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Month: March 2017
Renaissance Technologies LLC Has $27,296,000 Position in PDL BioPharma Inc
Renaissance Technologies LLC decreased its position in shares of PDL BioPharma Inc by 4.4% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The fund owned 12,875,700 shares of the company’s stock after selling 597,154 shares during the period.
New gene therapy allows French teen to dodge sickle cell disease
A French teen who was given gene therapy for sickle cell disease more than two years ago now has enough properly working red blood cells to dodge the effects of the disorder, researchers report. About 90,000 people in the U.S., mostly blacks, have sickle cell, the first disease for which a molecular cause was found.
Global 3D Sensor Market with Current Value Analysis, 2015-2025
3D sensing is considered as one of the dynamic technology which is suitable for various applications such as healthcare, automotive, consumer electronics, industrial robotics, and security & surveillance etc. Electronics industry has strong potential for 3D sensor due to increasing acceptance of gesture applications and efficient product handling across different industrial verticals.
Cantor Fitzgerald Analysts Give AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (AMAG) a $24.00 Price Target
The brokerage currently has a hold rating on the specialty pharmaceutical company’s stock. A number of other brokerages have also weighed in on AMAG.
Zacks Investment Research Downgrades Visa Inc (V) to Hold
According to Zacks, “Visa’s strategic acquisitions and alliances, technology upgrades and effective marketing efforts bode well for long-term growth. The company’s earnings per share outpaced the Zacks Consensus Estimate aided by the acquisition of Visa Europe and solid growth in payments volume as well as processed transactions.
dna_features_viewer 0.1.2a0
Dna Features Viewer is a Python library to visualize DNA features, e.g. from GenBank or Gff files, using the plotting library Matplotlib: Dna Features Viewer is meant to automatically produce simple and clear plots even for sequences with lots of overlapping features and long labels. The plots can be output to many different formats , e.g. for report generation or LIMS interfaces.
cspark-python 0.0.13
Why Cspark-python? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Spark API provides only one mechanism to notify bot about updates: Webhooks. “Webhooks require that the Cisco Spark Cloud be able to reach your backend over HTTP” ` `_ It’s not comfortable to develop and test bots on public server so Cspark-python emulates update mechanism using REST API.
A Virtual Reality Rollercoaster Is Enhanced by a Strong Man Shaking the Rider’s Platform
A virtual reality rollercoaster is enhanced by a strong man shaking the platform the rider is standing on while wearing a headset. The technique is a low-tech but elegant solution to adding motion to the virtual reality experience.
Horrible Histories heads Standon Calling 2017 family programme
The family entertainment programme for Standon Calling 2017 has been announced with Horrible Histories set to open the main stage of the Hertfordshire music festival. The music and arts festival takes place at Standon Lordship from Thursday, July 27 to Sunday, July 30, with Orbital and Clean Bandit already confirmed as main stage headliners.
Authentication Explained
As hackers step up their game, authentication has never been more important. In this Tech Express, Richard Lack explains the technology and what the future holds for the authentication space.
Ghost Robotics’ Minitaur Robot Explores the Great Outdoors
Ghost Robotics ‘ compact and nimble Ghost Minitaur robot is both exceptional and frightening at the same time. Now the company has released a video of the robot while it explores the outdoors.
Glenfield BOCES kicks off new manufacturing-based program
While a unique production and technology class here has kicked off with small numbers, Jefferson-Lewis Board of Educational Services officials hope to manufacture substantial student interest in upcoming years. “They’re using all of the high-tech tools that they will use in manufacturing,” said Walter J. Berwick Jr., instructor for the new integrated production and design technology program at the Howard G. Sackett Technical Center.
What Should a Model Oriented Programming Language Look Like?
Model Oriented Development is a technique that allows you to utilize a model for development purposes at any point in the development process. You translate model information into source code and/or utilize the model directly during the course of development.
