But while Android appears to have onthe so-called platform war, the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
however, will present an interesting battle as both Amazon and Netflix are up for the Best TV Series (Musical or Comedy) Golden Globe.
says that these companies are the vanguard of a larger host of companies that will remake finance. here are equity fundraising
Fueloyal is unique in that you don have to modify the tank in order to gather the data.
But its battles in Asia are won far from. It is not likely that Uber will pour $700 million of that round into China
Now by typing#you trigger Chatgrape s smart autocomplete that allows you to add attach
Administrators can also set up triggers with a scheduler tool so that when certain conditions are met, the system will automatically run a predefined set of commands.
A relatively new protocol proposed to the Internet Engineering Task force (IETF), Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
and Las vegas. There a new vanguard creating the future of the U s. manufacturing economy. Companies like Makerbot, Techshop and Kickstarter are playing a large part in fixing the breakdown between historical industrialized employment and manufacturing models,
Adding to the frustration of the NSA in its fight to get at your data, Signal code is open source. This means anyone can go to Github
#Are Drones A Fad Or Here For good? Drones are seen no longer just as a tool of the military
or a toy that people use to fly around. Theye becoming accepted as a tool that businesses can deploy,
and every day more and more companies are being created to build drone prototypes and software to help them fly,
This is the golden age of drones, and it is just taking off. Take consumer perception roneis a household word.
Check out the number of drone videos on Youtube (827 000). ) According to Frost and Sullivan, an aerospace research firm,
over 200,000 drones were sold each month in 2014. Parrot, a french drone maker, reported sales of over $47 million in drones in 2013.
Whether we like it or not, we are going to be seeing more drones in the sky and on the news,
and they will get cheaper, faster and more reliable. Here, I want to go into some reasons why
I think drones are not just a fad but are here to stay. The Trend of Drones in Industry While still not commonplace
drones are beginning to appear in many different industry settings, where their ease of use and huge costs savings over traditional methods,
it makes it a no brainer for companies. Construction companies are not always first movers when it comes to new technology,
but when it comes to drones, they have taken really a liking to them. Companies like Bouygues, Balfour Beatty and Webcor are using drones to map construction sites.
They are employing drones made by Skycatch, which recently made a deal with Japan Komatsu to enable driverless bulldozers to take instructions from unmanned drones.
You may not have known it but youe probably already seen a lot of footage taken by drones on TV.
Big brands like Walmart, BMW and Nike have taken videos using drones. Video production companies have been very quick to use drones to get difficult-to-reach shots.
Modern drones now use steady-cam like gimbals to make videos look super smooth. As drones get more sophisticated,
expect to see more drone-made movies. Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns.
This is a job well-suited to drones, as previously helicopters would have had to do this job,
at great expense. Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops
and detect weeds, and they can even count plants. These kinds of drones are using fixed wings,
which mean they can stay in the air for much longer, and capture a lot more data than a DJI-like quadcopter.
Jay Bregman, the former CEO of Hailo, is verified developing database of drones, that will allow people to know where you can
and cannot fly a drone. Saving Lives Many of you will have seen the defibrillator drone which is still an idea,
but could be a reality very soon. These kinds of drones could be useful for cities with dense traffic.
A drone like this could fly across heavy traffic and deliver lifesaving equipment in under three minutes.
For places with no roads to speak of, companies like Matternet are creating drones that will deliver medicine.
Then there are drones that will deliver life vests to drowning victims, or when a life guard can get to a person on time.
The average human takes 90 seconds to reach and save a drowning victim who is 75 meters from the beach.
It takes a drone 22 seconds. Why send a human into a blazing inferno when you can send a robot?
Drone America, a company based in Reno, Nev. recently unveiled a drone that can capture heat signatures,
analyze the chemical, biological, and radiological threats before someone actually gets to the fire. Police have been buying up drones for years now,
as the cost of running helicopters is compared very high to sending up a drone for a short period of time.
Whatever you think about the surveillance state, drones will continue to be used by law enforcement and security forces.
Transportation The idea of a drone taking you to work is still a Jetsons kind of idea,
but there one company in Santa cruz, Calif.,that plans to kill your commute. Joby Aviation is building an ambitious aircraft:
A personal craft that can lift off vertically, fly 200 miles and land vertically, all on battery power.
While still several years away, the technology this company is developing could pave the way for new advances in personal transportation.
I took a visit to their HQ and was blown away by the work theye doing on VTOL technology,
Some people think that drones could be the next trend in personal transportation. While this is some ways off,
The promise of personal drones is one where youl jump into some kind of craft from your rooftop,
Think about the huge opportunity of drones in the future, and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth.
