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Jaguar hasn’t been involved with motorsports since it offloaded its Formula 1 team to Red Bull, but it’s about to come back in a big, big way. The automaker has announced that it’s working on an all-electric car (its first) that will compete in Formula E’s third season, which kicks off in fall 2016. Jaguar is saying precious little about what that racer will be capable of, but the entry is possible because the beleaguered Trulli team is backing out of the league, leaving room for a new entrant.

This isn’t the sum total of the company’s EV efforts, either. Although it’s not mentioning any plans, Jaguar is swearing that electric cars will "absolutely play a role" in its lineup. The Formula E racer is really a precursor that will help Jag refine its technology under "extreme conditions" before it hits regular roads. If you end up driving an F-Type EV a few years from now, you’ll know something about its roots.

Via: The Verge

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Leave your coders to coding for $50k a year

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For the first time, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is allowing a company to issue public shares using the technology behind Bitcoin. The honor went to Overstock, which was also the first retailer to accept Bitcoins from the public for purchases. It built its own crypto-currency tech via a subsidiary called T0 (T-Zero), and uses open-source Colored Coins to issue stock in the form of "blockchains," a type of electronic ledger. Overstock plans to license the tech to other public companies, and company CEO Patrick Byrne told Wired that it "can do for the capital market what the internet has done for consumers."

The system allows shares to be traded instantly, rather than in up to three days in regular exchanges. It could also eliminate a lot illegal short-selling and other cheating that goes on now, since there are no middlemen, and share owners can be reliably tracked. During an interview earlier this week with Tabb Forum, Byrne said that current markets "are extremely opaque. There are huge [price] spreads in it. It’s kind of a dirty little secret how much money is made there."

The stock market extremely opaque. There are huge [price] spreads in it. It’s kind of a dirty little secret how much money is made there.

Overstock was the first major retailer to accept Bitcoins, and the first to issue private bonds using blockchain technology. Byrne’s company won’t issue Bitcoin-style shares through a major exchange like NASDAQ, but will rather do it through an alternative trading system (ATS) via its T0 subsidiary. (Since it’s selling stocks to the public the exchange is still regulated by the SEC.) However, Byrne also recently acquired a company called SpeedRoute, which handles around 2.5 percent of US equity orders on all 11 major US exchnges. His plan is to eventually use the company to offer blockchain trading to companies listed on those exchanges.

The technology is also being considered by major banks like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays. However, now that it’s been given regulatory approval by the normally cautious SEC, blockchain trading adoption may snowball. For now, Overstock plans to issue up to $500 million worth of public shares on its private exchange as soon as possible.

Source: Wired

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Struggling to do containers at scale? Struggling company thinks it has the answer

Citrix has decided the time is right to containerise its NetScaler application delivery controllers.…

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Google’s usage research indicates that most of us do a majority of our reading between 8 and 10 pm — you know right before bed. But doing so in a dimly-lit bedroom can wreak havoc on your eyes, not to mention your circadian rhythm. That’s why Google’s newest update to its Play Books app includes a new feature called Night Light.

It gradually replaces the amount of bright blue light emanating from your screen with warmer, yellow tones that don’t reset your internal clock. What’s more, the app matches the screen’s color and brightness to the time of day to further reduce visual strain. The feature is available on Play Books’ most recent versions for both iOS and Android. To activate it, simply tap the Night Light option and the app will take care of the rest.

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It might have taken up residency in a drawer or storage box in your office, but there is a fair chance that you were once the proud owner of a Nokia 1100 or perhaps a Nokia 3210.

When most people are asked to name the best-selling phone mobile phone for the last twenty years, there will be plenty of immediately assume that Apple would be top of the pile, but it is Nokia that wins the prize, by some margin.

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Here’s a quick tip on how to set the telemetry level in Windows 10 using Group Policy.

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Open source ‘OpenFastPath’ unloads comms from the kernel

A group of major vendors has put forward an open source TCP/IP stack they say is designed to reinvigorate the ancient and rather crusty protocol.…

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Stay close to that router

Dutch researchers have invented an internet-of-things sensor that powers itself from router radio waves.…

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Learn how to install Microsoft’s Remote Server Administration Tools on Windows 10 for better server management and administration.

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Microsoft Corp. announced today the creation of a Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA) Linux on Azure certification. Created in conjunction Read more at VMblog.com.

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Arduino just released a new board and partnered with Microsoft to ask you for your best project.

