Apollo Fire Detectors has launched a new, enhanced website with state-of-the-art photography and design to visualise the latest in Apollo fire detection technology. The website highlights applications where Apollo products are installed and showcases new case studies.
Month: February 2017
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon says Russia ‘weaponising misinformation’ to destabilise west
Russia is “weaponising misinformation” in a sustained campaign of destabilisation against the West, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has warned. In a hard-hitting speech, Sir Michael accused Moscow of using cyber weaponry to “disrupt critical infrastructure and disable democratic machinery” in a series of attacks on western countries.
AT&T to launch its proposed version of 5G wireless this year
AT&T will launch its first 5G wireless service in Indianapolis and Austin later this year, offering theoretical top speeds of 400Mbps or higher, the company said. The service is based on AT&T’s vision for 5G; there are no standards yet for the successor to today’s 4G LTE service, and any 5G standards are more than a year away at best.
Super Bowl serves at peacemaker between Uber and Houston
Up until a couple of months ago, it was unclear if the popular ride-hailing service would be helping shuttle many of the more than 1 million people expected to take part in Super Bowl-related activities in the host city. Uber had threatened to leave Houston ahead of the festivities, insisting various city regulations, including fingerprint background checks of drivers, were too burdensome and prevented drivers from working.
Press release distribution, EDGAR filing, XBRL, regulatory filings
Having received a record nu… The Ensemble Fund Ranked First Percentile in Morningstar US Large Growth Category out of 1,468 Funds, Based on Total Returns for 2016 )–The Ensemble Fund announced today the net of fees results for their first full calendar year of performance was 12.96%1.
From Tesla to Pfizer: 14 major US companies founded by immigrants
America is known as the land of opportunity for a reason. The idea that people can come here to make their ideas a reality is firmly entrenched in our national ethos.
$700 million startup Wealthfront is doubling down on robots…
That’s the mantra that Wealthfront, the five-year-old online financial advisory service is touting in the increasingly crowded market for finance apps. $700 million Wealthfront is the only “robo-advisor” pioneer that is still totally human-free, and it’s doubling down by releasing an automated financial planning feature, called “Path,” which helps you understand when you’ll be able to retire, and how your current spending and saving impacts that.
Oil Industry’s Struggles Start to Ease as Shell Reduces Debt
The oil industry’s struggle through the worst slump in a generation showed signs of easing, with Royal Dutch Shell Plc managing to reduce its record debt for the first time since the downturn began. Rising oil prices and billions in cost cuts allowed Europe’s largest energy company and fellow giant Exxon Mobil Corp. to generate enough cash to pay dividends without borrowing last quarter, while Chevron Corp. will do so this year.
Global Stem Cell Therapy Market to Showcase a CAGR of 37% Through 2021: Technavio
The research study covers the present scenario and growth prospects of the global stem cell therapy market for 2017-2021. To determine the market size, the study considers revenue generated from allogenic and autogenic stem cell therapies.
Astronaut Twins Give Clues to Health Hazards of Spaceflight
Long-term space flight appears to trigger a number of genetic and biological changes in astronauts, according to preliminary results from a NASA study. Researchers compared astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned home last March after nearly a year aboard the International Space Station, and his identical twin Mark, a retired astronaut.
What kids at this North Jersey school made is going to space
Juniors at the Passaic County Technical Institute built screws for the storage locker as part of its partnership with NASA. The “HUNCH” program partners with schools throughout the country to allow students to construct and design hardware for space, according to the report.
Jury issues $500M verdict in Facebook virtual reality lawsuit
A U.S. jury in Texas on Wednesday ordered Facebook Inc., its virtual reality unit Oculus, and other defendants to pay a combined $500 million to ZeniMax Media Inc., a video game publisher that says Oculus stole its technology. The jury in federal court in Dallas found Oculus, which Facebook acquired for about $2 billion in 2014, used ZeniMax’s computer code to launch the Rift virtual-reality headset.
What do Martian meteorites tell us about volcanism on the Red Planet?
A rock that fits in the palm of a scientist’s hand and weighs less than a pound is helping paint a picture of the history of volcanism on Mars. That’s because the little igneous rock broke off the Red Planet when something slammed into the Martian surface about 1.1 million years ago.
