#Major 7. 3-Magnitude Earthquake Aftershock Hits Nepal A 7. 3-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal this morning (May 12), toppling buildings and killing at least a dozen people.
either cells stored in banks or those harvested from adult stem cells are used to aid in bone regeneration.
or Laws, costs less than a dollar per shot
#Weird Microscopic Animal Inspires New Kind of Glass A really weird, really tiny animal the microscopic tardigrade is the inspiration behind a new material that could improve the efficiency of things like LED LIGHTS and solar cells.
as well as one day even pair up with external devices like public cash machines and information displays to offer Braille capability just about anywhere e
and offer robotic capability to clinics that don have millions of dollars in discretionary funds.
Credit: Institute for Basic Science To truly understand the significance of the team findings, it instrumental to understand the nature of two-dimensional (2-D) materials,
and that is used in the strip on your credit card. Because spin has both a magnitude and a direction
Both Sheng and Kelly credit Elliot Pohlmann, a fourth-year Virginia Tech School of medicine student and the paper first author, for sparking the collaboration between their laboratories on this particular project. e realized that glioblastoma
With the help of the new genes the yeast is capable to synthesize the high-prized, natural flavor (more than 4000 euros per kilo) in a cheap way and in useful quantities from sugar (one euro per kilo.
He estimated that a larger mesh net could be created for less than a dollar per square foot.
a 100-pound biped robot designed by the team, along with the interface, for disaster response.
Understanding how the surfaces deflect water so well means the valuable feature could be reproduced in other materials on a mass scale, potentially saving billions of dollars in a variety of industries,
and electrolyzes is expected to be below the target price of the United states Department of energy of 4 US dollars per kilogram. l
and millions of dollars and that no one would adopt, "Aizenberg said. The goal, she said,
U s. Navy spends tens of millions of dollars each year dealing with the ramifications of biofouling on hulls.
Shultz credits her most recent breakthrough to simple geometry and trigonometry. The most common type of ice
and favoured by the trillion-dollar computing and microelectronics industry. Teams led by UNSW researchers have demonstrated already a unique fabrication strategy for realising atomic-scale devices
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars testing therapeutic drugs on animals only to discover in human trials that the drug has an altogether different level of effectiveness.
Peter Dizikes MITIMAGE Credit: The image is credited to Christine Daniloff/MITORIGINAL Research: Abstract for arge-scale evidence of dependency length minimization in 37 languagesby Richard Futrell, Kyle Mahowald,
but also for more common problems involving maladaptive daily decisions about drug or alcohol use, gambling or credit card binges.
#Key Morphine Regulator That May Reduce Risk of Pain killer Addiction Identified Once used in the 18th century as currency to reverse the trade imbalance between China and Britain,
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If anything, thanks to our Aussie dollar we could see a price increase for 2015 iphones
#Mastercard trialling new technology to authorise payments with selfies AT LAST, a company has found a way to apply monetary value to arguably society most worthless trend the selfie.
Mastercard is trialling innovative new technology that allows shoppers to authorise a payment with a selfie instead of a password or a signature.
Mastercard president of enterprise security solutions Ajay Bhalla called it the ext wave of technology that will change the consumer experience for shopping digitally t all part of our role in making commerce available anywhere
A pilot program is currently being undertaken at a credit union in America, and another in The netherlands. The new selfie payment technology will be implemented in Mastercard Identity Check app.
When a customer purchases a product from an online merchant that requires a verified identity,
A survey of about 10,000 Mastercard customers found one-third of customers had cancelled an online transaction
Mastercard is also looking at voice or heartbeat recognition as payment options in the future y
#Drought prompts 25 per cent water cut in California They have been measuring the snowpack at Phillips in the Sierra nevada mountains in California on the first day of April every year since 1941.
Multispectral and hyperspectral cameras used in industrial applications typically cost several thousands to tens of thousands of dollars,
or even a credit card reader, you spend a lot of your day typing. Well, researchers at MIT noticed the value of this daily habit,
which the company hopes to use as a low-cost method for launching satellites and other small payloads of up to 220 pounds into space.
and municipalities with less money and clout are having to turn to even more inventive methods to get clean water without breaking the bank.
