#Algae inspiration could boost your phone's battery Materials engineers trying to work out a way of boosting the performance of lithium-ion batteries have hit upon an unlikely inspiration-algae from a local pond.
Inside there's a 1. 2ghz CPU keeping everything moving...quite literally. It can make calls,
Sure enough, when the researchers spiked mouse serum with a dose of nicotine equivalent to one cigarette, then added Nica2 to the mix, the enzyme cut nicotine half-life from more than two hours to less than 15 minutes.
they may inject them into the mouse bloodstream. The bubbles should travel into the tiny blood vessels of the brain.
according to the in vitro mouse study published last week (October 15) in Science. reviously, with plastic material,
Bao and her colleagues demonstrated that the sensors could relay pressure signals to the mammalian nervous system by linking them to a blue LED light that in turn stimulated slices of mouse brain that had been engineered to respond to those wavelengths.
with EEG caps and hardware now emerging on the consumer market. It only took volunteers a few minutes to be trained in how to operate the system
and then trapped at the core. Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
and then trapped at the core. Bristol University said that the third could be described as a high-intensity cage that surrounds the objects and holds them in place from all directions.
The transparency conundrum The core of the problem with competition law is that it seems a poor and ill-adapted game of mudslinging
and it is only peripheral to the real problem: power. At best, the European commission initiative may require some marginal reconfiguration of Google algorithms and presentation of results,
The patient also has to sign a consent form either digitally on screen with their finger or via paper copies.
and is the core of how we index with Google search. s well as being ne ofhumanity most important inventions,
handing control of its core search engine business to Sundar Pichai, pictured below
#Ashley Madison CEO Noel Biderman resigns after third leak of emails The chief executive of extramarital affairs website Ashley Madison has left the company after a third leak of emails
It is aimed very much at optical switching rather than building processors, and according to the researchers, the optical transistors have a tunable dielectric permittivity compatible with all telecoms infrared (IR) standards. e are pretty far away from building anything resembling an processor.
In fact our transistor is only simulation at the current time, "said doctoral candidate Nate Kinsey, in conversation with El Reg."
Kinsey cautions that something as advanced as a processor is at least two decades away, so while a 1, 000-fold increase in processor power sounds a lot,
it not when considered over the kind of timescales we are talking e
#Brit boffins build'tractor beam'out of sound Researchers from Spain and The british city of Bristol have found a way to move objects using sound.
separating Google's traditional products from the more ambitious ventures that critics have accused of distracting from the company's core strengths.
even on the tiniest screens.""Making the logo look good on small screens seems to have been a major consideration.
The new, simpler lettering is supposed to scale better to smaller sizes, making the wordmark more distinct and easier to read.
It's also supposed to be easier for Google to display on low-bandwidth connections:
It's an option built into the company's current line of Snapdragon processors, and it's getting an upgrade to version 3. 0 with the 2016 family,
They are available to Qualcomm's hardware partners today and will be making their debut in devices coming in 2016 6
"and exclude companies that are not a part of its core internet business. Sundar Pichai will be the new CEO of Google,
and grabbed two joysticks that, when held, became my hands. Clicking a button on each flexed my virtual fingers and,
which was also visible in left eye/right eye views on a high-def monitor. Sixense, which has been providing a VR development platform for training
which uses the Galaxy Note 4 as the display in a set of goggles. In that environment
Some retailers now wrap the Net around you with screens showing live streams of social posts
The rumor mill says the new Tizen watch will ship with an Exynos 3472 dual-core chip, a 360 x 360 pixel display resolution, 768mb of RAM, 4gb of storage,
has always been core to its brand, but what is the vision for Alphabet, and what does the new company actually stand for?
will allow Google to focus more on its core products, including its search engine, while Alphabet manages a variety of different businesses,
So what stays a part of the core Google business? According to the company's Securities and exchange commission filing, the main Google business will include"search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android,
While the company has held always search at its core it has expanded into several different areas.
Nest, for example, monitors the movements of residents so that it can adjust temperatures and keep utility bills low.
Nest, for example, monitors the movements of residents so that it can adjust temperatures and keep utility bills low.
which screens potential investments so they only see things they can reasonably take on. he user can override their risk profile,
Amazon is also working with a handful of manufacturers to integrate Dash functionality into the hardware.
and printer firm Brother. The company is also on the hunt for all sorts of device makers that have goods to sell alongside their own devices.
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"Going forward, we plan to not target hardware manufacturers that make smartphones, but to instead provide our biometric solutions to online service
The bundle, called Accu-Chek View, includes a blood glucose monitor, a wearable fitness tracker and an app developed by SAP that are integrated all together.
