Category: Science

Why Capita and Microsoft’s HealthBot technology could reduce pressure on health call centres

As technology, including artificial intelligence, machine learning and analytics become more advanced, the ways in which healthcare is delivered can become even more efficient and patient centric. Recently we were invited to present at the Microsoft AI and Health Innovation Summit in Brussels following work we had done with them on bot frameworks as part of the AI in Health Alliance.

[slides] @Dyn’s Cloud #APM and #NPM at @CloudExpo | #AI #ML #Monitoring

To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in APM and NPM tools To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in Application Performance Management and Network Performance Management tools. Together APM and NPM tools are essential aids in improving a business’s infrastructure required to support an effective web experience… but they are missing a critical component – Internet visibility.

[slides] @Dyn’s Cloud #APM and #NPM at @CloudExpo | #AI #ML #Monitoring

To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in APM and NPM tools To manage complex web services with lots of calls to the cloud, many businesses have invested in Application Performance Management and Network Performance Management tools. Together APM and NPM tools are essential aids in improving a business’s infrastructure required to support an effective web experience… but they are missing a critical component – Internet visibility.

WikiLeaks CIA files: Are they real and are they a risk?13 minutes ago

WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents that the anti-secrecy organization said were classified files revealing scores of secrets about CIA hacking tools used to break into targeted computers, cellphones and even smart TVs. The CIA and the Trump administration declined to comment on the authenticity of the files Tuesday, but prior WikiLeaks releases divulged government secrets maintained by the State Department, Pentagon and other agencies that have since been acknowledged as genuine.

Exploring Titan with Balloons and Landers

Last week – from Monday, February 27th to Wednesday, March 1st – NASA hosted the ” Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop ” at their headquarters in Washington, DC. In the course of the many presentations, speeches and panel discussions, NASA’s shared its many plans for the future of space exploration with the international community.

Research: Cloud Impacts ‘Data Management Solutions for Analytics’

The latest Gartner Inc. report about the “Data Management Solutions for Analytics” market is still dominated by big, traditional vendors with on-premises legacy-like solutions, but cloud computing companies are making disruptive headway. In the for-pay ” Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics ” report, cloud vendors figure prominently and are “gaining traction,” according to Gartner.

Epicrop rakes in $3.2 mln

Lincoln, Nebraska-based Epicrop Technologies Inc , an agricultural biotech company, has raised $3.2 million in Series A funding. The investors were TechAccel, North Forty Ventures, Nelnet, Speedway Properties and Allen & Company .

WikiLeaks releases a entire hacking capacity of the CIAa

WikiLeaks on Tuesday released what it said is the full hacking capacity of the CIA in a stunning 8,000-plus page disclosure the anti-secrecy website contends is “the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.” The 8,761 documents and files – released as “Vault 7 Part 1” and titled “Year Zero” – were obtained from an “isolated, high-security network” at the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Va., a press release from the website said.

Cisco reinforces HyperFlex hyperconvergence system with power, management features

It has been almost a year since Cisco jumped into the hyperconverged arena and while the HyperFlex business has done well – landing 1,100 customers — the company is expecting a burst of upgrades to significantly speed and simplify management of its HyperFlex systems. It has been almost a year since Cisco jumped into the hyperconverged arena and while the HyperFlex business has done well – landing 1,100 customers — the company is expecting a burst of upgrades to significantly speed and simplify management of its HyperFlex systems.

Green Hills Software to Showcase Its Innovative Security and…

Green Hills will also demonstrate its leading support for today’s latest processors. Renesas: Safe & Secure Automotive ECU Consolidation This automotive electronics demonstration showcases the trusted consolidation of multiple eCockpit functions, including rear-view camera, heads-up display, and digital instrument cluster with rich, smooth 3D graphics.

