Page 45 - Programmer News Today

>> that ability to share the energy that we as climbers derive from being in positions like that, thats just incredibly cool for me. it just transports you to that space. >> this is a perspective that, you know, only these top climbers are able to see, and to see what they see is just remarkable. >> its just way more of an interactive experience. you get a fuller picture than you do from video footage or from a still photo. you get to see the text of the rock and the size of the holds were grabb...

Last months record-setting rainfall, an estimated 35 trillion gallons, is helping to finish off the drought. more than 90% of the state is entirely drought free. at its height, the drought cost texas farms and ranches more than $7 billion in lost production. but national weather service meteorologist victor murphy says the dams and reservoirs left empty by the drought kept the recent heavy rains from doing more damage. >> you know, we still have a lot of life, loss of property due to flash flood...

Last step in verifying newly installed gunshot-detecting microphones designed to quickly identify and locate an active shooter on campus. seconds later officers have the exact location, accurate to within 10 feet. are there microphones in this room monitoring for a gunshot? >> yes. yeah. there are. in fact, theres one right outside my office, you know, and theres one right there. >> reporter: newark memorial high school principal phil morales is a former police officer. why do you feel like you ...

By removing some sugar from your body. along with diet and exercise farxiga helps lower blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. with one pill a day, farxiga helps lower your a1c. and, although its not a weight-loss or blood-pressure drug farxiga may help you lose weight and may even lower blood pressure when used with certain diabetes medicines. do not take if allergic to farxiga or its ingredients. symptoms of a serious allergic reaction include rash, swelling, or difficulty breathing or sw...

New york, and cleveland, ohio. guy robinson is a certified pollen counter for a national allergy academy and says any level over 90 is elevated. what was the most recent pollen count that you measured? >> the most recent one here was probably just over 2,000. >> reporter: is that high? >> yeah, thats considered very high. anything over 1,500 is very high. >> reporter: one doctor said this year were going to have a pollen tsunami. now, is this a particularly bad year, or do people just forget how...

Killings which are very important and a huge concern in the community, but its also about what i have been talking about for a bit in the past couple weeks is mass incarceration and the overall way that the criminal justice system treats particularly black and brown communities, poor communities. we are the most incarcerated nation in the world, and weve gotten there through a set of policies that have been in existence over the last 40 years. we have to have more than just press conversations. ...

>> i feel threatened place in a cell with another person. i feel my life is in it danger. >> okay. let me tell you what path youre going down right now. right now it seems like its no big deal. been locked up twice for it. theres documentation on one, theres going to be another documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant shu. >> the shu is the secured housing unit, where inmates live under the harshest restrictions...

A.i. and he brings in a young programmer to test this a.i. to see if theres an element of consciousness there. he believes that hes speaking to something that has consciousness. and the movie itself is absolutely mind blowingly crazy. its over the top. its so interesting to watch and the performances are mind blowing. alex garland directed the movie. he wrote two of my favorite movies of all time, "28 days later" and "sunshine." so far, and honestly my top five of this year, i have ex-machina, t...

Zhang told us. foreign journalists are not "you can only say what the the government wants you to say," znang told us. foreign journalists are not given foreign journalists are not o given censorship orders, but the chinese government threatens to withhold visas as a way to control overseas press. zhang was a part of a group of journalists to meet with secretary of state john kerry last year in beijing. behind closed doors, zhang complained about censorship. soon after, he lost his job and remai...

Would detect all of those things. >> reporter: after just a few hours of driving around, you have piles of data to process, all to answer the question exactly how much work has to be done. >> we also get the image of the pavement. >> reporter: researcher assistant salar shahini shamsabadi showed us the results of a survey done last november in beverly, city just north of boston. using google maps, they color code each street based on its damage, pointing out which ones require immediate attentio...