Day: February 11, 2017

Speech: An ensemble of photographs by a group of artists on view at Pace/MacGill Gallery

Pace/MacGill Gallery is presenting Speech, an ensemble of photographs by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Hal Fischer, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Jim Goldberg, David Goldblatt, Hai Bo, Gregory Halpern, Peter Hujar, Josef Koudelka, Danny Lyon, Duane Michals, Irving Penn, Lucas Samaras, Larry Sultan, JoAnn Verburg, Garry Winogrand, Zhang Huan, and others. The exhibition is on view from February 9 through April 29, 2017 on the 9th floor of 32 East 57th Street.

Marcus Hiles Western Rims CEO Endorses The Modern Smart-House Technologies

Staying on top of innovations in smart house technologies, Hiles shares his views about the latest additions to the network of the ?Internet of Things. App-controlled deadbolts let users decide how they want to open up their homes and to whom: entry codes can be preset for different family members or even issued on a temporary basis for visiting workers like pet sitters and cleaning personnel.

Waking climate change’s sleeping giant

A world-leading glaciologist visiting New Zealand says scientists are fast running out of time to fully understand dramatic changes under way in climate change’s sleeping giant: Antarctica. Professor Eric Rignot, based at the University of California, Irvine and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will this week give a free talk in Wellington , outlining growing concerns scientists have about the frozen continent and pressing the urgent case for action on climate change today.

Our old – new – friend: skepticism

Take, for example, the kid whose dad could pick up a Ford SuperCab a full 2 feet off the ground, provided the flatbed and glove box were empty. “He just grabbed the back bumper, braced himself and picked it up, just like that.

Biz Bits: Robots, humans needing help

One of the area’s first high school robotics programs is trying to raise money. Two years ago, I wrote about the Thunderbird Robotics Team , which is based at Las Plumas High School in Oroville, but has members throughout the county.

Piers Morgan, J.K. Rowling in Twitter fight over politics

In this Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 photo provided by HBO, guests on a panel, John Waters, from left, filmmaker and author, Karine Jean-Pierre, senior advisor and national spokesman for MoveOn.org, and Piers Morgan, U.S. editor-at-large DailyMail.com, speak with host Bill Maher on the show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” in Los Angeles. Morgan and British author J.K. Rowling are in a Twitter war over American politics.

Navarrette: Will DeVos threaten power of teachers unions?

What do you suppose would happen if an education reform advocate who spent decades throwing bricks at the public school system from the outside suddenly became the ultimate insider: secretary of education? Well, much to the horror of self-serving teachers unions that sprinkle money throughout the Democratic Party to protect the status quo and make sure the interests of students who attend public schools don’t interfere with those of the grown-ups who work there, we’re about to find out.

Under the Knife’ by Kelly Parsons

The suspense level is high, but Parsons’ fully realized characters, whose personalities have shades of gray, are his real achievement in “Under the Knife.” No real villains emerge, although there are certainly people who do very bad things and whose motives are tied up in complicated emotions that become twisted.

Yale drops slavery proponent Calhoun from college name

After years of debate, Yale University announced Saturday it will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus and former U.S. vice president who was an ardent supporter of slavery. Yale trustees said the Ivy League university is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.

Students Targeted by Employment and Counterfeit Check Scam

According to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center , students are being targeted by a new/old scam that combines a fake employment opportunity and counterfeit checks. Here’s how it works: Students answer an online job posting for a position with a generic title, like “market research”, and “no experience required”.

Yale drops slavery proponent Calhoun from college name1 hour ago

After years of debate, the trustees of Yale University announced today they will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus who was an ardent supporter of slavery. The Ivy League university said it is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.

Intel Corporation Lowers Long-Term Data Center Growth Forecast

Declines in enterprise-server sales coupled with product push-outs hurt Chipzilla’s long-term growth forecast for its Data Center Group. had been telling its investors to expect its Data Center Group , which supplies components and platforms for data-center applications like cloud servers and networking appliances, to see 15% compounded annual revenue growth over the long term.

Turkish Hacker Gets Sentenced To Eight Years In $55M US Scam

A prolific foreign hacker behind sophisticated cyberattacks that netted an estimated $55 million was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison in rare win for law enforcement officials who have identified, but failed to arrest, hundreds of others like him. Prosecutors in federal court in Brooklyn had sought up to 14 years behind bars for Ercan Findikoglu, a Russian-speaking Turkish national so skilled with computers that he tracked the sprawling international heist in real-time to make sure a small army of thieves wouldn’t cheat him out of his share of the proceeds.

Gorsuch returns 68-page questionnaire to Senate

President Donald Trump ‘s Supreme Court nominee has returned a 68-page questionnaire to the Senate Judiciary Committee ahead of confirmation hearings expected in March. In the questionnaire, Judge Neil Gorsuch lists what he considers the 10 most significant cases he presided over while on a federal appeals court.

Sachin, Wife To Take Part In Mumbai Marathon

Mumbai, Nov. 25 : Ace cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and his wife Anjali will take part in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon 2005 here. This was confirmed by Anjali’s mother Annabelle Mehta, promoters Procam International said here, adding that Tendulkar and Anjali would be running for the charity ‘Apnalaya’.

Data Breach at PIP Printing Company Leaks Thousands of Highly Sensitive Documents

An online security breach at a national printing chain leaked thousands of sensitive documents – from labor filings involving NFL players to lawsuits against Hollywood studios to personal immigration-related papers – raising the possibility that private information could end up in the wrong hands. The leak at PIP printing, which has more than 400 locations in 13 countries, went on for four months before it was repaired Tuesday, cybersecurity experts involved in investigating the breach told NBC News.

Material could revolutionize the way we live

The photos above may look like pages out of Vogue or Elle, but they are part of a scientific experiment. And the dress’ designers, along with the scientists behind the technology sewn in, say it could revolutionize every aspect of human life, reports CBS News correspondent Jonathan Vigliotti.

A conference on supporting the free and open software will open on Tuesday.

Sunaidi 11022Dr. Ali bin Masud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry will preside over the opening of the third edition of the conference on the Free and Open-Source Software at Sultan Qaboos University. Photo-ONA Sunaidi 11022Dr. Ali bin Masud Al Sunaidi, Minister of Commerce and Industry will preside over the opening of the third edition of the conference on the Free and Open-Source Software at Sultan Qaboos University.