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.
Month: March 2017
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.
What counts as a hoax and the Voynich Manuscript debate
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.
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.