360 Eco-Loop: New Way to Get Around Filinvest City

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Eco-friendly rides are slowly becoming a trend in the local scene, but it was the Filinvest City in Alabang that launched the countrys first integrated , electric-powered, public transport system which features the new vehicle called 360 Eco-Loop.

Manila Standards Today reports that the 360 Eco-Loop will pick-up and unload commuters in 24 pick-up point scattered around the vicinity every day of the week. Below is the 360 Eco-Loops trip schedule:

Monday to Friday 6AM to 10PM Saturday and Sunday 6AM to 11PM

Northgate Cyberzone residents, along with the people who are working in the area, can also take advantage of 360 Eco-Loop during night time. The eco-friendly vehicle will be available to commuters in the area from 10PM until 5AM during Monday until Friday and 11PM to 6AM during the weekends.

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Bothell bank robber, Cyborg bandit, trial set for Feb. 18

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The trial for an Everett man believed to be the cyborg bandit bank robber has been set for Feb. 18.

King County prosecutors have charged Anthony Leonard Hathaway, 45, of Everett, with one count of robbery in the first degree after a year-long investigation. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Several local robberies were included in his confession, including the Kirkland Totem Lake Wells Fargo on Nov. 30, 2013. There were also three robberies in Bothell: Whidbey Island Bank on March 29, 2013, a second on July 5, 2013 and a third on Oct. 23, 2013.

Hathaway was arrested by the Seattle Safe Streets Task Force on Feb. 11 after he was caught robbing a Key Bank in the University District.

Post-Miranda, Hathaway confessed to committing 29 other bank robberies throughout western Washington during the past year, charging documents claim.

Police had been watching Hathaway the day he was arrested in a year-long investigation the task force had been building since the first robbery in Everett.

Hathaway had a pattern of wearing a metallic-like fabric over his face, similar to the look of a cyborg, and a long sleeve shirt with eye holes cut out, appearing as an elephant man.

During several of the bank robberies, the suspect verbally threatened the teller with a weapon but never displayed one.

In early February, the investigation led detectives to a suspicious white van that had been used in a recent South Snohomish County robbery.

It was this lead that connected Hathaway to the robberies, according to charging documents.

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'Cyborg' Laughs at Rousey's Bare-Hands Killing Remark, Proposes Fight at 140

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Invicta FC women's featherweight champion Cristiane "Cyborg" Justino found Ronda Rousey's most recent call-out quite amusing, despite the "Rowdy" one saying she would "kill her with my bare hands."

The UFC women's bantamweight titleholder spoke with B/R's own Jeremy Botter yesterday, where Rousey once again led a spirited attack against Justino for her previous failed drug test for the anabolic steroid stanozolol after a quick TKO win in December of 2011, per MMA Junkie.

The Brazilian knockout specialist responded succinctly in a post on Mixedmartialarts.com, better known as The Underground, challenging Rousey to a catchweight bout at 140 pounds.

From: Hahaha, you say you want to try and kill me in the cage? but you are scared about 10 lbs? lets meet in the middle at 140lbs, I'm tired of the bully talking. Cat Zinganoif you are looking for a training partner let me know, I can not wait to see you shut this girls mouth.

Justino, a hulking featherweight, was set to make her bantamweight debut at Invicta FC 10 on December 5 but had to withdraw after suffering an ankle injury earlier this month, per Sherdog.

Meanwhile, Rousey, who is still unbeaten (10-0) and has only seen a fight go beyond the first round once, next defends her championship gold against Cat Zingano at UFC 184 in February.

Zingano is also undefeated (9-0) and has only seen the judges scorecards once, earning a title shot by scoring a TKO over Amanda Nunes at UFC 178 in September.

Rousey and Justino have been engaging in verbal warfare for years now, with both top-tier competitors remaining adamant that her archnemsis is scared to settle their differences inside the cage.

With a win over Zingano, there are few intriguing fights left for Rousey on the UFC roster outside of Holly Holm or possibly Bethe Correia.