The federal govern ment puts absurdly few dollars toward research: $4 a year for every person in pain versus $2, 562 for every person with HIV/AIDS.
LS3, a heavier, sturdy robot designed as a mechanical mule that can carry up to 400 pounds of gear for a squad on the move
The 160-pound robot is powered battery and remotely controlled, with the operator as far as 1, 600 feet away.
The accompanying app upgrades your usage to solar using Solar Renewable energy Credits (S-RECS). In effect,
Didn bring cash or a credit card with you? No problem. As long as youe wearing the new lifestyle jacket from Lyle & Scott,
much of it from international institutions such as the European Investment bank and World bank and backed by Moroccan government guarantees.
CMI director Alex King credits close collaboration with industry as key to making technology transfer happen'well ahead of traditional time frames'.
To accomplish this they printed the modular pieces that are used to connect carbon rods that make up the Blade's chassis."The 3d printed chassis is only 102 pounds
the entire vehicle only weighs 1400 pounds (635kg), giving it twice the weight to horsepower ratio of a Bugatti Veyron.
and weighs between two and three kilograms (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds), depending on whether it is an indoor or outdoor version.
and can take loads of up to 120kg (265 pounds. It reaches top speeds of 10 kilometers per hour (6. 2 miles per hour),
The shuffle also looked to have the markings of Ruth Porat, who joined Google as its chief financial officer in March from Morgan stanley. In Google's recent quarterly conference call, Porat repeatedly emphasized keeping expenses under control.
#Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman sachs
and Barclays have joined forces with New york-based financial tech firm R3 to create a framework for using blockchain technology in the markets,
It is the first time banks have come together to work on a shared way in which the technology that underpins bitcoin-a controversial,
It has attracted already significant investment from many major banks which reckon it could save them money by making their operations faster, more efficient and more transparent.
The new project, the result of more than a year's worth of consultations between R3, the banks and other members of the financial industry, will be led by R3 CEO David Rutter, formerly CEO of electronic trading at ICAP
Those that have signed up to the initiative so far are JP MORGAN, State street, UBS, Royal bank of scotland, Credit suisse, BBVA and Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
The Bank of england has dedicated a team to it and calls it a"key technological innovation"."The data that can be secured using the technology is restricted not to bitcoin transactions.
"He added that R3 will soon announce a few more banks joining the project.""These new technologies could transform how financial transactions are recorded,
lower error rates and significant cost reductions,"said Hu Liang, Senior vice president and head of Emerging Technologies at State street, in a statement e
and his team at Cocoa Motors, have created a laptop-sized personal vehicle that weighs less than seven pounds.
It only weighs between 2 to 3 kg (4. 4 to 6. 6 pounds) depending on the model
but can carry a person of up to 120 kg (265 pounds), according to a Reuters report.
#One dollar blood test using gold nanoparticles outperforms PSA screen for prostate cancer, study suggests The simple test developed by University of Central Florida scientist Qun"Treen"Huo holds the promise of earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers among men.
The modest reaction conditions also indicate the feasibility of low-capital requirements for building distributed hydrogen generating
"Rasmussen credits PPPL with providing help and support during critical points in her project.""It was and continues to be a wonderful resource not just because of the plasma physics but the people,
300 pounds of supplies and payloads, including material for research experiments, to the International space station National Laboratory.
you've got about a four-story oven that's tens of millions of dollars in infrastructure that you don't need,
billion-euro manufacturing plants that are necessary for manufacturing today's microelectronics could be a thing of the past.
The receivers are small photodiodes that cost less than a dollar each and could be connected through a USB port for current systems,
"Right now, those at the lowest incomes must rely on health care that is highly subsidized by county and state tax dollars,
#Online voting a step closer thanks to breakthrough in security technology Taking inspiration from the security devices issued by some banks,
'This system works by employing a credit card-sized device similar to those used in online banking.
But the system achieves even greater security than those used by banks by allowing for the possibility that the security devices themselves have been manufactured under the influence of a hostile adversary.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars testing therapeutic drugs on animals only to discover in human trials that the drug has an altogether different level of effectiveness.
but also for more common problems involving maladaptive daily decisions about drug or alcohol use, gambling or credit card binges.
