Glimpses of a World Revealed by Cell-Phone Data

Glimpses of a World Revealed by Cell-Phone Data

An examination of simple cell-phone records reveals maps of poverty levels, ethnic divides, and the movements of sports fans. This animation shows the movements of soccer fans before—with red indicating a higher density of fans—during, and after a match of the Boca Juniors, a leading Argentine team, at La Bombonera stadium in Buenos Aires.

The dangers of AVX-512 throttling: myth or reality?

The dangers of AVX-512 throttling: myth or reality?

Modern processors use many tricks to go faster. They are superscalar which means that they can execute many instructions at once. They are multicore, which means that each CPU is made of several baby processors that are partially independent. And they are vectorized, which means that they have instructions that can operate over wide registers (spanning 128, 256 or even 512 bits).

Department of energy and environment

Department of energy and environment

Becky W. Keogh serves as the Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (E&E) and the Director of the Division of Environmental Quality (DEQ). She has been engaged in a unique range of technical, managerial, and consulting roles across government and private industry throughout her career.

Monitoring of FinTech

Monitoring of FinTech

The FSB understands FinTech as technologically enabled innovation in financial services that could result in new business models, applications, processes or products with an associated material effect on financial markets and institutions and the provision of financial services. FinTech innovations are poised to affect many different areas of financial services in the coming years.

Supporting workers on the frontline of coronavirus fight

Supporting workers on the frontline of coronavirus fight

Hospital workers and paramedics on the front line of Victoria’s coronavirus response will get access to free accommodation if they need to self-isolate. Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos announced today that hospital workers who test positive for coronavirus, and those that have had unanticipated and unprotected contact with a person suspected of having coronavirus.

Using Perl Compatible Regular Expressions with PHP

Using Perl Compatible Regular Expressions with PHP

This tutorial is intended for the PHP programmer interested in using Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (or PCRE for short) to match or replace values within its target. A basic understanding of PHP and an overview of Perl will be given in this tutorial.

Microfinance — getting rid of the loan sharks

Microfinance — getting rid of the loan sharks

The financial meltdown during 2007-9 is hardly likely to go down in history as one of the finance industry’s finest moments. However, it’s had some surprisingly positive evolutionary effects on the finance market. Borrowers have had to navigate a hostile environment full of loan sharks and let’s politely say “dubious” credit options.

Animal health

Animal health

The Animal Health division of IIL is engaged in marketing a range of livestock and companion animal health products such as Vaccines, Formulations (Anti-infectives, Anti-parasiticides, NSAIDs) and Nutraceuticals. IIL also markets generics and over-the-counter (OTC) products which are available at all veterinary retail outlets.

Argentinian Senate passes law requiring Open Access – Interview with Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto

Argentinian Senate passes law requiring Open Access – Interview with Dr. Alejandro Ceccatto

On November 13th, 2013, The Argentinian Senate unanimously passed legislation requiring Open Access to publicly funded research outputs. A few days later, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MINCyT) officially launched their national repository network, using the D-NET platform, developed by the European DRIVER Project.

Global Social Technographics Update 2011: US and EU mature, emerging markets show lots of activity

Global Social Technographics Update 2011: US and EU mature, emerging markets show lots of activity

Last month George Colony, CEO of Forrester, talked about a “Social Thunderstorm” at the LeWeb conference in Paris. He argued that social is running out of hours and running out of people. What does that mean? Well, the second one is easy: The vast majority of consumers around the world who have access to a computer use social media.