Between federal government civilian employees and the RCMP and Canadian Forces uniformed members, there must be close to 500,000 people. Almost all of those folks would need a desktop computer.
Day: February 3, 2017
Lockheed Martin backs UK CyberFirst skills initiative
Global security and aeropace firm boosts government’s CyberFirst skills initiative as Cabinet Office comes under fire for efforts to secure public sector data and ensure cyber teams have right skills Lockheed Martin UK has announced it is supporting the development of the UK’s next generation of cyber security experts through the government’s CyberFirst initiative . By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.
Global Robotic Paint Booth Market to Grow at a CAGR of 4.93%,…
Global Robotic Paint Booth Market to Grow at a CAGR of 4.93%, 2017-2021 with ABB, Durr, Eisenmann, FANUC & Yaskawa Leading the Way – Research and Markets Global Robotic Paint Booth Market to Grow at a CAGR of 4.93%, 2017-2021 with ABB, Durr, Eisenmann, FANUC & Yaskawa Leading the Way – Research and Markets Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Global Robotic Paint Booth Market 2017-2021” report to their offering. The report covers the present scenario and the growth prospects of the global robotic paint booth market for 2017-2021.
24M Selected as a 2017 Global Cleantech 100 Company
The Cleantech Group announced on January 23, 2017 that lithium-ion battery manufacturer 24M has been selected as a 2017 Global Cleantech 100 company. The list is a barometer of the global innovation community’s views on which companies are most likely to have significant commercial impact in the next 5-10 years.
Nordstrom drops Ivanka Trump brand from its stores
Nordstrom Inc. will stop selling the controversial Ivanka Trump brand this season, a move that follows boycott threats and concerns about the first daughter’s conflicts of interest. The department-store chain made the decision based on sales, according to a statement from the Seattle-based company.
TX: San Antonio Chosen as ‘Proving Ground’ for Autonomous Vehicle Testing
Feb. 03–Senior research analyst Marc Alban sat behind the wheel of a Lincoln MKZ hybrid as it smoothly made figure-eight loops while maneuvering through the Southwest Research Institute’s cone test track. “This one I’ve crept through real slowly and not hit anything,” said Alban as the vehicle’s steering wheel rolled back and forth, the car driving itself deftly through the narrow cone track at about 15 MPH.
Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
This exceptionally useful text offers Scott Myers’s expertise in C++ class design and programming tips. The second edition incorporates recent advances to C++ included in the ISO standard, including namespaces and built-in template classes, and is required reading for any working C++ developer.
FracTEL Joins Wired IQ to Launch BrainBox at CVx ITEXPO
In a world that continues to get more connected and systems are more reliant on each other, multiple redundancy systems are essential in order to ensure the business continuity of any organization. At the upcoming ChannelVision Expo at ITEXPO, which will be held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Twenty-first Century Self-Service for the Contact Center is SmartBy: Tracey Schelmetic
While you may spend a lot of time hiring, training and managing your human contact center workforce and you should it’s important that you don’t left self-service slide when updating your contact center solutions. It’s no longer enough to have an FAQ page on your Web site and an antiquated interactive voice response routing your customers’ calls at the front end.
Mathematically optimizing traffic lights in road intersections
Traffic modeling has been of interest to mathematicians since the 1950s. Research in the area has only grown as road traffic control presents an ever-increasing problem.
Change in astronaut’s gut bacteria attributed to spaceflight
Northwestern University researchers studying the gut bacteria of Scott and Mark Kelly, NASA astronauts and identical twin brothers, as part of a unique human study have found that changes to certain gut “bugs” occur in space. The Northwestern team is one of 10 NASA-funded research groups studying the Kelly twins to learn how living in space for a long period of time – such as a mission to Mars – affects the human body.
Livermore: Saturday science series starts Feb. 4
The lectures promise to also take a closer look at forensic science methods, rabies, 3D printing, and biologically inspired nano-robots. Each lecture teams lab researchers with a local master high school science teacher.
