curated data from the world’s scientific and clinical literature. The 100,000 Genomes Project will use QIAGEN’s HGMD Online Professional solution, which is part of the QIAGEN Clinical Insight portfolio of solutions for the interpretation of complex genomic data, to support scientists, clinicians and researchers in 13 NHS Genomic Medicine Centres for clinical reporting and interpretation.
Certara Corporation Releases New Version Of D360, Its…
CertaraA , the leading provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimizing drug development and improving health outcomes, today announced that it has released D360a version 9.0 along with D360 Express, its data informatics platform for discovery scientists. D360 is a self-service data access, integration and visualization solution used to query multiple cheminformatics and bioinformatics data sources and make informed go/no-go and next step research decisions.
Pharm-Olam International Ltd. Deploys Medidata Rave; Shores Up Global …
Pharm-Olam International Ltd., a multinational, full-service clinical research organization serving the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries, today announced that it has deployed Medidata Rave A -the industry’s leading electronic data capture , management and reporting tool-to streamline its global Data Management and Reporting services. Part of the Medidata Clinical Cloud A platform, Rave is a highly scalable, unified SaaS solution that enables users to manage clinical data from multiple sources, as well as quickly analyze and extract information for real-time decision-making throughout a clinical trial.