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The data in question comes specifically from the Institute for Systems Biology-Cancer Gateway in the Cloud (ISB-CGC) – part of the US National Cancer Institute’s Cloud Resources. The NCI created Cloud Resources so that scientists wouldn’t have to download and store extremely large datasets. With the ISB-CGC on Google Cloud, two researchers developed a set of Google BigQuery user-defined functions (UDFs) to perform statistical tests on breast cancer data. Using the UDFs, analysis that would have taken days with an on-premise program took just minutes to complete....

By this fall, the new HPE Cray supercomputers should deliver an improvement to the US Global Forecast System (GFS), a weather forecast model that generates data related to variables like temperature, wind, precipitation, soil moisture, and atmospheric ozone concentration. The new system will also help NOAA ready its new hurricane forecast model, the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS). The agency wants HAFS up and running in time for the 2023 hurricane season....

People are essentially good and kind. Generosity is a prime facet of a good human being. And families are truly beautiful. This is constantly reinforced by brands offering ads that make us smile and weep. Well, thank you, Verizon, for finally speaking a little truth to the power of Christmas delusion. Specifically, the joy of families and their plans. Yes, Verizon sells family plans. Dig a little deeper, however, and you’ll see it has a subversive arm that sells the truth....

Accelerator is based on Eon technology, which Vertica announced several years ago, which provides a cloud-native separation of compute from storage that run , not only at compute tier, but also in the storage tier with its support of MinIO and other third party object storage systems for on-premises deployments. The wraps began coming off when Vertica announced an early access program back in June, in conjunction with the acquisition of Full360, a company that helps customers migrate their databases from on-premises to cloud-native deployments....

The announcement was part of a diplomatic trip Harris made to Paris, where she met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss a range of issues. Macron spearheaded the creation of the initiative in 2018 and has long sought the inclusion of the US. But the administration of former President Donald Trump refused to join, criticizing it because both China and Russia also were not part of it. A recent statement from the White House says the US “looks forward to continued partnership with France and other governments, private sector, and civil society around the world to advance and promote norms of responsible behavior in cyberspace....

There are two things that you need to be able to carry out successful repairs: Know-how and the right tools. And iFixit has both. For know-how, visit the company’s extensive repair guides. Simply the best information available, and all free. But what about tools? Review: iPhone 14 Pro packs a lot more innovation for the same price as last year Let’s take a look at some of the tools I use....

“In accordance with relevant laws and regulations, we are upgrading our security technology, during which we will suspend the registration of new users of WeChat personal accounts and public accounts,” WeChat said on Weibo. WeChat did not provide information about which specific laws and regulations were being cited in its social media post. According to the Tencent-owned social media platform, the technical changes are expected to be completed in early August, with registration of new users to be reopened once the changes are made....

If you’re thinking about earning a degree to enter the field, identifying the computer engineering degree job you want can help you decide. You may find a fit in data science, web development, computer and information systems, or a related area. What is it like to work in a computer engineering degree job? Computer engineering unites computer science and electronic engineering to design, build, and operate computer hardware and software....

Read on to explore the curricula and degree types schools offer. Biological engineering course examples Biological engineering design These engineers need skills in equipment design, computer systems and software, and statistical modeling. According to the BLS, the largest industries for biological engineering degree jobs include medical equipment manufacturing, life sciences research and development, and healthcare. These professionals design new and improved medical equipment for more effective treatment, develop genetically enhanced food crops, and create artificial and replacement organs and body parts for humans and animals....

The goal is to reduce the friction involved in utilizing tech, making it easier for users to take full advantage of technology without having to worry about keyboards and screens. Instead of having to directly interact with different computing devices to get desired results – for example, using your phone to make a phone call and your remote to turn on a TV– ambient computing allows all of your devices to work together seamlessly to fulfill your needs....

