Online beauty became a $1.2 billion industry in 2016, and cosmetics companies such as Estee Lauder have been expanding their e-commerce efforts while Amazon gains market share. Digital beauty sales rose 14% year over year in 2016: one in every five beauty purchases online was made through Amazon Marketplace, according to new research released this week from data analytics firm 1010data.
Day: February 17, 2017
10 years later, the sequel to Planet Earth offers a new perspective on the planet
When the BBC’s Planet Earth was released a decade ago , it was notable in part for being the first nature series to be in high definition. Since 2007, the bar set by Planet Earth and lowered by technology has given us more and more stunning nature photography on television, from Frozen Planet to emotionally manipulative robot animals .
9 popular Android car apps vulnerable to hackers, putting owners at risk
As we tumble headlong into the Era of the Connected Car, one thing engineers are struggling to address is the possibility that evildoers might hack our cars’ burgeoning networks. Unfortunately, a new report suggests that automakers have left open a fairly large back door for the bad guys–a back door that could, quite literally, allow hackers into cars.
Better Buy: Microsoft Corporation vs. Oracle Corporation
But Oracle’s late start — thanks to Ellison’s early dismissal of cloud computing as nothing more than “the latest fashion” — could work in investors’ favor because it translates to tremendous upside from here. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s decision to name Satya Nadella as CEO three years ago has proven to be an absolute game changer.
Donald Trump-branded goods are slim pickings online
I would recommend that you have one description which you use on your own site and offer e-retailers an alternate description. E-commerce sales by region, sales by product category, holiday data, online spending by shopper and as percentage of household income, and more.
Toy Fair New York 2017 – Booth #3035
“We are thrilled to incorporate some of the latest new tech elements we have been working with lately into this exciting line up here at Toy Fair in New York City?there is truly something for everyone in the family!” said Davin Sufer, Chief Tech Officer at WowWee. Fingerlings Friendship at your fingertips! Fingerlings baby monkeys come to life with endless ways of play and realistic sounds to let you know how they are feeling.
Project Loon Achieves Internet-Beaming Breakthrough
Google parent company Alphabet’s ambitious Project Loon idea is one step closer to achieving its goal of delivering Internet to underserved areas via balloons. In a Thursday blog post , Astro Teller, head of Alphabet’s X team in charge of the company’s moonshot projects, said the folks working on Project Loon recently had a “magical, serendipitous” discovery that pushed the initiative forward in a big way.
5 Big Enterprise Resource Planning Trends
The enterprise resource planning industry is rapidly evolving. Find out five emerging trends you’ll need to know to stay ahead of the game.
WWII veteran Bacle shares stories of service
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Seth Rogen tweets plea to Donald Trump Jr. to get dad to quit – CNET
Rogen had a brainstorm Thursday. He noticed that the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., follows him on Twitter.
ONIOFF – Onion URL Inspector
ONIOFF is basically an Onion URL inspector, it’s a simple tool – written in pure python – for inspecting Deep Web URLs . It takes specified onion links and returns their current status along with the site’s title.
Watch out for fake Facebook friend requests
Friend request from yourself? Watch out for Facebook fakes How to protect yourself from Facebook clones and scams Check out this story on ydr.com: http://usat.ly/2lqXtkW A few weeks ago, I got a Facebook request from “myself.” I recognized it right away as a common Facebook cloning scam.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
That’s where an army of TurboTax employees fanned out a little o… )–CBRE Group, Inc. today announced that Fortune magazine has named the company a World’s Most Admired Company in the real estate industry for the fifth consec… )–Limbach Holdings, Inc. today announced that CEO Charlie Bacon and CFO John Jordan will be attending the 29th Annual ROTH Grow… )–Iron Bow Technologies today announced it has been named to the 2017 Managed Services Provider 500 list by CRNA , a brand of The Channel Company, to the Managed… )–In a sign of their unwavering commitment to diversity and inclusion, more than forty of the nation’s leading companies and employers filed a brief yesterday as amici curi… )–Invengo, aanbieder van RFID-technologie, heeft vandaag bekendgemaakt een nieuwe generatie tags voor beddengoed te lanceren: de LinTRAK-Slim.
