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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triposo | Triposo was a social travel site and mobile app that uses algorithms for journey planners.
The mobile appshowed the user recommendations on where to go depending on information they had given to the app. This included Facebook details. The app worked without internet connection; it downloaded information before departure.
History
Triposo was created in 2011 by ex-Google Dutch brothers Richard Osinga and Douwe Osinga with the help of Jon Tirsen. During development, Triposo received $3.5 million in a Series A round. By 2015, the app had been downloaded 10 million times.
Triposo was acquired by Musement in October 2017.
The Triposo app was no longer available for new users by 2021. It was shut down completely on March 1, 2023 and all personal data was permanently deleted.
References
Transport companies established in 2011
Internet properties established in 2011
Dutch travel websites
Social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20link%20%28disambiguation%29 | In telecommunications a data link is the means of connecting one location to another for the purpose of transmitting and receiving digital information.
Data link or datalink may also refer to:-
Data link layer, layer 2 in the OSI model of networking and part of the link layer in TCP/IP, amongst others
Data link connector (DTC), the multi-pin diagnostic connection port for automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles
Timex Datalink, a smartwatch manufactured by Timex during the 1990s
A "data:" link in an HTML file (see Data URI scheme) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20IDE%20choices%20for%20Haxe%20programmers | Haxe is a programming language. It is free and open-source software. Multiple development environments support Haxe.
Integrated development environments (IDEs)
Availability
Supported Haxe versions, compiler completion, language server
Syntax, parsing, code-assist
Goto, searching
Code generation
Refactoring
Hierarchy views
Projects
Build, debug, run
Multilingual IDE
Miscellaneous
Text editors
Multiple text editors, with the help of additional syntax files and some language semantics configuration, support Haxe syntax highlighting and semantics.
GNU Emacs, XEmacs (in Haxe mode)
Gedit
vim with Haxe plug-in (Vaxe)
Atom with Haxe plug-in
EditPlus
UltraEdit
Notepad++ (with Haxe syntax file)
Textmate
VS Code (with Haxe extension)
Kate (text editor), KWrite
References
Integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DarkComet | DarkComet is a remote access trojan (RAT) developed by Jean-Pierre Lesueur (known as DarkCoderSc), an independent programmer and computer security coder from France. Although the RAT was developed back in 2008, it began to proliferate at the start of 2012. The program was discontinued, partially due to its use in the Syrian civil war to monitor activists but also due to its author's fear of being arrested for unnamed reasons. As of August 2018, the program's development "has ceased indefinitely", and downloads are no longer offered on its official website.
DarkComet allows a user to control the system with a graphical user interface. It has many features which allows a user to use it as administrative remote help tool; however, DarkComet has many features which can be used maliciously. DarkComet is commonly used to spy on the victims by taking screen captures, key-logging, or password stealing.
History of DarkComet
Syria
In 2014 DarkComet was linked to the Syrian conflict. People in Syria began using secure connections to bypass the government's censorship and the surveillance of the internet. This caused the Syrian Government to resort to using RATs to spy on its civilians. Many believe that this is what caused the arrests of many activists within Syria.
The RAT was distributed via a "booby-trapped Skype chat message" which consisted of a message with a Facebook icon which was actually an executable file that was designed to install DarkComet. Once infected, the victim's machine would try to send the message to other people with the same booby-trapped Skype chat message.
Once DarkComet was linked to the Syrian regime, Lesueur stopped developing the tool, stating, “I never imagined it would be used by a government for spying,” he said. “If I had known that, I would never have created such a tool.”
Target Gamers, Military and Governments
In 2012 Arbos Network company found evidence of DarkComet being used to target military and gamers by unknown hackers from Africa. At the time, they mainly targeted the United States.
Je Suis Charlie
In the wake of the January 7, 2015, attack on the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris, hackers used the "#JeSuisCharlie" slogan to trick people into downloading DarkComet. DarkComet was disguised as a picture of a newborn baby whose wristband read "Je suis Charlie." Once the picture was downloaded, the users became compromised. Hackers took advantage of the disaster to compromise as many systems as possible. DarkComet was spotted within 24 hours of the attack.
Architecture and Features
Architecture
DarkComet, like many other RATs, uses a reverse-socket architecture. The uninfected computer with a GUI enabling control of infected ones is the client, while the infected systems (without a GUI) are servers.
When DarkComet executes, the server connects to the client and allows the client to control and monitor the server. At this point the client can use any of the features which the GUI contains. A socket is ope |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HELP.gv.at | HELP.gv.at is a multi-agency platform of the Austrian Federal Administration, developed by the Austrian Federal Computing Centre. HELP.gv.at was launched in 1997 as an information platform about administrative procedures for citizens and since then has changed into one of the most important hubs of e-administration in Austria.
External links
Link to HELP.gv.at
Website of the Austrian Federal Computing Centre
Information technology in Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV4ME%20Philippines | TV4ME Philippines is the first and only lifestyle multi-channel network (MCN) in the Philippines. It has 12 channels with original, short-form content around food, health, travel, fashion, celebrity, and home style. It also provides programs from the Outdoor Channel and History Channel.
TV4ME is run by Brand New Media Philippines, which is a joint venture between Brand New Media and MediaQuest Holdings. TV5 and Brand New Media signed the joint venture in October 2014. This service is currently inactive due to budget cuts by TV5.
References
Website
Official Website
TV5 Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital5 | Digital5 is the online programming division of TV5 Network Inc. and currently headed by Chot Reyes, who also served as the chief of Sports5.
It produces content (also partnering with some productions) that will can be viewed on the network's online portals. Digital5's content include lifestyle, travel, news, business, sports, comedy, etc. It also managed the news portal, InterAksyon.com, together with News5. Digital5 also produced shows for GG Network, the first online network catered for electronic gamers.
Digital5 Programs
These are the programs produced by Digital5 (past, ongoing and upcoming) with its description
D5.studio
Aside from original programs, online re-runs of past and present TV5 shows are also uploaded in the website. Whenever possible, select Digital5 Programs are brought to TV5 as catch-up episodes (with short length online videos of the shows being combined for television and rearranged with playout to/from commercial breaks).
Baon Fix (Host: Patti Grandidge / Description: Quick Tips on Making a "Baon")
Bloom (Hosts: Mika Martinez, Maggie Wilson / Genre: Women Magazine)
Clash of Class (Description: Battle and Comparison)
Good Times with Mo: The Podcast (Hosts: Mo Twister and various co-hosts / Genre: Talk show on love & sex)
Jinrilationships: A Survival Guide to the Dating Life (Host: Jinri Park / Genre: Romantic-comedy)
Like A Bossing (Host: Anthony Pangilinan / Description: Magazine show about Entrepreneurs)
Kwentong Barbero (Mang Ponso / Genre: Typical comedy)
Phenoms (Starring: Kiefer Ravena and Alyssa Valdez / Genre: Reality)
Spinnr Sessions (Genre: Live Music Sessions from various music artists)
Tanods (Starring: Martin Escudero, Jun Sabayton, Bea Benedicto, Jinri Park / Genre: Sitcom)
Forever Sucks (Starring: Jasmine Curtis-Smith, JC Santos, Ian Batherson / Genre: Drama)
Rock U (Genre: Animated series)
Bolero Rap Battles (Genre: Rap Battle League)
News5.com.ph
Kontrabando/Duty, Devotion and Service (Hosts: Ramon Bautista, Lourd de Veyra, Jun Sabayton and RA Rivera with Generoso Cupal, Bea Benedicto, Bart Bartolome, Epe Salas and Mackhie Suela (occasionally with Nikki Veron Cruz and Angel Francisco) / Genre: News Satire)
NewsRoom 5 (Hosts: Branden Milla and Bea Benedicto / Description: Human Interest Stories)
Sports5.ph
Philippine Basketball Association and Philippine Superliga games live streaming are also available in this website, with no commercial breaks.
The Bro Show (Hosts: Jason Webb, Richard del Rosario and Mico Halili / Description: Sports talk show)
Kicksplorer (Host: James Velasquez / Description: Kicks & Shoes Review)
Nth Degree (Hosts: Dominic Uy and Kevin Limjoco / Description: Consumer Reviews)
No Holds Barred: We Ask The Questions, You Get The Answers (Host: Quinito Henson / Description: In-depth interviews with sports personalities)
On Cam (Hosts: Apple David, Mara Aquino and Carla Lizardo / Description: Inside Look on the Player's Inner Sides)
Pinoy Wrestling Revolution
SELfie! (Host: Sel Gueva |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al%20Arabia%20Cinema%20Production%20%26%20Distribution | Al Arabia Cinema Production & Distribution (ACPD) is a film distribution and production company based in Egypt. Founded in 2000, it has distribution networks spanning the Arab region. It owns Renaissance Cinemas operating 21 cinemas in Egypt covering 99 screens. It is a member of the Mediterranean Distribution Network. Al Arabia produced and distributed over 100 movies. The current head of Al Arabia is actress Essaad Youniss.
Films
Black February (2013)
7elm Azez (2012)
Midnight Party (2013)
Cima Ali Baba (2011)
Tak Tak Boom (2011)
Zhaymer (2010)
La Targoa Wala Esteslam (2010)
Benteen mn Masr (2010)
Heliopolis (2010)
Birds Of The Nile (2010)
Walad W Bent (2010)
Messages from the Sea (2010)
Ahasees (2010)
Amir Al Behar (2009)
Adrenaleen (2009)
Teer Enta (2009)
Uncensord (2009)
Best Friends (2009)
Micano (2008)
H Daboor (2008)
Captin Hima (2008)
A'in Shams (2008)
Feminie Moments (2008)
El Balad De Feha Hokouma (2008)
Khareg Ala El - Kanoun (2008)
Al Magic (2007)
Al Bilatshou (2007)
Shikamara (2007)
Hosh Elly Weq' Mnk (2007)
Al Shayateen (2007)
Amalet Khasa (2007)
45 youm (2006)
Wesh Egram (2006)
Fe Mahtet Masr (2006)
Abdo Mawsem (2006)
Wahed Mn El Nas (2006)
Awa't Faragh (2006)
Lielt Skoot Bagdad (2005)
Ali Spicey (2005)
Abu Ali (2005)
Ma'lesh Ehna Bntbhdel (2005)
Sleepless nights (2003)
Aez Ha'y (2003)
Al Ragol Al Abeed Al Motwaset (2002)
Mozakerat Moraheka (2002)
Borkan Al Ghadab (2002)
Howa Fe Eh? (2002)
Ameer Al Zalam (2002)
Mohamy Khola' (2002)
Rendez-vous (2001)
Gala - Gala (2001)
Law Kan Dah Helm (2001)
Afroto (2001)
Shaba Ala Al Hawa (2001)
Ashab Wala Business (2001)
Rehlat Hob (2001)
Mowaten w Mokhber w Haramy (2001)
Ga'na Al Bayan Al Taly (2001)
Al Labees (2001)
EL-Sellem W EL-Te3ban (2001)
Africano (2001)
Shagea' Al Cima (2000)
Baheb Al Cima (2000)
Badr (2000)
Short w Fanela w Cap (2000)
Film Thakafy (2000)
Al Saher (2000)
Al Agenda Al Hamra (2000)
Girls Secrets (2000)
Rasha Grea' (2000)
Alshan Rabna Yahbak (1999)
References
External links
Official Website
Film production companies of Egypt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20the%20Rainbow%20%28TV%20series%29 | Beyond the Rainbow () is a 2015 Hong Kong slice of life drama television series produced by Hong Kong Television Network. The series was condensed into 15 episodes from 30. The first episode premiered on 12 May 2015.
Cast
Ha Yu as Tam Kam-shing
Paw Hee-ching as Choi Yung
Felix Wong as Tam Koon-hung
Calvin Lui as young Tam Koon-hung
Leila Tong as Kwok ching-man / Kelly Yeung Ka-lei
Emily Kwan as Anita Ting
Yetta Tse as young Anita Ting
Savio Tsang as Victor Ting
Philip Keung as Luk Ho-cheung
Lam Lei as Wong Yau-fai
Nick Chong as young Wong Yau-fei
Cherry Pau as Joey Luk
Oscar Chan as Kenson Tam
Lee Fung as Mrs. Kan
Charles Ying as Ko Ching
Dexter Young as Wong Shue-ban
Janice Ting as Ivy
Luvin Ho as To Kuen
Anita Kwan as Wan Chi-yau
Eddie Li as Terry Fok
Kwok Fung as Yeung Ka-lei's father
Maggie Wong as Ho Mei-yan
Chan On-ying as Mrs. Ho
Alan Luk as news reporter
Casper Chan as nurse
Eunice Ho as nurse
Release
A 10-minute preview was released on HKTV's YouTube channel on 5 May 2015.
References
External links
Official website
Hong Kong Television Network original programming
2015 Hong Kong television series debuts
2010s Hong Kong television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20lake | A data lake is a system or repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object blobs or files. A data lake is usually a single store of data including raw copies of source system data, sensor data, social data etc., and transformed data used for tasks such as reporting, visualization, advanced analytics and machine learning. A data lake can include structured data from relational databases (rows and columns), semi-structured data (CSV, logs, XML, JSON), unstructured data (emails, documents, PDFs) and binary data (images, audio, video). A data lake can be established "on premises" (within an organization's data centers) or "in the cloud" (using cloud services from vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle Cloud, or Google).
Background
James Dixon, then chief technology officer at Pentaho, coined the term by 2011 to contrast it with data mart, which is a smaller repository of interesting attributes derived from raw data. In promoting data lakes, he argued that data marts have several inherent problems, such as information siloing. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) said that data lakes could "put an end to data silos". In their study on data lakes they noted that enterprises were "starting to extract and place data for analytics into a single, Hadoop-based repository."
Examples
Many companies use cloud storage services such as Google Cloud Storage and Amazon S3 or a distributed file system such as Apache Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS). There is a gradual academic interest in the concept of data lakes. For example, Personal DataLake at Cardiff University is a new type of data lake which aims at managing big data of individual users by providing a single point of collecting, organizing, and sharing personal data.
An earlier data lake (Hadoop 1.0) had limited capabilities with its batch-oriented processing (Map Reduce) and was the only processing paradigm associated with it. Interacting with the data lake meant one had to have expertise in Java with map reduce and higher-level tools like Apache Pig, Apache Spark and Apache Hive (which by themselves were originally batch-oriented).
Criticism
Poorly-managed data lakes have been facetiously called data swamps.
In June 2015, David Needle characterized "so-called data lakes" as "one of the more controversial ways to manage big data". PwC was also careful to note in their research that not all data lake initiatives are successful. They quote Sean Martin, CTO of Cambridge Semantics:
They describe companies that build successful data lakes as gradually maturing their lake as they figure out which data and metadata are important to the organization.
Another criticism is that the term "data lake" is not useful because it is used in so many different ways. It may be used to refer to, for example: any tools or data management practices that are not data warehouses; a particular technology for implementation; a raw data reservoir; a hub for ETL offload; or a central hub for self-se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria%20Info | Nigeria Info is a network of talk radio stations in Nigeria, broadcasting on 99.3 MHz in Lagos, 95.1 MHz in Abuja, and 92.3 MHz in Port Harcourt. Owned by Info FM Nigeria Limited, the stations broadcast local and international news with a blend of talk and sports shows, while addressing current affairs and topical issues in Nigeria.
