Rehearsals will begin Thursday for Sunday’s broadcast. “Viewers will absolutely notice the FOX quality,” explained Kevin Callahan, vice president of field operations for FOX Sports.
Month: February 2017
SkyMuster not a suitable rural alternative to landlines
Better Internet for Rural Regional and Remote Australia founder, Kristy Sparrow, has spoken out against any move for telephone services to be delivered to remote users via Voice over Internet Protocols on the SkyMuster satellite service. Last week Kalgoorlie in Western Australia had rain.
This HTC Vive and HoloLens hack combines VR and AR for true ‘mixed reality’
Yes, I’m tired of hearing about the “mixed reality” as “the next big thing,” too. Virtual reality and augmented reality are still just becoming fully baked experiences.
Judge in guards’ murder trial to rule on text messages
Prosecutors in the upcoming trial of three jail guards charged with fatally beating mentally ill inmate Michael Tyree and assaulting another inmate want to introduce text messages that they claim show the guards were motivated by their general contempt of prisoners, and the pleasure they took in seeing them suffer. “This motive is illustrated in the texts found on their phones wherein they express humor and enjoyment at pain or discomfort experienced by the inmates, regardless of who inflicts it,” Braker wrote.
Tasty food trend: Macaron ice cream sandwiches
Never been a huge fan of macarons. Typically, they’re just too sweet, too dry or too meringue-y for me.
Concord: Multi-car crash spurs I-680 traffic alert
A traffic collision involving five vehicles forced the California Highway Patrol to issue a Sig-alert and close multiple lanes of Interstate 680 Wednesday afternoon, authorities said. The crash was reported just before 2 p.m., and officers responded to southbound I-680 lanes near the Concord Boulevard off-ramp, CHP Officer Ron Simmons said.
Symantec CEO Predicts Upcoming Shakeout In Endpoint Security Market
The opportunity around endpoint security has yielded an incredibly crowded market. However, Symantec CEO Greg Clark predicted that a major shakeout of legacy and startup players alike is on the horizon.
Facebook’s Oculus ordered pay USD500 mn in suit on stolen tech9 min ago
A US jury has ordered Facebook and creators of its Oculus Rift to pay USD 500 million to gaming software firm ZeniMax in a lawsuit that claimed the virtual reality technology was stolen. The Texas jury made the award yesterday in a trial in which Oculus was accused of basing its Rift headset on technology stolen from ZeniMax’s virtual reality software, court documents showed.
The GNOME Foundation gets a new director
The GNOME Foundation’s long search for a new executive director has finally come to an end: Neil McGovern has taken the job. ” McGovern is an experienced leader in Free Software projects and is best known for his role as Debian Project Leader from 2014-15.
Sprint attacks Verizon in morbid Super Bowl ad – CNET
Commentary: A dad fakes his own death to get out of his Verizon contract. This is your Super Bowl fun from Sprint.
No Need to Worry about Oculus VR Rift Headset
And virtual reality is way too important to Facebook to get its undies in a bunch about whatever. Here are all the complex details from TechCrunch.
Six Canadian stocks with growth potential for your RRSP
With inflation picking up at the end of 2016, Mr. Castelli says the market will favour cyclical stocks such as commodity-oriented equities rather than defensive stocks such as consumer staples. Here are his picks.
Twins mix humor, sadness in tale of Shoah survival
Flashing to a 1939 photograph of themselves and their sister, Anna, as young children in Belgium, Henry joked that “the good looking one is me. We were once very cute.”
In vivo and in vitro stem cell function of c-kit- and Sca-1-positive murine hematopoietic cells.
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. c-kit is expressed on hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells, but not on lymphohematopoietic differentiated cells.
Microsoft’s developer strategy: C# for fancy features, Visual Basic for beginners
Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft’s pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings. Although they look very different-one uses C-style braces, brackets, and lots of symbols, whereas the other looks a great deal more like English-their features have, for the most part, been very similar.
Trump is only finishing what Hollywood and the media started
For a brief moment, it was almost as if they were people. They were scientists working on new treatments for HIV/AIDS or whose research had helped contain the spread of that Ebola outbreak a few years ago.
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Braving the choppy waters of the South Atlantic four days a week, fisherman David Shoshola says a mobile phone app is helping him worry less about the risk of not being able to support his family. The 50-year-old and three colleagues fish from two small, open-deck boats based in the seaside town of Lambert’s Bay, on South Africa’s windswept west coast.
Gravitas Picks Up ‘One Under The Sun’; Area 23A To ‘Dig Two Graves’
Gravitas Ventures has secured the worldwide rights to the sci-fi drama One Under the Sun , which will premiere February 25 in Los Angeles followed by a theatrical and digital release March 21. Directed by Vincent Tran and Riyaana Hartley, the pic stars Bollywood actress and former Miss India Pooja Batra as Kathryn Voss, an astronaut and Mars mission commander who is the only survivor of a space accident and emerges with no memory of the event and with an extraordinary gift. Longing to return her husband and terminally ill daughter, Voss instead is sequestered in a secret government facility, forcing her to become a fugitive from a government that fears her gift.
SpaceX Launches Return To Florida Following September Explosion
SpaceX is reportedly resuming launches from Florida’s Space Coast some five months after an explosion at its Cape Canaveral launch pad. The Orlando Business Journal reports that a SpaceX mission to deliver supplies to the International Space Station is scheduled for Feb. 15, with another launch slated for this month to deliver the EchoStar 23 communications satellite to orbit.
