asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, aims to test critical electronic systems and software during its 90-day mission.
and avionics systemsalong with sensors that can analyze asteroids for the resources they contain. Such sensors include a mid-wave infrared imaging system capable of measuring temperature differences on observed objects
and obtaining data on the presence of water or water-rich minerals. The A6 is scheduled to launch sometime later this year Planetary Resources says it wants to pursue a est oftenphilosophy in building the A3r
The key was to use a photocathodehe electrode that supplies electrons when illuminated by sunlightade from an array of gallium phosphide nanowires.
Previously, researchers used flat surfaces of the semiconductor gallium phosphide as the photocathode, but light absorption was low.
The system consists of a special Wi-fi transmitter and a receiver in a person home
and requires a smart TV. The system could deliver 6 times as much data as white space schemes in use today Currently
But under the WATCH system, a user TV viewing information is sent to a spectrum database by smartphone remote control and smart TV.
This database updates the WATCH receiver telling it that it can cancel out the TV broadcast
and use the channel to send data via the WATCH transmitter. If the viewer flips back to that channel
An international research team based at the University of Texas at Dallas initially targeted the new super fiber for artificial muscles and for capacitors
the researchers believe that the material could be used as interconnects in flexible electronics and a host of other related applications.
and then another carbon nanotube sheath to create strain sensors and artificial muscles. In this setup, the buckled nanotube sheets act as electrodes
and the thin rubber coating serves as the dielectric. Voilà! You have a fiber capacitor. his technology could be well-suited for rapid commercialization,
said Raquel Ovalle-Robles, one of the paper authors, in the press release. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available.
because it requires combining very different semiconductors. Growing such mismatched crystals right next to each other often results in fatal defects throughout each of these materials.
Lasers could be far more energy-efficient than LEDS: While LED-based lighting produces up to about 150 lumens per watt of electricity,
but"the Li-Fi currently under development is based on LEDS,""Ning says. He suggests white-laser based Li-Fi could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED-based Li-Fi,
because the lasers can encode data much faster than white LEDS. In the future, the scientists plan to explore
#Spintronic Devices Possible Without Magnetic material Spintronics, which has offered a promising alternative to electronics, may have just been given a boost that moves it from mere promise to likely future backbone of computing.
A young researcher at Argonne National Laboratory has stumbled upon the amazing discovery that a magnetic material may not be required
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.
This fundamental difference is believed to be a solution to many of the problems associated with electronics,
such as high power consumption and the need for more space on a chip. To date, to be able read the spin of the electrons,
was looking at different materials that would make it possible to produce smaller spintronic devices and provide greater control over the thermal gradients that needed to be applied to the material to start the current spin of the electrons.
the researchers see an opportunity to push ahead the state-of-the-art in spintronics. ee just taken ferromagnetism off its pedestal,
said Wu in the release. n a spintronic device you don have to use a ferromagnet.
The hybrid materials are combinations of inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals, which capture the infrared photons, and organic molecules,
and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDS) L
#Google s Unified Privacy Policy Draws Threat Of $15m Fine In The netherlands The national data protection authority in The netherlands has warned Google that it could be fined up to $15 million
One such newcomer competitor may be Samsung which is in talks to launch an Apple Pay-style payments mechanism of its own according to Re/code.
That Samsung would ever copy something Apple had done first is completely preposterous of course so I m sure they would never ever never be building a mobile payments solution (longest eye-roll of all time).
and the fact that many talented people would rather pursue a career with a corporation like Samsung instead of taking the riskier step of becoming an entrepreneur.
#Why It s Right To Report On The Sony Hack o one private life can totally withstand public scrutiny,
angrily blasting the media for reporting the private details revealed through the recent hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures blithely ignoring the First amendment (and the Streisand effect) has threatened legal action against journalists reporting on the findings from the stolen documents.
