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Have an idea for your very own virtual reality video game? Come out and work on it in a friendly environment over a couple beers where we will have a Vive to test it on! What you need to bring: • An idea for a VR game to work on (doesn't have to be crazy complicated) • Your own development machine/laptop/monitor with U... |
While the Human Rights Campaign last year secured President Barack Obama to speak at its fall fundraising gala, tomorrow’s (sold out, we’re told) event will welcome Valerie Jarrrett, the White House adviser. We came up with a whole list of things Obama could’ve addressed, including the Matthew Shepard Act (passed!), EN... |
A brief six years after Comcast staked a claim on the city’s tallest building, it has announced plans for something even bigger. A glittering glass tower will dominate the downtown Philly skyline, boasting almost sixty stories and over a million square feet of mixed-use space – an ultra-modern “vertical urban campus” t... |
CLOSE Scientists will add a second to Tuesday, June 30 in order to keeps the world's clocks in sync with the earth's rotation. Jasper Colt A leap second will occur on June 30. (Photo11: Getty Images/iStockphoto) Short on time? Don't worry. Tuesday you'll get an extra second. A "leap second" will be added on June 30 at ... |
Posted on: June 8, 2016 2:57 PM The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to Primates around the Anglican Communion and to Moderators of the United Churches calling for prayers for the leaders of the Orthodox Church. They are preparing to gather for Holy Council later this month. Here is the text of the letter. “At the ... |
SAGE-AU president Robert Hudson says he wants to improve the profile of sysadmins Not-for-profit organisation SAGE-AU said it wants to shine a spotlight on the sometimes unsung heroes of IT, system administrators. According to SAGE-AU president Robert Hudson, who has worked as a sysadmin since 1996, system administrato... |
LTS has been Ubuntu 12.04has been released , so let's take a look at the most important new features and changes. If you haven't used Unity and you've only seen it in screenshots, at a first look, Ubuntu 12.04 may not seem very different than 11.10, but in fact there have been a huge amount of changes in the latest Ubu... |
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese big manufacturers’ mood improved in the three months to September for a third straight quarter, the Bank of Japan’s key survey is likely to show next week, underlining an economic recovery backed by firm private spending and pickup in exports. A woman walks out of a drugstore in Tokyo April 2... |
U.S. President Donald Trump says stricter gun laws in the country would not have prevented a gunman from killing 26 people in a massacre at a Texas church and possibly would have kept a bystander from confronting the shooter. Trump, in South Korea on a five-nation Asian trip, said Tuesday if there were increased vettin... |
After Wednesday's barrage of Apple tablet rumors from media outlets big and small, Wired.com is convinced the long-awaited product will see the light of day in 2010. But there is one more thing. New York Times writer Nick Bilton adds to the rumor frenzy with two sound bites from Apple staff. "I can’t really say anythin... |
Former tennis great and now Christian pastor Margaret Court says she will stop using Qantas “where possible” in protest over the Australian airline’s promotion of same-sex marriage. “I am disappointed that Qantas has become an active promoter for same-sex marriage,” Perth resident Court said in the letter published in ... |
As increasing delays and other problems in the city’s subway system have reached a breaking point, the story of why New York, the economic capital of the world, employs subway cars long past their expiration date is illustrative of many issues plaguing the region’s transit infrastructure and why fixes are hard. The tal... |
You’re about to buy a delightful pair of pants from your favorite online store when you notice a small box near the checkout button labelled “Promo Code.” Hmmm, you think, I was about about to pay full price for these slacks like a complete sucker when there are discounts to be had. Miffed, you do a quick Google search... |
Image copyright Getty Images A man has been killed as at least 1,500 migrants tried to enter the Channel Tunnel in Calais during Tuesday night, French police have said. Eurotunnel, which says incursions are now a nightly occurrence, said migrants had been removed from the site. It advised freight services to consider a... |
Game Of Thrones ice wall could become permanent tourist attraction BelfastTelegraph.co.uk The colossal Game Of Thrones ice wall could become a permanent fixture in Northern Ireland. https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/game-of-thrones-ice-wall-could-become-permanent-tourist-attraction-31415825.html ... |
German government funding From:adesai@clintonfoundation.org To: blindsey@clintonfoundation.org, lgraham@clintonfoundation.org, doug@presidentclinton.com, justin@presidentclinton.com, john.podesta@gmail.com CC: wmorris@clintonfoundation.org, dcheng@clintonfoundation.org, lkoffler@clintonfoundation.org Date: 2012-03-20 1... |
A refrigerant is a substance or mixture, usually a fluid, used in a heat pump and refrigeration cycle. In most cycles it undergoes phase transitions from a liquid to a gas and back again. Many working fluids have been used for such purposes. Fluorocarbons, especially chlorofluorocarbons, became commonplace in the 20th ... |