Perhaps ants are brainier than we've given them credit for, the researchers say. After all, their incredible talent for olfactory discrimination depends not only on sensitively attuned neurons
Microfinance loans were provided by and managed by Adok Timo, a Kenyan microfinance organization, with support from the two collaborating partners in FACES:
These loans were used to purchase farming implements and supplies along with manual irrigation pumps designed by Kickstart,
Understanding how the surfaces deflect water so well means the valuable feature could be reproduced in other materials on a mass scale, potentially saving billions of dollars in a variety of industries,
The scientists used the motif to search the Protein Data Bank for proteins that could accommodate
Prusiner and colleagues expanded this experiment to include tissue samples from a dozen more MSA victims from tissue banks on three continents:
the Massachusetts Alzheimer's disease Research center in Boston, the Parkinson's UK Brain Bank at Imperial College London,
and the Sydney Brain Bank in Australia. The results were the same: When exposed to human MSA tissue, the mice developed neurodegeneration.
'First anti-fraud system to use existing credit card readers From large-scale data breaches such as the 2013 Target case to local schemes that use skimming devices to steal data at the gas pump,
credit card fraud is becoming commonplace. The key challenge is that existing magnetic card readers use plain text to store confidential information,
secure method to prevent mass credit card fraud using existing magnetic card readers. The novel technique--called Safepay--works by transforming disposable credit card information to electrical current
and driving a magnetic card chip to simulate the behavior of a physical magnetic card.
Protecting against Credit card Forgery with Existing Magnetic Card Readers.""Because Safepay is backward compatible with existing magnetic card readers,
which distributes disposable credit card numbers. The physical entity is the magnetic credit card chip controlled by a mobile application inside a customer's mobile device.
The paper outlines the overall architecture and server-side deployment model the design of Safepay, prototype implementation and security analysis. Here's how it works:
First, the user downloads and executes the mobile banking application which communicates with the bank server.
During transactions, the mobile application acquires disposable credit card numbers from the bank server, generates a wave file,
plays the file to generate electrical current, and then drives the magnetic card chip via an audio jack
Disposable credit card information that expires after a limited time or number of usages (i e.,, just one time) so,
A magnetic credit card chip that makes it completely compatible with existing readers. In the evaluation, the researchers show that the cost of the magnetic card chip is about $0. 5,
A mobile banking application that automates the process making it extremely user friendly. Cao and his colleagues conducted real-world experiments with the Safepay technology performing transactions with a vending machine
During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application, and magnetic credit card chip.
The disposable credit card information was acquired from Shopsafe by registering several disposable credit card numbers with Bank of america.
In all three scenarios, the Safepay method worked and the transactions were successful l
#Tiny magnets mimic steam, water and ice Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) created a synthetic material out of 1 billion tiny magnets.
though the researcherssuccess also owes a debt to more basic technology. The team gathered water samples from a research site on the Colorado river near the town of Rifle
could significantly change the multibillion-dollar pain medication manufacturing business, but raises concerns about aggravating the growing problem of opioid abuse.
The findings raise hopes that a euro prostheticthat automatically enhances flagging memory could aid not only brain-injured soldiers,
390 gram (0. 9-pound) Robohon sports a 2-inch touchscreen, a quad-core CPU, and can connect to 3g, LTE,
Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus.
Image credit: Neil Palmer/CIAT via Wikimedia Commons These developments are hugely important. The Amazon, most of which is in Brazil,
and so did the value of Brazilian currency, making food exports unprofitable. So people stopped cutting down rain forest.
the government used its controls of state banks to deter agriculture and logging use of forests.
Image credit: Dr. Yi Yao SPADE analysis showing the multiple subsets of immune and nonimmune cells that Cytof technology can detect from a single sample.
Image credit: Dr. Yi Yao Peering deeper into cell data Prior to the advent of Cytof in 2009, scientists collected data about cell characteristics with an older technology known as flow cytometry.
For that, he credits the many different disciplines NRL brings together. e have a lot of smart people,
He also credits a close relationship with industry and with those NRL serves. e talk to the warfare centers,
Image credit: EMSCTHE worst damage reported so far occurred in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, where many buildings collapsed
Image credit: Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyospeed of the camera is hard to grasp. But, in comparison, it is more than one thousand times faster than conventional high-speed cameras.