History
Nigeria Info began in Lagos in 2011 and in Abuja on 30 November 2012. The network previously aired a five-hour weekday show hosted by Adenike Oyetunde.
In 2021, the Abuja station, managed by Femi D Amele, received a Press Freedom Award from the Nigeria Union of Journalists.
In 2020, the National Broadcasting Commission fined Nigeria Info's Lagos station 5 million naira for a comment made on one of its programs that was deemed to be hate speech.
References
External links
Radio stations in Lagos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainn | Rainn or RAINN may refer to:
Rainn Wilson (born 1966), American actor
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Marshmallow | Android Marshmallow (codenamed Android M during development) is the sixth major version of the Android operating system developed by Google, being the successor to Android Lollipop. It was announced at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, and released the same day as a beta, before being officially released on September 29, 2015. It was succeeded by Android Nougat on August 22, 2016.
Android Marshmallow primarily focuses on improving the overall user experience of its predecessor. It introduced a new opt-in permissions architecture, new APIs for contextual assistants (first used by a new feature "Now on Tap" to provide context-sensitive search results), a new power management system that reduces background activity when a device is not being physically handled, native support for fingerprint recognition and USB-C connectors, the ability to migrate data and applications to a microSD card, and other internal changes.
Android Marshmallow was met by low adoption numbers, with 13.3% of Android devices running Marshmallow by July 2016. Usage of Marshmallow steadily increased since then, and by August 2017, 35.21% of Android devices ran Marshmallow, before receding. , 1.64% of Android devices ran Marshmallow. Security updates for Marshmallow ended in October 2017.
History
Android Marshmallow internally codenamed "Macadamia Nut Cookie". The first developer preview build for Marshmallow, codenamed Android "M", was unveiled and released at Google I/O on May 28, 2015, for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6 smartphones, the Nexus 9 tablet, and the Nexus Player set-top box. The second developer preview was released on July 9, 2015, and the third and final preview was released on August 17, 2015, along with announcing that Android M would be titled Android "Marshmallow".
On September 29, 2015, Google unveiled launch devices for Marshmallow: the LG-produced Nexus 5X, the Huawei-produced Nexus 6P, alongside Google's own Pixel C tablet.
Android 6.0 updates and factory images for Nexus 5, 6, 7 (2013), 9, and Player were released on October 5, 2015. Older Nexus devices, including the Nexus 4, Nexus 7 (2012) and Nexus 10, did not receive an official update. On October 14, 2015, LG announced that it planned to release Marshmallow for its flagship LG G4 smartphone in Poland the following week, marking the first third-party device to receive an update to Marshmallow.
Android 6.0.1, a software patch featuring security fixes, support for Unicode 8.0 emoji (although without supporting skin tone extensions for human emoji), and the return of the "until next alarm" feature in Do Not Disturb mode, was released on December 7, 2015.
System features
User experience
A new "Assist" API allows information from a currently opened app, including text and a screenshot of the current screen, to be sent to a designated "assistant" application for analysis and processing. This system is used by the Google Search app feature "Google Now on Tap", which allows users to perform searches within the c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20longest-running%20scripted%20American%20primetime%20television%20series | This is a list of the longest-running scripted prime time television series in the United States, as measured by number of seasons. Only shows that have aired on a major broadcast network for seven or more seasons and at least 100 episodes are included. Those that moved to syndication, a cable network, or a streaming service are noted below.
See also
Lists of longest-running American shows by broadcast type:
List of longest-running American television series
List of longest-running American broadcast network television series
List of longest-running American cable television series
List of longest-running American first-run syndicated television series
List of longest-running American primetime television series
Notes
References
Longest running prime time
Primetime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Critics%27%20Choice%20Television%20Awards | The 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards ceremony, presented by the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA), honored the best in primetime television programming from June 1, 2014, to May 31, 2015, and was held on May 31, 2015, at The Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles, California. The ceremony was broadcast live on A&E.
The nominations were announced on May 6, 2015. Channelwise, HBO received a total of 27 nominations and FX came in second with 16. On May 13, 2015, Cat Deeley was announced as host. Seth MacFarlane received the Critics' Choice Louis XIII Genius Award.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface:
Shows with multiple wins
The following shows received multiple awards:
Shows with multiple nominations
The following shows received multiple nominations:
Presenters
References
2015 television awards
2015 in American television
005
2015 in Los Angeles
May 2015 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heatwave%21 | Heatwave! is an American disaster movie that was broadcast on the ABC television network on January 26, 1974. It was an ABC Movie of the Week. Its running time was 90 minutes. The film was directed by Jerry Jameson, produced by Herbert F. Solow and Harve Bennett.
The plot focuses upon the effect an intense and prolonged heat wave and water shortage has on Frank Taylor and his pregnant wife Laura Taylor, both while they are in the city where they live and after they decide to relocate.
Plot
When the heat wave eventually causes a total blackout that shuts down the brokerage firm where Frank works, he and Laura decide to relocate to a mountain cabin in a remote small town—which is also affected by the heat, blackout, and water shortage.
On the way to the cabin, the Taylors' car is taken from them; and they are forced to walk eight miles to the town. When the Taylors reach the town, they go to see Dr. Grayson, who appears to be Laura's old family physician. Dr. Grayson advises Laura that it is important for her to rest given the stress she has been under in the hot, dry conditions.
After Laura has seen the doctor, the Taylors go to the cabin and find two young hikers have taken shelter there. After being briefly angry, the Taylors decide to allow the hikers to stay.
Laura rests in the cabin. However, she still gives birth prematurely.
After the baby is born, Dr. Grayson states the baby cannot survive without being in an incubator, particularly because of the extreme conditions. Dr. Grayson also states that he not only has no incubator but that he would be unable to run one as he has no fuel for his generator. (He is out, and the pumps fuel stations use are powered by electricity). However, with the assistance of the hikers and two town residents, Frank is able to build and power a makeshift incubator.
When the baby has been placed in the incubator, the characters hear that it is raining, which—in the movie—indicates the heat wave has broken and the water shortage will end.
Principal cast
Frank Taylor: Ben Murphy
Laura Taylor: Bonnie Bedelia
Arnold Brady: David Huddleston
Dr. Grayson: Lew Ayres
Jerry Roberts: Lionel Johnston
Toler: John Anderson
Prescott: Dana Elcar
Harry Powers: Robert Hogan
Susan: Janit Baldwin
Donald Mantooth, asan ambulance attendant.
Production
’Due to the complete lack of budget, a lot of things happen off screen. There are mentions of forest fires and constant references to ‘brown outs’ ’’.
Alternative titles
This movie is also known by other titles outside the United States; they include the European English name of Heatwave and the French name of 120 degrés Fahrenheit.
Reception
A retrospective review finds that the film is "Really more a drama than a disaster movie". Various reviewers express the lack of interest or empathy provoked by the main character: "Heatwave! suffers from an unlikable and ineffective main character in Frank, who by the time he inexplicably shrugs all that off to construct an adv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-Data | City-Data is an Illinois-based social networking and information website that presents data and information pertaining to United States cities, and offers public online forums for discussion.
Data on site
US cities, counties, zip codes, and neighborhoods are profiled and compared using governmental data about race, income, education, crime, weather, housing, maps, air pollution, and religions. The site contains information about home value estimates (including recent home sales), local businesses, schools (including their demographics and test scores), hospitals, libraries, tourist attractions, local businesses, restaurant inspection findings, building permits, bridge conditions, hotels, water systems, airports, cell phone towers, property tax assessments, and car accidents.
Owner
City-data.com is owned and operated by Advameg, Inc. of Hinsdale, Illinois.
Sources
The information on the website includes consumer names and street addresses, obtained via FOIA requests and other public records; City-Data has an opt-out feature to break the web-visible association between names and street addresses, but does not remove the consumer names themselves.
Uses
In 2010, because of a post on the People Search forum, a mother and son reunited 17 years after the son was kidnapped.
City-Data has been featured in articles and listicles as a way for potential newcomers to learn more about particular cities.
See also
List of Internet forums
References
External links
American social networking websites
Internet forums
Urban planning
2003 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTX%20%28operating%20system%29 | RTX / RTX64 are real-time operating system (RTOS) by the firm IntervalZero. They are software extensions that convert Microsoft Windows operating system into a RTOS. It was the first Windows real-time solution on the market.
Overview
RTX and RTX64 real-time software extensions to Windows combine the familiar user experience of Microsoft Windows (rich GUI, available drivers and software, ...) and the direct control of embedded hardware by providing hard real-time determinism and symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) abilities.
The RTX / RTX64 extensions have followed the Windows architecture since Windows NT 3.5. Generally, RTX supports 32-bit Windows; RTX64 supports 64-bit Windows.
The systems are used in different markets such as industrial automation, testbed and simulation, digital audio, digital video, aerospace military, medical devices, electrical grid, electricity generation, and other uses.
Technical details
Hardware abstraction layer extensionRTX / RTX64 relies on a Windows hardware abstraction layer (HAL) extension to initialize the RTX-dedicated processors and to provide the real-time subsystem (RTSS) with high resolution timers (up to 1 microsecond). It also provides an interrupt isolation mechanism.
Symmetric multiprocessingLike Windows, RTX / RTX64 is based on a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) architecture. Depending on the real-time needs, users can choose the number of processors to dedicate to RTX / RTX64 to run real-time processes. RTX can use up to 31 dedicated processors; RTX64 can use up to 63. Users can then scale real-time applications between the RTX / RTX64 dedicated processors.
Interrupt managementRTX / RTX64 supports both line based and Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI/MSI-X). Interrupt service thread (IST) latencies are under 10 microseconds.
Memory managementThe deterministic memory pool allocated for RTX / RTX64 is taken from the system non-paged pool memory. For example, under Windows 7, the amount of non-paged pool is: for 32-bit, 1 GB to 2 GB of the random-access memory (RAM) depending on the configuration; for 64-bit, 75% up to a maximum of 128 GB.
SchedulingOne scheduler is used across all real-time processors (SMP architecture). It uses priority-driven (128 real-time priorities) and pre-emptive algorithms to ensure critical thread context switches. Priority promotion mechanisms are provided to avoid priority inversion. Yields to threads of higher priority occur with sub-microsecond timing.
Windows interactionRTX / RTX64 provides separation from Windows. Windows processes cannot interfere with real-time applications. If Windows issues a STOP message or shutdown, real-time applications have the ability to continue running to shutdown safely. Communicating with Windows occurs via RTX / RTX64 providing common inter-process communication (IPC) mechanisms between real-time processes and Windows processes (user processes or kernel drivers). Synchronizing is done via events, mutexes and semaphores; data sha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Journalism%20Training%20Association | The European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) is a formal network of authorized European journalism training centres, enabling cooperation and exchanges of students and teachers. Within this network, international projects and education programmes are set up. In addition, EJTA organises conferences and seminars to discuss important journalistic issues. The members exchange ideas and information. This way they all work together on the improvement of journalistic education in Europe.
The non-profit organisation was founded in Brussels in 1990. It’s a legal body under Dutch law. The EJTA office is located in Mechelen. The network has over 55 members from 25 different European countries to date.
Each year in May or June, EJTA holds its AGM as well as the Annual Conference. The annual EJTA Teachers’ Conference was organised for the first time in 2014. The journal Journalism Studies is published by Routledge on behalf of the European Journalism Training Association, the European Communication Research and Education Association and the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association.
Tartu Declaration
The Tartu Declaration was adopted at the AGM in Tartu (Estonia) in 2006 and was revised in 2013. It is a detailed analysis that states which principles the EJTA members have to respect when training and educating their students and participants. The Tartu Declaration lists ten core competences, each existing of five parts. Every member needs to sign and implement this declaration. If they do not do this, admission is impossible. This means that the institutions have to act in accordance with the principles and should master the ten competences.
Mobility Catalogue
One of EJTA’s projects is the mobility catalogue. This catalogue helps journalism students find out which foreign institution (within Europe) is most appropriate for them to take courses at. It is possible to search for a programme or institution. Students can also find the right contact person and the criteria for admission per educational institution.
Member Organisations
Albania
Instituti Shqiptar i Medias (Albanian Media Institute)
Austria
Center for Journalism and Communication Management, University for Continuing Education Krems
Kuratorium für Journalistenausbildung
Belgium
Arteveldehogeschool
ARTESIS Plantijn Hogeschool
Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel
Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen / HOWEST
Institut des Hautes Etudes des Communications Sociales
PXL Hogeschool Limburg
Thomas More Mechelen - Antwerpen
Bulgaria
Sofia University
Denmark
Danish School of Media and Journalism
University of Southern Denmark (CfJ)
Estonia
Tartu University
Finland
Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences
Turku University of Applied Sciences
University of Helsinki
University of Jyväskylä
University of Tampere
France
Centre formation des journalistes (CFJ)
Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme de Paris
FNSP (Science-Po – Ecole de Journalisme)
Université Pari |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A4Tech | A4Tech Co., Ltd. is a Taiwanese computer hardware and electronics company headquartered in New Taipei, Taiwan. A4Tech Co., Ltd. was founded in 1987 by Robert Cheng. The first activity of the company was the production of computer mice. In the future, the range of products was replenished with other types of computer peripherals.
From the moment of its foundation to the present day, the company is private. The number of owners and their shares in the authorized capital were not disclosed. The company also does not publish profit and loss statements, sales data and other financial statements.
History
A4tech was founded in 1987 by Robert Cheng. A4tech used to make peripherals mainly for office and home use. After seeing growth and having a large growth of customers, they soon targeted gamers with their gaming peripherals.
As of 2015, A4Tech has turned its attention to the North American market with a new gaming brand called "Bloody".
Products
PC peripherals:
Keyboards, mice (wired, wireless, Bluetooth models)
Webcams
Computer speakers
Headphones and headsets
Merchandise and other products for gamers
Bloody Gaming
In 2011, A4Tech launched its secondary PC gaming brand – Bloody Gaming. Initial products focused on the integration of optical switches into gaming peripherals - specifically keyboards and gaming mice.
At the CES 2018 expo in Las Vegas, Bloody introduced the third generation of Light Strike technology (dubbed LK Libra) and launched its full upgraded keyboard portfolio by February 2018.
References
1987 establishments in Taiwan
Companies based in Taipei
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Electronics companies established in 1987
Taiwanese companies established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty%20Magiswords | Mighty Magiswords is an American animated television series created by Kyle A. Carrozza specifically for Cartoon Network Video as the network's first online original series. The web shorts officially premiered online on May 6, 2015 as well as the interactive games shown in the app Cartoon Network Anything.
On June 13, 2016, it was confirmed that Mighty Magiswords was picked up as a full-length TV series and premiered on September 29, 2016 on Cartoon Network. A sneak peek of the episode "Mushroom Menace" aired on September 5, 2016, prior to the official premiere date.
On February 9, 2017, Mighty Magiswords was renewed for a second season which premiered on April 30, 2018 as well as a new mobile game, Surely You Quest (in tie with its previous mobile game, MagiMobile).
