because there are a lot of different ways that a heavy object (like a big crate) can be shoved.
and receiver chips made this way perform as well as their silicon or Gaas counterparts. ctually, our work was inspired by the IEEE Spectrum article,
and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible, and transparent displays,
#A Better Way for Brains to Control Robotic Arms Erik Sorto had been paralyzed for 10 years
Donoghue says. here something we still haven detected about the way the brain does movement.
When combined, they create a metamaterial, capable of bending light in unusual ways. The team also varied the height of the cylinders by a small amount,
Keuka will likely face a long road to acceptance by the notoriously risk averse utility industry.
a practical and affordable way to store and distribute hydrogen is still the biggest hurdle to the wide deployment of green, CO2 EMISSION-free cars.
on small aircraft, it would power air conditioners and refrigeration systems. In addition to lowering CO2 EMISSION, the units produce little noise, making them suitable as mobile electricity generators in places, like field hospitals,
having arrived at the ISS thanks to a Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launched in April. ur team is developing the technology that will enable humanity to create an off-planet economy that will fundamentally change the way we live on Earth,
The asteroid mining firm formed in 2012 with the purpose of figuring out an economical way to mine platinum
and oxygen gives you access to a completely carbon-free energy source for transportation. But so far, the efficiency of the process has been a bit disappointing,
which could lead to a more sustainable way to create sophisticated energy storage devices, scientists in China and Germany say.
One way to overcome this problem is to make silicon porous enough to accommodate the expansion.
In research published in the journal Science, the team describes how they devised a method for wrapping electrically conductive sheets of carbon nanotubes around the rubber core in such a way that the fiber's resistance doesn change when stretched,
The hope of spintronics stems from its use of the spin of electrons to encode information rather than the transport of electrical charge of electrons.
In this way, just like an electrical current is a stream of electrons moving through a conductor,
when taxis became tech companies, just wait until it happens to colleges n
#American Re-Urbanization Drives More On-Demand Innovation Editor Note: David Hirsch is a cofounder
2. 3 million more people moved into metro areas than in 2012, driven by the demands of America two most powerful demographics.
Mcdonald s has said that 50 percent of its NFC-based tap payments are already Apple Pay as of November
and advocating their alternatives. 50 percent of tap-to-pay transactions even at a large-scale national chain like Mcdonald s still doesn t amount to a huge number of payments relative to the general pool;
See, Digit wants to change the way users think about saving cash, by helping them to put money away without having to think about it at all.
In and of itself, that runs counter to the way most financial apps operate, in that it doesn overburden the user with too much information
the way a normal savings account would. That will no doubt cause some skeptics to complain that any Digit user would be better off just putting aside the money themselves into their own savings account.
Since launching its pilot in earnest over the summer, Digit has saved more than $600, 000 for the users who have signed up, according to CEO Ethan Bloch.
or a PA SYSTEM and for buskers or live players who are looking for an interesting way to modify a standard guitar.
by way of encryption. Or hell, even a password. That not to say the files couldn have still been hacked,
SOPA efforts failed by working with state attorneys general and major ISPS like Comcast to expand court power over the way data is served.
Within the smartphone space, China Xiaomi made its way into the top five for the first time with a sharp rise over a year ago,
But put another way, neither of these two, big mature markets are keeping up with overall sales growth of smartphones
#Nokia s Here Will Power Maps For Baidu Outside China To Cater To China s Globetrotters Search giant Baidu has made no secret of its ambitions to expand its business outside of China by way of mobile services.
Nokia mapping and navigation business Here says that it will now power maps for Baidu outside of China,
Mapping and navigation have long been hot areas for platform companies looking for strong positions in mobile.
Here offers maps for nearly 200 countries, with turn-by-turn navigation for 118 of them.
The program recruits and trains teachers and assistants, provides the curriculum, recruits the girls, curates guest speakers, manages field trips and offers mentorship to the girls during the course of each summer session.
Waze uses user-submitted traffic data to recommend the fastest driving route, which adjusts in real time as the user drives.
