Category: Science / Technology

Insider guide to San Francisco’s Exploratorium

The Exploratorium on Pier 15 in San Francisco is a wonderland of experiment and investigation – and quite a bit of play – exploring science, art and human perception. Attempting to offer a guide to the Exploratorium is like herding kinetic molecules in a swirling vortex of mechanics, magnetics, chaotic pendulums and gravity wells, which is probably one of the museum’s exhibits.

Expect More Enterprise Collaboration Acquisitions in 2017

Atlassian’s $425 million acquisition of task management provider Trello this week could signal increased industry consolidation with more enterprise collaboration chat providers buying asynchronous collaboration tools, an analyst told CMSWire. “Vendors that are strong in asynchronous collaboration will probably try to go out and find ways to acquire solutions for synchronous collaboration, and the other way around.

Amazon Expects To Add 100,000 New Jobs By 2018

Amazon.com on Thursday said it would expand its full-time U.S.-based workforce to 280,000 by mid-2018, from 180,000 last year. Over the past five years, Amazon says it’s created more than 150,000 jobs in the U.S., growing its workforce from 30,000 in 2011.

Township moving to internet-based phone system

The township is planning to switch from traditional telephone phone lines to a voice over internet protocol system next month. “With the addition of the new municipal maintenance facility we are reaching the capacity of our phone system and would need to consider an upgrade,” explained CAO Brad McRoberts in a report to council.

Cerri.com AG Shortlisted for 2016-17 Cloud Awards Program

Cerri.com AG is a finalist in the 2016-2017 Cloud Awards Program in the category of Best Project Management Cloud Service for their flagship project management software , Genius Project. Now entering its seventh year, the cloud computing awards program celebrates excellence and innovation in the rapid-growth cloud computing market.

Canadian’s are soft selling innovation

The Impact Centre at the University of Toronto has released a report on the relative emphasis on marketing and sales by mid-sized software companies in Canada and the United States. Many commentators on Canadian innovation focus on either low business expenditures on research and development or a shortage of venture capital funds as the root cause of Canada’s lackluster performance in innovation.

Inspur Joins Open Compute Project As Platinum Member

OCP was initiated by Facebook in 2011 with the mission to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage and data center hardware designs for scalable computing — reducing the environmental impact of data centers. Since then, OCP has been consistently innovating around open source contributions for networking, servers, storage and Open Rack.

My month with the Surface Book i7 with Performance Base

CIO.com’s Sarah White reflects on her past month using the Microsoft’s top-tier hybrid laptop, the Surface Book i7 with Performance Base. When Microsoft held an event last October , everyone thought it was prepping to announce the Microsoft Surface Pro 5 or Surface Book 2. Instead, we got the new Surface Studio, Windows Creative Update and a beefed-up Surface Book i7 with Performance Base.

Would-Be Kingmaker Calls Out Iron Giants in Ore Tax Battle

The world’s biggest mining companies producing iron ore from Australia aren’t paying their fair share in taxes, according to a lawmaker who wants a 20-fold raise in a state levy that’s been unchanged since the 1960s and the era of imperial pounds, shillings and pence. The proposal has “overwhelming” support and Rio Tinto Group and BHP Billiton Ltd.’s objections don’t stack up, according to Brendon Grylls, Western Australia’s Nationals party leader.

People attracted to financial advice from robots

More than two-thirds of UK consumers would use software robots for banking services and a quarter are attracted to the impartiality of advice given by robots. Access this guide to aid you in facing the challenges, opportunities and key actions need to consider in preparing your organisation for GDPR.

Asia Pacific Spending on Robotics Will Reach $133 Billion in 2020, according to IDC

According to the newly released IDC Worldwide Commercial Robotics Spending Guide , Asia Pacific spending on robotics and related services will more than double, growing from $60 billion in 2016 to over $133 billion in 2020 – a compounded annual growth rate of 22%. This new robotics spending guide now includes data on commercial and consumer purchases of drones and after-market drone hardware in addition to spending data on robotic systems, system hardware, software, robotics-related services, and after-market robotics hardware.

W3C and OGC put more Spatial (and space-born) Data on the Web

The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8375 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.

