March 6, 2017 – PRLog — DEI Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Tom Miller, is pleased to announce Chuck Kenney as the company’s newly created position of 12 Volt Sales Manager. A 30 year veteran of the electronics industry, he is responsible for overseeing sales, distribution and profits for Boom Mat, DEI’s acoustic brand.
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GE Launches Global Powering Efficiency C …
GE today announced its new global Powering Efficiency Center of Excellence , which brings together cross-business experts in its energy businesses to apply a total plant hardware and software solution approach to boost the efficiency of the world’s new and existing coal-fired power plants and significantly reduce their emissions. The global COE, headquartered in Baden, will create integrated solutions as well as provide vision and oversight around the world.
GS1 Connect Conference 2017
The GS1 Connect conference is where supply chain partners come together to learn how GS1 Standards are helping them meet today’s business challenges and unlock tomorrow’s opportunities. Over this three-day event, attendees will discuss industry best practices, collaborate to improve business processes, and strengthen their professional networks to drive innovation and growth.
Freedom Benefits Everyone, Even Those Who Don’t Have It
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Job Creation Requires More Than Just “Pro-Growth” Policies Like Tax…
The talk of Washington and Wall Street may be “pro-growth” policies aimed at job creation. But government policy is not the real driver of job growth.
Power, Unlimited Power! Lithium-Ion Pioneer Introduces New Battery…
Goodenough and his team also say the new battery, which replaces a liquid electrolyte with glass, would charge quickly, never explode, and perform well at low temperatures that cripple today’s batteries. The battery is still in the early stages of development, with a recent paper describing it published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.
Dais Analytic Accelerating NanoClear Water Treatment Shipments
These initial units are being shipped worldwide to companies evaluating NanoClear’s ability to purify contaminated water having high salt content, low pH, or where the need for extremely low Total Dissolved Solid “TDS” in the treated water is mandatory. “In addition to the NanoClear units shipped by Dais,” said Tim Tangredi, Chief Executive Officer at Dais, “Dais is bidding on substantially scaled up international projects where the Dais team believes the NanoClear technology is the best solution to a client’s need.
Verizon’s Unlimited Data Offer Puts Its Reputation for Reliability at Risk
“An unlimited offer is dangerous,” said Roger Entner, an analyst at Recon Analytics LLC. “If they sign up a lot of people, it will congest the network, and they run the risk of people saying ‘the network sucks’.” Verizon’s ability to retain its reputation as the nation’s premium network provider will be critical as pricing wars escalate with rivals T-Mobile US Inc. , whose Chief Executive Officer John Legere took credit last month for dragging the phone giant “kicking and screaming into unlimited.”
One Chart Showing What Goldman Expects Trump to Accomplish This Year
Expectations that President Donald Trump will push through an investor-friendly fiscal stimulus package have helped boost equity markets to multiyear highs. Even a congressional address by the president that was light on details last week couldn’t prevent the Dow Jones Industrial Average sailing past 21,000 .
Libya Oil Output Falls as Fresh Clashes Force Ports to Shut
Libya’s crude output dropped after clashes forced two of the country’s biggest oil ports to shut down, threatening the OPEC member’s efforts to revive the production of its most important commodity. The North African country’s production fell to 650,000 barrels a day from about 700,000 barrels a few days ago, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because the person isn’t authorized to speak to media.
IBMVoice: Paving The Path Toward Universal Quantum Computing
A universal quantum computer promises us more complete knowledge of our environment, down to the molecules that make up everything around us. And much like when the first room-sized computers were turned on in the 1940s, a quantum computer’s full potential is unknown and untapped.
Nintendo’s Switch Controllers Compatible With Mac Devices
Nintendo debuted its brand new console called the “Switch” last Friday, and one feature gamers might not have been aware of is that you can pair the Switch’s controller with an Apple Macbook. The controllers, connected using Bluetooth, can link to Mac devices and allow users to play games on their computers.
How Dawn of War 3 uses MOBAs to modernise multiplayer RTS
Dawn of War 3 is on the face of it a real-time strategy game, but dig a little deeper and the influence of the hugely popular MOBA genre is plain to see. Ever since developer Relic Entertainment revealed the long-awaited sequel, players have noticed this MOBA influence.
