There’s no bouncer out front or PIN pad at the door. All Piglet has to do is stand near the cat flap and voilA , a sensor picks up the radio-frequency identification from a microchip between her shoulder blades to unlock the latch.
Month: February 2017
Revenue hike fuels hope
Guwahati, Feb. 25: Revenue from the Guwahati Biotech Park, the first biotechnology park in the Northeast, has steadily increased over the past two years. Chief executive officer of the park Vinod Seshan disclosed this on the sidelines of the park’s foundation day celebrations at Shilpgram here today.
Revenue hike fuels hope
Guwahati, Feb. 25: Revenue from the Guwahati Biotech Park, the first biotechnology park in the Northeast, has steadily increased over the past two years. Chief executive officer of the park Vinod Seshan disclosed this on the sidelines of the park’s foundation day celebrations at Shilpgram here today.
‘Ring Of Fire’ Eclipse Set To Blaze In Southern Skies
If you’re in the southern hemisphere and you happen to look up Sunday morning – or, for everyone else, if you happen to have Internet access – you may have the chance to see an annular solar eclipse. Unlike a total solar eclipse, this one will leave just a sliver of sunlight shining at the rim of the moon’s shadow as passes between Earth and the sun.
‘Ring Of Fire’ Eclipse Set To Blaze In Southern Skies
If you’re in the southern hemisphere and you happen to look up Sunday morning – or, for everyone else, if you happen to have Internet access – you may have the chance to see an annular solar eclipse. Unlike a total solar eclipse, this one will leave just a sliver of sunlight shining at the rim of the moon’s shadow as passes between Earth and the sun.
SETI Has Already Tried Listening to TRAPPIST-1 for Aliens
The Trappist-1 system has been featured in the news quite a bit lately. In May of 2016 , it appeared in the headlines after researchers announced the discovery of three exoplanets orbiting around the red dwarf star.
Caroline Wyatt: MS ‘brain fog’ lifted after stem cell treatment
BBC journalist Caroline Wyatt has spoken of how the “brain fog began to lift” after she had pioneering treatment for multiple sclerosis . The former BBC defence correspondent was deemed unsuitable for an NHS trial and paid $60,000 for a stem cell transplant in Mexico in January.
Ancora Advisors LLC Has $331,000 Position in Liquidity Services, Inc.
Ancora Advisors LLC continued to hold its stake in shares of Liquidity Services, Inc. during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 34,000 shares of the company’s stock at the end of the fourth quarter.
Ancora Advisors LLC Has $331,000 Position in Liquidity Services, Inc.
Ancora Advisors LLC continued to hold its stake in shares of Liquidity Services, Inc. during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 34,000 shares of the company’s stock at the end of the fourth quarter.
A ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse occurs Sunday morning – here’s how to watch
You’re gonna need a bigger mug of coffee. This Sunday morning, when the moon gets between Earth and the sun, enjoy breakfast with an annular solar eclipse.
Scientists at PNNL design 3D-printable microscope for phones
The 3D-printable microscope is made with plastic and glass materials. According to the scientists who designed them at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, they have a variety of uses, from education to in-the-field science.
Scientists at PNNL design 3D-printable microscope for phones
The 3D-printable microscope is made with plastic and glass materials. According to the scientists who designed them at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, they have a variety of uses, from education to in-the-field science.
John Legend’s ‘hilarious’ Twitter hacker
A number of messages were posted on the 38-year-old star’s micro-blogging page, which took aim at US President Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but John saw the funny side of the now-deleted posts. He took to Instagram to write: “My twitter has been hacked.
Six Flags’ new VR roller coaster is both breathtaking and broken
Imagine screaming through deep space, swerving through the wreckage of exploding starships in a high-octane scene plucked straight out of a science fiction movie. Suddenly the universe stops, frozen in time as your body continues to hurl through the void at high speed.
