Category: Science / Technology

Richmond: Officials working to determine source of rotten-egg smell

Air district and Contra Costa health officials are continuing to work to find the source of a rotten-egg smell reported in both Richmond and San Francisco, officials said Friday. The foul smell has been prevalent in Point Richmond and San Francisco this week and may be connected to flaring incidents at the Chevron refinery that the county says were not properly reported.

The top 10 Army modernization efforts of 2016

The Improved Turbine Engine Program will eventually replace the existing General Electric T700-GE-701C/D engines that now power AH-64 Apache like this one and UH-60 Black Hawk aircraft. The right technology can ensure overmatch against future adversaries in an increasingly complex and dangerous world, where the threat is often “elusive and ambiguous,” according to Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen.

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This artist’s concept of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell aircraft shows the plane’s specially designed wing and 14 electric motors. NASA Aeronautics researchers will use the X-57 to demonstrate that electric propulsion can make planes quieter, more efficient and more environmentally friendly.

Mojave a ” thinking outside the box

Doug Scroggins of Scroggins Aviation works on block buster movies often using old planes from Mojave’s boneyard. His helicopter built for the film Jurassic World, was part of the second highest grossing film until Star Wars bumped it out.

Air Force Test Center

In 2012, Air Force Materiel Command redesignated the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., as the Air Force Test Center. As the AFTC, the center assumed responsibility for the 412th Test Wing at Edwards, the 96th Test Wing at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at Arnold AFB, Tenn.

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When astronauts set foot on Mars, they may stay for months rather than days as they did during Apollo missions to the moon. The surface of Mars has extreme temperatures and the atmosphere does not provide adequate protection from high-energy radiation.

Kite

Full description=Kite is a programming language designed to minimize as much of the programmer experience as possible. It aims to allow quick development and running time and low CPU and memory usage.

KleanSweep

Full description=KleanSweep allows you to reclaim disk space by finding unneeded files. It can search for files based on several criteria: you can seek for empty files, backup files, broken symbolic links, dead menu entries, duplicated files, orphaned files , and more.

Klep

Full description=Klep is Yet Another virtual flashcard program, which helps in putting information into one’s short term memory. It has many features not commonly found in virtual flashcard programs, including: export to memaid so that material learned in Klep can be retained in the long term; support for images, support for multiple choice questions, and a numerous others.

Knetfilter

Full description=Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables. It is used with Linux 2.4 to manage the functiona…”) Full description=Knetfilter is a KDE frontend to iptables.

WhySoSlow 1.0 checks your PC for performance issues

System utility developer Resplendence Software has released WhySoSlow 1.0 , a “performance and responsiveness analyzer” for Windows 7 and later. The program’s analysis function monitors various performance indicators, including CPU clock speed, temperature and load; memory load; hard page faults; application responsiveness; latencies, BIOS interrupt delays and more.

Hubble Gazes at A Cosmic Megamaser

This galaxy has a far more exciting and futuristic classification than most — it hosts a megamaser. Megamasers are intensely bright, around 100 million times brighter than the masers found in galaxies like the Milky Way.

Snowden Leak Suggests the NSA Could Prove Identity of DNC Hackers

A previously unpublished top-secret document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests the National Security Agency has the ability to conclusively determine who hacked Democratic Party servers during the 2016 election season. Sam Biddle at The Intercept explains: “The agency tracked a similar hack before in the case of a prominent Russian journalist, who was also a U.S. citizen.”

5 things you can’t miss at Hacker Connect

Inman’s Hacker Connect can provide just that for real estate techies, with discussions, debates and collaborative sessions that will reveal insights on some of the industry’s most pressing and upcoming tech issues. . It has a robust list of engineers, developers, designers, product managers, database architects, webmasters and technology executives from around the world both speaking and attending.

Police charge three more hacker suspects

THE military has handed over three more suspected hackers to police for their alleged involvement in the recent cyber attacks on government agency websites, a Royal Thai Police spokesman said yesterday. Police Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen, deputy spokesman for the police force, said that the three suspects, all men, had been charged with taking part in a criminal syndicate, in addition to violations against the Computer Crime Act.

The real political divide is education

The two main political parties in this country are about to face a challenge that will create a complete realignment as politicians are forced to choose between robots and people. Vespasian ruled Rome from AD 69 to AD 79. The emperor was one of the first heads of state to encourage the development of art, science and technology.

Ethiopia: Sharing Animal Husbandry Experience

In spite of the fact that Ethiopia has abundant resources of livestock, it has not exploited the prevailing potential due lack of skilled power and proper technology. In spite of some efforts to encourage crossbreeding between local and exotic breeds of almost all domestic livestock, the number of crossbreeds remain to be negligible.

Poles bid farewell to truck driver killed in Berlin attack

The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral ceremonies. less The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral … more The coffin with the body of Lukasz Urban, the Polish truck driver killed in the Berlin Christmas market attack, is carried into the church in Banie, Poland, Friday, Dec. 30, 2016, ahead of the funeral ceremonies.

Leighton’s Mat presents a Snowman to Tim Peake

Mat Williams, 30, was commissioned by Lupus Films in December 2015 to produce a drawing of the astronaut floating with The Snowman and The Snowdog because Major Tim had tweeted to say he was a fan of the film and its composer, Ilan Eshkeri. Mat, a background artist for the 2012 animation, had to scan the drawing to send an image of it to the International Space Station, but a few weeks ago the artist finally got to meet Major Tim in person, giving him the special picture.

Odd News salutes the most useless inventions of 2016

Conventional wisdom holds that “necessity is the mother of invention,” but if that’s the case, some inventions that made headlines in 2016 must be downright motherless. There were plenty of inventions and breakthroughs in 2016 that filled important needs for humanity, but we here at UPI Odd News are more concerned with a less-recognized category of innovations — those that seemingly serve only to promote lazy, bizarre, or downright dangerous behavior.