This image provided by Penny Boston shows a red wall in a cave with butterfly crystal. Scientists report finding living microbes trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old.
Day: February 20, 2017
VR’s Hope for Survival Lies Outside the Gaming World
Remember when virtual reality was considered a ridiculous pipe dream relegated to ’80s sci-fi stories? Well, leading into the 2016 holiday season, it seemed like that “Tron”-like dream had come true. You could just mention the letters “VR” and investors’ ears would perk up.
Baozun Inc. (BZUN) Scheduled to Post Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday
Baozun Inc. is set to post its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February 21st. Individual that wish to register for the company’s earnings conference call can do so using this link .
acris 2.1.7
Use TimedSizedRotatingHandler is combining TimedRotatingFileHandler with RotatingFileHandler. Usage as handler with logging is as defined in Python’s logging how-to It also uses acris provided LevelBasedFormatter which facilitate message formats based on record level.
Why is everyone talking about Kodi?
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Stark Drive launches $400 full-size folding electric bike
For those who have been holding off on purchasing an e-bike until the prices come down, Stark Drive might just have broken the cost barrier. If you’d love to be able to bike more places, more often, without being held back by being out of shape and wheezing through the effort of climbing hills and arriving to work or the market all sweaty and out of breath, then an e-bike is just the ticket.
FDA explores Listeria growth and detection in ice cream
Resphera Insight and CosmosID tools were used for high-resolution profiling of 16S rRNA amplicons and whole genome shotgun data. Picture: iStock Culture independent next generation sequencing has been used to characterize the microbiome for recovery of Listeria monocytogenes from naturally contaminated ice cream.
Watchdog revises standards, begins regulatory process for online sales
Beijing was a hive of activity last week as regulators revised standards on an extensive range of food lines, and released draft regulations on online food services for public comment. First, the national food and drug watchdog announced its course of action after the State Council’s recently issued a national strategy on food safety as part of its the 13th Five-year plan, which will last until 2020.
Three 3M assays receive NF Validation
They use a workflow that is 30% faster than first generation assays thanks to lysis chemistry that uses nanotechnology and features a color-change indicator. Marie-Pierre Copin, 3M Food Safety’s European regulatory affairs specialist, said the validation for A Listeria and Listeria monocytogenes took one year and around nine months for Salmonella.
How a movie about black NASA heroes became the crowd-pleasing…
The box-office success of best picture nominee “Hidden Figures” is as much an underdog story as the one it tells. When director Theodore Melfi’s look at the black female mathematicians who were vital in getting Americans in space in the 1960s hit wide release in January, industry insiders regarded it as the latest release to get crowded out by “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” which still at No.
The Shocker will appear in ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming.’ But who is the Shocker?
The earliest trailer for the upcoming “Spider-Man: Homecoming” showed a fearsome villain in the Vulture, one of the webslinger’s oldest and deadliest foes. But the wall crawler will reportedly have another enemy in his next film appearance: The Shocker.
Blumenthal signals WiFi access for VA hospital
Patients at the U.S. Veterans Administration Medical Center here will soon have access to WiFi, at the urging of U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal . Blumenthal had urged VA officials to provide access after hearing from a Marine veteran and writer who was being treated for leukemia at the West Haven hospital , who felt the lack of Wi-Fi impeded his recovery and resulted in social isolation.
Project Zero Finds A Graphic Zero Day
After finding the infamous Heartbleed vulnerability along with a variety of other zero days, Google decided to form a full-time team dedicated to finding similar vulnerabilities. That team, dubbed Project Zero, just released a new vulnerability, and this one’s particularly graphic , consisting of a group of flaws in the Windows Nvidia Driver.
iPhone 8 release date disaster – this key feature is reportedly…
The iPhone 8 release date is one of the the most eagerly awaited additions to the year’s tech calendar, despite latest reports having suggested one of the phone’s most exciting new features has been hit with delays. Although a number of recent reports have claimed the iPhone 8 will land with wireless charging capabilities in tow, it’s now been suggested that the cable-shunning addition will actually be held back.