NASA Weighing Risk Of Adding Crew To Megarocket’s 1st Flight
NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars. The space agency’s human exploration chief said Friday that his boss and the Trump administration asked for the feasibility study.
NASA Weighing Risk Of Adding Crew To Megarocket’s 1st Flight
NASA is weighing the risk of adding astronauts to the first flight of its new megarocket, designed to eventually send crews to Mars. The space agency’s human exploration chief said Friday that his boss and the Trump administration asked for the feasibility study.
Barclays customers left unable to use cards after ‘technical difficulties’
The problem was not down to a cyber attack but because of issues with the bank’s own systems, the company announced on Twitter. We’re still experiencing issues affecting Barclays Debit Card and ATM transactions.
Artist Abraham Poincheval entombs himself in a boulder
An artist entombed inside a 12-tonne rock for nearly three days has described the experience as like ‘tripping’, insisting he would stick it out for a week. Speaking through a crack in the limestone boulder, Abraham Poincheval said he had been buoyed by how his performance has ‘got into people’s heads’.
Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds’ thriller ‘Life’ to close SXSW
Our eNewspaper network was founded in 2002 to provide stand-alone digital news sites tailored for the most searched-for locations for news. With a traditional newspaper format, more than 100 sites were established each with a newspaper-type name to cover the highest-ranked regions, countries, cities and states.
Virtual Reality Calling for Humanity
The solution allows wireless carriers to add support for RCS services such as IR.92/94 from within VR/AR environments. Whereas many VR experiences isolate users from real life, Summit begins by connecting real people through real-time 360A live video streams including support for virtual environments.
BlackBerry KeyOne Phone – First Look
BlackBerry smartphones don’t have the clout they used to, but the truth is, since it ditched BB10 for Android, the company has released some pretty decent handsets. The BlackBerry Priv was a chunky monkey and had a pretty terrible camera, but its productivity software and physical keyboard were great.
BlackBerry KeyOne Phone – First Look
BlackBerry smartphones don’t have the clout they used to, but the truth is, since it ditched BB10 for Android, the company has released some pretty decent handsets. The BlackBerry Priv was a chunky monkey and had a pretty terrible camera, but its productivity software and physical keyboard were great.
This robot teaches humans to be better at table tennis
Human-robot interaction isn’t exactly an everyday occurence at the moment, but this robot is looking to bridge that gap by helping to improve player’s table tennis skills. It’s called FORPHEUS, which, brace yourself, stands for Future Omron Robotics Technology for Exploring Possibility of Harmonized aUtomation with Sinic Theoretics , and has been developed by the Omron Corporation in Japan.
How to set rsync speed limit from eating all bandwidth with -bwlimit option
In this tutorial you will learn how to setup I/O limit using rsync command on Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD and Unix-like systems. rsync –bwlimit=KBPS src dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] src dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] src user@dst rsync –bwlimit=KBPS [options] user@src /path/to/dir rsync –bwlimit=KBPS -a -P /path/to/dir/ user@server1.cyberciti.biz $ rsync –bwlimit=1000 /path/to/source /path/to/dest/ $ rsync –bwlimit=1000 /var/www/html/ \ Use ionice command to set or get the I/O scheduling class and priority for a program such as rsync or your own backup script.
Expect thunderstorms Saturday afternoon
Aleksandr Filippov, a SUNY student from Los Angeles studying nanotechnology in Albany, rollerblades down Elmwood Street on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 in Guilderland, N.Y. Aleksandr Filippov, a SUNY student from Los Angeles studying nanotechnology in Albany, rollerblades down Elmwood Street on Friday, Feb. 24, 2017 in Guilderland, N.Y. ALBANY – Enjoy the blast of unseasonably warm weather while it lasts. Saturday the mercury is expected to rise to 65 degrees, as cloudy skies will yield to rain and thunderstorms as a cold front moves in.
