In this Nov. 2, 2015, file photo, former professional wrestler Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, right, arrives for his formal arraignment at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown, Pa. Jimmy “Superfly” Snuka, a wrestling legend best known for his gravity-defying moves that helped transform the sport, died Sunday at age 73, according to multiple reports.
Month: January 2017
Vietnam doc makes Ken Burns, Trent Reznor partners
Ken Burns, from left, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Lynn Novick speak at PBS’ “The Vietnam War” panel at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif. less Ken Burns, from left, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and Lynn Novick speak at PBS’ “The Vietnam War” panel at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2017, in Pasadena, Calif.
Five Charts Show How Holiday Season Means Shopping Fever in China 44 minutes ago
Chinese consumers flocked to malls, restaurants and cinemas ahead of the year’s biggest holiday season, highlighting the consumption power transforming the economy. Foot traffic at shopping centers and eateries edged up while online sales climbed from a year earlier, according to data from Baidu Inc., operator of the nation’s dominant search engine, and No.
Halo May Be Coming For A Younger Audience, Here’s What We Know
One of the big talks circulating within the gaming community from last week was about a Halo game centered around the Mega Bloks property for the Xbox 360. The game was cancelled, but the spirit of the title has lived on and generated enough buzz that the idea may not be dead and gone entirely within the circles of Microsoft.
Dennis Mammana: Getting Sirius About a Stunning Celestial Sparkler
Every year around this time, I can expect my email inbox to overflow and my phone to begin ringing. Folks who spend time outdoors during early evening hours in mid-January frequently notice a brilliantly sparkling diamond low in the southeastern sky, one that appears to shimmer, dance and dramatically change colors.
Paris Meeting Reaffirms Demand for Israeli-Palestinian Solution
The creation of a Palestinian state remains the only acceptable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to the resolution of an international meeting in Paris convened to signal frustration at the stalemate in peacemaking. The final statement reaffirmed that Israel’s 1967 borders would be the basis for any agreement, offered incentives to both sides and told them to avoid steps that work against that solution. It welcomed the recent United Nations Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements, but didn’t call for any follow-up action at the UN.
ChatterBot 0.5.5
ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine. Home-page: Author: Gunther Cox Author-email: gunthercx@gmail.com License: BSD Download-URL: Description: ..
Natera, Inc. (NTRA) Downgraded to Sell at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “Natera, Inc. offers genetic testing and diagnostics with proprietary bioinformatics and molecular technology. Natera, Inc. is headquartered in San Carlos, California.
SpaceX nailed its first launch since last year’s big explosion
Early Saturday morning Jan. 14, SpaceX successfully launched ten communication satellites made by Iridium – one of its largest satellite customers – into low earth orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The mission, part of a larger effort to replace at least 70 of Iridium’s satellites by 2018, was a much-needed positive start to what should be a busy year for SpaceX.
Fidelity Biotech Fund: Better than the Index?
Of all the Fidelity mutual funds, its healthcare-focused funds have some of the best records. The Fidelity Select Biotechnology Portfolio But there may be more to its performance than meets the eye.
9 Facts You Didn’t Know About Driverless Cars
Technology and automotive companies are currently in a sprint to bring the best self-driving technologies to market. The companies have been spurred on by high traffic fatalities, increasing support by governments, and, of course, new revenue potential.
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TSMC’s new 10nm technology is expected to bring performance, power, and area benefits compared to its current generation 16nm technology. Those improvements should allow its customers — with Apple being a big one — to develop chips with better performance and more features than what they could create with older-generation technologies.
3 Bold Bets on the Future of Healthcare
Healthcare is changing rapidly. Which companies will emerge as the huge winners with these major changes? We asked three of our healthcare contributors to weigh in on the subject.
Blood stem cell donor meets the man whose life he helped save
The Oregon resident wasn’t improving despite regular chemotherapy treatments and instead was reliant on finding a perfect match to fight his blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome. More than 2,000 miles away, at Ohio University, Ethan Krafft had his cheek swabbed with a group of fellow business fraternity members for community service credit.
