search tools

Pepper the 'emotional robot' makes its way to Silicon Valley

Edit The Verge 12 Aug 2016
Pepper, the humanoid robot created by Aldebaran> Robotics and SoftBank Mobile, is slowly making its way to the US — and it’s starting in Silicon Valley ... ....

UMFK professor and local composer Scott Brickman releases CD (University of Maine at Fort Kent)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Aug 2016
(Source. University of Maine at Fort Kent) August 10, 2016. NR16044. University of Maine at Fort Kent Professor of Music and Education, Dr ... Adding to his success as a composer, Brickman's Piano Trio no ... Additionally, his trio will be published by Aldebaran> Editions, an Italian Music Publishing Company. Dr ... Dr ... '96 Strings and 2 Whistles' is available in both hard copy and as a download on iTunes and Amazon, and also through Parma's website....

The Scientists, Brendan Canning and Steve Aoki top this week's new music

Edit Toronto Sun 05 Aug 2016
It wasn’t a recipe for success — as you can hear in this six-disc box that contains their three albums (and so-so bonus cuts), plus two live sets (one old, one new) and (best of all) a concert DVD ... Farewell Aldebaran> ... Ladies and gentlemen … the reissue! If the title of this Bangles comp sounds familiar, that’s because it debuted as a download in late 2014 ... As oddly compelling as ever....

Alan Gilbert Conducts Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles… on New Album Available Tomorrow (Friday, Aug 5), Recorded Live at Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival (21c Media Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
Last summer, as Artist-in-Residence of the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Alan Gilbert led an all-star orchestra of 44 superlative musicians - his frequent collaborator Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan among them - in an account of Olivier Messiaen's monumental and otherworldly twelve-movement, 90-minute orchestral masterpiece, Des canyons aux étoiles… ('From the Canyons to the Stars…') ... As the composer explained,....

Moon and Aldebaran before dawn July 29

Edit Topix 28 Jul 2016
Before dawn tomorrow - July 29, 2016 - look east to see the lunar crescent partnering up with Aldebaran> , the brightest star in the constellation Taurus the Bull. Our sky chart at top shows the view as seen from mid-northern North American latitudes, where the moon and Aldebaran will be a hair's-breadth apart on the sky's dome ... ....

The biggest rocket on Earth is launching this fall — here's how it compares to Apollo's moon rocket

Edit Business Insider 28 Jul 2016
Between 1945 and the mid-to-late 50s von Braun acted as an advisor to US armed forces for the sake of developing military rockets only ... By 1964, it was selected for NASA’s Apollo Program as the rocket that would conduct a Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (LRO) ... The Falcon Heavy is based around a core that is a single Falcon 9 with two additional Falcon 9 first stages acting as boosters....

See a Wonderful Aldebaran Occultation with a Spectacular Twist

Edit Universe Today 27 Jul 2016
As the Moon's orbital motion carries it eastward at the rate of one lunar diameter per hour, Aldebaran> will appear to approach the sunlit northern cusp and then scrape along the Moon's northern limb ... As Aldebaran creeps along the craggy limb, it will repeatedly flash in and out of view as peaks and cliffs momentarily block it from sight....

Celestial Photobomb: Rare Occultation of Mercury by the Moon Set for Next Week

Edit Universe Today 26 Jul 2016
Brilliant Venus and Jupiter make great guides to finding the elusive planet in late July, as it ping-pongs between the two ... Nearly all of these events go unwitnessed, as they occur mainly under daytime skies ... The action occurs on the morning of Friday, July 29th culminating with an occultation of +1 magnitude Aldebaran> by the 23% illuminated Moon....

UWTSD Lampeter lecturer unveils ground-breaking research on astronomy and prehistoric tombs 21.07.2016 (Swansea Metropolitan University)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2016
Dr Fabio Silva, a lecturer in the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Lampeter, and Dr Daniel Brown, an astronomy lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, have caused a world-wide media sensation with their theory on the use of prehistoric tombs as 'telescopes' ... This was crucial for the rituals which timed seasonal migrations, such as taking sheep to higher pastures....

UWTSD Lampeter lecturer unveils ground-breaking research on astronomy and prehistoric tombs (University of Wales Trinity Saint David)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Jul 2016
Dr Fabio Silva, a lecturer in the Sophia Centre at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Lampeter, and Dr Daniel Brown, an astronomy lecturer at Nottingham Trent University, have caused a world-wide media sensation with their theory on the use of prehistoric tombs as 'telescopes' ... This was crucial for the rituals which timed seasonal migrations, such as taking sheep to higher pastures....

Britain’s Biggest Technology Company Sells Out To Japanese Tech Firm (Norfolk Chamber of Commerce & Industry)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jul 2016
The ARM microchip is seen as the next-generation for microprocessor architecture, and whilst Britons have a right to be proud, we can't help but feel it's a shame the company is being sold to overseas investors ... In recent years, the Japanese firm has already acquired Vodafone and Sprint together with a French robotics company, Aldebaran>....

The Shadow Convention for the GOP’s Future

Edit Politico 19 Jul 2016
CLEVELAND—It was mid-April when as many as 1,000 alumni of the most recent Republican administration descended on Dallas for a staff reunion to reminisce about sunnier times ... But few were as dark about the Republican Party’s future as former President Bush himself ... Instead, he has solidified himself as an erratic, underfunded and scattershot candidate, plagued by staff turmoil and missed opportunities....

ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day'

Edit BBC News 18 Jul 2016
Hermann Hauser said he was "very sad" at news of the £24bn ($32bn) takeover which was announced on Monday morning ... 'Real strength' ... The Japanese firm bought France's Aldebaran> robotics business and has gone on to give it a global profile ... "This is good news for British workers, it's good news for the British economy, it shows that, as the prime minister has been saying, we can make a success of leaving the EU," the spokeswoman added ... ....
×
×
×
×