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Super Micro Computer Q1 Results Top View; Stock Climbs
By RTT News, October 22, 2014, 12:40:00 AM EDT
(RTTNews.com) - Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) Tuesday reported first-quarter results that topped estimates, sending the stock by over 5 percent in after-hours trading. The company's second-quarter outlook also cheered investors.
Net income increased to $20.9 million or $0.42 per share from $7.7 million or $0.17 per share in the same period a year ago.
The latest results included $3.0 million of stock-based compensation expense, pre-tax. Excluding items, non-GAAP net income for the first quarter was $0.46 per share, while it totaled $vereyum undakum0.22 per share last year.
On average, four analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report profit per share of $0.38 for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.
Net sales climbed to $443.3 million from $309.02 million in the prior year. Analysts expected revenue of $418.02 million for the quarter.
The company noted that no customer accounted for more than 10 percent of net sales during the quarter ended September 30, 2014.
The company expects net sales of $440 million to $480 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015, and adjusted earnings per share of $0.44 to $0.50. Analysts expect the company to report second-quarter earnings per share of $0.44 on revenue of $449.38 million.
Charles Liang, Chairman and CEO, said, "We began fiscal 2015 with an exceptional first quarter of record revenue and profits...As we ship our latest X10 generation Haswell DP products, a brand new I/O optimized Ultra server architecture and industry-leading hot-swappable NVMe solutions, we are confident our technology innovation will continue to drive our growth momentum into the remainder fiscal 2015."
SMCI closed up 4.1 percent at $26.48, and gained 5.4 percent in the extended trade.
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Super Micro Computer Q1 Profit Beats Estimates – Quick Facts
By RTT News, October 21, 2014, 04:43:00 PM EDT
(RTTNews.com) - Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMCI ) reported first-quarter net income of $20.9 million or $0.42 per share, an increase from the net income of $7.7 million, or $0.17 per share in the same period a year ago. Included in net income for the quarter is $3.0 million of stock-based compensation expense (pre-tax). Excluding items, non-GAAP net income for the first quarter was $23.2 million, or $0.46 per share.
On average, four analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expected the company to report profit per share of $0.38 for the quarter. Analysts' estimates typically exclude special items.
Net sales totaled $443.3 million, compared to $309.02 million, prior year. Analysts expected revenue of $418.02 million for the quarter.
The company expects net sales of $440 million to $480 million for the second quarter of fiscal year 2015. The company expects non-GAAP earnings per share of approximately $0.44 to $0.50 for the second quarter. Analysts expect the company to report second-quarter earnings per share of $0.44 on revenue of $449.38 million.
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Virtual Universe ‘Illustris’ – Video
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This extraordinary super computer simulation called the Illustris, models a huge chunk of the universe:
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The Terminator: Future Shock (PC/DOS) 1995, Bethesda Softworks
Warning! Very unprofessional and pointless fps "drunk" gameplay this time sorry! -- The year is 2015, and machines, under the leadership of the super-computer Skynet, control the Earth. Deprived...
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Why Super Micro Computer (SMCI) Might Surprise This Earnings Season – Tale of the Tape
Investors are always looking for stocks that are poised to beat at earnings season and Super Micro Computer, Inc. ( SMC I) may be one such company. The firm has earnings coming up pretty soon, and events are shaping up quite nicely for their report.
That is because Super Micro Computer is seeing favorable earnings estimate revision activity as of late, which is generally a precursor to an earnings beat. After all, analysts raising estimates right before earnings-with the most up-to-date information possible-is a pretty good indicator of some favorable trends underneath the surface for SMCI in this report.
In fact, the Most Accurate Estimate for the current quarter is currently at 35 cents per share for SMCI, compared to a broader Zacks Consensus Estimate of 34 cents per share. This suggests that analysts have very recently bumped up their estimates for SMCI, giving the stock a Zacks Earnings ESP of 2.94% heading into earnings season.
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that SMCI has a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) and an ESP in positive territory, investors might want to consider this stock ahead of earnings. Clearly, recent earnings estimate revisions suggest that good things are ahead for Super Micro Computer, and that a beat might be in the cards for the upcoming report.
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NFL Picks: Week 7 Predictions from Odds Shark Super Computer
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The Cleveland Brownswilltry to do something in Week 7 they have never done before, while Peyton Manning will attempt to make history against a team that has been historically very tough on him.
