The first school experiment to test if plant cuttings build roots in zero gravity has been sent to the International Space Station . The trial, designed by Maria Koch, Raphael Schilling and David Geray – three students from an agricultural high school in Ravensburg, Germany – left Kennedy Space Center on board the SpaceX rocket that launched yesterday.
Month: February 2017
Anord Recognized on CRN’s Data Center 100 List
Anord Critical Power, Inc. , a recognized leader and innovator in the power distribution market, announced today that CRN , a brand of The Channel Company , has named the company to its 2017 Data Center 100 list. Anord was recognized as a best-in-class technology supplier that excels at powering, supporting and protecting complex and demanding data centers.
Nexenta, the Leading Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage…
Nexenta , the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage , announced today that CRNA , a brand of The Channel Company , has named Nexenta to its 2017 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting the complex and demanding data centers on which today’s businesses rely.
FEATURE-The billionaire philanthropists intent on using satellites to save the world
Some of the world’s most influential billionaire philanthropists plan to launch a powerful digital platform to harness the avalanche of data sent from satellites each day – and make it freely available for humanitarian and environmental causes. Bill and Melinda Gates – who are also custodians of legendary investor Warren Buffet’s billions – have joined forces with Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, to fund the ‘Radiant Earth’ project, a repository and archive of the world’s satellite, aerial and drone imagery.
These Fearsome Robots Will Bring Mining to the Deep Ocean
In 1974, an enormous ship sailed into the waters northeast of Hawaii. The vessel, built by billionaire Howard Hughes, was set to begin mining mineral deposits in the deep sea – or so the world believed.
AT&T joins the unlimited data plan wars
AT&T is getting in the unlimited data war games with it’s competitors announcing two new unlimited plan offerings. Beating out T-Mobiles $70 plan and Verizon’s $80 plan, AT&T introduced it’s $60 Unlimited Choice plan.
For IBM’s CTO for Watson, not a lot of value in replicating the human mind in a computer
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The Campbell Apartment Will Reopen in May and More Intel
The Campbell Apartment in Grand Central, will reopen May 1, reports Bloomberg. Scott Gerber of the Gerber Group – which includes Whiskey Blue at 541 Lexington and Kingside at 124 W. 57th St. – holds the lease on the space, which is allegedly $1.1 million a year.
Updated Gear VR Includes Controller
The Korean tech giant on Sunday introduced its first Gear VR headset with a controller powered by Oculus. In a news release , Samsung said the controller features an “ergonomic, curved design offering convenient one-hand control and better motion interaction with minimized head movement for a comfortable user experience.”
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation (BGFV) Set to Announce Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday
Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation will issue its quarterly earnings data after the market closes on Tuesday, February 28th. Analysts expect the company to announce earnings of $0.31 per share for the quarter.
Security flaw hits popular websites
Security firm Cloudflare disclosed late Thursday that a long-running bug in its security systems may have leaked information, including potentially personal information, from thousands of sites including Uber, Fitbit and OK Cupid. The problem was first uncovered by Google security expert Tavis Ormandy, who let Cloudflare know about the issue on Feb. 18. But the service had been leaking information for months in a way that allowed search engines to pick it up, according to Cloudflare.
As demand grows, Tesla pushes to multiply its production
Cars are lined up near the Tesla Motors factory complex in Fremont, Calif., on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2016. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a vision for his factory: A Fremont auto plant buzzing with a high-speed choreography between parts and robots churning out 500,000 cars next year.
Small cap news round-up
Molecular diagnostics group Premaitha Health has gained regulatory clearance for the acquisition of Taiwan-based Yourgene Bioscience, a non-invasive prenatal testing bioinformatics specialist. AIM-listed Premaitha believes that the acquisition will increase its access to Asia for non-invasive prenatal testing, as well as provide cross-selling opportunities.