This is the ‘Halo’ Julio Jones wore to get to the Super Bowl – CNET
On his way to the Super Bowl , Atlanta Falcons’ star wideout Julio Jones let technology take care of his head and toe. In early December, the Pro Bowler developed a serious case of ” turf toe ” that forced him to miss two games.
Young inventors highlighted at 2nd annual fair
An automatic fish feeder and henna tattoo remover were among the problem-solving ideas that won cash at last year’s Inventors Fair. The fair, presented by the Post-Bulletin’s Newspaper in Education program, will be from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, April 29, at Autumn Ridge Church, 3611 Salem Road SW, Rochester.
CCAC considers design themes for 2019 and 2020…
The grave marker for the final resting place of Mary Golda Ross, an engineer of Cherokee lineage whose work helped develop the spacecraft for the Gemini and Apollo space programs, bears the epitaph, “She Reached for the Stars” to the right of a rocket being launched. Dressed in her native Cherokee ceremonial dress, a then 96-year-old Mary Golda Ross is escorted to the 2004 opening of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian.
2018 BMW 4 Series: Performance Poetics
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Boys are from Mars, Girls are from Foster Homes
Here’s the thing, anybody brave enough to head to the theaters in the dog days of February knows to lower their standards. The perennial post-Oscar dumping ground is the home of clusterfucks and misfit toys which studios either couldn’t or wouldn’t put the money behind.
textTinyPy 0.0.2
The textTinyPy package consists of text processing functions for small or big data files. The source code is based on C++11 and wrapped in Python using Cython. It is tested on Linux (Debian) with Python 2.7 and there is currently one limitation :
Marquette Catholic competes in World Wide Technology competition
The Engineering team at Marquette Catholic High School competed in a ” Hackathon” at World Wide Technology in St. Louis last week. The Hackathon is a competition to inspire students to use technology to solve a current problem for their school or community.
What will Trump want from Canada on Nafta? a Us federal document may offer clues
President Donald Trump, centre, and Commerce Secretary-designate Wilbur Ross, left, talk to media before a lunch meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017. Wondering what the Americans might want from Canada in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement? Multiple clues might be embedded in a document published by the U.S. government.
What Developers Need to Learn to Stay Relevant In 2017 Packts Industry Experts Share Their Advice
Keeping up with the rapidly changing tech landscape can be a challenge for developers, which is why Packt , creators of the Mapt skills platform, aim to make staying relevant as easy as possible. As part of this mission, Packt have teamed up with a range of the industry’s leading thinkers to collate their insights on 2017’s tech landscape.
biomaj 3.1.0
BioMAJ3 ===== This project is a complete rewrite of BioMAJ . BioMAJ is a workflow engine dedicated to data synchronization and processing.
Dutch choose late election result to avoid hacking risk
More than a decade ago a citizens’ group, called ‘We don’t trust voting computers’, showed how easily the Dutch voting computers, in use since 1991, could be compromised. Minister Plasterk: ‘I want everyone to be sure that the results are really the results’ Their campaign eventually led to the decision to ban the voting computer.
Cell Therapy Report 2017-2026: Focus on Technologies, Markets and…
Cell Therapy Report 2017-2026: Focus on Technologies, Markets and Companies – Profiles of 303 Companies with Tabulation of 292 Alliances Dublin, Feb. 03, 2017 — Research and Markets has announced the addition of Jain PharmaBiotech’s new report “Cell Therapy – Technologies, Markets and Companies” to their offering. This report describes and evaluates cell therapy technologies and methods, which have already started to play an important role in the practice of medicine.
Thomas Pink Piloting IoT System With RFID to Manage Inventory, Traffic
The solution, provided by BT Global Services, is known as the Acuitas Digital Alliance retail platform. It uses Intel RFID IoT Responsive Retail Platform hardware, SATO Global Solutions software to manage RFID data and RetailNext camera-based data and interpret that information for store management.
