#Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri lanka With Internet Google is working on many things,
suggesting that it still has a long way to go. Vinyals predicts that research on understanding
but most consumers take a more circuitous route to their final decisions. The marketing funnel can be long especially for big purchases such as automobiles where people may do research for nine months before taking a test drive.
So does a plane crash that may hurt travel bookings. Sometimes though such events will cause a spike in discussion on social media here they are monitored
He says a faster way to install new capacity is to use his company wireless transmission towers to move data at two gigabits per second.
If it works as advertised, Sprout offers a new way to bridge the gap between working on digital and physical designs and objects.
hat we saw is a way to get to very low costs of electricity. The plan had been for Siemens
New ways of manufacturing silicon wafers, the most expensive part of a solar cell, could cut wafer costs in half
This is similar to the way an ordinary computer might put the number 3 and the number 4 inside registers and later add them to make 7. The difference is that the neural network might store more complex patterns of variables representing for example the word Mary
. Since this form of computing differs in an important way from a conventional neural network Graves
To Miller the brain s ability to recode in this way was one of the keys to artificial intelligence.
Google s digital payment app Google Wallet offers consumers a number of payment-related features including a quick way to pay at stores by tapping a phone that contains a near-field
#Internet-Connected Battery Could Bring Smoke alarms Online A startup has come up with a simple way to make smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors more useful:
But the technology also offers a cheap way to pick up just about anythingabric, bags of chips, 50-pound boxes of paper, single pieces of paper, mobile phones.
Magic Leap greatest challenge may be to find a way to seamlessly integrate virtual 3-D objects created by that display with
and combine them in ways no one has managed yet to do. think people are starting to realize this is the future of building consumer devices he says. ut it involves big challenges at the intersection of optics, electronics, algorithms,
Nonetheless, Piketty book is important because of the way he has clarified the magnitude of the problem and its dangers.
Brynjolfsson lists several ways that technological changes can contribute to inequality: robots and automation, for example, are eliminating some routine jobs
This relatively small but prosperous group is driving up the cost of housing, transportation, and other living expenses.
then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
then it makes sense to find ways to redistribute those gains through progressive tax policies. Piketty and his colleague Emmanuel Saez believe that the tax cuts made by Margaret Thatcher
published a landmark paper in 1956 that transformed the way the profession views the critical role of technological progress in productivity and the growth of national wealth.
and the way we pay for it. But if differences in educational achievement based on family incomes are really what driving inequality, Grusky worries,
Soon enough Herr began climbing harder routes than he'd mastered before his accident. That was deeply inspiring he says.
and ankle prosthesis that behaves as he puts it more like a motorcycle than a bicycle meaning that it puts energy into the system rather than relying solely on human power.
They also designed it to minimize the battery at the calf to keep it from getting in the way of dance steps.
and other researchers on ways to allow bionic limbs to be controlled directly by the nervous system
The dessert cart holds early designs for wearable exoskeletons that would allow people to commute to work on foot as quickly as they might on a bicycle or carry heavy loads without getting tired.
Even with these successes technologists are still a long way from replicating the natural abilities of the body
While some researchers and engineers gloss over the social implications of their work he has become an outspoken champion for the ways that technology can improve the body.
The company is even talking about how fusion reactors could one day power ships and planes.
But Deboe, a mommy blogger and author of children books, found a way to get the health information she wanted anyway.
a way to get xhaustive medical infoin reports that are imilar, but not as pretty.
an entrepreneur who owns two Subway sandwich franchises in Taipei. Lick, who is adopted, says he became interested in genetics
It didn happen that way. And following the FDA action to block 23andme reports, traffic to interpretation-only sites jumped.
Interpretome maintained by Konrad Karczewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, now has 80 to 100 visitors per day, twice as many as last year.
Perhaps it can come up with a way to convince the wireless companies to get on board for the Apple SIM
and creating new escape routes in case the worst happens (see Saving Holland. Dutch researchers aren t the only ones working to share the knowledge they ve gained about flood control.
and generally include major cities harbors farms and forests. Irina Overeem research scientist for the Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System at the University of Colorado says the proportion of world deltas vulnerable to flooding is expected to increase by 50 percent this century.
and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal. Nothing happens.
When Apple Pay launches Monday on new iphone 6 models, all it will take to buy a sandwich at Subway
and the ability to pay at retailers including Mcdonald, Subway, and Walgreens. Paypal, soon to split off from ebay,
and researchers at MIT are developing shape-shifting materials that could make aircraft simpler and lighter potentially saving fuel.
They can be integrated into aircraft easily replacing the need for more complex hydraulic actuators motors and hinges.