If the Odds Shark NFL prediction computer is accurate, the Browns will cover the biggest road spread in franchise history, and the San Francisco 49ers will thwart Mannings attempt at breaking the all-time passing touchdown mark.
The computer boasts a winning record against the spread (ATS) in all six weeks so far, although it has been subpar in its Westgate SuperContest selections (where handicappers choose five games each week in a $2 million prize pool).
Week 7 started with a thud as the computer picked the New England Patriots to cover a double-digit spread against the New York Jets. They were lucky to escape with a 27-25 win, dropping the Pats to 4-13 ATS in 17 recent games when laying 10 points or more.
Cleveland is favored by 5.5 points, according to most sportsbooks monitored by Bleacher Report lines partner Odds Shark. The computer has the Browns winning, 22-11. This is just the 10th time in Browns history (current franchise) that they have been a road favorite, and they never closed higher than 3.5 points, per the Odds Shark NFL database.
The Broncos will eke out a 30-26 win over the 49ers, if the computer is correct, which would be a San Francisco cover and would probably mean that Manning would not have thrown for three touchdowns to break Brett Favres record of 508.
Manning has thrown just five TDs in four career games against the Niners, and his quarterback rating against them is less than 90, so history suggests he will have a tough time in Week 7.
At least one sportsbook, however, believes Manning will throw for at least three, adding a Week 7 prop at a minus-180 payout.
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Man caught on video stealing computer from store
HOUSTON -
Houston police are looking for a man who they say walked into the Computer Super Store, stole a computer and then ran out. The incident was all caught on camera.
Sales manager Russell Greggory said Wednesday started out like any other day.
"Unsuspecting customer comes in from the sign and he is looking for our special," said Greggory.
In the store's surveillance video, you can see Greggory greet the man and show him around the store near Reliant Park.
"As soon as I turned my head, I heard footsteps, running, I looked and the guy is running out the door. I was in shock. My response was to run out the door behind him, but I caught myself. If this guy would do this, there is no telling he might have a gun," said Greggory.
The man bolted out the front door and jumped into a red, four-door sedan waiting for him in the parking lot. Greggory said they are now thinking about adding additional locks or adding a security guard to the front door.
"We do that holiday season, which is typically right after Thanksgiving, but it looks like we may have to do that early this year," Greggory said.
If you recognize the man in the surveillance video, you are asked to call the Houston Police Department.
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Hands-On: Qnovo Super-Fast Smartphone Charging
A couple of months ago I interviewed two key figures in Silicon Valley-based tech company Qnovo - a company thats at the forefront of mobile device battery technology. In short, by carrying out extensive research and gathering huge amounts of data on battery charging and life cycle behavior, Qnovo has developed both software and hardware-based methods of tackling one of the blights of modern mobile batteries, drastically reducing the time it takes for them to charge.
Perhaps more importantly, theres no long timescale involved here; the technology has already been picked up by major smartphone and chipset manufacturers and will be introduced next year. This is very real, its ready and its happening now. Equally as important, is the fact that the technology is very unobtrusive there are no large super-conductors or huge charging circuits or indeed special batteries to contend with.
In fact, the software version allows for significantly faster charging with standard smartphone batteries with no extra circuitry at all. Just some lines of code added to the operating system of a current smartphone can allow a Google Google Nexus 5, for example, to be charged from flat to 50% in less than 40 minutes, compared to nearly an hour and 20 minutes for a standard Nexus 5.
The hardware version allows for even more rapid charging but this needs minor physical additions to the Qualcom chipset that resides in most smartphones and tablets in order to achieve the significantly higher charging power. The new charging techniques that Qnovo has developed also boost battery longevity too.
The company has been kind enough to ship me a Google Nexus 5 with the companys software added using the popular aftermarket Android operating system Cyanogenmod and Ive used a 9W charger, which offers enough power to make use of Qnovos adaptations. You can see how quickly the phone charges in the time lapse video below. I used around 10% brightness on the Nexus 5 but switched all other features off if the phone was switched off, this would obviously lower the charge time further.
As you can see, charging to 50% takes less than 37 minutes twice as fast as the snail-pace 75 minutes for a stock Nexus 5. It reached 100 % in just 1 hour 53 minutes a good 40 minutes quicker than a standard Nexus 5 that takes just over two and a half hours. This is around a third quicker and this is just Qnovos software method the hardware implementation is apparently even faster.