Israel developing terminator bots, minister claims
Likud MK Ayoub Kara attends a meeting at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in Jerusalem on December 30, 2015. Israel is developing terminator robots that will be capable of assassinating terrorist leaders in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, a Likud party minister claimed Saturday.
MWC 2017 BlackBerry live: BlackBerry KeyOne full specs revealed
MWC 2017 BlackBerry Live updates and announcement: The new BlackBerry Mercury smartphone will be revealed with detailed specifications and the final name. Mobile World Congress 2017 or MWC 2017 officially starts on February 27, but pre-announcements will take place this weekend, which is February 25 and February 26. Today Blackberry is hosting its MWC pre-briefing where it is expected to unveil the BlackBerry Mercury smartphone.
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress
The coolest stuff coming from Mobile World Congress We’re in Barcelona with 100,000 mobile industry pros. Here’s the plan.
PROOF: After blacklisting Natural News, Google takes NO such action…
The page you’re viewing now, as well as 140,000+ other pages from Natural News, have all been CENSORED by Google due to a “human decision” to silence this entire website and “memory hole” all its content from the ‘net. Google’s abuse of monopoly power to suppress human knowledge must be stopped.
Apollo 8 redux: Why NASA might send humans to orbit the moon, again
NASA could be sending astronauts around the moon sooner than expected, if President Trump has his way. But some argue the change in plans could be costly.
San Diego Real Estate Agent Jeffrey Oneal Launches New Website
San Diego real estate agent Jeffrey Oneal’s new website DowntownJeffrey.com has been launched. It aims to be a one-stop shop for anyone looking to buy, rent, and sell properties throughout San Diego.
First Year Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computational Biology / Bioinformatics
We are looking for a highly motivated first-year postdoctoral fellow interested in developing computational methods related to expression quantitative trait, alternative splicing, transcriptome-wide association studies and chromatin structures in normal and glioma cells. The post-doc will be jointly supervised by Drs.
Assistant Professor Faculty Position In Mechanical and Aerospace…
The University of California at Davis has a tenure-track position available in the area of Prosthetics. The appointment is at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering.
John Legend’s Twitter hacker shares ‘vulgar, hilarious’ messages
John Legend may have been hacked – but he found it pretty funny.
A Pilot’s Heroic Journey: Jonny Nicol, CEO of Stratajet
Jonny Nicol: Six months earlier, there were 16 people. I actually let people go before we ran out of money, which was painful.
Possible Reasons My Credit Card Was Declined at the Apple Store
I didn’t want to shop on an empty stomach, so I spent five thousand dollars at Whole Foods on a crouton to snack on beforehand. That “chip” is actually a microphone and the credit-card company correctly determined that I don’t deserve nice things after hearing me mistakenly say “Steve Bananon” on multiple occasions.
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We are just a few hours away for BlackBerry’s big launch, the BlackBerry Mercury aka DTEK70. The smartphone will be launched at an event in Barcelona scheduled at 11.30PM IST.
Lockheed Martin’s X-plane Design Gets NASA Wind Tunnel Test [video]
During the next eight weeks, engineers will expose the model to wind speeds ranging from Mach 0.3 to Mach 1.6 to understand the aerodynamics of the X-plane design as well as aspects of the propulsion system. NASA expects the QueSST X-plane to pave the way for supersonic flight over land in the not too distant future.
San Jose Flood Photos: Dramatic images of this weeka s disaster
Emergency crews pump water from flooded streets at South Bay Mobile Park Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in San Jose, Calif. Emergency crews pump water from flooded streets at South Bay Mobile Park Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, in San Jose, Calif.
20 years after Dolly the sheep, potential of cloning remains unclear
JULY 05: Sophie Goggins from the National Museums Scotland views Dolly the Sheep during the opening of a major new development at the National Museum of Scotland on July 5, 2016 in Edinburgh,Scotland. On February 22, 1997, the world learned about a secret project that scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland had been working on.