#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
#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.
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
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