Day: March 12, 2017

Missing woman found alive off Skyline Boulevard

Ending a two-day search, police and rescue crews on Saturday located a woman who had gone missing in a rural wooded area off Skyline Drive in San Mateo County. Authorities found Bethnee Haury, 56, at about 10:30 a.m. down in a ravine, roughly 600 yards from Skyline Boulevard, in the Kings Mountain area.

Google search may soon be unblocked in Mainland China

Seven years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts 721 million web users, and locals can only access to the service by using VPNs.

Andrea Peyser

I’ve identified a major cause of societal overspending, oversharing and undereating, followed by yo-yo bingeing and purging, a potentially destructive scourge that could cost the masses their bank accounts, waistlines, health and minds: Gwyneth Paltrow. Now more than ever, the Hollywood golden girl and lifestyle guru, 44, as well as her very wrong, ill-informed and undereducated ilk, matter.

Musk Call With Turnbull Sparks Battery Debate in Australia

Elon Musk’s brave bet to fix Australia’s energy crisis — or hand the money back — landed the tech entrepreneur an hour-long phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and quickly threw him into a debate over whether battery technology is the solution for a nation still wedded to coal for much of its power. Sunday’s call followed a Twitter conversation last week between Musk and Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes in which Musk promised to install and get working a Tesla Inc. battery storage system designed to prevent blackouts in South Australia, the Australian mainland state most reliant on renewable energy.

Top Iron Miners’ Cash Juggernaut Set to Survive Price Crash

The world’s biggest iron ore miners will be able to withstand the expected plunge in prices because their race to cut production costs has dramatically lowered the industry’s margin pressure point, allowing them to keep fueling a cash juggernaut that’s revived the mining sector. More than 90 percent of producers in the global seaborne market can generate profits at a benchmark price of $60 a metric ton, Adrian Doyle, a Sydney-based senior consultant at researcher CRU Group, said by phone.

Troubled Nuclear Builder Seen Best Fit for Asian Power Ambitions

If Japan’s Toshiba Corp. parts ways with its embattled U.S. nuclear unit, Westinghouse Electric Co., the likely buyer may be a regional neighbor with global ambitions. Westinghouse would be a strategic fit in China or South Korea, which are developing their own reactors for export, according to analysts and academics.

Satellite start-up promises ultra-fast internet to remote Asia-Pacific, NZ 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.

Samsung Galaxy S8 press image leaked

Two short videos were posted to Chinese microblogging site Weibo around the same time, and they supposedly show the Galaxy S8+. At meltyStyle, we are totally fan of this picture and we look forward to the Galaxy S8 .

SXSW: Biden details Moonshot program to battle cancer

Former Vice President Joe Biden spoke Sunday at SXSW about the White House Cancer Moonshot program’s progress in the fight against cancer, and called for innovators in the audience to use their ingenuity to engineer solutions. The Cancer Moonshot program was established in early 2016 to accelerate innovation in the field of cancer research.

Robots Mapping and Cleaning Nuclear Sites

The world is home to a large number of sites contaminated by radioactive waste, which require the extent of the contamination to be delineated and remediation to occur. The currently available methodology for mapping and assessing these radioactive sites are extremely expensive and time consuming, involving humans clad in radioactive protective gear, taking samples, and subsequent lab analysis.

Intel Security releases MacBook scanner for CIA Vault 7 rootkits

We’re just a few days removed from the WikiLeaks publication, Vault 7, that outlined many of the supposed hacking tools at the disposal of the CIA. It has left tech firms scrambling for fixes and has raised questions over what products and services are most at risk, especially as the dust and sensationalism settles around just what kind of powers the CIA wielded with these so-called cyber weapons.

After Math: Keep pace in the space race

It’s been a productive week for those of us trying to get the hell off this crazy planet. NASA showed off a radiation-proof flight vest for interplanetary astronauts while Blue Origin debuted its latest rocket engine and previewed its upcoming New Glenn spacecraft .

Ministries lose Shs180b to hackers

A new report by International Police, also known as Interpol, has revealed how cyber criminals, working with crooked officials, are pilfering data and billions of shillings from various government ministries and private companies. For instance, in 2016 alone, the damage from hacks costs businesses and ministries a staggering $50m .

Father of the Web cites 3 big concerns about his 28-year-old baby

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who 28 years ago this March 12 submitted a document laying out his vision for what would become the worldwide web , is proud of what his creation has become but he’s also concerned enough about certain issues that he’s released an open letter about them today through the Web Foundation . “[O]ver the past 12 months, I’ve become increasingly worried about three new trends, which I believe we must tackle in order for the web to fulfill its true potential as a tool which serves all of humanity,” Berners-Lee writes.

Fifth Harmony’s website is hacked with ISIS message

Fifth Harmony’s website is hacked with shocking ISIS message… as singers and their former bandmate Camilla Cabello attend Kids’ Choice Awards It was already an awkward Saturday for Fifth Harmony, when they attended the Kids’ Choice Awards and watched their former Camilla Cabello make her solo debut. But they also faced trouble on the internet, when their official website was hacked by a person who put up an expletive-riddled message about ISIS .