Make Friends with iPal at Silicon Valley Airport’s New Robot Playground
In true Silicon Valley fashion, Mineta San Jose International Airport is giving travelers a modern way to enjoy the wait at the boarding gate with the debut of the new iPal Playground, the first interactive play space featuring the iPal humanoid social robot. The only installation of its kind in the U.S., the iPal Playground features AvatarMind’s new iPal social companion robots to play with, entertain and even educate travelers?adults and children alike?passing through SJC.
18,925 Shares in Perceptron, Inc. (PRCP) Acquired by Trent Capital Management Inc. NC
Trent Capital Management Inc. NC bought a new position in Perceptron, Inc. during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The institutional investor bought 18,925 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $126,000.
Whoosh! Swish! Meet Bat Bot, the new flying batlike drone
This photo provided by Alireza Ramezani, University of Illinois, shows a Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot that they say can be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this new robot prototype can do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites and scoping out construction zones than those bulky drones with spinning rotors, said the three authors of a study released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in the journal Science Robotics.
The Bot That Flies Like a Bat
Imagine a drone that could bounce off a building instead of crashing into it, or move safely and seamlessly among workers at a skyscraper under construction. While most drones cause damage when they collide with objects or people, a new flying robot promises safer flights by mimicking bat behavior.
HEALTH: How Samsung is leveraging VR to manage pain. Together, …
Together, Samsung and AppliedVR are working with a group of hospitals to validate the technology for children and adults. In one randomized controlled trial, the two have collaborated with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to evaluate the clinical utility of VR for inpatient pain management and its effect on narcotic use, length of stay, and patient satisfaction.
Weekly Investment Analysts’ Ratings Changes for Michael Kors Holdings Limited
1/30/2017 – Michael Kors Holdings Limited was downgraded by analysts at Zacks Investment Research from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating. According to Zacks, “Michael Kors has been constantly deploying resources to expand its product offerings, open new stores, build shop-in-shops, and upgrade E-commerce platform.
Liberty to buy CAER building in Bedford County
Liberty University will be the new owner of the Center for Advanced Engineering and Research building in Bedford County, after the $4.3 million sale was approved Tuesday by the Virginia Tobacco Revitalization Commission Tuesday at a meeting in Richmond.
‘Platypus of microbiology’ bacterium pushes boundaries of evolution
A bacterium dubbed the “platypus of microbiology” is even stranger than first thought, with the discovery it contains structures normally only found in more complex cells. The find, by an international team led by University of Queensland researcher Emeritus Professor John Fuerst, adds to the debate about how complex cells evolved, and casts doubt on long-held theories of evolution.
BookArc updated to support the latest MacBook Pros
Twelve South has released a new model of its BookArc – which allows you to run your setup from the power of your Mac laptop while in closed clamshell mode – that supports the 2016 MacBook Pros. To use you slide your MacBook Pro into the silicone slot, connect it to an external display, add a full-size keyboard and mouse to enjoy the comfort of a desktop setup.
Bat-inspired robot swoops and dives like the real thing
It swoops, flaps and dives just like the animals it was designed to mimic. Inspired by the flexibility and agility of bats and their wings, a team of engineers has come up with an autonomous flying robot with the same skills – one that could ultimately be used to survey building sites from the air.
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Gartner Positions CrowdStrike as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms
CrowdStrike has demonstrated a proven ability to replace legacy antivirus solutions and protect against known and unknown threats without the use of signatures. As a result, the platform provides more complete protection while allowing organizations to control their security spending and reduce overhead.
Badass Librarian Tracks Down ‘Hackers,’ Clears Student’s Name
On Tuesday, a New York-based school librarian named Jennifer Iacopelli put on her detective cap after a crying student approached her for help. According to a series of increasingly Sherlock-esque tweets, she is apparently a master of both the Dewey Decimal System and sleuthing.
Trudeau abandons promise to change voting system in time for 2019 election
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a town hall meeting at Alumni Hall, Western University on Friday, Jan. 13, 2017, in London, Ontario. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley In a mandate letter for newly appointed Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, Trudeau makes it clear that electoral reform _ once top of mind for the Liberal government _ is no longer on the agenda.
Apple’s Earnings Highlight Strengths And Weaknesses
In the December quarter, Apple achieved record revenue of $78.4 billion and record sales of iPhone at 78.3 million. Repatriation of a substantial portion of Apple’s $230 billion in overseas cash should propel Apple’s growth through new product development and M&A.
Global Home Automation Market Will Reach Around USD 21.0 Billion by 2020
Zion Research has published a new report titled “Home Automation and Managed) Market by Networking Technology for Lighting, Safety and security, HVAC, Entertainment and Other Applications – Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, and Forecast, 2014 – 2020”. According to the report, global home automation market was valued at around USD 5.0 billion in 2014 and is expected to reach USD 21.0 billion in 2020, growing at a CAGR of around 25% between 2015 and 2020.
Your Stocks Are Really Resilient – Until They Aren’t
A couple of weeks ago, I recounted a conversation I had with a friend who works at a little nondescript cafe overlooking the beach. The place has been there a long time.
Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging
Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.
Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging
Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.
Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging
Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.
Queen Elizabeth Prize Awarded to Inventors Who Revolutionized Digital Imaging
Winners of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering announced in London today, Michael Tompsett Nobukazu Teranishi and Eric Fossum . Along with George Smith they will share the A 1million prize for combined contribution to digital imaging have been honored with the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Prize, a British award that celebrates world-changing innovations in engineering that have been of global benefit to humanity.