attains international master level without being told the rules In the last two decades computers have become exponentially more powerful,
Lai machine was built with a neural network which was fed 175 million examples of real games. It then evaluated the pieces in play and
simulating the human process of learning by experience. Thanks to recent advances in computer speeds, these neural networks have grown in size and complexity,
greatly increasing their power and proficiency. Lai explained to Technology Review that nlike most chess engines in existence today,
but to demonstrate the potential power of computer learning. Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.
Beyond playing games, Deep Learning Machines have a potential future in image recognition, drug discovery and even customer relations.
As a potential step towards powerful artificial intelligence Facebook Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.
NEXT 21 K. K. has announced a deal with Dutch medical company Xilloc. Under the agreement, NEXT 21 provides Xilloc with a license to 3d-print
and sell these customized bone structures in the European market. NEXT21 will also provide Xilloc CT with all the information needed for the registration,
Xilloc needs to go through registration for on an EU-level on 93/42/EEC (Medical device Directive MDD.
Custom-Fit Knee Replacements Dr. Ralph Liebelt is one of the few surgeons in the country to use 3d printed, custom-fit knee replacements.
because doctors are not making holes in the bones and there less bleeding. Liebelt, with Triangle Orthopaedic Associates, said about 20 percent of patients with traditional methods are satisfied not with the results of knee surgery.
He explained that doctors performing knee replacement surgery typically insert a standard off-the-shelf implant then decide how much bone to remove
in order to make it fit. His technology from Conformis uses a 3d printer to produce a jig specifically built for an individual patient.
The jigs that come from 3d printing are based on CT SCAN data and fit the patient anatomy.
particularly off the femur, compared with a traditional implant. l
#Neri Oxman Reveals Mushtari, World First 3d printed Photosynthetic Wearable (Engineering. com) Neri Oxman, architect and designer, has revealed the world first 3d printed photosynthetic wearable mbedded with living matter.
#Patients Will Swallow 3d printed Tadpole Endoscope That Provides Diagnosis of Cancers A team from the Institute of Precision Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong kong has developed 3d printed tadpole-like devices that can improve diagnosis
of various cancers by entering the patient stomach and wirelessly transmitting images of what it sees.
The new 3d printed device, called the Tadpole Endoscope, is a reliable and relatively noninvasive solution that could improve cancer diagnosis. Developed to be swallowed just like a large pill (it is a bit bigger than a small coin),
the TE begins to work immediately and can be controlled remotely all the way through the patient digestive track.
While similar devices known as wireless capsule endoscopes have been created in the past, the TE is notable for its soft tail,
which allows it to be guided deftly around the entire stomach by the doctor and the 3-printed shell,
which houses control electronics and the video camera holder o
#Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
According to the company, Memory1 technology packs four times the capacity of the largest DRAM modules, delivering greater capability on fewer servers and lowering datacenter costs by up to 70 percent.
The same system memory slots that now hold 128 or 384 gigabytes of DRAM memory can house up to four terabytes of Memory1
and process data-intensive applications that were previously beyond reach. Designed to replace DRAM with low cost, high capacity flash
Memory1 is deployed into standard DDR4 DIMM slots and is compatible with standard motherboards, servers, operating systems and applications.
Memory1 represents a major evolution in server architecture. The needs of the large-scale datacenter are changing,
with a very sharp focus on increasing capability to win the Internet while managing tight constraints on cost and power.
The Memory1 platform allows customers to leverage NAND flash as pure system memory in a seamless manner,
with no changes to their hardware and software stacks, said Riccardo Badalone, Chief executive officer and Cofounder of Diablo Technologies. he business impact on datacenter economics and application performance is dramatic.
Wee seen customers envisioning everything from aggressive server consolidation all the way to doubling and tripling individual machine profit.
The implications of this technology cannot be overstated. We are excited very to partner with Diablo Technologies to deliver solutions based on Memory1 to our customers,
said Dolly Wu, Senior Sales Director of Inspur, a multinational information technology company headquartered in Jinan,
China. he combination of Diablo and Inspur enables us to deliver a cost-effective and high capacity solution to meet the demands of the world largest datacenters.
