If you can’t find Intel’s Joule developer boards in your country, it’s because shipments have been held up. Intel’s Joule 570x and 550x are powerful computer boards that can be built as a PC, or be used to build robots, drones, or smart devices.
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A snapshot of how Top 1000 retailers approach analytics
I would recommend that you have one description which you use on your own site and offer e-retailers an alternate description. E-commerce sales by region, sales by product category, holiday data, online spending by shopper and as percentage of household income, and more.
Job cuts may be pending at Wal-Mart this month
I would recommend that you have one description which you use on your own site and offer e-retailers an alternate description. E-commerce sales by region, sales by product category, holiday data, online spending by shopper and as percentage of household income, and more.
Teacup
Full description=CGI application, based on Perl 5 and PostgreSQL, designed to provide helpdesk problem report management system for small to medium sized companies. It includes web and email interfaces for submitting, updating, and querying problem reports.
Microsoft releases one of its smallest monthly security patch bundles
Microsoft has released its first batch of patches for this year, and it’s one of the smallest ever for the company, with only three vulnerabilities fixed across its entire product portfolio. The patches are covered in four security bulletins, but one is dedicated to Flash Player, for which Microsoft distributed patches through Windows update.
5 Reasons Ecommerce Brands Should Leverage User-Generated Content
Do you know how many sites there are in the ecommerce universe? According to Lemonstand , there are 12 to 24 million online stores — and counting. As an ecommerce entrepreneur you may find it tough to position yourself successfully in front of your target customers, while knowing that tons of brands are also competing for their undivided attention.
E-COMMERCE: Alibaba Finds Friend In Trump, Quagmire In Intime
A meeting between Jack Ma and Donald Trump is a major coup for Alibaba and bodes well for its US relations. E-commerce giant Alibaba is wasting no time making big headlines in the New Year, starting with a major coup that has seen founder Jack Ma become the first big Chinese business leader to score a meeting with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump.
Ubuntu-Based Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers Distribution Is Out for Linux Gaming
Using the latest Xfce 4.12 desktop environment, which offers users a lightweight interface perfectly engineered for playing games, Ultimate Edition 5.0 Gamers is also based on Canonical’s Ubuntu 16.04 LTS operating system, meaning that it ships with the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel.
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.
On management technologies and the potential of Web services
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. From the early days of management research and standardization in the late 1980’s, there has always been a quest for a management technology that would be general enough to be used for network, system, service, and distributed application management; efficient in terms of information retrieval time, computational resources required, and management traffic incurred; and easy to use in order to reduce development time and operational costs.
Actionable Steps for Brands Coming Out of CES 2017
Every year at CES, there always seems to be one particular theme that weaves its way through every booth, regardless of industry or sector. This year, the most prolific technology – more prolific than any that I have ever seen at CES — was artificial intelligence.
European Stocks Little Changed After Biggest Retreat in a Month
The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.1 percent at the close, erasing an earlier slide of as much as 0.4 percent. A rotation out of defensive shares into cyclical companies resumed — miners surged the most in a month after data showed China’s factory prices rose at the fastest pace in more than five years in December.
China Curbs Ambitions to Challenge World’s Top Grain Traders
Anyone seeking signs of shrinking Chinese ambitions in world agriculture markets need look no further than the inaugural speech of Jingtao Chi, tapped to run the global trading unit of the nation’s biggest food company. While Chi, 53, vowed to serve clients both in China and globally during a live video beamed to Cofco International Ltd. offices from Kiev to Connecticut and Sao Paulo, he did so through an English interpreter.
A Double Record for FTSE 100 Completing 9th All-Time High
The FTSE 100 Index has closed at a record every session since U.K. markets reopened after Christmas — that’s nine trading days — marking a record streak of consecutive all-time highs. Coming on the heels of its best annual performance relative to the Stoxx Europe 600 Index in three decades, the FTSE 100 has climbed 1.9 percent in 2017 as a further slump in sterling boosted its exporters, and commodity producers rallied.
