AMAGING Adventurous News

Infosys to develop applications on IBM Bluemix cloud platform Software major Infosys announced that it would use a cloud platform, Bluemix, developed by global IT firm IBM to design and deploy next-generation applications for its enterprise clients worldwide. “We have set up a Bluemix-powered innovation lab to co-create applications with clients, train our engineers on the IBM platform to develop application skills and adopt the cloud platform to leverage its cognitive computing and analytics solutions,” the IT major said in a statement on Friday. Staffed with designers, specialists and industry and technology architects, the lab is designed to deliver application prototypes. “Digital transformation is unleashing the power of smarter processes for our clients. Our goal is to bring these advanced technologies to clients’ application landscape in the most rapid and collaborative way possible,” said Infosys’ head, Application Development and Maintenance Srikantan Moorthy. I

BARACK OBAMA U.S. President Barack Obama shoots pool during a stop in a bar in Denver, USA.

London:  An international team of scientists has identified potential “tipping points” where abrupt regional climate shifts due to global warming could trigger a natural disaster. Scientists analysed the climate model simulations on which the recent 5th Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports are based. They found evidence of 41 cases of regional abrupt changes in the ocean, sea ice, snow cover, permafrost and terrestrial biosphere. Many of these events occur for global warming levels of less than two degrees, a threshold sometimes presented as a safe limit. However, although most models predict one or more abrupt regional shifts, any specific occurrence typically appears in only a few models. “This illustrates the high uncertainty in predicting tipping points,” said lead author professor Sybren Drijfhout from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton. “More precisely, our results show that the different state-of-the-art models agree that abrupt

NIK WALLENDA Karl Wallenda's great-grandson, Nik Wallenda, is also a high wire artist, and has nine Guinness World Records under his belt for various acrobatic feats. He became the first person to walk a tightrope stretched directly over the Niagara Falls, crossing from the U.S. side of the Horseshoe Falls to the Canadian side — covering 1,800 feet (550 meters) in 25 minutes — on June 15, 2012 (pictured). The next year (June 23, 2013), he went on to become the first person to cross a Grand Canyon gorge on a wire. NIK WALLENDA In 2011, Nik Wallenda completed the 100-feet-long (30 meters) high-wire crossing between the two towers of the 10-story Condado Plaza Hotel in San Juan, which Karl Wallenda had failed to achieve. Nik Wallenda also finished the highest incline tightrope walk with a 15-degree angle between two Chicago skyscrapers, while being partially blindfolded, on Nov. 2, 2014. ROBBIE KNIEVEL Robbie jumped 228 feet (69 meters) across the Grand Canyon o