It uses predictive analytics from the way a patient interacts on their smartphone to detect warning signals in behavior.
releasing pilots on its streaming service and then choosing what to greenlight based on audience response and viewing behavior.
it also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged in overturning the ways in
and Applepie Capital looking to lend to would-be restaurant franchisors. e see the lending club IPO as a bellwether for a major structural shift in the way that consumers
and changing the ways that parts of the market work. Shaky Beginnings The success of the lending business wasn always so certain.
The Fueloyal Is A Smart Fuel Cap For Truckers Breaker breaker 10-4 good buddy.
Now if they can just keep truckers from getting road hypnosis or getting picked up by Smokey than we might have something special e
and continue product development such as finding a way to integrate Instagram, which is hugely popular for commerce but offers a very limited API.
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
but the passenger gets to pick the driver based on the calculated trip price (or whatever other factor they care about,
There were plenty of other ways to share photos before Instagram. There were plenty of other ways to filter photos too.
But Instagram took something people already liked to do made and it so simple and delightful they fell in love l
and pave the way for increased business profitability, competitiveness and security, while mitigating organizational energy waste.
In short but not-so-simple terms, qualifying businesses are required to a) measure total energy consumption, accounting for 90 percent of usage across all buildings, transport and industrial activities;
Callas previously told Techcrunch the store could##include##different security review tiers for apps as a way for users to navigate the risks of running third party content.
who can use this as a way of shifting items that may have more flexible pricing,
This is one more way to connect customers to a merchant and once you are on a product page the merchant may choose to recommend other items he/she is selling that you might like to buy.
but also continuing to look at other ways of extending its sales platform. Recent developments have included adding private label home essentials, by way of Amazon Elements, restaurant takeout and delivery,
as well as bike messenger delivery trials t
#Didi Dache One Of China s Two Dominant Taxi App Firms Closes $700m Series D Round Another large sum of money is going in Asia taxi
app space following Softbank $250 million investment in Grabtaxi and Uber latest Asia-focused $1. 2 billion raise.
That because Didi Dache, one of China two dominant taxi app firms, announced that it has closed a whopper $700 million Series D round.
Singapore Temasek Holding which invested in Rocket Internet Lazada last month led the round, which included participation from existing investors DST Global and Chinese internet giant Tencent.
Didi Dache claims to have over 100 million registered users and more than 1 million taxi drivers on its platform.
Between them, the two are estimated to account for close to all of the taxi app bookings made in China.
Didi Dache core offering is a taxi booking service. It integrates with Tencent Wechat, China hugely popular chat app,
leaving it with a huge challenge to break their dominance in the country. idi will continue its commitment in providing mobile-based transportation services to more users,
The company believes in its mission of making transportation easier for everyone through mobile Internet
Namely the way the enterprise and team messaging app ties into a growing list of third-party services in a way that significantly reduces the time it takes to look up link to and reference external information such as a document calendar entry or code repository update.#
and services on a much deeper more integrated and intuitive way than our competitors#says Fasbender.#
#From the very beginning we knew we had to take a different route if we wanted to add value to this market.
no matter how many ways you break down a single machine resources, it just not going to suffice anymore.
you create a single pool of resources that you can manipulate any way that you like
and according to head of Innovation and New Ventures Steve Yankovich, his is not a pilot for us.
While the original idea behind SDN separating the control from the data plane in network switches has turned out to be just one of many architectural approaches that have emerged
they already show promise as a way to simplify network operations and reduce both operating and capital expenses.
as well as a way to drive standardization ahead of slower-moving standards bodies. Many different open-source projects have evolved over the last few years that affect networking.
ODL offers a flexible way to innovate in network applications across a broad range of infrastructure.
or find a way to shove some ads down your throat. Meet Secret Media, an advertising technology startup specialized in advertising encryption
That meant finding a way to get to that value faster than on-premises would allow by its nature
Apple seems committed to coming up with new ways to protect user devices and data when it comes to theft,
which will allow the case to support larger phablets like the iphone 6 Plus and Galaxy Note line down the road.