There are very few companies out there today creating software to make drones safer. What about systems to manage where drones can
and cannot legally go? How will we know who owns a drone when the next one crashes into a famous person lawn?
There is no equivalent of the DMV for drones yet, or safety belts or airbags. Drones could spur demand for lighter batteries or a different kind of power source.
Drones need to see where they are going and avoid obstacles, and software is going to have to be built to make all of these dreams a reality.
There are so many great applications for drones, we haven even begun to scratch the surface. Whatever happens, drones are here to stay p
#Duke Researchers Create Artificial Human Muscles As a representative of M. U s c. L. E, . I find artificial muscles a bit unseemly.
However, researchers at Duke university have been able to grow their own twitching tissue, a first that could allow researchers to test drugs on working muscle without damaging a live host.
From the release:##In a laboratory first, Duke researchers have grown human skeletal muscle that contracts and responds just like native tissue to external stimuli such as electrical pulses,
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
#With Skyspecs#Guardians The Drones Have Become Self-Aware Skyspecs has solved the biggest problem with drones:
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
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.
Skyspecsteam has been building drones for six years and and individuals in the company come from teams that won the 2012 international aerial competition
and the prestigious DARPA sponsored AGICCOMPETITION. These guys know drones. Guardian is the company initial product
and they tell me it the first product to offer this sort of capability. It works as advertised
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
Guardian drones will be able to avoid say spinning blades on windmills or utility lines. Cofounder Thomas Brady tells me that the founders of the company were previously part of both volunteer and doctoral research in ground sea and air robotics.
If you look at the killing of U k. soldier Lee Rigby for example the problem isn that they have no idea.
and ensure it is fit for purposeripa has been criticized for years for eroding press freedoms and sanctioning disproportionate surveillance by, for instance, enabling police and local councils to spy on journalists.
me that they are jumping the gun somewhat on it. uppert is not alone in his concerns either.
So U k. police and intelligence agencies obtain whatever CCTV footage theye after from the private operator funding a camera in their shop or carpark or driveway or, hey, even that in-home Dropcam or the lens on that life-logging wearable
But today vote remains a victory for the advocates that have been fighting for two years to limit the scope of the NSA surveillance.
but the fight isn over
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
The system was developed by AT&T in the late 1960s to centralize access to public safety services such as fire, police,
which can greatly increase the risk of misunderstanding police instructions. Finally, the company also has a product for emergency call centers called Next Generation 911,
In theory the algorithms should be able to allocate budget to advertising networks that police their inventory to avoid phony ads.
AOPTIX originally developed its laser technology for the Pentagon, designing systems that actively steer laser beams to keep data moving between ground stations, drones, and fighter jets.
#Police in California and Texas Test Networked Guns When a police officer draws a firearm he
or she often doesn have an opportunity to radio for backup. Yardarm, a California-based company, is building technology that will automatically alert headquarters in such situations.
The company makes a chip that goes into the handle of a regular firearm and transmits data over a cellphone network connection.
The data transmitted includes the location of a gun and whether it has been discharged unholstered or.
which a gun is pointing. The data can be fed to a police dispatch system or viewed on a smartphone.
Founded in 2013 Yardarm started out making a consumer product for monitoring a firearm location.
But since many American gun owners object to technology or policies aimed at regulating firearms,
it did not find many customers. ou have a social demand for smart gun technology,
but not necessarily a market demand, says Jim Schaff, Yardarm vice president of marketing. s a consumer product,
Gun owners didn flock to Yardarm, but law enforcement remained interested. Technology that tracks officersaction is slowly gaining acceptance as police chiefs
and officers realize that the data can help clear them of wrongdoing and save litigation costs.
The gun industry is gradually taking notice of these trends. The gunmaker Beretta already offers the
a sensor that goes on the front of the gun and captures data on the weapon use.
which makes a gun that delivers a nonlethal electric shock, also sells head-worn cameras to help police
and security workers document events in the field. ash-cams really set precedent, Schaff says. hen it comes down to it,
Yardarm is holding tests to hone the tracking accuracy with police departments in Santa cruz California, and Carrollton, Texas. The technology has been tested at firing ranges,
but not during active police duty. t is going so well we don even know it there,
which a gun was fired, but Schaff says this aspect of the technology needs to be improved.
This book about the Roman empire during the first years of Augustus Caesar s reign at the end of the Roman Republic describes the events following the bloody Battle of Actium in 31 BC
starting with its influential army of iphone users. obile payment is finally hitting that pivotal moment
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.
This makes it possible to choose a specific trigger that won t be accidentally set off in the wrong conditions such as a hot day he says.
Some engineers for instance have used the idea of grid cells as inspiration for new algorithms to control robots or autonomous submarines.
