An enormously successful first annual Space Settlement Summit hosted by the National Space Society occurred on January 10-11, 2017, in Santa Monica, California. With Elon Musk calling for the colonization of Mars, and Jeff Bezos looking forward to millions of people living and working in space, space settlement is an idea whose time has come.
Month: February 2017
Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle
Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles — such as those made from iron and platinum atoms — are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives. Building these devices from nanoparticles should increase storage capacity and density, but understanding how magnetism works at the level of individual atoms is critical to getting the best performance.
Aicn Horror doubles down on the terrible 2’s with Stake Land 2! Sadako VS. Kayako! Jeepers Creepers
AICN HORROR doubles down on the terrible 2’s with STAKE LAND 2! SADAKO VS. KAYAKO! JEEPERS CREEPERS 2! DR.
Cisco Is Making Buildings Smarter
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Microsoft Outlook Celebrates 2nd Anniversary by Introducing Third-Party Add-Ins
Microsoft’s Outlook app is one among the very few mail apps that caters aptly to the requirements of the users. Despite the shortcoming, Outlook has maintained its reputation of being the finest in its job, and that’s why Microsoft is constantly upgrading the app to expand its functionality.
Intel Pentium G4560 review: the ultimate budget CPU?
So here’s a thought. Buy a Core i5 or Core i7 processor for gaming and the bottom line is this: on the majority of titles out there, its resources are highly underutilised.
omnitagger 2.0.0
A CLI that beautifies your music files, automatically adds metatags based on fingerprinting, filename and metadata. Home-page: https://github.com/muts/omnitagger Author: Kim Koomen Author-email: koomen@protonmail.com License: MIT Download-URL: Description: omnitagger ========== Omnitagger is a CLI tool for beautifying your music files and adding metadata automatically to your files.
yaacl 0.8.2
After all views are decorated, run command “./manage.py sync_acl“, so all views will be registered in database. “`python from yaacl.decorators import acl_register_view from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required @login_required @acl_register_view def index : pass “` First parameter is “name“ the short name for this view .
Starting up is hard to do
One thing London-based Cypriot tech entrepreneur and experienced startups builder Demetrios Zoppos is certain about is that progress, innovation and change is not inevitable – people make it. “And people who make it know about startups,” the 46-year-old English School graduate who went on to study economics at Cambridge, and public policy at Harvard, told the Cyprus Weekly.
The FBI’s iPhone Cracking Tools Have Been Released To The Public
Last year thanks to the efforts by a company called Cellebrite, a set of cracking tools were developed for the FBI to help them break into an encrypted iPhone . This was after Apple had refused to help the FBI to break into the device, and also after they had refused to create a backdoor for the authorities.
January Week 5
If you need to know what’s important for the developer, you can rely on I Programmer to sift through the news and uncover the most relevant stories. Our weekly digest gives a handy summary.
Analysts Set PFSweb, Inc. (PFSW) PT at $16.00
Shares of PFSweb, Inc. have received an average rating of “Buy” from the eight ratings firms that are presently covering the stock. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell recommendation, one has assigned a hold recommendation and six have given a buy recommendation to the company.
Wilkes-Barre mayor hopes to make city’s downtown a – tourist attraction’
Wilkes-Barre Mayor Tony George told the Downtown Wilkes-Barre Business Association on Friday morning that his goal is to make the downtown a “tourist attraction.” “We have to change our strategy to bring people in as tourists and make it a college town,” George said at the meeting at city hall.
Chrome for iOS goes open source, a KDE-branded laptop, and more open source news
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The Reformation
Almost 500 years have passed since Martin Luther wrote his Ninety-five Theses and launched the Protestant Reformation. Narrated by British actor David Suchet , the three-part documentary THE REFORMATION: THIS CHANGED EVERYTHING explores the history of the Reformation, its impact on 16th century Europe, and its continuing influence on modern Christianity.
A poker-winning machine is no threat
I didn’t worry too much when computers beat humans at checkers, chess, or Go. It was, after all, only a matter of time before someone built a powerful computer with a vast database of known game situations.
Leaked Samsung Galaxy S8 pictures tease radical redesign and m…
The Samsung Galaxy S8 release date is on the horizon, and we’ve just been offered a new look at the eagerly awaited handset. While we’ve already seen leaked renders and even the odd photo of the upcoming Galaxy S8 pop up online, now the phone’s schematics have surfaced via CNET Korea, claiming to show off the phone’s exact dimensions.
Amazon Increasingly Wants To Be Its Own Deliveryman
Amazon isn’t content just being the “everything store.” Increasingly, it looks like it wants to be its own deliveryman, too.
4 Ways Entertainment Creators Are Co-Producing Content
Entertainment creators are co-producing with AI platforms and even audiences themselves, to diversify content to be exciting and relevant to a broader range of fans. These initiatives not only craft the unexpected, but create a personal relationship between the content and the fan-creator.