Memory1 brings the low cost and high capacity of flash to large-scale enterprise and datacenter customers.
It is ideal for environments that require large memory footprints per server for workloads such as big data analytics and complex Web applications.
The average Memory1 use case enables a four-to-one server reduction, and one customer use case requires 90 percent fewer servers.
Accordingly, Diablo will initially focus on delivering Memory1 to cloud and hyperscale datacenters, which stand to see significant economic benefits because of their scale.
Jeff Janukowicz, Research director for Solid state drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC said, he cloud, virtualization, big data and analytics are pressuring the infrastructure of many of today enterprise datacenters.
Solutions such as Diablo Memory1, can accelerate application performance while bringing higher capacities lower power and cooling costs,
and reducing overall expenses compared to existing solutions. This will address the requirements of multiple enterprise market segments today as well as next generation datacenter designs.
#Concept E-Kaia charge your mobile phone from cactus It sounds funny, but soon mobile gadgets can be recharged from any flower.
Home cactus, for example. In what way? With the device E-Kaia. This extraordinary invention introduced a team of scientists from Chile.
This is also a battery charger, which uses as a power the conventional room or outdoor plants.
The device allows you to use the residual energy that is produced during photosynthesis . What allows you to restore a dead battery in about 1. 5 hours.
It seems science fiction, but the technology works properly. As a donor used single plant, although its dimensions are specified not.
The main thing the system has virtually no competitors. Analogs significant efficiency do not differ.
They need to 100 square meters of green space. E-Kaia satisfied with a single plant.
It is enough to generate 5v and 600ma. It looks pretty promising. How works E-Kaia, no known, the developers kept technology secret, waiting for a patent on it.
Alas, the device is not yet ready to conquer the market. Now the inventors adjusted a prototype o mind.
#Concept the translucent battery, that charging from the sun A group of Japanese engineers at the University of Kogakuin developed translucent lithium-ion battery that can be recharged in the sun. Solar rays are converted into electricity, the fact
excited by the light are accumulated in the negative electrode. In the future, experts intend to create a mart box
which will function as a large battery, and as a solar panel. When the battery fall into the sun rays,
it becomes slightly tinted: light transmission drops to 30%.%Discharge causes the growth of up to 60%light transmission.
The trick lies in the fact that the scientists were able to make the electrodes exceptionally thin just 80 nanometers.
These improved materials which have been used in batteries lithium iron phosphate positive electrode and lithium titanate negative.
According to the developers, now the battery can withstand 20 charge-discharge cycles. Development is the next step to the windows of the future, acting as solar panels.
They will not only automatically obscure the sunlight, but also store energy for the consumer devices r
#Innovative Wristify bracelet, which heats and cools Wearable technology and built-in sensors collect information about users to create an environment,
customized for the current needs of man. With this personalized settings you can control light, temperature,
music to create an environment that is constantly adapting to the mood or genus of human activity.
Wristify is a thermoelectric bracelet, that sends pulses of hot or cold waves in the wrist support to help them maintain a comfortable body temperature.
He has the ability to regulate the temperature of its owner, rather than changing the entire space.
the goal of this working prototype to significantly reduce energy consumption in buildings by cooling the individuals, rather than the entire building l
#Innovative Smart T-shirt for the posture correction How often, sitting at the computer or watching television, you will notice that you not are sitting correctly?
Smart shirt Truposture, made of breathable elastic material with embedded nanosensors, tracks the position of the spine with an accuracy of 0. 5 degrees,
and informs the user in the mobile app to a stoop or curved position in real time.
Product Truposture equipped with Bluetooth for wireless data transfer to a mobile device that runs on the ios
Android and Windows. Through the company application, the user can see the status of your spine at the moment,
and track individual progress. The main purpose of the invention accustom the owner always keep your back straight g
and rent spare rooms on Airbnb. Are these the new, empowered participants in the haring economy,
or workers being exploited by well-funded technology companies? That is an open question as millions of people shift from traditional employment to freelance igwork, giving them more independence,
but without the social safety net of employees. Some 18 million U s. workers now earn a significant portion or all of their income outside of traditional employment,
and another 12.5 million took on part-time independent work, according to MBO Partners, a firm providing services for independent contractors.
