Month: January 2017

UK’s Funding Circle, an online marketplace lender, raises $100 mln

Funding Circle, a peer-to-peer lending marketplace used by small- and medium-sized companies, has raised $100 million in an investment round led by venture capital firm Accel. Existing investors including Baillie Gifford, DST Global and Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital, Rocket Internet, Sands Capital Ventures, Temasek and Union Square Ventures also participated in the round, the company said.

Security concerns push Asian organisations to outsource IT

Security needs are persuading organisations in Asia Pacific to adopt managed IT, and hybrid services are crucial for digital transformation, according to a CenturyLink study Managed and hybrid IT services, a mix of in-house and outsourced, are terms that have been doing the rounds in enterprise IT circles, but until now there hasn’t been much data to show how and why organisations in Asia Pacific have been adopting them. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.

Russian hackers could go after Congress next a ” and not just to read their email

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday took turns questioning top intelligence officials, who say investigative agencies found compelling evidence of Russian cyber-hacking throughout the 2016 election cycle. Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., during the committee’s hearing Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, on Russian intelligence activities.

Trump’s boldest campaign promises are getting a reality check

President-elect Donald Trump holds his first news conference since July 27, 2016, on Jan. 11, 2017, in New York City. During his campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly promised voters a “big, beautiful wall,” an Obamacare replacement ” immediately ” and a new era for a Veterans Affairs agency that had “failed” service members.

U.S. bioengineers develop low-cost, hand-powered blood centrifuge

Bioengineers at Stanford University in west coast of the United States have created an ultra-low-cost, hand-powered blood centrifuge with rotational speeds of up to 125,000 revolutions per minute . The device, capable of separating blood plasma from red cells in 1.5 minutes, applies the same mechanical principles in a whirligig, which is built by threading a loop of twine through two holes in a button, grabbing the loop ends, then rhythmically pulling.

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UNC Nobel Laureate Oliver Smithies dies at age 91

Oliver Smithies, D.Phil., who was recruited to North Carolina with grant funding from the North Carolina Biotechnology Center and won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 20 years later, died today at the age of 91. In 1987, the Biotechnology Center helped recruit seven researchers from the University of Wisconsin in Madison to start the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s molecular biology and biotechnology research program. The Biotech Center’s faculty recruitment grant program, inaugurated to help attract that group of Wisconsin scientists, was named to honor Smithies after he became a Nobel laureate in 2007.

Obama Plan to Shake Up Coal Leases Could Restrict Trump

The outgoing Obama administration issued a blueprint for overhauling the way coal on federal land is sold, making it tougher for President-elect Donald Trump to resume sales under decades-old procedures. The report released Wednesday lays out a menu of potential options for policy makers to consider, including tacking a carbon fee onto coal leases to account for climate change, requiring payments into a fund that could help out-of-work miners and devastated communities — and even halting sales altogether.

Tesla’s Head of Autopilot Departs as Musk Hires Apple Engineer

Tesla Motors Inc.’s head of Autopilot, the driver-assist system packaged with its Model S and Model X electric cars, has left the company as a top engineer from Apple Inc. joins as chief of software. Sterling Anderson, director of Autopilot programs since November 2015, departed Palo Alto, California-based Tesla in December, his LinkedIn page shows.

Bull Market Masks Australia’s Year of 20%-Plus Stock Swings

Last year, the S&P/ASX 200 had 27 instances of a constituent rising or falling more than 20 percent on a single day, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Comparisons with other developed markets in Asia aren’t equal because Japan enforces limits on how much some stocks can move, and the main gauges in Hong Kong, Singapore and New Zealand have 50 members at most.

Scientists: Moon over the hill at 4.51 billion years old

In this Feb. 13, 1971 file photo, Apollo 14 astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. conducts an experiment near a lunar crater, using an instrument from a two-wheeled cart carrying various tools. On Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2017, a California-led research team reported that the moon formed within 60 million years of the birth of the solar system.

Singapore’s Garena Said to Pick Goldman for $1 Billion IPO

Garena, Southeast Asia’s most valuable startup, picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to lead a planned initial public offering that could fetch about $1 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The Singapore-based online gaming portal and e-commerce provider plans to select additional banks as soon as this month, the people said.

