Teardown Shows Why Innovative Designs Sometimes Fail | Single Core Copper Cable

Northwest Guilford Kiwanis: noon first and third Tuesdays, Bill’s Pizza, 1431-A N.C. 68 North, Oak Ridge. Annette Joyce, 336-382-8629.

Firewire unfortunately is one of those pieces of technology that are superior in every regard but due to sloppy marketing – never really makes it beyond a niche area. I blame marketing because I truly believe that if end users saw those benefits and the savings as a result they would be more than happy to pay the extra $2 or so more for a computer if it saves them $400 on being able to keep their old firewire device and gain the performance benefits.

Letters from Home – Love to Keep You Warm: 7 p.m. Dec. 21-22, 2 p.m. Dec. 23, Paramount Theater, 128 E. Front St., Burlington. Christmas concert honoring veterans. lettersfromhomesingers.com.

Household Hazardous-Waste Collection Center: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturdays, Ecoflo, 2750 Patterson St., GB. 336-373-7971 or www.greensboro-nc.gov/HHW.

Safety-critical applications have strict determinism and high-assurance requirements. For many systems, this has resulted …

Who is eligible for curbside spring yard waste collection? Only residential properties receiving West Hartford refuse and recycling collection.

Two North Iowans – Ian Stockberg with Good Shepherd, Inc., in Mason City and Josh Barnes with Osage Municipal Utilities – were among 40 who graduated from the Leadership Iowa program during the 2018 Taking Care of Business Conference in Coralville last month. Leadership Iowa, a program of the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation, is an eight-month professional development program that allowed participants to travel "to numerous locations throughout the state to learn about those issues and to gain a better understanding of the role they can play in addressing them."

Researchers from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered that electron spin is key to understanding how cuprate superconductors can conduct electricity without loss at high temperature.

On the graphics front, the new iPad Pros’ Geekbench 4 Compute benchmark is around 42,200, a nearly 40 percent jump from the prior 10.5-inch model’s roughly 30,300, and 2.7 times better than the original 12.9-inch iPad Pro. Apple claims that these iPads are able to go toe-to-toe with Microsoft’s Xbox One S console in graphics power. Unfortunately, there isn’t much software to back up that claim, and almost every game you can think of is currently running with black bars awaiting an iPad Pro screen compatibility update.

DOE support for these industry-led projects provides each company access to ORNL’s nuclear experts and facilities. The total funding for projects involving ORNL is approximately $9.5 million, and additional industry cost-sharing for two projects pushes the total value to approximately $12 million.

And that buggy software, my friends, is what’s destroyed our industry. Don’t doubt it, I hear it every day from my users.

Volunteers sought for Operation: Feed Our Students. Owasso Community Resources is partnering with the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma and Owasso Public Schools to provide food for students in the event of the shutdown.