Rehmann Capital Advisory Group reduced its position in shares of Neogen Corporation by 0.4% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission . The fund owned 3,882 shares of the company’s stock after selling 17 shares during the period.
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Russian hacking hits home in Vermont
Russian hackers penetrated a computer at the Burlington Electric Department that is not connected to the electrical grid, officials say. Burlington Electric found out about the malware when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security notified the utility about a hacking campaign called Grizzly Steppe.
The Year We Went on Offense Against DRM: 2016 in Review
A decade ago, DRM seemed like it was on the ropes: it had disappeared from music, most video was being served DRM-free by YouTube and its competitors, and gamers were united in their hatred of the technology. But by 2016, DRM had come roaring back, finding its way into voting machines, insulin pumps, and car engines.
As it Happened: Leap Second 37
At the end of 2016 timekeepers added an extra second to the time we use to track our everyday activities. This is needed to match the astronomical time, measured through the Earth’s slightly irregular rotation frequency, to the exact duration of a second defined through our atomic clocks.
ISPs face volume and velocity challenges
By 2020, IoT will include 26 billion units installed generating large quantity of Big Data that needs real time processing and analysis. Gordon Moore, who created the Moore’s Law, has predicted that technological advances would lead to doubling of the number of transistors on a chip approximately every two years.
Twitter’s managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen,…
Twitter’s managing director for Greater China, Kathy Chen, leaves after 8 months – Kathy Chen follows others out the door of the social communications company. – Twitter lost yet another top exec with the departure of Kathy Chen, its managing director in Greater China.
Comments of the Week #142: from the speed of light to fundamental constants [Starts With A Bang]
Cosmic rarities, like merging galaxies and gravitational lensing phenomena can be seen in this section of the GOODS/ERS2 field. Image credit: NASA, ESA, R. Windhorst, S. Cohen, M. Mechtley, and M. Rutkowski , R. O’Connell , P. McCarthy , N. Hathi , R. Ryan , H. Yan , and A. Koekemoer .
Macau Gaming Revenue Rises 8% in December
Casino revenue in Macau increased in December, extending the industry’s recovery to a fifth month as the Chinese gambling hub’s efforts to reinvent itself drew more Gross gaming revenue rose 8 percent from a year earlier to 19.8 billion patacas , according to data from Macau’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, following a 14.4 percent increase in For the full year, casino revenue fell 3.3 percent to 223.2 billion patacas, easing from the 34.3 percent drop recorded in 2015. Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg expect a 7 percent increase in gambling revenue in 2017, in a recovery led by mass market players.
Postdoctoral Fellow Positions Available
Postdoctoral fellow positions in neuroscience are available at the Department of Neurosurgery in the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in the . We are looking for highly motivated postdocs with experience in both in vivo and in vitro to join our research team for performing US federal government funded research projects.
Virtual reality is more than gaming tech – and it’s here to stay
Say the words ‘virtual reality’, and most people picture a niche community of enthusiasts, or gamers eager to get their hands on the latest tech. But the extent of virtual reality’s evolution in recent years – to the point where it is a completely immersive experience – has rapidly accelerated the growth of the industry.
The Mannequin Challenge In Space
You might have thought all those other stupid mannequin challenge videos were good….right up until the astronauts on the International Space Station decided to take the challenge . Imagine pulling that off in zero gravity.
Intel’s i7-7700k overclocked to a ridiculous 7GHz thanks to liquid nitrogen
Intel’s much-anticipated high-performance Kaby Lake processors are almost here, which means anyone with a PC built for gaming or other heavy lifting tasks will have to decide whether or not it’s time for an upgrade. The i7-7700k chip, which will likely succeed the 6700k as being the go-to for overclockers and enthusiasts, will definitely be in high demand, but just how much room is there for tweaking? Well, if you happen to have a bit of liquid nitrogen sitting around, the answer is a whole lot.