A separate study by financial software group Intuit found 25 to 30 percent of the U s. workforce is ontingentand that 80 percent of large corporations plan to increase their use of a lexible workforcein coming years.
Inuit said that by 2020 more than 40 percent of the labor force will be ontingent. ut cracks have begun to appear in the model developed by Uber and other peer-to-peer services.
Lawsuits in several jurisdictions argue that on-demand workers are not independent contractors, but employees entitled to unemployment insurance,
workers compensation and other benefits. hese firms have ignored the issue because they view themselves as a marketplace, not as an employer,
and now it is biting them in the back, said MBO founder and chief executive Gene Zaino.
Politicians are taking notice. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said recently she would rack down on bosses who exploit employees by misclassifying them as contractors.?
This on-demand, or so-called gig economy is creating exciting economies and unleashing innovation, she said in June. ut it is also raising hard questions about workplace protections and
what a good job will look like in the future. et without a flexible workforce of independent contractors,
he sharing economy could be stopped in its tracks, said Christopher Koopman, a research fellow at George Mason University Mercatus Center. e would not see the dynamic,
innovative environment we have said today. oopman those choosing to work on these platforms re getting a ton of flexibility,
so there are trade-offs. They can work when they want and how they want. ut he acknowledged that policymakers need to set clear rules to avoid disputes and uncertainty.
This uncertainty led to the shutdown in July of Homejoy, an online platform for home cleaning services
which faced litigation from workers claiming they should be classified as employees. Some analysts say current laws are adapted not to these new models where people earn money through shopping services like Postmates, meal preparation like Feastly and pet-sitting like Dogvacay.
Simon Rothman at venture capital firm Greylock Partners says a key to helping this thriving sector is nbundlingbenefits such as health care
insurance and retirement from the workplace. one are the days of a social contract with employers for lifetime employment it an old model,
it doesn exist anymore. This is a secular shift that will impact everyone, Rothman said in a blog post.
Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United states this year,
and if allowed to grow, ffers a viable new path to sustaining the middle class. ut Robert Reich,
a former U s. labor secretary who is now a University of California professor of public policy,
argues the trend is taking us back in time before most countries enacted labor standards. he new on-demand work shifts risks entirely onto workers,
and eliminates minimal standards completely, Reich said on his blog about the hare the scraps economy.?
In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century when workers had no power
and no legal rights, took all the risks, and worked all hours for almost nothing. BO Partners founder Gene Zaino said
however that his firm research shows most people who become independent are did happy they so. t consistently about control and flexibilityof work,
Zaino said that t not so much about the money, but noted that he fastest growing segment is people earning over $100, 000 a year. his $100,
Arun Sundararajan, who heads New york University Social Cities Initiative, said policymakers should seek to ecoupletraditional benefits from the workplace to help gig workers. hat they are looking for is not to be a full-time employee,
Sundararajan said. hey want the nice things of being a full-time employee income stability, insurance benefits,
which have been tied to employment. ne solution is enacted a model in the United states for retirement, which allowed most employers to eliminate defined-benefit pension plans in favor of portable savings, known as 401k plans,
with tax incentives and contributions from employers and workers. his could be a good template,
the NYU professor said. e have to think about similar structures for the other aspects of the social safety net. undararajan said finding solutions is key to unlocking the potential for a vibrant new economic sector. here are different kinds
of work that are productive, but we are still thinking in a 20th-century mindset, he said.
probably by adding money to gig workers to allow them to get benefits. whole new industry is being born where we are helping people get those types of benefits
user creativity Tokyo-based venture Agic Inc. silver magic marker looks like any other average marker. But in fact, it far from ordinary.
Place an LED light and battery on special paper and draw a line with the marker to connect the light and battery.
turning the paper into an electric circuit. he first thing I thought (upon first seeing the conductive ink) was that this has huge potential to change the (notions) of electric circuits,
Agic CEO Shinya Shimizu said in a recent interview with The Japan Times. Shimizu has a number of ideas on how the circuit marker can be utilized
but sees education and advertising as the two key markets in which the technology can spawn new trends.