Dell Intros Industrial IoT Gateways

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CalTech, Berkeley Lab team uses new high-throughput method to…

Using high-throughput ab initio theory in conjunction with experiments in an integrated workflow, researchers at Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have identified eight low-band-gap ternary vanadate oxide photoanodes which have potential for generating chemical fuels from sunlight, water and CO2. A report on their methodology and the new materials is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences .

NASA plans to create ‘coolest spot in universe’16 min ago

Washington, Mar 7 NASA is planning to send an ice chest-sized box to the International Space Station , where it will freeze gas atoms to create the coolest spot in the universe, an advance that may provide new insights into gravity and dark matter. Inside that box, lasers, a vacuum chamber and an electromagnetic “knife” will be used to cancel out the energy of gas particles, slowing them until they’re almost motionless.

New Materials Could Turn Water into the Fuel of the Future

Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the California Institute of Technology have-in just two years-nearly doubled the number of materials known to have potential for use in solar fuels. They did so by developing a process that promises to speed the discovery of commercially viable generation of solar fuels that could replace coal, oil, and other fossil fuels.

IBM, Salesforce Agree to Partner on Artificial Intelligence

International Business Machines Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to mingle their artificial-intelligence technologies in a bid to boost sales of data-analytics offerings. The companies Monday announced plans to offer integrated AI services that weave the broad human-like conversation and learning capabilities of IBM’s Watson with Salesforce’s more sales-oriented Einstein technology.

Solar explosion captured in stunning new footage

Solar explosion that missed Earth is captured in stunning new footage as Nasa prepares a probe destined for the sun to study ‘dangerous activity’ A solar flare that erupted from the sun in the early hours of Monday morning has been captured in a stunning new video. The flare missed Earth on its flight path but could have knocked out communications and navigation systems had it reached the planet’s magnetic field.

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The research found deficits in both applied and hard tech skills among current employee circles and new applicants, and a general lack of preparedness for individuals entering the workforce with the right level of technical competency. “The tech skills gap is a well-known issue among both educators and employers,” said Alexandra Levit, chair of the Career Advisory Board.

AWS outage shows vulnerability of cloud DR

The recent outage at Amazon Web Services has highlighted the risks of using any public cloud for disaster recovery IT The recent outage that affected Amazon Web Services users highlights the risk of running critical systems in the public cloud. The general consensus is that the public cloud is superior to on-premise datacentres, but AWS’s outage, caused by human error, shows that even the most sophisticated cloud IT infrastructure is not infallible.

HXT Semiconductor Joins Linaro to Accelerate Advanced Server Development on ARM

Budapest, Hungary – March 6, 2017 – Linaro Limited, the open source collaborative engineering organization developing software for the ARM® ecosystem, today announced that Guizhou Huaxintong Semiconductor Technology Co., Ltd has joined Linaro as a member of the Linaro Enterprise Group . “We’re very pleased to welcome HXT Semiconductor as a LEG member and we look forward to helping them accelerate the deployment of ARM based server solutions into China’s cloud computing and data center industries,” said George Grey, Linaro CEO.

Southern Research Project Advances Novel CO2 Utilization Strategy

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy has awarded Southern Research nearly $800,000 for a project that targets a more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly method of producing some of the most important chemicals used in manufacturing. Southern Research is developing a novel nano-engineered catalyst-driven process for the production of light olefins, such as ethylene and propylene, using carbon dioxide, or CO2, from coal-fired flue gas and lower alkanes derived from shale gas as feedstocks.

IBM Building First Universal Quantum Computers for Business and Science

“IBM Q” quantum systems and services will be delivered via the IBM Cloud platform. While technologies that currently run on classical computers , such as , can help find patterns and insights buried in vast amounts of existing data, quantum computers will deliver solutions to important problems where patterns cannot be seen because the data doesn’t exist and the possibilities that you need to explore to get to the answer are too enormous to ever be processed by classical computers.

Big data-structure bench-marking in managed code (VB,C++,C#) – Part 1

In this article I tried to show a real benchmark based on presser test method, for a Big Data collection deals on C++, C#, and VB .Net. Let’s imagine you are working as a software engineer in a company that deals with a big data collection and you have to come up with the best platform, language and also data structure to give a good competition advantage to your company`s business.