Fundamental assumptions need to be reformatted in a new way to win. At my company Local Motors, we have a saying:
Crowdsourcing rapidly taps into a global talent pool of people who can solve any particular engineering challenge faster. 3d printers use less material,
reducing freight and distribution costs and speed time to market p
#Facebook Censors Blasphemous Page To Comply With Turkey#s Demand But Won t Publish It When Google and Twitter receive legal threats from countries to censor controversial content
But continuing to operate can help the country in other ways, such as allowing people to connect with loved ones,
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
The site currently displays a picture of a lizard in a top hat and monocle as well as the text 04-Plane Not Found (a reference to flight MH370 which disappeared in March) and acked by LIZARD SQUAD-OFFICIAL CYBER CALIPHATE.
Malaysia Airlines confirmed the attack on its Facebook page: In a tweet however Lizard Squad (which itself was hacked last week) claimed it had taken materials from Malaysia Airlinesservers.
It has shared already a screenshot of an inbox with passenger itineraries. Wee contacted Malaysia Airlines for more information
#YC-Backed Bluesmart Raises $2 Million For Its Self-Tracking Suitcase magine a world where you never lose your luggagesays CEO of Bluesmart Diego Saez-Gil.
which airports the case has been to how many miles traveled and how much time was spent in each country.
I got off the plane they couldn find my luggage. It days before Christmas I called everywhere.
No luggage. he airport did end up locating all his stuff but his family had to wait a week after Christmas for their gifts.
Bluesmart is working on a few distribution deals for its first suitcase particularly in the airports. According to Saez-Gil Bluesmart will be creating more connected travel items in the future.
While the U s. is trying to use economic sanctions as a way of getting Russia to budge on Crimea
it was perhaps inevitable that we would also find ways to capture ourselves, in motion,
Technology brought us new ways to share, which solved some problems but also created new ones.
and it has given way to more than a million GIFS being created and shared amongst its users. According to founder Carlos Whitt, Camoji has mostly found a place in the hearts of teens,
Camoji has imagined new ways for its users to save and share. The app can now be used directly from the smartphone keyboard,
While giving users new ways to share the innovators behind Camoji have ushered also in a new way of discovering GIFS that are of most interest to those who use it.
Users now have profiles which are like portrait galleries of their moving images, and the service has curated collections of GIFS that feature common themes.
now that we have a way to fully capture and share those most important moments of our lives,
the way we think about communicating with others will never be the same n
#The Equil Smartmarker Records Everything You Write It been just over five months since we checked out the Equil Smartpen,
And while biometric alternatives such as fingerprint readers are finding their way onto more consumer electronics devices they are not without their limitations either.
whether the ship is ready to receive the cargo or not. Sensors could let the system know a ship hadn docked yet
and communicate this to truckers before they drive into the port area. This could reduce congestion and pollution around the port.
where it can warn other drivers coming down the same road about the impending danger.
Paper flyers on college campuses are one of the few ways labs sign up human guinea pigs.
as a way of sending data from one Lifi-equipped device to another. Today the startup is disclosing that it raised £1. 5 million in a new round of funding led by Scottish-based angel group London & Scottish Investment Partners (LSIP), with additional funding from the Scottish
Marlinspike knows his way around encryption technology. He started cloud-based password-cracking service Chapcrack
and previously worked at Microsoft Research as well as other computer science researchers like Yann Lecun who are looking for better ways to teach computers how to recognize objects and speech.
as previously helicopters would have had to do this job, at great expense. Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software
These kinds of drones could be useful for cities with dense traffic. A drone like this could fly across heavy traffic
and deliver lifesaving equipment in under three minutes. For places with no roads to speak of,
companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine. Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims,
as the cost of running helicopters is compared very high to sending up a drone for a short period of time.
Transportation The idea of a drone taking you to work is still a Jetsons kind of idea,
Joby Aviation is building an ambitious aircraft: A personal craft that can lift off vertically, fly 200 miles and land vertically, all on battery power.