The Ratings Game: Buy Amazon ‘aggressively’ on any post-earnings dip, say bullish analysts
Amazon.com Inc. is about to toss an opportunity at investors who haven’t yet picked up shares, or who want to buy more. analyst, Shyam Patil of SIG Susquehanna, who said investors should be ready to buy, if shares of the e-commerce company fall in reaction to disappointing holiday sales.
Good news for ransomware victims: HiddenTear, Jigsaw, Stampado and Philadelphia are decryptable
The damage of the file-encrypting viruses is obvious; only a few of them are decryptable. As a result, victims often consider to get back their personal files by paying the ransom.
Designers Are Moving West and SilverTribe has the Styles to get People Started with 2017 Fashion
SilverTribe.com releases a new collection of Southwest jewelry in response to top designers moving toward Southwest styles in 2017. There has been a recent trend with fashion designers leaving the fast-paced world of New York design for the West coast, particularly Los Angles.
Drowning in Debt to Swimming in Cash, Miners Told to Pay Up
The last time mining companies made this much money, they went on a debt-fueled buying spree that almost buried some of the biggest in the industry. “Give us back money through the dividend process, that’s what shareholders like,” said Clive Burstow, who helps manage about $475 million of natural-resource assets at Barings in London.
Well Read
WELL READ opens up a world of ideas through host Terry Tazioli’s discussions of the latest books and his conversations with noted authors. Following each interview, Seattle Timesbook editor Mary Ann Gwinn joins Tazioli to explore the literary themes of that week’s book and to recommend related authors and other reading material.
Review: “The Space Between Us”
T… — The NBA announced the contestants for three of the biggest competitions at this year’s All-Star Weekend on Thursday night.In the Three-Point shooting contest, de… — The Australian ambassador to the United States met with Donald Trump’s chief of staff, Reince Priebus and chief strategist, Steve Bannon, at the White House Th… — Gary Oldman plays Nathaniel Shepherd, the visionary head of a company that specializes in space exploration.
Theater Mode Comes to Apple Watch
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In MoneyWeek this week: our favourite investment
This week in MoneyWeek magazine, it’s all about investment trusts. We’re keen on passive investing, as you’re probably aware.
Review: “The Space Between…
Gary Oldman plays Nathaniel Shepherd, the visionary head of a company that specializes in space exploration. His goal is to form a colony on Mars called East Texas.
3D Printed Bicycle From Stainless Steel
You wouldn’t 3D print a car, would you? That’d simply be impractical. However, if you’re a team of students attending the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, you might be inclined to 3D print a stainless steel bicycle instead.
Leshi Internet Information & Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd, Annual Performance Forecast
Based on a preliminary estimate by the company’s financial department, Leshi Internet Information & Technology Co., Ltd, has reported steady increase in financial performance for the period January 1-December 31, 2016. Same period last Project Report period year Net profit attributable to Increased 10 – 35% from same Net profit: shareholders of the listed period last year CNY 573.0272 company million Approx.
Expert F\# 4.0
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. Learn from F#’s inventor to become an expert in the latest version of this powerful programming language so you can seamlessly integrate functional, imperative, object-oriented, and query programming style flexibly and elegantly to solve any programming problem.
Really? Shuttering online brothel could hurt law enforcement
There’s a law enforcement paradox to Backpage.com, labeled by officials as the largest U.S. internet prostitution ad provider. California prosecutors label the site an “online brothel” that rakes in millions of dollars from sex trafficking that often includes minors, want to shut it down and send its owners to jail.
Super Bowl serves as peacemaker between Uber and Houston
In this Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2017 photo, a sign marks an Uber designated pick-up point near the NFL Experience in downtown Houston. Thanks to the Super Bowl, people taking part in the festivities surrounding the game in Houston will have Uber as one of their transportation choices.