It supports full tail-recursion and first-class continuations. The code it generates is quite portable; compiled files generated by it should work with either no or minor changes on other systems.
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Tesco Chairman Regrets Saying White Men on Boards Are Endangered
Tesco Plc Chairman John Allan backtracked on his comments about the disadvantages for white men in corporate boardrooms as critics urged greater diversity of the retailer’s directors and some shoppers said they would boycott the U.K.’s biggest supermarket chain. “The point I was seeking to make was that successful boards must be active in bringing together a diverse and representative set of people,” Allan said Saturday in a statement on Tesco’s website.
NASA Images Reveal Weird Shape of Saturn’s Moon Pan
After studying Saturn for more than 13 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has finally given us a close-up view of its small moon Pan. And it shows how strange the Saturn moon is.
Massive scale of CIA’s digital efforts revealed
The documents contain references to hundreds of CIA hacking tools. One dubbed “Hammerdrill” is designed to get data from devices that are not connected to the Internet.
China tries to reassure foreign companies over industry plan
In thisOct. 21, 2016 photo, Chinese students work on the Ares, a humanoid bipedal robot designed by them with fundings from a Shanghai investment company, displayed during the World Robot Conference in Beijing. China’s industry minister has defended a manufacturing development plan and rejected complaints foreign makers of electric cars and other goods might be pressured to hand over technology or forced out of promising markets.
Keeping Liquids Off the Wall in Space
On Earth, liquid flows downhill thanks to gravity. Creating an effective liquid fuel tank involves little more than putting a hole at the bottom of a container.
First Global Maps of Volcanic Emissions Use NASA Satellite Data
But only occasionally. A less dramatic but important process is continuous gas emissions from volcanoes; in other words, as they exhale.
Trump Said to Weigh Political Risks of Firing CFPB’s Cordray
Since Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, he’s faced demands from Republican lawmakers to quickly oust the head of a controversial financial regulator. The president indicated this week that he’s proceeding cautiously.
nanotek 2017
Nanotek 2017 is comprised of several tracks designed to offer comprehensive and interesting sessions that address current trending technologies in Nano fields. Nanotechnology plays key roles in science and technology in current era.
How Start-Ups Die Plop
They were to inherit the earth. Start-ups, the playfield of the young and the restless, have had a hard reality check.
pando_ruffus 0.1.37
Pando_ruffus is a bioinformatics tool for for exploring and characterising bacterial genome data. Input is paired-end reads and assemblies.
Snowflake school makes top 10 in national STEM contest
Snowflake school makes top 10 in national STEM contest Their invention could save countless human and animal lives. You can help them win by voting on social media.
Top Trump confidante admits to speaking privately with…
OCTOBER 08: Political consultant Roger Stone speaks onstage during The New Yorker Festival 2016 – ‘President Trump: Life As We May Know It,’ featuring Max Boot, Amy Davidson, Roger Stone, and Sean Wilentz in conversation with Evan Osnos at MasterCard Stage at SVA Theatre on October 8, 2016 in New York City.
Hart to Heart: The fight to save Nicholas’ life
The battle against B Cell High Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia has been beyond challenging for 12-year-old Nicholas Childers of Savannah. The Hancock Day School seventh-grader has endured multiple medical complications during rigorous treatment since being diagnosed with B-ALL in 2015.
Storm Watch – Plowable Snow Potential Sunday – Northeast Blizzard Brewing
Sunday Snow Potential but Springy Next Weekend Our oldest son moved to Seattle with his new bride, taking a job at Cray, the supercomputer company that powers weather models at NOAA and ECMWF . He was hoping to take a badly-needed break from the merciless cold and snow of a Minnesota winter.
Scientists grow potato under Mars-like conditions in Peru
Potatoes on Mars? Scientists are reporting promising results growing the tuber under conditions that mimic the Red Planet in an experiment in Peru linked to US space agency NASA. “Preliminary results are positive,” the International Potato Center said this week after a potato grew under simulated Mars atmospheric conditions in an experiment in Lima.