The series ended on May 17, 2019 with the remaining episodes, which were previously released on the Cartoon Network Video app roughly a year earlier, premiering on Cartoon Network and Boomerang simultaneously for two weeks. The series was made available on HBO Max until August 2022.
Premise
The series is about Vambre Marie Warrior and Prohyas Robert Warrior, a cute and clumsy sibling team of "Warriors for Hire", who go on hilarious adventures and crazy quests around the world to find and collect magical swords known as "Magiswords".
Magiswords
A Magisword is a sword that contains a specific magical ability based on its design. There are many Magiswords scattered across the land and Vambre and Prohyas go around to collect them, while also using Magiswords they previously collected. Magiswords can also be bought at the Mount Ma'all in Ralpho's House of Swords, others are one-of-a-kind that can be found in certain areas of the Rhyboflaven Kingdom. Sometimes the full potential of the "Magiswords" has to be discovered by combining both siblings' efforts. Some Magiswords are also living entities that can speak human language or get sick, such as Zombie Pumpkin Magisword, Dolphin Magisword, and Carnivorous Plant Magisword.
Episodes
Background and production
Mighty Magiswords is created by Kyle Carrozza, an animator, voice actor, musician and storyboard artist who currently writes songs for The FuMP and was previously the creator, storyboard artist and voice actor for his short "MooBeard: The Cow Pirate" on the Nicktoons Network series, Random! Cartoons. Produced in Flash animation, this series is the first original cartoon show on Cartoon Network made specifically for online, since Web Premiere Toons. These characters were created by Carrozza in 1996, and was pitched to Cartoon Network in 2005–2006 under the names "Legendary Warriors for Hire", and to Mondo Media in 2007–2008 as "Dungeons and Dayjobs", before Cartoon Network picked it up in 2013. Most of the series is done in-house at Cartoon Network Studios, with the original shorts animated by their newly established Flash unit, while the overseas mid-production was done at Malaysian animation studio, Inspidea, although the in-house |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off%20to%20the%20Races%20%28game%20show%29 | Off to the Races was an Australian television game show which aired from 1967 to 1969. Produced by LKN Productions and hosted by Bert Bryant, and aired on ATV-0 (now ATV-10 and part of Network Ten). Despite its short run, it was a popular show.
Episode status
Five episodes are held by National Film and Sound Archive. Given the wiping of that era and generally low survival rate of ATV series of the 1960s, it is unlikely any other episodes still exist.
References
External links
1967 Australian television series debuts
1969 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
1960s Australian game shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20debuggers | This is a list of debuggers: computer programs that are used to test and debug other programs.
Debuggers
Advanced Debugger — The standard UNIX debugger
Allinea DDT — graphical debugger for debugging multithreaded and multiprocess applications on Linux platforms
AQtime — profiler and memory/resource debugger for Windows
ARM Development Studio 5 (DS-5)
CA/EZTEST — was a CICS interactive test/debug software package
CodeView — was a debugger for the DOS platform
dbx — a proprietary source-level debugger for Pascal/Fortran/C/C++ on UNIX platforms
DEBUG — the built-in debugger of DOS and Microsoft Windows
Dragonfly (Opera) — JavaScript and HTML DOM debugger
Dr. Memory — a DynamoRIO-based memory debugger
Dynamic debugging technique (DDT), and its octal counterpart Octal Debugging Technique
FusionDebug — interactive debugger for Adobe ColdFusion, Railo, and Lucee CFML Engines
FusionReactor — interactive IDE style debugger which includes various extensions/controls for allowing debugging of Java in production environments
GNU Debugger
Parasoft Insure++ — a multi-platform memory debugger
Intel Debugger
Interactive Disassembler (IDA Pro)
Java Platform Debugger Architecture
Jinx — a whole-system debugger for heisenbugs. It works transparently as a device driver.
JSwat — open-source Java debugger
LLDB
MacsBug — a debugger for the classic Mac OS
Memcheck — a Valgrind-based memory debugger
Modular Debugger — a C/C++ source level debugger for Solaris and derivates
OllyDbg — a disassembly-based debugger for Windows (GUI)
Omniscient Debugger — Forward and backward debugger for Java
Rational Purify (IBM) — multi-platform memory debugger
sdb — a symbolic debugger for C programs for ancient UNIX platforms
SIMMON (Simulation Monitor)
SoftICE — kernel mode debugger for Windows
SEGGER Ozone — debugger and performance analyser for embedded systems
TRACE32 — in-circuit debugger for embedded systems
Turbo Debugger — Pascal/C/assembly debugger for DOS
Undo LiveRecorder — C, C++, Go, Rust, Java time travel debugger
Ups — C, Fortran source level debugger
Valgrind — Valgrind is a programming tool for memory debugging, memory leak detection, and profiling.
VB Watch — debugger for Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Studio Debugger — debugger for .NET and native Windows applications
WinDbg — multipurpose debugger for Windows
Xdebug — PHP debugger and profiler
Debugger front-ends
Allinea DDT - a graphical debugger supporting for parallel/multi-process and multithreaded applications, for C/C++ and F90.
DDD is the standard front-end from the GNU Project. It is a complex tool that works with most common debuggers (GDB, jdb, Python debugger, Perl debugger, Tcl, and others) natively or with some external programs (for PHP).
Many Eclipse perspectives, e.g. the Java Development Tools (JDT), provide a debugger front-end.
GDB (the GNU debugger) GUI
Allinea's DDT — a parallel and distributed front-end to a modified version of GDB.
Code::Blocks — A free cross-platform C, C++ and Fortran IDE wit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Russia | The following is a list some of the exports of Russia. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by the International Trade Centre.
Exports
See also
Russian economy
References
International Trade Centre - International Trade Statistics (2019) - Monthly, quarterly and yearly trade data. Import & export values, volumes, growth rates, market shares, etc.
Exports
Russia
Foreign trade of Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%20LLC | Curse was a gaming company that managed the video game mod host CurseForge, wiki host Gamepedia, and the Curse Network of gaming community websites.
The company was headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, and had offices in San Francisco, New York City, Los Angeles, Brighton, and Berlin.
Curse initially focused on offering mods for various video games. As it expanded, the company began to develop and acquire gaming communities (particularly focusing on MMORPG titles such as World of Warcraft, as well as other games such as Minecraft), wikis, as well as offering voice chat services. The company also sponsored an eponymous eSports club, which competed primarily in League of Legends.
In August 2016, Curse announced that it had agreed to be acquired by Amazon via its subsidiary Twitch Interactive for an undisclosed amount. In December 2018, Fandom announced that they had acquired Curse Media that included Gamepedia wiki farm and D&D Beyond. The remainder of Curse's assets stayed with Twitch. In the middle of 2020, CurseForge was sold from Twitch to Overwolf.
History
2006–2010
Curse was born out of founder Hubert Thieblot's "hardcore" love of World of Warcraft. After leaving school, Thieblot began to turn his passion into a business, launching CurseBeta in 2006, offering up add-ons and modifications. In short order, the site exponentially increased in traffic and popularity. As the funding for Curse increased, it proceeded to develop several high-profile sites in-house while acquiring larger sites with already established communities and content, particularly for MMO games such as RuneScape.
Curse also offered a Curse Premium subscription for additional functionality in the Curse Client such as one-click updating of all add-ons, higher download bandwidth, cloud backups and sync, and an ad-free browsing experience on the Curse website.
2010–2016
In 2011, Inc. 500 ranked Curse Inc. as the 405th fastest growing company in the United States, and the San Francisco Business Times ranked it 22nd in their list of the "Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the San Francisco Bay Area". On December 14, 2012, Curse officially launched the Gamepedia wiki farm.
In April 2012, Ernst & Young named Thieblot as a semifinalist in their "Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" program for Northern California. By June 2012, Curse's monthly worldwide traffic was reported by Quantcast as being in excess of 21 million unique visitors. Curse continued to acquire more communities such as MTG Salvation, which they finalized on December 17, 2012. On June 26, 2013, Curse announced in a press conference that it would relocate their chief headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama, leaving their sales office in San Francisco. On May 7, 2014, Curse introduced Curse Profiles, an integrated social media system in Gamepedia offering a wide range of features. The service allowed users to add wikis to their favorites list, earn Wikipoints and Levels, display personal statistics (such as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20Series%20%28TV%20series%29 | K Series was a television programming block on the Tamil TV channel on Puthuyugam TV in Tamil Nadu featuring Tamil-dubbed Korean dramas. It launched on 12 May 2014 and aired Monday through Friday 9:00PM IST until 30 October 2015.
The second season of the Tamil-dubbed Korean dramas, which airs on Blacksheep TV from 23 January 2023.
Dramas on Puthuyugam TV
2015
Dramas on Blacksheep TV
References
Puthuyugam TV television series
2014 Tamil-language television series debuts
Tamil-language television shows
2023 Tamil-language television series debuts
Blacksheep original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant%20Mother | Significant Mother is an American television sitcom created by Erin Cardillo and Richard Keith. Starring Josh Zuckerman, Nathaniel Buzolic and Krista Allen, it premiered on The CW network on August 3 and ended its run on October 5, 2015.
On February 16, 2016, Zuckerman said on his Twitter account that the series would not return for a second season. On February 18, 2016, Keith confirmed that.
Plot
Restaurateur Nate Marlowe (Zuckerman) is shocked to discover that his best friend and roommate, Jimmy Barnes (Buzolic), has had sex with his mother, Lydia (Allen). Nate and his father Harrison (Jonathan Silverman) find that they must face the reality that Lydia and Jimmy plan to pursue their relationship.
Cast
Main
Josh Zuckerman as Nathaniel "Nate" Marlowe
Nathaniel Buzolic as Jimothy "Jimmy" Barnes, Nate's longtime friend
Krista Allen as Lydia Marlowe, Nate's mother
Guest
Jonathan Silverman as Harrison Marlowe, Nate's father
Emma Fitzpatrick as Sam Dillinger, Nate's employee at his restaurant
Jay Ali as Atticus Adams, Sam's boyfriend, an organic farmer
Denise Richards as Pepper Spinner, a notorious cougar with whom Nate ends up on a date
Linda Gray as Gammy, Nate's grandmother and Lydia's conservative southern mother.
Jerry O'Connell as Bob Babcock, a "slick realtor"
Erin Cardillo as Parker, Lydia's nosy lesbian co-worker
Mircea Monroe as Annie, a cute girl Nate meets on the dating app "Get Forked" and begins to date
Episodes
Casting and production
Created by Cardillo and Keith, the half-hour sitcom was developed for the digital platform CW Seed. Significant Mother was ordered to series for the CW on April 10, 2015, with Zuckerman and Allen attached to star and Silverman, Fitzpatrick and Adams rounding out the cast. On May 1, 2015, Buzolic was announced in the role of Jimmy.
Later in May 2015, Denise Richards was cast as local "cougar" Pepper Spinner. In June 2015, the CW announced guest stars Linda Gray as Gammy, Nate's grandmother and Lydia's conservative southern mother, and Jerry O'Connell as Bob Babcock, a "slick realtor". In August 2015, Terry Kiser, Silverman's costar from Weekend at Bernie's, was cast in a guest role.
Broadcast
Significant Mother premiered on August 3, 2015.
Reception
Brian Lowry of Variety wrote that "while the show does possess some energy thanks to the cast, there’s such a numbing sameness to the gags." On Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an aggregate score of 25% based on 2 positive and 6 negative critic reviews.
References
External links
2015 American television series debuts
2015 American television series endings
2010s American single-camera sitcoms
Adultery in television
English-language television shows
Television series about couples
Television series about dysfunctional families
Television series by Alloy Entertainment
Television series by CBS Studios
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
Television shows set in Portland, Oregon
The CW original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzwerk | Netzwerk is the German word for "network".
It may also refer to:
Netzwerk (film), a 1969 German film
Netzwerk (album), an album by the electronic duo Klangkarussell
Netzwerk (Falls Like Rain), a song by Klangkarussell released in the album Netzwerk
Netzwerk (band), an Italian Eurodance band
See also
Network (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20telephone%20exports | The following is a list of countries by telephone exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Telephones (2012)
Telephone
Telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20South%20Korea | The following is a list of the exports of South Korea. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty exports are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by South Korea (2012)
Foreign trade of South Korea
South Korea
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rombertik | Rombertik is spyware designed to steal confidential information from targets using Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome running on Windows computers. It was first publicized by researchers at Cisco Talos Security and Intelligence Group.
Operation
Rombertik employs several techniques to make analyzing or reverse-engineering it difficult. Over 97% of the file is unnecessary code or data meant to overwhelm analysts. It loops through code hundreds of millions of times to delay execution, and checks for file names and user names used by Malware Analysis Sandboxes.
If Rombertik detects a modification in the compile time or binary resource in memory, it attempts to overwrite the Master Boot Record (MBR) on the primary hard drive. The MBR contains code necessary to boot the Operating System, as well as information about where partitions are stored on the hard drive. Though the user's data remains on the hard drive, the Operating System is unable to access it without the MBR. In some cases, it may be possible to recover data from a hard drive with a modified MBR.
If the malware does not have the necessary permissions to overwrite the MBR, it instead encrypts each file in the victim's home directory. This directory encryption technique is similar to ransomware, but Rombertik does not attempt to extort money from its victims. Files encrypted with a strong key can be nearly impossible to recover.
Ps installed, it injects code into running processes of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. The injected code intercepts web data before it is encrypted by the browser, and forwards it to a remote server.
References
2015 in computing
Spyware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exports%20of%20Canada | The following is a list of the top 20 exports of Canada. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Products exported by Canada (2012)
Foreign trade of Canada
Canada
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20N.%20Hibbard | Thomas Nathaniel Hibbard (March 14, 1929 – February 11, 2016) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Thomas N. Hibbard received the B.S. degree in physics from Pacific University, Forest Grove, OR, in 1951, the M.S. degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1954, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1966.
From 1955 to 1958 T. N. Hibbard was a Scientific Programmer at the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, programming the JOHNNIAC, an early computer built by Rand, and from 1959 to 1965 a member of the research staff of the System Development Corporation, Santa Monica, CA, where he worked with Seymour Ginsburg and Joseph Ullian in automata theory and formal languages. Following a three-year visiting faculty appointment at the Catholic University of Salta, Argentina, he joined the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, as an assistant professor of Computer Science in 1970. He conducted research in searching, sorting, and data structures, helping to pioneer the field of analysis of algorithms.
In 1974, he started research with his then faculty colleague Armin B. Cremers, initiating the theory and applications of data spaces. In February 1976, he joined the staff of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, working on the Voyager, IRAS and Galileo projects until his retirement from JPL in 1986. At that time, he joined the Information Sciences Institute (ISI), Marina del Rey, CA, and did experimental research on parallel computing until 1989, when he returned to Salta, Argentina, to teach at the National University (UNSA).
Contributions to Computer Science
Hibbard was a co-inventor of the binary search tree.
He was the first to propose the so-called Hibbard deletion for binary search trees,
in which the node to be deleted is replaced by its successor.
Hibbard proposed one of several widely cited
increment sequences for the
Shellsort algorithm.