Human-pig hybrids might be unsettling. But they could save lives.
Scientists inject human stem cells into a pig blastocyst. A laser beam was used to perforate an opening to the outer membrane of the pig blastocyst to allow easy access of an injection needle delivering human iPS cells.
BT readies a global dynamic WAN
Global WAN powerhouse BT is out to turn its sprawling network into dynamic beast that can accommodate today’s rapidly evolving needs. Network World Editor in Chief John Dix talked about the plans with Keith Langridge, Vice President of Network Services at BT Global Services, and Sunil Khandekar, Founder and CEO of Nuage Networks from Nokia, a critical new supplier that will enable some of the change.
IDG Contributor Network: Beware of the legacy public cloud
Legacy is a scary and bad word in the computing industry. Most enterprises have “legacy” technologies, and all who do wish that they did not.
We asked 17 creative kids to invent something on paper. You’ll love the results
Our kids never cease to amaze us. Those minds are just so fluid and open, they’re always coming up with brilliant ideas and creative inventions that our cynical adult brains would probably nix before the ideas got halfway off the ground.
Prufrock: The Originality of Pascal, Hemingway’s Letters, and a Discovered Lost Continent
Phillip Lopate on Hemingway’s letters : “The publication of Ernest Hemingway’s complete correspondence is shaping up to be an astonishing scholarly achievement. We are already on the third of a projected seventeen volumes, minimum, which will include in their entirety every surviving letter, postcard and telegram sent by Hemingway.
Trump Twitter Bursts Throw Decades-Old Alliances Into Disarray
“When you hear about the tough phone calls I have, don’t worry about it,” Trump said to an audience of religious and political leaders at the National Prayer Breakfast, a yearly event in Washington. “The world is in trouble — but we’re going to straighten it out, ok? That’s what I do.”
Apple just released its first AirPods firmware update – here’s how to install it
Apple’s new AirPods are by far the most talked about headphones that have been released in recent years. Following their unveiling last September, there was a bit of controversy surrounding Apple’s peculiar AirPods design.
Carney Braces for Brexit Twists as Inflation Unease Grows
Mark Carney warned that surprises could still be ahead as the U.K. starts the formal process of leaving the European Union, and the Bank of England is ready to respond accordingly. “The Brexit journey is really just beginning; while the direction of travel is clear, there will be twists and turns along the way,” the BOE governor told a press conference in London on Thursday.
America’s Top Prosecutor Defied Trump and Got Fired. Now She Gets Paid
A few days before the end of her tenure, Sally Yates, the acting U.S. attorney general, was fired by President Donald Trump for refusing to defend the Republican’s executive order blocking refugees, deeming it unlawful. In some industries, such a high profile swan song would turn anyone into a toxic commodity.
What marketers need to know about Pinterest’s new search ads
Your team is not like any other. You’re addressing specific challenges and opportunities with a particular skill set.
IBM Watson wants to do your tax returns
If anyone can make sense of the over 74,000 pages of the US tax code, IBM’s Watson can. Or at least that’s the plan as Big Blue has teamed up its Watson cognitive supercomputer with the tax return specialists at H&R Block to help customers with tax filing options.
Credit Union Desert Schools Puts Voice of Customer in the Forefront;…
Desert Schools Federal Credit Union, a federally insured and chartered credit union based in Phoenix, Arizona, eyes up Customer Experience as a key differentiator. While the Credit Union has been using Email Surveys to collect feedback from its members and employees, both feedback collection and analysis used to be done manually.
A digital deluge: As music streaming options keep multiplying, the…
This winter, hip-hop frontiersman Chance the Rapper made music history when he earned seven Grammy nominations for a release that is not available for purchase. The Chicago artist issued his “Coloring Book” as a stream.
Apple Shortcuts Cut Off for Bar Exams
Hey, want a shortcut to use on the bar exam? Of course, not! That would be cheating, wouldn’t it? If you are having this dialogue with yourself, don’t worry. It’s not the end of the world to think about a better way to take the bar exam.
This NASA Expert Made ‘The Space Between Us’ a Realistic Mars Movie
A pregnant astronaut goes to live on Mars with five other space explorers. She dies in childbirth soon after arriving, and the baby is raised on the Red Planet.