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Vanishing beaches: clouds on the horizon

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he pristine beaches of Puducherry, a major draw among residents and tourists visiting the former French enclave, are now fast disappearing due to rampant erosion.

Large parts of the beaches along the coastline have been gobbled up by the sea since 1994.

The erosion has now started spreading along the northern side of the citys coastline threatening villages such as Periyamudaliarchavady and Bommayarpalayam in Tamil Nadu.

Probir Banerjee, member, Pondicherry Citizen's Action Network (PCAN), said: The problem started in 1989 when the Puducherry government constructed two breakwaters. Though a sand bypassing system was provided at the harbour to regularly shift the sand from south to north, this has not been done resulting in erosion along the northern side.

The sand movement along the coast is said to be one of the highest in the country. The net displacement of sand northwards has been calculated at 0.5 million cubic metres a year.

Beaches on the northern side of the coastline are now starved of sand and have started disappearing. Puducherry was losing 0.5 to 1 km of beach every year, he said.

G. Vasu, a resident of Periyamudaliarchavady and member of Repo, an Auroville community, said the rate of erosion was 20 metres a year. Instead of tackling the origin of the problem, the government started constructing groynes and sea walls, which has only aggravated the erosion towards north.

The rubble-mounted sea walls constructed along the Puducherry coast had transferred the problem to Tamil Nadu, which was now facing massive erosion. Groynes should be considered only after taking into account various factors such as wave strength, angle of the waves and shore structure, he said.

Sea currents have become tough and people living on the coast are the victims of erosion.

Due to the construction of groynes, fishermen are unable to dock their boats along the shore. However, the authorities seem to be unaware of the destruction of the coastline, said R. Nagaraj, a fisherman.

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A beach in the West Fjords. Photo: Pll Stefnsson.

Q: Why arent there seashells on Icelands beaches? Ive walked dozens of kilometers on its beaches in every region but have yet to see a seashell.

Ivan Martin, New York, U.S.

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A: There are seashells on beaches in Iceland but their number differs between regions. The iconic black sand beaches of the south coast are constantly being shaped by the sediment of glacial rivers being carried to sea and wild waves crashing against the shore.

This is perhaps where youd be least likely to find seashells. Blue mussels, for example, can be found on beaches in every region in Iceland, except the south coast.

For the same reason, there were no harbors on the south coast from Hfn in the east to orlkshfn in the west until Landeyjahfn, the new Vestmannaeyjar ferry dock, opened in 2010. But sediment from glacial river Markarfljt poses a problem.

On most other quiet sand beaches in Iceland you should be able to find seashells, including blue mussels (Mytilus edulis), Icelandic scallop (Chlamys islandica), ocean quahog (Arctica islandica) and soft-shell clam (Mya arenaria).

The black beaches that are predominant in Iceland are a result of the countrys volcanic activity and the sand is mostly comprised of fine grains of basalt.

On the white shell sand beach Lngufjrur on the southern Snfellsnes peninsula, West Iceland, I remember to have found small white seashells and colorful stones, as Ive seen on beaches on the European mainland.

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CERN's Higgs Discovery As Portal To New 'Technicolor' Physics

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CERNs historic discovery of the elusive Higgs boson the subatomic particle thought to be at the root of what gives normal matter its mass may actually represent only a portion of a more complicated and heretofore unexplored particle physics paradigm, say researchers.

After new analysis of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)s Higgs observations, the authors of a paper recently published in the journal Physical Review D crack the door on the possibility that this actual particle detected by CERNs Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may not be fundamental (or point-like). Instead, they argue it could be a composite particle made up of two even smaller techni-quarks, bound by a theoretical Technicolor force. Even so, much of the particle physics community still needs convincing. The idea of such a new Technicolor force has been around for more than three decades and appears to have worn out its welcome among many theoretical physicists. Thats likely in part because it would require a new force of nature, which to many may seem ad hoc.