Improving E911 Services Should be a Service Provider Priority

In today’s technology landscape, emergency services have evolved to facilitate faster response times, ensure better accuracy and accommodate a broader range of users and channels. It is becoming increasingly easier to connect to emergency personnel through alternative means like text-to-911, which can be useful for victims with hearing loss or in situations where a voice call could prove dangerous.

New MacBook Pros stop Apple’s skid in worldwide PC shipments

Apple’s new MacBook Pros have put the brakes on a free-fall of Mac shipments globally, though they haven’t provided the significant boost the company was looking for. The company’s Mac shipments totaled 5.3 million units during the fourth quarter of 2016, a decline of just 0.9 percent compared to the same quarter in 2015.

Energy assurance is critical to Air Force missions

Imagine that you’re looking at the camera feed of an MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft-commonly known as a “drone,” but which we in the Air Force call an “RPA”-flying somewhere in the Middle East and tracking a known member of an international terrorist organization. This aircraft is controlled by a pilot at an Air Force Base in the United States.

Play virtual reality mind games at Palmer’s VR Cafe

It can be hyper-realistic, such as standing on a capsized ship in the ocean while schools of fish zip by all around and a lazy whale rolls over next to you. It can be cartoony, as in the “Job Simulator,” a game in which robots have replaced all human jobs and you can perform familiar tasks in places such as a kitchen, an office or a convenience store.

Idea Cellular announces data and calling plans for customers who switch to 4G

New Delhi , Jan.11 : Sophos has empanelled key products of its next-generation Sophos XG Firewall to National Informatics Centre Services Incorporated , a Government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. [NK Telecom] The products include Hardware appliances , Enterprise Guard and Full Guard Subscription , Sophos Firewall Manager and LAN/WAN Modules and Transceivers.

StarTek, Inc. (SRT) Downgraded to “Hold” at Zacks Investment Research

According to Zacks, “StarTek, Inc. is a global provider of process management services and owns and operates branded vertical market Internet web sites. Their process management service platforms include E-commerce support and fulfillment, provisioning management for telecommunications systems, high-end inbound technical support, and an offering of supply chain management services.

Trump denies reports on Russia ties: ‘a disgrace’

Opening his first news conference since the election, President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday responded to suggestions that U.S. intelligence agencies leaked unsubstantiated reports to the media about his relationship with Russia, calling it a “tremendous blot on their record if they did that.” “I think it’s a disgrace that information would be let out.

Tesla nabs another Apple employee – this time, it’s one of…

Registration will allow you to post comments on ctpost.com and create a ctpost.com Subscriber Portal account for you to manage subscriptions and email preferences. Tesla nabs another Apple employee – this time, it’s one of the key designers on the Mac team One of the key designers behind some of Apple’s most daring Mac products in the past few years has moved to Tesla to work on electric cars.

Digimarc’s End-to-End Retail Solutions Drive Greater Efficiency and Engagement

Digimarc will be showcasing numerous demonstrations of its growing partner ecosystem and the integration of Digimarc technology into every stage of the value chain. The 2017 NRF show is being held at the Javits Center in Booth demonstrations will highlight Digimarc’s partnerships with leading scanning and machine vision systems, enabled variable measure devices, and major product packaging print partners.

Corporate Financial Data Theft and Customer Information Breaches: Top …

Financial and customer information, brand reputation, intellectual property, and employee information were also listed as critical assets to protect against security breaches. New business priorities and technologies also create challenges for IT and security teams, with 65% of respondents indicating that public clouds have the biggest security implications.i 1 2i 1 2 also found that security transformation impacts both the technology choices enterprises make to ward off cyber thieves and the way companies organize internal stakeholders, assess risk, and prioritize future investments.

CENTRI Wins Inaugural IoT Breakthrough Award

The IoT Breakthrough Awards recognizes the IoT innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the world in a range of categories, including Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, IoT Security, Wearables, Industrial IoT, M2M, Enterprise IoT and many more. More than 2,000 award nominations from organizations and individuals representing 15 nations were submitted to the awards this year for consideration.