Students can use the marker as an educational tool to easily experiment on electric currents and,
Some public elementary schools plan to begin using the markers in their classes starting next year.
Last December, his firm displayed Christmas tree posters with LEDS at NTT Docomo flagship store in Tokyo.
The innovative part of the technology is that it can print electric circuits on large paper a few meters wide.
In the future, Shimizu said the technology could possibly be used to install electric circuits with sensors on wallpaper to create a smart home in
which walls can automatically sense inhabitantsmovements. This could potentially aid in monitoring elderly people living alone.
Electric circuits need to be drawn or printed on special paper coated with a chemical sold by Agic.
and can be printed using an inkjet printer. Shimizu stressed that it is tough to have both features at the same time,
it usually clogs the heads of the printer ink cartridge. But Agic he said, has succeeded in preventing this.
He graduated from the University of Tokyo and studied mass-scale natural language processing. He also learned about electric circuits
while at university and worked on it as a hobby. He initially hoped to become a graduate school researcher,
but began working for consulting firm Mckinsey & Co, . where he learned about business. While working for the consulting firm
he studied business in the U s . and watched as a number of college researchers casually began launching startups to spread the technology they had been working on.
There, he began thinking that he would follow suit by introducing research carried out at Japanese universities. any Japanese researchers at colleges are unfamiliar with business,
but there is no boundary between venture firms and college researchers in the U s, . Shimizu said,
adding he had hoped to spread that culture to Japan, since colleges here often deal in some of the most cutting-edge technology.
And it was in 2013 that he saw an example of this: the conductive ink technology developed by Yoshihiro Kawahara,
a University of Tokyo professor. n electric circuit is installed in so many things that you can hardly find things without it,
because this is a new form of electric circuit. n 2014, Shimizu, along with Kawahara, founded Agic in an effort to apply the technology to the business world.
Kawahara is a technical adviser to the firm. However while Agic technology may bloom in the near future,
since pulp-based paper won work. Shimizu said the firm hopes to improve the ink
Another hurdle Shimizu sees is that consumers may not know the creative potential of the markers or the limits to their use. n our website
adding that he hopes users will create communities where they can post examples of what they have made.
N y. For nearly three decades Krishan Luthra stubbornly labored away in a General electric research lab on a long-shot effort to cook up a new type of ceramic that few consumers will ever see or use.
is being built into the bellies of jet engines and promises to save billions of gallons of fuel in the coming decades by reducing weight
It has helped GE win jet engine orders worth $100 billion so far from airlines looking to shave their huge fuel bills.
In the future it is expected to be used in power plants and other equipment. t a dream material, says Luthra,
The material is a type of ceramic that is hard and can handle high heat, like the ceramics people have been making for 25,000 years.
But this ceramic is a complex composite that is also very light, and tough like a metal.
No one wants the aircraft engine that is holding them 35,000 feet above the earth to shatter like a vase.
Success came only at the end of a tortured path of fluctuating research funding and disappointments that at times shook Luthra hopes. here were times where
I wasn sure it was going to work, Luthra admits. ut I guess I was too stubborn.
I thought it was the right path. GE is one of the few big companies that continue to operate large industrial labs that house thousands of scientists who work on basic research
and long-shot projects that, sometimes, result in inventions like Luthra. The Department of energy helped with some early funding,
hoping the materials could be used in power plants. NASA wanted to use them in supersonic aircraft.
The U s. military hoped they could be used in a new fighter jet. None of the efforts fully panned out
but they helped advance the research far enough for GE Aviation division to fund more research and development,
and to finally commercialize it. The metal uper-alloysthat now line the hottest parts of jet engines are heavy, about 70 percent as dense as lead.
And engineers can increase combustion temperatures because the alloys would melt. Already, today engines employ elaborate cooling mechanisms that divert air for cooling that otherwise would be used to power the plane.
Ceramic matrix composites can withstand temperatures 20 percent higher than these metals, and they are one-third the weight. or
what it does, nothing can compare to it, says Gregory Morscher, a ceramic composites expert and mechanical engineering professor at the University of Akron.