Sorkin and Sony are both wrong. Sony may be a victim, but there is data in the breach that worth reporting to the public but not the social security numbers, private and personal information,
or insider-y emails about films. That those things were stolen, however? Yes. Especially since former employees weren even being made aware of the situation.
In addition, one of the largest takeaways is for other corporations to react to Sony cautionary tale
Sony Tries Silencing Reporters Sony hack was made worse by its poor security infrastructure, but that alone does not mean all the data needed to be revealed in detail by the press if that Sorkin critique,
Sony did not take the necessary protections to mitigate against this level of damage. The Sony hack was carried out by a group referring to itself as the uardians of Peace.
The group has demanded that Sony pull its upcoming movie he Interview, starring Seth Rogen and James Franco,
which was based on a fictional plot to assassinate North korean leader Kim Jong Un. The group has leaked a number of Sony movies online including the yet-to-be released remake of nnie, plus r. Turner, till Alice,
and o Write Love on Her Arms, alongside large data dumps from inside Sony corporate network.
The reaction, however, of hacking victims like Sony should not include tantrums like those now demonstrated by Sorkin and the studio itself.
They should only offer apologies to employees if they say anything at all. Apologies for making the hack just so damned easy,
Sony Pictures, one of the U s. largest studios, has now, somewhat ridiculously, asked journalists to destroy the stolen documents,
Sony botching of the Steve jobs movie, and racist riffs between studio co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin about what President Obama favorite movies might be.
Beyond providing fodder for gossip blogs, the Sony hack has revealed also serious information that arguably more serving of the ublic interest.
The Sony hack has displayed a lot about the failing of our modern, wired corporate culture. Like just how casual internal company HR employees treat email communication, for example.
Sony, and likely other organizations that are currently fortunate enough to not have their poor security policies exposed,
Another key item that was revealed by journalists reporting on the Sony leak was that of Hollywood war against Google,
and the Sony emails discuss a variety of tactics to fight oliath, including site blocking,
t the beginning of this year, the MPAA and six studios Universal, Sony, Fox, Paramount, Warner bros.,
Sony Emails Could Be Your Emails Sorkin (and Sony) are fine to criticize reporterseditorial choices.
But Sorkin, in a nutshell, is wrong to say that reporting on the leaks is pectacularly dishonorableas a whole.
Sony emails could be your emails. They could be your company emails. Those could be your kids.
If an organization of Sony size is susceptible to hacking, anyone is. In the aftermath, Sony has hired now Fireeye Inc. Mandiant forensics unit to clean up this massive cyber attack,
as the FBI investigates the incident. But the immediate damage has been done and the damage may continue for some time.
Let it serve as a warning to everyone from corporate IT to everyday consumers to protect ourselvesr risk becoming the next Sony
301m Smartphones Sold In Q3 As Xiaomi Muscles Into The Top 5 At Samsung s Expense Smartphones now account for 66%of all mobile phones worldwide
the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
Within that, Apple and Samsung combined smartphone share totalled 37%,down 7 percentage points from the same period a year ago.
while the world biggest OEM, Samsung, declined. Apple saw its share increase up to 38 million,
5. 3%).That not to say that Samsung is not in the lead: it is, by some margin.
because it signals a potential rival to the hegemony of Samsung and Apple, but also because of why it has done so well.
In short, it because sales in mature markets (where Samsung traditionally has been strong) are saturated now with smartphones,
In China, one of the most important markets for Samsung, its smartphone sales declined 28.6%.
but cannot afford Apple or Samsung high-end products, Gartner director Roberta Cozza notes. he smartphone market is more than ever in flux as more players step up their game in this space.
and Samsung to its list of foundation partners as well. This is in addition to The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF), Saban Family Foundation, CUNY,
Transparency Leads to Trust Each year, GMI Ratings releases a list of the 100 Most Trustworthy Companies, inspired by the abuses that led to the financial collapse.
it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
or Sony built in decades past. When it comes to relationship-building, innovation, and eliminating competition,
the new ios app allows you to use your ios device as a remote control of sorts for interacting with Echo.