Meet The First African-American Woman to Live at The Space Station
May 2018 will be a historic month for Jeanette Epps as she will become the first African American female Astronaut to work as a crew member on the International Space Station and call it home for six months. Epps will be the fourteenth African-American in space and the the fourth African-American women in space.
99MediaLab Launches a Comprehensive eBook of 14 SEO Tactics for Plumbers
The book details 14 strategies to get plumbing companies ranking high on Google’s search engine results. Search lead generation boasts a near 15 percent close rate.
anca added to PyPI
Anharmonic.net provides tools to measure anharmonicity in the form of higher-order statistics and its variation as a function of time, build a story board representation of the simulations to identify key anharmonic conformational events, and identify putative anharmonic conformational substates and visualization of transitions between these substates. ###Dependencies and Installation notes Anharmonic.net has been developed using Python 2.7. It depends on a few Python packages, including: * numpy, scipy stack * MDAnalysis * mdtraj A standard Python distribution such as Anaconda should ease the installation process, since one can use the conda package manager to install all these pre-requisite packages.
Facebooka s Oculus VR unit loses $500 million lawsuit
Facebook’s virtual-reality subsidiary and two of its founders are facing a sobering reality after a jury hit them with a $500 million bill for violating the intellectual property rights of video-game maker ZeniMax Media. The verdict reached Wednesday in a Dallas federal court represents about one-fourth of the $2 billion that Facebook paid two years ago to buy Oculus, a developer of virtual-reality gear and software.
WordPress silently fixes dangerous code injection vulnerability
Developers of the widely used WordPress content management system released an update last week, but intentionally delayed announcing that the patch addressed a severe vulnerability. WordPress version 4.7.2 was released on January 26 as a security update, but the accompanying release notes only mentioned fixes for three moderate risk vulnerabilities, one of which did not even affect the platform’s core code.
VMware further extends SDN software to work in non-VMware environments
VMware today introduced two new versions of its flagship virtual networking software. One named NSX for vSphere 6.3 has deep integrations with other VMware products and the other, named NSX-T 1.1, is for use in cloud-native environments that may not be controlled by VMware management tools.
10 Proven Must-Have Things for Business Travelers
Being a business traveler to over 20 countries, I have a “things to bring” list that I keep on my phone whenever I’m heading out to a foreign land. It’s a pretty extensive list that helps me to remember what I need to pack in my luggage before leaving for the airport.
Global Application Delivery Network (Adn) Market is Forecasted to…
Global Application Delivery Network market is projected to expand at a CAGR of 13.28% over the forecast period to reach US$7.633 billion by 2021, PUNE, INDIA, February 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Global Application Delivery Network market is projected to expand at a CAGR of 13.28% over the forecast period to reach US$7.633 billion by 2021, increasing from US$4.092 billion in 2016. Application Delivery Network is an advanced traffic management system which provides visibility, availability, security and application acceleration.
Aldec delivers DO-254 Compliant Templates and Checklists with the latest release of Spec-TRACER
Henderson, NV – February 1st, 2017 – Aldec, Inc., announced today the latest release of its requirements lifecycle management solutions for FPGAs/SoCs, Spec-TRACER™ 2016.12 . This release provides industry-proven certification document templates and review checklists for the development of FPGAs in DO-254 programs.
Telit adds Wi-Fi and low-power solutions for IoT with acquisition of…
February 01, 2017 — Telit, a global enabler of the Internet of Things , today announced that it has agreed to acquire Silicon Valley-based GainSpan Corporation . GainSpan is a wireless connectivity solution provider that specializes in the design and development of ultra-low power Wi-Fi technology.
collective.themefragments 2.3.1
Diazo Rules may operate on content that is fetched from somewhere other than the current page being rendered by Plone, by using the href attribute to specify a path of a resource relative to the root of the Plone site: , and can reference any URL, for example to an existing browser view configured for your site. However, it is often desirable to generate some dynamic content specifically for the purpose of constructing a particular theme.
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) Stock Rating Reaffirmed by Mizuho
‘s stock had its “buy” rating reaffirmed by analysts at Mizuho in a research note issued to investors on Tuesday. They currently have a $920.00 target price on the e-commerce giant’s stock.