Day: February 7, 2017

‘Hidden Figures’ director talks race and space

“Hidden Figures” i 1 2 a period movie about three black female mathematicians i 1 2 is not the kind of movie Hollywood looks to for lavish box-office returns. Yet the modestly budgeted $25 million drama has shot past $100 million and is the best word-of-mouth title at the multiplex i 1 2 the movie has left audiences in tears, and Hollywood scrambling to explain its success.

The Venture Reality Fund Releases the First European Virtual Reality…

Silicon Valley-based venture firm The Venture Reality Fund today released its first-ever European virtual reality landscape, featuring dozens of companies developing infrastructure, tools/platforms and/or apps for the booming ecosystem. The landscape was created in partnership with LucidWeb , the French VR and WebVR consulting and development agency, to depict the growth in the ecosystem, increased investment and growing international impact.

V3D Announces Major New Release: EQual One – V3D’s Flagship Software Solution

V3D , the standalone software editor, pioneer of quality of service and quality of experience measurements for mobile networks, has launched a major new release: EQual One , a flagship solution that brings added value to end-users with new-use cases. EQual One by V3D is a dynamic and real-time configurable solution: installed on commercial phones and controlled Over-The-Air , it allows a massive deployment of agents gathering large amounts of data.

Somatic cell transformation into stem cell-like cells induced by different microenvironments

Development of induced pluripotent stem cell technology introduced a novel way to derive pluripotent stem cells, but the genetic manipulation required to generate iPSCs may lead to uncontrolled tumorigenesis of the established cells and thus limit clinical feasibility of the technology. Numerous attempts have been made to date, and alternative reprogramming of somatic cells to reactivate cellular plasticity after differentiation has been suggested.

NirSoft releases LoadedDLLsView

If you don’t know what the program does from the name then you’re not in the target audience, but essentially it scans all the running processes on your system, detecting and listing whatever DLLs they’re using. The usual NirSoft table includes plenty of information for each DLL: its name, type , product name and version, file description and version, company, path, file created/ modified times, file size and the total number of processes using that DLL.

How abortion ushered in modern medicine

It seems like debates over vaccines are fairly recent phenomenon, but in truth, medical progress has always been fraught with controversy, competition, and ethical conundrums. In her new book “The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease,” author Meredith Wadman explores the story behind the creation of rubella vaccine – a medical breakthrough that has helped generations of Americans have healthier childhoods.

Amazon to Move Prime Air Hub to Cincinnati

When Amazon announced last year that it was entering directly into the air logistics business with the launch of Prime Air, the airfreight world knew that it had to prepare for bold moves by a deep-pocketed company with a passion for innovation. Now, the Seattle-based online retail giant has announced the shift of its current air hub from Wilmington Airpark in Ohio to the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Airport this spring, hinting at a possibly vast expansion of Amazon’s e-commerce air service.

Smart Factory Global Market – Forecasts From 2017 to 2021

A smart factory is advanced and automated manufacturing facility with cyber-physical systems ensuring efficient movement of materials across the factory floor PUNE, INDIA, February 7, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — A smart factory is an advanced and automated manufacturing facility with cyber-physical systems ensuring efficient movement of materials across the factory floor. Smart Factories basically help in the Automation of the manufacturing process.

Qwilt Reveals Vision for Edge Cloud to Advance Future of Content and…

Edge Cloud Essential for Success of New Applications and Experiences — Such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, 360 Video — that Require High Performance, Massive Scale and Low Latency Infrastructure / EINPresswire.com / — REDWOOD CITY, CA– – Research* by a broad group of institutions and companies including Oculus, Nokia Bell Labs and Valve has unanimously concluded that low network latency is essential for the performance of Augmented Reality , Virtual Reality , 360 Degree Video and compute intensive IoT applications like self-driving cars. These requirements are driving the need for evolution in cloud computing to deliver these applications at scale.

Delhipedia brings multiple mass events and brands to Delhi’s internet elite

New Delhi , Feb. 7 : Delhipedia, a community engagement platform emerged as a key marketing partner for eight organisations in just two months. The online platform has already partnered with clients like LeEco for its campaign Festive Mirfie, the Green Wheels Bike Festival, Krackerjacker Karnival Delhi, Hindol Sengupta, author of The Modern Monk and Jeffrey Archer, author of the book ‘This was a Man’, to name a few.

