Day: March 6, 2017

New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have-in just two years-nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable generation of solar fuels that could replace coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.

Privacy Commissioner closes Westnet breach investigation

Ends investigation related to 2015 claims by a hacker that they had obtained a customer database of the iiNet subsidiary The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has finalised its investigation into an allegations of a data breach in 2015 that involved iiNet subsidiary Westnet. A hacker claimed in June 2015 that they had obtained a Westnet customer database that included personal details of the ISP’s customers, including usernames, addresses, phone numbers and, in some cases, password data.

IBM, Salesforce Agree to Partner on Artificial Intelligence

International Business Machines Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to mingle their artificial-intelligence technologies in a bid to boost sales of data-analytics offerings. The companies Monday announced plans to offer integrated AI services that weave the broad human-like conversation and learning capabilities of IBM’s Watson with Salesforce’s more sales-oriented Einstein technology.

Rapt by Strangely Lit and Shadowed Paintings

Jordan Kasey’s painted figures, lit with mysterious, colored light, have the monumentality of Picasso’s Neo-classical period and are as ponderous as whales gliding through the ocean. Jordan Kasey, “Practicing Piano” , oil on canvas, 60 x 60 inches The celestial body of Jordan Kasey ‘s exhibition, Exoplanet , refers to a planet that exists outside our solar system.

Cell broadcast alerting on track for late 2017

Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says the implementation of a new nationwide channel for sending alerts about emergencies to mobile phones is on track to be up and running by the end of the year. Cell broadcast alerting is a new way of sending information to mobile phones in a set area without people needing to download an app or subscribe to a service.

Immersive Education: AR Comes of Age

Despite all the headlines and conference coverage of virtual reality and augmented reality for education over the last year, the technology is still gaining speed – residing at that sweet spot in the hype cycle where, when you place headsets on people and gently guide them to turn around to gain a full view, they tend to gasp and say, “Oh, wow.” So imagine how your students would respond if, in that next geography lesson, instead of handing them a flat map of Peru, you pass out pre-loaded smartphones to each table along with a $15 Google Cardboard and ask them to pull up a walking tour that places them in Machu Picchu.

Immersive Education: AR Comes of Age

Despite all the headlines and conference coverage of virtual reality and augmented reality for education over the last year, the technology is still gaining speed – residing at that sweet spot in the hype cycle where, when you place headsets on people and gently guide them to turn around to gain a full view, they tend to gasp and say, “Oh, wow.” So imagine how your students would respond if, in that next geography lesson, instead of handing them a flat map of Peru, you pass out pre-loaded smartphones to each table along with a $15 Google Cardboard and ask them to pull up a walking tour that places them in Machu Picchu.

The latest in Oracle Partitioning – Part 1: Read Only Partitions

Now that Oracle Database 12c Release 2 is available on-premise for Linux x86-64, Solaris Sparc64, and Solaris x86-64 and on the Oracle Cloud for everybody else – the product we had the pleasure to develop and to play with for quite some time now – it’s also time to introduce some of the new functionality in more detail to the broader audience. This blog post will be the first of hopefully many over the course of the next months to specifically highlight individual features of Oracle Partitioning and why we actually implemented it.

Paul Kruse Retires From Blue Bell Creameries

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, Reston, Va., has formed an industry council focused on advancing High Pressure Processing as a critical technology in the food & beverage industry. Convened by PMMI, the HPP Council will address questions about the technology while developing and formalizing industry best practices.

FOIA Uncovers Part of U.K. Shadow Regulation on Search Engines and Copyright

Last month we wrote about the adoption of a new secret agreement between copyright holders and the major search engines, brokered by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office, aimed at making websites associated with copyright infringement less visible in search results. Since the agreement wasn’t publicly available, we simultaneously issued a request under the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act , asking for a copy of the text.

Trends in Enterprise #DevOps | @DevOpsSummit #AI #APM #SDN #Monitoring

This is the burning question these days for the great minds of the enterprise regardless of industry! The digital revolution changes the way we do business and enables a world of new possibilities. But it also places unprecedented demands on businesses, on IT departmentsa and on legacy environments that were never designed to meet these challenges.

Toyota’s New Autonomous Car Actually Looks Just Fine

The Toyota Research Institute unveiled its first self-driving car last week, and it has a full slate of autonomous capabilities. While it’s only the initial offering from TRI, one thing stands out: It doesn’t look too bad! Toyota said that the car’s autonomous rig has a robust system of LiDAR, radar and camera sensors, which the automaker explains will “reduce the need to depend too heavily on high-definition maps.”

Investel Unveils Technology and Patent Application Filed October 31,…

“We welcome last week’s CRTC decision 2017-56 which now provides guidance on the use of wireless network extension technology and methods through private networks versus the use of public networks i 1 2 in conjunction with the incidental use of the wholesale roaming services,” commented Lawry Trevor-Deutsch Managing Partner at Investel. “The decision is a major milestone in the development of the Canadian wireless market and iPCS was developed several years ago on this very premise.”

#MWC17: We took over Barcelona’s L’Aquarium for a celebration of GREAT British talent

Overlooking the beautiful Puerto de Barcelona with its exotic yachts from countries near and far, we gathered on February 27th after a day exploring at Mobile World Congress in celebration of British home-grown innovation. Overseen by L’Aquarium’s resident stingrays, penguins and other gigantic amphibians, the event placed some of the UK’s best and brightest innovative talent in the spotlight, nurturing the conversation on the ways in which British talent is disrupting the world around us.

In the eternal battle of Windows versus Mac, the tide is…

For decades, Microsoft Windows users were locked in an seemingly eternal debate with fans of Apple’s Macs over who had the superior platform – a conflict spurred by the very public rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Around the mid-aughts, things eventually settled out into kind of a stable duopoly, as Apple found its niche as the makers of premium hardware for the culture-conscious, and Windows PCs earned a rep as the computer of the mainstream, especially for gamers and office workers.

Scientist tweak seat cushion material to clean up oil spills

In this December 2016 photo provided by the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne researchers wring out an “Oleo Sponge” pad to extract adsorbed crude oil obtained during tests at a seawater tank facility in Leonardo, N.J. Both the oil and the pad can be reused after this process. In this December 2016 photo provided by the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne researchers wring out an “Oleo Sponge” pad to extract adsorbed crude oil obtained during tests at a seawater tank facility in Leonardo, N.J. Both the oil and the pad can be reused after this process.

Re: Memory Info

TonyTib, When a friend’s office was closing, I as able to get a laptop that was just sitting around. It had not been used for a couple of years.

Here’s Why Your Facebook Live Video Sucks

The Facebook Live feature is arguably one of the most game-changing features the social media giant has ever rolled out. It’s another platform for celebrities and pundits to engage more intimately with followers and allows average citizens to document their lives and all they witness to a tremendous audience.

SWPA BotsIQ Robot Competition

Location: Butler County Community College – Butler, PA Time: 10:15AM-4:00PM Southwestern Pennsylvania BotsIQ, a gladiator-style robot competition, kicks off the 12th annual regional competition with preliminary rounds on Thursday, March 9, at Butler County Community College. Competition culminates with finals at California University of Pennsylvania’s Convocation Center on Friday and Saturday, April 28-29.

Study: Poachers are trying to hack animal trackers, intercept signals

Poachers are turning to hacking and “cyber poaching” to stay one step ahead of animal conservationists, according to a new study. The paper , co-published by researchers from several universities in Conservation Biology, claims that poachers are intercepting GPS signals sent from trackers that have been placed on protected animals.