Until Firefox can duplicate what Opera has done with Workspaces, I’ll have to remain on the closed-source browser. But Workspaces isn’t the feature I enjoy most on Opera. There’s another feature that I have been using lately that makes viewing news very simple. What I like most about Opera Personal News is that I can cobble together the sources I want and, in a single window, scroll through all the headlines from those sources and click to view the articles I want....

They’ll need every penny of it and more. At the White House press conference, OpenSSF general manager Brian Behlendorf said, “I want to be clear: We’re not here to fundraise from the government. We did not anticipate needing to go directly to the government to get funding for anyone to be successful.” Here are the ten goals the open-source industry is committed to meeting. I’ll go into more detail about those in later stories, but even at a glance, this is a massive undertaking....

First off, there’s a lot to like about the iPhone 11 Pro Max. Specifically, those cameras and that screen. But in reality, the difference between the iPhone 11 Pro Max and the new iPhone SE is small. The display is probably the biggest difference, but having used an iPhone SE, that’s a perfectly usable and acceptable display. And when it comes to the cameras, yes, the array on the Pro Max outperforms the single camera on the SE, but the price difference between the two handsets would allow me to buy a lot of camera for the few times I shoot 4K or need the lenses....

Even though the ScanWatch is clearly not a full smartwatch or GPS sports watch, I cannot stop wearing it. It looks like a standard watch while also having superb build quality, slim form factor, curved glass face, classic good looks, and a bit of heft/density to it. It feels wonderful to wear on a daily basis, and the high-quality silicone strap matches the look and feel. See also: Best fitness tracker 2021: Improve your health....

Showcased at WWDC 2022, the M2 features an 18% faster CPU, 35% faster GPU, a 40% faster neural engine, and 50% more memory bandwidth than the prior generation. The new M2 will be available on the MacBook Air and the 13-inch MacBook Pro. Apple has been designing its own ARM-based silicon since 2020 when it moved away from Intel chips. As David Gewirtz wrote for ZDNet earlier this year, “By removing its reliance on Intel’s innovation teams, Apple can engineer to its specific priorities....

For starters, Apple has finally added a weather app to the iPad. Something that everyone who owns an iPad has scratched their heads, wondering why it’s not available. In addition to the weather app, iPadOS 16 will also gain all of the new features that Apple announced for the iPhone in iOS 16, such as new iMessage features, A new Collaboration feature lets you share a document and instantly begin working on the document together with whoever is in the group....

The Aura laser is by far the brightest projector I have ever tried. When I reviewed the XGIMI H2 projector in 2019, it blew me away with its 1350 ANSI lumens. The XGIMI Aura has 2400 ANSI lumens. An ANSI Lumen is a unit of measurement devised by the American National Standards Institute to measure true brightness. If a projector does not state its ANSI lumen rating but simply states its lumen number, it probably exaggerates its actual brightness....

Trying several brands of smart locks and using them so often convinced me that I would get one for the next home we purchased. So when we got lucky enough to go under contract on a house in a sizzling home market, I quickly started researching and comparing different locks. Smart locks are straightforward devices as there’s not a whole lot you can add in capabilities to a lock, so the biggest considerations narrow down to whether you want a deadbolt or a door handle, a keypad vs....

It’s not that Google is the only game in town. Besides Baidu and Yandex, the likes of Microsoft and Yahoo have tried their luck too, with Bing and the eponymous search engine, respectively. The privacy-focused DuckDuckGo is another option. Yet, none of those has a market share of over 3% worldwide. Can a new entry do better than so many others before it? Richard Socher thinks so. Socher, the founder and CEO of upstart search engine you....

However, if you’ve ever gone through your iPhone’s visual voicemail and deleted older or useless voicemails, the truth is you probably haven’t deleted them at all. Voicemail messages are typically stored in the mobile carrier’s servers; they’re not automatically stored on the phone itself, but they can be backed up to iCloud or a computer. Because voicemails are stored by the carrier, voicemail settings are relatively limited on your phone, so if you’re having issues with voicemail that you can’t seem to solve by troubleshooting, it’s probably something your carrier knows how to fix....