Walgreens, FedEx to offer package pickup and drop-off at pharmacies

By the end of next year, most Walgreens customers will be able to pick up prescriptions and packages in a single stop. To accommodate a growing number of e-commerce packages – particularly for customers who can’t easily have orders shipped to their homes – Deerfield-based Walgreens will let customers pick up and drop off packages shipped through FedEx at thousands of pharmacies, the companies said Wednesday.

Edmonds CC students participate in NASA-funded undergraduate research

From left, Edmonds CC students Cali Drake, Stephanie Bernard, Chris Nguyen, and Thinh Pham participated in a NASA-funded undergraduate research project during fall quarter. Edmonds Community College students have partnered with a local technology company to test how well plasma jets can eliminate specific types of bacteria from the surface of spacecraft.

Amazon removes Indian flag doormat link after visa threat

Amazon.com removed doormats resembling the Indian tri-colour flag from its Canadian website, after an Indian government threat to rescind visas of the US company’s employees if they did not stop selling the product. “If this is not done forthwith, we will not grant Indian Visa to any Amazon official,” she added.

China’s EasyStack Raises $50M for OpenStack

EasyStack, a start-up based in Beijing, announced that it closed US$50 million in Series C funding for its OpenStack cloud enterprise solutions. EasyStack, which claims to be the leading OpenStack cloud platform and service provider in Asia-Pacific, was founded in February 2014 by the core team of IBM China R&D Center.

Aptilo Powers Wi-Fi in the London Underground

Aptilo Networks confirmed that its Wi-Fi service management solutions are being used by 3UK to serve some 500K subscribers with Wi-Fi in the London Underground. 3UK, which had no Wi-Fi capabilities prior to the launch in 2014, built its Wi-Fi service from the ground-up using the Aptilo Managed Service through an existing Wi-Fi access network deployed across the London Underground by Virgin Media.

China turns to robots as workers age

With China’s labour force shrinking under the impact of the now abandoned one-child policy, the world’s second-largest economy is turning to machines to try to fill the gap. Flat, orange robots glide under stationary cars and ferry them to empty Chinese parking bays, using space more efficiently and, their creators say, reducing driver stress.

Art in MTR Exhibition Displays Students’ Innovative Design on Hostels for People with Dementia

Jan. 11, 2017 – PRLog — Retreat hostel models for elderly people with dementia and their families are showcased in the latest “Art in MTR” exhibition which runs from today at MTR Sheung Wan Station and Sai Wan Ho Station until 5 April 2017. Organised by the World Green Organisation, the “Social Innovation Inventor – Elderly Retreat Hostel Design Competition Exhibition” features 20 winning hostel designs.

DASO to get 164 new handguns

The DoA a Ana County Sheriff’s Department will get 164 Glock 9 mm handguns in the coming months, The purchase of two more DASO patrol units, a new dash cam system for some vehicles and GPS tracking for the agency’s vehicles also was appro DASO to get 164 new handguns LAS CRUCES – The DoA a Ana County Sheriff’s Department will get 164 Glock 9 mm handguns in the coming months, The purchase of two more DASO patrol units, a new dash cam system for some vehicles and GPS tracking for the agency’s vehicles also was appro Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/2ilCqyf County Commissioner Benjamin Rawson,left, Isabella Solis, center, is the new chair for the County Commission with John Vasquez, right, as vice chair, Tuesday, January 10, 2017 at the first DoA a Ana County Commissioners meeting of the new year.

Los Angeles college reportedly pays hackers $28G ransom

A Los Angeles college reportedly paid hackers a $28,000 ransom after a cyberattack kept students and faculty locked out of their accounts. The Valley Star , the Los Angeles Valley College school newspaper, reported Friday that hackers locked students and staff out of files, emails and messaging systems and threatened to delete everything if the ransom wasn’t paid within a week.

How 8×8, Inc. Gained 27% in 2016

The provider of internet-based voice and communications services put together a remarkable financial record last year. 8X8 beat Wall Street’s earnings and sales estimates handily in each one of the year’s quarterly reports,citing strong organic revenue growth among larger customers along the way.