Month: January 2017

Annual PAX South video game convention draws a diverse crowd of

Ian Webster, 14, tries on a pair of Gunnar Optiks glasses for gaming, they decrease the amount of blue light emanating from screens, increase contrast and help uses to avoid blurry vision and headaches after prolonged screen time, during the PAX South gaming conference held at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday January 28, 2017.

Almost half of what we do at work could be automated by 2055

Almost half the activities people are paid to do globally could be automated using current levels of technology, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. But before we start fretting about job security – or daydreaming about lives of leisure surrounded by “Jetsons”-style robot staff, the report includes a few other key details.

[slides] Multi-Cloud Adoption | @CloudExpo @Cloudyn_Buzz #SDN #DevOps

Up until last year, enterprises that were looking into cloud services usually undertook a long-term pilot with one of the large cloud providers, running test and dev workloads in the cloud. With cloud’s transition to mainstream adoption in 2015, and with enterprises migrating more and more workloads into the cloud and in between public and private environments, the single-provider approach must be revisited.

Receptionist/Clerical AssistantHillingdon

We are looking for cheerful, efficient, smartly presented, hard-working team players with an excellent telephone manner and a good working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel programmes who will welcome visitors to the school in a friendly, polite and professional manner in line with the schools safeguarding policy.

Oh Yes, Apple Just Filed a Patent for a Sick Vape

Filed in June 2016 and released on January 26, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the patent application describes a vaporizer that uses high temperature to convert a substance into a vapor. We can only speculate that the growing popularity of vaping and the increasing legalization of marijuana in the USA and overseas may be contributing to Apple’s exploration of this area.

Hypoxia in primary tumors influences dormant DTCs that evade cancer therapy, study shows

In a first of its kind study, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered the conditions by which specific signals in primary tumors of head and neck and breast cancers, pre-program cancer cells to become dormant and evade chemotherapy after spreading. Their findings, published in the January 31, 2017 issue of Nature Cell Biology and featured on the cover, could lead to new drug development, treatment options and transform the way doctors care for cancer patients to treat metastatic disease.

Four Planet System Directly Imaged In Motion

Located about 129 light years from Earth in the direction of the Pegasus constellation is the relatively young star system of HR 8799 . Beginning in 2008, four orbiting exoplanets were discovered in this system which – alongside the exoplanet Formalhaut b – were the very first to be confirmed using the direct imaging technique.

Apalachin man gets 5 years for child porn

Apalachin man gets 5 years for child porn Police say Brandon Kie, 31, pleaded guilty in September Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2jBHpva An Apalachin man was sentenced to serve five years in a federal prison for receiving child pornography through the internet and a computer. Police say Brandon Kie, 31, pleaded guilty in September, admitting he used a computer to connect to several child porn websites in 2014 using peer-to-peer file sharing software programs and, on numerous occasions, received and downloaded more than 500 images and more than 12 videos that depicted minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Generalized Stability Approach for Regularized Graphical Models

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. Selecting regularization parameters in penalized high-dimensional graphical models in a principled, data-driven, and computationally efficient manner continues to be one of the key challenges in high-dimensional statistics.

Thata s not true: Stand guard against interneta s fake news virus

“Fear of foreigners” headlines from the 1920s warned Americans about the peril of alien invaders from Europe. During 1941, our country declared war against Japan and hysteria swept across the nation; truth became the first casualty of war and anyone who “looked” like the enemy became the enemy with sightings of “Jap” planes over our Valley.

Astrology for February 1-15 , …

But- February 6 early morning Jupiter will turn retrograde. Right now with no planets retrograde is the best of the best there is to launch a new project, or business, or life style change or simply turn your head around and start fresh a new outlook on life to be supported and blessed by the forward moving planets!!!! The next time there will be no planets retrograde will be in in a little over a year from now! Take advantage of the planets’ blessings.

Near-death Experience Researcher Seeks Respondents for Online Survey as Part of New Study and Book

PINOLE, Calif., Jan. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ Clinical psychologist and author Liz Dale is asking anyone but especially those in the LGBT community who has had a near-death experience to participate in an online survey regarding the experience and its consequences. Survey results will inform a groundbreaking study and a new book to be published by Balboa Press, a division of Hay House.

Nalanda University Chancellor Vijay Bhatkar defends links with RSS arm

BARELY a few hours after Pune-based computer scientist Vijay Bhatkar was appointed as the Chancellor of Nalanda University, he has drawn flak due to his association as president of Vigyan Bharati – an arm of the RSS which promotes “swadeshi” science. While much is being spoken on the social media and academic circles about the saffronisation of one of India’s most promising universities, Bhatkar claims that he is unfazed by the criticism and agrees that he is facing a perception battle.

Radio-frequency ID system at Delhi entry points soon

The system will be put in place using the environment cess collected by SDMC on behalf of the government from trucks entering Delhi at these points. THE SOUTH Delhi Municipal Corporation has started the procedure to install Radio-Frequency Identification systems at Delhi’s 13 entry points, as advised by the Environment Pollution Authority.

What Might a 6GL Look Like?

Programming has always been the process of converting requirements into instructions that have meaning to the underlying hardware. First generation languages were closely tied to the hardware, requiring the human operator to physically manipulate toggle switches to enter in the machine language instructions directly.

Best of Rossie: a time to mourn and reassess

BEST OF ROSSIE: A time to mourn and reassess Television showed the explosion again and again until the senses cried for relief. Check out this story on pressconnects.com: http://press.sn/2kebwKj Rossie leaves behind a huge legacy: columns that are etched into the memories of generations of newspaper readers and a contingent of reporters, writers and editors.

django-nsync 0.3.11

Nsync does not require you to inherit from special classes, add ‘model mapping’ objects or really define anything in Python There isn’t much to this package, if you want to add the models to your admin pages it is probably better if you do it The CSV handling part is separated from the true NSync part, so feel free to write your own lyrics-from-wav-file importer.

Majority of Android VPNs can’t be trusted to make users more secure

Over the past half-decade, a growing number of ordinary people have come to regard virtual private networking software as an essential protection against all-too-easy attacks that intercept sensitive data or inject malicious code into incoming traffic. Now, a comprehensive study of almost 300 VPN apps downloaded by millions of Android users from Google’s official Play Market finds that the vast majority of them can’t be fully trusted.

Intel fab worker

Intel’s next big Moore’s Law advance will be a 7-nm pilot plant it is establishing this year to explore the upcoming manufacturing process. For decades, Moore’s Law has been the guiding light for Intel to make teenier, faster, and more power-efficient chips.

Labour’s deputy leader spoke to the Co-operative Party Economic Conference in London

Labour frontbenchers who quit in a row over the party’s approach to Brexit should be back in top positions “within months”, Tom Watson has said. The deputy leader said the party must take a sensible approach to dealing with the deep divisions among MPs over triggering Article 50. At a conference in central London, Mr Watson said Britain must be open-minded about US president Donald Trump’s economic policies.