(Reuters) — Baidu said on Thursday that it has entered a strategic agreement with PayPal to tap overseas merchants as Chinese tech companies ramp up the fight for overseas payment partnerships. Under the agreement, Baidu’s payment platform, Baidu Wallet, will be accepted by roughly 17 million PayPal merchants globally,... |
Futunomitama no Tsurugi O.S. 古代地球剣OS Sword of the Ancient Earth,can someone who knows japanese tell me if that sounds weird or not ?? hahai picked that because it needed a name that references the S.O.E & the sword shape because of theI hope the name works ? it's fan fiction anyway so i guess it don't matter.I couldn't... |
Image: Saul Loeb/Getty Images The Senate Intelligence Committee hosted a bizarre hearing Wednesday. Ostensibly, the hearing served to make the case for straight reauthorization of Section 702, the law permitting NSA to spy on foreigners with the help of US companies. Along with telling stories about the terrorists 702 ... |
The cat sat in front of me, her eyes locked on mine. She mewled, and when I failed to respond to her calls because of searing cramps and tears, she slunk closer winding her tail around my legs, before springing up beside me on the couch. I stretched out on my back slowly, inhaling and exhaling sharply, every contractio... |
Google has unveiled the first video taken with its sci-fi eyewear concept, Project Glass. The topic: jumping and flipping on a trampoline, doing a backflip while wearing Google glasses. Google launched its Project Glass goggles on Google+ in April, and the news sent the concept of Google's futuristic glasses — which wo... |
President Trump signs an executive order regarding federal protections for waterways on Feb. 28. (Andrew Harnik/AP) President Barack Obama tried to integrate climate change into every facet of federal decision-making; President Trump aims to pull it out by its roots. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott ... |
On occasion, a virus may jump from one host species to another and adapt to the new host. Such cross-species transmission happens more often than expected, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens, and it may play a much bigger role in virus evolution than previously thought. Understanding how viruses evol... |
One of the signature pleasures of life in New York City is the freedom to drink alone at a bar or eat alone in a restaurant without needing to worry that anyone’s judging you harshly, because everyone does it. (I realize it’s harder for women than men to drink solo at bars unbothered – but my female friends agree that ... |
So it’s safe to say I somehow got more models for the Stormcast Eternals than I had realised, especially given that a lot of this stuff was obtained via trades and/or wheeler-dealing by trading in MTG cards and selling other models. But I’m really happy with how my Stormcast force is starting to look! It takes up most ... |
Throughout campaign season and since winning the election, President Donald Trump has asked, “Wouldn’t it be great if we actually got along with Russia?” John Oliver isn’t so sure. “It would also be nice if you could walk right up to a bear and hug it,” the “Last Week Tonight” host said on Sunday’s episode, which he de... |
Anastasia Samoylova Receives 2018 Grant 2018 Recipient – Anastasia Samoylova Click here to read more. 2018 Finalist – Elijah Barrett Click here to read more. 2018 Finalist – Allison Beondé Click here to read more. 2017 Recipient – Stacy Kranitz, First Place Click here to read more. 2017 Finalist – Marisa Chafetz, 2nd P... |
This is the mail archive of the libc-alpha@sourceware.org mailing list for the glibc project. RISC-V glibc Port v3 From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt dot com> To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org Cc: patches at groups dot riscv dot org Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:05:15 -0800 Subject: RISC-V glibc Port v3 Authenticat... |
EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: In Australia, no-one outside the Government has seen the text of what's being negotiated for the TPP. But Trade Minister Andrew Robb says over the past four years, there've been more than 1,000 briefings with stakeholders and the public will have months to look at the detail of the deal before... |
The following is some amazing new work from Ari Caroline (our spiffy new template doesn’t make it obvious immediately who the author is). Despite his humility to start the post, don’t be fooled. Ari has put in some amazing work to solving basketball including this. – Editor This post is the product of some great dialog... |
Ventura: 'Italy project continues' By Football Italia staff Giampiero Ventura insisted he was right to stick with the 4-2-4 formation after a 3-0 defeat to Spain. “It’s a project and one game can’t change that.” This was the first Nazionale defeat in a qualifier since 2006 against France, ending a run of 56 games. “In ... |
Many Java static analysis tools exist right there, each one focus on a specific area and has its advantages, we can enumerate: Pmd which is a static rule-set based Java source code analyzer that identifies potential problems like: Possible bugs—Empty try/catch/finally/switch blocks. Please Sign up or sign in to vote. M... |