Once you plug the thermometer into the headphone jack of the smartphone and open the app it ll show calming animations that are helpful with kids
and have reported substantial savings from implementing measures as simple as installing motion-sensor lights in hallways and stairwells.
The Wifi router will be part of a P2p-based network that is supposed to make video stream faster while reducing Youku Tudou bandwidth usage.
In addition to the funding, Helium has named former Qualcomm exec Rob Chandhok its president and COO. Hel also join the company board
Chandhok had served as the president of Qualcomm Interactive Platforms and senior vice president at Qualcomm Technologies. There he led the company strategic software initiatives in open source, Internet of things,
That because the big idea behind Helium is to use unlicensed wireless bandwidth to transmit small amounts of data from various connected device
Chips built for phones, tablets and even some laptops are designed to use small enough amounts of power than they can dissipate heat without blowing a bunch of air all over everything.
As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.
That opportunity is likely what drew the attention of Peter Thiel Founders Fund, which invested $500, 000 back in 2012.
Box specifically has been keen to stress its more than 300000 seat roll out to the General electric client base.
To date Chatgrape has raised around 440000 Euros led in part by angel investors and in part by the The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG.
Suddenly, networking is not just about the next generation of ASIC technology. It now about innovating at the speed of software.
There only a speakerphone, microphone, battery pack, and a small piece of hardware that connects to the cloud. s a connected device,
A Quick History lesson The steam-powered Spinning jenny, followed by the petroleum-powered version, led the first Industrial revolution.
and the Sony Playstation Network last month have claimed credit for an attack on Malaysia Airlineswebsite.
Weight sensors embedded within the handle let you know if your suitcase meets international travel guidelines.
He says he was just building something he thought could have saved him some trouble one time on a trip home to Argentina. was trying to bring a bunch of electronics some ipads home to my family for Christmas.
And while biometric alternatives such as fingerprint readers are finding their way onto more consumer electronics devices they are not without their limitations either.
Enough to charge mall electronics at arbitrary typing speed greater than 100 characters per minaccording to the team
#Cheaper Sensors Will Fuel The Age Of Smart Everything For better or worse, we are about the enter the age of smart everything.
the fact is that sensors, the tiny devices that fuel the Internet of things are getting smaller and cheaper all the time.
The Internet of things in actuality involves a network of smart sensors collecting data. As the sensors grow ever cheaper,
and the network grows ever larger, the more data we can collect to make ever more intelligent decisions (at least in theory).
On The Edge Of A major Shift Nils Herzberg, global co-lead for Iot at SAP says the beauty of sensors that they bring real-time data to applications. ustomers run applications for business critical processes,
He says when sensors provide real-time information, customers can make better decisions, rather than using guess work.
and cost of sensor technologies, says James Bailey, managing director of the mobility practice at Accenture. ur perspective is that cost of both the sensors
and devices is approaching free and the size is approaching invisible. Our perspective is literally everything will have IOT technology at some point,
What he means that the same sensor data may used differently, depending on the industry. t driven by the business case,
Sensors can feed a company data to make highly inefficient processes much more efficient, but SAP Herzberg says the proliferation of that data has become so massive that companies are overwhelmed
That evolution takes a certain critical mass of sensors in the network and software that can begin to make better use of the data the sensors are collecting.
For now he says SAP is one of a number of companies including IBM, Microsoft and countless startups working on making better predictions.
once you have been able to collect the data from a sensors, you can begin to build increasingly complex sets of predictions. ou can start modeling
Sensors could let the system know a ship hadn docked yet and communicate this to truckers before they drive into the port area.
Moving To Smart Everything Sensors are not just the domain of industry though. Our phones are full of sensors from the GPS to the accelerometer to the compass,
all of them feeding data to apps and to the cloud. So is that Apple Watch,
hey developed a smart employee badge with a microphone, accelerometer, bluetooth connection and other tools typically found in a smart phone.