In July DARPA gave out $40 million in awards to try to develop brain implants that would help brain-injured soldiers recover lost memories
hydrogen will always require bigger tanks. So finding ways to store more of it is a huge challenge.
Early versions of the instrument called the Minion have been reaching scientific labs over the past few months after long delays (see 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2012:
The Minion is the result of some very high-stakes R&d by Oxford a 200-person company that s long has had its eye on the expanding market for high-speed DNA sequencers.
It took another 25 years before the Minion was developed. That's because the technical problems were so daunting.
And how could you pull the string of DNA letters through the pore suspended in a layer one-100000th as thick as a hair much less at a rate of 30 letters a second as the Minion does?
When it first announced the Minion in 2012 expectations soared off the charts (see Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data.
While both he and Deamer have extensive financial ties to Oxford they say it s obvious to everyone that the Minion is just the start.
#Motorized Pants to Help Soldiers and Stroke Victims A soft exoskeleton being developed by researchers at Harvard could let soldiers carry heavy backpacks over long distances or help stroke victims walk more steadily.
fight diseases like FAP by using RNAI to eliminate bad proteins (see The Prize of RNAI and Prescription RNA.
Never mind that no one knew how to make a drug that could trigger RNAI. In fact that challenge would bedevil the researchers for the better part of a decade.
and new airborne drones are providing farmers with high-resolution sensing ability (see gricultural Drones, although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
and Climate at the University of Minnesota, who has no ties to the startup, says the robot is great additional tool to put in the nutrient management technology toolkit.
and fitness tracking, helping to monitor the condition of soldiers and firefighters and changing the way we play video games. oul see games where your emotional state changes the character youe playing,
Because of its scratch-proof properties, it has long been used for making LEDS, sensors on missiles,
The company also recently began working on a project funded by the U s. military to make batteries for sensors that would monitor the health status of soldiers.
Also, the technology could be used to create weapons that destroy agricultural crops or create super pests.
whose police forces are overextended already fighting eal-worldcrimes and who lack the resources and expertise to investigate online activity.
Google aims to change that by creating search results that take you somewhere specific within an app or trigger a function like playing music by a specific artist.
because there is enough ammunition in there for future lawsuits. In a dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia said the opinion was uilt on the shakiest of foundations,
and technology that could see wireless broadband delivered by drones or satellite (see acebook Drones Will Battle Google Balloons to Spread Internet Accessand ow Google Could Disrupt Global Internet access by Satellite.
Parikh said that slashing app data use fits into an equally important arm of the project focused on people that can access Internet infrastructure
Stephen Farrell, a computer scientist at Trinity college in Dublin and a member of the Internet Engineering Task force, the group of engineers who maintain
and experts to explore using drones for that purpose e
#Microsoft s 3-D Audio Gives Virtual Objects a Voice Just as a new generation of virtual reality goggles for video games are about to hit the market,
which is why the military is turning to neurological devices, says Justin Sanchez, manager of the DARPA program, known as Subnets,
But Delgado, also funded by the military, left the U s. after Congressional hearings in which he was accused of developing otalitarianmind-control devices.
The trucks were fitted with technology developed by a startup called Peloton Tech (elotonis The french word for platoon.
He adds that the technology could even allow competing companies to platoon together to get these savings.
A European project, called SARTRE (Safe Road trains for the Environment), has been exploring ways for vehicles to travel in platoons since 2009.
has been testing platoons made of three semi-automated or fully automated trucks since 2007. A U s. project, called PATH (Partners for Advanced Transportation technology
Three of the five patients involved in the U s. Department of defense-funded study were injured during military service;
Wong-Foy, a senior research engineer at SRI, has built an army of magnetically steered workers to test the idea that icrorobotscould be a better way to assemble electronics components,
Others, like China, also bleed companies of intellectual secrets about jet fighters and wind turbines. So pervasive and successful has digital espionage become that in 2012, Keith Alexander,
the Army general in charge of the NSA, described it as he greatest transfer of wealth in history.
The"extraordinary breakthrough"shows how'killer'CD8+T cells-the body's'army of hitmen'tasked with taking out new viruses-retain memories of virus strains they encounter.
randomised trial of a so-called oncolytic virus to show success. Cancer scientists predict it will be the first of many in the coming years-adding a new weapon to our arsenal of cancer treatments.
randomised trial of a so-called oncolytic virus to show success. Cancer scientists predict it will be the first of many in the coming years-adding a new weapon to our arsenal of cancer treatments.
PTI That means Virscan not only identifies viral infections that the immune system is actively fighting, but also provides a history of an individual's past infections.