Selected publications
References
External links
Publications of Thomas N. Hibbard in the dblp computer science bibliography.
2016 deaths
1929 births
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
Pacific University alumni
21st-century American mathematicians
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni
University of California, Los Angeles alumni
RAND Corporation people
Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON%20Web%20Token | JSON Web Token (JWT, pronounced , same as the word "jot") is a proposed Internet standard for creating data with optional signature and/or optional encryption whose payload holds JSON that asserts some number of claims. The tokens are signed either using a private secret or a public/private key.
For example, a server could generate a token that has the claim "logged in as administrator" and provide that to a client. The client could then use that token to prove that it is logged in as admin. The tokens can be signed by one party's private key (usually the server's) so that any party can subsequently verify whether or not the token is legitimate. If the other party, by some suitable and trustworthy means, is in possession of the corresponding public key, they too are able to verify the token's legitimacy. The tokens are designed to be compact, URL-safe, and usable especially in a web-browser single-sign-on (SSO) context. JWT claims can typically be used to pass identity of authenticated users between an identity provider and a service provider, or any other type of claims as required by business processes.
JWT relies on other JSON-based standards: JSON Web Signature and JSON Web Encryption.
Structure
Header
Identifies which algorithm is used to generate the signature HS256 indicates that this token is signed using HMAC-SHA256.
Typical cryptographic algorithms used are HMAC with SHA-256 (HS256) and RSA signature with SHA-256 (RS256). JWA (JSON Web Algorithms) RFC 7518 introduces many more for both authentication and encryption.
{
"alg": "HS256",
"typ": "JWT"
}
Payload
Contains a set of claims. The JWT specification defines seven Registered Claim Names, which are the standard fields commonly included in tokens. Custom claims are usually also included, depending on the purpose of the token.
This example has the standard Issued At Time claim (iat) and a custom claim (loggedInAs).
{
"loggedInAs": "admin",
"iat": 1422779638
}
Signature
Securely validates the token. The signature is calculated by encoding the header and payload using Base64url Encoding and concatenating the two together with a period separator. That string is then run through the cryptographic algorithm specified in the header. This example uses HMAC-SHA256 with a shared secret (public key algorithms are also defined). The Base64url Encoding is similar to base64, but uses different non-alphanumeric characters and omits padding.
HMAC_SHA256(
secret,
base64urlEncoding(header) + '.' +
base64urlEncoding(payload)
)
The three parts are encoded separately using Base64url Encoding , and concatenated using periods to produce the JWT:
const token = base64urlEncoding(header) + '.' + base64urlEncoding(payload) + '.' + base64urlEncoding(signature)
The above data and the secret of "secretkey" creates the token:
This resulting token can be easily passed into HTML and HTTP.
Use
In authentication, when the user successfully logs in using their credentials, a JSON Web Token will be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20wheat%20exports | The following is a list of countries by wheat exports. Data is for 2022 as reported in Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. Wheat is one of the biggest crops in the international grain trade, alongside other crops like maize (corn), rice and soybean.
References
Wheat
Wheat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20integrated%20circuit%20exports | The following is a list of countries by integrated circuit exports. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by International Trade Centre. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
See also
List of flat panel display manufacturers
List of integrated circuit manufacturers
List of solid-state drive manufacturers
List of system on a chip suppliers
References
Integrated circuit
Integrated circuits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20automotive%20component%20exports | The following is a list of countries by automotive component exports. Data is for 2016, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 10 countries are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Vehicle Parts (2016)
Automotive component |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20aircraft%20component%20exports | The following is a list of countries by exports of aircraft components. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 21 countries are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Aircraft Parts (2012)
Aircraft component
Aerospace
Aircraft components |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20Password%20%28algorithm%29 | Master Password is a type of algorithm first implemented by Maarten Billemont for creating unique passwords in a reproducible manner. It differs from traditional password managers in that the passwords are not stored on disk or in the cloud, but are regenerated every time from information entered by the user: Their name, a master password, and a unique identifier for the service the password is intended for (usually the URL).
By not storing the passwords anywhere, this approach makes it harder for attackers to steal or intercept them. It also removes the need for synchronization between devices, backups of potential password databases and risks of data breach. This is sometimes called sync-less password management.
Algorithm
Billemont's implementation involves the following parameters:
name: The username, used as a salt. The user's full name is chosen as it provides a sufficiently high level of entropy while being unlikely to be forgotten.
master_password: The secret for generating the master key.
site_name: A unique name for the service the password is intended for. Usually the bare domain name.
counter: An integer that can be incremented when the service requests a new password. By default, it is 1.
password_type: The password type defines the length and the constitution of the resulting password, see below.
Master key generation
In Billemont's implementation, the master key is a global 64-byte secret key generated from the user's secret master password and salted by their full name. The salt is used to avoid attacks based on rainbow tables. The scrypt algorithm, an intentionally slow key derivation function, is used for generating the master key to make a brute-force attack infeasible.
salt = "com.lyndir.masterpassword" + length(name) + name
master_key = scrypt(master_password, salt, 32768, 8, 2, 64)
Template seed generation
The template seed is a site-specific secret in binary form, generated from the master key, the site name and the counter using the HMAC-SHA256 algorithm. It is later converted to a character string using the password templates. The template seed makes every password unique to the website and to the user.
seed = hmac_sha256(master_key, "com.lyndir.masterpassword" + length(site_name) + site_name + counter)
Password generation
The binary template seed is then converted to one of six available password types. The default type is the Maximum Security Password, others can be selected if the service's password policy does not allow passwords of that format:
Maximum Security Password (20 ASCII printable characters)
Long Password (14 ASCII printable characters)
Medium Password (8 ASCII printable characters)
Short Password (4 ASCII printable characters)
Basic Password (8 alphanumeric characters)
PIN (4 digits)
Implementations
Billemont also created multiple free software implementations of the Master Password algorithm, licensed under the GPLv3.:
An app for iOS. The iOS implementation was first released i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NMDOT%20Park%20and%20Ride | NMDOT Park and Ride is the name given to a network of intercity buses in New Mexico and Texas, operated by the New Mexico Department of Transportation. The network is composed of eleven routes, including eight intercity routes and three local shuttle routes in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It is the fifth largest public bus transit operation in New Mexico based on ridership, with a yearly ridership of 315,738 for 2014. Service is provided in the morning and evening peak hours, with no service during midday, and buses operate on weekdays only.
History
NMDOT Park and Ride began service in 2003, operating the Blue, Green and Red routes. Service began on the Purple routethen serving Santa Fe and Albuquerquea few months after. In the following years, Park and Ride expanded service even further, opening the Orange, Silver and Turquoise routes. In 2008, the New Mexico Rail Runner Express was extended to Santa Fe, and so the Purple route was rerouted as an express between Los Alamos and the NM 599 Rail Runner station. The most recent route on the system, the Gold Route, was opened in 2009, marking the first extension of the network into Texas.
In 2015, Park and Ride launched "P&RealTime", which allows passengers to track real-time bus locations online, which can be set up to give alerts during service disruptions.
Routes
Currently, Park and Ride operates six routes in its northern network, two routes on its southern network, and two local routes in Santa Fe to connect passengers to the Rail Runner.
Northern Routes
Blue Route: serving Santa Fe, Pojoaque and Los Alamos
Green Route: serving Española and Los Alamos
Red Route: serving Santa Fe, Pojoaque and Española
Orange Route: serving Santa Fe, Rowe, San Jose and Las Vegas.
Purple Route: serving Los Alamos and the NM 599 Station, as well as one morning trip from Albuquerque.
Turquoise Route: serving Albuquerque, Sedillo, Edgewood and Moriarty.
Southern routes
Gold Route: serving Las Cruces, Anthony and El Paso.
Silver Route: serving Las Cruces and White Sands Missile Range.
Santa Fe shuttles
South Capitol Station shuttle: connecting destinations in Santa Fe to the Rail Runner at South Capitol Station.
NM 599 Station shuttle: connecting destinations in Santa Fe to the Rail Runner at NM 599 Station.
Purple shuttle: connecting from the Purple Route's Albuquerque run to serve South Capitol Station and Santa Fe Depot.
References
Bus transportation in New Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20maize%20exports | The following is a list of countries by maize exports. Data is for 2023, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
United States: US$19.1 billion (37.2% of total corn exports)
Argentina: $9.1 billion (17.6%)
Ukraine: $5.9 billion (11.4%)
Brazil: $4.2 billion (8.1%)
Romania: $1.9 billion (3.8%)
France: $1.9 billion (3.8%)
Hungary: $1 billion (2%)
India: $935.6 million (1.8%)
South Africa: $809.3 million (1.6%)
Russia: $694.2 million (1.4%)
Poland: $633.8 million (1.2%)
Serbia: $605.1 million (1.2%)
Canada: $491.8 million (1%)
Bulgaria: $486.4 million (0.9%)
Myanmar: $483.6 million (0.9%)
References
- Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Corn (2016)
Maize
Maize |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13i | 13i (or Canal 13 Internacional) is a Chilean pay television channel, that was launched as Canal 13's international broadcasting service.
History
Its programming consists of direct live broadcasts from channel 13 of Santiago, with additional news bulletins and programmes especially produced for the international feed.
From 1995 until 2001, Canal 13 had an international channel, called UCTV Chile, which was rebranded as 13i on 30 June 2014, available as both a pay television channel and a subscription-based online livestream.
Programming
Teletrece AM
Bienvenidos
Teletrece Tarde
La Reina de Franklin (upcoming)
Teletrece
Pacto de Sangre
Contra Viento y Marea
En su propia trampa
Los 80
Teletrece Noche
Sábado de reportajes
Vértigo
Viva el lunes
Martes 13
Mediomundo
Venga conmigo
Papi Ricky
Las Vega's
Primera dama
Si se la puede, gana
Los clásicos del 13
T13 Regional
External links
Canal 13 (Chilean TV channel)
Television networks in Chile
Television stations in Chile
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2014
International broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Great%20Australian%20Bake%20Off%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Great Australian Bake Off premiered on 9 July 2013 on the Nine Network, and saw ten home bakers take part in a bake-off to test their baking skills as they battled to be crowned The Great Australian Bake Off's best amateur baker. The season consisted of 8 episodes. Each episode saw bakers put through three challenges, with each episode having its own theme or discipline. The season aired from 9 July 2013 until 27 August 2013, and saw Nancy Ho win. The season was hosted by Anna Gare and Shane Jacobson, and was judged by Dan Lepard and Kerry Vincent.
The Bakers
The following is the list of the bakers that competed this season:
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! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Baker
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Age
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Occupation
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Hometown
! style="background:SkyBlue;" "color:Black;"| Competition Status
|-
! Nancy Ho
| 22 || Architecture Graduate || Brisbane, Queensland || style="background:Gold;"|
|-
! Jonathan Gurfinkel
| 35 || I.T. Guy || Melbourne, Victoria || style="background:LimeGreen;"|
|-
! Maria Vella
| 45 || Workplace Trainer || Melbourne, Victoria || style="background:LimeGreen;"|
|-
! Monique Bowley
| 30 || Former WNBL Star || Adelaide, South Australia || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Brendan Garlick
| 21 || Uni Student || Springwood, New South Wales || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Julie Bonanno
| 41 || Farm Mum || Shepparton, Victoria || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Mark Bartter
| 52 || Chartered Accountant || Sydney, New South Wales || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Sara-Jane Smith
| 30 || School Teacher || Melbourne, Victoria || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Bliss Nixon
| 23 || Trivia Host || Gold Coast, Queensland || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
! Steve Lovett
| 28 || Boxer || Canberra, Australian Capital Territory || style="background:OrangeRed;"|
|-
|}
Results summary
Colour key:
Episodes
Episode 1: Cakes
For the first challenge, the bakers were required to make 24 cupcakes in two hours. The judges specified they wanted two different flavours of cupcake of which there should be 12 each. The Technical Challenge set was for a Checkerboard Cake, which was flavoured with chocolate and orange and had four layers. A Children's Party Cake was set as the Showstopper to be completed in five hours.
Episode 2: Pies
A family pie was set as the first challenge, with two and a half hours being set as the time limit. The bakers had any choice of filling - sweet or savoury - and pastry, the only brief was that the pie must have a lid. For the next challenge, a lemon meringue pie was set, with the judges hoping for a perfectly cooked pastry, a set filling and a crispy meringue. For the Showstopper Challenge, the judges wanted 12 Party Pies, 12 Sausage Rolls and 12 Pasties in four hours.
Episode 3: Biscuits
For the S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20gold%20exports | The following is a list of countries by gold exports. Data is for 2018, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently twenty countries, as of 2018, are listed (their 2012 and 2016 figures are also provided).
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Gold (2012)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Gold (2016)
Gold
Gold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachylaena%20rotundata | Brachylaena rotundata is an occasionally deciduous Southern African shrub or small tree growing to some 8m in height and of the family Asteraceae. It occurs in eastern Botswana, Transvaal, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe, growing in open woodland, on rocky koppies and slopes, and on stream banks. Kew accepts Brachylaena rotundata S. Moore as a species while 'Flora of Mozambique' treats it as a variety of Brachylaena discolor DC. It bears attractive foliage, green on the upper surface and silver-grey on the lower, leaves turning slightly reddish in autumn.
This species produces a dense and strong creamy-brown timber, but not of any useful size or straightness.
References
External links
SANBI
JSTOR
Flowers
rotundata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-1%20%28computer%29 | The Parametron Computer 1 (PC-1) was a binary, single-address computer developed at Professor Hidetosi Takahasi's Laboratory at the Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, and was one of the first general purpose computers that used parametron components and dual frequency magnetic-core memory. Construction started in September 1957 and was completed on March 26, 1958. The PC-1 was used at Takahasi's Laboratory for research related both to hardware and software and the researchers in the Faculty of Science also used it for scientific computing. The PC-1 was retired in May 1964.
The arithmetic and control circuits of the PC–1 consisted of 4200 parametrons. Binary numbers were coded using the two's complement representation; a short number was coded using 18 bits and a long one using 36. The single-address instructions were 18 bits long and there were about 20 of them. The memory consisted of 512 short words. The clock frequency was 15 kHz. One addition or subtraction required 4 clock cycles; one multiplication 26 cycles for a short multiplier, or 44 cycles for a long multiplier. Division consumed 161 cycles and a store operation 8. The power consumption was 3 kW and the floor area required was 8 square meters. The input was done using a photoelectric paper tape reader; the output was provided by a teletype.
References
Notes
Further reading
"TOSEC: University of Tokyo PC-1 (2012-04-23)" PC-1 Simulator. Internet Archive. Retrieved 13 August 2021.
Early computers
One-of-a-kind computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20truck%20exports | The following is a list of countries by truck exports. Data is for 2012, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top 21 countries are listed.
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Delivery Trucks (2012)
Trucks
Trucks
Truck exports
Truck-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20%28African%20TV%20channel%29 | Fox was an African/South African pay television channel, launched in 2010 as the regional variant of the American broadcast network. The channel was a broad-based entertainment channel, unlike its sister channel FX, which restricted its output to older audiences.