Qwilt launches new Open Edge Cloud Platform

Qwilt, a provider of content delivery solutions, announced today the launch of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform, a next generation content and application delivery platform for Service Providers that enables a high quality streaming experience for consumers at scale through a managed platform and an open API for commercial CDNs and publishers. Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform creates a massively distributed content delivery solution that supports applications such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, Self-Driving Cars and IoT.

Inside the officeless media agency where 75 percent of the staff is female

Throughout his marketing career, Jay Friedman has rarely spent a single day in the office, either at agency Young & Rubicam or his current gig as COO at Goodway Group, a programmatic media planning and buying partner to regional agencies. That may sound strange to people who were brought up in an agency culture that prizes face time and physically being in the office .

10 years of the iPhone

IT’S hard for many people to recall a time only a decade ago when they didn’t have a touchscreen smartphone in their pocket. There are businesses in Dorset that owe their existence to the arrival of the device in 2007 and the Android competitors that followed.

Cerritos College, Rio Hondo selected for NASA fellowship program

Students attending Cerritos College and Rio Hondo College in Whittier can look forward to studying computing and circuitry with the ultimate goal of presenting experiment results to NASA personnel. The California Space Grant Consortium, which in this state runs NASA’s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, has selected the two schools for a program in which participating students will be able to employ Arduino microcomputers to further their studies.

MIT Makes Strides Toward Renewable Diesel

Energy management and automation specialist Schneider Electric acquires MWPowerlab s.r.l., a software company with 3D real-time technology. The acquisition adds advanced virtual reality and augmented reality technology to Schneider Electric’s industrial software portfolio.

Dassault Systemes sets eyes on space exploration, faster transport

Los Angeles, Feb 7 – From collaborating with engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory for designing a next-generation space exploration device to cut the distance barrier between cities, the global 3D design company Dassault Systemes is busy working on ideas to herald a new era for millennials. According to Gian Paolo Bassi, CEO, SOLIDWORKS, Dassault Systemes, new space exploration devices will further expand our knowledge about the universe.

Space Pioneer Award for Special Merit: a oeMACa s Old Teama

“MAC’s Old Team,” consisting of former employees of the McDonnell Aircraft, McDonnell-Douglas and Boeing Companies in the St. Louis area, is the winner of the National Space Society’s 2017 Space Pioneer Award in the Special Merit category. This award recognizes the exemplary work this team did building our nation’s historic Mercury and Gemini spacecraft beginning 59 years ago! The National Space Society invites the public to join them in presenting the Pioneer Award to MAC’s Old Team on Saturday, May 27, 2017 at the 36th NSS International Space Development ConferenceA .

Robot Love

Pipeline Theatre’s Spillikin comes to New Milton , following huge success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015. Featuring a state-of-the-art robot as a cast member, Spillikin is the story of a woman with Alzheimer’s living with a robot companion.

Rock Band VR riffing on Oculus Rift from March 23 – CNET

Rock Band is coming to virtual reality in March, with the game’s Twitter account announcing on Sunday the Oculus Rift will get Rock Band VR on March 23. Rock Band VR looks to encourage your creativity, with developer Harmonix saying you’ll be able to riff freely on stage. “The idea that players can craft their own guitar parts in real-time is kind of mind-blowing, ” said the game’s creative head Greg LoPiccolo.

KTM buys into motorcycle HUD tech with Nuviz

In what might been seen as a strategic move against the competition, Pierer Industrie – parent company of KTM Motorcycles – has invested in American company Nuviz, which is developing a helmet-mounted HUD system. Nuviz is planning to bring to market a motorcycle specific HUD and connected rider system by the first half of 2017.

Timber a viable option for high-rise buildings in quake zones

Jon Tanner, chief executive of the Wood Processors and Manufacturers Association says a wooden building weighs less than a steel concrete structure with obvious benefits in both construction and resilience in an earthquake. After all it is standard for aircraft components to be monitored for performance real time – so why not buildings in quake zones? But Callaghan Innovation’s apparent sole focus on finding more earthquake resistance through concrete technology, and particularly how to prevent steel rods from rusting when water gets through from earthquake cracks, is a one trick structural pony.

Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

SAN FRANCISCO Intel gave the most detailed look at its lower cost alternative to 2.5D packaging in a paper on its Stratix X FPGA at the International Solid State Circuits Conference here. In the same session, AMD showed its Zen x86 processor sports a 10 percent smaller die than Intel’s latest 14nm CPUs.