In his State of the State address Tuesday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of climate action while decrying what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on science and basic facts. While Brown has previously made waves with comments about his state’s commitment to the issue of climate change, Tuesday’s speech may be among his most defiant yet.
Month: January 2017
In a fiery speech, California Gov. Jerry Brown defends climate action …
In his State of the State address Tuesday morning, California Gov. Jerry Brown delivered an impassioned defense of climate action while decrying what he described as the Trump administration’s attacks on science and basic facts. While Brown has previously made waves with comments about his state’s commitment to the issue of climate change, Tuesday’s speech may be among his most defiant yet.
Cisco’s Spark Board looks like an iPad — and acts like one
The Spark Board meeting device that Cisco Systems introduced on Tuesday is not so much a whiteboard or a videoconferencing screen as a giant tablet that everyone in the room can share. There’s even a “home” button in the center of the bottom bezel that takes you back to the main menu.
Cisco’s Spark Board looks like an iPad — and acts like one
The Spark Board meeting device that Cisco Systems introduced on Tuesday is not so much a whiteboard or a videoconferencing screen as a giant tablet that everyone in the room can share. There’s even a “home” button in the center of the bottom bezel that takes you back to the main menu.
Invaluable reports strong auction revenue growth in 2016
Invaluable , the world’s leading online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles, today announced that the company delivered strong auction revenue results in 2016 despite a challenging worldwide auction market, and added more than 750 new auction houses and art galleries to its marketplace. Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, said, ‘Our 2016 auction revenue grew 30 percent year-over-year and buyers on our marketplace grew by more than 14 percent.
Invaluable reports strong auction revenue growth in 2016
Invaluable , the world’s leading online marketplace for fine art, antiques and collectibles, today announced that the company delivered strong auction revenue results in 2016 despite a challenging worldwide auction market, and added more than 750 new auction houses and art galleries to its marketplace. Rob Weisberg, CEO of Invaluable, said, ‘Our 2016 auction revenue grew 30 percent year-over-year and buyers on our marketplace grew by more than 14 percent.
Planning bioinformatics workflows using an expert system.
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. Bioinformatic analyses are becoming formidably more complex due to the increasing number of steps required to process the data, as well as the proliferation of methods that can be used in each step.
Bugs
Full description=BUGS is the Big and Useful Great Security key encryption algorithm and applications. It is easy to use, and includes sample applications and documentation.
Seahorse
Currently it supports PGP keys and SSH keys. Its goal is to provide an easy to use Key Management Tool, along with an easy to use interface for encryption operations.
Mailcrypt
Full description=Mailcrypt is an Emacs Lisp package which provides a simple interface to public key cryptography with PGP/GPG. Mailcrypt integrates strong cryptography into your normal mail and news handling environment.
QuoteEngine
Full description=The QuoteEngine is an eggdrop TCL script that allows channel users to store IRC quotes in a MySQL database. Adding, searching, fetching, and deleting from the channel are supported.
QuteCom
Full description=QuteCom uses your broadband internet connection to provide telephony services. Call your friends, family, and colleagues anywhere, anytime, for free.
Free Software Directory:IceCat extensions (proposed)/Dev
This is not a requirement though, as you might just want to help solving license issues for which you can use any web browser. [https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ Gnu Icecat] is developed by RubA n Rodriguez who work for the FSF, who is also the creator of [https://trisquel.info/ GNU Trisquel].
Can You Be Both a Price- and a Proposition-Simplifier?
You may be able to start out that way, but at some point, you’ll have to choose one strategy so you can throw all your efforts behind it. Is it possible for one company to be both a price- and proposition-simplifier? In normal market conditions, where there is a level playing field for all competitors, the answer is a resounding “No!” For our purposes, we somewhat arbitrarily define “normal market conditions” as a time when there’s a low rate of technological change, so all competitors have relatively equal access to the principal technologies of production and marketing, and newer technologies are well diffused.