History
Fox Entertainment (2010–2013)
The channel was launched on 1 May 2010 (along with Fox Retro, FX, Baby TV, and the European version of Fuel TV) through TopTV. The network launched with an 18–35 demographic focus, airing mainly programming originated from the United States by the Fox broadcast network and FX, along with other acquired programming.
At launch, the channel took part in the worldwide premiere of The Walking Dead and the "Zombie Invasion Event" promotion that led up to it. After the final episode of the first season of The Walking Dead aired, it re-aired a director's cut of the pilot without editing.
Fox (2013–2021)
The channel was simply rebranded to Fox on 9 April 2013, shortly after MultiChoice added the channel on DStv. New series were added to the schedule, and it took a more broad-based 18–49 audience focus.
In March 2019, all the Fox Networks Group channels were acquired by The Walt Disney Company due to the acquisition of 21st Century Fox.
On 1 October 2019, FNG networks, including Fox, were removed from StarSat due to failed retransmission consent negotiations, then returned on 24 February 2020 when the parties came to terms.
Closure
On 24 August 2021, it was announced that Fox would cease broadcasting in Africa on 1 October 2021, along with the Asian and German versions, in favour of most of its content shifting to Star on Disney+, as it launches in the region in 18 May 2022.
See also
Fox (international)
References
Fox Channel
Television networks
Television in Africa
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2021
Television stations in South Africa
2010 establishments in South Africa
2021 disestablishments in Africa
Defunct mass media in South Africa
Defunct television channels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Science%2C%20University%20of%20Bristol | The Department of Computer Science of the University of Bristol, is the computer science department of the University of Bristol and is based in the Merchant Venturers building on Woodland Road, close to Bristol city centre. the department is home to 145 academic staff, researchers, and PhD students.
Research
Research in the department is organised around 10 research groups, which focus on cryptography, algorithms, Human–computer interaction (HCI), computer vision, artificial intelligence (AI), verification, computational neuroscience, cybersecurity, robotics, high-performance computing, and programming languages.
History
The Department of Computer Science was formally established around 1984. Its heads of department include
Professor Mike Rogers (1984-1995)
Professor David May (1995-2006)
Professor Nigel Smart (2006-2008)
Professor Nishan Canagarajah (2008- ?)
Dr Neill Campbell (?-2011)
Dr Ian Holyer (2011-?)
Professor Andrew Calway (?-2016)
Professor Seth Bullock (2016-2020)
Professor Christian Allen (2020-2021)
Dr. Aisling O'Kane (2021-)
Notable faculty members
the department employs fourteen Professors, shown below:
Professor Awais Rashid
Professor Dave Cliff
Professor Peter Flach
Professor Majid Mirmehdi
Professor Seth Bullock
Professor Kerstin Eder
Professor Walterio Mayol-Cuevas
Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith
Professor Andrew Calway
Professor Kirsten Cater
Professor Ian Nabney
Professor Chris Preist
Professor Bogdan Warinschi
Professor Dima Damen
References
University of Bristol
Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Holt | Frederick Rodney Holt (born 1934) is an American computer engineer and political activist. He is Apple employee #5, and developed the unique power supply for the 1977 Apple II. Actor Ron Eldard portrayed him in the 2013 film, Jobs.
Background
Holt was born in 1934 to a psychiatry resident father and artist and teacher mother. He became interested in electronics by the age of 14 and taught ham radio courses for Wellesley High School by the age of 16.
In 1952, after graduating from high school, Holt married his high school girlfriend Joanne. He also joined Ohio State University as a math major. He and Joanne had two children, Christine and Cheryl, during this period. Holt later stated that while at OSU, he also "became entranced with motorcycles and opened up my own motorcycle shop. That adventure failed within a year, however, and I then worked in the electronics industry to support my family. I continued to race bikes intermittently for the next twenty years." By 1958, when he was a grad student at OSU, he also became a political activist. He would later become involved in OSU's Free Speech Movement, served as editor of the Free Speech Press, and reconfigured himself as a socialist.
After graduate school, he became an electrical engineer with the Hickok Electrical Instrument company in Cleveland, Ohio, and later joined Atari as an Analog Engineer.
Apple Computer
During the early development of the Apple II, Apple Inc.'s co-founder, Steve Jobs asked his former boss, Atari's Al Alcorn for help with the power supply. Alcorn redirected Jobs to Holt, who saw himself as "a second-string quarterback" at Atari. He was initially "skeptical of Jobs and of Apple" (Swaine and Freiberger note that Holt "had trouble understanding the West Coast culture that shaped Apple's Founders"), telling Jobs that his rate was $200 per day. Jobs, however, replied that "we can afford you" and Holt joined the Apple II team in part responding to Alcorn's request to "help the kids out." Holt thus began to work "after hours at Atari on Apple's television interface and power supply." According to Apple's first CEO, Michael ("Scotty") Scott, "One thing Holt has to his credit is that he created the switching power supply that allowed us to do a very lightweight computer compared to everybody else's that used transformers."
However, one history reports over a dozen computer systems and terminals with a switching power supply came out in years prior to the Apple II, including PDP-11/20 minicomputer in 1969, Datapoint 2200 in 1970, IBM 5100 portable computer in 1975, and decsystem 20 in 1976.
Holt later joined Apple full-time as Apple Employee #5.
According to Holt, he was the "Chief Engineer and Vice President of Engineering during most of the reign of Apple II. I am most proud of my contributions to the floppy disk, the switching power supply, and radio interference problems. I received four patents for my work and was ennobled with the title of 'Chief Scientist'—whatev |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertrust | Intertrust may refer to:
Intertrust Technologies Corporation, a technology development, computing and strategic startup investment company
Intertrust Group, a trust and corporate services provider |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonyhurst%20Southville%20International%20School | Stonyhurst Southville International School is a learning institution in the province of Batangas and one of the Southville Global Education Network (SGEN) schools.
History
SSIS, originally Stonyhurst School, (lacking the later mentioned international title given) was founded in 1996 offering only a pre-school program and practicing in a English speaking environment. The name a reference to Stonyhurst College in the UK, the school where Peter P. Laurel, the founder of the school, studied.
In 1997, the grade school department opened with Integrated Program, a developmental model for elementary schools, designed to better meet the challenges of the 21st century. This allowed Stonyhurst School to enroll more and older students. Which gave the school a reason to expand its grounds and start constructing new school facilities.
In 2005, Stonyhurst was granted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, upon recommendation of the Department of Education, the international status thus the current name, Stonyhurst International School. The year after, it merged with a different large International School in the Philippines, Southville International School and Colleges, which helped allow the school to build its second campus in Lipa City, The Philippines.
In 2009, The Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) granted Stonyhurst Southville International School full accreditation.
In 2017, the school added robotics in its pre-school, grade school, and high school curriculum and integrated a robotics lab making use of robotic programs involving Hexbots and Arduino.
School campuses
Stonyhurst Southville - Batangas City Campus
Stonyhurst Southville - Malarayat/Lipa City Campus
Stonyhurst Southville International School – Malarayat (SSISM) was established in 2007 due to the strong demand for International Education in the city of Lipa; and the increasing number of clients coming from the city and its nearby towns.
Originally situated in a small house with a population of only 44 students, SSISM has grown to more than 500 students.
International curriculum
Early Childhood Education Department
The Early Childhood Education Department (ECED) of SSIS Batangas serves learners from Nursery (2 years old), Pre-Kinder (3 years old), Junior Kinder (4 years old), Senior Kinder (5 years old), Grade 1 (6 years old) and Grade 2 (7 years old).
Curriculum and academic programs
Early Childhood Education Department’s curriculum is patterned after Pennsylvania Standards.
Grade School Department
The SSIS Grade School (GS) Department consists of students from the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Grades. In Grade School, students deepen their understanding of the different academic areas. The development of physical, emotional, social and functional skills are also highlighted in the GS program. Aside from the academic subjects – Math, Science, English, Social Studies, Languages, there are also courses on Arts, Culture and Sports - Physical Education, Values Educatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absonemobius | Absonemobius is a genus of South American crickets in the subfamily Nemobiinae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Absonemobius alatus Otte, 2006
Absonemobius guyanensis Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Absonemobius minor Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Absonemobius nauta Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Absonemobius niger Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Absonemobius tessellatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993 - type species
References
Trigonidiidae
Orthoptera genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allonemobius | Allonemobius is a genus of cricket, insects in the family Gryllidae. They are part of the subfamily Nemobiinae, also known as "ground crickets."
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Allonemobius allardi (Alexander & Thomas, 1959)
Allonemobius fasciatus (De Geer, 1773)
Allonemobius fultoni Howard & Furth, 1986
Allonemobius griseus (Walker, 1904)
Allonemobius maculatus (Blatchley, 1900)
Allonemobius shalontaki Braswell, Birge & Howard, 2006
Allonemobius socius (Scudder, 1877)
Allonemobius sparsalsus (Fulton, 1930)
Allonemobius tinnulus (Fulton, 1931)
Allonemobius walkeri Howard & Furth, 1986
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanayara | Amanayara is a genus of insect in family Gryllidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Amanayara bernardesi Pereira, Sperber & Lhano, 2010
Amanayara helenae Pereira, Sperber & Lhano, 2010
Amanayara jutinga de Mello & Jacomini, 1994
Amanayara piuna de Mello & Jacomini, 1994
Amanayara ribasi Pereira, Sperber & Lhano, 2010
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argizala | Argizala is a genus of insect in family Gryllidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Argizala brasilensis Walker, 1869
Argizala hebardi (Rehn, 1915)
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dianemobius | Dianemobius is a genus of cricket in the tribe Pteronemobiini; species can be found in eastern Asia.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Dianemobius chibae (Shiraki, 1911)
Dianemobius chinensis Gorochov, 1984
Dianemobius csikii (Bolívar, 1901)
Dianemobius fascipes (Walker, 1869)type species (as Eneoptera fascipes Walker = D. fascipes subsp. fascipes)
Dianemobius furumagiensis (Ohmachi & Furukawa, 1929)
Dianemobius jucundus Liu & Yang, 1998
Dianemobius kimurae (Shiraki, 1911)
Dianemobius protransversus Liu & Yang, 1998
Dianemobius timphus Ingrisch, 2001
Dianemobius wulaius Liu & Yang, 1998
Dianemobius zhengi Chen, 1994
References
External links
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygronemobius | Hygronemobius is a genus of insect in family Gryllidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species groups and species:
Hygronemobius amoenus Chopard, 1920
Hygronemobius albolineatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius amoenus Chopard, 1920
Hygronemobius boreus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius torquatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius benoisti Chopard, 1920
Hygronemobius benoisti Chopard, 1920
Hygronemobius diplagion Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius elegans Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius tetraplagion Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius stellatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius nanus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius nigrofasciatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius stellatus Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Hygronemobius albipalpus (Saussure, 1877)
Hygronemobius alleni (Morse, 1905)
Hygronemobius araucanus (Saussure, 1874)
Hygronemobius basalis (Walker, 1869)
Hygronemobius daphne Otte & Peck, 1998
Hygronemobius darienicus Hebard, 1928
Hygronemobius dialeucus Martins & Pereira, 2014
Hygronemobius dissimilis (Saussure, 1874)
Hygronemobius duckensis (Martins & Pereira, 2014
Hygronemobius epia Otte & Perez-Gelabert, 2009
Hygronemobius guriri Pereira, Miyoshi & Martins, 2013
Hygronemobius histrionicus histrionicus Zayas, 1974
Hygronemobius indaia Pereira, Miyoshi & Martins, 2013
Hygronemobius iperoigae Pereira, Miyoshi & Martins, 2013
Hygronemobius liura Hebard, 1915
Hygronemobius longespinosus Chopard, 1956
Hygronemobius minutipennis Bruner, 1916
Hygronemobius nemoralis (Saussure, 1874)
Hygronemobius speculi (McNeill, 1901)
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevanemobius | Kevanemobius is a genus of insect in family Gryllidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Kevanemobius paulistorum Bolfarini & de Mello, 2012
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoremia | Phoremia is a genus of insect in family Gryllidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Phoremia circumcincta (Mesa, Ribas & García-Novo, 1999
Phoremia nigrofasciata Mesa, Ribas & García-Novo, 1999
Phoremia rolfsi (Pereira, Sperber & Lhano, 2011
Phoremia tabulina Desutter-Grandcolas, 1993
Phoremia zefai Pereira, Sperber & Lhano, 2011
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenonemobius | Stenonemobius is a genus of cricket in the subfamily Nemobiinae; species can be found in North Africa, South-East Europe and Asia.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following subgenera and species:
Subgenus Ocellonemobius Gorochov, 1984
Stenonemobius acrobatus (Saussure, 1877)
Stenonemobius bicolor (Saussure, 1877)
Subgenus Stenonemobius Gorochov, 1981
Stenonemobius gracilis (Jakovlev, 1871)
Stenonemobius adelungi (Uvarov, 1912)
Stenonemobius mayeti (Finot, 1893)
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20iron-ore%20exports | The following is a list of countries by iron ore exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2016) are listed.
* indicates "Natural resources of COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
See also
List of iron mines
List of countries by iron ore production
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2012)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Iron Ore (2016)
Iron-ore
Iron ore exports
Iron-ore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20authentication | In information security, message authentication or data origin authentication is a property that a message has not been modified while in transit (data integrity) and that the receiving party can verify the source of the message. Message authentication does not necessarily include the property of non-repudiation.
Message authentication is typically achieved by using message authentication codes (MACs), authenticated encryption (AE), or digital signatures. The message authentication code, also known as digital authenticator, is used as an integrity check based on a secret key shared by two parties to authenticate information transmitted between them. It is based on using a cryptographic hash or symmetric encryption algorithm. The authentication key is only shared by exactly two parties (e.g. communicating devices), and the authentication will fail in the existence of a third party possessing the key since the algorithm will no longer be able to detect forgeries (i.e. to be able to validate the unique source of the message). In addition, the key must also be randomly generated to avoid its recovery through brute-force searches and related-key attacks designed to identify it from the messages transiting the medium.
Some cryptographers distinguish between "message authentication without secrecy" systems – which allow the intended receiver to verify the source of the message, but they don't bother hiding the plaintext contents of the message – from authenticated encryption systems. Some cryptographers have researched subliminal channel systems that send messages that appear to use a "message authentication without secrecy" system, but in fact also transmit a secret message.
Data origin authentication and non-repudiation have been also studied in the framework of quantum cryptography.
