Month: February 2017

Amazon increasingly wants to be its own deliveryman

In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, file photo, Amazon.com boxes are shown stacked near a Boeing 767 Amazon “Prime Air” cargo plane on display in a Boeing hangar in Seattle. Amazon’s announcement on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017, of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is the latest way the e-commerce retailer is dipping its toe, or perhaps whole foot, into building out its shipping and logistics unit.

Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 sale on Mi.com today at noon

Xiaomi ‘s Redmi Note 4 will be on sale today on Mi.com, which is the company’s own e-commerce portal in India.The sale starts at 12 noon, and it looks like Xiaomi is offering all three versions of the phone up for grabs, which is a first since the phone was officially launched in India on January 19. So far on Flipkart only the 3GB RAM+32GB storage and 4GB RAM+64GB version were available for sale. This time the 2GB RAM is also up on Mi.com, and is priced at Rs 9,999.

Amazon’s record holiday season wasn’t good enough for Wall Street

Amazon just had its best holiday season ever, pulling in the highest quarterly sales in the company’s history and capping off a year in which it tripled profits from the previous one. The online shopping behemoth’s stock fell more than four percent in after-hours trading on Thursday after its $43.74 billion in reported revenues fell short of analysts’ lofty $44.68 billion expectations.

Global Semiconductor Sales Reach $339 Billion in 2016

Feb. 2, 2017-The Semiconductor Industry Association , representing U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing, design, and research, today announced the global semiconductor industry posted sales totaling $338.9 billion in 2016, the industry’s highest-ever annual sales and a modest increase of 1.1 percent compared to the 2015 total. Global sales for the month of December 2016 reached $31.0 billion, equaling the previous month’s total and bettering sales from December 2015 by 12.3 percent.

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Global Vacuum Generator Market for Industrial Robots Driven by Demand for Precisely Cut and Assembled Components From Automotive Sector: Technavio )–According to the latest market study released by Technavio, the global vacuum generator market for industrial robots is expected to grow at a CAGR of more than 8% during th… )–A.M. Best has placed under review with negative implications the Financial Strength Rating of A- and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a-” of Indemn… )–The Applied Fluid Technology Division of Graco Inc. , a leading manufacturer of fluid handling equipment, is pleased to announce the launch of My Graco Rewar… IMPORTANT INVESTOR ALERT: Khang & Khang LLP Announces an Investigation of Stemline Therapeutics, Inc. and Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm )–Khang & Khang LLP announces that it is investigating claims against Stemline Therapeutics, Inc.

Subway shutdown is chance to try new transportation strategies

New York has always been congested, but lately, worsening transit delays and gridlock on streets have left New Yorkers fed up. Transportation has gotten so unreliable that when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority recently installed Wi-Fi in subway stations, instead of being excited, riders took the opportunity to complain about the trains.

How Robots Will Transform FedEx

Rob Carter, FedEx’s chief information officer, says the shipping giant is considering small vehicles that could drive around neighborhoods and make deliveries without human drivers. Carter is responsible for setting the technology agenda across FedEx’s various operating companies, including its planes-and-trucks Express shipping service and office-and-home Ground delivery service, which operate in 220 countries.

Street Art

Street art is art, specifically visual art , developed in public spaces – that is, “in the streets ” – though the term usually refers to unsanctioned art, as opposed to government sponsored initiatives. The term can include traditional graffiti artwork, sculpture , stencil graffiti , sticker art , wheatpasting and street poster art , video projection, art intervention , guerrilla art, and street installations.

Martian melodrama ‘The Space Between Us’ crashes to Earth

There are movies about the wonders of space travel – a short list would include “2001: A Space Odyssey,” “Solaris” and “Interstellar” – that seek to test the audience’s perceptual limits, altering our sense of time and place so as to usher us into the vast frontier of the unknown. And then there are movies like “The Space Between Us” – though happily, not too many – which take the vast frontier of the unknown and whittle it down to something obvious, familiar and dispiritingly pocket-sized.

Authentic learning experiences

FIRST is a not-for-profit public charity which designs accessible, innovative programs that motivate young people to pursue education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math while building self-confidence, knowledge, and life skills.

Could Engineers be Accused of Killing Jobs? | EE Times

Will robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars make us more productive, put us out of work, or create jobs that require new skills? Every so often, an article comes along that discusses technology replacing people. Usually, these articles are doomsday stories about how we’ll all lose our jobs to robots and apps.

Sony Jumps Most in Three Months as Chips, Games Top Movies Loss an hour ago

Investors cheered a quick rebound at Sony Corp.’s semiconductor business and robust PlayStation sales, even as the Japanese electronics giant lowered its annual profit forecast because of a writedown at its movie division. The shares jumped as much as 5.6 percent in early trading in Tokyo on Friday, the biggest intraday gain since Nov. 10. That followed similar gains in European and U.S. trading.

Setting up a network with two routers HG659 and RT-AC66U

What I want to do is set up the RT-AC66U as my wifi network and use the HG659 as a modem to connect the RT to the internet. The reasons for doing this is that I want to connect to a VPN using Openvpn on the RT, which the HG cant do… not to mention how the RT gets much better wifi speeds and range.

dotenv 0.6.3

It is great of managing app settings during development and in production using `12-factor `__ principles. Do one thing, do it well! – `Usages `__ – `Installation `__ – `Command-line interface `__ – `iPython Support `__ – `Setting config on remote servers `__ – `Related Projects `__ – `Contributing `__ – `Changelog `__ Usages ====== Assuming you have created the “.env“ file along-side your settings module.

Evernote vs Apple Notes

Mac Stories has a nice rundown of the new Evernote 8 and how it compares to Apple’s Notes: Mac Stories: Evernote’s features have remained largely the same, but the implementation and organization of those features is greatly improved in version 8. The app doesn’t feel bogged down by extra tools; rather than getting in the way of creating or viewing notes, Evernote’s tools enhance those tasks. I recently tried getting into One Note without much success.

First Take: As GoPro drowns, is it begging for Apple to save it?

After a pretty rotten holiday quarter, action camera maker GoPro Inc. is now staking its hopes for survival on making its cameras work better with phones, positioning itself for a potential bailout from a smartphone maker like Apple Inc. executives outlined five priorities for 2017. One of those priorities was a major embrace of the smartphone, the device that has served as a competitor to its dedicated action cameras, which shoot better video but don’t all have the same ability to quickly share videos or live stream directly to social networks.

Uber CEO quits Trump’s economic advisory council

Uber CEO quits Trump’s economic advisory council Travis Kalanick had faced growing criticism inside and outside Uber after Trump’s immigration ban. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2k5RRvo It all started with accusations that Uber was trying to break a strike, and it ended with people deleting their accounts.