Cisco buys app performance tuning startup for $3.7 bn
Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a $3.7 billion deal to buy a startup specializing in improving the performance of applications, continuing to expand beyond computer networking hardware. The acquisition of AppDynamics came as the San Francisco-based startup was on the cusp of going public with an initial offering of stock.
Cisco buys app performance tuning startup for $3.7 bn
Cisco Systems on Tuesday announced a $3.7 billion deal to buy a startup specializing in improving the performance of applications, continuing to expand beyond computer networking hardware. The acquisition of AppDynamics came as the San Francisco-based startup was on the cusp of going public with an initial offering of stock.
Marjorie Prime Wins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize at 2017 Sundance Film Festival
At a reception during the 2017 Sundance Film Festival today, the beneficiaries of $60,000 in grants from Sundance Institute and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation were revealed. Doron Weber, the Vice President of Programs at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, announced the winners: Michael Almereyda’s Marjorie Prime won the Feature Film Prize; Adam Benic’s Levittown .
Machine Empath
Michelle Peck was programming a robotic arm at Seattle University when she felt it. As the device moved, there was a quickening in her own corresponding limb.
Cybersecurity firm buys next-gen quantum machine
Quantum computer maker D-Wave Systems on Jan. 24 announced commercial availability of its D-Wave 2000Q quantum machine — as well as its first customer. The new system provides a big step toward production applications in optimization, cybersecurity, machine learning and sampling, the company said.
Report: Heartbleed Remains Unpatched on Thousands of Servers
The Heartbleed Open-SSL flaw remains unpatched on nearly 200,000 servers and devices, according to connected devices search engine Shodan. The company’s Heartbleed Report was released over the weekend, and shows 52,000 Apache HTTPD servers are still vulnerable and exposed to the internet, nearly three years after the vulnerability was disclosed and fixes released in April 2014.
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This transformative initiative will ensure agility and flexibility across Daimler’s global contracting in their passenger cars, commercial vehicles, and financial services divisions. The company chose the ICM platform because of its ease of use, ability to address every phase in the contract lifecycle and seamless integration with third party systems that support the entire procurement process.
IBM reveals its five predictions for life in 2022
Entire medical labs built on a computer chip, humans with superhero vision and smart sensors that can detect pollution at the speed of light are just a few predictions IBM has made about life in 2022. The New York firm has released its ‘5 in 5 list’, revealing new innovations that could change the way we work live and interact with each other over the next five years.
Rome reflects on being named Miss Northwestern-Lady of the Bracelet
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Cosmosphere to open Apollo 1
Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 1 fire that killed three astronauts.
Feds Find $20 Million Hidden Under A Mattress In Massachusetts
When federal authorities raided an apartment in Westborough, Mass., earlier this month, they found money hidden under the mattress – approximately $20 million. Photos show a box spring stuffed with bricks of cash that were seized during a Homeland Security investigation linked to a pyramid scheme involving a company called TelexFree.
Ad Industry Expects New FCC Chair…
It’s “highly likely” that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai will grant the ad industry’s request to revisit tough broadband privacy rules, the Association of National Advertisers predicted today. “Chairman Pai is a very thoughtful leader who understands the critical role advertising plays as a financial foundation for the online and media marketplace,” the ANA said in a blog post hailing Pai’s appointment.
Did U.S. President Donald Trump Declare Canadian Women the Biggest Threat After ISIS?
Following reports on 21 January 2017 that Canadian women were prohibited from entering the United States to join the Women’s March on Washington, D.C., a web site called BurrardStreetJournal.com reported that U.S. President Donald Trump called them a threat to the American way of life comparable to the Islamic State : Trump immediately characterized women North of the border as “different”, claiming there is “no doubt” they are trying to “corrupt the minds” of their American counterparts: “Canadian women threaten our core values, our way of life and the very things we are trying to do here,” the President began, in front of an estimated 10 million supporters gathered on the White House front lawn.