In Our View: Continue to Boldly Go
Humans have long been drawn to news that allows us to escape our earthly constraints. So it is that a couple recent items have piqued our interest, reminding that the universe holds secrets that extend well beyond Washington, D.C., or Olympia – and that those secrets are often more interesting than politics.
Life Technologies Corp. v. Promega Corp. and the Absent Presumption Against Extraterritoriality
Guest Post by Tim Holbrook, Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law. Professor Holbrook has written extensively on the extraterritorial application of U.S. patent law.
NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 27 February 2017
The Expedition 50 crew began activating new science experiments delivered last week aboard the SpaceX Dragon. The various life science studies will study bones and muscles, stem cells, botany and protein crystals.
[MWC] Samsung’s tablet optimized for entertainment with Harman audio
Samsung Electronics said its new Galaxy Tab S3, unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday, is optimized for entertainment with enhanced audio technology by Harman, the US car-connected products maker that Samsung is planning to acquire. Releasing the latest tablet two years after the unpacking of the Tab S2, Samsung said the Tab S3 comes with a 9.7-inch Super AMOLED screen and quad-stereo speakers tuned by the AKG from Harman for quality visual and audio experiences in movie watching.
SKT boasts most advanced LTE technologi…
SK Telecom on Monday announced it successfully tested the highest level of Long Term Evolution network technologies in collaboration with Samsung Electronics and Ericsson. Named “LTE-A Pro,” SKT demonstrated three technologies — LTE-Advanced five-band carrier aggregation, tri-band carrier aggregation applied with 4×4 multiple input multiple output and Licensed Assisted Access — at the Mobile World Congress 2017 in Barcelona, Spain.
Nokia 6 vs LG G6: Which new hopeful has a better shot?
After years languishing behind the scenes, Nokia is making a strong push this year to break into the big player section of the smartphone market, as evidenced by their launches at MWC 2017. The Nokia 6 and it’s lower-end counterparts the Nokia 5 and Nokia 3, all aim to capture the premium user base currently held by the likes of Apple, Google, and Samsung.
MediaTek wants to put its new 10-core chip in $300 VR smartphones
MediaTek’s new 10-core Helio X30 chip will be available for smartphones and phablets priced between $300 and $500 The smartphone world will be rocked with MediaTek’s new 10-core Helio X30 chip, which will bring premium features like Google’s DayDream virtual reality platform to Android handsets with prices starting at US$300. The Helio X30 has the most cores of all smartphone chips, and that makes it blazing fast.
New York school students help Cornell scientists to monitor invasive species in local waterways
Invasive aquatic species like round goby, Asian carp, and sea lamprey are a growing problem in New York State. Their presence impacts water quality, food supply, recreation and tourism, as well as human and animal health.
Qorvo Accelerates Race to 5G with Industry’s First 5G Front End
QorvoA , a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced the industry’s first 5G RF front end for smartphones, laptops, tablets and other wireless mobile devices. Qorvo’s highly integrated, high performance QM19000 RFFE delivers high linearity, ultra-low latency, and extremely high throughput to meet or exceed the developing requirements of upcoming 5G applications.
mimiron 0.2.3
He once resided at the Temple of Invention, but is absent during the time of Loken’s rebellion. Mimiron is a CLI tool whose purpose is to provide a better workflow when manging tfvars.
django-minio 1.7
At first, you need to have working minio server. How to do that you can found at [Minio Quickstart Guide] .
Samsung delays its new phone, and showcases tablets instead
Instead, Samsung is spotlighting new Android and Windows tablets after delaying the Galaxy S8 smartphone – an indirect casualty of the unprecedented September recall of the fire-prone Note 7 phone . The new tablets will carry the Galaxy brand and come with many of the Note 7’s features, including the S Pen stylus and screens with rich colors.
New to physics please read, it’s new technology needing exploting.
I have invented and implimented parallax mixing, the mixing of parallax texture mapping which I do believe to be new and becomes interesting for enviromental weather systems:a Heres an involved picture of my engine with parallax mixing, the zeros are just there for my next stage which is mixing texture coloring. Then will look more involved.