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
and fighting phantom pain will be unveiled by researchers in Vienna on Monday. The innovation is the result of a twofold process,
#Microsoft's drones to catch mosquitoes and help stop epidemics WASHINGTON: Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
with the goal of preventing disease outbreaks in humans. Project Premonition, launched by American tech company Microsoft,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
Microsoft researchers are developing autonomous drones that collect mosquitoes to look for early signs that potentially harmful viruses are spreading,
calls'nature's drones'-mosquitoes-to look for early signs that a particular illness could be on the move.
The team will use drones that can fly the mosquito traps into and out of remote areas in a semi-autonomous way
Microsoft researchers are beginning to develop ways to make the drones even more autonomous, and they are also working with US Federal aviation administration officials on regulatory requirements, according to a post on the company's blog.
which has led the fight against Ebola in West Africa, is now calling for VSV-ZEBOV to be rolled out to the other centres of the outbreak, Liberia and Sierra leone,
whose 8-year old boy was need in of a low-cost solution Titan Roboticsatlas 3d printer was named after the famous Greek god who was known for fighting alongside the Titans
says Jones. Although gathering the funding is an uphill battle for any startup or nonprofit,
we covered an interesting take on the DIY drone market, a 3d printed drone for scouting hiking trails from above.
After successfully completing their 3d printed prototype thharebot Voyager DLP 3d printer Officially For sale As they head to the reatest Show
with approximately 50 employees, Sensintel will become part of Raytheon Company Missile Systems business. The transaction is expected not to materially impact Raytheon sales or earnings in the first quarter or full year 2015.
Terms of the agreement were disclosed not. ensintel expertise in unmanned aircraft systems solutions makes it a natural fit with Raytheon Advanced Missile Systems product line,
Raytheon Missile Systems president. he acquisition of Sensintel enhances the growth prospects of our UAS business
and relationships with the Special Operations Command, Office of Naval Research and U s. Air force Research Laboratory to Raytheon and its customers.
It also provides training, technical and operational support to military, scientific and commercial sectors l
rocket from Cape canaveral Air force station, Fla. as part of the agency Cubesat Launch Initiative. The Atlas v sent the U s. Air force X-37b space plane on its fourth mission,
which also is carrying NASA Materials Exposure and Technology Innovation in Space (METIS) investigation that will expose about 100 different materials samples to the space environment for more than 200 days.
the Air force Space and Missile Systems Center and the National Reconnaissance Office to work together on Cubesat integration and launch opportunities.
so that it can then be 3d printed in the shape of a gun, staff, wand, bow,
As the trigger is pulled, the Lyter releases a beam to the Lytepuck, which carries the commands to activate the responses as required.
It's like soldiers marching in formation: If one person falls dramatically out of time, it won't be long before the whole group falls apart.
The Catalan researchers are the first group in the world to use liposomes that imitate naturally dying cells to fight against Diabetes.
Gold-Plated Cancer Fighters? Then Alex Pronschinske, Ph d.,first author on the paper and a postdoctoral researcher in Sykeslab, suggested that they measure the electrons emitted by the sample without prodding from X-rays in the photoelectron spectrometer.
Yurii Gun'ko, professor at Trinity college and co-director of International Research and Education Centre for Physics of Nanostructures at ITMO University comments on potential applications of the method developed by the group:
Blocking the proteasome prevents this regulated recycling of amino acids and triggers controlled cell death, particularly in fast-dividing cells typical of cancer.
#Applied Nanotech Tests Ballistic, Blast-Resistant Armor Panels with Printed Electronic Antennas Applied Nanotech, Inc. ANI), a PEN Inc. company (PEN), announces successful completion
and test of fiberglass ballistic and blast-resistant armor panels that incorporate printed electronic antennas capable of sending
The armor provides multi-channel communications and advanced active protection for vehicles, ships and buildings.
The multi-function armor eliminates the need for multiple high-profile communications antenna structures on military vehicles
The armor-incased antennas also have jamming capability to block radio signals such as those used to remotely trigger explosives,
including improvised explosive devices (IEDS). Two wideband low-profile antennas have been developed, each capable of carrying signals at multiple frequencies.
Together they provide electronic warfare, jamming and communication capabilities. ANI partners in the program are Armortex, maker of bullet-,blast-and forced entry-resistant products, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Villanova University.
The research, supported by a federal Small Business Technology Transfers program (STTR) sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR),
and bullet-resistant fiberglass panel products manufactured by Armortex.""Applied Nanotech and the university partners have made impressive technology strides to create new applications for our existing product line,
but also may help defeat improvised explosive devices and other threats,"says Dr. Aly Fathy, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UT Knoxville."
Additionally the DT7837 is equipped fully to do many vibration tasks by including a 24-bit stimulus output tachometer general-purpose Digital I/O external trigger functions and counter/timers.
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