Month: February 2017

Robot Love

Pipeline Theatre’s Spillikin comes to New Milton , following huge success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2015. Featuring a state-of-the-art robot as a cast member, Spillikin is the story of a woman with Alzheimer’s living with a robot companion.

Rock Band VR riffing on Oculus Rift from March 23 – CNET

Rock Band is coming to virtual reality in March, with the game’s Twitter account announcing on Sunday the Oculus Rift will get Rock Band VR on March 23. Rock Band VR looks to encourage your creativity, with developer Harmonix saying you’ll be able to riff freely on stage. “The idea that players can craft their own guitar parts in real-time is kind of mind-blowing, ” said the game’s creative head Greg LoPiccolo.

KTM buys into motorcycle HUD tech with Nuviz

In what might been seen as a strategic move against the competition, Pierer Industrie – parent company of KTM Motorcycles – has invested in American company Nuviz, which is developing a helmet-mounted HUD system. Nuviz is planning to bring to market a motorcycle specific HUD and connected rider system by the first half of 2017.

Timber a viable option for high-rise buildings in quake zones

Jon Tanner, chief executive of the Wood Processors and Manufacturers Association says a wooden building weighs less than a steel concrete structure with obvious benefits in both construction and resilience in an earthquake. After all it is standard for aircraft components to be monitored for performance real time – so why not buildings in quake zones? But Callaghan Innovation’s apparent sole focus on finding more earthquake resistance through concrete technology, and particularly how to prevent steel rods from rusting when water gets through from earthquake cracks, is a one trick structural pony.

Intel Shows 2.5D FPGA at ISSCC

SAN FRANCISCO Intel gave the most detailed look at its lower cost alternative to 2.5D packaging in a paper on its Stratix X FPGA at the International Solid State Circuits Conference here. In the same session, AMD showed its Zen x86 processor sports a 10 percent smaller die than Intel’s latest 14nm CPUs.

Pittsburg: Bystanders rescue injured mother, daughters after vehicle flies off Highway 4

Two men on their break helped two injured girls and their mother out of an overturned SUV Monday afternoon after they “heard screeching tires from a car, saw the car hit the wall on the freeway and fly up into the air spinning,” one of the bystanders said. Jason Schiele said he and Josiah Nunley were sitting on their break when they saw the Ford Explorer launch into the air and land on its rear side.

Thiel not running, despite PAC, spokesman says

A spokesman for Peter Thiel insists the Silicon Valley billionaire is not running for governor, despite a mysterious Federal Election Commission filing this month from a new political action committee whose name – “Draft Peter Thiel For Governor” – might suggest otherwise. Weeks before the PAC filing on Feb. 4, speculation swirled that Thiel – PayPal co-founder, Republican and adviser to President Trump – was contemplating a run in 2018.

Hayward: Suspicious package closes BART station

Trains were holding briefly and a station was closed while officers responded to a suspicious package, Bay Area Rapid Transit police said Monday afternoon. Officers responded to the report of the package at 4:42 p.m. and were calling in the Alameda County Sheriff’s bomb squad to assess the package, BART police Lt.

Covered California enrolls 368,000 new Obamacare customers

The number of people signing up for a Covered California health plan is down in the first enrollment period since President Donald Trump was elected with a pledge to repeal his predecessor’s signature health care law, figures released Monday show. Just over 386,000 new people signed up for coverage through the health insurance marketplace created under the Affordable Care Act.

UK firms urged to invest in prevention and detection of cyber threats

British firms are lagging behind US and German peers when it comes to responding to cyber security threats, putting them at risk of new hacks that could cost upwards of 500,000. British firms are lagging behind US and German peers when it comes to responding to cyber security threats, putting them at risk of new hacks that could cost upwards of 500,000.

The Accused viewers blast mother found GUILTY of cruelty

Britney Spears asks for ‘prayers’ for niece Maddie, 8, whose ATV flipped into pond trapping her underwater for several minutes despite her mom Jamie Lynn’s desperate attempts to free her Nordstrom bosses sent strongly worded memo criticizing President Trump’s Muslim travel ban to all staff TWO days before dropping Ivanka’s line British Speaker BANS ‘racist and sexist’ Trump from addressing Parliament but he had no problem with the President of CHINA Kanye West DELETES his tweets about Donald Trump ‘because he’s unhappy with the President’s choices’… after strongly supporting him two months ago Mystery as Columbia graduate, 23, is found dead on Panama island three days after she went missing during a trip to the beach Exercise is NOT key to weight control: Why you really do have to diet to trim your waistline – no matter how much you work out Nicolas Cage’s musician son Weston, 26, is … (more)

Wargame of cyber proportions unfolds in Colorado Springs symposium

John Muscarnero works to defend the “Blue Team” from a cyber attack that posted this “You have been hacked” message on team’s website during a cyber wargame exercise Monday, February 6, 2017 at the Rocky Mountain Cyberspace Symposium. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette The way to hack an oil refinery seemed rather basic, or “basisk” to a team of potential hackers playing the part of nation-state, backed perhaps by the Chinese or Russian governments.

Hackers Take Down Thousands of ‘Dark Web’ Sites, Post Private Data

Someone claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous compromised a private web hosting service last week, taking down more than 10,000 sites on the highly encrypted “dark web,” security researchers said. The hacker or hackers broke into the hidden web hosting service Freedom Hosting II, claiming to have harvested all of the sites’ files and its database, totaling almost 80 gigabytes of material, they said in a message appearing on the screens of users trying to access the sites.

Perfect fifth: Amboy students given freedom to choose, tackle projects

Abby Jones works on her 20 Percent project Monday in Stacey Dinges’ sixth-grade class at Amboy Junior High School. More and more schools are trying out the 20 Percent concept, a model that’s worked well for big companies such as 3M and Hewlett-Packard, by letting employees – students, in schools’ cases – spend one-fifth of their time working on projects of their choice.

Global Supercomputer Market 2017-2021

A supercomputer is defined as a system that is designed to solve problems or issues that require an extraordinary number of computations across fields such as engineering, science, and business. It is a computing device that is designed for speed rather than for cost-efficiency.

Amazon To Build Prime Air Hub, Add 2,000 Jobs In KY

Amazon will establish a centralized air cargo hub for its new Prime Air fleet near Cincinnati, the e-commerce giant announced last week. The e-retailer said that the facility at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport would load, unload and sort packages from Amazon aircraft and create more than 2,000 new jobs in Hebron, Ky.

Wal-Mart Tried to Take on Amazon Prime and Failed

The retailer is shutting down its year-and-a-half old ShippingPass program, a $50-per-year two-day shipping service similar to Amazon Prime. “In today’s world of e-commerce, two-day free shipping is table stakes,” Marc Lore, head of Wal-Mart U.S. e-commerce wrote in an announcement.

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