These figures can make a huge difference to how usable our mobile devices can be and once the hardware implementation finds its way into smartphones and tablets next year, well see vastly improved charge times that could give you three times as much power from a 15 minute charge as conventional charging and six times that from charging via a USB port.
This could go a long way in the battle to make our devices last longer, especially if you often forget to charge your smartphone. You can read my full interview with Qnovo about its battery charging technology here and let me know in the comments if faster charging would be useful to you.
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Restlessness to Restfulness – Video
Restlessness to Restfulness
What we call restlessness is just that our body and mind are not taking instruction from us. Sadhguru looks at why this happens, and explains how most human beings are like a super computer...
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Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day
October 14 is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD), an annual global event that recognizes not only the 19th century mathematician and aristocratic super nerd who wrote the first computer program, but other women in our community, too. ALD founder Suw Charman-Andersons goal is to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering, and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire.
Supporting diversity is important to us, so were participating in ALD this year. Weve compiled some stories of women in tech from OReilly staff and members of our extended family you can read about them below.
What women inspire you? Let us know in the comments below and/or add it to the list on Finding Ada. Also, stay tuned for news Thursday on a new OReilly campaign about making geek culture one that welcomes and supports everyone.
Sarah Allen
She was my boss for a while (engineering manager at Macromedia), and I have learned so much from her.
Shes also super awesome, teaching women in tech via the Ruby classes she set up all over the countrycheck out her about page for all the details. Peldi Guilizzoni
Mary Gardiner (left) and Valerie Aurora
Valerie Aurora and Mary Gardiner are Linux hackers who decided to do something about the lack of women in the open source community and founded the Ada Initiative, which supports women in open technology and culture through activities such as producing codes of conduct and anti-harassment policies, advocating for gender diversity, teaching ally skills, and hosting conferences for women in open tech/culture.
They have been extremely effective: hundreds of conferences have adopted codes of conduct, and they have widely presented their ally skills workshops and made the materials available online under a Creative Commons license.
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Tech Week: Women's Raises, Screen Time And Super-Locked Phones
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella backtracked on his suggestion that women shouldn't ask for raises. Brendan McDermid/Reuters/Landov hide caption
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella backtracked on his suggestion that women shouldn't ask for raises.
Our tech coverage this week was bookended by stories about women. We started with a look back at the forgotten females who pioneered computer programming and ended with the controversy about a certain tech CEO's insensitive remarks on women asking for raises. Oh, and Hewlett-Packard called it splitsville.
Coding Women: This was by far our most-retweeted story this week and for good reason. NPR's Laura Sydell, reporting on Walter Isaacson's new book, The Innovators, focused on the often-forgotten women who were among the earliest visionaries in tech. They included August Ada, who had a computer language named after her; Jean Jennings Bartik, a mathematician who created programs for the ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer; and Grace Hopper, who found a way to use words instead of numbers to program. Isaacson also discussed his history of technology with Dave Davies on Fresh Air.
Too Much Screen Time: Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC's New Tech City, notes that people who work in the tech industry often regulate their children's screen time. "They put very strict limits on the very gadgets and software that they spend their days developing," she says.
Asking For It: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella really put his foot in it when he seemed to suggest that maybe women don't need to ask for a raise that they should have "faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along." He quickly acknowledged his gaffe and admitted on Twitter that he was "inarticulate" in making the remark (which ironically came at a conference celebrating women in computing). As NPR's Samantha Raphelson reported, the controversy renewed questions about the tech industry's male-dominated culture.
Privacy Vs. Security: Apple and Google's decision to use their mobile operating systems to encrypt smartphone data (even the companies themselves won't be able to access it) is drawing applause from privacy advocates. But FBI and other law enforcement officials are warning that the feature will end up helping criminals. NPR's Brian Naylor covered the debate.
Tesla owners take a ride in the new Tesla "D" model Thursday after Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, unveiled the dual engine chassis, a faster and all-wheel-drive version of the Model S electric sedan, at the Hawthorne Airport in Hawthorne, Calif. The D will be able to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just over three seconds. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images hide caption
Tesla owners take a ride in the new Tesla "D" model Thursday after Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, unveiled the dual engine chassis, a faster and all-wheel-drive version of the Model S electric sedan, at the Hawthorne Airport in Hawthorne, Calif. The D will be able to accelerate to 60 miles per hour in just over three seconds.
