Month: January 2017

Remembering Eugene Cernan: Facts about retired U.S. astronaut

This December 13, 1972 image courtesy of NASA shows Astronaut Eugene A. Cernan, mission commander, walking toward the Lunar Roving Vehicle during extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site of NASA’s sixth and final Apollo lunar landing mission. Pic/AFP Eugene A. Cernan, the commander of the Apollo 17 lunar-landing mission in 1972 and the last man to walk on the moon, died in Houston on January 17. Here are some facts about the retired US astronaut.

Zyxel Launches High-Performance Stackable Switches for Bandwidth-Intensive Network Environments

Zyxel Communications , a leading provider of secure broadband networking, Internet access and connected home products, today announced the launch of the XGS4600 Series 28-port Gigabit Layer 3 Managed Switches with 4 SFP+ Uplinks . Available in Gigabit Ethernet and SFP versions, these premium switches provide a high-performance, reliable, and affordable solution for managing bandwidth-intensive networks in demanding environments such as businesses, hotels and schools.

Verifone expands Microsoft Dynamics 365 partnership

Verifone today announced the expansion of its partnership with Microsoft that provides comprehensive Payment-as-a-Service for Microsoft Dynamics 365 clients. Availability of Verifone Point, a Payment-as-a-Service solution, will now extend to Microsoft Dynamics 365 users internationally beginning with Canada.

Hubble spies exocomets’ plunge into star

Interstellar forecast for a nearby star: Raining comets! The Hubble Space Telescope has discovered doomed, wayward comets plunging into the star HD 172555. Artist’s concept of comets speeding across a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust, heading straight for the youthful star HD 172555.

Grave Digger driver hurt in Monster Jam show

The driver of the monster truck Grave Digger was injured at the Monster Jam show at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa this weekend. Dennis Anderson, who created the famous Grave Digger truck in 1981 and still rides the truck at many shows, was injured when the truck landed upside down on a ramp during the performance Saturday.

Emma Watson: I aspire to be like Belle from Beauty and the Beast

The 26-year-old actress has revealed that after rejecting the chance to star in Disney’s ‘Cinderella’, she accepted the role of Belle in the upcoming live-action adaptation because she can see certain similarities between herself and her on-screen character. She explained: “I didn’t know they were going to make ‘Beauty And The Beast’ at the time I turned down ‘Cinderella’.

MacBook Pro expected to get Intel Kaby Lake processor upgrade

MacBook Pro fans look forward to the upgrade cycle each year from Apple to see what sort of new performance and other features Apple adds to its popular line of MacBook Pro notebooks. One of the most accurate analysts that predicts what Apple will do in their next upgrade cycle is from KGI Securities and is called Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities.

Gene Cernan, Last Man To Walk On The Moon, Has Died

The last man in the world to take one of the most historic jaunts in human history has died. Astronaut Gene Cernan, who walked on the moon in 1972 and ended the astonishing adventure with a message of peace and hope, died at the age of 82 surrounded by his family, according to a statement NASA released Monday.

Apple to launch updated MacBook Pro with 32GB of RAM

It’s only been a couple of months since Apple radically redesigned its MacBook Pro line, but already rumours are circulating around the next update. According to industry analysts, 2017 will see the new look MacBook Pro given a sizeable specs boost, with 32GB of RAM even being slotted into the top of the line model.

Tech vendor Misys launches P2P lending software for banks

Jan 17 Financial technology vendor Misys is launching software to enable banks to provide peer-to-peer lending to their customers as competition from young companies in the sector heats up. The technology would enable retail and corporate banks to connect their customers looking for loans with individual or institutional investors digitally, the private London-based software company said on Tuesday.

China plans to develop powerful exascale computer

China is planning to develop a prototype of an exascale computer, considered the next frontier of supercomputers, by the end of 2017, according to a developer Tuesday. “A complete computing system of the exascale supercomputer and its applications can only be expected in 2020, and will be 200 times more powerful than the country’s first petaflop computer Tianhe-1, recognized as the world’s fastest in 2010,” said Zhang Ting, application engineer with the Tianjin-based National Supercomputer Center, when attending the sixth session of the 16th Tianjin Municipal People’s Congress Tuesday.

Newham policewoman saves life of man while on break

A police officer has been hailed a hero for saving the life of a man who collapsed with a suspected heart attack in a coffee shop. Newham Sergeant Sally Longhurst was taking a break from her shift in a Cafe Nero when she noticed a customer taken ill as he waited to be served.

Xi has crucial role, Davos founder says

Founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum gestures during an interview last week in Cologny, Switzerland. [Photo/Agencies] President Xi Jinping’s participation at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, “is quite relevant to the theme of the forum, which is ‘responsive and responsible leadership'”, said Klaus Schwab, the event’s founder and executive chairman.

Redux for $5M Brings Bixby $30M

The firm sells AERO, a 92,463-square-foot office building, to AVID Center at $326 per square foot following a $5-million inventive redesign of the building that makes it unlike any other in this submarket. Get alerted any time new stories match your search criteria.

Food Halls Vs. Restaurants: Comparing Investments

Established restaurant chains with strong financials will likely still be valued at a premium over a food hall/marketplace-unless the guarantor has a history that would surpass other chains or operators, Hanley’s Carlos Lopez tells GlobeSt.com. Get alerted any time new stories match your search criteria.