NASA Finds Life’s Building Blocks on Ceres
Scientists consider dwarf planet Ceres a better planet for aliens. Recently organic molecules are discovered by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft on Ceres.
Harris Corporation Helps Tallahassee Team Compete in the Florida Astronaut Challenge Finals
Trent Walker and Justin Golabek simulate the landing of a Space Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center as part of the Student Astronaut Challenge at the KSC Visitors Center Feb. 16. The students were part of a team from St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Tallahassee, Florida, which was sponsored by Harris Corporation. The team was among 15 finalists to take part in the high school division of the competition that promotes Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education.
Game, [Data] Set, Match: How Deep Learning Turned Sci-Fi-esque Predictive Intelligence Into Reality
It’s been 20 years since IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Gary Kasparov, in a historical first victory for artificial intelligence. What was once a futuristic concept in 1997, has slowly become part of everyday reality.
Apple’s CFO explains the company’s $10 billion R&D budget
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In Focus Brands’ Backed App: The Mash Card -Needs Programmers
The Albany student-created, startup community with benefits app-The MASH Card- continues to expand its student community, their vendor offerings and new viral events and needs junior programmers to round out the new CTO Team. ALBANY, N.Y. – Feb. 17, 2017 – PRLog — With a new website and fully-functioning app a month from completion, The MASH Card needs to add junior programmers to the team to continue its technology expansion.
Wilmington 13-year Old To Be Featured On Food Network’s ‘Chopped Jr.’
Feb. 17, 2017 – PRLog — Stefano Dongowski, a ninth grader at Isaac Bear early college, will face three other junior chefs on the culinary battlefield, which he described as, “and intense and exciting experience.” The episode airs this Tuesday, February 21 at 8pm EST, on Food Network.
Toyota, GM and Lyft want nationwide rules for self-driving cars
Automakers Toyota and GM and ride-sharing firm Lyft called on the US government to create US-wide standards to ease the testing and adoption of autonomous cars . The problem, they say, is that rules vary widely across the country are more restrictive in some states than others .
Ant odd couple work together to build and keep a healthy nest
One is a massive black ant, the other is a tiny, only distantly related, brown ant. But together they form a perfect team to build and guard a shared nest.
Obituary listings for February 17, 2017
Lanier, Mrs. Mary Patricia Hurley, 86, of Richmond, formerly of Buffalo, N.Y., a nurse who retired from Johnston-Willis Hospital, widow of William Frederick Lanier. Oliver, Mr. Judge Pickett, 84, of Powhatan, a Navy retiree, a retired communications engineer with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., widower of Thelma Oliver.
European Commission: ‘Attempting to regulate AI as portrayed in…
Politicians should not attempt to regulate the kinds of artificial intelligence that are portrayed in Hollywood movies like “Ex Machina,” according to the head of a technology-focused department at the European Commission. Roberto Viola, director general of DG Connect, the European Commission department that regulates communications networks, content, and technology, put forward his views on AI regulation in a blog post on Thursday.
Microsoft throws its weight, AI & Cloud beind transforming healthcare
For many tech companies the healthcare industry is hot property, it’s an industry that won’t go away and it costs hundreds of billions to run, just look at the NHS. Microsoft’s approach to making greater inroads into the sector is to create the Healthcare NExT initiative that aims to bring research and health technology product development to the sector so that it can tap into Microsoft’s AI and cloud capabilities.
Pittcon 2017 taking place in 2 weeks, will feature over 700 leading…
The Pittcon 2017 Exposition, which takes place March 5-9 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois, will include 770 exhibitors of which 122 are first time exhibitors. Leading companies will be displaying products and services used by the scientific community in industrial, academic, and government labs.
Blue Google Pixel coming to UK via EE
The Pixel was the first ‘Made by Google’ smartphone by the tech giant and brought customers new features such as a new Google Assistant, as well as unlimited photo storage free of charge. EE were the exclusive partner here in the U.K. And both the White and Black models have been available since launch.