In contrast to protons and neutrons that are made up of quark particles, bound by natures fundamental strong nuclear force, particle physicists say that the force that would hold such techni-quarks together could not be one of the existing known forces of nature. Thats because neither gravity, the electromagnetic force, the weak nuclear force nor the strong nuclear force are strong enough to do so.

[The paper] points out that the particle we discovered at CERN might not turn out to be the simple particle predicted in the Standard Model, but a similar particle predicted by a different theory called Technicolor, UCLA particle physicist Jay Hauser, now on assignment as a Geneva-based CERN project manager, told Forbes.

An example of simulated data modeled for the CMS particle detector on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Here, following a collision of two protons, a Higgs boson is produced which decays into two jets of hadrons and two electrons. The lines represent the possible paths of particles produced by the proton-proton collision in the detector while the energy these particles deposit is shown in blue. (Credit: Wikipedia)

The key to the Higgs particle is the Higgs field itself which has been compared to cosmic molasses. Particles which have mass interact with this unseen field of Higgs particles. And the more mass a given particle has, the more it interacts.

But the Higgs boson has only been measured to a certain precision at the energy levels CERN is currently using. Theorists are quick to point out that there may be more than one Higgs boson or even that the Higgs boson as CERN has currently probed it at energies of 125 Giga electron Volts (125 GeV), is not sufficiently high to definitively say whether this new particle is composite.

Even so, Mads Toudal Frandsen, one of the studys co-authors and a particle physicist at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, told Forbes it will come as a surprise to some how close the properties of a Techni-Higgs can be to those of CERNs Higgs particle. He notes that although Technicolor remains a time-honored idea for the origin of mass, it has been abandoned by most of the community.

The paper studies CERN findings in the light of a Technicolor Higgs, said Frandsen. This paper demonstrates that a Techni-Higgs can look very much like a Standard Model Higgs and thus potentially be what LHC has found.

Critics of this Physical Review D paper, however, point out that the authors techni-Higgs arguments are neither provable nor disprovable.

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New artificial intelligence software boosts web searches

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Washington, Nov 19:

Scientists have created artificial intelligence software that uses photos to locate documents on the Internet with far greater accuracy than ever before.

The new system, which was tested on photos and is now being applied to videos, shows for the first time that a machine learning algorithm for image recognition and retrieval is accurate and efficient enough to improve large-scale document searches online.

The system developed by researchers at Dartmouth College, Tecnalia Research and Innovation and Microsoft Research Cambridge, uses pixel data in images and potentially video rather than just text to locate documents.

It learns to recognise the pixels associated with a search phrase by studying the results from text-based image search engines.

The knowledge gleaned from those results can then be applied to other photos without tags or captions, making for more accurate document search results.

Images abound on the Internet and our approach means theyll no longer be ignored during document retrieval, said Associate Professor Lorenzo Torresani, co-author of the study.

Over the last 30 years, the Web has evolved from a small collection of mostly text documents to a modern, gigantic, fast-growing multimedia dataset, where nearly every page includes multiple pictures or videos. When a person looks at a Web page, she immediately gets the gist of it by looking at the pictures in it, said Torresani.

Yet, surprisingly, all existing popular search engines, such as Google or Bing, strip away the information contained in the photos and use exclusively the text of Web pages to perform the document retrieval.

Our study is the first to show that modern machine vision systems are accurate and efficient enough to make effective use of the information contained in image pixels to improve document search, Torresani added.

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Robots will replace 50 percent of today's occupations by 2025

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Technological advances in artificial intelligence (robots) will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025. Workers and companies need to prepare now for the future shift.

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Advances in artificial intelligence (also known as robotics) are taking over the workplace and will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025, according to a new report by the real estate consulting firm CBRE.

The CBRE report, titled Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace, quotes a 2013 Oxford Martin School study that predicted that nearly half of American jobs are vulnerable to computerization by 2025.

Customer work, process work and vast swatches of middle management will simply 'disappear,' according to a new report by consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, stated The Daily Mail.

But CBRE is also quick to point out that losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs just changing what people do.