Health warning: Poisonous Chinatown herbal tea leaves two critically ill, could kill others
Health officials warned the public Friday to throw away any herbal tea purchased from a Chinatown shop, after two people became critically ill after consuming the tea which was found to contained Aconite, a lethal poison. In separate incidents from February and March, a woman in her 50s and a man in his 30s became gravely ill within an hour of drinking tea made from leaves supplied by the same San Francisco herbalist.
Moto Z (2017) accidentally spotted ahead of official launch
We’re getting a clear picture of what to expect from Motorola ‘s next-generation smartphone – including how it looks. At its press conference at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month, Motorola launched new Moto Mods, including a game pad that appears to show off the successor to the Moto Z smartphone.
Fried Egg? Flying Saucer? Nope. Just Cool New Closeups of Saturn’s Moon Pan
This new view of Saturn’s moon Pan is the closest yet, snapped by Cassini from a distance of 15,268 miles on March 7, 2017. Pan measures 22 miles wide by 14 miles across and displays a number of small craters along with parallel ridges and grooves in addition to its relatively smooth equatorial “flap.”
Unvarnished truth key to Silicon Valley success
As we clang towards our automated, robot future, the arts and sciences of management need an overhaul. Companies are heading for dramatic changes, and people are going to need different kinds of handling.
Bharara, Wall Street’s Cop, Among Prosecutors Asked to Quit
Wall Street enforcer Preet Bharara may be forced out as the U.S. attorney in Manhattan despite assurances he said he had received from the incoming Trump administration that he would remain in the job. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Friday abruptly asked for the resignations of 46 U.S. attorneys, all those remaining who had served under former President Barack Obama.
Google’s self-driving car company escalates battle with Uber
A self-driving car company founded by Google is presenting new evidence to support its allegations that a former manager stole technology that Uber bought to help build robot-powered vehicles for its ride-hailing service. Waymo, a project hatched by Google, wove its tale of deceit in sworn statements filed Friday in a San Francisco federal court.
New Game: A Monsteca Corral: Monsters vs. Robots
No longer is planet Monsteca the harmonious world it once was-overrun by a robotic army set out to rule and conquer. No longer is the planet Monsteca the harmonious world it once was-it’s been overrun by a robotic army set out to rule and conquer.
Ukraine lawyer seeks probe of alleged hacked texts of Manafort’s daughter
A Ukrainian human rights attorney representing the victims of mass police shootings in Kiev in 2014 has asked prosecutors to investigate what are purported to be the hacked text messages of one of Paul Manafort’s daughters, saying the texts point to possible influence Manafort had with Ukraine’s president during that period. “You know he has killed people in Ukraine? Knowingly,” Andrea Manafort allegedly wrote of her father in March 2015 in an angry series of texts to her sister, Jessica, about her father’s personal and professional life.
Geohot’s new automated-driving device can only be redeemed by coughing up data
AUSTIN, Texas-At the first day of the SXSW Interactive festival, George “Geohot” Hotz announced an updated business plan for his company Comma.ai, all while revealing a new piece of hardware that will be given away, as opposed to sold: the Panda. The small circuit-board device comes with an ODB2 connector on one end, which Hotz described as compatible with any car made after 1996 , and a USB port on the other.
‘Buffy’ alum Clare Kramer on her Glory days, and Whedon’s best advice – CNET
As “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” turns 20, the actor talks about her role as the out-of-place goddess Glorificus who loved to cause chaos while looking fashionable. Clare Kramer’s character Glorificus was more than just a typical slayer enemy, she was a force to be reckoned with.
Lost since 2009, Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 found orbiting moon, claims NASA
China announced plans to launch a space probe to bring back samples from the moon before the end of the year in what state media cast as competition to U.S. President Donald Trump’s ambitions to revitalise U.S. space exploration. The Chang’e 3 probe is JPL radar scientist Marina Brozovic said: “We have been able to detect NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Indian Space Research Organisation’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in lunar orbit with ground-based radar”.
At a CAGR of 20.42%, Global RFID Tag Market Is Estimated Grow over Forecast 2016-2021
In a basic RFID system , tags are attached to all items that are to be tracked. These tags are made from a tiny tag-chip, sometimes called an integrated circuit , which is connected to an antenna that can be built into many different kinds of tags including apparel hang tags, labels, and security tags, as well as a wide variety of industrial asset tags.