ASP.NET Web API, Angular2, TypeScript and WebApiClientGen
This article is on top of ” Generate TypeScript Client API for ASP.NET Web API “, and is focused on Angular 2 code examples and respective SDLC. The support for Angular2 has been available since WebApiClientGen v1.9.0-beta in June 2016 when Angular 2 was still in RC2.
Zacks Investment Research Downgrades Open Text Corporation (OTEX) to Sell
According to Zacks, “Open Text Corporation is engaged in development of innovative intranet, extranet and e-Business applications. Since creating one of the first search engines to index the World Wide Web, the company has remained at the forefront of Internet-based technologies.
Nintendo’s Fils-Aime: The Switch won’t oust the 3DS – CNET
And don’t assume the shape-shifting device for gamers will replace the company’s popular 3DS handheld, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said in an interview with CNET. With its latest gadget, Nintendo is playing to win the same game it has for decades: the one that takes place in your living room.
AstroBob: Aurora — the big picture from 518 miles up
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen / Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership.
MSI preps for VR-ready notebooks with GeForce GTX 1050 and1050Ti
MSI will be launching its GT83VR, GT73VR, GT72VR, GT62VR, GS63VR, GS43VR, GE72MVR, GE62VR, GP72, GP62MVR and GL72/GL62 series into the market, featuring the latest Intel 7th generation CPUs, chipsets and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 10 GPUs. MSI affirms its position at the head of the high-end gaming market, bringing gamers all over the world the latest and greatest technologies.
Acer shows off the Predator 21 X gaming notebook
Acer announces the availability of its highly anticipated Predator 21 X gaming laptop. Featuring Windows 10 and designed for ultimate gaming enthusiasts who only want the best.
Davao City Central 911, uses Transcend devices
Davao City Central 911 is an integrated computerized response system that links the people of Davao City to emergency resources of the government. The system is patterned after the emergency dispatch system in the United States of America and Canada, which enables people to call emergency assistance and services with a rapid response time, simply by dialing 911.
This portable Wi-Fi router is smaller (and smarter?) than your smartphone
The HooToo Wireless Travel Router is a device so smart, it pays for itself in convenience the very first time you use it. This little gadget is a portable wireless router that’s smaller than your smartphone, creating a secure Wi-Fi network at the droop of a hat.
Take a VR tour of the White House with President Obama
Obama may be just wrapping up his stay in the White House but before he leaves he wants everyone to stop by for a visit, as long as you have a VR headset. Facebook-owned Oculus debuted an impressive 360-degree video tour of the White House, with the sitting President and the First Lady as special guests, and you can enjoy it right now .
WEF Will Answer Trump’s Call to Create U.S. Jobs, Schwab Says
Even the World Economic Forum is seeking to answer Donald Trump’s call to bring jobs back to the U.S. The organization will convene a special meeting in Washington this year to discuss issues raised during the president-elect’s campaign and the populist wave that swept him to victory, WEF founder Klaus Schwab told Bloomberg Television on Sunday. The gathering will explore U.S. investment and job-creation opportunities for companies that participate in the forum, he said.
Lauren McKeon Upends Modern ‘Don’ts’ at Interface Gallery
The elements in Lauren McKeon’s first solo show at Oakland’s Interface Gallery, dos and donts, but mostly donts , sit throughout the small space like props in a Nikolai Gogol play. I say a Gogol play mostly because of the mysterious bronze nose resting in one corner of the gallery, a shiny protuberance titled Parts to rub .
‘The penis was incredibly lifelike’ Woman reveals all on first male sex doll romp
Singleton Karley Sciortino had a fumble with a male sex doll as part of a documentary about the erotic phenomenon that’s sweeping the globe. She said: “We always assume men are more likely to enjoy sleeping with an object and that women need some sort of emotional connection to enjoy themselves, but that isn’t always the case.
