Global technology provider manages up to four billion transactions per day using a hybrid cloud environment
ARMONK, NY – 29 Aug 2017: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Syniverse, a global connectivity enabler, has adopted IBM Cloud to expand its flexibility and capacity in serving rapidly changing mobile service needs for its customers. (more…)
UCLA and University of Connecticut scientists design supercapacitor that could make pacemakers and other instruments safer and more durable
Researchers from UCLA and the University of Connecticut have designed a new biofriendly energy storage system called a biological supercapacitor, which operates using charged particles, or ions, from fluids in the human body. The device is harmless to the body’s biological systems, and it could lead to longer-lasting cardiac pacemakers and other implantable medical devices. (more…)
Undergraduate geography student joins quest for accessible healthy food
University of Delaware geography major Haley Stanko flips through a marble notebook filled with interviews, field notes, graphs and flowcharts as she explains the project that has consumed her past year. (more…)
Eine Wissenschaftlerin der Universität Kassel soll im Auftrag der Bundesregierung die NS-Vergangenheit deutscher Ministerien aufarbeiten. Das gab Kulturstaatsministerin Monika Grütters am Montag in Berlin bekannt. Die Kasseler Verwaltungswissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Sylvia Veit untersucht dafür Karriereverläufe hoher Beamter der Bundesrepublik und der DDR. (more…)
Toxic or hateful comments on different internet forums, news portals are getting wildly common. Online commenting platform Disqus analysed 92 million comments from nearly 2 million users over a period of 16 months. The result is shown in the following infograph from Statista, the statistics portal. (more…)
„Das könnte dir gefallen“ oder „Top-Serien für Sie“: Amazon, Netflix und Co. scheinen zu wissen, was wir mögen. Dahinter stecken Algorithmen, deren Bedeutung in allen Lebensbereichen immer mehr zunimmt. Der Wirtschaftswissenschaftler Roland Schroll beschäftigt sich mit den Auswirkungen von computerbasierten Verfahren auf unser Konsumverhalten. (more…)
First results from new detector reveal detailed properties of subatomic ‘soup’ that mimics the early universe
By teasing out signatures of particles just tenths of a millimeter from the center of a trillion-degree fireball that mimics the early universe, nuclear physicists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and from other sites are gaining new insights about fundamental physics. They achieved this by smashing together gold nuclei at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC). (more…)
New book outlines four types of racial colorblindness
COLUMBUS, Ohio – People who claim they “don’t see race” when they evaluate others may think they all have similar beliefs about racial justice – but they’re very wrong, according to a new book. (more…)