I wrote last week about a new Volvo that uses sensors to detect black ice
There are companies using sensors to track shipments; to warn when perishables in warehouses might be going bad;
These sensors will add information to an ever-growing network of connected devices producing mountains of data.
Tests designed with Researchkit use the iphone sensors to record data. The touch screen can feel people tapping in rhythm to detect inconsistencies that may signal a disease.
The accelerometer can compare the gait and balance of someone walk against a healthy person speed and posture.
And the microphone can notice minute fluctuations in someone voice that may indicate Parkinson or another health problem.
Xiaomi sold more than 60 million devices last year a feat that saw it overtake Samsung as China top smartphone company
along with granular on-the-ground signals such as bed sensors and emergency call button data, to external factors gleaned by scraping public data such as weather info, disease seasonality and even local events
The Dutch SIM CARD manufacturer Gemalto is just one company among many of the alleged government hacking operations.
The members in the Genivi alliance besides Ford include the likes of BMW Honda Nissan renault Volvo and John Deere as well as chip manufacturers like Intel Qualcomm and Nvidia and plenty of aftermarket manufacturers.
#Sony's Just Released A Worthwhile Waterproof Phone Waterproof phones have been around for ages. But to be waterproof,
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
Sony notes that the phone has a two-day battery life. Sony says the phone is waterproof under a few conditions.
First it cannot be submerged past 1. 5 meters. So youe out of luck if you throw it in the deep end.
but not the U s. Sony tells us that the company is focusing on its flagship offering in the States.
or wall-mounted units that use an IR-based remote control to vary air temperature and fan speed.
while Alibaba Baidu and electronics seller Suning Commerce Group also got government licenses to offer mutual funds loans and insurance.
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The accessories in question range from sensors, to lights, to thermostats, to smart outlets and come from a group of accessory-makers with a trusted reputation in the connected home industry.
The Elgato Eve is a set of connected wireless sensors that monitor key factors like indoor air quality, temperature, humidity as well as conditions outside, like temperature, humidity and air pressure.
Four sensors are included in the box, including Room for indoor monitoring, Weather for outdoor stats,
Pre-order for the Even sensors kicks off today, at Walmart. com and Amazon and youl be able to pick them up from the Apple Store starting in July
Sensors are sold individually at $79. 99 for Eve Room, $49. 95 for Eve Weather, $49. 95 for Eve Energy and $39. 95 for Eve Door & Window,
Connected thermostat maker ecobee is adding Homekit to its ecobee3 hardware, which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control.
Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time, letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area.
with additional remote sensors available as add-on purchases for $79 per pair. The Caséta Smart Bridge is a wireless lighting hub that makes up a core part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit from the company.
including LED bulbs, plug-in lamps, thermostats, wall outlets, cameras, door locks and more. And in addition to its full range of first-party products,
video, and microphone capabilities of smartphones. Compared to a simple voice call, that greater context can provide an operator with the information needed to properly direct first responders.
And Card Chip Reader This Fall Apple today announced a new partnership for Apple Pay with Square,
However, Square says it will ship its standard magnetic card stripe reader with the new NFC/EMV card chip reader
dip the chip on their credit card, or ask to swipe with the old dongle. e
Energousattup is a wireless charger for electronic devices. It can charge your cell phone and other battery-enabled devices on the go using something that is already abundantly flowing all around us radio waves.
and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
and the remote control worked fine. The test feels a tad lengthy, but that enhanced my feeling that this was a medical-grade exam.
#Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street view Cars To Map Air pollution If a city knows what intersections are full of smog,
-and-a-half to attach air-quality sensors to its Street view cars. e designed our cities without data,
Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data
and could improve upon the regional network of sensors operated by the Environmental protection agency. Herzl says e hope that one day this information is as accessible as the weather.