Slow-release nanofertilizer could boost crop yields
Nitrogen fertilizers used to grow crops around the globe have a problem. More than three-quarters of their nutrients get washed away before plants can absorb them, wasting money and creating environmental messes downstream.
People’s editor makes ‘Hidden Fences’ gaffe at Oscars
For the second time this year, reporters on the red carpet have muffed up the award-winning films Hidden Figures and Fences. People’s Editor-and-Chief, Jess Cagle, made the first ‘Hidden Fences’ gaffe of the night at the 89th Academy Awards on Sunday.
BRIEF-Changsheng Bio Technology plans bio-tech JV
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Hedge Funds Grow More Bullish on Corn as Surplus Eases
The glut of corn that’s been plaguing Midwest growers is finally starting to ease, and hedge funds are betting that will help spark a rally for prices. U.S. corn inventories are set to drop before the 2018 harvest as farmers curb plantings and demand stays robust, the Department of Agriculture said Friday.
The director of the Oscar-winning Pixar short reveals the…
Less than a mile from Pixar Studios in Emeryville, California, there’s a calming stretch of beach that animator Alan Barillaro visits often. Three years ago, while walking along that Pacific shore, Barillaro came on an idea that has become the latest great Pixar work.
Everything You Need to Know About the New PoE Standard
The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8408 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.
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The Lego League State Robotics Competition brought the 36 best teams of students between fourth and eighth grades together to compete to find the most skilled robot built of legos. “They all start with a base layer robot and you can add any other lego pieces you want onto that base lego robot and then they give you 15 different skills you have to get done in your 2.5 minute window,” says Bob Getka, computer science and robotics instructor.
Q’comm, Samsung, MTK Offer Hints on iPhone 8
BARCELONA Qualcomm, Samsung and MediaTek, three leading smartphones chip vendors, have come to the Mobile World Congress here this week to showcase advanced new modems and apps processors designed to power next-generation smartphones. Nobody knows exactly what Apple has up its sleeve for the upcoming iPhone 8 in the iPhone’s tenth birthday.
Possible CPU upgrade for GTX 1060 6GB3
Hey guys, I recently upgraded my GPU from a radeon 6800 to a GTX 1060 6gb because thats what i was told to get by others on here according to my specs. Despite this, the card doesn’t seem to be performing to its capabilities and I think it might be because my CPU isnt strong enough for it and I’ve noticed it hits 90C when playing things like CSGO.
Mellanox Sets New DPDK Performance Record With ConnectX-5
Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that its ConnectX-5 100Gb/s Ethernet Network Interface Card has achieved 126 million packets per second of record-setting forwarding capabilities running the open source Data Path Development Kit . This breakthrough performance signifies the maturity of high-volume server I/O to support large-scale, efficient production deployments of Network Function Virtualization in both Communication Service Provider and cloud data centers.
Sony has sold close to a million PlayStation VR headsets
Virtual reality may very well be a technological game-changer but it’ll likely be some time before we know for sure. That’s because, as is often the case with cutting-edge technology, the high cost of admission at the upper-end is artificially limiting adoption.
Miro, the Superior Sound and Video System Launched Indiegogo
Miro is a state-of-the-art sound and video system, a smart media center. Now, Zbinno is launching a promising crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to support its development.
EyeLock to Demonstrate Secure Iris Biometric Capability on the…
Iris authentication is highly secure because no two irises are alike and the iris is the most accurate human identifier other than DNA. The company’s significant IP portfolio, including more than 95 patents and patents pending, and proprietary technology enables the convenient and secure authentication of individuals across physical and logical environments.
HP’s Pro x2 convertible takes on the iPad with vertical accessories
HP’s Pro x2 convertible would normally be a bit too corporate for PCWorld, but we’re covering it for two reasons. Announced Sunday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, it’s among the first Surface clones to appear sporting a selection of 7th-generation Kaby Lake CPUs.