Pando Daily: Tesla's newest luxury supercar, now featuring autopilot
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Super Typhoon Vongfong Menaces Okinawa and Mainland Japan
Zoomed in view of Super Typhoon Vongfong from the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite on Oct. 9, 2014.
Image: NASA/NOAA
By Andrew Freedman2014-10-09 21:11:04 UTC
Super Typhoon Vongfong, which became the most powerful tropical cyclone of the year earlier this week, has taken a turn to the north, on a course that will take its core of ferocious winds and high waves perilously close to Okinawa and then on toward the mainland Japanese island of Kyushu this weekend. As of 4 p.m. ET, the storm had maximum sustained winds of 150 miles per hour, making it a Category 4 storm, and just barely meeting the minimum standard to be called a "super" typhoon.
It will likely lose the latter distinction by early Friday morning eastern time.
Satellite imagery shows a well-organized storm, though, with an eye that has varied between 30 to 50 miles wide at times. Vongfong is forecast to pass near or over the island of Okinawa on Saturday as a Category 3 storm, posing a significant threat to U.S. military personnel stationed there. The storm will then move north-northeast, toward making landfall in Kyushu on Sunday afternoon or evening eastern time, most likely as a Category 1 or 2 storm.
Super Typhoon Vongfong as seen from the International Space Station on Oct. 9, 2014.
Image: Reid Wiseman/Twitter
The biggest threat to the mainland of Japan will not come in the form of strong winds, though wind damage is quite likely across southern Japan, Okinawa, and the Ryukyu islands. Instead, the biggest danger will be in the form of water. Typhoon Vongfong will be making landfall just one week after Typhoon Phanfone struck the country, dropping anywhere from six to 20 inches of rain in many areas. Because the ground is so saturated from that storm, the slower-moving Vongfong poses a major flood threat, particularly in Japan's mountainous areas.
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Prank Call From Sunny Oak Retirement Domicile – Video
Prank Call From Sunny Oak Retirement Domicile
Hello, It Is I, GLX 5000, Artificially Intelligent Super Computer By Day And The Most Supreme Practitioner Of Prank Telephone Calls By Night. Please Enjoy This Audio/Video Recording, Whereby...
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Prank Call To Tyrone Jenkins – Video
Prank Call To Tyrone Jenkins
Hello, It Is I, GLX 5000, Artificially Intelligent Super Computer By Day And The Most Supreme Practitioner Of Prank Telephone Calls By Night. Please Enjoy This Audio/Video Recording, Whereby...
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Voivod 10 - Phobos - 04 - Phobos
4th track from the 10th Voivod album, Phobos. The Voivod draws up a plan to have digital control via a super-computer network and a spy satellite called Phobos... Complete world control!...
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IBM's Watson settles down in New York and learns Spanish
News of Watson has been quiet since it beat its human competitors on "Jeopardy!," but behind the scenes, developers have been working to take the computer from game show contestant to a commercial product.
On Tuesday, IBM unveiled its latest developments. IBM is opening a Watson world headquarters in New York City. Watson's new digs take up an entire Manhattan block, and with 600 employees and $1 billion in funding from IBM, the New York headquarters will become the center of Watson's development.
"IBM is opening its doors to area developers and entrepreneurs, hosting industry workshops, seminars and networking opportunities to build enthusiasm and awareness among the New York City start up community," IBM said in a statement. "For entrepreneurs and start ups, the Watson Group's Silicon Alley headquarters will provide technology, tools and talent to create and launch new products and businesses based on Watson's cloud-delivered cognitive intelligence."
Named after IBM's founder Thomas Watson,Watson is IBM's latest big supercomputer project, which processes information through natural-language processing to analyze big data.
"Watson 'gets smarter' in three ways: by being taught by its users, by learning from prior interactions, and by being presented with new information," IBM said in a statement.
IBM is hoping to make the Watson system theequivalentof an operating system, but for that to happen, the software needs a platform that provides apps customers can use. IBM opened up a "cloud" to developers onNovember 2013 so they could develop apps that were integrated in the technology. IBM announcedTuesday that 100 businesses and nonprofits would begin offering apps for the Watson engine. The new apps include healthcare apps, that can help doctors diagnose patients, and shopping apps that help businesses offer products to customers.