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Google announced a breakthrough in the field of quantum computing Wednesday. The company thinks it’s found a quantum algorithm that solves problems 100 million times faster than conventional processes. If confirmed, this discovery could not only lead to iRobot-style artificial intelligence but also advance the US space program by light years.

Back in 2013, Google and NASA went halvsies on a D-Wave X2 computing system. The D-Wave is supposedly the world’s first functional quantum computer, though experts both within and without the company have never been able to conclusively prove that the machine actually taps into the quantum realm to produce its calculations. That is, until now.

Google’s announcement Wednesday centers on "quantum annealing", a technique that determines the global minimum for a given function when presented with a set of potential solutions. In English, it figures out the best (ie most efficient) overall course of action to complete a task when given a set number of options. Scientists have been working on quantum annealers for a while now, though the two primary techniques, "simulated annealing" and "quantum monte carlo" are both just simulated systems running on conventional hardware. The D-Wave system, on the other hand, is hard-coded to run the quantum annealing algorithm on its quantum array.

The company recently tested the new QA algorithm in a proof-of-concept trial against conventional systems running the simulated annealing and monte carlo methods. The results are more than impressive. As you can see from the graph above, Google’s method beat out the other two quite handily, solving a function with 1000 binary variables up to 100 million times faster.

Google qualified these results as "intriguing and very encouraging" in its announcement, though the company has a long way to go before this research is ready for the consumer market. But once it is, hoo boy, get ready for a technological revolution. With it, AI researchers may be able to develop smarter, more responsive computer learning systems, NASA could use it to simulate rocket launches (or entire space missions) — heck even the mundane material sciences could get a boost from this technology.

Via: MIT Tech Review

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Switzerland hasn’t allowed motor racing to take place within its borders in over half a century. That looked poised to change when the state relaxed the ban earlier this year, opening the door for the FIA Formula E Championship to hold a race there this season. But the latest word has it that the event is being pushed back.

The ban was imposed in the wake of a catastrophic crash at Le Mans in 1955 that claimed the lives of over 80 spectators and injured another 120. In the aftermath, Mercedes shut down its racing program, and several countries – including Germany, France, and Spain – banned racing within their territories. But long after Mercedes returned to motorsports in the 1980s and most countries lifted their bans, Switzerland kept its strict rules in place.

Authorities began reviewing that policy recently, and consented to permit the electric series to race there. Organizers were targeting an addition to the current season two calendar to hold a race in the southern lakeside city of Lugano near the Italian border. But after finding that the preparations – particularly in preparing the roadways – would take more time than expected, they’re reportedly adjusting expectations to seek a race in next season’s 2016-17 calendar instead, as was originally expected.

Even without a race, Switzerland has been well represented in the series. The Trulli GP team is registered there, and four Swiss drivers have competed – more than any other country save for France. Those have included Sebastien Buemi, Alex Fontana, Fabio Leimer, and Simona de Silvestro, who drove a demonstration event last year in Geneva.

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Today, amazingly, you can buy a computer for $8 or less. You actually have a choice of two: the Chip or the Raspberry Pi Zero. They’re great 32-bit boards, but what if you […]

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You might not think of it often, but behind the scenes Facebook uses a lot of artificial intelligence. The company leans heavy on AI, using machine learning to curate a better news feed, sort through photo and video content and even read stories or play games. Now, the company is making Big Sur, the hardware it runs its AI experiments on, open-source.

Facebook says it will release its AI hardware design to the Open Compute Project soon, promising to give the community a system designed specifically for AI tasks built from off-the-shelf components. This design features eight NVIDIA Tesla M40 GPUs seated into an easily serviceable motherboard. "The CPU heat sinks are the only things you need a screwdriver for," the company says.

"We want to make it a lot easier for AI researchers to share techniques and technologies," the company said in a statement today. "We believe that this open collaboration helps foster innovation for future designs, putting us all one step closer to building complex AI systems." Sounds pretty good. Check out the source link below for Facebook’s official announcement.

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Meet Dell’s super-duper, learning, loving, sharing, talking hyper-scaling team

Dell’s created a new Extreme Scale Infrastructure (ESI) umbrella unit for all its data centre efforts.…

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There’s (un)officially no way you’ll ever lose a file in the deep, dark depths of Google Drive again.

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According to a new International Data Corporation (IDC) Spending Guide, worldwide spending on the Internet of Things (IoT) will grow at a 17.0%… Read more at VMblog.com.

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Disney has even managed to teach its facial recognition software to pick up on wrinkles and how they change the shape of skin.

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