Is Islam the most feminist religion? 0 SHARES Email I’ve been reading about Australian youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied (we appeared on an Australian show once together) and her words to Jacqui Lambie on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television show that Islam is (to her) the most feminist religion. Y... |
The total solar eclipse that will pass through Oregon is just less than a year away, but preparations are already underway for the big event. The Oregon Museum of Science and Industry is now jumping on board, selling tickets for its solar eclipse viewing party at the Oregon State Fairgrounds in Salem. The event will st... |
I have now owned my iPhone longer than any other mobile. Over the past decade or so, I’ve gone through a slew of pagers and cell phones. None of them sticking around as long as my iPhone. They each got boring or broken or sold on eBay. The iPhone, however, still feels brand new to me even though it currently holds the ... |
Six weeks later, not having discussed the matter since that meeting, the JCS members were painfully birthing Obama’s coup on short notice. Admiral Richardson laid out the logic. “If we’re worried we’ve been duped into becoming revolutionaries, rather than the garden variety traitors we could settle for being, let’s fir... |
To start today's analysis, we drop the Word Document in a hex editor to inspect the file's header:We can see that the file begins with "PK" indicating that this file is a ZIP. In Microsoft Office Terms this means that the document is of the newer ".DOCX" format and not the old ".DOC". In order to get the contents of th... |
The video will start in 8 Cancel Get the biggest daily news stories by email Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A British man has been arrested after several pedestrians and a seven-week-old baby were injured as ... |
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The police are searching for a man who robbed a bank on the city's East Side Thursday afternoon. The suspect walked into the Citizens Bank at 120 Waterman Street after 1 p.m. Thursday and passed a note to the teller demanding cash in $50 and $100 bills, according to a police report provided by Maj. ... |
When you have no ideas of your own, you have to go on the attack. That’s the message we can take from mayoral candidate Zac Goldsmith. His recent campaign literature speaks of a politician who sees minority ethnic people as nothing but stereotypes and who has never had to consider the implications of identity politics,... |
Holy hell people! I’ve been crazy swamped with all sorts of emergencies and/or projects and/or emergency projects. All the while thinking about how little I’ve been posting to Mind Your Dirt. So lets just quickly go through my list of excuses so that we can move on to bigger and better things. Excuse number one: As you... |
Big Bets A New Model for Investing in Energy Innovation By the middle of this century, the world will use twice as much energy as we use today. There’s good news in this: more energy means better lives and stronger economies. But it also means the world needs a new energy supply—one that doesn’t contribute to climate c... |
President Donald Trump smiles Kuwait leader Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated with his own party’s leaders in Congress, President Donald Trump talked up his suddenly cozi... |
Noel Edmonds thinks the biggest problem the world is facing currently isn't terrorism, disease or climate change - but "electro smog". The Deal Or No Deal TV presenter says that's the constant buzz of phone signals, WiFI and electricity which is causing concern. Steve Meddle Speaking to The Mirror, Edmonds said: "We're... |
New Subscription Box Service Comes Filled with Other Subscription Boxes KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Startup company BoxBox debuted their signature product today — a subscription box delivered monthly to customers’ homes, filled entirely with other subscription boxes. “We’re very excited about BoxBox,” Betsy Leventhal, BoxBox Di... |
This year, I am voting for Hillary Clinton. I am voting for Hillary Clinton even though I disagree with her on a whole range of domestic policies, even though she urged that same unconstitutional intervention in Libya, and even though she favors the NSA’s program of mass surveillance. I am voting for her even though I ... |
The Nine Must-Have Datasets for Investigating Recommender Systems Alex Gude Blocked Unblock Follow Following Feb 8, 2016 Lab41 is currently in the midst of Project Hermes, an exploration of different recommender systems in order to build up some intuition (and of course, hard data) about how these algorithms can be use... |
There’s only one word that effectively describes EVE. We’ve all heard it, many times, whether in the community or in CCP’s marketing materials, or repeated by the press, doing their best to cover the most momentous moments of this universe we inhabit. That word, of course, is “sandbox.” If I ever have to explain EVE to... |
Student Response Systems | News i>clicker2 Adds LCD Screen, Alphanumeric Input The i>clicker2 is expected to be released in fall 2011. Macmillan has debuted an updated version of its student response system, the i>clicker2. According to the company, the current version is in use at 900 academic institutions in North Am... |
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