Category: Science / Technology

Mistry Steps Down From Tata Companies Amid Fight With Scion

Ousted Tata Sons Ltd. Chairman Cyrus Mistry resigned as director of group companies on the eve of shareholder meetings to remove him and pledged to take the fight with the scion of the $100 billion conglomerate to a “larger platform.” Mistry stepped down as a director in Tata Steel Ltd., Tata Chemicals Ltd., Tata Global Beverages Ltd. and Indian Hotels Co., and as chairman of Tata Motors Ltd., the five companies said in stock exchange filings.

Cyber Insurance Now Critical as Data Breaches Wreak Havoc

While 2016 may have been one of the worst years in history for network security, there is at least one silver lining for According to the Insurance Information Institute, more than 60 different insurance companies are now offering standalone cyber insurance policies, with an estimated U.S. market of more than $3.25 billion in gross written premiums this year. That figure is the direct result of two related trends.

Pan-STARRS Releases Largest Digital Sky Survey to the World

The Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawai’i Institute for Astronomy is publicly releasing the world’s largest digital sky survey today from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is among the partners who contributed to the Pan-STARRS1 Surveys.

Rating, ranking and recommending: Three R’s for the internet age

This holiday season, when we Google for the most trending gifts, compare different items on Amazon or take a break to watch a holiday movie on Netflix, we are making use of what might be called “the three R’s” of the Internet Age: rating, ranking and recommending. Much like the traditional “three R’s” of education “reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic” no modern education is complete without understanding how websites’ algorithms combine, process and synthesize information before presenting it to us.

Printers as a Security Threat

In today’s digital age, everybody knows just how important security is. We look at PCs and smartphones-and the valuable data they hold-and immediately understand how rich a target those devices are to cyber criminals.

Telecom Cloud Billing Market Worth 8.22 Billion USD by 2021

According to a new market research report ” Telecom Cloud Billing Market by Type of Billing , Cloud Platform, Deployment, End User, Service, Rate of Charging Mode, and Region – Global Forecast to 2021″ , published by MarketsandMarkets, the market size is estimated to grow from Browse 75 market data Tables and 59 Figures spread through 160 P ages and in-depth TOC on ” Telecom Cloud Billing Market ” Lower operational & administration costs, advancement & increase in adoption of cloud-based technologies, increasing mobile penetration and high subscriber growth, need for real-time billing, and increased demand for bundled services are some of the driving forces in the Telecom Cloud Billing Market.

Replacing missing gut bacteria could help treat children with rare autoimmune disease

Defects in the body’s regulatory T cells cause inflammation and autoimmune disease by altering the type of bacteria living in the gut, researchers from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston have discovered. The study, “Resetting microbiota by Lactobacillus reuteri inhibits T reg deficiency-induced autoimmunity via adenosine A2A receptors,” which will be published online December 19 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, suggests that replacing the missing gut bacteria, or restoring a key metabolite called inosine, could help treat children with a rare and often fatal autoimmune disease called IPEX syndrome.

Tufin Extends Check Point R80 Security Management Across a Multi-Vendor Network

With Tufin, Check Point users who are currently deploying or plan to deploy R80 Security Management can extend the benefits of consolidated security across physical networks, private and public cloud platforms. “By supporting R80 Security Management, we are taking our relationship with Check Point a step further, offering joint customers a powerful yet seamless way of managing security policies across a multi-vendor network,” said Ofer Or, vice president of products, Tufin.

Intelligent Virtual Assistant (IVA) Market Report 2017-2027

Forecasts By Technology By Application By End User Analysis of Leading Companies Developing Artificial intelligence , Predictive Analytics & Natural Language Understanding Intelligent Virtual Assistants – Our new study reveals trends and predicted revenues What is the growth trajectory for the Intelligent Virtual Assistant market? Visiongain values the global Intelligent Virtual Assistant market at in 2017. If you are involved in IVA’s you must read this brand new report.

Tape-Head Robot Listens to the Floor

We were just starting to wonder exactly what we’re going to do with our old collection of cassette tapes, and then along comes art robotics to the rescue! Russian tech artist [::vtol::] came up with another unique device to make us smile . This time, it’s a small remote-controlled, two-wheeled robot.