German Utilities Face Tough Year as Power Rally Set to Stall
German utilities from RWE AG to EON SE may struggle to convince investors they can adapt to the renewable energy revolution even after the industry’s unprecedented shakeup in 2016. Headwinds range from a power price rally that’s forecast to fade this year to a multi billion-euro nuclear clean-up bill.
Hacker publishes 1.5M users’ information after esports site refuses ransom demand
Personal information for more than 1.5 million accounts maintained by the E-Sports Entertainment Association was stolen and published online after the company refused the cyber-ransom demands of hackers, the ESEA confirmed yesterday . ESEA has been updating its community in a timeline of events dating back to Dec. 27, and recommends that users change passwords and security questions in all other accounts where they used the same credentials.
Watch a Fake Trailer For ‘Hidden Fences,’ the “Movie White…
The Golden Globes are generally regarded as the most useless film award ceremony, but the show itself can prove perfectly entertaining . The alcohol flows freely at the Globes, which means everyone is bit looser and ready to be a little sillier, should the proper occasion arise .
Mellanox Ethernet Solutions Selected to Accelerate Baidu’s Machine Learning Platforms
Technologies, Ltd. , a leading supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems, today announced that Ethernet switches and ConnectX-4 100Gb/s Ethernet adapters have been selected by Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, for Baidu’s Machine Learning platforms. The need for higher data speed and most efficient data movement placed Spectrum and RDMA-enabled ConnectX-4 adapters as key components to enable world leading machine learning platforms.
Unique Nanoparticle Properties Confound Fluorescent Based Assays…
Dreher, K. AND W. Polk. Unique Nanoparticle Properties Confound Fluorescent Based Assays Widely Employed in Their In Vitro Toxicity Testing and Ranking.
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The number of consumers who said they are very familiar with virtual reality almost doubled between September of last year and January, according to a new study. The study by ReportLinker comprised a survey of 700 U.S. adults in January 2017 and the same survey of 600 adults in September 2016.
Design follows technology
To learn more about wearable tech, check out Darrin Caddes’ session Making wearable tech wearable at the O’Reilly Design Conference, March 19-22, 2017, in San Francisco. With all disciplines of design, as technology progresses, the restrictions become fewer and fewer until they get to the point at which a wave crashes and there’s nothing holding you back from making anything you can dream of.
Yahoo to change name, trim board if Verizon deal gets done
Yahoo will adopt a new corporate identity and slash the size of its board if the proposed $4.8 billion sale of its digital services to Verizon Communications goes through. The company plans to change its name to Altaba Inc. after it turns over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon.
Menace descends upon Apples users: the malware assaults through DDoS attacks
Computer gearheads have shifted their attention to a new target – Apple users. The newly detected malware features DDoS attacks to paralyze Mac OS users’ computers.
Jack Ma Bets $2.6 Billion He Can Revamp China’s Retail Industry
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. pioneered shopping on the internet in China. Now it thinks it can teach old-school retailers a thing or two about real-world commerce.
How to take control of BYOD bandwidth use
The trend for increasing numbers of employees and customers bringing their own devices into a workplace can seriously impair a businesses’ access to the Internet. The problem is that as more mobile devices connect to the network, a business can quickly discover that its cloud-based applications, payments systems, accounting, stock control, customer relationship management and business applications have become hopelessly sluggish.
Irish Genealogy, World War II, Creative Commons, More: Tuesday Buzz, January 10, 2017
Irish Central has news about an updated resource for those working on Irish genealogy . “Over 250,000 names have been added to an online database of Irish births, marriages and deaths.
Why artificial intelligence is the future of
A man waits as Turkish Airlines planes are stuck on the tarmac during heavy snowfall at the Ataturk international airport in Istanbul, on Jan. 9, 2017. The days of journeying to a travel agency and sitting at the desk of an agent just to book a trip have all but disappeared, but technology is increasingly putting that level of personalized service in the palms of our hands.
Debugging Mars Rover in the field wins ScopeRider compo
Scope in Space, or “2 Min 2 Win”, was an eye-catching competition from Rohde & Schwarz. Based on the company’s rugged ScopeRider scope, the challenge was to find the most innovative use of the device, in difficult conditions.