The Coolest VR Headsets at GDC Aren’t for Sale
Three of the most talked-about virtual reality headsets – the Oculus Rift , HTC Vive , and PlayStation VR – are less than a year old, but if you stopped by the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week you’d be forgiven for concluding that they were as obsolete as an Apple eMac . That’s because much of the buzz at this year’s GDC, an annual hobnob of bigwigs from the gaming and consumer tech industries, was about augmented reality glasses and standalone VR headsets – the kind that require neither a PC nor a smartphone to run.
Illustrator mixes western iconography with the undead
Illustrator Maxim Zhestkov demonstrates how simple shapes and gradients can convey a mood in his Future Noir series. The small silhouettes of humans give an eerie sensibility to the images.
The art of compositing explained in the coolest way possible
This project was made to showcase my skills alongside my creativity, I was responsible for all of the 2D aspect of it and supervising the team that was working on their own special skills such as 3D, Matchmove, Grading, Sound design and much morea ..! Psychologist Gert Storms doesn’t want to review scientific papers if their authors refuse to share with him the underlying data. The American Psychological Association , which publishes the journal he edits, has asked him to resign.
Psychology journal editor asked to resign for refusing to review papers unless he can see the data
Psychologist Gert Storms doesn’t want to review scientific papers if their authors refuse to share with him the underlying data. The American Psychological Association , which publishes the journal he edits, has asked him to resign.
Office Depot, Inc. Announces New Advertising Agency of Record
In addition to creative services, strategy and media responsibilities, Zimmerman will oversee the company’s social media efforts including media buying for those channels while developing integrated, strategic marketing and advertising campaigns under the Office Depot and OfficeMax banners. “Over the past few years, we have been focused on moving the Office Depot and OfficeMax brands forward.
VeloCloud Raises $35M to Meet Accelerating Global Demand for Cloud-Delivered SD-WAN
Sanjay Uppal is CEO and Co-founder of VeloCloud, which has closed a $35 million Series D round of funding, led by Hermes Growth Partners, to expand business, capacity and operations as the company accelerates new SD-WAN product development, supports larger customer rollouts, and dramatically increases sales and marketing in theaters worldwide. )–VeloClouda Networks, Inc., the Cloud-Delivered SD-WANa company , today announced that it has closed a $35 million Series D round of funding, led by Hermes Growth Partners.
Box Inc (BOX) Issues Quarterly Earnings Results
Shares of Box opened at 18.26 on Thursday. The company has a 50-day moving average price of $17.51 and a 200-day moving average price of $15.27.
Alibaba-Rival JD to Get $2.1 Billion In Finance Arm Spinoff
JD.com Inc. agreed to sell its finance arm for 14.3 billion yuan in cash while retaining a share of its future profits, part of a deal to spin off the fast-growing division and create a strong rival to billionaire Jack Ma’s Ant Financial. The sale and spinoff of JD Finance, a payments and investment business, will be completed by the middle of 2017, the Beijing-based company said Thursday without naming buyers or investors apart from Chief Executive Officer Richard Liu.
A Technology Loved By Global Protestors Will Soon Be Used for Sending …
An app called FireChat shot to global attention in September 2014, as protestors in Hong Kong’s “umbrella movement” downloaded it 100,000 times in 24 hours. The app lets users send messages to one another without cellular data or a Wi-Fi internet connection, relying on Bluetooth and wifi radios in phones to form a “mesh network” of users.
Releases Top10 Predictions on China’s Medical IT Industry
Chinese hospitals will adopt 20% more robots by 2020, and more cognitive computing and artificial intelligence systems and devices will be widely used in the country’s hospitals, according to recent IDC report IDC FutureScape: Top10 Predictions of Healthcare IT 2017 China Implications . “The medical IT industry is undergoing revolutionary changes.
India Tablet Market Slows Down as annual shipments dip 3.1 percent in 2016: IDC India
New Delhi, 1st March 2017 : According to International Data Corporation , India tablet market inclusive of slate and detachables ended the year 2016 with total shipments of 3.7 million units with a marginal annual drop of 3.1 percent. “Shipments decline as the consumer demand for tablets continues to shrink.