Watch Korea’s mech take its first steps with a pilot on board
That real, life-sized mech Korean company Hankook Mirae debuted recently isn’t just for show. Its designer, Hollywood SFX veteran Vitaly Bulgarov, has posted a video on Facebook showing the robot taking its first steps.
Observing highlights for stargazers in 2017
Here is a selection of observing highlights that amateur astronomers and casual stargazers can look forward to during 2017. The total eclipse of the Sun on August 21 is likely to be the astronomical event of the year.
Live updates: Raiders vs. Broncos, Sunday
Get live scoring updates, news and analysis Sunday at 1:25 p.m. when the playoff-bound Raiders travel to Denver to face the Broncos. The Raiders can clinch the AFC West championship with a victory over the Broncos , who will be playing their last game under coach Gary Kubiak, who is expected to resign after the season for health reasons.
Hackers target George Michael’s boyfriend Fadi Fawaz on Twitter after singer’s death
Fadi Fawaz, who had dated the Careless Whisper star since 2012, found the singer dead in bed at his home in Oxfordshire, England on Christmas Day. Following Michael’s tragic passing, Fawaz used his social media account to speak about the death, tweeting “ITs a xmas i will never forget finding your partner dead peacefully in bed first thing in the morning”.
Dell will be revealing a new XPS 13 2-in-1 at CES 2017
CES 2017 is right around the corner now, and it looks like Dell will be launching at least one new laptop, the XPS 13 . First spotted by Windows Central , Dell’s website has a page up that simply says “XPS 13 2-in-1” with an image.
Vandalized Hollywood Sign Briefly Reads ‘HOLLYWeeD’
No, Los Angeles residents, it wasn’t your hangovers playing tricks on you. The Hollywood sign really did read “HOLLYWeeD” for a few hours on New Year’s Day.
PS4 Exclusives Coming In 2017 Highlighted By Sony
Sony was primarily focused on hardware in 2016. The year brought us the PlayStation 4 Slim , the PlayStation 4 Pro as well as the company’s first virtual reality headset, the PlayStation VR .
Google Removed 900 Million Pirate Links Last Year
You don’t just search for something online, you ” Google It,” that’s really how most of us refer to the most widely used search engine in the world. Naturally, the company has a huge responsibility on its hands to ensure that it doesn’t rank links that point to pirated content.
WinX 2017 New Year Gift Pack Onboard for DVD Collectors and Movie Addicts
Digiarty Software is pushing a ten-day “WinX 2017 New Year Gift Pack” promotion, starting from today to the tenth of January, at virtually the lowest storewide price ever. While WinX DVD Ripper Platinum and three other featured media programs are hitting the discount shelve, a new wave of online sales is coming, playing like a Christmas Deal sequel.
iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Will Replace All Human Workers With Robots
Manufacturing jobs are increasingly being taken over by robots as automating factories and production lines turns out to be more cost-effective for companies. Foxconn, a China-based manufacturer that has long produced iPhones for Apple , has laid out a three-phase plan in which it’s going to replace almost all of its human workers with robots.
Surface Pro 5 Release Expected In Q1 2017
It has been a while since Microsoft launched a new Surface Pro tablet. There were rumors in 2016 that one might be launched in early 2017.
Administration Leaks Inaccurate Report of US Electric Grid Hack
Friday night The Washington Post ran a front page story saying that, “according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity”, Russian hackers had penetrated the US electrical grid at a then unnamed utility in Vermont. Other major news organizations, to their credit, did NOT pick up this story.
Macbook peripherals for dummies
For clarity: I have a retina Macbook Pro that comes with two Thunderbolt 2 ports, a HDMI port and two USB 3 ports. Monitor I have an old 18″ monitor sat gathering dust.
PHOTOS: From Saturn’s rings to a space sunset, amazing 2016…
This image shows sunlight hitting Saturn’s north pole. The whole northern region of the sixth planet from the sun is bathed in sunlight in this view from late 2016, feeble as the light may be.