Marissa Mayer to resign from Yahoo after Verizon acquisition is completed
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the board of the rump of Yahoo when Verizon finally completes its acquisition of the company’s web portal, search engine, email service and news services. Verizon will merge the Yahoo-branded web properties with AOL, which includes advertising sales platforms and websites such as The Huffington Post , TechCrunch and Engadget .
NETPark inventor’s lollipop invention lights the way for safer crossing patrols
A County Durham inventor is set to light up the school crossing patrol sector for the first time in five decades with a creation he believes could save lives. Andrew Turner, who has a base at the North East Technology Park in Sedgefield, is poised to meet with distributors about his illuminated lollipop design, having won the backing of a road safety charity.
The Touchy Task of Making Robots Seem Human-But Not Too Human
Meet ElliQ. She doesn’t have eyes or arms, but she has an hourglass-shaped “body” and a “head” that moves.
Pentagon tests artificially intelligent micro-drone swarm
The Pentagon may soon be unleashing a 21st-century version of locusts on its adversaries after officials on Monday said it had successfully tested a swarm of 103 micro-drones. The important step in the development of new autonomous weapon systems was made possible by improvements in artificial intelligence, holding open the possibility that groups of small robots could act together under human direction.
Alibaba to buy China mall operator in $2.6 bn plan
Chinese e-commerce titan Alibaba will take control of domestic department store Intime through a $2.6 billion privatisation scheme, the companies said Tuesday, sending shares of the mall operator surging. Alibaba and Intime founder Shen Guojun have together offered to pay HK$10 per share to buy the shares they do not already own of the Hong Kong-listed chain.
SKT to collaborate with US chipmaker Nvidia on autonomous cars
South Korea’s leading mobile carrier SK Telecom said Tuesday it has agreed to collaborate with leading US-based graphic chip maker Nvidia for the development of new platform technologies for autonomous vehicles. “We will merge Nvidia’s autonomous driving technology with SK Telecom’s ‘T Map’ navigation program and SK C&C’s cloud computing technology to develop our own self-driving platform technology,” a SKT spokesperson told The Korea Herald.
Hubble captures ‘Shadow Play’ caused by possible planet
Washington, Jan 10 : Searching for planets around other stars is a tricky business. They’re so small and faint that it’s hard to spot them.
The iPhone at 10: The Critics Were Wrong
From the very first day when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone at a Macworld Expo keynote in 2007, the critics were vocal. Apple had no business whatever building a cell phone.
Honda’s demonstrates self-balancing bike tech
For nearly two decades Honda’s been investing huge money in its Asimo robot – a boy-like humanoid which has progressed from a wobbly set of mechanical legs in its early years to a running, dancing and tray-carrying little machine servant still wowing crowds at motor and tech shows around the world today. But, even with all of Asimo’s impressive advancements in balancing technology, there are still some more cynical showgoers asking what the point of such an expensive android is.
Yahoo to change name to Altaba, CEO Marissa Mayer will resign if Verizon deal gets done
Yahoo will adopt a new corporate identity and slash the size of its board if the proposed $4.8 billion sale of its digital services to Verizon Communications goes through. The company plans to change its name to Altaba Inc. after it turns over its email, websites, mobile apps and advertising tools to Verizon.
Hidden Figures’ Topples – Rogue One’ in Final Box Office
Walt Disney Co. ‘s “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” was toppled from its three-week run as box-office leader by “Hidden Figures,” the 20th Century Fox film about a group of black women mathematicians who play a crucial role in the U.S. space program in the 1960s.
Surface Pro 3 vs iPad Pro 9.7 vs Lenovo Yoga Book Android showdown
If there were a few takeaways at CES 2017 last week, it would be that cars are the new darlings of the tech industry, that Amazon Alexa is taking over the world, and that laptops are becoming tablets or tablets are becoming laptops – laptops and tablets are becoming one. Whichever angle you look at it, the lines separating these two forms of portable computing have become even more muddled, with detachables and convertibles sporting pens and tablets sporting keyboards.