The musical stylings of Britain’s Florence & The Machine will provide the soundtrack for an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl, The CW said Thursday. On Feb. 7 (9 PM), vocalist Florence Welch and her award-winning band, The Machine, will perform an acoustic version of their hit “Cosmic Love” for an episode titled “Panic Roommate.” Interestingly, [...]
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Umphrey’s Afterparty with Digital Tape Machine
December 28th, 2010 |
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AFTERPARTY AT KINETIC UNDERGROUND WITH STRANGE ARRANGEMENT
On December 30, 2010 at midnight, Digital Tape Machine will make their Chicago debut at the Kinetic Playground, followed
by supporting act Strange
Arrangement. Dexterous Roy (Kris Myers and DJ My Boy Elroy) will do a short set leading directly into Digital
Tape Machine.
The DTM studio project, consisting of Chicago musicians, started just over two years ago. DTM has found
success in transferring from the studio into a live band, proven earlier this summer at their face-melting live debut
at the Wuhnurth music festival. With Joel Cummins and Kris Myers taking the stage with DTM immediately after their
show with Umphrey’s McGee, this will certainly be a night to remember.
Umphrey’s McGee has consistently been the obvious show to see during the NYE holiday. A rich tradition for their
three-day run is to keep the party going after the show, with a slew of unforgettable after-parties. This year will be
no exception. DTM plays first at 12 a.m., followed by Strange Arrangement.
Dan Rucinski – Guitar/Keyboards (Land of Atlantis)
Joel Cummins – Keyboards (Umphrey’s McGee)
Kris Myers – Drums (Umphrey’s McGee)
Marcus Rezak – Guitar (The Hue)
Joe Hettinga – Keyboards (Strange Arrangement)
Kevin Barry – Bass (Strange Arrangement)
DJ My Boy Elroy – Mixmaster DJ My Boy Elroy
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Pioneer Blu-ray players support iPhone app, Genome machine with iPhone dock, denim jacket case
December 23rd, 2010 |
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I have seen some really weird cases in my day for the iPhone, but this denim jacket case is one of the weirdest. The case is more like a sleeve and is sized to fit the iPhone and other smartphones. Pioneer has shipped three new high-end Blu-ray players and they all support 3D and have [...]
Symantec Touts DLP Machine Learning Technology
December 15th, 2010 |
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Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11, due out next year, features "vector machine learning" technology that will help organizations define their sensitive data. – Symantec is adding new machine learning technology to its data loss prevention
(DLP) product to ease efforts to
classify sensitive data and define policies.
The feature, called Vector Machine Learning, will be included in
Symantec Data Loss Prevention 11 when it becomes available during the fi…
“Jeopardy!†Man vs. Machine Faceoff — “Jeopardy†Champs Compete Against IBM Computer
December 14th, 2010 |
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One small step for man. One giant leap for machine! Jeopardy! champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter will face off against an IBM supercomputer in episodes to be aired in February. It’s the first-ever Man vs. Machine Jeopardy! Jennings and Rutter two of the venerable game show’s most successful champions, will play two games against [...]
Nov. 1, 1909: ‘The Machine Stops’
November 1st, 2010 |
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1909: E.M. Forster publishes “The Machine Stops,” a chilling tale of a futuristic information-oriented society that grinds to a bloody halt, literally. Some aspects of the story no longer seem so distant in the future.
“The Machine Stops” appeared in the November issue of The Oxford and Cambridge Review. At 12,000-plus words, it’s sometimes called [...]
Virtual Machine Ghosts Multiply: How to Exorcise them from the Data Center
October 28th, 2010 |
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A group of Hewlett-Packards staff members, coordinated by Nick van der Zweep, director of Industry Standard Servers and Software at HP, have created created a list of strategies they contend can rid a data center of "virtual machine ghosts." A virtual ghost is a VM that has been created, may or may not have run an application, and then was either forgotten about, marginalized, or abandoned. This is happening more often than many people think, due mainly to the unending pileup of data to be processed in data centers. New management software has made it much easier to create VMs, which has unleashed this "paranormal activity." Often these VMs are created in batches, which doesn’t help mitigate the ghost issue. These masked resources are left to lurk in the data center. Now HP contends that they scare IT administrators with the amount of time required to manage them and money that they bleed from the budget. They contribute mightily to the growing concern about IT sprawl, which prevents companies from keeping up with their business requirements and making the most of their current investments. – …
Sept. 2, 1969: First U.S. ATM Starts Doling Out Dollars
September 2nd, 2010 |
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1969: Six weeks after landing men on the moon, Americans take another giant leap for mankind with the nation’s first cash-spewing, automated teller machine.
The machine, called the Docuteller, was installed in a wall of the Chemical Bank in Rockville Centre, New York. It marked the first time reusable, magnetically coded cards were used to withdraw [...]