The system would capture information from blood pressure monitors, activity monitors, and behavioural data shared by users.
This is essentially an API that you provision with a guaranteed amount of server processor throughput behind it
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#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft
These hardware partners will preinstall Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on Android devices coming to market later this year.
#Spain's 3d food printing lab: Bringing technology to the table Technology has been encroaching into the professional kitchen for years.
"Printing flat designs can be done, but 3d is said something else Castells as he demonstrated how layers of chocolate are used to build up three-dimensional structures,
and working on an open hardware basis, has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general.
It has incorporated recently a paste extruder system into its printers, using it to control the amount of material deposited by each layer through the pressure exerted by the piston of a syringe.
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"Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality, "said Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program,
which built on the IBM z13 mainframe and its z13 CPU, and its little brother, Rockhopper,
which uses the older z12 processor. IBM's new Linuxone mainframes aren't only powerful,
Its 8-core z13 CPU can run up to 5ghz. On IBM benchmarks, a loaded Linuxone could perform 30-billion Representational State Transfer (RESTFUL) transactions a day using Node. js and Mongodb in Docker containers.
IBM also states that the Linuxone are the most secure Linux systems ever with advanced encryption features built into both the hardware and software to help keep customer data and transactions confidential and secure.
This is done with dedicated crypto processors and cards so your company can handle millions of transactions per second securely.
Linuxone isn't just a new use of hardware. IBM has enabled key open source and industry software for Linuxone and IBM z Systems.
#Precision printing: Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed Researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure
and that can indeed improve resistance to pneumonia in our mouse model l
#Researchers turn to 3-D technology to examine the formation of cliffband landscapes A blend of photos
and installs a crucial ring-shaped protein structure (Mcm2-7) that lies at the core of the helicase enzyme.
The key question then was how does a second helicase core get recruited and loaded onto the DNA in the opposite orientation of the first?
seniors are more likely to move to suburbs than to the urban core. In fact in all cities the rate at which seniors are moving to the suburbs appears to be increasing faster than for all other age groups.
#Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter more powerful and more efficient.
At the core of this development is wide bandgap material made of silicon carbide with qualities superior to standard semiconductor materials.
of which was to investigate the scattering of pulsars--the cores of dead stars--by interstellar gas.
and optimization of the device which is based on a phosphor screen and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes in a diode structure.
The electrons then fly through the vacuum in the cavity and hit the phosphor screen into glowing.
When Illinois researchers set out to investigate a method to control how DNA moves through a tiny sequencing device they did not know they were about to witness a display of molecular gymnastics.
Scientists at the National institutes of health (NIH) report that newly formed brain cells in the mouse olfactory system--the area that processes smells--play a critical role in maintaining proper connections.
In the first set of mouse experiments Dr. Belluscio's team first disrupted the organization of olfactory bulb circuits by temporarily plugging a nostril in the animals to block olfactory sensory information from entering the brain.
#Unique catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells synthesized in ordinary kitchen microwave oven Swedish and Chinese researchers show how a unique nano-alloy composed of palladium nano-islands embedded in tungsten nanoparticles creates a new type of catalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction the most important reaction in hydrogen fuel cells.
Their results are published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The world's rapidly growing demand for energy and the requirement of sustainable energy production calls for an urgent change in today's fossil fuel based energy system.
however by the need of efficient catalysts to drive the chemical reactions involved in the fuel cell.
Historically platinum and its alloys have frequently been used as anodic and cathodic catalysts in fuel cells
but the high cost of platinum due to its low abundance motivates researchers to find efficient catalysts based on earth-abundant elements.
The core of the nano-cocoon contains the anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) and a protein called DNASE.
The idea for the coating evolved from SLIPS a pioneering surface technology developed by coauthor Joanna Aizenberg Ph d. who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard SEAS.
This year's Nobel prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of how to make blue LEDS allowing everything from more efficient light bulbs to video screens.
While the discovery has had an enormous impact on lighting and displays the slow speed with
or equivalently the intensity of the light at various places at the measuring screen, ensures that the set of correlations between the two detectors does result in an interference-like pattern in those correlations.
and are linked to an external monitor via a cable. In addition to the possibility of the cable being pulled out
Surprisingly the loss of STAT3 in NK cells of the mouse led not to a decrease but to an increase in killing activity against melanoma cells and leukemia cells.
and Bruce Maryanoff, formerly at Johnson & johnson and currently a visiting scholar at TSRI, the researchers tested this synthetic peptide in a mouse model prone to atherosclerosis.