See also
Data integrity
Authentication
Deniable authentication
References
Error detection and correction
Theory of cryptography |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grylliscus | Grylliscus is a genus of insect in family Trigonidiidae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Grylliscus gussakowski Tarbinsky, 1930
References
Trigonidiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemigryllus | Hemigryllus is a genus of crickets in subfamily Eneopterinae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Hemigryllus amazonicus Gorochov, 1997
Hemigryllus columbi Gorochov, 1996
Hemigryllus femineus Gorochov, 1986
Hemigryllus ortonii (Scudder, 1869)
Hemigryllus sharovi Gorochov, 1996
Hemigryllus vocatus Gorochov, 1999
Hemigryllus woronovi Gorochov, 1986
References
Crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinemobius | Marinemobius is a genus of insect in subfamily Nemobiinae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Marinemobius asahinai (Yamasaki, 1979)
References
Trigonidiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amonemobius | Amonemobius is a genus of cricket in the subfamily Nemobiinae.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Amonemobius vexans Otte, 1987
References
Trigonidiidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobilla | Bobilla is a genus of cricket in tribe Nemobiini, found in Australasia and the Pacific islands.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species groups and species:
Bobilla bivittata (Walker, 1869) - type species (as Nemobius bivittatus Walker, F)
Bobilla bakali Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla bivittata (Walker, 1869)
Bobilla kindyerra Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla neobivittata Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla poene Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla tasmani Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla victoriae Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla plurampe Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla killara Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla plurampe Otte & Alexander, 1983
Bobilla avita Otte, 1987
Bobilla bigelowi (Swan, 1972)
Bobilla gullane Su & Rentz, 2000
Bobilla illawarra Su & Rentz, 2000
Bobilla nigrovus (Swan, 1972)
References
Ground crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingliston%20Racing%20Circuit | Ingliston Racing Circuit is motor racing circuit that was built at the Royal Highland Showground at Ingliston, Edinburgh. The circuit was created by widening and linking the network of access roads at the venue which had previously been used exclusively as an agricultural showground.
The first racing took place at Ingliston on 11 April 1965 and it fast became recognised as one of Scotland's top motorsport venues. The first race was almost 10 years before Knockhill in Fife opened in 1974 . Ingliston became infamous for its tight corners and plethora of obstacles such as trees and buildings close to the track and was therefore considered to be more hazardous than other similar facilities in the UK. There were extensive spectator facilities including a 5000-person grandstand which was built around the southern part of the track and thus named 'Arena'.
The venue saw many famous drivers compete at races including the late Jim Clark, Jackie Stewart, Stirling Moss and lately David Coulthard.
History
1968 expansion
On 4 September 1968 the track re-opened benefiting from an extension to the northeast of 600 ft including a long straight leading to hairpin and back to left-hander where the new section rejoined the original circuit. This took the full circuit to a length of just over one mile, allowing for a more fulfilling experience for drivers and spectators alike and more racing as a result. Two circuits could be operated, the original or extended, both in a clockwise direction.
Scottish Motorsport Centre
In the winter of 1989 Sir Jackie Stewart publicly announced his plans for a Scottish Motorsport centre. An investment of £80 million was proposed to create a motoring centre of excellence, to include research and development facilities, showrooms and garages around the perimeter of the circuit. The plans received public approval but full funding was shortcoming and a planning application never submitted to Edinburgh District Council.
In addition to a two-mile Grand Prix standard racing circuit and motor industry test facilities, the New Ingliston proposals would embody a luxury hotel, multi-screen cinema, bowling alley, garden centre, ''autopark'' trading units, and heritage museum, within its perimeters.
Jackie Stewart, who designed the track, said his involvement with the McGregor Holdings concept which includes personal investment, came afterpersistent requests from throughout the world to participate in developing race circuits.
1995 closure
During the downturn of the early 1990s the circuit started to fall behind modern standards. Increased competition from Knockhill Racing Circuit in Fife and a lack of investment in modern safety facilities as well as increased pressure from the venue for other non-motoring related activity spelled the end of motorsport at Ingliston. The track was de-commissioned and infrastructure removed, paving the way for the venue to pursue its main ambition as a public showground.
Today
Much of the original circuit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed%20Sameh | Ahmed Hamdy Mohamed Sameh is the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He is known for his contributions to parallel algorithms in numerical linear algebra.
Biography
Sameh received his BSc in civil engineering from the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 1961, MS in civil engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1964 and PhD in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1968 under the supervision of Alfredo Hua-Sing Ang.
A conference on "High Performance Scientific Computing: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications" was organized on October 11–12, 2010 at the Purdue University in honor of Sameh on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
Research
Sameh and Eric Polizzi developed the SPIKE algorithm, a hybrid parallel solver for banded linear systems.
Awards and honors
Fulbright fellow, 1963–1964
Fellow of SIAM, IEEE, AAAS and ACM
William Norris Chair in Large Scale Computing, 1991–1992, 1993–1996
IEEE's Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, 1999, for seminal and influential work in parallel numerical algorithms
IEEE Computer Society Golden Core 1996 Charter Member
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Numerical analysts
Egyptian computer scientists
American computer scientists
Grainger College of Engineering alumni
Purdue University faculty
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20aluminium%20exports | The following is a list of countries by raw aluminium exports. Data is for 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top ten countries are listed.
References
Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Raw Aluminium (2012)
Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Raw Aluminium (2016)
Aluminium
Exports
Aluminium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20coffee%20exports | The following is a list of countries by coffee exports. Data is for 2012 & 2016, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty countries (as of 2016) are listed.
See also
List of countries by coffee production
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Coffee (2012)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Coffee (2016)
Coffee
Coffee industry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20copper%20exports | The following is a list of countries by refined copper exports. Data is for 2012 and 2018, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top ten countries are listed.
References
Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Refined Copper (2012)
Copper
Exports
Copper, exports by country |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dribbble | Dribbble is a self-promotion and social networking platform for digital designers. It serves as a design portfolio platform, jobs and recruiting site, and is one of the largest platforms for designers to share their work online. The company is a distributed company with no headquarters; all employees are remote workers.
History
In 2009, Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett beta-launched Dribbble as an invite-only site where designers shared what they were working on: “The name Dribbble came about from the dual metaphors of bouncing ideas and leaking your work.” The first "Shot" (a small screenshot of a designer's work in progress) was posted by the user "Cederholm" on July 9, 2009. In March 2010, Dribbble was made publicly available with new members requiring invitations.
Over the years, features were added such as API integration, Attachments, Player Stats, and Pro (an elevated, paid profile). It launched the following:
A designer job board,
Team accounts
A design podcast called "Overtime"
A customizable portfolio product called "Playbook".
Dribbble expanded its global reach for in-person designer meetings (“Meetups”), resulting in 142 Dribbble Meetups worldwide. By the end of 2016, its community grew to 486,771 members.
In January 2017, Dribbble was acquired by Tiny, a family of internet startup companies, and Zack Onisko was appointed CEO. 2017 saw its first in-person designer conference: Hang Time, since hosted in Boston (2017), Seattle (2018), Los Angeles (2018), and New York.
In April 2017, Dribbble acquired the freelancer platform Crew.
In 2018, the site added a video feature. The site also continued to expand its reach with 144 meet-ups in 43 countries, with more than 8,000 designers in attendance. As of 2019, the firm's remote team is composed of 40 or more employees. The site is used in 195 countries worldwide and the website has greater than 4 million visitors each month.(2017)
Awards
Inc. 5000: Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America (2018 and 2019)
Webby Awards: Honoree, Best Website – Community (2019)
CSS Design Awards: Best UI Design, Best UX Design, Best Innovation (2019)
Inc. 5000: Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America (2018)
References
External links
Art websites
Companies based in Salem, Massachusetts
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20engine%20exports | The following is a list of countries by combustion engine exports. Data is from 2018, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently, the top ten countries are listed:
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Combustion Engines (2016)
Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Combustion Engines
Engine
engine exports
Engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Idol%20%28season%2015%29 | The fifteenth season of American Idol, also branded as American Idol: The Farewell Season, premiered on the Fox television network on January 6, 2016. Ryan Seacrest continued as host, while Harry Connick Jr., Jennifer Lopez, and Keith Urban returned as judges. Scott Borchetta also returned as the in-house mentor. On April 7, 2016, Trent Harmon was announced as this season's winner, while La'Porsha Renae was the runner-up.
It was the series' final season to air on Fox. Despite the announcement that the series would be ending, ABC announced in May 2017 that they would revive American Idol.
Changes from previous seasons
For the first time, performances by the top 24 were judged solely by the show's judges and producers, who determined which contestants were eliminated. From each group of twelve, seven were advanced and five were eliminated, resulting in a top 14 for the third week of the semifinals.
The voting limit for this season was set at ten votes per contestant per voting method, half of what it had been the previous season.
Regional auditions
The American Idol "Audition Bus Tour" visited the following cities: Seattle, Washington; Providence, Rhode Island; Baltimore, Maryland; San Diego, California; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Tucson, Arizona; Indianapolis, Indiana; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Athens, Georgia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Oxford, Mississippi; and Wilmington, North Carolina. American Idol also partnered with two technology companies to allow people to audition using video recording kiosks and mobile apps in Culver City, California, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Auditions took place in:
Semifinals
The top 24 semifinalists were split into two groups of twelve, and were filmed at The Vibiana in Los Angeles, California. Each round consisted of back-to-back performances: each contestant sang one solo in the episode that aired on Wednesday, and one duet with an American Idol alumnus in the episode that aired on Thursday.
Color key:
Top 24 (Group 1)
Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 24 (Group 2)
Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Wild Card round
Following the judges' selection of four contestants to advance to the Finals, the remaining ten semifinalists competed for the viewers' votes. Six of them advanced to complete the final group of ten. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Top 10 finalists
Trent Harmon (born October 8, 1990) was from Amory, Mississippi. He auditioned in Little Rock, singing "Unaware" by Allen Stone. When Harmon suffered mononucleosis during Hollywood Week, he continued by singing Sam Smith's "Lay Me Down" as his first solo. In the group round, he was not able to perform with the other contestants due to his illness, and the producers allowed him to perform a solo to advance. He earned a spot in the top 24 during Showcase Week after performing Elton John's "Tiny Dancer."
La'Porsha Renae (born August 1, 1993) was from McComb, Mississippi. She had previously auditioned d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX%20Unit%20of%20Performance | The VAX Unit of Performance, or VUP for short, is an obsolete measurement of computer performance used by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC). 1 VUP was equivalent to the performance of a VAX 11/780 completing a given task.
Other VAX machines and later workstation designs were compared in performance terms by defining system speed in VUPs, for instance, the VAXft Model 310 ran at 3.8 VUPs, meaning it ran roughly 3.8 times as fast as the 11/780.
The term was used largely within the DEC and its community, and fell from use as more standard ratings like SPEC became more widely used. This was especially true with the introduction of DEC workstations running Unix, in which case the VUP was of little use comparing the platforms to competition systems.
References
Benchmarks (computing) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YODA%20Project | The YODA (Yale Open Data Access) Project is a Yale University project to promote open data in clinical research.
The YODA Project has served as a trusted intermediary in a variety of collaborative efforts to make scientific data more broadly available to researchers. It is a response to expanding demands for health information.
The YODA Project is currently partnering with Johnson & Johnson.. SI-BONE is also a partner. Inquiries for data availability for unlisted trials from these data holders can also be submitted.
This project is being examined as a pilot for a new way of sharing information.
See also
Metascience
References
External links
Open data
Yale University
Johnson & Johnson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Engineering%20Solutions | Micro Engineering Solutions, Inc. was a CAD/CAM (Computer Aided Design / Computer Aided Manufacturing) software company founded in 1986 by Lynn and Jim Hock and Bill Harris in Farmington, Michigan. The initial product was "Solution 3000", a PC based CAD/CAM system that ran on a standard IBM PC "AT" (or clone), running under IBM PC DOS, with 640kb of memory. Additional required hardware included a math coprocessor, a 20MB hard disk drive with floppy disk backup, a graphics display interface, and a graphics monitor.
Solution 3000 featured true full 3D modeling capability, including both design and manufacturing capabilities. Optional packages included:
Advanced Surfacing / NC Machining Advanced Conversion Programs: IGES (Initial Graphics Exchange Specification), DXF (AutoCAD Format), DES (General Motors), Ford Standard Tape, and Chrysler's format.
In 1990, Micro Engineering Solutions, Inc. was purchased by a group of investors that included Morganthaler Ventures, 3I Ventures, and GeoCapital.
In 1991, the Board appointed Ken Spenser as President and CEO.
On October 19, 1992, Autodesk Inc, Sausalito CA acquired Micro Engineering Solutions.
References
Defunct software companies of the United States
Autodesk acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen%20%28first%20generation%29 | Zen is the codename for the first iteration in a family of computer processor microarchitectures of the same name from AMD. It was first used with their Ryzen series of CPUs in February 2017. The first Zen-based preview system was demonstrated at E3 2016, and first substantially detailed at an event hosted a block away from the Intel Developer Forum 2016. The first Zen-based CPUs, codenamed "Summit Ridge", reached the market in early March 2017, Zen-derived Epyc server processors launched in June 2017 and Zen-based APUs arrived in November 2017.
Zen is a clean sheet design that differs from AMD's previous long-standing Bulldozer architecture. Zen-based processors use a 14 nm FinFET process, are reportedly more energy efficient, and can execute significantly more instructions per cycle. SMT has been introduced, allowing each core to run two threads. The cache system has also been redesigned, making the L1 cache write-back. Zen processors use three different sockets: desktop and mobile Ryzen chips use the AM4 socket, bringing DDR4 support; the high-end desktop Zen-based Threadripper chips support quad-channel DDR4 RAM and offer 64 PCIe 3.0 lanes (vs 24 lanes), using the TR4 socket; and Epyc server processors offer 128 PCI 3.0 lanes and octa-channel DDR4 using the SP3 socket.
Zen is based on a SoC design. The memory controller and the PCIe, SATA, and USB controllers are incorporated into the same chip(s) as the processor cores. This has advantages in bandwidth and power, at the expense of chip complexity and die area. This SoC design allows the Zen microarchitecture to scale from laptops and small-form factor mini PCs to high-end desktops and servers.
By 2020, 260 million Zen cores have already been shipped by AMD.
Design
According to AMD, the main focus of Zen is on increasing per-core performance.
New or improved features include:
The L1 cache has been changed from write-through to write-back, allowing for lower latency and higher bandwidth.
SMT (simultaneous multithreading) architecture allows for two threads per core, a departure from the CMT (clustered multi-thread) design used in the previous Bulldozer architecture. This is a feature previously offered in some IBM, Intel and Oracle processors.
A fundamental building block for all Zen-based CPUs is the Core Complex (CCX) consisting of four cores and their associated caches. Processors with more than four cores consist of multiple CCXs connected by Infinity Fabric. Processors with non-multiple-of-four core counts have some cores disabled.
Four ALUs, two AGUs/load–store units, and two floating-point units per core.
Newly introduced "large" micro-operation cache.
Each SMT core can dispatch up to six micro-ops per cycle (a combination of 6 integer micro-ops and 4 floating point micro-ops per cycle).
Close to 2× faster L1 and L2 bandwidth, with total L3 cache bandwidth up 5×.
Clock gating.
Larger retire, load, and store queues.
Improved branch prediction using a hashed perceptron sy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20diamond%20exports | The following is a list of countries and territories by diamond exports. Data is for 2012, 2015 and 2016 in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the countries exporting over one billion dollars in either 2015 or 2016 are listed:
See also
List of countries by diamond production
References
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Diamonds (2012)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Diamonds (2015)
atlas.media.mit.edu - Observatory of Economic complexity - Countries that export Diamonds (2016)
Diamond
exports
Exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20raw%20cotton%20exports | The following is a list of countries by raw cotton exports. Data is for 2020, in millions of United States dollars, as reported by The International Trade Centre. Currently the top fifteen countries are listed.