Schumpeter: The innovation machine
August 26th, 2010 |
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Two gurus look at the perspiration side of innovation
IN HIS new book, “Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership”, Warren Bennis, a management theorist, tells a story about Sigmund Freud’s flight from Vienna to London in 1938. On arriving in his new home Freud asked Stefan Zweig, a fellow Viennese intellectual, what it was like. “London? How can you even mention London and Vienna in the same breath?” Zweig thundered. “In Vienna there was sperm in the air!”
Today there is no hotter topic in management theory than “sperm in the air”. How do companies generate new ideas? And how do they turn those ideas into products? Hardly a week passes without someone publishing a book on the subject. Most are rubbish. But “The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge” is rather good. Its authors are Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, two professors at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Last year Mr Govindarajan and Mr Trimble (hereafter: G&T) published a seminal article, with Jeff Immelt, the head of General Electric, on frugal innovation. In their new book they address two subjects that are usually given short shrift: established companies rather than start-ups and the implementation of new ideas rather than their generation. …
Do You Need The Fundamentals Of The 5 Axis CNC? Posted By : Rudy S. Silva
August 18th, 2010 |
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Are you a machine shop that creates unusual parts? Parts that require multi-axis machining. Have you seen the 5 axis CNC? This is a new software that gives you increase machine accuracy and speed. To learn more about this software, read this article.
VMware vSphere 4.1 Features Large Capacity Cluster, VM Density
July 14th, 2010 |
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Review: VMware vSphere 4.1′s memory compression, storage and network I/O control, along with a cluster limit increase, make the latest virtual machine platform suited for enterprise production use. – VMware vSphere 4.1 continues to lead the enterprise virtual
machine platform pack. New memory management, storage and network control
features enable resource pool creation that improves scale while reducing
performance drags.
Virtual machine management gains increased in importance in
the vSp…
June 23, 1912: Computer Pioneer Alan Turing Born
June 23rd, 2010 |
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1912: Alan Turing, who will go on to become one of the 20th century’s greatest mathematicians, computer scientists and philosophers, is born.
Turing is probably best known to Wired readers as the inventor of the “Turing test,” a way of measuring a computer’s ability to simulate intelligent human conversation.
But he’s more significant as one of [...]
Heathrow `naked’ image row: woman plans legal action
March 25th, 2010 |
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A 29-year-old airport security worker plans to take legal action after a colleague passed a lewd remark on her `nude’ image when she mistakenly walked into an X-ray machine, a media report said Thursday.
Jo Margetson plans to sue the authorities concerned and spent Wednesday in talks with Heathrow owner BAA, The Sun reported.
She has spoken [...]
Coyote Point E650GX Balances Virtual Machine Loads
March 11th, 2010 |
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Coyote Point Systems aims to help administrators increase ROI by delivering load balancing appliances that work with virtualization technologies, in particular VMware’s vSphere. What’s more, Coyote Point offers a new approach to load balancing by shifting traffic shaping from basic Layer 4 algorithms to Layer 7 application-aware calculations. Click on for a slide gallery of the Coyote Point E650GX in action, and be sure to read eWEEK Labs’ full review here.
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Tutorial Machine: Fast and Effective Software to learn. Posted By : talbertcafer
March 1st, 2010 |
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A tutorial is nothing but a software program that is interactive and made mainly as a tool for learning. They help with learning new skills by employing a step by step method, and can be, depending on the author, both humorous and insightful. Tutorials are used for business as well as school purposes, and are made for users with basic skill to advanced skill.
The machine that ran too hot
February 24th, 2010 |
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The woes of Toyota, the world’s biggest carmaker, are a warning for rivals
AS EXECUTIVES from Toyota, including the firm’s boss, Akio Toyoda, squirmed before their tormentors in America’s Congress this week, there was little public gloating from rival carmakers. Although it is Toyota that is currently in the dock after a crushing series of safety-related recalls across the world, competitors are only too aware that it could be their turn next. After all, there is not a single big carmaker that has not modelled its manufacturing and supply-chain management on Toyota’s “lean production” system.
That said, there is a widespread belief within the car industry that Toyota is the author of most of its own misfortunes and that its mistakes hold lessons for others. In testimony delivered to the House oversight committee on Wednesday February 24th, Mr Toyoda, the carmaker’s boss, acknowledged that in its pursuit of growth Toyota stretched its lean philosophy close to breaking point and in so doing had become “confused” about some of the principles that first made it great: its focus on putting the customer’s satisfaction above all else and its ability “to stop, think and make improvements”. …
Dave Rawlings Machine | 02.10 | Arcata
February 19th, 2010 |
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Words by: Lara Martin | Images by: James Martin
Dave Rawlings Machine :: 02.10.10 :: Van Duzer Theatre :: Arcata, CA
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Dave Rawlings Machine :: 02.10 :: Arcata, CAGillian Welch is a big favorite who tours here often behind the redwood curtain, so it was no surprise when Dave Rawlings Machine filled the Van Duzer Theatre located on the Humboldt State University campus in Arcata, California. The theatre features a small, intimate setting where every seat in the house has a good view of the stage.