While still several years away, the technology this company is developing could pave the way for new advances in personal transportation.
Some people think that drones could be the next trend in personal transportation. While this is some ways off,
I would love to believe in this dream, as would millions of commuters. Battery power and battery weight will have to improve dramatically
while avoiding all other air traffic. Youl leave roads, traffic lights, traffic jams and accidents behind. The Challenge for Entrepreneurs This leaves us entrepreneurs with some challenges.
Think about the huge opportunity of drones in the future, and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth.
and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look
The fact that Rasmussen would not rule out advertising as an option down the road to me suggests that Facebook could consider tiers of its own where some businesses may pay for the product
#Ford#s Applink Will Soon Support Third-party Navigation Apps Most carsbuilt-in navigation systems tend to be compared a bit clunky to modern smartphone apps like of Google maps.
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
but local entrepreneurs are figuring out their own ways, often via a number of accelerators which have sprung up,
There is still a long way to go for Egypt young society. The day after I met the startups,
#Realtyshares Now Lets Investors Put Money Into Individual Real estate Markets About a year ago Realtyshares launched as a new way for investors to put small amounts of money into real estate projects kind of like a endingclub
for Real estate. Now the company is launching a way for them to focus on investing in specific markets around the U s. Realtyshares works to crowdfund available real estate investments allowing investors to put in as little as $5000 into single-family homes multifamily homes and even commercial
For developers looking for funding Realtyshares provides an easy way to quickly raise money for their projects.
#Uber Latest Experiment Is Uber Cargo A Logistics Service In Hong kong Uber is talked often about for its potential to develop into a global logistics service,
what that might look like after a new ent-a-vanservice called Uber Cargo launched in the city-state.
It launched bike couriers in New york last year, for example, and Uber Cargo looks to be another experiment that is telling of what the company is planning to offer beyond just taxis.
The Cargo service has actually been in quiet beta in Hong kong according to an Uber blog post.
Uber said that the service is ideal for ferrying any kind of item around: With Ubercargo, a van arrives wherever you want it to be in minutes.
and add Baidu as a strategic investor in China Uber Cargo is another reminder that new Uber initiatives can
Uber Cargo looks like it is primarily targeting business users, but Lalamove executive Blake Larson told Techcrunch earlier this week that he believes there is also a strong market for consumers.
but for now at least, there a large untapped market for the startup to tap into, though it does face competition from other startups including Ambi Climate and Tado
If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death the drone will casually back out of the way.
If there is a tree in the way the drone will avoid it. Best of all this system works with existing drone platforms.
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
but be a useful way specifically to improve Square apps like Wallet (o for us it means that people are protecting their phone in better wayshe said at the time. nd
and is expected to ship to backers in the second quarter could revolutionize the way people track the makeup of the food
when Li pressed a button) was 35000 RMB (about $5600) to a truck driver. While Alibaba and Tencent already compete in e-commerce messaging
#Rentecarlo Launches U k. Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace Rentecarlo, the U k. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car.
and CEO Jacob Aleksander. e want to be at the intersection of car sharing, car ownership and car rental,
which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution. In other words, this is a classic (and, dare
car pooling in its many forms from taxi-style services like Uber to ridesharing are a plenty.
Not so fast, according to Ignite100 Paul Smith, citing a supply side problem in the car rental industry that sees 15 per cent of car rental requests go unfulfilled because of problems with supply
or out-of-hours access. hat means there a real opportunity for Rentecarlo to tap into an established market without cannibalising existing players.
To that end, Aleksander says weekly traffic and signups have tripled since leaving Ignite, although he doesn give specifics.
ee not trying to make a profit out of payments. acebook is already well on its way to becoming a global financial institution.
There is no better way for Facebook to add new users in the developing world than by becoming the de facto app for how they receive their income from abroad.
that possibility pales in comparison to the larger opportunity for Facebook offering a way for people who don use banks now to do e-commerce.
