STUCKER/RUNNICLES at Home Computer Screens

Noble Horvath

Songs about Love, Romantic and Sweet. On August 25, 2020, The Grand Teton Music Festival’s online edition, “Music from the Mountains” presented a song recital performed by Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano, and Festival Music Director Donald Runnicles, piano. Stucker, currently a Jette Parker Young Artist at The Royal Opera House, Covent […]

Scientists combine 3D bioprinting and computer modeling to study cancer metastasis in blood vessels

Noble Horvath

Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 26 2020 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have paired 3D-printed, living human brain vasculature with advanced computational flow simulations to better understand tumor cell attachment to blood vessels, the first step in secondary tumor formation during cancer metastasis. The unique approach, developed with outside collaborators, […]

In This New Normal, Every “Work From Home” Computer is a Potential Entry Point For Hackers. Here is What Small Businesses Can Do

Noble Horvath

AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — As businesses begin to re-open and the workplace weighs the shift from brick and mortar to work from home offices, companies are faced with how to navigate these challenging times.   To quickly enable work from home policies organizations have sometimes allowed their security policies to […]

CBP: Mantis eggs found in computer mouse in Philadelphia

Noble Horvath

CBP discovered mantis egg masses concealed inside a PC gaming mouse. U.S. Customs and Border Protection A computer gaming mouse surprised U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials when an X-ray revealed mantis eggs inside. Officials in Philadelphia found mantis eggs inside the device earlier this month, the agency said in […]

IBM doubles its quantum computer performance

Noble Horvath

IBM has doubled the performance of its quantum computers compared with last year’s model, a key step in delivering on the promise of the revolutionary machines. But it’s only an early step, and rivals are breathing down Big Blue’s neck. © Provided by CNET IBM quantum computers look nothing like […]

The Golden Age of computer user groups

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Enlarge / Programmer power, indeed. (Here’s a Tufts computer group sometime in the mid to late 1970. Getty caption explicitly states, “Note equipment and 1970s fashions.”) Spencer Grant/Getty Images The Homebrew Computer Club where the Apple I got its start is deservedly famous—but it’s far from tech history’s only community […]

The Racist Legacy of Computer-Generated Humans

Noble Horvath

Computer-generated imagery is supposed to be one of the success stories of computer science. Starting in the 1970s, the algorithms for realistically depicting digital worlds were developed in a monumental joint effort between academic, commercial and federal research labs. Today, we stream the results onto the screens in our homes. […]

What To Do When Your Computer Is Attacked

Noble Horvath

Moran Zavdi is the founder of Nucleon Cyber, which provides actionable, proactive cyber threat intelligence for organizations.  Getty I bet you can see the scene before you now: The hair on the back of your neck stands up, and the panic creeps up your spine as you face your computer with […]

Di-No Computers

  Di-No’s Monthly Tech Note     With the onset of the Corona Virus, the “bad guys” think they have a “green light” to take advantage of people. We are seeing many customers coming in with malware, fake purchases from fraudulent marketers, and intrusions into their private data. Please be […]

California to fix coronavirus reporting system amid backlog

A series of data failures has created a backlog of as many as 300,000 test results in California, the state’s top health official said Friday as he provided the first public explanation of a problem that has stymied efforts to understand the spread of the coronavirus. California Health and Human […]

Computer Definition & Meaning | What is a Computer?

Main » TERM » C » By Vangie Beal A computer is a programmable machine. The two principal characteristics of a computer are: It responds to a specific set of instructions in a well-defined manner and it can execute a prerecorded list of instructions (a program). Modern Computers Defined Modern […]

Powerball | California State Lottery

How to Play Powerball Playing is easy. To learn how, follow the 5 simple steps. STEP 1 Using a Lottery playslip, which you can find at any Lottery retailer, pick 5 numbers between 1 and 69 and 1 Power Number between 1 and 26. You can also select Quick Pick®, or […]