An “ultracrepidarian” is “someone who gives an opinion on things s/he knows nothing about,” according to “10 Words Every Book Lover Should Know,” an online article by Oliver Tearle.
Day: March 6, 2017
IBM adds new API to quantum computing cloud service
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South Korea special prosecutor: President Park colluded with friend to receive Samsung bribe
Samsung Group chief, Jay Y. Lee arrives at the office of the independent counsel team in Seoul, South Korea, February 19, 2017. South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye colluded with her friend Choi Soon-sil to receive bribes from Samsung Group, which was aimed to cement Samsung Chief Jay Y. Lee’s control of the company, a special prosecutor said in a statement on Monday.
IBM’s new Q program to include a 50-qubit quantum computer
Characters named Q in film and TV have been portrayed as being exceptional. Q in the James Bond movies served up futuristic gadgets, and Q in Star Trek was omnipotent.
Kindergartner practices ‘Operation’ skills at Middlesettlements Elementary
Christy Boone shows Billy Shallcross, Ruth Shallcross and fourth-grader Sierra Shallcross how a 3D printer works during presentations Friday at Middlesettlements Elementary School featuring science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics. Brody Webb, a first grade student at Middlesettlements Elementary, tries to levitate a ping-pong ball by blowing through a straw during Friday’s STEAM Night.
Finding the right app-titude: The Rory Burchenson story
Rory Burchenson is the innovations and digital marketing manager at Red Stripe and doubles, in his spare time, as an app developer for some of the island’s most noted organisations. He is also 34 years old.
China’s Hidden Risks Rise
A major factor behind the soaring growth of risky wealth-management products in China is that investors typically think the government stands behind them. Lately, nervous regulators have been emphasizing that this isn’t so.
Study finds common gene variants linked to gallbladder cancer
Washington D.C. [USA], Mar. 6 : A recent study compared the genetic code of gallbladder cancer patients with those of healthy volunteers at about 700,000 different locations in the genome. Researchers say they have found several gene variants which may predispose individuals to develop the disease.
Apple iPhone 6 (32GB) now available at Rs 28,999 on Amazon: All you need to know
Apple iPhone 6 is a solid device when it comes to performance. In our review we said the iPhone 6 is much faster than the its predecessors.
A resident at Rosevale using a virtual reality headset
A CARE home in York has shown its residents get up to much more than bingo and dominoes – by introducing them to Snapchat and virtual reality headsets. The headsets, which take users on rollercoasters and swimming among tropical fish, have proved popular among residents at Rosevale care home in Wigginton .
Southern Research Project Advances Novel CO2 Utilization Strategy
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has awarded Southern Research nearly $800,000 for a project that targets a more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly method of producing some of the most important chemicals used in manufacturing. Southern Research is developing a novel nano-engineered catalyst-driven process for the production of light olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, using carbon dioxide, or CO2, from coal-fired flue gas and lower alkanes derived from shale gas as feedstocks.
Nuoyuan Technology to Attend LendIt FinTech Summit in New York
Up until now, the fund scale of Hanfor Capital Management has exceeded CNY 30 billion and microenterprises, that fills out the market blank under the traditional financing system. “By attending LendIt US 2017, we expected to meet collaborate with other innovative FinTech service providers” Yingzhu Shen, Executive Deputy General Manager of Nuoyuan Technology, “to optimizing our service pack to local markets.”
IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science
“IBM Q” quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers , such as , can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn’t exist and the possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to ever be processed by classical computers.
Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology
The English novelist Angela Carter is best known for her 1979 book “The Bloody Chamber,” which is a kind of updating of the classic European fairy tales. This does not mean that Carter’s Little Red Riding Hood chews gum or rides a motorcycle but that the strange things in those tales-the werewolves and snow maidens, the cobwebbed caves and liquefying mirrors-are made to live again by means of a prose informed by psychoanalysis and cinema and Symbolist poetry.
Zontroy Code Generator
In this article, Zontroy Code Generator is explained and sample codes are provided. Zontroy Code Generator is a program to generate source code in any programming language based on database.
Big data-structure bench-marking in managed code (VB,C++,C#) – Part 1
In this article I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB .Net. Let’s imagine you are working as a software engineer in a company that deals with a big data collection and you have to come up with the best platform, language and also data structure to give a good competition advantage to your company`s business.
Synology RT2600ac
Synology’s RT2600ac is an advanced wireless router that offers many advantages vs. Apple’s stale AirPort product, while still providing a user-friendly iOS app for configuration and management. A long list of features includes a built-in VPN server, dual WAN support with failover and load balancing, content filtering and bandwidth controls, traffic reporting , a print server, “smart” coordination of 2.4 and 5GHz bands, multiple security features, NAS/cloud services with attached storage, Time Machine support, a DLNA/UPnP media server, and some potent hardware , with USB 3 and USB 2 ports, on top of multiple Gigabit networking ports and an SD card slot, and even support for 3G/4G cellular dongles.
City offers spring break activities 6 hours from now
Is the city offering any programs or activities for kids to do during spring break? Can you also tell me about upcoming events happening this spring? Yes. The Victoria Public Library is having a variety of fun, free programs during spring break week, March 14-17, to keep your children busy.
New lead in the search for life
This illustration provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows an artist’s conception of what the TRAPPIST-1 planetary system may look like, based on available data about their diameters, masses and distances from the host star. The planets circle tightly around a dim dwarf star called Trappist-1, barely the size of Jupiter.
Why Zelle is more than just a Venmo clone
When a product’s name becomes a verb, it’s safe to say it’s caught on. The popularity of “Venmoing” pizza or beer money goes one step further and offers proof that mobile peer-to-peer payments have changed the way Americans interact with money.
Washington’s “Cross-Pollination” of Business Blossoming
Construction cranes define the Seattle-area skyline, where luxury apartments squeeze between offices of major tech corporations, as part of a recent growth explosion that has attracted newcomers from around the world and helped transform Washington state. The boom, which extends beyond the urban economic hub to out-state areas as well, has in part over the years readjusted the way state and local leaders consider higher education, infrastructure and innovation.