Alphabet’s – Loon’ internet plan closer to deployment
Google parent Alphabet said artificial intelligence-infused navigation software has significantly sped up plans to deploy Project Loon internet balloons to serve remote regions of the world Word that being able to more smartly guide high-altitude baloons promised to improve coverage while curbing cost came as Loon hit headwinds in some locales where it has been testing the technology. “Our timelines are starting to move up on how we can do more for the world sooner,” said Astro Teller, who heads the team at the Alphabet unit X, in charge of “moonshot” projects of the technology giant.
Irish HR forum examines future of Robots and AI in the workplace
Over 20% of jobs may be performed by machines in 20 years time. This is according to a paper written by the Future of Work Institute, in association with Cpl through its research team and in collaboration with clients and candidates, to identify future work trends and support companies in future proofing their workplaces.
JD.com withdraws ‘fake’ Lafite online
China’s leading e-commerce company JD.com has quietly withdrawn the sale of counterfeit Lafite that was marketed under the first growth’s Chinese name, despite its adamant claim that the look-alike Lafite which appeared on its online auction site was a completely different wine from the Pauillac estate. JD.com has quietly taken down counterfeit Lafite after it was exposed to sell lookalike Lafite.
The big Engine that very well might
Venture capitalist Katie Rae next month starts her job as head of MIT’s “The Engine,” whch will fund entrepreneurs’ big ideas. The 155-year-old university has helped pioneer water treatment, the radar systems key to the Allies’ victory in World War II, cybersecurity, speech recognition, navigation systems that helped Apollo astronauts reach the moon, genomics, the Scratch programming language for kids, and robots for the home and factory.
Perceptron, Inc. (PRCP) Raised to Hold at Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “Perceptron, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets information based process measurement and guidance solutions which help customers improve performance. Perceptron’s product offerings are designed to improve quality,increase productivity and decrease costs in the automotive and forest products workplace.
NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research
According to Zacks, “NVIDIA Corporation offers digital media processors and related software for a wide range of visual computing platforms. The stock has outperformed the broader market in the last one year time frame.
Assetz Capital hires Santander man Andrew Fraser for Northern Ireland push
Assetz Capital, one of the UK’s largest and fastest growing peer-to-peer finance platforms, today committed to expansion in Northern Ireland under the guidance of recently appointed Regional Relationship Director, Andrew Fraser. Fraser joins Assetz Capital from Santander UK Corporate and Commercial.
NASA wants your help discovering a new 9th planet.
NASA wants your help discovering a new planet. The cool thing about it, you won’t have to leave the comfort of your living room. The agency says it is looking for a possible ninth planet in the solar system, bigger than Earth, just beyond Pluto.
Hackers still exploiting eBay’s stored XSS vulnerabilities in 2017
Fraudsters are still exploiting eBay’s persistent cross-site scripting vulnerabilities to steal account credentials, years after a series of similar attacks took place. Worse still, many of the listings that exploited these vulnerabilities remained on eBay’s website for more than a month before they were eventually removed.
Two officials in charge of running Vikings stadium resign amid ethics concerns
She said she and the rest of the authority had mishandled the suite issue. As part of the investigation and other fallout in the state legislature, House Government Finance Chair Sarah Anderson is pushing for an overhaul of the board, and had called for Kelm-Helgen and Mondale’s resignations.
Bosch, IBM collaborate to make IIoT a reality
“The Watson IoT platform will make it really simple for developers to pull the payment application into their devices using the APIs that IBM exposes”. Through the new partnership with Visa, IBM aims to provide customers using its Watson cognitive computing platform for IoT with cloud-based access to Visa’s payment services.
Rocket lifts off in Florida
A dragon space capsule bound for the International Space Station was atop the Space X Falcon 9 rocket as it climbed into the cloudy skies over central After the rocket gave the capsule enough ‘push’ to reach orbit, it separated then made a successful landing at the Cape. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
Outlook Hangs at Startup
If you are using Outlook 2016 and it hangs at startup, try setting Outlook to always run maximized. To do this, Ctrl+Shift+right-click on the icon you use to start Outlook and choose Properties .
Chigurupati Technologies Launches First Globally Disruptive Tech Out…
Harsha Chigurupati knows the meaning of hard work and determination. After what took over 10 years of research, development and clinical trials, the founder of Chigurupati Technologies has invented India’s first globally disruptive technology, NTX Technologya .