One of iOS’s best features is coming to MacBooks
When Apple introduced Night Shift in iOS 9.3 , it rapidly gained a cult following of people who like their phone screens a little more yellow at night. In the next version of macOS, it looks like Apple is going to play to the crowd and bring Night Shift to MacBooks.
Compliance as a Service Market – Opportunities, Regional Outlook,…
An increasing number of businesses such as banks, insurance, and payment card companies have to pay a hefty fine and penalties due to non-compliance with standard industry regulation. This increasing prevalence of non-compliance is becoming a costly and time consuming challenge for these businesses.
Flags at half-staff Wednesday in memory of former astronaut
The U.S. and Texas flags will be flying at half-staff Wednesday in memory of former U.S. Navy Captain Gene Cernan, pursuant to Chapter 3100 of the Texas Government Code, and by order of Gov. Greg Abbott. “As an astronaut, Capt.
Uber’s Ford Fusions, to be used for mapping, are cleared to go on the road in San Francisco.
They’re back. Five Ford Fusions bristling with rooftop equipment and labeled “Uber Advanced Technologies Center” will hit San Francisco streets starting Wednesday morning, but they will not be functioning as self-driving cars.
Why the Left Fears Ultrasound Technologyby Alexandra DeSanctisOn…
With impressive creativity, the piece attempts both to dismiss the clear evidence that is presented by ultrasound images and to imply that inanimate medical tools are motivated by a subversive pro-life agenda. Though the Democratic party and its vast pro-abortion wing cling fiercely to , The Atlantic ‘s bizarre offering reveals the truth: that being pro-abortion requires the resolute denial of science in order to facilitate a rejection of the unborn child’s humanity.
I beg you, retailers, don’t digitize the in-store customer experience
Online shopping is eating into physical store visits – that much is obvious if you watch any news bulletin about Black Friday. Look at the latest ONS retail sales figures , and you’ll see that in the UK, online sales made up 15.8% of total retail sales.
Roxane Labs., Inc. v. Camber Pharms. Inc.
Case Name: Roxane Labs., Inc. v. Camber Pharms. Inc. , No. 2016-1028, 2016 U.S. App.
Nvidia’s Jetson Goes Embedded, Gets Cisco
TOKYO GPUs shine no longer in just supercomputers, PCs and game machines. Nvidia, the graphics chip giant, is eagerly plowing inroads into the embedded market by leveraging Jetson TX1, its AI computing platform.
Planit Rejuvenates Dr. Brandt Skincare
Dr. Brandt Skincare is undergoing a makeover for the first time since the brand’s namesake founder committed suicide in 2015. Developed with agency Planit, the relaunch is designed to honor that founder–Frederic Brandt–while establishing a brand that can live beyond him and engage new consumers.
Illinois man in celebrity-hacking case faces sentencing
A judge is scheduled to sentence an Illinois man accused of hacking into the electronic accounts of 30 celebrities and stealing private information, including nude videos and photos. Edward Majerczyk is set to appear in Chicago federal court Tuesday.
Real places that inspired scenes in Oscar-nominated films
A diner in Miami, a house in Pittsburgh and a pier in Los Angeles: All of them are real places where Oscar-nominated movies were filmed. Part of “Moonlight” was shot in Jimmy’s Eastside Diner in Miami.
Appeals court denies full hearing in data surveillance case
NEW YORK >> A federal appeals court in New York won’t rehear a panel’s decision letting companies like Microsoft refuse to turn over to the government customer emails stored overseas. The judges of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals split their votes 4-4.
PTAB initiation of PGR Does not Negate Preliminary Injunction
In an opinion by Judge Stoll , the Federal Circuit has affirmed an E.D.Texas preliminary injunction barring the accused infringer from selling its ” Balloon Bonanza ” product “or any colorable imitation thereof.” I previously wrote about the case that involves Telebrands’ patented balloon-filling-toy.