From the hidden pages of history second-time director Theodore Melfi has bookmarked a true story about three African-American women who helped save the space program back in the ’60s. “Hidden Figures” is based on a same-named non-fiction book by Margot Lee Shetterly.
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How serverless computing could help enterprises cut cloud complexity
As some enterprises find the reality of cloud fails to live up to the hype, Clive Longbottom explains why serverless computing could help firms attain the operational benefits they’re looking for Setting up a cloud computing platform can be a little more complex than many organisations expect, as there are so many things to take into consideration. This essential guide brings together 6 articles wisely selected to help you understand what the real benefits of converged infrastructure are.
Valley College hacking presents lessons for many
Extortion is an old crime with a fresh new look thanks to international cyber-criminals. They’ve made a billion-dollar enterprise out of kidnapping valuable data by encrypting it, and then demanding a ransom in exchange for a digital key that restores the computer files to normal.
Did Elon Musk Promise Donald a Trump Tower on Mars?
President-elect Trump has been making some fantastic picks for his cabinet. He has been shaking the ground with many of his selections striking fear into the hearts of crony capitalists from either party.
Davis: Kelowna’s movie news and reviews
While you may be favouring your pocketbook looking at the expenses you incurred over the Holiday Season, it does not mean you must forego the movie experience. If you head over to Landmark Cinemas Encore in West Kelowna you can get some great deals on recent movies.
Trudy Rubin: Russian efforts to undermine democracy clear
Why on Earth would you side with an anti-American, former KGB colonel over your own intelligence community? I know you say you have “tremendous respect for the work and service” done by this community, but much damage has been done. Even many GOP senators were disturbed when you rejected the firm conclusion of top U.S. intel officials that Vladimir Putin’s team used leaks and hacking to interfere with the U.S. election.
Retailers need to reassess augmented reality, virtual reality
With every new technology, retailers are often the first to take the plunge, hoping to gain the upper hand in the cutthroat fight for consumer market share. Augmented reality and virtual reality are no different.
Iain Macwhirter: Section 40 could destroy the press, while new media runs wild
Former FIA racing chief Max Mosley arrives at the Leveson Inquiry at the High Court in London January 16, 2012. REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth THE British press, for good or ill, has been free from state regulation for over 300 years.
Jane Bradley: Handwriting has all but disappeared
On this day 141 years ago, an article published in the Portobello Advertiser revealed the writer’s consternation at a new-fangled invention which had recently made its way into the consciousness of citizens of the United Kingdom. “If the use of the machine becomes general, handwriting will be as completely superseded as handsewing and the value of our present elementary teaching will be much modified,” the columnist warned.
In 2017, the economy will see the benefits of the reforms from the previous year
For India, 2016 saw further affirmation of its status as a bright spot in a cloudy global horizon. India’s economic transition has been aided by clairvoyant and meticulous policy design over the past two years.
Letters: Where’s the proof of Russian hacking?
The Inquirer joins those blaming Hillary Clinton’s defeat, in part on “a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign” . But no U.S. intelligence authority suggests that the emails exposed were false or doctored, or that the Russians, or anyone else, hacked into the U.S. electoral system.
Dylann Roof and the loner-loser syndrome
As convicted murderer Dylann Roof prepares to defend himself in the sentencing phase of his trial, a clearer understanding of his motives in gunning down nine African-Americans during Bible study prayer has begun to emerge. In a word, he’s a loser — as random and ordinary as the proverbial tree falling in a forest bereft of listeners.
Obama has some big holes in his legacy
President Barack Obama’s legacy is particularly troubling in two aspects that will affect our youth for some time, in my opinion. I think he was a president that hid behind the race card whenever his decisions were questioned, he’s handing off a country with much more racial tension than the one he received.
Millennial View: Catherine Rampell – Will Trump’s White House have computers?
For all the praise he receives for embracing 21st-century social media, the president-elect seems to understand little about modern technology. And he exhibits even less interest in learning about it.
Why is vinyl making a comeback? ‘Nostalgia’ doesn’t quite cut it
Over the past few years, analog goods including physical books, board games and, of course, vinyl records have experienced a surprising resurgence – despite the fact that these technologies are functionally obsolete. How could this be happening? Why would someone pay $20 or more for a second-hand copy of Bill Withers’ “+Justments” on a scratchy melted plastic disc that plays only on a costly, troublesome turntable, when she could stream the same album in digital clarity on Spotify for free? The conventional wisdom is that nostalgia is to blame for this twee trend: Millenials, hipsters or that most-coveted demographic, the millennial hipster, are indulging in some perverse Wes Anderson fantasy.
Mills: Are skilled trades doomed to decline?
Mark P. Mills Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
Demonetization as Indian tragedy: Modi silent on specifics of black money : The Canadian National Newspaper
For several months, we, at The Canadian, have been documenting complaints against Dr. Jerry Tenenbaum which subvert the integrity of OHIP specifically and Canada’s public healthcare system in general. On 30 December 2016, the Toronto Star further documented how the province’s 12 top-billing doctors – who received payments of between $2 million and $7 million in one year – are overcharging the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.
Tibaldo: My Story on Getting Past the Seasons
I WAS in my mother’s womb when Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was sent to explore outer space in early1961 with his Vostoc spacecraft. Baguio City was at its all-time record low of 6.3 degrees in January of that year when my mother was two months pregnant with me.
