You can watch the Super Bowl online for free, but there are a few catches. For starters, you’re out of luck on phones unless you’re a Verizon customer.
Day: February 4, 2017
Lunar eclipse
Prod the kids outside, give them hot chocolate and gaze toward the moon in the east. Enjoy the evening penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday.
Robots are changing the global manufacturing market
Inside Machines: Robots will need to become more flexible and agile on the manufacturing floor as production becomes more specialized and as robotics start being used in the agricultural, medical, and automotive industries. Industries such as personal electronics, where there is a need for customization and a high expectation for quality, are driving major changes in the manufacturing industry, and integrated robotic applications are helping.
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Given Overweight Rating at Pacific Crest
AMZN has been the subject of several other research reports. Wedbush set a $900.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Sunday, October 30th.
U.S. Stocks Climb on Payrolls Surge as Trump Targets Dodd-Frank
U.S. stocks rose the most in a week after Labor Department data showed U.S. employers added the most workers in four months. Financial shares rallied on the prospect of looser financial regulations.
Hackers use streaming devices to make radio stations play ‘FDT’
Rapper YG performs at the Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD as part of his FDT Tour. The tour takes it name from YG’s viral anthem ‘FDT .’
New Game: Vroom: Galleon
Developed exclusively for virtual reality headsets, this is not a traditional PC game or sailing simulator. It is an immersive experience designed to delight your senses in life aboard an old sailing vessel, with several fun activities thrown-in for good measure.
New Game: VRChat
Imagine a world where anything is possible. Join a game of capture the flag in outer space.
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Examining the observational evidence for dynamical dark energy 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. We examine the ability of the $>$CDM model to simultaneously fit different types of cosmological observations and apply a recently proposed test, based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence, to quantify the tension between different subsets of data.
‘Rings’ returns to scare you; “Space Between Us” is romantic sci-fi
Its tagline — “First you watch it, then you die” — must be the greatest piece of negative advertising that you’ll ever encounter. No, despite what you think, you haven’t seen this one before.
Boardman School District gets new bus app
Boardman School District is taking bus riding to the next level. The saying “Don’t miss the bus” might just be used less throughout the remainder of the school year.
NASA creates exhibit for those attending Super Bowl LI
NASA is joining in on Super Bowl festivities. They have an exhibit for those attending the game in Houston called “Future Flight,” taking them on a trip to Mars.
Cryogenics pioneer claims man frozen in liquid nitrogen 50 years ago will be brought back to life
Will the dead someday walk among us? According to 80-year-old cryogenics expert Robert Nelson, that may just be the case – as long as they’re frozen first. Nelson is the president of the Cryonics Society of California and recently revealed what it was like to freeze the first cryogenic “patient” back in 1967.
Amazon Shares Dip 3% on Revenue Miss
Fourth-quarter net sales of $3.54 billion fell short of analysts’ estimates but net income rose 55% to $749 million. Amazon shares dropped more than 3% on Friday as a 55% increase in fourth-quarter profit couldn’t offset lower-than-expected revenue growth.
Tree Pay Thailand to provide e-services
“The partnership will capitalise on the burgeoning e-payment market and tap into lucrative business opportunities stemming from Thailand 4.0,” said CAT president Sanpachai Huvananda. “We will provide both e-commerce payment and offline credit card payment gateway services to support the government’s goal of a cashless society,” Col Sanpachai said.
Broadband rolled out in 99 villages
The Digital Economy and Society Ministry yesterday rolled out the first phase of the national broadband network across 99 villages in 14 provinces, with the introduction of commercial, affordable high-speed internet service planned by year-end. The ministry will not provide broadband service directly to the public, but rather acts as a wholesaler to service providers both public and private, said DE Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj.
Hubble Captures Brilliant Star Death in “Rotten Egg” Nebula
The Calabash Nebula, pictured here – which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 – is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.
Lake Powell and Grand Staircase-Escalante Viewed From Orbit
This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of the lake at the time, so in this view south is at the top left of the image.
PE Prices Moving Up; PP Prices Spike Sharply
Around this time last year, I blogged on how global factors like plunging oil prices and larger global resin decreases were impacting polyolefin prices – with a downward trend appearing to be the most prudent and one that actually colored most of 2016. You can say that the start of this year appears to be an ‘about-face’.
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Thumbs up to a quiet, but important, action by the state Legislature earlier this week when lawmakers passed a second resolution on a change to the state constitution to strip pensions from lawmakers who commit crimes related to their public office.
Hubble Space Telescope captures brilliant star death
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare event-a star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula.It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space. It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.