CES 2017 is right around the corner now, and it looks like Dell will be launching at least one new laptop, the XPS 13 . First spotted by Windows Central , Dell’s website has a page up that simply says “XPS 13 2-in-1” with an image.
Month: January 2017
Vandalized Hollywood Sign Briefly Reads ‘HOLLYWeeD’
No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn’t your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read “HOLLYWeeD” for a few hours on New Year’s Day.
Top Shelf: Graphic novels and Manga
As the year comes to an end, I’m looking back at some of the comics I’ve read. I never buy individual issues, preferring to wait until they’re collected into graphic novels.
George Michael’s boyfriend: ‘My Twitter was hacked’
George Michael’s boyfriend’s Twitter account was hacked on New Year’s Day , with messages posted alleging the singer had committed suicide. Fadi Fawaz, who had dated the Careless Whisper star since 2012, found the singer dead in bed at his home in Oxfordshire, England on Christmas Day .
PS4 Exclusives Coming In 2017 Highlighted By Sony
Sony was primarily focused on hardware in 2016. The year brought us the PlayStation 4 Slim , the PlayStation 4 Pro as well as the company’s first virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR .
Google Removed 900 Million Pirate Links Last Year
You don’t just search for something online, you ” Google It,” that’s really how most of us refer to the most widely used search engine in the world. Naturally, the company has a huge responsibility on its hands to ensure that it doesn’t rank links that point to pirated content.
Hawaiian Islands Weather Details & Aloha Paragraphs / January 1-2, 2017
This webcam is available during the daylight hours here in the islands, and at night whenever there’s a big moon shining down. Also, at night you will be able to see the stars – and the sunrise and sunset too – depending upon weather conditions.
Donald Trump’s Press Secretary Won’t Say Whether Russia Was Behind The DNC Hack
Donald Trump’s press secretary repeatedly refused to say whether the president-elect believes Russia was behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 presidential race. Trump’s initial response to the sanctions was that “it’s time for our country to move onto bigger and better things.”
WinX 2017 New Year Gift Pack Onboard for DVD Collectors and Movie Addicts
Digiarty Software is pushing a ten-day “WinX 2017 New Year Gift Pack” promotion, starting from today to the tenth of January, at virtually the lowest storewide price ever. While WinX DVD Ripper Platinum and three other featured media programs are hitting the discount shelve, a new wave of online sales is coming, playing like a Christmas Deal sequel.
Ben Johnston Hears the Notes Between the Notes
Ben Johnston doesn’t follow the rules of music. Sure, he’s got degrees from two colleges and a conservatory.
manuale 1.1.0
It is intended to be used by a human in a manual workflow and contains no automation features whatsoever. You’re not comfortable with an automatic process handling something as critical, or your complex infrastructure doesn’t allow it in the first place.
iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Will Replace All Human Workers With Robots
Manufacturing jobs are increasingly being taken over by robots as automating factories and production lines turns out to be more cost-effective for companies. Foxconn, a China-based manufacturer that has long produced iPhones for Apple , has laid out a three-phase plan in which it’s going to replace almost all of its human workers with robots.
Surface Pro 5 Release Expected In Q1 2017
It has been a while since Microsoft launched a new Surface Pro tablet. There were rumors in 2016 that one might be launched in early 2017.
ISS Astronauts Will Give You Mannequin Challenge Goals
If there’s one thing we need to leave behind in 2016, it’s the Mannequin Challenge. Just like a certain gorilla , this trend has been beaten to death by everybody from your neighbor down the street to even Hillary Clinton during the presidential race.
Administration Leaks Inaccurate Report of US Electric Grid Hack
Friday night The Washington Post ran a front page story saying that, “according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity”, Russian hackers had penetrated the US electrical grid at a then unnamed utility in Vermont. Other major news organizations, to their credit, did NOT pick up this story.
Macbook peripherals for dummies
For clarity: I have a retina Macbook Pro that comes with two Thunderbolt 2 ports, a HDMI port and two USB 3 ports. Monitor I have an old 18″ monitor sat gathering dust.
PHOTOS: From Saturn’s rings to a space sunset, amazing 2016…
This image shows sunlight hitting Saturn’s north pole. The whole northern region of the sixth planet from the sun is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble as the light may be.
How bad will the air pollution get? Don’t ask China’s supercomputers
Most calculations were done using an IBM high-performance computer operated by China Meteorological Administration, the scientists said. The three-year-old machine, IBM Flex System p460, played a key role in arriving at forecasts for smog levels for Beijing and other parts of the northern mainland last month, according to the researchers.
Another 1/230,000,000th of a Galactic Orbit
Well 2016, where do I begin to dissect you? A lot of good, really amazing things happened this year, but so too did a lot of awful and bewildering things. Our species continued its exploration of the natural world.
Mariah Carey bungles her New Yeara s Eve show, stops singing
Mariah Carey has ushered in 2017 with a botched performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” on ABC. The singer appeared to have technical difficulties during her live performance Saturday night in Times Square.