New Game: Rollercoaster Dreams
Visit the amusement parks which are created by the players from all over the world. The players from all over the world will visit the amusement parks which are created by you.
zipsnfolders 0.1.3
When a Python program generates multi-file reports, you may want to write all the files into a well-organized folder, or archive the files into a zip, or generate the Zip archive in memory to send directly to some distant client, without writing anything to the hard drive. Zipsnfolders provides a single function for these three scenarios.
Wifi keeps disconnecting5
Installed win 10 64 bit on it, the internet worked perfect the first day. But before going to bed and shutting off my PC, that shitty win 10 update happened and the wireless connection was never the same… The next day, while turning the PC on, it finished its update and wow boy, did that internet keep disconnecting or eventually dropping to 10 kbps.
Advice on intel system upgrade1
Good day I have an older PC that I’d like to upgrade so that my kids and wife can play some of the more recent games. Not on ultra high specs or anything, I’d like to keep the cost to something reasonable, like around 500 dollars.
Fidelity Biotech Fund: Better than the Index?
Fidelity Select Biotechnology Fund has crushed the broader market, but doesn’t fare so well when compared to other biotech mutual funds and ETFs. Of all the Fidelity mutual funds, its healthcare-focused funds have some of the best records.
CPU doesn’t show up1
Hi! So, my problem is that yesterday, I entered into the msconfig and then, I saw in advanced boot settings that I had only 1 CPU avable, and so did show up to in Task Manager, but in Device Manager there were all 4 the processors, the idea is that my PC performance dropped alot, so, I want to reable all 4 my CPU, please, help me!
11 Tech Products That’ll Be Obsolete by 2025
If there’s one thing that’s constant in the world of technology, it’s change. And almost without exception, that change inevitably applies to tech products that at one time seemed crucial to maintaining our current standards of living.
Russia-US ties hard to mend, interests differ sharply
U.S. Army soldiers hold an American flag as they attend the official welcoming ceremony of the U.S. troops in Zagan, Poland, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2017. The ceremony comes 23 years after the last Soviet troops left Poland and also marks a new historic moment – the first time any Western forces are being deployed on a continuous basis to NATO’s eastern flank.
Samsung Spotlights Next-generation IoT Innovations for Retailers at…
At the National Retail Federation’s BIG Show 2017, Samsung Electronics America, Inc . unveils retail innovations that can assist traditional brick-and-mortar retailers with delivering more engaging and personalized mobile-first customer shopping experiences.
Need trip advice? Keep it in the family with Cool Cousin app
Don’t have a cool cousin to tell you where to go on your next vacation? Don’t worry – now you have dozens. What it does: Get travel recommendations and trip advice from “cousins” whose interests are similar to yours.
The California drought is on its way out, but deeper droughts lie ahead
After a week of being walloped by major storms that have dumped copious rain and snow on the state, California is finally emerging from a deep, years-long drought. Ski resorts in the Sierra Nevada mountains are flush with snow, while key reservoirs have filled back up .
Did smaller ‘moonlets’ create our moon, and why do we care?
How was the moon formed, and what does that mean for life on Earth? A new theory offers some changing from the prevailing wisdom. A new scientific theory suggests our moon was formed by the merging of smaller “moonlets” created by collisions between multiple space objects and the Earth.
Lab Equipment, SoundCloud, Inauguration, More: Sunday Buzz, January 15, 2017
Now available: a database of unused lab equipment in Atlantic Canada “Science Atlantic, a non-profit organization based in Halifax, has created an online open-access database for research facilities and specialized equipment across the provinces. The Atlantic Facilities and Research Equipment Database wants to connect people in need of equipment with those who have it, said program manager Patty King.”
Fitchburg Library offers hotspots
The Fitchburg Public Library now offers three portable Wi-Fi hotspots, or wireless access points, for Fitchburg residents with adult library cards in good standing. The Wi-Fi hotspots connect to the T-Mobile network and can be used with laptops, tablets, phones, portable games or other devices that access the Internet through a wireless connection.