Jelastic Yoda 4.9.5: Improved User Experience with Solid Platform

Jelastic announced 4.9.5 release, that is mainly focused on the platform polishing and includes a wide range of bug fixes, UI and API improvements, new and updated stacks support. Jelastic, Inc. , cloud platform for developers offered as a public, private, hybrid or multi-cloud on infrastructure of hosting providers worldwide or on-premise, launched a new version of the product named Jelastic Yoda 4.9.5. The release is targeted on polishing of the already available features and fixing the bugs reported by customers.

China’s first cargo spacecraft to leave factory

A review meeting was convened last Thursday, during which officials and experts unanimously concluded that the Tianzhou-1 cargo spacecraft had met all the requirements to leave the factory. The take-off weight of Tianzhou-1 is 13 tonnes and it can ship material of up to six tonnes.

Pixel Film Studios Released Antique Slides for Final Cut Pro X

“Antique Slides is an authentic vintage slideshow production package which gives FCPX editors the necessary tools to make a stylistic retro slideshow with complete ease,” said Christina Austin – CEO of Pixel Film Studios. After installing within Final Cut’s Motion Templates users can find Antique Slides in the Titles Library.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module evolves

Maybe you need more access to GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi, maybe you’re even building a robot, or some such home automation project, or maybe you’re just interested in the latest release from the Raspberry Pi Foundation the thing to note is the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3! Basically, you get the guts of the latest Raspberry Pi, as well as 4Gbyte of eMMC Flash, integrated on to a smaller board, which fits into a standard DDR2 SODIMM connector. And many more GPIOs and interfaces are available as compared to the Raspberry Pi itself.

China’s online scams cost each victim US$1,400 on average

Amount cheated has risen massively over the years, with Beijing seeing the most number of internet fraud cases last year Online fraud victims in China were each cheated of over 9,400 yuan on average last year, according to an internet fraud watchdog’s annual report. The average amount of money each victim lost was almost 90 per cent higher than in 2015, according the report by Liewang Platform, a website where internet users on the mainland can report online fraud cases.

Saturn’s moon looks like the Death Star

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took photographs of Saturn’s moon Tethys on Monday, and it seems the planet is staring right back. Tethys measures 660 miles across and features a large impact crater known as “Odysseus,” which gives the planet its eerie, eyeball-like shape; some have even likened it to the Death Star from Star Wars.

Robots aid learning process

Barrington Elementary third-grader Eliza Paxton uses an app on her iPad to make a robot play music on a xylophone. Students in Katie Benton’s class have been using the robots to learn tasks such as coding, collaboration and problem-solving through use of their school-issued computer tablets and Dash and Dot robots, which were funded through a grant from the Upper Arlington Education Foundation and the Barrington Parent Teacher Organization.

FedEx Corporation (FDX) Cut to “Sell” at Zacks Investment Research

According to Zacks, “Even though shares of FedEx outperformed the broader industry over the last six months, the company’s earnings miss in the second quarter resulted in the stock losing value. Consequently, the Zacks Consensus Estimate has declined $0.10 to $12.02 for the fiscal 2017 over the last month.The bottom line was hurt by higher costs.

CPE.H – Capital Pro Egaux Inc.

Capital Pro-Egaux licenses patents to nSequence et al. 2017-01-10 09:21 MT – News Release Mr. Pierre Desormeau reports CAPITAL PRO-EGAUX INC. ANNOUNCES THE CONCLUSION OF A LICENSE AGREEMENT WITH NSEQUENCE CENTER FOR ADVANCED DENTISTRY AND NATIONAL DENTEX CORPORATION Capital Pro-Egaux Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Technique d’usinage Sinlab Inc., has entered into a patent licence agreement with nSequence Center for Advanced Dentistry and National Dentex Corp. As part of the agreement, Sinlab granted licensees a non-exclusive worldwide licence to make, use, sell and offer to sell inventions covered by its patents, including patents relating to its Technobar and Technoguide technologies, under terms undisclosed for confidentiality reasons.

Gene Cernan, last astronaut to walk on the moon, dies at 82

Former astronaut Gene Cernan, who as the last person to walk on the moon returned to Earth with a message of “peace and hope for all mankind,” died on Monday, his family said. He was 82. In this Dec. 12, 1972, photo provided by NASA, Apollo 17 commander Eugene Cernan holds the lower corner of an American flag during the mission’s first Extravehicular activity on the moon.

LSU engineering students envision Hyperloop pods carrying riders from …

Advocate staff photo by HILARY SCHEINUK — Clockwise from top left, Jake Roblez, 23, Kris Meche, 21, Trent Andrus, 19, Connor Joslin, 21, Evan Richard, 20, Elizabeth Reiner, 18, Caleb Hamilton, 22, Grant Dietrich, 23, Collin Kersker, 20, Girguis Sedky, 21, Giovanni Sequeira, 20, Joshua Manriquez, 24, Austin McMichael, 20, William Myers, 19, and Marissa Gauthreaux, 20, in a group photo, Wednesday, January 27, 2016 at LSU in Baton Rouge, La. Sketch provided by Connor Joslin — This is a sketch of the Hyperloop pod that a group of LSU engineering students designed and presented about at a competition hosted by SpaceX today at Texas A&M University.

Recover network password ?

I am setting up a NAS at home and the last stage of the setup requires going into the “map network drive” setting. When I do this I get a dialogue box from Windows Security saying Enter Network Credentials.