How bad will the air pollution get? Don’t ask China’s supercomputers
Most calculations were done using an IBM high-performance computer operated by China Meteorological Administration, the scientists said. The three-year-old machine, IBM Flex System p460, played a key role in arriving at forecasts for smog levels for Beijing and other parts of the northern mainland last month, according to the researchers.
Mariah Carey bungles her New Yeara s Eve show, stops singing
Mariah Carey has ushered in 2017 with a botched performance on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest” on ABC. The singer appeared to have technical difficulties during her live performance Saturday night in Times Square.
Thecus W2810PRO review, a NAS device running Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials
The market for devices that allow you to control your own data is hot right now. Sure, the available-anywhere cloud is an extremely convenient place to store your files, but for many people , the idea that a third party has access to your data and is responsible for its security just doesn’t sit well.
Longtime Dubuque barber retires
In this photo taken Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016, Rick Klein gives a haircut to Jerry Koppes, of Dubuque, Iowa, at Link’s Barber Shop in Dubuque. Klein is retiring after 53 years.
social-auth 0.3.3
Python Social Auth is an easy-to-setup social authentication/registration mechanism with support for several frameworks and auth providers. Crafted using base code from django-social-auth, it implements a common interface to define new authentication providers from third parties, and to bring support for more frameworks and ORMs.
Today in science: Discovery of Ceres
Ceres was the first asteroid ever discovered, in 1801, and it’s still the largest body in the asteroid belt. Nowadays, we call it a dwarf planet, and a spacecraft has been orbiting it! Ceres’ Occator Crater in false colour showing surface composition via NASA’s Dawn spacecraft / JPL/ Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA.
Beauty And The Beast To Baywatch: The Movie Reboots We Can’t Wait For In 2017
From the return of our favourite lifeguards to the resurrection of a classic monster, 2017 looks set to be a great year for movie reboots. Movie reboots are always risky business and in recent years we’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly, when it comes to studios trying to breathe new life into an old story.
More suburbs getting ahead on stopping alcohol smoking, powdered alcohol
A patron samples the Vaportini, an alcohol vaporization device its inventor says is safer than most because it contains no more than 1½ ounces of liquor at a time. Nevertheless, it is banned by law in Naperville and soon will be banned in Schaumburg.
Megalithic Burials, Banished Words, Twitter, More: Sunday Buzz, January 1, 2017
In development: a database of megalithic burials . “The study linking archeology, biology and history would lead to building a database to provide information on disease process, and, more importantly, to indicate conditions that could have led to the development, maintenance and the changing manifestations of disease through time.”
Musical Inventions
People have been playing music on homemade instruments for thousands of years. But creating newinstruments is much more than an art form.
97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know
If you want to push your Java skills to the next level, this practical book provides expert advice from leading luminaries within the Java ecosystem. You’ll be encouraged to stretch yourself by learning new techniques, look at problems in new ways, take responsibility for your work, and become as good at the entire craft of programming as you possibly can.
Scala for Spark in Production
If you’re an Apache Spark developer, this practical book provides an introduction to the Scala programming language to help you get more out of this framework. Written in Scala, Spark uses its rich Domain-Specific Language abilities to present SQL views, extensibility, streaming, and DataFrames.
Lowell High entrepreneurs create innovative products
In conjunction with the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, LHS entrepreneurs discover that what they are learning in the classroom is relevant to the real world. By teaching the entrepreneurial mindset, NFTE provides young people with tools and attitudes to overcome adversity and address future personal, economic, community and global challenges.
UMass partners for better biotech
Now, the university’s program will get even stronger as it joins a public-private partnership to develop new advanced manufacturing technologies and train a skilled workforce. Massachusetts has been named a partner in the nation’s first manufacturing innovation institute in biopharmaceutical manufacturing, and UMass Lowell is one of five universities supporting the effort — working towards finding better ways to produce biotech drugs.