Image credit: Keiichi Nakagawa/University of Tokyoin the first attempts to capture an ultra-fast images frames per shot were limited to six.
he said. andy Hill deserves special credit for his creative design solutions for the precision flexures,
A pair should cost no more than 250 euros because the measuring system can be manufactured cost-effectively in series.
Image credit: Samuel Smith, UC Berkeleythe advance, was reported on Monday, Aug 3, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, will lead to computers that turn on in an instant,
Image credit: Xiao-Min Lin et al, taken at Argonne Electron microscopy Center. To their surprise, when the scientists put the membrane into the beam of a scanning electron microscope,
Image credit: Arnold Research Group and Guisinger Research Group, news. wisc. eduscientists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered now a method to grow these ultra-narrow strips, called nanoribbons, with desirable semiconducting
Image credit: Alexanderalus via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3. 0in this process scientists start with methane,
#afepay First anti-fraud system to use existing credit card readers From large-scale data breaches such as the 2013 Target case to local schemes that use skimming devices to steal data at the gas pump,
credit card fraud is becoming commonplace. Because existing magnetic card readers use plain text to store confidential information, they are vulnerable to an untrusted card reader or skimming device.
secure method to prevent mass credit card fraud using existing magnetic card readers. The novel techniquealled Safepayorks by transforming disposable credit card information to electrical current
and driving a magnetic card chip to simulate the behavior of a physical magnetic card.
Protecting against Credit card Forgery with Existing Magnetic Card Readers. ecause Safepay is backward compatible with existing magnetic card readers,
which distributes disposable credit card numbers. The physical entity is the magnetic credit card chip controlled by a mobile application inside a customer mobile device.
The paper outlines the overall architecture and server-side deployment model the design of Safepay, prototype implementation and security analysis. Here how it works:
First, the user downloads and executes the mobile banking application which communicates with the bank server.
During transactions, the mobile application acquires disposable credit card numbers from the bank server, generates a wave file,
plays the file to generate electrical current, and then drives the magnetic card chip via an audio jack or Bluetooth.
Disposable credit card information that expires after a limited time or number of usages (i e.,, just one time) so,
A magnetic credit card chip that makes it completely compatible with existing readers. In the evaluation, the researchers show that the cost of the magnetic card chip is about fifty cents,
A mobile banking application that automates the process making it extremely user friendly. Cao and his colleagues conducted real-world experiments with the Safepay technology performing transactions with a vending machine
During the experiments, they used a bank application, cell phone application and magnetic credit card chip.
The disposable credit card information was acquired from Shopsafe by registering several disposable credit card numbers with Bank of america.
Image credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard Universitythe 62 edits were executed by the team to inactivate native retroviruses found in the pig genome that have inhibited so far pig organs from being suitable for transplant in human patients.
Image credit: Eana Park/Stony Brook Universityboth cardiac cells in the heart and neurons in the brain communicate by electrical signals,
In the United states, costs for kidney disease are about 40 billion dollars per year. Kidney disease affects approximately 700 million people worldwide.
Kidney disease costs the United states 40 billion dollars per year and affects 700 million people worldwide. Twelve million patients have polycystic kidney disease
there could be bacteria producing entirely new proteins. o make a billion-dollar business, yes, we need a protein,
and the United states, is projected to cost dozens of billions of dollars to produce a working reactor sometime in the 2030s.
The recent experiment indicated that the companyhich has attracted millions of dollars in funding from investors including Goldman sachs and Vulcan Inc,
Companies like Tri Alpha offer a path to fusion paved not with taxpayer dollars but with private-sector moneyhich ultimately is the only way to actually get something built.
Kumu is also working on a chip that will make it possible to shrink down the package containing the company technology from roughly the size of a hardback book to something more akin to a credit card.
Google boasts that the solution offers its customers single-digit millisecond latency and double the performance per dollar when set against HBASE and Cassandra, according to Tech Crunch.
Deutsche bank estimates sales of battery storage systems for homes and businesses could yield as much as $4. 5bn in revenue for Tesla.