Practice rocket warhead found at Hillcrest home

A practice rocket warhead found in the yard of a Hillcrest home Sunday may have been unearthed by weekend rain, a fire official said. A resident at the home on Dove Street near West Pennsylvania Avenue called 911 after stumbling on the rusty ordnance about 3 p.m., San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Capt.

pypicontents added to PyPI

PyPIContents is an application that generates a Module Index from the Python Package Index and also from various versions of the Python Standard Library. PyPIContents is an application that generates a Module Index from the Python Package Index and also from various versions of the Python Standard Library.

Asrock Beebox-S 7200U: Kaby Lake vs. Skylake

Reviewed just four months ago, Asrock’s compact yet capable Beebox-S is one of our favorite mini PCs given its price, features, build quality, and dual-core 14nm Skylake-U processor. Although the Core i5-6200U SoC is over a year old, the system is efficient and surprisingly affordable at $165 for the 6100U and $320 for the 6200U .

Shionogi And Purdue Pharma L.P. Establish Alliance For Joint U.S. Commercialization Of Naldemedine

OSAKA, Japan & STAMFORD, Conn.– — Shionogi & Co., Ltd. , a drug-discovery based pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing medicines that protect the health and well-being of patients, and its wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary, Shionogi Inc. , and Purdue Pharma L.P. , a privately-held pharmaceutical company founded by physicians over 60 years ago, distinguished by its pioneering research, products and medical programs directed toward alleviating pain, today announced the establishment of an alliance for the joint U.S. launch and commercialization of SymproicA .

Jaguar Animal Health Appoints Dr. Ari Azhir To Board Of Directors

Jaguar Animal Health, Inc. , an animal health company focused on developing and commercializing first-in-class gastrointestinal products for companion and production animals, foals, and high value horses, today announced that it has appointed Dr. Ari Azhir, a highly accomplished pharmaceutical and biotechnology executive with extensive operational, fundraising, execution, and strategy development experience, to the Company’s board of directors. Dr. Azhir has also been appointed to Jaguar’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

mercurial_keyring 1.1.7

Mercurial Keyring is a Mercurial extension used to securely save HTTP and SMTP authentication passwords in password databases . On your first pull or push to HTTP url , you are prompted for the password, just like bare Mercurial does.

Scalextric could start making thought-controlled cars

Scientists said the next generation of Scalextric sets, remote controlled cars and helicopters, along with toy robots, will be mind controlled. They say the must-have gifts of the future will come with sensors in headsets that receive ‘brain waves’ and feed them into electrical circuits.

A cabal of elites elects the president. But our founders preferred…

This Oct. 28, 2008, file photo from Glenburn, Maine, shows sportswear bearing the name of a college that doesn’t exist: the Electoral College This Oct. 28, 2008, file photo from Glenburn, Maine, shows sportswear bearing the name of a college that doesn’t exist: the Electoral College American presidential elections are generally orderly affairs. People vote, somebody wins and life goes on.

So you want to build a Death Star? Here’s how to get started

I’m very excited about seeing ” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story ,” which tells the tale summarized in the original Star Wars’ opening crawl. This is the story of how the rebels stole the plans to the original “Death Star” – a space station the size of a small moon with a weapon powerful enough to destroy a planet.

Former Camelot employee hacked into databases to con bosses out of…

How the Lotto fraudsters almost got away with it: Former Camelot employee hacked into databases to con bosses out of A 2.5million with a forged ticket The details of how a convicted rapist and former Camelot employee duped the National Lottery into giving away a A 2.5million jackpot have been revealed. Edward Putman, who was sentenced to seven years in prison in 1991 for raping a 17-year-old girl after breaking into her house, won the lottery in 2009 after using a fake ticket to claim the cash prize.

Conversion Scientist Brian Massey Discusses Secret Formula for Online Conversions with Jeff Beale

Conversion Scientist Brian Massey discusses the secret to better online conversions with Influential Marketing Expert Jeff Beale – from optimizing your website to efficiently segmenting your traffic for a fine-tuned online marketing strategy. ATLANTA – Dec. 18, 2016 – PRLog — Marketing Strategist Jeff Beale, more popularly known as Mr. Marketology, hosts another influential online marketing expert, Conversion Scientist Brian Massey, in his daily podcast sessions at Mr. Marketology com.