Category: Science / Technology

Across the Nation: Law professor who wore blackface blasts school report

Federal prosecutors have charged three Chinese nationals accused of profiting from insider information about mergers and acquisitions by hacking into the networks of law firms working on the deals, authorities said Tuesday. The three men made more than $4 million in profits by buying stock in companies that were about to be acquired and then selling the shares after the acquisitions were announced, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said.

December 29, 2016

This megamaser is named IRAS 16399-0937, and is located over 370 million light-years from Earth. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image belies the galaxy’s energetic nature, instead painting it as a beautiful and serene cosmic rosebud.

Inside Chile’s Magical Startup Scene

Santiago would not be the first city that pops to mind as a rival to Silicon Valley, and with good reason: The wealth flowing through Chile’s capital city comes from the copper and mineral mines rather than high tech. But a collection of passionate engineers operating out of a technology incubator called the Idea Factory could change that.

PHOTOS: Notable deaths in 2016

British singer and icon David Bowie circa 1983. Bowie died on January 10, 2016 after an 18-month battle with cancer at the age of 69. Three-time World Heavyweight Champion boxer Muhammad Ali, training in his gym in 1965.

NASA’s Got A Giant Space Laser And It’s Not Afraid to Use It

While NASA has been pulling off all kinds of cool accomplishments this year – from Juno arriving in Jupiter’s orbit to getting help from the public to solve the space poo dilemma – potentially one of the most important discoveries NASA scientists have made this year concerns microscopic underwater plants the entire planet’s delicate ecosystem … (more)

Debbie Reynolds, who sang and danced to fame in a Singina in the Rain,a dies at 84

Debbie Reynolds’ life was the stuff of movie legend, from her start as an ingenue playing opposite Gene Kelly in the classic 1952 musical “Singin’ in the Rain,” to her part in one of Hollywood’s most notorious scandals. And her death Wednesday at the age of 84 had the kind of tragic story line Hollywood made famous, coming only one day after her daughter, Carrie Fisher , died at the age of 60. Reynolds’ son, Todd, told media outlets that his mother was under stress over the death of her daughter and suffered a stroke at her home at about noon.

Noon Year’s Eve: Sunny Celebration

It’s an established and accepted fact that Pasadena has a notable knack for bending time and space, easy-peasy-style. The space part of the equation is widely known, thanks to the presence of the cosmos-cool Jet Propulsion Laboratory, but the Crown City’s time-changing properties are also robust.

How advanced manufacturing is transforming WNC’s economy

MANUFACTURING OF TOMORROW: In the past five years, the advanced manufacturing industry has been growing in Western North Carolina, as new companies move to the region and existing operations expand. Economic development organizations are working with businesses and educational programs like AB-Tech’s mechanical engineering department to train a new generation of technicians to fill these workforce needs.

The Man Who’s Flown Everything

An hour before the doors of the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center opened to visitors, the vast, multi-level space was filled with a theatrical pre-curtain hush. Only a few docents were here, getting reacquainted with the 170-some air- and spacecraft on display, machines that had made some of the most important history of the last hundred years.

Cut the cordTech titans shun screen time for their kidsScreen time is …

He created one of the world’s biggest tech companies earning him billions but the late Steve Jobs, the man behind the iPod, iPad and iPhone, once let slip to a New York Times journalist that he strictly limited his children’s use of technology. And, as it turns out, the chief technology officer of eBay sent his children to a Waldorf school where screen time is actively discouraged and the use of screens at home is frowned upon.

django-djaffar 0.1.8

Want to keep track of what your users do even when they don’t hit the server? Set up Djaffar on the server and make a request to the client API to log user activity to the database, including URI path, user name, browser session, IP address and user agent. Requirements ———— Django .

One-stop-shop: Server steals data then offers it for sale

While intercepting traffic from a number of infected machines that showed signs of Remote Admin Tool malware known as HawkEye, we stumbled upon an interesting domain. It was registered to a command and control server which held stolen keylog data from HawkEye RAT victims, but was also being used as a one-stop-shop for purchasing hacking goods.

Exclusive – Bangladesh police detail suspicions of inside help in central bank heist

A top investigator into the electronic theft of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank is turning his attention to some IT technicians from the bank whom he suspects hooked up its transactions system to the public Internet, giving hackers access. In a series of interviews this month, Mohammad Shah Alam, a Bangladesh police deputy inspector general who is heading investigations in Dhaka, went into some detail about how insiders at Bangladesh Bank may have helped in the execution of one of the world’s biggest cyber-heists last February.

The Best Personal Technology of 2016

Traditional broadcast TV services have stagnated over the past couple of years, while over-the-top services such as Amazon Video, Netflix and the BBC’s iPlayer led the way. Sky’s Q dragged broadcast TV kicking and screaming into the 21st century with a modern interface, fast box and service that put time and place shifting at the heart of it.

Pocklington teenager wins prestigious engineering award

A SCHOOL girl from East Yorkshire has been picked out as a future leader in engineering after a prestigious award win. Pocklington School lower sixth student Naomi Allison has been awarded an engineering scholarship by the Arkwright Scholarships Trust at an awards ceremony in London for the UK’s most talented STEM students.

Scotland’s papers: Jobs lost to robots and religion in classrooms

A report warns a robot revolution will place millions of British jobs under threat from automation, according to the Herald and the Scotsman which both lead on the story. The Times claims a poll for their paper shows majority of Scots believe that rules should be changed to ensure that children are not made to take part in religious observance at school.

Oil IPOs Seen Ready to Bloom Across U.S. as Crude Heads Higher

Rising crude prices and a deregulatory push in Washington may spur as many as 40 companies to hold initial public offerings over the next two years, potentially tripling 2016’s activity, according to Maynard Holt, chief executive officer at Houston-based investment bank Tudor Pickering Holt & Co. After a year in which explorers in the Permian shale basin straddling Texas and New Mexico dominated the business, interest in new oil-industry offerings is likely to spread wider.