You can find them in cars airplanes robots and medical implants. But their use has been limited in aircraft
because many can t handle the conditions planes are exposed to such as extreme temperature changes says Christophe Cros a technology program leader at Airbus. The MIT approach has a number of advantages Cros says.
First most shape-shifting materials don t use carbon composites which are common in aircraft because of their light weight and high strength.
And though others have worked on carbon composites that can respond to a specific stimulus such as heat Cros says in the new approach the carbon composites can be paired with a variety of shape-shifting materials that respond to different environmental triggers.
or twist in various ways depending on the pattern produced by the printer. He and his colleagues are developing design software that simulates the way different patterns of these materials printed onto different kinds of composite materials will behave under different conditions.
So far Tibbits has demonstrated materials that respond to light water and heat. But he says it should be possible to make ones that respond to air pressure and other stimuli.#
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
when it comes to analyzing the data collected in this way. Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale.
And they offer something of a challenge to the statistical community to find the most efficient ways of extracting information from this kind of process.
The Norcem Brevik cement works tucked into a scenic harbor south of Oslo has used waste heat to drive a process called amine scrubbing that at test scales removed between 30 and 40 percent of the total emissions
Three percent might not seem like much but for context air travel accounts for 2 percent of worldwide carbon dioxide emissions.
For example, a startup called Pixelligent has found a way to double or triple the light output.
So finding ways to store more of it is a huge challenge. One option is to store it as a liquid
the US Department of energy has set a number of targets that these materials must meet to be considered viable technologies for future transport systems.
One way of doing this is to carbonize biological material, such as fruit or coconut shell. This means heating the material to few hundred degrees centigrade in a nitrogen atmosphere
Either way, material scientists might profitably hang their hammocks between some coconut trees in future
#Saying Hello to Ello, an Ad-Free Facebook Alternative The first thing I noticed on Ello a new ad-free social network is the abundance of white space.
This anti-ad (and in many ways anti-Facebook) ethos coupled with a stark simple design that looks
whether I ll need it in the same way I do Facebook and Twitter where I m accustomed to paying with the breadcrumbs of data
I drop along the way. Several elements of Ello s design are smart: your profile photo shows up within a circle and you can follow other users by dragging their circular icons into either a friends
but for now the only way to use it on a smartphone or tablet is via a mobile browser.
wel need cheap ways to store energy from the sun when it isn shining. A paper published in the journal Science this week reports a major step toward such a system.
or improving the way the solar cells are sealed against the elements. Researchers recently demonstrated a perovskite solar cell that lasted over a month
In this way, complex structures can be created by combining building blocks under natural circumstances. This kind of self-assembly mechanism dominates at the molecular scale,
so chemists have been looking for ways to speed up colloidal self-assembly. Today, Bingqing Shen at ESPCI (the Paris Institute of technology) in France and a few buddies say theye found an entirely new way to assemble structures on this scale that should reduce manufacturing time by orders of magnitude.
The new approach is to place the particles in a fluid flow and see whether this helps them assemble.
what causes the droplets to assemble in this way? he self-assembly process is driven not by Brownian fluctuations
In this way, Shen and co say production rates could be increased by orders of magnitude. own the road,
Shen and co say that it should be possible to change the droplet chemistry in such a way to manipulate the physical properties of the bulk material in ways that are currently difficult or impossible to do.
Eyerover was steered along a specific route around a chair sofa and other obstacles a few times. It then repeated the route by itself.
In a second demo the robot was taught to come when a person beckoned to it.
But they might eventually offer a more powerful and efficient way to run software like Brainos.
#Smart Headlight Illuminates the Road without Blinding Other Drivers If you hate it when the driver in the opposite lane blinds you with his high beams
which scans the road ahead using an infrared camera and can locate other drivers and selectively disable the light directed at them
Although it reduces glare for oncoming drivers it doesn't make the road noticeably darker for the person behind the wheel.
and in other low-visibility scenarios could help save at least some of the 32000 people who die in car accidents each year in the U s
In a mental flash he had pictured a strand of DNA threading its way through a microscopic pore.
and a yellow pad he sketched out a radical new way to study the molecule of life.
and error-prone but may still be the way scientists study DNA in the future. After testing it Mick Watson a bioinformatics researcher at the Roslin Institute in Scotland says nanopore sequencing is a disruptive technology that could potentially dominate the sequencing market for years to come.
and out through microscopic pores the way real cells do. His flash of insight was that a molecule passing through one of these pores especially a long molecule like DNA would continuously change the blob's electrical properties.
if it's good enough to be used in a practical way. Oxford has disappointed its fans before.