There will also be a revolution in the traditional workplace, the report says: The rows of desk and mazes of cubicles we have today will be mostly gone by 2030. Not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose will no longer exist, reported Human Resources Online.

The future workplace will be designed around activity-based working. This was defined by a variety of quiet retreats as well as collaborative settings, best suited for work at that particular moment in other words, places to work, not workplaces, continued Human Resources Online.

Citing the Oxford study, the New Zealand Herald lists 20 jobs at highest risk of being replaced by robots. Here is the top five: telemarketers, title examiners, sewage workers, mathematical technicians and insurance writers.

In order to prepare for the occupational shift, employees need to be creatively and socially intelligent, CBRE stated.

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Temasek and the Winklevoss twins invest in US start-up

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Publication Date : 20-11-2014

A Washington-based start-up that uses artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of legislation has received US$7 million in funding from investors that include Singapore's Temasek Holdings and the Winklevoss twins, made famous from their lawsuits against Facebook, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

FiscalNote, founded by a US entrepreneur, says it uses data-mining software and artificial intelligence to predict the fate of the bills proposed by state legislatures and by Congress each year with 94 per cent accuracy, said the newspaper.

"We will be utilising the resources for international growth and product expansion," said founder Tim Hwang, 22. "We will be bolstering our engineering team in addition to looking at expanding our sales and marketing operations, domestically and abroad."

The investing was led by several overseas funds including Visionnaire Ventures, a joint fund between Taizo Son and Temasek, the newspaper said. Early investors in the start-up include Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and former America Online chairman Steve Case.

Hwang, who volunteered on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, co-founded the company in 2013 with boyhood friends Jonathan Chen and Gerald Yao, said the paper. Chen became chief technology officer and Yao is chief strategy officer, it added.

The company, headquartered in Washington city, has more than 30 clients, including Uber, Planned Parenthood, the New Balance shoe and apparel company, Ally Financial, Allergan, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Republican and Democratic governors associations.

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New Space Advisory Board: Supporting Canadian Aerospace Excellence

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November 19, 2014 Ottawa Industry Canada

The Canadian aerospace industry is a global success story that is setting new standards for innovation, productivity and competitiveness, Industry Minister James Moore told a lunchtime audience today at the 2014 Canadian Aerospace Summit.

The Minister underlined the government's support for aerospace and reiterated its commitment to supporting the manufacturing industry and establishing the right economic conditions for success. These included lowering taxes, cutting the corporate rate from over 22percent in 2007 to 15percent today and removing the federal capital tax.

Minister Moore also announced the creation of the Space Advisory Board, which will provide expert advice to the government on Canada's role and future in space. The board includes experts from across the country who will help lead Canada's space policy in the years ahead.

The members of the Space Advisory Board are: General (Retired) WaltNatynczyk, Deputy Minister of Veterans Affairs Canada, former Chief of Defence Staff and former Canadian Space Agency President; Dr.MamdouhShoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor of York University; TerryMalley, President and CEO of Malley Industries; Dr.ArlenePonting, President Emerita of MindFuel, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to inspiring young people's involvement in science through education; LorneTrottier, Co-founder of Matrox Electronic Systems and the Trottier Family Foundation; FredGeorge, President and CEO of JLK Global Fund International and Honorary Captain to the Royal Canadian Navy; John Keating, Director of Sandvine and former CEO of COM DEV; ColonelChrisHadfield, retired Canadian astronaut, former Commander of the International Space Station.

Quick facts

- In 2013, Canada's aerospace industry was responsible for more than 170,000jobs and contributed $28billion to the economy. Aerospace is a priority sector under Canada's Global Markets Action Plan.

- In response to the Emerson report on aerospace and space policies and programs, the government has provided additional funding to the Strategic Aerospace and Defence Initiative and launched a new program to support large-scale technology demonstration projects in the aerospace, space, defence and security industries.

- The government recently committed $30million (over five years) to a newly formed, industry-led research network, the Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada (CARIC).

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