Snapdeal reduces payment time to sellers by 40 percent
New Delhi , Mar 6 : Snapdeal on Monday announced a major benefit for its sellers by reducing its seller payment cycle by 40 percent, thereby becoming the e-commerce platform that offers the fastest payment schedule in the country. Snapdeal’s announcement is a welcome move for the 3,00,000 sellers on its platform.
Solar explosion captured in stunning new footage
Solar explosion that missed Earth is captured in stunning new footage as Nasa prepares a probe destined for the sun to study ‘dangerous activity’ A solar flare that erupted from the sun in the early hours of Monday morning has been captured in a stunning new video. The flare missed Earth on its flight path but could have knocked out communications and navigation systems had it reached the planet’s magnetic field.
The first woman in space turns 80, and you’ve probably never heard…
“A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.”
How Chattanooga aims to cut poverty with superfast internet
The city’s gigabit network has earned it a reputation as a flourishing tech hub. Now, city leaders are trying to figure out how to spread the digital wealth to residents left behind.
GE and HeliOffshore Provide Safety Data Management System for Global Offshore Helicopter Industry
The system will be deployed in phases beginning this year. This effort will bring together GE’s extensive data and analytics technology and expertise with HeliOffshore’s safety leadership to provide deeper analytics and analyses to yield more insights into ways operators, manufacturers, and the oil and gas industry can maximize the safety of offshore helicopter operations.
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The research found deficits in both applied and hard tech skills among current employee circles and new applicants, and a general lack of preparedness for individuals entering the workforce with the right level of technical competency. “The tech skills gap is a well-known issue among both educators and employers,” said Alexandra Levit, chair of the Career Advisory Board.
Father John Misty Denies Thinking About Taylor Swift Like That
Father John Misty ‘s new song “Total Entertainment Forever” debuted on Saturday Night Live this weekend. It opens with the eye-popping lyric, “Bedding Taylor Swift / Every night inside the Oculus Rift / After mister and the missus / Finish dinner and the dishes.”
USPTO Adds New Features to PatentsView Tool
In January, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office PatentsView , which allows the public to interactively engage, through a web-based platform, with a database connecting 40 years of information about inventors, their organizations, and their locations. The revised PatentsView interface presents three new starting points for users: relationships, locations, and comparisons.
Eutelsat and ViaSat Close European Broadband Joint Venture
Building on a decade-long relationship, Eutelsat and ViaSat are creating a partnership that will expand Eutelsat’s current wholesale broadband business and launch a new consumer retail service in Wholesale Services will focus on providing wholesale broadband and mobility services in the European and Mediterranean regions to the newly established retail services business and existing Eutelsat distributors. Eutelsat is contributing its current European broadband business including the KA-SAT satellite to the newly formed entity, owned 51% by Eutelsat.
Eutelsat Engaged by European Global Navigation Satellite Systems…
The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency has selected Eutelsat Communications for the development, integration and operation of the next-generation EGNOS payload on a future Eutelsat satellite. Eutelsat and GSA have concluded a long-term contract valued at 102 million covering the preparation and service provision phases for the EGNOS GEO-3 payload that will be hosted on the EUTELSAT 5 West B satellite that is due for launch end of 2018.
More than a million Gmail and Yahoo account credentials on sale
Usernames, email addresses and plaintext passwords of more than a million Yahoo and Gmail accounts are reportedly on sale on the dark web, posing a threat to corporate security Login credentials and other personal information linked to more than a million Gmail and Yahoo accounts is reportedly being offered for sale in a dark web marketplace. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.
AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud DR
The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT The recent outage that affected Amazon Web Services users highlights the risk of running critical systems in the public cloud. The general consensus is that the public cloud is superior to on-premise datacentres, but AWS’s outage, caused by human error, shows that even the most sophisticated cloud IT infrastructure is not infallible.
Data Is the Biggest Challenge for Predictive Analytics
Analyst Insight: The number one challenge to making predictive and prescriptive analytics succeed is data cleanliness and completeness. Until that is solved, predictive analytics programs will struggle to provide value.