Google has agreed now to purchase more of Aclima outdoor sensors for a bigger rollout to map air quality.
and builds its own sensors, manages the network as they collect data, processes the data on its cloud backend,
The first project it announced was using indoor sensors to help Google measure air quality in its offices to optimize productivity.
The Google partnership will allow it to rapidly scale the deployment of its sensors. This way, Aclima can pursue its mission to make a business out of improving human health through environmental protection.
Herzl concludes that Aclima sensors are producing social good out of the Internet of things, which is thought often of as just equipping homes with Wi-fi-connected appliances.
Paying search engines for stimulating clicks that led to purchases was fine but most consumers take a more circuitous route to their final decisions.
Electrical current moves through this brackish liquid from positive electrodes based on manganese oxide to negative ones based on carbon.
The company makes a chip that goes into the handle of a regular firearm and transmits data over a cellphone network connection.
a sensor that goes on the front of the gun and captures data on the weapon use.
camera, infrared depth sensors, projector, touch-sensitive whiteboard, and a conventional printer and scanner. Youe encouraged to hook it up to a 3-D printer,
a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. Semprius has raised $45 million from investors including Siemens,
It could grow simply by using excess capacity at existing LED manufacturing facilities. The company wouldn be possible without one key bit of new manufacturing technology,
they can be made of expensive types of semiconductors that are far more efficient than silicon. What more, they dissipate heat well
Semprius demonstrated another advantage of the rubber stampsheir ability to quickly and very accurately stack cells made of different semiconductors on top of each other.
since it would allow them to match semiconductor materials to each part of the solar spectrum.
and the rest would pass to the semiconductors below, and so on. Physically stacking cells wasn practical with conventional manufacturing equipment.
Semprius rubber stamp and extremely thin layers of semiconductor make it relatively easy to align the cells
Valley of Darkness Siemens acquired its stake in Semprius in June 2011. After a detailed examination of its technology, says Thomas Mart, the global head of solar activities at Siemens,
hat we saw is a way to get to very low costs of electricity. The plan had been for Siemens
and Semprius to work together, with Semprius producing its concentrated photovoltaic devices and Siemens drawing on its expertise in building solar power plants.
But 15 months after Siemens invested in Semprius, everything fell apart. Huge investments in conventional silicon solar power, especially in China
had lowered costs of production but also flooded the market with cheap solar panels. Given the supply of cheap solar panels,
convincing Siemens to get out of the business, ending the partnership and marking the beginning of hard times for Semprius.
Having the backing of Siemens would have helped convince utilities to take a chance on novel technology. Without such a partner
Such a computer should be able to parse a simple sentence like Mary spoke to John by dividing it into its component parts of actor action and the receiver of the action.
and the role of receiver of the action to John. It is this task that Deepmind s work addresses despite the very limited performance of earlier machines.
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
The sleek-looking $299 touch-screen gadget accepts cards with embedded chips which will soon be widespread as well as digital payments
communication NFC) chip. Although adoption of Google Wallet has been slow NFC technology is gaining in popularity
Meanwhile the U s s major credit-card companies are mandating a shift to more secure credit cards that eschew the familiar magnetic strip for a chip that uses a unique string of numbers for each transaction (a standard known as EMV
and Home depot means that U s. merchants must upgrade millions of credit-card terminals to accept the new cards by October 2015
credit-card terminals and cash registers. No matter how great the value proposition you can t force people to install new technology
Poynt s terminal is dominated by two touch screens that meet at an angle a seven-inch display that a store employee will use to ring up sales
The Poynt terminal he used said Welcome to Main St. Bakery on the customer screen
and the colleague tapped the terminal with his iphone while placing his finger on the iphone s home button
The Poynt terminal weighs a little over a pound and contains a wireless modem and eight-hour rechargeable battery
which means it could be carried around a store or restaurant if needed. It will come with three apps including a cash register app
what they d pay for one of the new card terminals anyway) Poynt will have to get developers interested.
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