Of that 78m, around 4m went on to pay its one-time unlock fee – a good but not amazing conversion rate of around five per cent. The company’s mascot jogged onto iPhone and iPad on 15th December last year – and was quickly downloaded 40m times in just four days.
Month: January 2017
Cat Simulations Test London Insurers’ Vulnerabilities to Next ‘Big One’
A major $200 billion loss from a combination of a cyber attack, U.S. hurricane and the failure of a reinsurer could strip insurers of up to 120 percent of their net capital base, tests of insurers in London showed. However, capital-raising or asset sales meant losses would not put the insurers out of business, according to the results of the tests published on Tuesday.
First stem cell study could lead to development of therapy to reduce inflammation caused by CF
A 39-year-old man with cystic fibrosis made history by becoming the first person to receive human adult stem cells in a new research study that researchers hope will someday lead to the development of a therapy to reduce the inflammation and infection caused by CF. The pioneering subject in the study is Bob Held from Alliance, Ohio, who on Jan. 26 received an infusion of cells called allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cells , adult stem cells collected from the bone marrow of healthy volunteers.
Nintendo Co Ltd cut its operating profit forecast for the year ending March to 20 billion yen from 30 billion yen, though a weaker yen and revenue from mobile gaming helped the videogames maker to its first quarterly profit in a year. October-December profit reached 32.3 billion yen from 33.5 billion yen a year earlier, the Japanese firm said on Tuesday.
Google’s New Pixel Smartphone Shines
The Pixel phone, Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy, is off to a promising start — but might have done even better had Google managed consumer demand as smartly as the device’s sleek design. Although Google hasn’t released sales figures, industry researchers say the Pixel [pictured above] has been a hot item since its October debut was greeted with mostly glowing reviews and the biggest marketing blitz in Google’s 18-year history.
Cisco Buys AppDynamics for $3.7B
IT sector yesterday with the announcement that it has agreed to acquire business software company AppDynamics for $3.7 billion shortly before the latter was slated to launch its initial public offering. The deal should help Cisco appeal to enterprise clients struggling to manage business applications running across multiple cloud deployments.
VeloCloud Wins Product of the Year
VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN Named a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award Winner — VeloCloud Honored for Innovative Use of SDN Technology to Support Network Agility, Scalability and Simplified Branch Implementations while Delivering Superior Access to Services MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 26, 2017 — VeloClouda Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company, today announced today that TMC, a global, integrated media company, has named VeloCloud Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN as a 2016 SDN Product of the Year Award winner.
Film review: Hidden Figures – ” Nasa’s black mathematicians
Hidden Figures reveals the trials and tribulations of three black women who were instrumental in America’s space race in the pre-computer 1960s Hidden Figures approaches the issue of America’s racial segregation with a gentle touch, and is all the better for it. By skillfully avoiding polemical statements and scenes of high drama, as it follows three black women dealing with daily difficulties , the film sends a powerful message about the evils of racism.
The Party’s Just Getting Started for Iron Ore Exporters: Gadfly
Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. has long been iron ore’s greatest cheerleader, and with metal prices near the highest level in two years it’s showing no sign of losing faith. “You can see the confidence is back” among Chinese steel executives, David Liu, the miner’s director of sales and marketing, said on an analyst call Tuesday.
El Nino May Make a Comeback as Australia Sees Pacific Warming
Less than a year after the world said goodbye to one of the strongest El Ninos on record, forecasters are predicting the weather pattern may make a comeback. Climate models indicate the central Pacific Ocean will probably warm over coming months, suggesting neutral conditions or El Nino are the most likely scenarios for the southern hemisphere winter-spring period, Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said on its website.
ETF Buyers Return to Precious Metals Amid Trump Policy Angst
Add the flap over U.S. immigration policy to investor concerns that are reigniting demand for precious metals as havens. Long-only exchange-traded funds backed by precious metals have attracted about $200 million this month, on course for the first monthly inflow since October, data compiled by Bloomberg Intelligence showed.
Adjustable flaps for wind turbines
Researchers at the University of Oldenburg have developed a flap for wind turbine generators which is mounted parallel to the main rotor blade and is considerably smaller in its size and mass than the main blade. The core piece of the invention is the adjustable pitch of the flap.
PRL Lighting Launches with Introduction of LUSTRA 50 High-Performance LED
PRL Lighting, provider of premium LED lighting for professional and avid amateur photographers and videographers, has unveiled its new product line. Founded by industry leaders Rudy Pohlert and Pat Ralston, PRL’s first offering is the LUSTRA 50 high performance LED panel fixture.
PRL Lighting Launches with Introduction of LUSTRA 50 High-Performance LED
PRL Lighting, provider of premium LED lighting for professional and avid amateur photographers and videographers, has unveiled its new product line. Founded by industry leaders Rudy Pohlert and Pat Ralston, PRL’s first offering is the LUSTRA 50 high performance LED panel fixture.
PRL Lighting Launches with Introduction of LUSTRA 50 High-Performance LED
PRL Lighting, provider of premium LED lighting for professional and avid amateur photographers and videographers, has unveiled its new product line. Founded by industry leaders Rudy Pohlert and Pat Ralston, PRL’s first offering is the LUSTRA 50 high performance LED panel fixture.
PRL Lighting Launches with Introduction of LUSTRA 50 High-Performance LED
PRL Lighting, provider of premium LED lighting for professional and avid amateur photographers and videographers, has unveiled its new product line. Founded by industry leaders Rudy Pohlert and Pat Ralston, PRL’s first offering is the LUSTRA 50 high performance LED panel fixture.
Research consortium awarded $21 million NIH grant to find ways to…
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.
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.