Verizon Cloud causes new data usage problems for some consumers
The issues are related to Verizon’s discontinuation of Backup Assistant, a service that allowed cellphone customers to automatically back up all of their contacts, along with their phone numbers and email addresses. That way, if their phone was lost or damaged, the contacts could be transferred to a new phone.
White House Said to Debate Icahn Plan Revamping Ethanol Rule
White House officials have spent the past two days in deliberations with billionaire refinery owner Carl Icahn about his proposal to modify federal policy on renewable fuels and with ethanol producers who oppose it, according to three people familiar with the talks. The flurry of meetings and phone calls came after Bloomberg News reported Monday that Icahn had helped broker a compromise with a leading biofuel group on reworking the program.
High-Performance Computing gets more energy-efficient data transfer
March 2, 2017 — The 3D-NoC network-on-chip developed by Leti, STMicroelectronics, and Mentor Graphics under a project coordinated by IRT Nanoelec offers 20% to 40% less energy consumption and higher speeds than other NoCs. The NoC developed is built on two 28 nm FDSOI stacked circuits, each with 96 processor cores.
LG’s SteamVR headset is a bulky yet promising HTC Vive alternative
For the past year, the only two contenders in the PC virtual reality space were the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive . Not anymore.
Searching for Life on the Newly Discovered Earthlike Planets
It's impossible to know if the creatures living on the planet Trappist-1e suspect they're being watched. Actually, it's impossible to know if there are any creatures at all, but let's assume they're there–because it's a fair enough assumption.
World’s oldest microfossils found, researchers claim
Scientists claim to have discovered the remains of microorganisms in Canada that are at least 3.77 billion years old. If they are proven to have a biological origin, they would be the oldest microfossils ever found.
Schools welcome chance to fan the flames of invention
SCHOOLS are relishing the prospect of Dyson’s new research and design centre at Hullavington and are hoping it will provide more opportunities for their students. The James Dyson Foundation already attracts young people to take up a career in engineering, design and research, and a number of apprenticeship schemes are available.
Radar, mic sensors enable clear voice recognition
Infineon’s 60GHz 2Tx/4Rx radar IC with antenna and the 70dB SNR microphone help locate voice source amidst ambient noise. Infineon Technologies have combined its radar and silicon microphone sensors with XMOS’s audio processors to provide far field voice capture by audio beamforming combined with radar target presence detection.
HPE, Cisco, Apple, SAP: Tech giants target the enterprise at MWC 2017
Mobile World Congress 2017, the conference where the future of the mobility world is on display. But while Samsung, Huawei and the likes are the top companies there in many of the attendees’ books, it is the enterprise IT tech companies that are pushing out a large array of news.
Fossils point to life on Earth 4 billion years ago
The oldest fossils ever found are “direct evidence” of life on Earth 3.8 to 4.3 billion years ago when our planet was still in its infancy, researchers reported Wednesday. Even at the lower end of the spectrum, “the microfossils we discovered are about 300 million years older” than any runners-up, said Dominic Papineau, a professor at University College London who made the discovery.
Oculus Rift Mac support not even in six-month roadmap yet
Faithful Mac users might have to wait a bit longer to get their fair share of the virtual reality pie. That is, unless Apple suddenly comes up with its own VR platform and headset within the next six months.
Robotics Prosthetics Market Production, Revenue, Price, Market Share…
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, March 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Scenario and Highlights: Robots are widely used to assist humans in repetitive and physically demanding work or for things that need accuracy and precision in nearly every industry. Modern day prosthetics, or robotic limbs, are defined as mechanical limbs that are controlled by microprocessors and nerve impulses.
Chat app Line is developing an AI assistant and Amazon Echo-style smart speaker
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Nanobots Market Sales by Key Regions, With Production, Consumption,…
PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, March 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Highlights: Nanobots will be the next generation of Nano machines. Nanobot are an extremely small machine designed to perform a specific task on a microscopic scale.
Global Diameter Signaling Market Research Report 2017 Analysis and Forecast to 2022
Executive Summary The global diameter signaling market is growing rapidly. Growth of LTE and 4G technology along with growth in the number of pocket internet users and smartphone users are some of the key drivers of the market.