Apple still destroys all other PC makers in one important way
It’s been a lackluster few years for Apple’s Mac lineup. The iconic MacBook Air has been put out to pasture, the new MacBook Pro distinctly underwhelmed creative types, and I can’t even remember the last time anyone said anything about the Mac Pro.
China calls for AI funding, policies to surpass US
Artificial intelligence has made its way on to the agenda of the government’s annual political show in Beijing, urged on by the country’s business and technology elites China’s government is preparing for a war of sorts with the United States to claim the vantage point to define the technological trend for the next generation. At the annual meeting of China’s parliament this week, the usual Communist Party agenda of economic growth, social welfare, jobs, health care and pension made way for an unusual addition: a clarion call by some of China’s most influential business and technology leaders for the government to set policies to define what they consider the Next Big Thing.
Lost & found after 7 years: Chandrayaan-1 spotted orbiting moon
In this handout photograph provided by the Indian Space Research Organization, India”s maiden lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, or Moon Craft in ancient Sanskrit, is seen successfully taking off at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, about 100 kilometers north of Chennai, India, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2008. ” INDIA’S MAIDEN moon mission spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 has been found in deep space by a powerful earth-based interplanetary radar deployed by researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, over seven years after all communication with the spacecraft was lost.
San Diego firm that makes lasers to protect US military helicopters to be acquired for $150M
San Diego’s Daylight Solutions, which makes infrared lasers used to protect military helicopters from heat seeking missiles, has agreed to be acquired by Italian aerospace and defense contractor Leonardo for $150 million. Founded in 2005, Daylight employs about 110 workers and has raised more than $35 million in capital over the years.
New NASA radar technique finds lost lunar spacecraft
It is known as the “Mars Antenna” as it was first to receive signals from the first spacecraft to closely observe Mars, Mariner 4, on March 18, 1966. Finding derelict spacecraft and space debris in Earth’s orbit can be a technological challenge.
[video] @IBMCloud and @NVIDIA #AI Keynote | @CloudExpo #ML #DL #IoT
The accelerating pace of AI development & how IBM Cloud & NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to every day, on-demand Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions.
Mattel reworks China strategy amid elusive growth
REUTERS: Mattel Inc is doubling down to corner a bigger share of China’s fragmented yet lucrative toy market, but the success of its efforts hinges on its ability to navigate strict regulation and adapt to local preferences.The maker of Barbie dolls struck deals with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and online content developer BabyTree last month to sell interactive learning products based on its Fisher-Price toys.The deals mark a shift for Mattel, which has built its business selling Barbie and Ken dolls in brick-and-mortar stores, and highlight the pressures U.S. firms face as they try to expand in new markets with sales stagnating back home.Alibaba’s reach and China’s preoccupation with education could give Mattel the thrust it needs to win over the country’s so-called “tiger mothers”, who aggressively push their children to be the best in school.”
artificial intelligence network concept
Artificial intelligence has become as meaningless a description of technology as “all natural” is when it refers to fresh eggs. At least, that’s the conclusion reached by Devin Coldewey, a Tech Crunch contributor.
CANADA 150: Fun facts you probably didn’t know
Canada, eh. The Great White North. The True North strong and free. It’s a place where we embrace milk in bags, toonies, toques, poutine, oh, and ketchup chips.
Core i5 3450 throttle R9 Nano0
I have a desktop based on Core i5 3450. I upgraded my GPU to R9 Nano last year, but I am not getting very good performance even at 900p .
rx 480 for $144? good deal?2
It’s a 4gb version, my main concern is it all seems reference from the photo so I’m wondering how it’ll hold up. Or are different fans a gimmick if you aren’t going to overclock? There’s also no reviews on new egg site so idk.
New Proposed DMV Robot Car Rules Weaken Safety Protections, Consumer…
It called for the regulations to be strengthened before they take effect. The nonpartisan, nonprofit public interest group also called on the DMV to immediately begin a rulemaking to enact regulations covering self-driving robot trucks.