Thecus W2810PRO review, a NAS device running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials
The market for devices that allow you to control your own data is hot right now. Sure, the available-anywhere cloud is an extremely convenient place to store your files, but for many people , the idea that a third party has access to your data and is responsible for its security just doesn’t sit well.
Longtime Dubuque barber retires
In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, Rick Klein gives a haircut to Jerry Koppes, of Dubuque, Iowa, at Link’s Barber Shop in Dubuque. Klein is retiring after 53 years.
social-auth 0.3.3
Python Social Auth is an easy-to-setup social authentication/registration mechanism with support for several frameworks and auth providers. Crafted using base code from django-social-auth, it implements a common interface to define new authentication providers from third parties, and to bring support for more frameworks and ORMs.
Today in science: Discovery of Ceres
Ceres was the first asteroid ever discovered, in 1801, and it’s still the largest body in the asteroid belt. Nowadays, we call it a dwarf planet, and a spacecraft has been orbiting it! Ceres’ Occator Crater in false colour showing surface composition via NASA’s Dawn spacecraft / JPL/ Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA.
Why the New Year begins on January 1
We celebrate the New Year on January 1 for reasons that are mainly historical, not astronomical. And yet nature cooperates to make January 1 a satisfying time to start anew.
Beauty And The Beast To Baywatch: The Movie Reboots We Can’t Wait For In 2017
From the return of our favourite lifeguards to the resurrection of a classic monster, 2017 looks set to be a great year for movie reboots. Movie reboots are always risky business and in recent years we’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly, when it comes to studios trying to breathe new life into an old story.
More suburbs getting ahead on stopping alcohol smoking, powdered alcohol
A patron samples the Vaportini, an alcohol vaporization device its inventor says is safer than most because it contains no more than 1½ ounces of liquor at a time. Nevertheless, it is banned by law in Naperville and soon will be banned in Schaumburg.
Megalithic Burials, Banished Words, Twitter, More: Sunday Buzz, January 1, 2017
In development: a database of megalithic burials . “The study linking archeology, biology and history would lead to building a database to provide information on disease process, and, more importantly, to indicate conditions that could have led to the development, maintenance and the changing manifestations of disease through time.”
Musical Inventions
People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating newinstruments is much more than an art form.
97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
If you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this practical book provides expert advice from leading luminaries within the Java ecosystem. You’ll be encouraged to stretch yourself by learning new techniques, look at problems in new ways, take responsibility for your work, and become as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.
The Troublemaker’s Handbook
Achieve instant electronic mastery! This world demands skill with electronics. Familiarity with the basic components can give one a leg up into the core of technology.
Scala for Spark in Production
If you’re an Apache Spark developer, this practical book provides an introduction to the Scala programming language to help you get more out of this framework. Written in Scala, Spark uses its rich Domain-Specific Language abilities to present SQL views, extensibility, streaming, and DataFrames.
Lowell High entrepreneurs create innovative products
In conjunction with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, LHS entrepreneurs discover that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world. By teaching the entrepreneurial mindset, NFTE provides young people with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.
UMass partners for better biotech
Now, the university’s program will get even stronger as it joins a public-private partnership to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies and train a skilled workforce. Massachusetts has been named a partner in the nation’s first manufacturing innovation institute in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and UMass Lowell is one of five universities supporting the effort — working towards finding better ways to produce biotech drugs.
‘The OA’ and the hypnotic allure of weird TV
We’re more likely to remember the peak TV era for its quantity than its quality, looking back on these years as a period in which there was too much to watch that was pretty good and fairly intriguing, but often got more buzz than it deserved. It’s an embarrassment of riches, and, if and when some networks scale back , I’ll also fondly remember peak TV as a period of weird television.
Teenager invents phone charger that uses power from your body
This motion activates the device’s gyroscope to produce energy that can then either be stored or used to immediately charge a mobile. The innovative gadget, which received more than Euro 50,872 in Kickstarter funding, is the brainchild of 19-year-old inventor Michael Vaga.
Four Out-Of-This-World Predictions For The Space Industry In 2017
Big things are happening in space travel and tech, with new startups mushrooming every day. Here are four trends to watch.
States look closer at cybersecurity
Several states around the country on Saturday asked cybersecurity experts to re-examine state and utility networks after a Vermont utility’s laptop was found to contain malware that U.S. officials say is linked to Russian hackers. The Burlington Electric Department, one of Vermont’s two largest electric utilities, confirmed Friday that it had found on one of its laptops the malware code used in Grizzly Steppe, the name the U.S. government has given to malicious cyberactivity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services.
Billionaire’s new project: Easing India’s poverty
Ronnie Screwvala sat crossed-legged on the floor of a three-room schoolhouse in early November in Nate, a village about 100 miles from Mumbai, formerly Bombay, the city of his birt,where he built a billion-dollar media conglomerate. Watching a group of children playing with colorful educational games, Screwvala, a boyish-looking 54-year-old, appeared as wide-eyed and engaged as the students.
The Latest: Police look for clues at Istanbul shooting scene
Turkey’s state-run news agency says an armed assailant has opened fire at a nightclub in Istanbul during New Y… . Medics carry a wounded person at the scene after an attack at a popular nightclub in Istanbul, early Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017.