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Students don eclipse glasses to look directly at the sun on Saturday at Discovery Park. The UNT campus hosted 20 sixth-graders from Sanger ISD for its first NASA learning camp.

Yale drops slavery proponent Calhoun from college name

After years of debate, Yale University announced Saturday it will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus and former U.S. vice president who was an ardent supporter of slavery. Yale trustees said the Ivy League university is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.

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After years of debate, the trustees of Yale University announced today they will change the name of a residential college that honors a 19th century alumnus who was an ardent supporter of slavery. The Ivy League university said it is renaming Calhoun College after trailblazing computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician who earned Yale degrees in the 1930s, invented a pioneering computer programming language and became a Navy rear admiral.

UCI, NASA reveal new details of Greenland ice loss

Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland campaign, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland’s ice sheet is melting from below. Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography , including one by UCI Earth system scientist Mathieu Morlighem, use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenland’s west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and sea level rise.

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Dr. Scott Ottaway is Research Director, DevOps at IDC. His responsibilities focus on market analysis, tracking, forecasting and consulting on software development trends related to DevOps.

Data Center Networking Market Trends, Regulations and Competitive Landscape Outlook to 2025

Present-day enterprises are highly dependent on the efficiency of their data center and performance of applications to excel on the fronts of enhances employee productivity, increases revenues and, reduced operational costs. In order to achieve these objectives, simplification of internal networks, virtualization, and consolidation are three crucial aspects that enterprises need to work upon.

Halley’s comet? Nope. New discovery is 100,000 times bigger

Astronomers in Germany have found a massive, comet-like object packed with the essentials of life: Water, nitrogen, upon a discovery that could hint at surviving planets debris from a massive object similar to a comet orbiting around a burnt-out sta Halley’s comet? Nope. New discovery is 100,000 times bigger Astronomers in Germany have found a massive, comet-like object packed with the essentials of life: Water, nitrogen, upon a discovery that could hint at surviving planets debris from a massive object similar to a comet orbiting around a burnt-out sta Check out this story on demingheadlight.com: http://usat.ly/2kujLin This artist’s concept shows a massive, comet-like object falling toward a white dwarf.

NASA, UCI reveal new details of Greenland Ice loss

Washington, Feb 10 : Less than a year after the first research flight kicked off NASA’s Oceans Melting Greenland campaign last March, data from the new program are providing a dramatic increase in knowledge of how Greenland’s ice sheet is melting from below. Two new research papers in the journal Oceanography use OMG observations to document how meltwater and ocean currents are interacting along Greenlands west coast and to improve seafloor maps used to predict future melting and subsequent sea level rise.

Digital Commerce Platform Market to Record a Significant Growth Rate in Next 5 Years

Global Digital Commerce Platform Market: Snapshot The global digital commerce platform market is currently being driven by the rise in use of consumer electronics and internet connectivity, which is the primary factor facilitating the growth of digital media and the ecommerce sector. The global digital commerce platform market is also finding a massive scope of growth due to the evolving cloud computing services that are making it easier and faster for consumers to avail digital content.

Do I really need to learn to code?

Whenever the talk about personal drama and alleged scandals about the candidates in the 2016 election died down, the rest of the discussion was all about jobs, jobs, jobs. For tech-aware people, job anxiety often leads to an intimidating web search: “Learn to code.”

AI helps Nvidia reach record revenues

Nvidia has reported fourth quarter Fiscal Year 2017 of US$2.17 billion, up 55% from US$1.40 billion a year earlier, and up 8% from US$2.00 billion in the previous quarter. For fiscal 2017, revenue reached a record US$6.91 billion, up 38% percent from US$5.01 billion a year earlier.

NVIDIA Corp. Exceeds Fourth-Quarter Guidance Targets

Thanks to swiftly rising sales into data-center systems and automotive-computing markets, the chip designer beat its own targets and set ambitious goals for the next quarter. This was another broad-based success story, with double-digit sales growth in six out of eight reportable business segments and platforms.

Arista Networks (ANET) – Analysts’ Weekly Ratings Updates

Several brokerages have updated their recommendations and price targets on shares of Arista Networks in the last few weeks: 2/3/2017 – Arista Networks was downgraded by analysts at Craig Hallum from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating. 1/25/2017 – Arista Networks is now covered by analysts at DA Davidson.