Box Office: ‘Lego Batman Movie’ tops ‘Fifty Shades Darker’ with $55.6 million
Costumed avengers, a billionaire with a kinky side, and a brutally efficient hit man proved to be just the tonic for an ailing domestic box office. “The Lego Batman Movie” bested “Fifty Shades Darker” at the multiplexes over the weekend, earning a robust $55.6 million to capture first place.
Super Bowl online: See the game, learn some new taunts
You can watch the Super Bowl online for free, but there are a few catches. For starters, you’re out of luck on phones unless you’re a Verizon customer.
Lunar eclipse
Prod the kids outside, give them hot chocolate and gaze toward the moon in the east. Enjoy the evening penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday.
Robots are changing the global manufacturing market
Inside Machines: Robots will need to become more flexible and agile on the manufacturing floor as production becomes more specialized and as robotics start being used in the agricultural, medical, and automotive industries. Industries such as personal electronics, where there is a need for customization and a high expectation for quality, are driving major changes in the manufacturing industry, and integrated robotic applications are helping.
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Given Overweight Rating at Pacific Crest
AMZN has been the subject of several other research reports. Wedbush set a $900.00 target price on shares of Amazon.com and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Sunday, October 30th.
U.S. Stocks Climb on Payrolls Surge as Trump Targets Dodd-Frank
U.S. stocks rose the most in a week after Labor Department data showed U.S. employers added the most workers in four months. Financial shares rallied on the prospect of looser financial regulations.
Hackers use streaming devices to make radio stations play ‘FDT’
Rapper YG performs at the Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD as part of his FDT Tour. The tour takes it name from YG’s viral anthem ‘FDT .’
New Game: Vroom: Galleon
Developed exclusively for virtual reality headsets, this is not a traditional PC game or sailing simulator. It is an immersive experience designed to delight your senses in life aboard an old sailing vessel, with several fun activities thrown-in for good measure.
New Game: VRChat
Imagine a world where anything is possible. Join a game of capture the flag in outer space.
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon…
The clustering of galaxies in the completed SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey: Examining the observational evidence for dynamical dark energy To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. We examine the ability of the $>$CDM model to simultaneously fit different types of cosmological observations and apply a recently proposed test, based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence, to quantify the tension between different subsets of data.
‘Rings’ returns to scare you; “Space Between Us” is romantic sci-fi
Its tagline — “First you watch it, then you die” — must be the greatest piece of negative advertising that you’ll ever encounter. No, despite what you think, you haven’t seen this one before.
Boardman School District gets new bus app
Boardman School District is taking bus riding to the next level. The saying “Don’t miss the bus” might just be used less throughout the remainder of the school year.
NASA creates exhibit for those attending Super Bowl LI
NASA is joining in on Super Bowl festivities. They have an exhibit for those attending the game in Houston called “Future Flight,” taking them on a trip to Mars.
Cryogenics pioneer claims man frozen in liquid nitrogen 50 years ago will be brought back to life
Will the dead someday walk among us? According to 80-year-old cryogenics expert Robert Nelson, that may just be the case – as long as they’re frozen first. Nelson is the president of the Cryonics Society of California and recently revealed what it was like to freeze the first cryogenic “patient” back in 1967.
Amazon Shares Dip 3% on Revenue Miss
Fourth-quarter net sales of $3.54 billion fell short of analysts’ estimates but net income rose 55% to $749 million. Amazon shares dropped more than 3% on Friday as a 55% increase in fourth-quarter profit couldn’t offset lower-than-expected revenue growth.
Tree Pay Thailand to provide e-services
“The partnership will capitalise on the burgeoning e-payment market and tap into lucrative business opportunities stemming from Thailand 4.0,” said CAT president Sanpachai Huvananda. “We will provide both e-commerce payment and offline credit card payment gateway services to support the government’s goal of a cashless society,” Col Sanpachai said.
Broadband rolled out in 99 villages
The Digital Economy and Society Ministry yesterday rolled out the first phase of the national broadband network across 99 villages in 14 provinces, with the introduction of commercial, affordable high-speed internet service planned by year-end. The ministry will not provide broadband service directly to the public, but rather acts as a wholesaler to service providers both public and private, said DE Minister Pichet Durongkaveroj.
Hubble Captures Brilliant Star Death in “Rotten Egg” Nebula
The Calabash Nebula, pictured here – which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 – is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.
Lake Powell and Grand Staircase-Escalante Viewed From Orbit
This panorama, photographed by an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, shows nearly the full length of Lake Powell, the reservoir on the Colorado River in southern Utah and northern Arizona. Note that the ISS was north of the lake at the time, so in this view south is at the top left of the image.
PE Prices Moving Up; PP Prices Spike Sharply
Around this time last year, I blogged on how global factors like plunging oil prices and larger global resin decreases were impacting polyolefin prices – with a downward trend appearing to be the most prudent and one that actually colored most of 2016. You can say that the start of this year appears to be an ‘about-face’.
Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down
Thumbs up to a quiet, but important, action by the state Legislature earlier this week when lawmakers passed a second resolution on a change to the state constitution to strip pensions from lawmakers who commit crimes related to their public office.