Day: February 8, 2017

ORNL, Chattanooga Electric Power Board Test the Role of Sensors in Grid Innovation

February 8, 2017 – With a fiber-optic network that provides Chattanooga residents and businesses with exceptional high-speed communications, the city’s Electric Power Board provides the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory with an ideal testbed for smart grid research. With support provided by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability , an effort was launched in 2014 to advance the state of the power grid in Tennessee.

The Most Stubborn Trump Trade Begins to Budge

Investors betting that the Trump-inspired reflation trade would sound the death knell for the three-decade bond bull market may have to wait at least a little longer. 10-year note gained for a fourth straight day, the longest streak since June, amid fading hopes that the administration would hammer out comprehensive fiscal stimulus any time soon.

SURFACE: detecting convergent evolution from comparative data by…

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 present a method, ‘SURFACE’, that uses the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck stabilizing selection model to identify cases of convergent evolution using only continuous phenotypic characters and a phylogenetic tree.

‘The power of their voices’

DARTMOUTH - FAx Talks, student lectures about topics such as education, culture, science and social justice based on the internationally-known TED Talks, a global initiative about ideas worth spreading, came to Friends Academy last week. The expert speakers on the wide-ranging list of topics were 22 eighth-graders from Marlaina Trepanier’s English classes, who spent months researching their lecture subjects, writing presentations and slide shows, and memorizing the prepared talks in anticipation of the Feb. 2 event in the school commons.

Seafood groups pick up $5.9M tab for hatchery salmon research

Workers with the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. are seen in this courtesy photo. The Pacific Seafood Processors Association and a Southeast hatchery are picking up the tab on a stalled hatchery salmon research project that began in 2012 with a commitment to fund $850,000 per year for the next seven years, or a total of $5.9 million.

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A Front-Row Seat for the Revolution: The Inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, Presented by Salesforce, Slated for June 7, 2017 in Bellevue, WA. )–The inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit, presented by Salesforce, will bring together key players from the industry on June 7, 2017 for a conversation about the future of cloud technology.

EVE: Valkyrie Wormholes Update Next Week

CCP announces a new Wormholes update will launch in EVE: Valkyrie on February 15th, offering the fourth major free update for their sci-fi MMORPG. This includes a titular Wormholes mode they call “a whole new way to play” along with a new leagues feature.

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The Digium D80 is poised to disrupt the status quo of high-cost, low-quality, touchscreen desk phones. With today’s modern workforce demanding ease of use, intuitive interfaces, high levels of customization and simplified workflows, Digium recognizes the challenge of successfully meeting these needs while also creating a premium product that is affordable for any user.

‘The Space Between Us’ very universal: Director

Los Angeles, Feb 9 – Director Peter Chelsom says his latest film The Space Between Us is a big movie and is very universal in its theme. When people ask me what the story is, when you get to a line or two people go wow, it’s kind of fun because a lead astronaut on a mission to Mars doesn’t realise she is pregnant and that’s where people go wow, so you have already got a good hook.

Amazon and Apple’s Payments Growth Shows PayPal Is Facing Stiffer Competition

Though its shares — and back when it was a part of eBay , eBay’s shares — have dipped a number of times on news that a tech giant is trying to muscle in on its turf, the company has kept delivering 20%-plus payment volume growth like clockwork. But while any talk of a would-be “PayPal-killer” merits skepticism, the company does arguably face a tougher competitive environment than any time in recent history.

Virtual reality roller-coaster 2.0: Six Flags’ new ‘mixed reality’ ride

The next generation of virtual-reality roller-coaster experiences, a mixed-reality creation called “The New Revolution: Galactic Attack,” will make its debut at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo on Presidents Day weekend, Feb. 18-20. There’s reality, virtual reality and now “mixed reality” – a head-spinning, coordination-challenging experience coming to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom starting Presidents Day weekend.

Havells forays into personal grooming

Havells India Limited, the country’s leading fast moving electrical goods company, has now forayed into personal grooming segment, rolling out an array of high quality personal care product like electric shavers, beard trimmers, grooming kit-precision nose and ear trimmer, hair straighteners & dryers, bikini trimmer. The company is also rolling out baby hair clippers, for the first time in the country.

Apple TV Could Still Be a Major Opportunity, if Apple Can Execute

The tech giant’s hiring of a new exec from Amazon comes as pay-TV streaming apps and a burgeoning smart home market spell new opportunities. The TV has long been Apple’s white whale, a giant digital content and communications platform that has captured its imagination for at least a decade, but one which it has only established a modest presence for through a line of streaming set-top boxes.

New York’s Cybersecurity Requirements for DFS Licensees: A New Item at the Top of the To-Do List

With a compliance date a few months away, licensees of the New York Department of Financial Services must start taking action in response to coming cybersecurity requirements, which will be more onerous and difficult than any existing requirements in the United States. Even though the revised proposed regulation, published December 28, 2016 and available here , is open for comment until January 27, 2017, the DFS will focus on new comments that were not raised in the original comment period.

I Wish Apple Loved Books

I’ve joked that if Eddie Cue loved reading the way he clearly loves music, then iBooks, the iBookstore, and iBooks Author would be amazing. Not only aren’t they amazing, they aren’t even good.

Film exposes underworld of U.S. children sold online for sex

When Mary Mazzio first heard about middle-school girls from her hometown of Boston suing a website on which they had been sold for sex, the self-described “recovering lawyer” was blown away. Soon enough, pouring over a copy of the court case, Mazzio was plunged into a corner of the internet she had not suspected even existed: the world of classified ads website, Backpage.com.

Opera news: Mitisek out at COT, Jesus in at Lyric

It’s been a busy few days on the local opera beat, starting with a little shocker: over the weekend, Chicago Opera Theater announced that its innovative, high-profile artistic director, Andreas Mitisek, will leave the company when his contract expires at end of August. Mitisek, who has led COT since 2012 and put his personal mark on it, said in a statement released Saturday afternoon that he’s “decided to move on at the end of my contract and pursue some artistic projects I have been dreaming about for a long time.”

JDK 9 Is Feature Complete

JDK 9 is now feature complete, Oracle Corp. announced last week, and the final date for the general availability of Java 9 Standard Edition is set for July 27. Oracle reached its Feature Extension Complete milestone in late December, and all JDK Enhancement Proposals and small enhancements that were granted extensions have been integrated into the JDK 9 “master forest” . The project is now entering the first phase of the rampdown process, Mark Reinhold, chief architect of Oracle’s Java Platform Group, said in a post to the JDK developer mailing list .