The theoretical qualities of these ceramic composites have long been well known, but Luthra wanted to make them a reality,
and put them to use. As early as 1994 Luthra had zeroed in on what he thought would be the basic chemistry
and structure of the matrix thin filaments coated with a ceramic that is shaped into a lattice.
One leap forward was a new type of fiber developed in Japan made of silicon carbide.
But coating these fibers with a ceramic each just one eighth the width of a human hair, evenly, was extremely difficult. f you don do that right you get a ceramic that behaves like china,
and if you do it right you get ceramic with metal properties, and that the big deal, he says.
He figured how to apply the coatings to each individual fiber in something called a chemical vapor deposition reactor,
but no one made these devices commercially so GE had to build three of its own.
The fibers are bathed then in a polymer that arranges them into a latticelike structure. Then
like all ceramics, the material is baked. The polymer burns away and leaves behind a strong,
light lattice that is later filled with liquid silicon to create a solid structure. GE designed the material into an engine called the LEAP to be used on the coming Airbus 320neo and Boeing 737 MAX.
GE is making the engine through a joint venture called CFM International. Pratt & Whitney, CFM main competition, is trying to achieve similar fuel savings with a new type of jet engine that uses a gear system never tried before.
So far customers seem to be opting for the simpler lighter LEAP. It is winning about 75 percent of the market for planes that size,
who manages the LEAP program for GE Aviation division, of the composite. GE says that by 2020,
It will also almost certainly be used in gas-fired power plants and perhaps in nuclear reactors as well.
He wants to improve the composites so they can handle even higher temperatures, and he wants to convince more divisions at GE to use the materials. don want to stop,
and commercialize air conditioning, cooling and heat pump equipment that use HFC-32 as a single component refrigerant.
Daikin action is aimed at encouraging manufacturers worldwide to adopt sustainable comfort cooling and heating technologies that use HFC-32, a refrigerant with a lower global warming impact than commonly used refrigerants.
and has a global warming potential (GWP) that is one-third of that of R-410a, the most commonly used refrigerant.
The avoided carbon emission benefits of a transition to HFC-32 would be very significant. If all presently used R-410a refrigerant is replaced by HFC-32,
since 2011 to accelerate the phase out of ozone-depleting refrigerants, such as HCFC-22, said Shinya Okada, Daikin senior executive officer. iven the urgent need to address climate change,
Daikin believes that this is the right time to extend free access to certain HFC-32 equipment patents to manufacturers worldwide.
Conversion from high-GWP refrigerants is already underway. Last year, the European union enacted the revised F-gas regulation*to reduce the global warming impact of refrigerants.
In the United states, the Environmental protection agency (EPA) is in the process of revising its regulations that establish acceptable alternatives for ozone depleting and high-GWP refrigerants.
In addition, Japan Act on Rational Use and Proper Management of Fluorocarbons, which came into force in April 2015,
encourages conversion from high-GWP refrigerants e
#Technology U s. scientists make tiny invisibility cloak A tiny invisibility cloak has been invented by U s. scientists who are edging ever-closer to a real version of
but could conceivably be scaled up in the future, according to physicists at the U s. Department of energy Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley.
It works by manipulating light, changing how light waves bounce off an object so that it cannot be detected by the eye. his is the first time a 3d object of arbitrary shape has been cloaked from visible light,
director of Berkeley Lab Materials sciences Division. ur ultra-thin cloak now looks like a coat. It is easy to design and implement,
Using tiny gold fibers known as nanoantennas, researchers made a cloak that is 80 nanometers in thickness
and can wrap around a three-dimensional object about the size of a few biological cells. he surface of the skin cloak was engineered meta to reroute reflected light waves
so that the object was rendered invisible to optical detection when the cloak is activated, said the study.
For instance, the patterns of the nanoantennas must be engineered precisely to match the surface bumps of the object beneath,
a physicist at the University of Trento in Italy, was quoted as saying in an accompanying article about the technology in the journal Science. he face that is dark does not see the light,
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