The 2-Second Investment System: Taking Luck Out Of The Win-Lose Equation
What does luck have to do with making money in the stock market? There are only two possible answers to that question: Everything or Nothing. I’ve been trading stocks for over 35 years.
African leaders gather to discuss digital transformation in public sector
Microsoft is confirming its commitment to digital transformation in the public sector in Africa, by bringing together government decision makers from across the continent in Nairobi, Kenya. The event will address Microsoft’s mission to empower sectors like agriculture, health, justice, transport, public finance and shared services, through digital transformation.
Fear in Virtual Reality (VR): Fear elements, coping reactions,…
Fear in Virtual Reality : Fear elements, coping reactions, immediate and next-day fright responses toward a survival horror zombie virtual reality game Fear elements consisted of place illusion and plausibility illusion dimensions. Plausibility illusion elements induced more fear than place illusion elements.
Rationale leading to the adoption of a JavaScript framework
The increasing popularity of JavaScript has lead to a variety of JS frameworks that aim to help developers to address programming tasks. However, the JSFs number has risen rapidly to thousands and more.
Closed-Loop Task Difficulty Adaptation during Virtual Reality…
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DB Export Beer Bottle Sand – the company that’s using waste to help save beaches
Did you know the world was running out of sand? Well, let me rephrase that. There’s lots of sand but it’s running out of the kind of sand we need for manufacturing which is a problem.
Neverthink – watch web videos like you watch TV
Who even has a TV anymore? Well, lots of people but a huge amount of viewers have switched over to streaming through services like Hulu and Netflix in favor of waiting to watch shows during primetime. Still, there’s something about flipping channels and viewing actual TV.
3Dash – this 3D pen draws in all the colors of the wind with one filament
Although they can take some getting used to, once you’ve got the technique down, you’re in for a world of creation. The 3Dash adds a new dimension by skipping the need for different filament colors, instead, it mixes the colors for you.
Slack and Teddy Bears Leak Your Secrets; Boeing Employee Sends Personnel Data to His Wife
Slack, a team messaging app, in five hours patched a bug that allowed a hacker access to a user’s communications. Detectify Labs security researcher Frans Rosn determined he could steal users’ private tokens – which allow access to the user’s communications – by tricking them with a malicious web page.
HXT Semiconductor Joins Linaro to Accelerate Advanced Server Development on ARM
Budapest, Hungary – March 6, 2017 – Linaro Limited, the open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the ARM® ecosystem, today announced that Guizhou Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd has joined Linaro as a member of the Linaro Enterprise Group . “We’re very pleased to welcome HXT Semiconductor as a LEG member and we look forward to helping them accelerate the deployment of ARM based server solutions into China’s cloud computing and data center industries,” said George Grey, Linaro CEO.
Taobao tightens rules over sale of books and magazines published outside China
Taobao, the e-commerce platform operated by Alibaba Holdings, has tightened rules over the resale of books and magazines published overseas on the online marketplace. Starting March 10, Taobao merchants who offer daigou services, the purchasing of books on behalf of customers, or sell such items via their online shops, will be penalised by Taobao, the company said in a notice posted on Friday.
OracleVoice: What Drives Linux Guru Wim Coekaerts? Have Fun, Build Things People Will Use
In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s effort to make Linux, the open source operating system he’d played with since his school days in Belgium, its OS of record. Now, “Linux has become the operating system of the cloud,” Coekearts says, so he sees lots more fun on the horizon.
Erdogan’s Nazi Comparison Draws Fire From Merkel Chief of Staff
A senior aide to Chancellor Angela Merkel hit back at Turkey’s government, saying Germany doesn’t need lessons in democracy after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan likened the cancellation of rallies by two of his cabinet ministers to Nazi practices. Peter Altmaier, Merkel’s chief of staff, called the comment “absolutely unacceptable” as tension escalates in a relationship already strained over Turkey’s human rights record after a failed coup to topple Erdogan in July.
Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal U.S. Groups
Russian hackers are targeting U.S. progressive groups in a new wave of attacks, scouring the organizations’ emails for embarrassing details and attempting to extract hush money, according to two people familiar with probes being conducted by the FBI and private security firms. At least a dozen groups have faced extortion attempts since the U.S. presidential election, said the people, who provided broad outlines of the campaign.