This Week at NASA: Orion Spacecraft’s Parachute System Test and More

NASA conducted the latest successful test of the Orion spacecraft’s parachute system on March 8 in the skies above the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. The test was designed to evaluate the parachutes’ performance in an emergency abort situation that would require Orion to be jettisoned from the agency’s Space Launch System rocket during a launch.

Ridley Scott teases a Gladiator sequel with Russell Crowe

Revealed: American Bandstand covered up the fact that teenage stars were gay despite many of the young dancers sleeping together The seven simple money-saving hacks that could save you THOUSANDS a year Trump’s revised travel ban already facing legal trouble as Democratic attorneys general team up to block the new order Twin 16-year-old sisters and their father, 48, are found shot dead with their mother critically injured inside their suburban Chicago home Police blast protesters with water cannons in Rotterdam after Turkish ministers are refused entry to Holland, prompting Erdogan to label the Dutch ‘Nazi fascists’ Illusionist Criss Angel returns to Las Vegas show just one night after he’s rushed to hospital over upside-down straitjacket trick going horribly wrong ‘Are you Harry’s father?’: Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt addresses rumors that have persisted for decades in … (more)

Making sense of the news: The power of information

Both during his campaign and after his inauguration, President Trump has had a constant line of animosity toward the free flow of news and information. He derides outlets such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, among others, as “failing,” and consistently uses the term “fake news” to describe any stories that conflict with his narrative – from the crowd size at his inauguration to confirmed reports that his national security adviser had spoken to Russian officials before he took office.

Mother and son both transition to transgender man and girl

Revealed: American Bandstand covered up the fact that teenage stars were gay despite many of the young dancers sleeping together The seven simple money-saving hacks that could save you THOUSANDS a year Trump’s revised travel ban already facing legal trouble as Democratic attorneys general team up to block the new order Twin 16-year-old sisters and their father, 48, are found shot dead with their mother critically injured inside their suburban Chicago home Police blast protesters with water cannons in Rotterdam after Turkish ministers are refused entry to Holland, prompting Erdogan to label the Dutch ‘Nazi fascists’ Illusionist Criss Angel returns to Las Vegas show just one night after he’s rushed to hospital over upside-down straitjacket trick going horribly wrong ‘Are you Harry’s father?’ Princess Diana’s former lover James Hewitt addresses rumours that have persisted for decades in … (more)

A Japanese ad agency invented an AI creative director – and…

In 2015, ad agency McCann Japan’s creative planner Shun Matsuzaka set himself a task he called the “creative genome project”: he wanted to create the world’s first AI creative director, capable of directing a TV commercial. And last week, Matsuzaka showed off his creation at the UK advertiser trade body ISBA’s annual conference in London.

Sunday Newspaper Share Tips: Hays, Lookers, Ocado and SSP

The good, the bad and the ugly for investors and savers… How to defend your finances from the ‘Trojan Horse’ Budget Should you get a A 547 body MOT? It involves electric probes and a VERY intimate exam – but can save you money in the long-run After the energy giants raise their bills, get set for ANOTHER hike: Why prices may go up even further this year Pressure grows on Co-op Bank over pension deal: Bank of England calls for swift action to split up group’s A 10bn scheme ‘I ran up A 10k debt trying to get TV work – now I’m on Watchdog’: How years of hard graft paid off for BBC disability expert Nikki Fox What can you buy around Britain for the price of an average home? A 300k will get you a four-bedroom Scottish castle or a studio flat in London’s outskirts Ten places your home will make you more than your job: Homeowners ‘earn’ up to A 91k more from their properties than from going … (more)

DotAfrica: Abuja residents commend AU launch of internet domain

Some Abuja residents on Sunday said they were excited about the recent launch of DotAfrica by the African Union which aimed at bringing Africa together as an internet community. DotAfrica is a generic Top Level Domain established by Africans for Africa and the rest of the world for better access to e-commerce, technology and infrastructure.

Roanoke inventor presses on with cheaper bionic prosthetic

In this Dec. 20, 2016 photo, Lyman Connor who has been working for years to design a 3D printed bionic hand that he calls a Mano-matic bionic hand poses for a photo in Roanoke, Va. Connor can usually be found at a messy workbench in an eerily empty downtown Roanoke studio that he calls his “microfactory.”

WikiLeaks ready to offer Central Intelligence Agency hacking tools to tech companies

In other words, spying; Wikileaks founder Julia Assange has not released all the details about the CIA’s hacking software, but said he would release them to major tech companies, which tech expert Broc Wurzbacher says is a good thing. The hacking tools have targeted iPhones, Android systems such as the personal phone reportedly used by President Donald Trump , popular Microsoft software, and Samsung smart TVs, the documents indicated.

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Mission Invades SXSW 2017

An interactive exhibit on NASA’s next flagship observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope , has landed at the 2017 South by Southwest celebration in Austin, Texas. NASA, the Space Telescope Science Institute and the Northrop Grumman Corporation are hosting the space telescope exhibit from today through Saturday , NASA officials said in an announcement.

Artificial turf may be bad for kids

If you want to get a soccer mom’s attention, bring up the subject of artificial turf, the preferred playing surface for children from pre-K to college – or at least preferred by school boards and parks and recreation departments. From concerns about concussions to cancer , parents have become alarmed by reports in the media of increased injuries and illnesses.