The new wind farm is to be built near the Dogger Bank in the North sea and will have 400 turbines.
To give Google credit where credit is did due, they at least manage to mock the megalomaniacal nature of their own announcement,
"On a pound for pound basis,"Henderson claims,"there's no better way to levitate something than our engine."
A Wi-fi First model could save consumers literally trillions of dollars over the next decade if adopted in mass,
Verizon brand (which the company spends more than a billion dollars promoting each year) is diminished. This model commoditizes the wireless carriers while simultaneously putting downward pressure on their margins.
#Stratos starts shipping its all-in-one smart credit card Today, Stratos announced it has begun shipping its smart credit card to those who preordered it.
The announcement comes just after competitor Coin has started to ship its connected card. Though Coin was the first to ship,
Stratos enables you to compile all your credit cards on a single Bluetooth connected credit card that links up to a mobile app.
The idea is connected that one credit card is easier to manage and safer than a wallet full of credit cards.
Stratos doesn display credit card numbers and you can remotely lock your card in the event that you ever lose it.
more accountable and more management scalemakes Google sound more like a financial services firm than the innovative tech company we know and love.
and credit card details. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men, Wired quoted Impact Team as saying in a statement accompanying the online dump. e have explained the fraud, deceit,
while Iranian hackers have targeted American banks. Writing on Medium he said:""Networks that control much of our critical infrastructure-including our financial systems
The Turkish government has done also its part to help the ecosystem grow with the launch in 2013 of an incentive program that allows qualified angel investors to access significant tax deductions on their angel investments (up to 75 percent or 1 million Turkish lira.
The effect of election years on currency fluctuations for the Turkish lira is very challenging for startups,
In October last year, the European Bank for reconstruction and development, together with six Turkish banks, launched the Finance and Advice for Women in Business programme,
which he looks at the rise of financial services companies as developers and sellers of IT services.
, financial services companies) The emergence of financial services companies as IT providers is something that has been brewing for some time.
Even before the tech onslaught, many large banks have rented out their services (such as check processing) to other institutions as additional sources of revenues.
Press cites some interesting examples--such as Santander being the first global bank"to offer cloud data storage services to corporate customers"
and Bank of america planning"to have 80%of its workloads running on software-defined infrastructure inspired by Web companies."
It's not just financial services companies that are leveraging their IT assets to branch out into new digital lines of business, of course.
which ultimately saw the company fined hundreds of millions of euros. If the EC proceeds with a $6bn fine it would become the largest fine it has issued to date.
store and then write per dollar per month is extremely high, "Cloud Bigtable product manager Cory O'connor said.
Google says the new service offers twice the performance per dollar and half the total cost of ownership of its direct competitors."
"The second area where Google expects Cloud Bigtable to find a role is in new projects in areas such as the internet of things, advertising, energy, financial services and telecoms.
and with the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti bank to act as a guarantor, the Italian national press agency ANSA reported.
--and the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West virginia showed the presence of lumps in the image of Sagittarius A*.Recent upgrades have increased greatly the sensitivity of these telescopes.
and accompanying death in infants with a birth weight below 750 grams or 1. 65 pounds.
The methods are applied commonly for productivity and efficiency analysis in banking and industry. Moreover her thesis include a new dynamic approach to model nutrient stocks and flows.
It is now 30 percent below 2009 levels in constant dollars. Since the NIH has fallen victim to congressional gridlock people in the biomedical community are starting to organize on their own.
The REON II device or Sonde deployed October 6 on the banks of the Hudson river in New Hamburg N y. is providing real-time data called for by scientists to better understand the complex relationship between humans the built environment and our fragile waterways.
birds and other life inhabiting the river, its banks and its marshes. Managers must plan to turn on the taps
They completed this study with original analysis of patient material from the Ontario Tumor Bank in Canada and the Integrated Biobank of Luxembourg.
but it costs tens of thousands of dollars Aldrich said. This enables us to answer a very specific question right here in the lab. The uncharted genome sequences have been a point of contention in scientific circles for more than a decade according to Maggert a Texas A&m faculty member since 2004.
of which can take up to two weeks and several thousand dollars to manufacture. And the more complex the system the higher the number of iterations needed.
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