Whereas a person can walk 3. 5 miles using the energy in a single cookie an electric bike requires a battery weighing 10 times as much to travel the same distance.
because it suggested a way to shut down the production of any protein in the body including those connected with diseases that couldn't be touched with ordinary drugs.
Along the way the company lost the support of major drug companies that had signed on in a first wave of enthusiasm.
The Alnylam founders figured out that shorter strands called sirna could slip into mammalian cells without triggering an immune reaction suggesting a way around this problem.
But Alnylam and partner companies notably the Canadian startup Tekmira were making steady progress in the lab. Researchers identified one part of the lipid nanoparticles that was keeping them from delivering its cargo of RNA to the right part of a cell.
and its safety by about five times clearing the way for clinical trials for FAP a crucial event that kept the company alive.
Last month in two separate articles they published the results of studies showing that Dahlman s new nanoparticles are a powerful way to deliver RNAI to blood vessel cells
Intel s two sensors work in slightly different ways. The front sensor calculates the position of objects by observing how they distort an invisible pattern of infrared light by a tiny projector in the sensor.
If researchers can figure out how to make the stuff in large quantities it could be used as a structural material for making planes and trucks as well as in battery electrodes.
and make the qubits in a different way says Martinis of his effort to improve on D-Wave s hardware.
We think there s an opportunity in the way we build our qubits to improve the machine.
And research published in 2011 showed that the machine s chip harbors the right kind of quantum physics needed for quantum computing.
But evidence is lacking that it uses that physics in the way needed to unlock the huge speedups promised by a quantum computer.
It can only run a specific algorithm used for a specific kind of problem that requires selecting the best option in a situation with many competing requirements for example determining the most efficient delivery route around a city.
and the hydrogen can be used to replace fossil fuels not only in electricity production but also in industry and transportation
Even so it has long been considered a relatively lousy way to store energy because of its low efficiency about 65 percent of the energy in the original electricity is lost.
It s also more versatile than the cheapest way to store energy: pumping water up a hill
Social networks let billions of people collaborate in a variety of ways. Meanwhile business networks have enabled new types of frictionless commerce.
Google Waze an app allowing drivers to share local real-time traffic and road information; and Uber a mobile app that connects people seeking taxicabs or ridesharing services.
The Networked Economy will create entirely new ways of working. It will change the contract between employers
Put another way he says: Work is no longer a place but an activity. Adapting quickly to that sea change will also help businesses foster innovation
So port officials explored ways to become more efficient in their existing space. In 2011 with SAP s help the port developed a cloud-based system to better coordinate both land-side and port-side traffic based on a steady stream of incoming data.
Bapat sums it up this way: We believe that this is a huge inflection point one that businesses must prepare for now.
You can use an ipad to tap between different realistic-looking fabric options that change via an overhead projector.
and uses software to segment the resulting 3-D model into pieces, similar to the way in
Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix. The information it collects can help companies decide where to spend advertising dollars.
Any new insight into the way we think is valuable it seems, at least to someone h
The best way to resolve this conflict would be to make changes to U s. legislation that balance the interests of companies and law enforcement while taking the privacy expectations of individuals into account.
The problem is that a field generated this way decays exponentially with distance from the generating coil so it only works with devices close to the skin s surface.
Poon and her team found a way to use electromagnetic induction through biological tissue without that exponential decay.
there are indirect ways to extract datao-called ide channelattacks. Previous research efforts have found, for example,
mcube long-term goal, would require better ways of powering the devices and having them communicate.
This could clear the way for slimmer longer-lasting smart watches as well as electric cars with a range similar to gas-powered ones.
and the solid electrolyte that separates them in much the way that the many layers of a display are deposited.
Applied materials says it is working on ways to improve that conductivity by doping the solid electrolyte much as you would dope semiconductor materials for chips.
The company is also working on ways to deposit the energy-storing materials faster to enable thick layers that store large amounts of energy r
#Terahertz Chip Identifies Short Strands of DNA One of the more significant practical challenges currently occupying molecular biologists is to find better ways of identifying short strands of DNA.
and a few pals say they have invented an entirely new way of identifying oligonucleotides using terahertz radiation.
Chernev and co s idea is based on the way these molecules resonate. They say that the sequence of bases in an oligonucleotide determines the way in
which the strand resonates at frequencies in the terahertz range. Their idea is to capture a single oligonucleotide in a cavity filled with terahertz waves that stimulates this resonant behaviour.
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
and bicycles in video of a road intersection. A nearby laptop that had been programed to do the same task processed the footage 100 times slower than real time
and way of coding may seem audacious. But IBM may find a receptive audience because it is becoming clear that current computers won be able to deliver much more in the way of performance gains. his chip is coming at the right time,
says Simon
#Stacking Cells Could Make Solar as Cheap as Natural gas When experts talk about future solar cells they usually bring up exotic materials and physical phenomena.
a cheap fast way to stack cells a proprietary way to electrically connect cells and a new kind of glue for holding the cells together.