Facebook has an incredible opportunity in front of itselfo use technology to change the way the world thinks about money.
and we want them to be able to do their jobs in a clear and accountable way.
but the correct way to do that is through the joint committee process, thinking about it slowly
they do in way so my personal data is not going to be snooped on and when people do have snooped their data on it only used in a very serious process of tracking down organised crime and terrorism?
and offering a very simple and inexpensive way to take great pictures inside the eye doctors can visit locations in need
with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
and will make its way to physical retail stores starting in early July. Accessory maker ihome is getting in the smart home game with a new Homekit-enabled smart plug model, the isp5.
which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
or even beads and shells, the only way to get them to pay for anything is through their smartphone.
and I really wanted a simple way to send donations to our local church, which typically collected cash
We quickly saw interest from regular businesses that wanted a better way to accept payments.
#Nanometer-Sized Robots Can Now Take Colon Biopsies Researchers have invented a noninvasive way for thousands of nanometer sized robots to perform tissue biopsies.
but Smart Vision tech is one of the few that harnesses mobile computing in a novel way that make the device a new technology platform for healthcare.
says Newman. own the road, the number of applications for this technology is much bigger. r
because we decided some time in the last couple of years that proving Back To The Future II prescient was the best way to highlight technological achievement.
and permanent magnetsto achieve hover flight. The board is real enough to be undergoing testing with an actual skateboarder in Barcelona (with videos of actual use to follow)
There are several companies approaching this same problem in different ways. Nikola Labs presented at Techcrunch Disrupt a couple years back with the same idea turning radio frequency signals into battery power.
It will need smart ways to alert users when great items that match their taste are added.
Wouldn the store make more money that way even with a reduced margin? Compelation could let buyers
and airport gate numbers a bit blurry, so I took Opternative test myself. The instructions were clear
the only ways to get eye exams were the doctor office, house calls with specialty equipment,
In the first pilot three Street view cars collected 150 million air quality data points over a month of driving around Denver, Colo.
This way, Aclima can pursue its mission to make a business out of improving human health through environmental protection.
#Subway Teams Up With Paypal On Mobile payments Ordering your food or beverages by smartphone and then paying for it via an app is quickly becoming the new normal.
Subway and Paypal are working together to turn on Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout experience in an updated Subway app that work across the chain 27,000 U s. locations by the end of the year.
Subway had launched actually quietly a mobile payment solution in its app last fall, but only began discussing the details more publicly this May as it needed time to train staff
and work out the kinks. It still hasn made a huge, splashy public debut, however though that will change later this year as Subway begins to advertise its mobile ordering and payments app for ios and Android.
The app will allow Subway customers to build their sandwiches using their smartphones pay ahead of time (or while in line), then pick up their bag
and run when they arrive at the store. The sandwich chain mobile apps were created previously by Paydiant,
and yes Subway. Now that Paydiant is a Paypal company, it moving to integrate Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout into the Subway application as another checkout option, alongside the app support for Apple Pay and Android Pay.
The benefit to using Paypal Onetouch is that it works across all apps where Paypal is installed.
For Subway the company believes that this sort of simplified approach to payments makes sense for its own customer base,
which also embraces a igital lifestyle. he Paypal customer base is very complimentary to the customer base that would frequent Subway restaurants,
explains Ken Moy, Director of Global Payments and Emerging Commerce at Subway. o bringing together the convenience of
Moy wouldn speak to the traction the mobile payments solution within the current build of the Subway app has seen to date,
and the online ordering function on Subway website. e do anticipate this hockey stick will continue to happen as we put more resources to it,
Plus, Subway believes that the integration of the Paypal support will increase this usage even further,
however, its work with Subway is just the beginning of what the company indicates will be a series of announcements about Paydiant-built apps turning on Paypal checkout. ubway will be the most prominent initial launch partner for all that, notes Chris Gardner, cofounder of Paydiant.
either or it making sure customers can pay they way they want to, says Gardner. Subway expects its Paypal-powered app to arrive before the end of the year a
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