References
- International Trade Centre Statistics (Countries that export raw cotton 2019)
Cotton
exports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Ford%20%28author%29 | Martin Ford is an American futurist and author focusing on artificial intelligence and robotics, and the impact of these technologies on the job market, economy and society.
He has written four books on technology. His 2015 book, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, was a New York Times bestseller and won the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award.
In Ford's most recent book, Rule of the Robots: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Everything (2021), he argues that AI is a systemic, general-purpose technology that will ultimately compare to electricity in terms of its impact on the economy and society. Ford argues that AI will be one of humanity's most consequential technologies, transforming virtually every industry and aspect of civilization, and that it will be critical driver of increased innovation and creativity that will lead to future advances across a broad range of fields in science, engineering and medicine.
Ford's previous book, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth about AI from the People Building It (2018) consists of conversations with the most prominent research scientists and entrepreneurs working in the field of artificial intelligence, including Demis Hassabis, Geoffrey Hinton, Ray Kurzweil, Yann LeCun, Yoshua Bengio, Nick Bostrom, Fei-Fei Li, Rodney Brooks, Andrew Ng, Stuart J. Russell and many others. The conversations recorded in the book delve into the future of artificial intelligence, the path to human-level AI (or artificial general intelligence), and the risks associated with progress in AI.
His first book, The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology and the Economy of the Future (2009) also dealt with the effects of automation resulting from advances in artificial intelligence, and the potential for structural unemployment and dramatically increasing inequality.
Ford earned a BSE in computer engineering, magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a graduate business degree from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
Author and futurist
In 2009, Ford published The Lights in the Tunnel, making a strong argument that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence would eventually make a large fraction of the human workforce obsolete.
Ford predicted in his 2009 book that "artificial intelligence will be the next Killer App" and would become a central focus of Silicon Valley. By 2016, major firms like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple were in an intense talent war for AI experts, and Google's CEO had proclaimed that artificial intelligence represented an "inflection point" and that Google would be an "AI-first" company.
In his second book, Rise of the Robots (2015), he argues that the growth of automation threatens many highly educated people, like lawyers, radiologists, and software designers. Rise of the Robots is a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into 19 languages.
In addition t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nox%20%28platform%29 | NOX is a piece of the software-defined networking (SDN) ecosystem. Specifically, it's a platform for building network control applications.
The first SDN technology to get real name recognition was OpenFlow, and NOX was initially developed at Nicira Networks side by side with OpenFlow — NOX was the first OpenFlow controller. Nicira donated NOX to the research community in 2008, and since then, it has been the basis for many and various research projects in the early exploration of the SDN space.
To a developer, NOX:
Provides a C++ OpenFlow 1.0 API
Provides fast, asynchronous IO
Is targeted at recent Linux distributions.
Includes sample components for:
Topology discovery
Learning switch
Network-wide switch
Further reading
External links
About NOX
Application software
Computing platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Nations%20Experience | First Nations Experience (FNX) is a non-profit television network in San Bernardino, California, owned by the San Bernardino Community College District. The network, created by Executive Director Charles Fox, is broadcast from the KVCR-TV studios located on the campus of San Bernardino Valley College. FNX is America's first and only broadcast network aimed at Native Americans and global Indigenous audiences and consumers of Native American culture.
History
First Nation Experience was launched under the leadership of Executive Director Charles Fox on September 25, 2011, through a $6 million gift from its founding partner, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians. On November 1, 2014, FNX became available via satellite to hundreds of non-profit public television service providers across the United States including public broadcasting TV stations (especially PBS member stations), community, tribal, religious, and others. On this date, FNX became available via satellite receiver set to 125° West from the PBS Satellite Service. In 2015, the San Manuel Band awarded FNX a second $6 million gift to help expand the station. The network currently reaches 47 million viewers in the United States.
Affiliates
See also
World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network
Sacheen Littlefeather
References
External links
First Nations Experience
Public television in the United States
Television stations in California
PBS member networks
Mass media in San Bernardino, California
Indigenous peoples of California topics
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in California
Native American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfox | Sigfox is a French global network operator founded in 2010 that built wireless networks to connect low-power objects such as electricity meters and smartwatches, which need to be continuously on and emitting small amounts of data.
Sigfox is based in Labège near Toulouse, France, and had over 375 employees. The firm also has offices in Madrid, San Francisco, Sydney and Paris.
Sigfox had raised more than $300 million from investors that included Salesforce, Intel, Samsung, NTT, SK Telecom, energy groups Total and Air Liquide. In November 2016 Sigfox was valued at around €600 million. In January 2022 it filed for bankruptcy.
In April 2022 Singapore-based IoT network firm Unabiz subsequently acquired Sigfox and its French network operations for a reported €25 million ($27m).
Technology
Sigfox employs the differential binary phase-shift keying (DBPSK) and the Gaussian frequency shift keying (GFSK) that enables communication using the Short-range device band of 868 MHz in Europe, and the Industrial, Scientific and Medical radio band of 902 MHz in the US. It utilizes a wide-reaching signal that passes freely through solid objects, called "Ultra Narrowband" and requires little energy, being termed a "low-power wide-area network" (LPWAN). The network is based on one-hop star topology and requires a mobile operator to carry the generated traffic. The signal can also be used to easily cover large areas and to reach underground objects. As of November 2020, the Sigfox IoT network has covered a total of 5.8 million square kilometers in a total of 72 countries with 1.3 billion of the world population reached.
Sigfox has partnered with a number of firms in the LPWAN industry such as Texas Instruments, Silicon Labs and ON Semiconductor. The ISM radio bands support limited bidirectional communication. The existing standard for Sigfox communications supports up to 140 uplink messages a day, each of which can carry a payload of 12 octets at a data rate of up to 100 bits per second.
Coverage
Map of coverage and countries under roll-out
References
Internet technology companies of France
Internet of things companies
Wireless networking
French companies established in 2009
Companies that filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2022
Companies that have filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Morning%20Australia | Good Morning Australia may refer to:
Good Morning Australia (1981 TV program), a 1981–1992 Australian breakfast television news and infotainment program that aired on Network Ten
Good Morning Australia (1992 TV program), originally titled The Morning Show, a 1992–2005 Australian morning television variety program hosted by Bert Newton that aired on Network Ten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20de%20Expresos%20Regionales | Red de Expresos Regionales (RER, English: Regional Express Network) is a planned commuter network system in Buenos Aires, Consist in a tunnel connecting the 3 mainline railway stations of the City: Retiro, Constitucion and Once, in the north, south and west respectively, The new tunnels we have 2 new stations, the Central Station in the Obelisco and the Correo Central in these building, In Central Station a big interchange to the Underground network in the stations of Lima (A Line), Carlos Pellegrini (B Line), Diagonal Norte and Avenida de Mayo (C Line) and 9 de Julio (D Line), and the Metrobus BRT network, In Correo Central a new interchange also to the Underground in the namesake station in B and E lines, These tunnels they will reconnect the network of commuters, disconnect since 1897 with the fire and clausure of the Buenos Aires Central Station, construyed by British company Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway and connection of the railways, a few meters of the Plaza de Mayo, The RER system we connect only the routes from Constitución, Retiro and Once, and electric
History and Overview
The idea of linking the main commuter rail lines of Buenos Aires through a tunnel dates back to 1969, resulting in a 1973 study which suggested creating a Red Expresa Regional. While the original proposal sought to link the Mitre Line and Roca Line through the centre of the city, more recent proposals suggested creating tunnels between Retiro railway station, Once railway station and Constitución railway station - the three biggest rail terminals of the city.
Such a line would connect all urban and suburban commuter rail lines in the city, with the exception of the Urquiza Line which has access tunnels to Line B at of the Buenos Aires Underground Federico Lacroze railway station and the Belgrano Sur Line, whose inclusion in RER first depends on the current plans for the extension of the line to Constitución being completed.
The current RER proposal was put forward by Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri in 2015. The project includes the construction of of tunnels to link the three main railway terminals and the construction of five new underground stations: one at each of the terminals, one underneath the Obelisco in the centre of the city and another in the Central Business District underneath the Buenos Aires Central Post Office.
The total cost of the project will be US$1.8 billion and will integrate the existing network through the tunnels. The central station will connect with the Metrobus network, as well as the Buenos Aires Underground lines , , and , while the Correo Central station will also connect with .
The first stage of the project will take four years to complete and consists of building the Obelisco station and the North-South tunnels from Retiro railway station to Constitución railway station, integrating the Mitre Line, Roca Line and San Martín Line. The second stage will take a further two years and will see the building of the East-Wes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davina%20Smith | Davina Smith (born 1982) is an Australian journalist and news presenter.
Smith currently presents Nine Morning News, Nine Afternoon News and is news presenter on the Nine Network's Today Extra.
Career
Smith attended St Ursula's College in Toowoomba before studying at the University of Southern Queensland.
In 2002, Smith did work experience in Brisbane's Nine newsroom. That led to a job with Nine's then-regional affiliate WIN News, working as a reporter and presenter in Rockhampton, Toowoomba and the Sunshine Coast.
Smith has also been a relief weather presenter for WIN Television, filling in for Peter Byrne on the various local editions of WIN News in Queensland.
In 2011, Smith moved to the Nine Network in Brisbane, to help fill the void left by the sackings of two journalists and a news producer over the network's "Choppergate" scandal. She primarily presented the weather on weekends, but also filled in as the main presenter whenever required, including when Eva Milic went on maternity leave in 2012.
In February 2014, Smith moved to Sydney and was appointed presenter for both Nine Morning News and Nine Afternoon News whilst Amelia Adams was on maternity leave. Adams returned from maternity leave in October 2014 becoming presenter of Nine News Now, with Alison Ariotti returning to Queensland to present the news on weekends.
Personal life
Smith grew up on a cattle farm in Central Queensland.
As a Toowoomba local, Smith has said that one of the hardest stories she has covered was the Toowoomba floods. Speaking about the experience, she said: "You write and speak from a different perspective when the story is so personal. I know the experience made me a better journalist".
In 2010, Smith married her partner Mark Cameron in Toowoomba during the city's annual Carnival of Flowers festival.
In May 2016, Smith gave birth to a daughter.
References
External links
Davina Smith – 9 News Presenter
Davina Smith – Twitter
Davina Smith – Instagram
Living people
1982 births
Nine News presenters
Australian women television presenters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copholandrevus | Copholandrevus is an Australian genus of crickets in the tribe Landrevini.
Taxonomy
The Orthoptera Species File database lists the following species:
Copholandrevus australicus Chopard, 1925 - type species
Copholandrevus brevicauda Chopard, 1930
References
Crickets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20dance%20singles%20of%202003%20%28Australia%29 | The ARIA Dance Chart is a chart that ranks the best-performing dance singles of Australia. It is published by Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA), an organisation who collect music data for the weekly ARIA Charts. To be eligible to appear on the chart, the recording must be a single, and be "predominantly of a dance nature, or with a featured track of a dance nature, or included in the ARIA Club Chart or a comparable overseas chart".
Chart history
Number-one artists
See also
2003 in music
List of number-one singles of 2003 (Australia)
List of number-one club tracks of 2003 (Australia)
References
Australia Dance
Dance 2003
Number-one dance singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%E2%80%93industrial%20complex | The medical–industrial complex is a network of interactions between pharmaceutical corporations, health care personnel, and medical conglomerates to supply health care-related products and services for a profit. The term is a product of the military–industrial complex and builds from the basis of that concept.
The medical–industrial complex is often discussed in the context of conflict of interest in the health care industry. Discussions regarding the medical-industrial complex often recognize the United States healthcare system. Pharmaceutical companies and healthcare companies can promote bias in physicians by operating for-profit, chain hospitals. Physicians are also bound by corporate regulations on treatment and potential personal investment in medical device companies. Large medical journals responsible for creating medical education material can publish biased or bias-inducing findings, although work has been done to ensure that publishings remain neutral throughout literature. Continuing medical education funded by pharmaceutical companies can induce preference in physicians. Patients can fall victims of this complex through cosmetic surgery promotion, drug inflation, and physician bias. The Food and Drug Administration has created laws that protect patients against the medical-industrial complex in America. In Brazil, the Program for Investment in the Health Industrial Complex created an initiative to expand Brazil's internal infrastructure around healthcare and medical research.
Term
The concept of a "medical–industrial complex" was first advanced by Barbara and John Ehrenreich in the November 1969 issue of the Bulletin of the Health Policy Advisory Center in an article entitled "The Medical Industrial Complex" and in a subsequent book (with Health-PAC), The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics (Random House, 1970). In the 1970s profit-seeking companies became significant stakeholders in the United States healthcare system. It was further popularized in 1980 by Arnold S. Relman while he served as editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. In a paper titled "The New Medical-Industrial Complex" Relman commented, "The past decade has seen the rise of another kind of private "industrial complex" with an equally great potential for influence on public policy — this time in health care..."
Within the United States
Healthcare corporations
Healthcare corporations are connected with the creation of chain hospitals. A chain hospital is a subsidiary of a hospital network that works under a for-profit goal of expanding healthcare and establishing hospitals across a country, most notably the United States. These corporations set standards regarding care administration, regulation, and enforcement without fully acknowledging medical ethics and their manifestations. Chain hospitals combined with conglomerate pharmaceutical companies lead to an increase in the price a patient will pay for a single hospital visit. This increase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepFace | DeepFace is a deep learning facial recognition system created by a research group at Facebook. It identifies human faces in digital images. The program employs a nine-layer neural network with over 120 million connection weights and was trained on four million images uploaded by Facebook users. The Facebook Research team has stated that the DeepFace method reaches an accuracy of 97.35% ± 0.25% on Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) data set where human beings have 97.53%. This means that DeepFace is sometimes more successful than human beings. As a result of growing societal concerns Meta announced that it plans to shut down Facebook facial recognition system, deleting the face scan data of more than one billion users. This change will represent one of the largest shifts in facial recognition usage in the technology’s history. Facebook planned to delete by December 2021 more than one billion facial recognition templates, which are digital scans of facial features. However, it did not plan to eliminate DeepFace which is the software that powers the facial recognition system. The company has also not ruled out incorporating facial recognition technology into future products, according to Meta spokesperson.
Commercial rollout
Origin
DeepFace was produced by a collection of scientists from Facebook’s artificial intelligence research team. The team includes Yainiv Taigman and a Facebook research scientist Ming Yang. They were also joined by Lior Wolf, a faculty member from Tel Aviv University. Yaniv Taigman, came to Facebook when Facebook acquired Face.com in 2012.
Facebook started rolling out DeepFace to its users in early 2015, and have continuously expanding DeepFace's use and software,. DeepFace, according to the director of Facebook’s artificial intelligence research, is not intended to invade individual privacy. Instead, DeepFace alerts individuals when their face appears in any photo posted on Facebook. When they receive this notification, they have the option of removing their face from the photo.