Mayo doc’s stem cell experiment blasts into space
The SpaceX Falcon rocket launches from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday. In addition to supplies for the International Space Station, the payload included a Mayo Clinic experiment involving stem cells.
Overeating and waste results in a fifth of food lost, study shows
Almost a fifth of food available to consumers worldwide is lost through either overeating or waste, according to a new study. The researchers from York University and Edinburgh University analysed the global food system using data from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation.
PEOPLE: What are your 3 favorite Staten Island spots?
For this week’s People query, I asked three Staten Islanders what their favorite spots — restaurant or otherwise — were on Staten Island. This is the first installment of a four-part series to promote all the fabulous things our borough has to offer.
Cell Expansion Market Is Worth USD 7.96 Billion in 2016 and Is…
According to the new market research report, ” Cell Expansion Market , by Products , Cells Types , Applications , End-users – Global Revenue, Trends, Growth, Share, Size and Forecast to 2022″, published by Scalar Market Research, the global cell expansion market is expected to reach USD 18.74 billion by 2022, growing at a CAGR of 15.30% from 2016 to 2022. According to the report, the market is expected to be worth USD 7.96 billion in the year 2016.
How to create your own Linux Distribution with Yocto on Ubuntu
In this article, our focus is the creation of a minimal Linux distribution using the Yocto project on the Ubuntu platform. The Yocto project is very famous in the embedded Linux world because of its flexibility and ease of use.
SpaceX Successfully Launches Rocket From Famed Launchpad
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station. The rocket was launched fro the same historic site that saw some of NASA’s greatest space missions.
Google, Bing Agree to Help U.K. Creative Industries Fight Pirate Sites
A voluntary code of practice is designed to “kick-start collaboration between the parties to demote links to websites that are dedicated to infringing content for consumers in the U.K.” Google and Microsoft’s Bing are two big-name search engines that have voluntarily signed on to a first-of-its kind initiative in Britain aimed at “reducing the availability of infringing content accessed through online search.” The agreement between representatives of rights holders and major search engines was unveiled Monday following a government-chaired series of roundtables.
Atlanta, other cities eye test tracks for self-driving cars
Self-driving vehicles could begin tooling down a bustling Atlanta street full of cars, buses, bicyclists and college students, as the city vies with other communities nationwide to test the emerging technology. Atlanta would become one of the largest urban areas for testing self-driving vehicles if plans come together for a demonstration as early as September.
NASA proposes redefining the word ‘planet’
In order for a body to be classed as a planet under the current definition of the word, it must be in orbit around its parent star, it must be massive enough for its own gravity to make it round and it must have “cleared its neighborhood” of smaller objects within its own orbit. Now though, scientists at NASA have come up with a new definition of the word ‘planet’ that focuses, not on its orbital attributes, but on its physical properties.
Google & Microsoft To Demote Piracy Sites In UK Search Results
In a world first, Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to crackdown on piracy sites in the UK. On Monday, it was announced that the search engine giants had both signed up to a voluntary code of practice which will see them commit to demote websites that have been repeatedly served with copyright infringement notices, thereby making it much harder for UK internet users to download and stream films, TV, music and sport illegally.
Xiaomi to launch in-house Pinecone chipset on February 28
According to Chinese semiconductor expert Laoyao , Pinecone Electronics is a joint venture set up by Xiaomi and chipset maker Leadcore back in November 2014, with Xiaomi owning 51 percent of the shares. Now, in a new separate report coming from benchmarking website Geekbench , there is a new Xiaomi Mi 5C with codename Meri and it has been listed on the website.
UAE to build first city on Mars by 2117
The UAE has unveiled plans to build the first city on Mars by 2117 as the energy-rich country looks to transport people to the Red Planet over the next few decades. Do you think the UAE’s Mars 2117 mission will succeed and in the next hundred years they will have a city on Mars? “Mars 2117 Project” is a new space construction project which the UAE is planning by building a mini-city with an average population of 600,000 on Mars.
Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results
News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in the UK search results. Both search engines, according to the report, have promised to reduce pirated content in their search results by June 1, 2017.
Jio effect: Tata Tele mulls merger with RCom-Aircel-MTS combine
Shares of the telecom service operators were on a roll on Monday amid news reports of major consolidation moves gaining momentum, involving the biggies Tata Teleservices, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular and Vodafone India, as the incumbents look for scale and operational efficiency to take on the onslaught of competition from the giant new entrant Reliance Jio. To counter the price war started by Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Jio, Tata Teleservices is said to be in talks with younger brother Anil Ambani’s Reliance Communication , according to a financial daily.
Honor 8 Android 7.0 Nougat Update for India Users Available OTA
Owners of the Honor 8 in India won’t have to wait around for the update to Android 7.0 Nougat any longer. Huawei has officially announced that the beta phase of the upgrade has ended.
Flipkart, India’s leading online retailer, signs cloud partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft has announced its partnership with Flipkart, wherein the latter will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform. Microsoft has just landed a big cloud deal by signing up India’s largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, as it battles out with Google, Amazon and IBM for cloud supremacy in the country.
Qualcomm’s New WiFi Technology Should Boost Capacity for Small Business
One of the biggest differentiator’s between a home or small business and a larger enterprise is capacity. And in a world where speed is tantamount to efficiency, enterprises enjoy a commanding lead.
Global Commercial Aircraft Propeller Systems Market Is Growing at a CAGR of 4% from 2016-2021
Market Synopsis The Global Commercial Aircraft Propeller Systems Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of around 4% during 2016-2021. The key factors driving the growth are the development of new aircraft & engine development and fuel efficiency.
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Florida commerce with Cuba totals $65 million even as Gov. Scott tries to limit trade
A SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off on Sunday from a Florida launch pad once used to send NASA astronauts to the moon, a step forward for billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk and his company’s goal of ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station. More from Reuters , Universe Today, Florida Politics, and the Wall Street Journal .
Juno Probe to Remain in Current Orbit Around Jupiter
NASA’s Juno spacecraft soared directly over Jupiter’s south pole when JunoCam acquired this image on Feb. 2, 2017, from an altitude of about 62,800 miles above the cloud tops. This image was processed by citizen scientist John Landino.
SpaceX successfully launches Dragon capsule from Launch complex 39A
SpaceX has been working on renovating historic Launch Complex 39A where NASA sent the Apollo moon missions into space. On February 19, SpaceX made its first launch from that famous facility sending a Falcon 9 tipped with a robotic Dragon capsule into space to rendezvous with the ISS.
SpaceX Successfully Launches First Rocket from Historic NASA Pad
NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will act as a multi-user spaceport due to the launch of Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket at launch complex 39-A, a historic launch pad. The CRS-10 is Space X’s 10th mission for commercial supply to the ISS International Space Station.
PatientPay Drastically Cuts Time to Post Patient Payment For Chicago-area Speech Therapy Clinic
A speech therapy clinic serving the northern suburbs of Chicago has been able to cut the time to post and reconcile patient payments by 90 minutes per day because of a solution from PatientPaya , the leader in paperless patient billing for the healthcare industry. “Soon after Pediatrics Interactions implemented PatientPay as its bill-pay solution, the hour and a half taken up every day to post and reconcile payments to patient accounts disappeared,” said Kricia Doescher, Pediatric Interactions’ office manager.
A robot healed this 9/11 hero 0:0
Bill Butler was a first responder on Sept. 11, 2001 and suffered debilitating pain for years after.
Samsung’s reputation drops to No. 49 in the US: survey
Samsung’s reputation in the US slid to No. 49, marking the biggest drop in the recent years, a survey showed Monday.