Architectural Coatings Trends and T…

“Necessity is the mother of invention” drives technology development in many markets, and is especially true in architectural coatings. Increasingly strict regulations regarding the environment, people’s health and sustainability have accelerated and driven innovation.

ORNL, Chattanooga Electric Power Board Test the Role of Sensors in Grid Innovation

February 8, 2017 – With a fiber-optic network that provides Chattanooga residents and businesses with exceptional high-speed communications, the city’s Electric Power Board provides the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory with an ideal testbed for smart grid research. With support provided by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability , an effort was launched in 2014 to advance the state of the power grid in Tennessee.

Shure Debuts IntelliMix P300 Audio Conferencing Processor At ISE 2017

At this year’s ISE, held February 7 – 10 in Amsterdam, Shure is introducing the IntelliMix P300 audio conferencing processor, a new digital signal processor created specifically for conferencing applications. The P300 offers Shure IntelliMix DSP algorithms that enhance the audio quality in video meetings, a variety of connectivity options, plus seamless operation with Shure Microflex Advance and Microflex wireless microphone solutions for AV conferencing.

Sophos to buy VC-backed anti-virus company Invincea

Sophos has agreed to acquire Fairfax, Virginia-based Invincea, an anti-virus company, for a consideration of $100 million with a $20 million earn-out. Invincea’s backers included ORIX Growth Capital, Comerica Bank, Dell Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures and Harbert Ventures.

Capsule8 picks up $2.5 mln seed

Capsule8 today emerged from stealth mode to unveil its plans for the industry’s first container-aware, real-time threat protection platform designed to protect legacy and next-generation Linux infrastructures from both known and unknown attacks. Founded by experienced hackers John Viega, Dino Dai Zovi and Brandon Edwards, Capsule8 is being built on the real-world experience of its founders in building and bringing to market defensive systems to protect against exploitation of previously unknown vulnerabilities.

Rackspace Cutting 6% of US Workforce

Rackspace, which is facing pressure from competitors as its tries to stabilize and grow its own cloud computing business, is cutting about 6% of its US workforce, as well as a number of positions overseas. The news comes from a February 7 blog post by CEO Taylor Rhodes, who recently oversaw Rackspace’s $4.3 billion transition from a public to a private company.

China urges cornbelt regions to offer subsidies to boost use -sources

Feb 8 Beijing is urging regional authorities in the nation’s top four corn producing regions to offer subsidies to livestock feed companies, the latest move to boost demand for a bumper crop, according to a source briefed on the matter. The country’s State Administration of Grains and the Ministry of Finance issued a joint document dated Jan. 13 outlining the recommendations to northeastern regions of Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning and Jilin, according to the source and local media.

SAPVoice: Why IoT Tech Will Help Smart Cities Make Better Decisions

Advancements in analytics and artificial intelligence have allowed cities to become more efficient and autonomous than ever. As a result, the concept of a Smart City has transformed from simple traffic cameras and motion sensors to a real-time grid, capable of generating insights from traffic patterns and foot traffic — elements of a Live Connected City.

Black Hole’s Decade-Long Feeding Frenzy Sucks Down Star

A black hole’s decade-long feeding frenzy on a star almost billion light years from Earth has been going on 10 times longer than any other known episode, according to researchers who keep track of space phenomena. The location of the hungry black hole, known by its abbreviated name of XJ1500+0154, is in a small galaxy, a new University of New Hampshire study .

10 Channel Predictions For 2017

Solution providers will embrace applications and Software-as-a-Service, shift resources away from legacy data center hardware, and attract attention from private equity or activist investors in the coming year. While consolidation will be rampant everywhere, expect to see the most action from born-in-the-cloud solution providers looking to get more scale to sustain high levels of growth, and from legacy firms looking to unload low-performing business units.

Binge Eater: Black hole taking over decade to devour star

This artist rendering provided by NASA shows a star being swallowed by a black hole, and emitting an X-ray flare, shown in red, in the process. A new study published Monday, Feb. 6, 2017, in the journal Nature Astronomy details a black hole that’s taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star 1.8 billion light-years from Earth.