The conventional way to stack semiconductors is to grow layers on top of each other. But not all semiconductors can be combined this way
because their crystalline structure doesn t allow it (see Adaptive Material Could Cut the Cost of Solar in Half).
Semprius grows semiconductor materials in the conventional way but also stacks several different combinations resulting in a solar panel that can capture more energy from sunlight.
Engineers have worked for decades on ways to generate power by harvesting radio signals from the air, a ubiquitous resource thanks to radio, TV
But although enough energy can be collected that way to run low-powered circuits, the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher.
The Washington researchers got around that challenge by finding a way to have the devices communicate without having to actively transmit.
and decode Wi-fi signals in the conventional way. But they can detect the presence of the individual units,
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us,
and firefighters and changing the way we play video games. oul see games where your emotional state changes the character youe playing,
and ear biometrics, thinks it certainly possible to get good physiological measurements this way. think that
Researchers at Rice university have demonstrated a more practical way to manufacture it. The type of memory in question, resistive random access memory (RRAM), is being developed by several companies,
The Rice researchers have shown a way to make RRAM at room temperature and with far lower voltages.
This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The effect could be applied in navigation and gaming applications, and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well.
Tomohiro Amemiya, a cognitive scientist at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, began the Buru-Navi project in 2004, originally as a way to research how the brain handles sensory illusions.
This way-finding application might be a perfect fit for the smart watches that Samsung
One way is by using mobile technology to monitor sleep patterns, heart rate, activity levels, and so on.
giving consumers new ways to track and perhaps improve their health. This kind of information may be useful and interesting for anyone
Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.
a Dutch social psychologist who developed ways to measure a set of cultural dimensions for comparing cultures.
Theye created a mathematical model that includes the effects of social pressure allowing them to simulate the way behavior spreads through societies with different levels of individualism.
It shows that differences in culture affect the dynamics of social spreading processes in a measurable way.
That will be crucial for the way that governments design strategies to help people stop smoking. nterventions designed to discourage smoking should be tailored diferently in societies or social groups
and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk. While zinc is more stable, the water-based electrolytes in conventional zinc batteries cause zinc to form dendrites,
The technology has also been contemplated as a way to spread genes that would make weeds more susceptible to herbicides like Roundup.
such as the transit of exoplanets across other stars, binary stars that eclipse, gamma ray bursts and so on. Capturing the changes associated with these events requires a much more rapid way of photographing the entire sky.
Today Nicholas Law and pals at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, say they are developing just such a piece of kit.
Either way they say that they should have a prototype Evryscope operating next year. With only one moving part, the equatorial drive,
The technology may provide a way to deal with the increasing amounts of contaminated water the fossil fuel industry is generating as it pursues more and more difficult-to-reach deposits.
#How An Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3d Virtual reality Worlds The way in
or a Nintendo Wii will be aware of the way these devices capture three-dimensional movements and translate them onto 2-D screen.
These gestures include a finger tap a double tap and a press gesture. And having more than one 3dtouch on different fingers allows multitouch interaction.
A cheap and easy way of interacting with these new virtual reality devices could turn out to be hugely useful.
but it could also work for larger applications like airplanes, decreasing the need for time-consuming and expensive deicing treatments.
and no way of condoning it. On Monday Facebook said it had nothing to add beyond the apology its researcher,
If successful the move could change the way people interact with smartphones and tablets. So far aimed only at devices running Google s mobile operating system Android the new system also expands the company s vision for mobile voice-operated functionality that competes with Apple s Siri and Microsoft
As of last Friday the technology also provides a way for apps to be operated using either typed or spoken commands.
and a single tap will start playing that artist. Supported apps include Spotify Youtube and Tunein.
providing a simple way to control access to your home, car, or office and perhaps dissuading would-be thieves.
If it can be commercialized it would double the amount of power a solar cell can generate offering a way to make solar power far more economical.
The researchers figured out a way around a bothersome phenomenon: when sunlight strikes a solar cell it produces some very high-energy electrons
The Sharp team found a way to extract these electrons before they give up that energy thereby increasing the voltage output of their prototype solar cell.
Another way to achieve ultra-high efficiencies now is by stacking up different kinds of solar cells (see Exotic Highly Efficient Solar cells May Soon Get Cheaper)
Meanwhile MIT researchers are studying the transient behavior of electrons in organic materials to find inexpensive ways to make ultra-efficient solar cells.
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