Day: February 11, 2017

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Something absolutely mind-blowing happened on the International Space Station recently, and fortunately, video captured it all. Researchers on the ISS were able to catch the rare moment when blue lightning filled a storm cloud far below, and you can watch the video below.

Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: The two views of Snapchat: An app that…

From New York to Silicon Valley to its hometown in Southern California, investors and analysts are sharply divided about Snap Inc. and its potential ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. Investors are hoping that the Snapchat parent company’s much hyped IPO , the first from a “unicorn” tech company this year, will revive the moribund market for IPOs.

Seniors in the digital age show it’s never too late to learn

ADVANCE FOR THE WEEKEND OF FEB 11-12 AND THEREAFTER – In a Jan. 13, 2017 photo, Diann Murdock sets up her laptop before a recording session in her apartment at Primrose Retirement Community in Gillette, Wyo. Murdock has been working to record herself playing the piano at home, in hopes of leaving behind a body of music for her family.

flaskcbv 1.4.2

FlaskCBV is Alternative Framework for working with flask with the class Based Views approach The platform allows to implement a clear architecture based on the using of all the benefits of this approach; These framework are made in a style similar to Django: – to simplify its study – because the architecture of the Django looks elegant. We tried to make the minimum loaded wrapper for the flask, which does not require any special dependencies.

pypref 2.0.0

PYthon PREFrences or pypref is a python implementation to creating application’s configuration, preferences or settings file and dynamically interacting, updating and pulling them. Most applications have default preferences and in general those are created and stored in a text file .

8 retailers that are shrinking across America

A wave of store closures has hit traditional retail chains, especially those with a high proportion of locations in malls. “We’re sad to say that all The Limited stores nationwide have officially closed their doors,” the company said in an online statement.

How to Find A Wedding Dress If You Have Social Anxiety

When you tell people you’ve gotten engaged, their voices take on a certain tone: they become louder, co-conspiratorial, expecting you to share in the exhilaration and to talk details. As someone who identifies as “socially uncomfortable” on a good day, when I started to plan my wedding this focus made me edgy even in the company of friends .

Freethinker: Thomas Edison born this day in 1847

On February 11, 1847, Thomas Alva Edison was born in Ohio, the youngest of seven. The inventor – famed for reading Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire before the age of ten, and for vowing at age 12 to read the entire contents of the Detroit Public Library – was largely self-taught.

Cnet Uk podcast 514: Google’s smartwatch future arrives and Andy gets sick – Cnet

On this week’s show, Andrew Hoyle is joined by Katie Collins to discuss the brand new updates to Google’s smartwatch software Android Wear. Is it enough to finally make everyone excited about wearable devices? Lastly, Gamespot’s Lucy James joins the show to chat with Andy about whether Resident Evil 7 is better in immersive VR and why 2017 is a year for gamers to be excited.

How Google Chromebooks conquered schools

The Google Chromebook, a type of stripped-down laptop, isn’t a practical mobile device for many people – mostly because it basically turns into an expensive paperweight whenever it can’t find a Wi-Fi connection. In retrospect, that shouldn’t be too surprising.

Barley yellow mosaic virus

Yellow mosaic virus disease leads to substantial losses – up to 50 % of the yield – in susceptible barley varieties . The disease is caused by different strains of Barley yellow mosaic virus and Barley mild mosaic virus .

UCI, NASA reveal new details of Greenland ice loss

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland’s ice sheet is melting from below. Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography , including one by UCI Earth system scientist Mathieu Morlighem, use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenland’s west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and sea level rise.

Possible/best budget upgrades for my PC ( GPU,PSU(maybe…1

Hi all, this is my first ever post on TH, so I’m not exactly sure about the thread I’m posting in but I thought components fitted it the most! Please move if necessary! Operating System Windows 10 Home 64-bit CPU AMD FX-4350 4 C Vishera 32nm Technology RAM 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 803MHz Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. 970A-DS3P 23 C Graphics SAMSUNG 2048MB ATI AMD Radeon R7 200 Series 24 C I have an AMD FX4350 as you can see with an ATI AMD Radeon R7 200 series.

The Man. The Myth. The Moustache.

When John Stossel was diagnosed with lung cancer in April, he announced it in the most characteristic way possible: He dashed off a column from his hospital bed with a quickie economic analysis of why nurses don’t care when your out-of-date heart monitor beeps all night long. Stossel, 69, is now cancer-free and ready to move on to the next thing.

Scott Ottaway photo

Dr. Scott Ottaway is Research Director, DevOps at IDC. His responsibilities focus on market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting on software development trends related to DevOps.

London show confirms the natural world is dead. Good riddance

These amusing, beguiling, disturbing questions are among dozens posed by Marcus Coates in Degreecoordinates, Shared Traits of the Hominini , a wall-spanning artwork that confronts visitors to the Wellcome Collection’s Making Nature show. It makes a fitting prologue to its year-long examination of our relationship with the natural world, showing how tenuous the lines we use to separate ourselves from it really are.

The high cost of being digital

AT THE 2010 TechCrunch conference, Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, described his ambition for the company. It would, he said, collect and analyse data about its users until “we know more or less what you are thinking about”.

Slow Wi-Fi at Work Is Exasperating Employees in All Fields

The excruciating days of dial-up may be long gone, but employees are still less than happy with the speed of their internet connection. A new survey by MonsterCloud found that of the 2,000 office employees it consulted, over 60 percent cite slow wi-fi or internet connection speeds as their top IT pet peeve.

LeEco announces Valentine’s Day sale for Super3 X55 ecoTV

New Delhi, Feb 11 – Chinese internet and technology conglomerate LeEco announced on Saturday a three-day sale for Super3 X55 Ultra HD ecoTV on its e-commerce platform LeMall.com from February 13-15. During the Valentine’s Day sale, users purchasing the smart TV will be able to avail cashback of Rs 4,000 on all debit and credit cards.

OpenStack for Architects

This book is written especially for those who will design OpenStack clouds and lead their implementation. These people are typically cloud architects, but may also be in product management, systems engineering, or enterprise architecture.