"Using a device that can be placed on the forearm of the older person and a webcam that records movement patterns,
and designed said Peng Yin senior author of the paper Wyss Core Faculty member and Assistant professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical school.
The researchers showed in mouse models that chronic skin inflammation caused by continuous skin contact with allergens contributes to tumor development.
To investigate whether inflammation from the implant contributed to the tumor the researchers studied mouse models of contact allergy.
and may provide a resource for discovery of beta cell therapies that promote survival or regeneration of beta cells and development of screening biomarkers to monitor beta cell health and survival to guide therapeutic
Working in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCS) the Young lab examined the scaffolding landscape found within topologically associated domains.
a pair of iron cores around which wires of different lengths are wrapped. These are the transformer coils one
To minimize the energy loss associated with this process special types of iron-silicon alloy known as electrical steel are used to make the core.
since it is equipped with an integrated processor for image processing. After the integrated image sensor has recorded the images,
the processor evaluates the frames.""The video itself no longer has to--as previously the case--be sorted
A total of 72 passive and 13 active components (such as LEDS, DC-to-DC converters, memory chip, image sensor and image processor) had to be positioned within the module in an especially space-saving manner.
Using brain scans from the ENIGMA Consortium and genetic information from The Mouse Brain Library he was able to identify a novel gene,
MGST3 that regulates the size of the hippocampus in both mouse and human, which is linked to a group of neurodegenerative diseases.
and the corresponding genes and then matching those with genes in mice from the BXD system held in the Mouse Brain Library database we could identify this specific gene that influences neurological diseases."
The Mouse Brain Library, established by Professor Robert Williams based at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
Many movement-recognition programs need plenty of processor and memory power explains Hilliges adding that their new algorithm uses a far smaller portion of computer memory
Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it. People got used to operating computer games with their movements.
Touchscreens Hilliges reminds us also required a very long adjustment period before making a big impact in consumers'lives.
that displays a functionally critical region of the virus that is universally conserved in all known species of Ebola.
Importantly, the researchers were able to demonstrate this peptide target is suitable for use in high-throughput drug screens.
These kinds of screens allow rapid identification of potential new drugs from billions of possible candidates.
and colleagues have shown that a lentivirus encoding let-7 injected into mouse neurons promotes the autophagic turnover of toxic misfolded proteins associated with neurodegenerative disease. e also demonstrate that treatment with anti-let-7 can block autophagy
The team attributes much of the success in the fabrication stage to recent advancements in high-resolution 3-D printing.
Beyond the use for a harder spinel in armor windows there could be other potential Dod and civilian applications in better/stronger office windows smartphones and tablets screens military/civilian vehicles
which displays them on overhead monitors that allow precise tracking of surgical instruments as surgeons insert screws for reconstruction
because hardware was initially out of place. The Cedars-Sinai surgeons say they have cut these to nearly zero by using computer-guided methods.
All have shipped their inventions to Delhi where they will be on display March 22 for scientists engineers and dignitaries.
North american zooplankton like many Daphnia and Bosmina species which are favorites on Bythotrephes'menu have similar hardware
We have an array of emitters that can be thought of as a dot matrix-printer printer, where you would be able to individually control each emitter to print deposits of nanofibers.
Right now, anyone can put these circuits together to form a complex droplet processor with no external control something that was a very difficult challenge previously
With its current power output, the floating evaporation engine could supply small floating lights or sensors at the ocean floor that monitor the environment,
as well as in computer and television screens. sing quantum dots for spectrometers is such a straightforward application compared to everything else that wee tried to do,
such as labeling cells or new types of TV screens, exploit quantum dotsfluorescence a property that is much more difficult to control,
which vary greatly in their ability to damage skin. he central component of such spectrometers the quantum dot filter array is fabricated with solution-based processing and printing,
which are needed for brief transmissions of data from wearable devices such as heart-rate monitors, computers, or smartphones, the researchers say.
because of 3-D printing, is relatively cheap and fast. The robot body transitions from soft to hard, reducing the stress where the rigid electronic components join the body
senior author Robert J. Wood, Charles river Professor of Engineering and Applied sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) and core faculty member at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired
a soft plungerlike body with three pneumatic legs and the rigid core module, containing power
and protected by a semisoft shield created with a 3-D printer. The design builds from previous work of co-author and chemist George Whitesides, the Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard.
This new design demonstrates the potential of 3-D printing in soft robotics. Traditional methods of fabrication custom molds and multistep assembly are costly and slow.
