Day: March 10, 2017

Singularity Go RAMBO

Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistics Ordnance, or R.A.M.B.O., is a modified M203 grenade launcher with a shoulder stock and pistol grip. The M203 grenade launcher is an older, pump-action design that was fitted under the barrel of an M16 rifle or M4 carbine.

Virtual reality leads to better building designs, happier clients, says architecture firm

Architects and clients immerse themselves in the design in Perkins+Will’s Collaborative Area for Virtual Exploration to enhance coordination and understanding of design solutions. A picture is worth 1,000 words, but what does that mean really? In the end, can one truly be certain about an end product with a single picture? Through virtual reality , architecture and design firms are now able to make sure that clients are aware of all the nooks and crannies of a single building through immersive experiences rather than flat renderings.

SpaceX Test Fires Rocket, Aims for March 14 Satellite Launch

The private spaceflight company SpaceX test fired a Falcon 9 rocket Thursday , setting the stage for a commercial satellite launch next week. SpaceX conducted the Falcon 9 static test fire at Launch Pad 39A of NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida to ensure that the rocket is ready to launch the communications satellite EchoStar 23 on Tuesday .

ICYMI: Airbus and Italdesign exhibit a Pop.Up future

Today on In Case You Missed It : Airbus and Italdesign demoed yet another flying car concept at the Geneva Auto Show this week. Dubbed “Pop.Up” the modular and autonomous vehicle can transform from a four-wheeled car to a quadcopter, depending on your destination and habits.

Google Expands Cloud Data Center Plans, Asserts Hardware, Connectivity Leadership

Google has added three locations to the list of cloud data center construction projects it is doing to expand geographic reach of the physical infrastructure that supports its enterprise cloud services, investing billions to catch up with its biggest rivals in the space – Amazon, and Microsoft. Urs HA lzle, the company’s senior VP for technical infrastructure, announced the plans from stage Thursday at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco.

THIRTEEN’s “Secrets of the Dead” Reveals the Untold Story of “Nero’s…

From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among For the first time, an international team of scientists, archaeologists, and historians is meticulously mapping the underwater ruins and piecing together evidence that could provide answers to these questions. Secrets of the Dead chronicles this investigation uncovering what life was like in Nero’s Sunken City .

Flex your brain power with these fun apps

Dive into these addictive brain-teasing games, and your family and friends may need to solve the puzzle of your extended absences and sleep-deprived state. Roofbot: Puzzler On The Roof * In Roofbot, you guide a robot that must find and deposit energy balls in slots on a rooftop grid while avoiding being stuck up there.

Apple’s Swift soars into Tiobe’s top 10 programming languages

The Swift language was introduced to much fanfare by Apple in June 2014, positioned as a modern successor to the Objective-C language that has driven iOS and MacOS application development. Now, Swift has cracked the top 10 in Tiobe’s language popularity index, demonstrating momentum for the fledgling language as it approaches its third birthday.

Protecting the enterprise against mobile threats

Mobile devices have transformed the digital enterprise allowing employees to access the information they need to be most productive from virtually anywhere. Has that convenience come at a cost to enterprise security, though? According to Forrester’s The State of Enterprise Mobile Security: 2016 to 2017 , by Chris Sherman, “Employees are going to continue to purchase and use whatever devices and apps they need to serve customers and be highly productive, whether or not these devices are company-sanctioned Additionally, the report found that S&R professionals will face complex challenges as a result of the different API interfaces and security profiles across devices.

RPT-UPDATE 1-Silence is golden – May plays down Brexit talk at EU summit

BRUSSELS, March 9 It was her last EU summit before launching Brexit, but British Prime Minister Theresa May was keener to talk about pretty much anything else. May, who will trigger Article 50 of the European Union’s Lisbon Treaty to launch two years of divorce talks later this month, was keen not to linger on her plans for some of the most complicated negotiations Britain has faced since World War Two.

Complex synthetic life moves closer with designer yeast genome

Scientists have taken a big step toward designing complex forms of life from scratch by constructing five new artificial chromosomes of baker’s yeast, representing a third of the micro-organism’s genome, or genetic blueprint. The international team used computers to create laboratory-made versions of the threadlike structures that carry genetic code inside cells.

The skinny on the benefits of brown fat

As a young man, Olivier Boss’s idea of a good time was to spend a summer day cycling a few hundred miles through the mountains of Switzerland or France. La Marmotte, he says, was an especially fun day: a 108-mile road race with nearly 17,000 feet of climbing.

How Canada can be a global leader in blockchain technology

The first era of the Internet was based on information and content being available anywhere and any time. Now, the second era – powered by blockchain technology – is bringing us the Internet of value: a new, distributed platform that will help us reshape the world of business and transform the old order of human affairs for the better.

China restricts access to foreign literature

Beijing is restricting access to foreign books and publications as it opens a new front in its battle to limit outside influence on Chinese society . Regulators have given verbal instructions to publishers limiting the number of children’s books written by foreign authors to be published within China each year, according to three people with knowledge of the order.

Gene linked to sudden death in young people identified

Toronto, March 10 – Researchers have identified a new gene that can lead to sudden death among young people and athletes. The gene, called CDH2, causes arrhythmogenic right ventricle cardiomyopathy , which is a genetic disorder that predisposes patients to cardiac arrest and is a major cause of unexpected death in seemingly healthy young people, said the study published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics.

Cadillac Unveils New User Experience Technology

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Vietnam’s Largest State-Owned Coffee Company Plans 2018 IPO

Vietnam National Coffee Corp., the nation’s largest state-owned robusta producer, is planning an initial public offering next year as the government reduces its stake in the company. The IPO will include Vinacafe and 18 units, deputy director general Nguyen Van Minh, said in an interview at a coffee festival in the Central Highland’s city of Buon Ma Thuot.

Ultra-fast internet promised to remote locations

The Pacific Islands, remote parts of rural New Zealand and poor but populous parts of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea are target markets for a new satellite-based project that its backers say will bring low-cost, ultra-fast broadband to areas that are too expensive to reach by cable. The brainchild of Christian Patouraux, a Belgian-born, Sydney-based entrepreneur with a 22-year career in satellite projects, the Kacific Broadband Satellites initiative owes part of its success to the equity funding efforts of boutique Wellington investment and advisory firm, Caniwi Capital, which has helped raise more than US$20 million in equity for the US$147 million project.

NASA Mars Orbiter shows images of back-to-back regional storms on the red planet9 min ago

Washington, March 10: In a major development, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has tracked images from the orbiter’s wide-angle Mars Color Imager on the surface of the red planet. The images that are captured show each storm growing in the Acidalia area of northern Mars, then blowing southward and exploding to sizes bigger than the United States after reaching the southern hemisphere.

Area students earn Dean’s List honors

A number of local students were recently named to the Clemson University Dean’s List for the fall 2016 semester. From Elgin: Eric Charles Bell, architecture; Margaret Wells Chase, communication; Alexa M. Cox, biochemistry; Meisha C. Draper, electrical engineering; Katherine Moira Hoskins, sociology; Keenan K. Hunt, communication; Margaret Mary Laporte, health science; Mallory Grace Mullen, secondary education; Devin Thomas Reeder, architecture; Kelsey Renee Stuhn, environmental engineering; Linda S. Thomas, bioengineering; Zachary Stuart Vandenberg, English; Megan P. Vandiver, nursing; Rose Marie Werden, general engineering; and Blakeley E. Yandle, parks, recreation and tourism management.