Many online shoppers in the United States have for years had to pay state sales taxes whenever they buy goods from Amazon. But the Seattle e-commerce giant has dragged its feet on collecting sales taxes in small and sparsely populated states where it doesn’t have any distribution centers or corporate offices.
Month: January 2017
Telescope camera boosts asteroid sightings in Tucson
A customized telescope camera near Tucson is playing an important role in discovering asteroids and other objects zipping by Earth. Upgrades helped the Catalina Sky Survey record 924 of the sightings in 2016, reported the Arizona Daily Star .
Baby Boomers Love These 5 Brands
A recent report shows that companies that form an emotional connection tend to outperform the competition. Which ones do baby boomers love? It would seem common sense that a company that has a closer relationship with its customers would perform better.
PC-Tel, Inc. (PCTI) Stock Rating Lowered by Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “PCTEL designs, develops, and delivers wireless solutions. PCTEL’s products include wireless local area network software products that simplify installation, roaming, Internet access and billing.
7 Emerging Conferences Every Advertising Professional Should Know About
More than ever, today’s marketers are dependent on finding insight and inspiration from the world beyond their businesses to drive innovation and discover new meaning for their customers. While there’s no shortage of conferences and events that promise to deliver the perfect balance of each, deciding which warrant attention can be a daunting task.
New Game: Cube Quest
The action is viewed in a third person perspective from behind your ship, and controlled with a trackball. The graphics of the game is a hybrid.
This is the self-destructing smartphone that Trump probably isna t using
Over the past few days, some of the biggest questions about our national cyber security have centered on one device: President Donald Trump’s phone. Shortly after he reportedly traded in his main Twitter machine, an old-model, unsecured Android phone, for a “secure, encrypted device approved by the Secret Service,” the famously tech averse executive appeared to still be using the unsecured device.
Two new NASA missions look to asteroids for clues about our early solar system
Sure, they’re space rocks that sometimes hurtle past Earth a little too close for comfort – asteroids, that is. But for researchers involved in two new NASA missions titled Lucy and Psyche, asteroids are much more than an occasional nuisance: They’re time capsules that could unlock secrets of the early solar system.
How to buy an affordable laptop in 7 easy steps
Buying a laptop on a budget is hard. There are endless options, hardly any of them are ever advertised, and they flood you with technical details that aren’t easy to understand.
Making A Service Level Agreement With Your Hosting Services Provider
The level of effort that goes into preparation of a Service Level Agreement between a services provider and the end-customer, is usually proportionate to the duration of the engagement With the increasing adoption of Managed and Cloud services, where either an entire or a part of IT function is outsourced to a third-party services provider, the need for unambiguous, easy to apply and easy to follow service agreements are becoming more important. The level of effort that goes into preparation of a Service Level Agreement between a services provider and the end-customer, is usually proportionate to the duration of the engagement.
Apple Removes Tool to Check if an iPhone or iPad is Activation Locked
Apple has removed its Activation Lock status checker on iCloud .com at some point in the past few days. The tool enabled users to enter the serial number or IMEI of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and find out if the device is secured with Activation Lock, helping buyers avoid purchasing a device locked to another user.
A federal judge unsealed evidence in Cardinals-Astros hacking scandal
A report from David Barron and Jake Kaplan of the Houston Chronicle revealed new details about former Cardinals scouting director Carlos Correa ‘s hacking of the Astros’ computer databases from 2013-2014. On Thursday, federal judge Lynn Hughes unsealed three documents pertaining to Correa’s offenses.
A time-parallel approach to strong-constraint four-dimensional variational data assimilation
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. A parallel-in-time algorithm based on an augmented Lagrangian approach is proposed to solve four-dimensional variational data assimilation problems.
Tackling the challenge of brain drain
Malaysia must focus on retaining the existing talent at home instead of wooing those who have left the country in search of greener pastures Brain drain seems to be an obstacle in Malaysia’s development. Malaysians continue to leave their homes in search of greener pastures abroad.
HRC announce new partnership with fashion brand Pull&Bear
Honda Racing Corporation is pleased to announce the signing of an important new sponsorship agreement with Pull&Bear, the young fashion brand of the Inditex Group . Through this partnership, the 2017 and 2018 MotoGP World Championship seasons will find Pull&Bear’s logo on the race suits and clothing worn by reigning MotoGP World Champion Marc Marquez and teammate Dani Pedrosa, as well as the uniforms of the Repsol Honda Team and HRC staff.
Industrial magnetic sensor
Memsic Inc.’s the MMC5883MA 3-axis magnetic sensor is designed to provide accuracy, low noise, and little power consumption for drone and industrial markets. The 3-axis magnetic sensor provides 16-bit operation over a wide operating range, and its high performance enables faster algorithms for hard and soft iron interference correction.
Why Dow 20,000 Does Matter For US Blue-Chips And Price-Weighted Indices
The persistence and performance of the Dow, along with its simplicity, shows that price-weighting has its uses and merits as an alternative to market-cap weighting. The longest term relative value milestone may be against gold, of which one unit of the Dow bought 4 ounces in 1905 vs over 16 ounces today, excluding dividends.
Thaicom proposes joint-venture broadband satellite deal with CAT
SATELLITE OPERATOR Thaicom has approached state agency CAT Telecom to set up a 70:30 joint venture to develop the planned Thaicom 9 broadband satellite to serve bandwidth demand by state agencies. The joint venture plan is part in the company’s multi-pronged proposal submitted to the Ministry of the Digital Economy and Society recently for the ministry’s consideration as part of the ministry’s plan to reform the satellite service industry.