European Union
When the DeepFace technology was initially deployed, users had the option to turn DeepFace off. However, they were not notified that it was on. Because of this, DeepFace was not released in the European Union. A data privacy law in the EU argued that Facebook’s facial recognition did not comply with EU data protection laws. Because users do not consent to all the uses of their biometric data, it does not comply.
Accuracy
DeepFace systems can identify faces with 97% accuracy, almost the same accuracy as a human in the same position. Facebook’s facial recognition is more effective than the FBI’s technology, which has 85% accuracy. Google’s technology, FaceNet is more successful than DeepFace using the same data sets. FaceNet set a record for accuracy, 99.63%. Google’s FaceNet incorporates data from Google Photos.
Applications
Facebook uses individual facial recognition templates to find photos that an individual is in so they can |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faculty%20of%20Computing%20and%20Automation%2C%20Technical%20University%20of%20Varna | The Faculty of Computer Sciences and Automation is one of six faculties at the Technical University of Varna in Varna, Bulgaria. It includes the departments of Computer Science and Engineering, Software and Internet Technologies, Communication Engineering and Technologies, Automation, and Electronic Equipment and Microelectronics.
History
The Faculty of Computer Sciences and Automation was established in 1989. Traditionally oriented towards physics and mathematics, the institution has shifted its focus towards computing and automation over the past decade.
Deans of the faculty
Prof. r.inzh. Vasil Smarkov
Prof. r.inzh. Ivan Yanchev
Prof. r.inzh. Valter Stanchev
Prof. r.inzh. Ovid Farhi
Prof. r.inzh. Petar Antonov
Structure
Department of Computer Systems and Technologies
The Department of "Computing" was founded in 1982. The original faculty of the Computing Department were members of the "Radio" department. Initially, it was equipped with three laboratories to conduct exercises and research computer usage. Initially focused on IBM, the courses were oriented towards its software, operating systems, architectures, motherboards, printers and other connected devices. The department with was started with 10 teachers. In the late '80s, students arrived from neighbouring countries to the department including students from Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka and Cambodia. After 2007, the department of Specialty Computer Engineering and Technology is among the most prestigious specialities in the university.
Heads of department
Assoc. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Ocheretyko
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Vasil Sniffing
Department of Automation
The Department was established in 1970 with 300 students enrolled in various courses. Automated manufacturing techniques were being introduced to many industries at this time. The Electrical Engineering experience of the faculty provided a solid foundation for the Automation Department. The original staff of the Department were specialists from the Department of EMA and VMEI- Varna and were highly qualified personnel in the field of production automation. Private teachers Svetoslav Kolev and Nikolay Pantev Bangieva B. and C. Tzeneva lab and Hr. Petrova have contributed greatly to the development of the Department.
Heads of department
Prof. Dr.-Ing. N. Svetoslav Kolev (1970-1985)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Mitko Iv. Dimchev (1985-1990)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. Tsvyatko D. Lilov (1990-1994)
Assoc. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter D. Petrov (1994-2009)
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Eng. J. Emil Marinov (2009–??)
Assoc. Prof. Nikolay Nikolov (present)
References
External page on the computing and automation department, UOV
Technical University of Varna
Buildings and structures of the Technical University of Varna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20globular%20cluster | Dark globular cluster is a proposed type of globular star clusters that has an unusually high mass for the number of stars within it. Proposed in 2015 on the basis of observational data, dark globular clusters are believed to be populated by objects with significant dark matter components, such as central massive black holes.
Observational data
The observational data for dark globular clusters comes from the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile which observed the vicinity of the galaxy Centaurus A. Many of the globular clusters inside that galaxy are brighter and more massive than those orbiting the Milky Way and a sample of 125 globular clusters around Centaurus A was studied using the VLT's FLAMES instrument. While globular clusters are normally considered to be almost devoid of dark matter, the study of the dynamical properties of sampled clusters suggested the presence of exotically concentrated dark matter. The existence of dark globular clusters would suggest that their formation and evolution are markedly different from other globular clusters in Centaurus A and the Local Group.
See also
References
Globular clusters
Star clusters
Dark matter
Dark concepts in astrophysics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-arms%20industry | The cyber-arms industry are the markets and associated events surrounding the sale of software exploits, zero-days, cyberweaponry, surveillance technologies, and related tools for perpetrating cyberattacks. The term may extend to both grey and black markets online and offline.
For many years, the burgeoning dark web market remained niche, available only to those in-the-know or well-funded. Since at least 2005, governments including the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, France, and Israel have been buying exploits from defence contractors and individual hackers. This 'legitimate' market for zero-day exploits exists but is not well advertised or immediately accessible.
Attempts to openly sell zero-day exploits to governments and security vendors to keep them off the black market have so far been unsuccessful.
Companies
Traditional arms producers and military services companies such as BAE Systems, EADS, Leonardo, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Thales have all expanded into the cybersecurity markets. However, smaller software companies such as Blue Coat and Amesys have also become involved, often drawing attention for providing surveillance and censorship technologies to the regimes of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.
Suppliers of exploits to western governments include the Massachusetts firm Netragard.
The trade show ISS World that runs every few months has been referred to as the 'international cyber arms bazaar' and the 'wiretappers ball' focuses on surveillance software for lawful interception.
Some other cyberarms companies include Endgame, Inc., Gamma Group, NSO Group, Birmingham Cyber Arms LTD and Ability. Circles, a former surveillance business, merged with NSO Group in 2014.
On 26 July 2017 Google researchers announced the discovery of new spyware they named "Lipizzan". According to Google, "Lipizzan's code contains references to a cyber arms company, Equus Technologies.".
On the Internet
The most popular Internet forums are generally in Russian or Ukrainian and there are reports of English-only, Chinese-only, German-only, and Vietnamese-only sites, among others. Phishing, spear-phishing, and other social engineer campaigns are typically done in English, as a majority of potential victims know that language. India's Central Bureau of Investigation describe the proliferation of underground markets as 'widespread'. Colonel John Adams, head of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity has expressed concerns these markets could allow cyberweaponry to fall into the hands of hostile governments which would otherwise lack the expertise to attack an advanced country's computer systems.
Online, there is increasing uses of encryption and privacy mechanisms such as off the record messaging and cryptocurrencies.
Since 2005 on darknet markets and black markets such as the 'Cyber Arms Bazaar' have had their prices dropping fast with the cost of cyberweaponry plummeting at least 90 percent.
Botnets are increasingly re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra%20HD%20Blu-ray | Ultra HD Blu-ray (4K Ultra HD, UHD-BD, or 4K Blu-ray) is a digital optical disc data storage format that is an enhanced variant of Blu-ray. Ultra HD Blu-ray discs are incompatible with existing standard Blu-ray players. Ultra HD Blu-ray supports 4K UHD (3840 × 2160 pixel resolution) video at frame rates up to 60 progressive frames per second, encoded using High-Efficiency Video Coding. The discs support both high dynamic range by increasing the color depth to 10-bit per color and a greater color gamut than supported by conventional Blu-ray video by using the Rec. 2020 color space. Ultra HD Blu-Ray discs also support a 12-bit per color container via Dolby Vision. Dolby Vision content on 4K UHD Blu-Ray can also be mastered for 10,000 nits peak brightness, whereas standard HDR10 can only achieve a maximum of 4,000 nits of brightness. Moreover, Dolby Vision makes use of dynamic metadata, which adjusts the brightness and tone mapping per scene. In contrast, standard HDR10 only makes use of static metadata, which sets the same brightness and tone mapping for the entirety of the content.
The format is supported on Microsoft's Xbox One X, One S, Series X, and Sony's PlayStation 5. Software made for the PlayStation 5 can use 100 GB UHD Blu-ray discs.
The first Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs were officially released in the United States on February 14, 2016. To differentiate retail Ultra HD Blu-ray releases, the format usually uses a black opaque or slightly transparent keep case packaging format (as opposed to blue). The case size is the same as that of a normal Blu-ray disc.
The Blu-ray Disc Association also completed the specification for an 8K Blu-ray format supporting 8K UHD (7680 × 4320 pixel resolution) videos for use in Japan.
Specifications
The specification for 4K Blu-ray allows for three disc capacities, each with its own data rate: 50 GB at 72 or 92 Mbit/s, and 66 GB and 100 GB at 92, 123, or 144 Mbit/s. On 66 GB and 100 GB discs, the pits and lands are not narrower than those of a standard Blu-ray Disc, but shorter, which increases the capacity of each layer from 25 GB to 33 1/3 GB. This also means that each revolution of such a disc transfers more data than that of a standard Blu-ray Disc, which means the transfer rate is higher with the same linear velocity. In addition, the disc can be encoded to have the drive hold the full 5,000 rpm until it reaches a point slightly away from the innermost part of the disc if an even higher transfer rate is needed. 50 and 66 GB use two layers, and 100 GB uses three layers. Ultra HD Blu-ray technology was licensed in mid-2015, and players had an expected release date of Christmas 2015. Ultra HD Blu-ray uses a new revision of AACS DRM: AACS 2. In addition, AACS 2.1 is used on certain releases (Stand by Me, Fury, The Patriot, Zombieland).
On May 12, 2015, the Blu-ray Disc Association revealed completed specifications and the official Ultra HD Blu-ray logo. Unlike conventional DVDs and Blu-rays, the new 4K form |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksey%20Sukletin | Aleksey Vasilyevich Sukletin (; March 23, 1943 – July 29, 1987) was a Soviet serial killer, rapist and cannibal. Between 1979 and 1985 (according to other data, from 1981 to 1985), along with accomplices Madina Shakirova and Anatoly Nikitin, he killed and cannibalized seven girls and women in Tatarstan.
Biography
Early life and early crimes
Aleksey Vasilevich Sukletin was born in 1943, in Kazan, RSFSR, Soviet Union. His mother worked as a nurse in a military field hospital (it is known that she was alive in 1985, when Sukletin was arrested on suspicion for a series of murders). There is no available information about his father. Sukletin suffered from alcoholism, drinking heavily until he reached adulthood.
The first crime he committed was in February 1960, at the age of 16. At night, he attacked a girl, hitting her with a heavy object on the head and attempted to rape her. She was saved by two young men, and the offender was asked to leave, but as a result he got arrested. Sukletin was sentenced to two years imprisonment, serving his punishment in a youth detention center, and upon reaching maturity he was transferred to a corrective labor colony.
In 1964, Sukletin committed a new crime, acting together with accomplices with whom he drank alcohol. Once they had no more money left, Sukletin informed them of an elderly woman who lived nearby. They entered her apartment together, posing as gas service employees. The men then hit the woman on the head with a heavy object and took 80 rubles, but the victim survived and reported the crime to the police. The attackers were detained a few hours later at the nearest bar.
Aleksey Sukletin was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. While serving his sentence, he collaborated with law enforcement agencies, telling them about each of his convictions. He read many books in the colony, and later used his erudition to seduce women.
Acquaintance with Madina Shakirova
In 1976, Sukletin was released. He got a job as a worker for an insurance company, but never went to work, and then as a guard for a horticultural association, from where he was fired for frequent absences. In 1978, he became a medical orderly in a psychiatric hospital. A year later, he changed jobs, becoming a guard again, this time in the garden community "Kaenlyk" in the urban settlement of Vasilyevo.
The same year, Aleksey Sukletin met 23-year-old Madina Nurgazizovnaya Shakirova, a native of Vasilyevo, and began cohabiting with her. He told her that he allegedly was serving a sentence at a Kazakh camp, but fled. Before meeting Sukletin, Shakirova had gone to Uzbekistan for work, then moved to Kazan, where she worked as a turner at a plant, then as a breeder on a farm. She also had a child which she abandoned and gave to her parents, while she herself moved in with Sukletin.
Soon the couple began to engage in criminal activities, starting with extortion. By order of Sukletin, Shakirova went to Vasilyevo to Kazan, taking a taxi back late in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurogaming | Neurogaming is a nascent form of gaming that involves the use of Brain–computer interfaces such as EEG so that users can interact with the game without the need of traditional controllers. It can be used as a novel and engaging type of gameplay, or as a way to create adaptive technology to improve accessibility in gaming. Some use cases show the combination of traditional controllers with direct brain inputs.
Neurogaming is also possible in Multiplayer mode. Some use cases allow players to see the brain activity of other users while others do not incorporate brain data visualization into the experience.
Neurogaming can have applications in treating brain disorders like PTSD and ADHD. Besides health industry neurogaming technologies represent interest to other various sectors like defense, sports and education.
"The player becomes a virtual agent in the game.. In the classroom it translates into a form of differentiated instruction."
One of the earliest neurogames is the racing game NeuroRacer, which was designed by Adam Gazzaley to improve the cognitive functioning of aging adults. Other early neurogames include "Throw Trucks With Your Mind" (which allows users to pick up and throw objects by mentally blocking distractions) and NeuroMage, which allows users to use a "relax the mind" technique to learn new spells and levitate the Millennium Falcon.
Among possible dangers and concerns surrounding neurogaming are ethical issues like mind control, brain intrusion and mind reading.
References
Gaming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Landrock | Peter Landrock (born August 20, 1948 in Horsens) is a Danish cryptographer and mathematician. He is known for his contributions to data encryption methods and codes. Landrock has been active since the 1970s as research scientist and faculty member for Cambridge University and the University of Aarhus and others, and was active for Microsoft and Cryptomathic. He has been visiting professor at Oxford University, Leuven University and Princeton University.
Background and career
Landrock obtained a diploma in mathematics and physics in 1972 from the University of Aarhus. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1974 for his research on elementary abelian and dihedral defect groups, under George Isaac Glauberman and Richard Dagobert Brauer. In 1975, Landrock became associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Aarhus University, then full Professor. From 1982 until 1983, Landrock was visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.
In 1986 he founded the company Cryptomathic together with Ivan Damgård. It was his research work on Cryptography and Coding Theory at the Isaac Newton Institute, which inspired him to shift the focus of his work to corporate research at Cryptomathic, where he joined forces with researchers such as Vincent Rijmen and Whitfield Diffie.
By 1996 he had joined the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University as Research Program Organizer, and since 1997, Landrock has been senior member of the Wolfson College, Cambridge University. Landrock has been member of the Danish IT Security Council as adviser to the Danish Government from 1999 to 2007.
From 1997 until 2010, Landrock was as a Member of Microsoft's Technical Advisory Board in Cambridge and has also served as a member of the board of the Villum Foundation in Copenhagen since 2008. In 2014 Landrock became Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Turing Gateway of Mathematics at Cambridge University. In 2021, he was elected a By-Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Cryptography
Landrock was President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 1992 to 1995 and General Chair at the Eurocrypt conference for cryptography research in 1990. In 1996 he was one of the organizers of a research programme in Cryptography at the Newton Institute at University of Cambridge. The term "What You See Is What You Sign" (WYSIWYS) was coined in 1998 by Landrock and Torben P. Pedersen of Cryptomathic during their work on delivering secure and legally binding digital signatures for Pan-European projects.
Landrock contributed to more than twenty entries to the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security including articles on PKCS, SSH, public key infrastructure and certificate authorities. His research focus since the late 1980s included subject areas as Key management systems, EMV and Card Payment Solutions and Authentication.
He has lectured on cryptography at more than 150 Universities. The Eu |
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