The ever-increasing variety of materials compatible with 3-D printers is allowing engineers to prototype new designs faster.
and 3-D printing is adding to the repertoire of things we can do in a really practical way,
Nanoparticles made from these polymers have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic shell. Due to molecular-scale forces
BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;
The researchers confirmed that a gene known as NF1 is a ajor playerin the development of skin cancer. he key finding is that roughly 45%of melanomas that do not harbor the known BRAF or NRAS mutations display loss of NF1 function,
and pressures at their cores necessary to trigger the thermonuclear reactions that power ormalstars. Theorists suggested in the 1960s that such objects should exist
and a processor to run the show. The Trakür is no exception. Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
and now there's a website to find nearby 3d printers for quick turnaround on printing jobs. makexyz. com is a simple website that allows anyone with a 3d printer to rent out their services to anyone with printing needs.
with the cheapest showing up first with all the details of the printer. Need to print with full color sandstone?
The closest printer to me, for example, is a Prusa Mendel I2 that uses#ABS Plastic in numerous colors.
I pay right there (no money is exchanged between printer owner and designer). Then, once the printing is complete
I can pick it up or have shipped it to me. Zak Stone reports for Fast Company that people with 3d printers have been eager to sign up:
Already, more than 500 printers around the United states have signed up--with everything from homemade printers, to Makerbots, to $30, 000 professional machines.
(or other printing service chains) become the Kinko's of 3d printing? With widespread stores already in place, a forward-thinking chain could make 3d printers available and more accessible.
but 3d printers in big cities and college towns, at least to start, could really help evolve their printing chain's brand.
In California, there is a $10 fee added to the price of electronic products with viewable screens,
and to be close enough to the job opportunities represented by America's urban cores,
Whatever document you needed it was most likely that Jason had it in a folder on his hard drive.
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
indicating that the core business model is financially sustainable. This is a significant rise. Why? Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
I was drawn soon to continuous glucose monitors (CGMS. These report blood glucose levels every 5 minutes, thanks to a small radio transmitter attached to a fine sensor wire that runs under the skin (the wire is replaced weekly, the transmitter every six months.
but I knew that the Dexcom G4 receiver could furnish glucose data via its USB port.
and once I had the basic USB enumeration downo my phone could eethe receiver when it was plugged in started decoding the G4 communication protocol.
and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver. With this data,
like the faint clatter of fingers on a keyboard. And the powerful coding-decoding (codec) software can run as a smartphone app. e want to bring telephony into the 21st century,
or as apps running on a smartphone applications processor. The EVS codec s not complex compared to the apps in a smartphone,
it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
it combined a pump with a large, complex continuous glucose monitor. In recent years, pumps have become smaller, more reliable, more programmable,
Continuous glucose monitors were approved first a decade ago, and they are beginning to replace the finger-prick method,
and also in displays because they have better light-transmission properties than glass, says Ma.
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. n work published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology researchers suspended graphene above a silicon substrate by attaching it to two metal electrodes
Computing hardware development projections are based on Moore Law which predicts that the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double about every two years, causing an exponential growth in performance.
and the others that we manufacture using 3-D printers. t
#Nanowires Boost Hydrogen Production from Sunlight Tenfold Using the energy of the sun to split water into hydrogen
The fiber, made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapped around a rubber core, can be stretched to 14 times its original length
In research published in the journal Science, the team describes how they devised a method for wrapping electrically conductive sheets of carbon nanotubes around the rubber core in such a way that the fiber's resistance doesn change when stretched,
The researchers have also been able to add a thin coat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers
in the press release. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available.
The device inventors suggest the laser could find use in video displays, solid-state lighting, and a laser-based version of Wi-fi. Although previous research has created red, blue, green and other lasers,
In addition, he says that white lasers could also lead to video displays with more vivid colors and higher contrast than conventional displays.
but must be done ia a clear permission screen Google must also clearly explain what personal data is being obtained by which of its services and for what purpose,
Rather than relying on a combination of different banks and other payments processors for individual markets,
as well as local payment processors around the world. Its platform works in nearly 200 countries, allowing partners to get paid in virtually any currency and through a wide variety of payment methods.
Gartner predicts that Apple momentum will continue unabated with its iggest ever fourth-quarter salesof both models of large-screen phones,
Elsewhere, Baidu has been flexing its international muscle by building services for users outside its core Chinese-language market.
as Makerbot learned after it suddenly clamped down on its open-source 3d printing hardware after a community of early supporters spent years contributing to Makerbot design (it worth watching rint the Legend, a new documentary that chronicles the whole ordeal, available
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