"This marks an important milestone for the Watson Ecosystem as we empower organizations to use next generation technology, using information as the cognitive fuel, to help solve formidable challenges across industries,Stephen Gold, vice president of the Watson Group, said in a statement.
Until now, Watson's natural-language processing has been restricted to English, but in new developments, Watson is learning Spanish with the help of the Spain-basedCaixaBank.
Watson's intelligence is already being implemented by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York to help tackle real world healthcareproblems. The hospital is planning to bring a long-term deployment of the technology soon,according to The New York Times.
In March, Watson began using its knowledge to create crazy food combinations. Chefs decide what ingredients they would like to use, and Watson comes up with differentrecipes.
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The 8 Best Views of Category 5 Super Typhoon Vongfong
Computer model simulation showing the surface winds flowing in and around Super Typhoon Vongfong.
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By Andrew Freedman2014-10-08 23:50:07 UTC
Super Typhoon Vongfong is currently roiling the Pacific Ocean, creating waves of 50 feet or higher, thanks to sustained winds of 165 miles per hour. The storm is on course to make landfall in Japan, with its impacts reaching the Ryukyu Islands as early as Saturday, followed by mainland Japan.
The Super Typhoon peaked in strength late on Tuesday, when it contained sustained winds of at least 180 miles per hour with gusts higher than 200 miles per hour. Satellite imagery and computer model simulations from Tuesday and Wednesday show the storm in stunning detail. Here are some of the most striking images.
The eye of Vongfong has fluctuated between about 19 and 30 miles wide. The storm has exhibited spirals of low clouds in the middle of the eye, where the air is sinking and warming, and the winds are comparatively calm.
These images were taken as the morning sun began to illuminate the storm on Tuesday afternoon, eastern time, and posted by the University of Wisconsin.
The storm still looks about as fierce on Wednesday.
This image, taken using the VIIRS infrared imager aboard NASA's Suomi NPP polar-orbiting satellite, depicts the storm at peak intensity. The red to gray hues around the eye represent extremely cold cloud tops that indicate towering thunderheads, likely extending up to 50,000 feet or more in height.
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Pressing the accelerator on quantum robotics
Oct 06, 2014 The theoretical work has focused on using quantum computing to accelerate the machine learning.
Quantum computing will allow for the creation of powerful computers, but also much smarter and more creative robots than conventional ones. This was the conclusion reached by researchers from Spain and Austria, who have confirmed that quantum tools help robots learn and respond much faster to the stimuli around them.
Quantum mechanics has revolutionised the world of communications and computers by introducing algorithms which are much quicker and more secure in transferring information. Now researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria) have published a study in the journal 'Physical Review X' which states that these tools can be used to apply to robots, automatons and the other agents that use artificial intelligence (AI).
They demonstrate for the first time that quantum machines can respond the best and act the fastest against the environment surrounding them. More specifically, they adapt to situations where the conventional ones, which are much slower, cannot finish the learning and response processes.
"In the case of very demanding and 'impatient' environments, the outcome is that the quantum robot can adapt itself and survive, while the classic robot is destined to collapse," explains G. Davide Paparo and Miguel A. Martn-Delgado, the two researchers from UCM who have participated in the study.
Their theoretical work has focused on using quantum computing to accelerate ahead with one of the most difficult points to resolve in information technology: machine learning, which is used to create highly accurate models and predictions. It is applied, for example, to know how the climate or an illness will evolve or in the development of Internet search engines.
More creative quantum robots
"Building a model is actually a creative act, but conventional computers are no good at it," says Martn-Delgado. "That is where quantum computing comes into play. The advances it brings are not only quantitative in terms of greater speed, but also qualitative: adapting better to environments where the classic agent does not survive. This means that quantum robots are more creative".
The authors assess the scope of their study as such: "It means a step forward towards the most ambitious objective of artificial intelligence: the creation of a robot that is intelligent and creative, and that is not designed for specific tasks".
This work comes under a new discipline, the so-called 'quantum AI', an area in which the company Google has started to invest millions of dollars via the creation of a specialised laboratory in collaboration with the NASA.
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