The crowd applauded as a humbly grinning Dave Rawlings ambled on to the stage with Gillian Welch and three members of Old Crow Medicine Show – Morgan Jahnig, Ketch Secor and Willie Watson. Denim seemed to be the theme of the evening for Dave Rawlings Machine, with even Gillian clad in a delicate, lace-trimmed denim dress. Their chemistry proved to be just as coordinated.
The first set was filled with energetic numbers that got the crowd going such as “Monkey and the Engineer” and “It’s Too Easy.” Perhaps the most engaging performance, however, was Rawlings’ soft, beautiful ballad “I Hear Them All,” which enraptured the audience early in the show. The song started as a duet, and as Jahnig, Secor and Watson filed back onstage, they burst into “This Land,” which turned into a full-on sing-along with the entire theatre. After this crowd-pleaser, Welch and Rawlings were left alone to fend for themselves for a few numbers.
“Sweet Tooth” was a crowd favorite; Welch and Rawlings singing the duet while the rest of the Machine tip-toed back onto the stage, harmonicas in hand, prompting the crowd to stomp, clap, hoot and holler by the end of the song.
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The second set was much more mellow than the first, though it started hot with “How’s About You” and a fiercely energetic “Spo-Dee-O-Dee,” which showcased Ketch Secor’s harmonica talents. Welch slowed it down, treating fans with her well-known tunes “No One Knows My Name” and “Look at Miss Ohio.” The slower pace continued as they played a beautiful “Method Acting/Cortez the Killer.” The house was so quiet you could hear a pin drop save for the music. Rawlings’ decision to pair these two on his album (JamBase review) is a testament to his musical influences and impeccable sense for music. His method of almost rambling on his guitar in this beautiful piece is what pulls it all together. Two Bob Dylan covers arrived near the end with a delightfully executed “Queen Jane Approximately” closing the second set and “This Wheel’s on Fire” (co-written by Rick Danko) as the first encore tune.
As if we weren’t spoiled already in the encore with the Dylan tune and a cover of The Band’s “The Weight,” Rawlings, Watson and Welch popped back onstage to croon the ever-favorite “Go To Sleep Little Baby,” wrapping up the show with a proverbial shiny bow.
Dave Rawlings, so often seen in the background or off to the side of the stage, seems very comfortable in the spotlight; it suits him well, as his talent shines like his smile. The selection of musicians comes together naturally on the Dave Rawlings Machine’s album, A Friend of a Friend, and this chemistry translates beautifully to the stage.
The Dave Rawlings Machine is definitely well oiled at this point, and seemingly primed to take on anything. This is a concert any die-hard bluegrass fan would feel cheated should they miss.
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Printing body parts: Making a bit of me
February 18th, 2010 |
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A machine that prints organs is coming to market
THE great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, for an organ from a suitable donor. During that time his condition may worsen. He may even die. The ability to make organs as they are needed would not only relieve suffering but also save lives. And that possibility may be closer with the arrival of the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.
The new machine, which costs around $200,000, has been developed by Organovo, a company in San Diego that specialises in regenerative medicine, and Invetech, an engineering and automation firm in Melbourne, Australia. One of Organovo’s founders, Gabor Forgacs of the University of Missouri, developed the prototype on which the new 3D bio-printer is based. The first production models will soon be delivered to research groups which, like Dr Forgacs’s, are studying ways to produce tissue and organs for repair and replacement. At present much of this work is done by hand or by adapting existing instruments and devices. …
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Tour
February 1st, 2010 |
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LOU REED’S METAL MACHINE TRIO ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES
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Lou Reed has announced a nine date tour this April as Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio, inspired by his controversial 1975 work Metal Machine Music. The lineup features Reed, Ulrich Krieger (tenor sax, live electronics) and Sarth Calhoun (live processing, Continuum fingerboard controller).
Neither the album nor any song will be performed in its entirety; rather, each show will be influenced by Metal‘s tracks, and focus heavily on vocal/saxophone/Continuum improvisation.
The tour kicks off April 18 in Cambridge, U.K. and includes stops in London, Paris and Copenhagen before wrapping up April 30 in Spain.
Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Trio Tour Dates
04/17/10 Sat The Junction Cambridge, GB
04/18/10 Sun Oxford Academy Oxford , GB
04/19/10 Mon Royal Festival Hall London, GB
04/21/10 Wed La Cigale Paris, FRA
04/22/10 Thu Ancienne Belgique Brussels, BEL
04/24/10 Sat DR Konserthuset Copenhagen, DK
04/26/10 Mon Sentrum Scene Oslo, NO
04/27/10 Tue Ole Bull Scene Bergen, NO
04/30/10 Fri Teatro Principal Mallorca, ES
Muslim washing rite goes hi-tech with ‘wudu’ machine
February 1st, 2010 |
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A Malaysian company has invented a machine it says will help Muslims purify themselves before prayers without excessively wasting water. The ornate, green-coloured machine comes with automatic sensors and basins to curb water usage during wudu, an Arabic word used to describe the act