Day: March 1, 2017

Hope for the Mac Pro?

Over the past year, there have been many concerns about the future of the Mac. Even though Apple earns loads of money from its personal computing platform, it’s a fraction of what the iPhone produces.

AVALON: Boeing’s Australian innovations see light of day

Collaborative robotics, virtual reality and aircraft cabin disease transmission prevention are among the latest projects under way at Boeing Research and Technology-Australia – the manufacturer’s largest research organisation outside of the United States. Boeing’s Australian research organisation – based in Melbourne and Brisbane – has been at the forefront of numerous pioneering developments that have been rolled out by the aerospace giant.

Obamas sign book deal with Penguin Random House

DUBAI, 1st March, 2017 – UK and GCC scientists will be working together on eight cutting edge research projects across the six Gulf countries thanks to US$3.4 million in UK government funding allocated to research projects in areas ranging from nanotechnology to cyber-security.

Amazon web service outage affects thousands of US companies

Thousands of US websites and applications have been affected by a failure of Amazon’s cloud-computing service known as AWS , that has been impacted by “increased error rates.” Amazon Web Services identified and is repairing a problem in its web storage system that experienced a blackout affecting numerous US entities, the company said via Twitter.

TechTarget Research Reports All Flash Array and HyperConverged…

Purchase intent-driven marketing and sales services company TechTarget, Inc. today announced the availability of its Q4 Post Purchase Data Reports for 20 Information Technology market segments. Of note, the All Flash Array and HyperConverged Infrastructure markets have experienced strong growth in volume of transactions over the past several quarters , demonstrating a growing demand for these technologies amongst Global 2000 and mid-size enterprises.

Homeless man hit by car to receive military funeral

This Nov. 20, 2016 photo taken by James Cool shows his brother, Raymond John Cool, 60. It’s the spot in a parking lot in Riverside, Calif., where Cool lived and where authorities say he was intentionally struck and killed by the driver of a car on Feb. 3, 2017. Cool, who was homeless, was a Navy veteran who will be buried with military honors on March 13 at Riverside National Cemetery.

Qorvo Powers Multiple Smartphones with Full Suite of RF Fusion Solutions

Qorvo , a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced that multiple leading and emerging smartphone manufacturers have selected complete reference platforms of the Companys RF Fusion split-band solutions to support the launch of performance-tier smartphones. Qorvos RF Fusion RF front end solutions integrate the Companys premium filters, high-throw count switches and multimode, multi-band power amplifiers to deliver full coverage of high, mid and low cellular frequency bands.

Qorvo Delivers Highly Integrated Solution for Pre-5G Massive MIMO Networks

Qorvo , a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced two highly-integrated dual channel switch-LNA modules for base station implementations of massive multiple-input/multiple-output . When combined with Qorvos GaN-based integrated driver and power amplifier module, the dual channel switch-LNA modules provide a complete, highly integrated solution for wireless infrastructure manufacturers seeking to quickly and cost-effectively implement pre-5G massive MIMO networks.

White dune

It supports animation, realtime interaction and multimedia . Dune reads VRML97/X3D files, displays, and let the user change scenegraphs/fields.

World’s oldest fossils unearthed

Remains of microorganisms at least 3,770 million years old have been discovered by an international team led by UCL scientists, providing direct evidence of one of the oldest life forms on Earth. Tiny filaments and tubes formed by bacteria that lived on iron were found encased in quartz layers in the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt , Quebec, Canada.