Building a local Steam caching server to ease the bandwidth blues
If you play games on PC, where God intended them to be played, chances are you’ve got Steam installed. Since its troubled launch in 2003, Valve’s publishing platform has gone from a thing we had to grudgingly put up with in order to play Half Life 2 to the most popular digital game distribution tool on the planet.
Trump’s refugee policy raises a question: How do you tell a Christian from a Muslim?
Assyrian Christians, who fled unrest in Syria and Iraq, attend Mass with Lebanese Christians at St. George’s Assyrian Church in Jdeideh, Lebanon. Assyrian Christians, who fled unrest in Syria and Iraq, attend Mass with Lebanese Christians at St. George’s Assyrian Church in Jdeideh, Lebanon.
Child protection agency misses hundreds of payments due to computer glitches
Philip Browning, head of the county Department of Children and Family Services, listens to a woman who cares for her granddaughter after a 2012 talk to caregivers in South Central. Philip Browning, head of the county Department of Children and Family Services, listens to a woman who cares for her granddaughter after a 2012 talk to caregivers in South Central.
Bermuda Triangle ‘lost city’: – Proof of Huge Kingdom hidden under water’
Over the years, hundreds of ships and planes have suddenly vanished in unexplainable circumstances while sailing or flying over it earning it the nickname the Devil’s Triangle. Black Dahlia Murder: 22-year old Elizabeth Short was very active at promoting herself into showbiz at the time when the Black Dahlia murder occurred, however, no one knew of the killer or who actually commited the murder Claims have previously made that an underwater pyramid in the Atlantic is somehow responsible for the spooky mid-ocean disappearances.
3D printing on the moon
For Alex and Sergei Dobrianski, the building blocks of an upcoming revolution in the space industry are found in moon dust. Over the past five years, the father-and-son team has been developing the technology to send a 3D printer to the moon that can extract and use the various fine-grained metals coating the lunar surface to build everything from satellites to computer processors.
Governor announces largest solar farm in Virginia
Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s office announced last week that a new 100 megawatt solar farm is planned to be used by Amazon for its cloud computing division. The farm will be constructed by Pennsylvania-based Community Energy Solar, which also built the state’s second largest solar farm.
What Is Philosophy’s Point?, Part 3. Maybe It Should Stick to Ethics
Kant perhaps looks mournful in this portrait by an unknown artist because he foresaw that the ethical edifice he so carefully constructed would be demolished by subsequent philosophers, who doubt all systems of moral rules. Credit: Wikipedia .
Set to become governor soon, Reynolds doesn’t seek spotlight
In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds and her husband Kevin stand as they arrive to listen to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad deliver his annual condition of the state address before a joint session of the Iowa Legislature at the Statehouse in Des Moines, Iowa.
Spaceworks may have a real-world stasis chamber for space travel by 2018
A process traditionally used to treat cardiac arrest or traumatic brain injury is now showing promise as a possible method to enable long-term space travel through hibernation. Behind this effort is John A. Bradford, president of Spaceworks, and making this a reality is much closer than you might think.
maspy 1.1.3
Maspy is a Python library with the aim to provide simple, convenient and versatile access to proteomics data of bottom up experiments. To achieve this it features an internal data representation that facilitates comfortable use of this data.
Bob the Builder
Scoop the digger, Muck the digger/dump truck, Lofty the crane, Roley the steamroller, Dizzy the cement mixer help Bob repair leaky roofs and resurface roads. The crew also teaches us how much fun it is to work together, solve problems, and build friendships.
Retail real estate heads for dark 2017
Reeling from a shaky holiday season and slowing mall traffic, U.S. retailers are facing increasing pressure to close stores as more of their business migrates to the internet. More than 10 percent of U.S. retail space, or nearly 1 billion square feet, may need to be closed, converted to other uses or renegotiated for lower rent in coming years, according to data provided to Bloomberg by CoStar Group.
Linksys’ Velop system at-home Wi-Fi covers all the bases
The Velop system from Linksys comes in three configurations depending on how much area you need to cover, providing people with one, two or three access points. Everyone is familiar with the way Wi-Fi works in an office or hospital or hotel – there’s one network that’s broadcast by multiple access points spread throughout the campus so that users can connect from any location .
Chair, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
Applications are invited for the position of Chair of the Department of Medical Biophysics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate must be eligible for a status-only appointment at the rank of Full Professor.
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Credit Suisse Group Reaffirms Outperform Rating for Apple Inc.
‘s stock had its “outperform” rating reiterated by equities researchers at Credit Suisse Group in a report released on Wednesday. They presently have a $150.00 price target on the iPhone maker’s stock.
Schrute Bucks, Stanley Nickels And Bitcoins
There is a great episode of the American version of The Office in which Dwight Schrute, Assistant to the Regional Manager at Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch, creates an incentive program focused around “Schrute bucks”. An exchange with grumpy salesman Stanley Hudson follows: Dwight: Don’t you want to earn Schrute bucks? Stanley: No.
Princess Diana statue to mark 20 years since car crash death
In this Jan. 4, 1993 file photo, Princess Diana and sons Harry and William at Banana Bay Beach, St. Kitts. Harry and William said on Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, that they plan to build a statue to mark the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death in a Paris car crash in 1997.
Keep your email safe
A: A wireless network repeater is a great way to extend coverage, but it has to be placed in the right spot. Most routers spread signals in a circle.
numexpr 2.6.2
Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it, expressions that operate on arrays are accelerated and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python.
Salesforce Deals Signal Change
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Alcatel tipped to launch 5 handsets in February – including a modular disco-phone
TCL, who also sells phones under the BlackBerry brand, will be showing off five smartphones at MWC 2017 – Barcelona’s annual technology tradeshow – at the end of February. That’s according to Tech2u.hu, a Hungarian tech blog that we haven’t heard of – so take this report with due caution.