Engineering Practices for Agricultural Production and Water …

With contributions from international experts from India, Russia, China, Serbia, and USA, this book presents a selection of chapters on some of these emerging practices, focusing on soil and water conservation and management; agricultural processing engineering; water quality and management; emerging agricultural crops; renewable energy use in agriculture; and applications of nanotechnology in agriculture. Soil and Water Conservation and Management.

Why Raspberry Pi is the future of computing devices

On the strength of it new $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W, it’s hard not to look at the Pi and see the technology industry’s next wave. One of the most useful things about the smartphone is how many different technologies and tools it has consolidated into a single device that fits in your pocket.

Dell changes the economics of IOT with New Edge Gateway for Small Spaces

Dell Technologies, the broadest Internet of Things infrastructure solutions provider, today announced the new Dell Edge Gateway 3000 Series , offering customers flexibility, connectivity and real-time intelligence from harsh environments and small spaces. The 3000 Series includes three unique models targeted specifically for use cases and embedded solutions in the industrial automation, energy, transportation, and digital signage.

[slides] Bimodal Digital Future | @CloudExpo @Interoute #DigitalTransformation

Traditional IT, great for stable systems of record, is struggling to cope with newer, agile systems of engagement requirements coming straight from the business. In his session at 18th Cloud Expo , William Morrish, General Manager of Product Sales at Interoute, outlined ways of exploiting new architectures to enable both systems and building them to support your existing platforms, with an eye for the future.

Coast Lines, March 5, 2017: Beekeeping basics offered Saturday

The Aptos History Museum presents “Transcending Kitty Hawk; The Real Story of Flight as an Intriguing Slice of Local History” 3-4:30 p.m. Saturday, at the Rio Sands Hotel community room, 116 Aptos Beach Drive. This is the story of John Montgomery whose inventions in aeronautics led to world famous aircraft flights in Aptos and San Jose in 1905.

Studying TRAPPIST-1 With James Webb Space Telescope

With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to help us find out if any of these planets could possibly support life. “If these planets have atmospheres, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the key to unlocking their secrets,” said Doug Hudgins, Exoplanet Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Probing seven worlds with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope

Washington, Mar 4 : With the discovery of seven earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star 40 light years away, astronomers are looking to the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to help us find out if any of these planets could possibly support life. If these planets have atmospheres, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the key to unlocking their secrets, said Doug Hudgins, Exoplanet Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

‘Women of NASA’ Lego Set: Q&A with Creator Maia Weinstock

Maia Weinstock is the creator of the Women of NASA Lego set that the company recently announced it will be producing as part of its Lego Ideas program. Lego announced on Tuesday that it would be making a fan-created set called ” Women of NASA ,” featuring five important women who have worked for the agency.

Hubble captures ‘incredibly’ massive galaxy

Washington, March 4 – The Hubble space telescope has captured an image to showcase an incredible massive galaxy, UGC 12591, that lies just under 400 million light-years away from the Earth. The galaxy and its halo together contain several hundred billion times the mass of the Sun — four times the mass of the Milky Way, NASA said in a statement on Friday.

Ag Secretary Keeping Busy For Remainder Of Term

He’s only got a bit more than 10 months left before a new governor takes office and could appoint someone else to the position. “I am going to remain pedal to the metal, full speed ahead in promoting Virginia agriculture and forestry,” he promised, “whether domestically or abroad.”

Biomass Boiler Market Driven by Growth and Forecast 2016 – 2024

The rising awareness regarding the use of biomass as a suitable low-carbon and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels such as coal for the generation of power and heat is the key driver of the global biomass boiler market. Developed as well as developing economies across the globe have ramped up their efforts for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, of which finding ways of minimizing reliance on fossil fuels and switching to carbon-neutral fuels such as biomass is an important step.