How to decide which career to choose
“I need guidance,” she said. “I simply cannot continue doing what I have been doing for a few years now.
‘The OA’ and the hypnotic allure of weird TV
We’re more likely to remember the peak TV era for its quantity than its quality, looking back on these years as a period in which there was too much to watch that was pretty good and fairly intriguing, but often got more buzz than it deserved. It’s an embarrassment of riches, and, if and when some networks scale back , I’ll also fondly remember peak TV as a period of weird television.
MEEK: Appliances gone wild and the shape of the year to come
A visitor tries out a Samsung Electronics Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone at its shop in Seoul, South Korea. Samsung Electronics predicts the discontinuation of the Galaxy Note 7 will cost about $3 billion.
Thank you, from the Kump Center
With the help of generous and creative people, we are turning an historic house into a place where learning is fun.
CES 2017: Cars, robots are expected to star
CES 2017: Cars, robots are expected to star Think Alexa, but with a personality for robots, at next week’s sprawling trade show. Check out this story on publicopiniononline.com: http://usat.ly/2iNbRzi Jefferson Graham previews what to look for at the world’s biggest trade show, with robots, drones, connected cars and virtual reality gear leading the pack.
Editorial: End of grocery line?
Americans spend — waste — a year or two of their lives waiting in line, wishing it would move faster, staring daggers at any potential interlopers, fixing with disdain anyone who dawdles or delays the line’s steady clip. For those trying to avoid long queues, the grocery store is one of the most daunting challenges.
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Africa has changed remarkably, and for the better, since I first worked as a young doctor in Angola some 20 years ago. But no change has been more obvious than the way the continent has adopted mobile technology.
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Africa has changed remarkably, and for the better, since I first worked as a young doctor in Angola some 20 years ago. But no change has been more obvious than the way the continent has adopted mobile technology.
Battleground Singapore
Singapore is about to become a regional battleground between the world’s two largest e-commerce giants. From the US, we have Amazon.com.
Battleground Singapore
Singapore is about to become a regional battleground between the world’s two largest e-commerce giants. From the US, we have Amazon.com.
For John Glenn, Annie was the hero
American icon John H. Glenn Jr. truly had The Right Stuff. Author Tom Wolfe said Glenn was “the last true national hero America has ever had.”
Ahead of the Curve: Driverless Tractors Present Opportunities for Dealers
Shortly after Case IH and New Holland introduced their concept autonomous tractors at the Farm Progress Show in late August 2016, Colorado-based market intelligence firm, Tractica, released a report predicting rapid growth in robotic tractor sales by 2020. The report suggested that eventually revenues from those sales would reach $30.7 billion by 2024.
Oregon should streamline and inform its efforts in fostering the pot market: Editorial Agenda 2016
Few ballot campaigns were as passionately fought as that for Measure 91, passage of which brought legal recreational marijuana to Oregon. But that was two years ago, and the state continues today to claw its way to an efficient, profitable and safe day in the sale of recreational pot.
More evidence of hacking threat
Yahoo announced last week that user data from 1 billion accounts had been hacked in 2013, part of the largest such hack in history. Yahoo announced last week that user data from 1 billion accounts had been hacked in 2013, part of the largest such hack in history.
Why Can’t I Marry the Robot I Love? The Rise of Robosexuals
Do people have the right to marry the one they love, even if the one they love is a robot? If not, why not? After all, in the words of Lilly from France, who has fallen in love with her robot, “We don’t hurt anybody, we are just happy.” As explained in the Daily Mail, “Lilly is reportedly engaged to the robot and says they will marry when human-robot marriage is legalised in France.”
Anne Applebaum: I understand the power of fake news, Russian-style
We were told in June that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked by Russians. We were told in October that material subsequently passed on to WikiLeaks came from the same source and that President Barack Obama was considering a response.
Anne Applebaum: I understand the power of fake news, Russian-style
We were told in June that the Democratic National Committee had been hacked by Russians. We were told in October that material subsequently passed on to WikiLeaks came from the same source and that President Barack Obama was considering a response.
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Column: John Glenn inspired generations of astronauts
TWO YEARS before we were born and three decades before we each had the chance to leave our planet in a spaceship, our parents and 100 million other people heard the news: A 40-year-old Marine Corps lieutenant colonel named John Glenn had become the first American to orbit Earth. To this day, Glenn’s journey remains as awe-inspiring as it was audacious.
Expand sanctuary concept from cities to suburbs
University of Pennsylvania president Amy Gutmann was similarly explicit in articulating Penn’s commitment to undocumented students in an email to the university community, insisting that “we are a richer campus for our inclusion and diversity.” As dean of the School of Design at Penn, where I also teach in the Departments of City Planning and Landscape Architecture, I believe now is the time to expand this sanctuary city concept; to make all our cities refuges for learning, for health and safety, for tolerance and inclusion, and environmental quality.
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Our legislators and the citizens who elect them should re-examine the concept of the social contract between communities and the schools that fortify them to fully appreciate the role of public education today. This is surely not a problem that can be solved on, say, Facebook.
Gibson: The language of the new public square
From President-elect Donald Trump to Charlottesville Mayor Mike Signer, Twitter is the preferred means of instant communication, as strange as it may seem for Americans not accustomed to officials bypassing traditional media and tweeting in 140-character bites.