today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
because employees don want to use the software. It yet another new thing to learn and doesn feel essential.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
#Square Cash Integrates Touch ID To Send Money Using Your Fingerprint Square Cash Square Venmo competitor that lets you use the app to transfer money to other people has added a new feature to its ios app that some might say is long overdue:
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
which points to corresponding apps on ios and Android respective app stores. The app is designed to help drivers determine their actual income taking fuel costs
This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
when theye away from home using Apple TV (generation 3 or later with OS version 7. 0 or later),
the company is also now offering up a brand new version of its Insteon+app for ios 8. 1 or later,
and are running ios 8. 1 or later. Set up and discovery is handled automatically just by tapping,
Add in a text-to-pay service like Rhombus and youe got Williamsburg catnip. This new app allows people to pay you via a special contact number.
Javascript files are simple text files that are downloaded from the server and then parsed and compiled by the Javascript engine in the browser.
the readings it takes are more scientifically rigorous than those achieved by the current crop of Android Wear-powered devices,
Compelation ios app beta is normally invite-only, but it opening signups for the next 24 hours to let Techcrunch readers give it a try.
Opternative Test Software Eats The Eye Exam After graduating optometry school, Dr. Steven Lee was sure that computers
however though that will change later this year as Subway begins to advertise its mobile ordering and payments app for ios and Android.
it moving to integrate Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout into the Subway application as another checkout option, alongside the app support for Apple Pay and Android Pay.
including Apple Pay and Android Pay, that the businesses themselves will want to support. t the end of the day,
#Google s Brain-Inspired Software Describes What It Sees in Complex Images Experimental Google software that can describe a complex scene could lead to better image search
Researchers at Google have created software that can use complete sentences to accurately describe scenes shown in photos significant advance in the field of computer vision.
the software responded with the description group of young people playing a game of frisbee.
The software can even count, giving answers such as wo pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven.
most efforts to create software that understands images have focused on the easier task of identifying single objects. t very exciting,
The new software is the latest product of Google research into using large collections of simulated neurons to process data (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes. Instead, its networks earnedby consuming data.
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
The other had been trained to generate full English sentences as part of automated translation software. When the networks are combined,
After that training process, the software was set loose on several large data sets of images from Flickr
The accuracy of its descriptions was judged then with an automated test used to benchmark computer-vision software.
Google software posted scores in the 60s on a 100-point scale. Humans doing the test typically score in 70s,
That result suggests Google is far ahead of other researchers working to create scene-describing software.
and test this kind of software. When Google asked humans to rate its software descriptions of images on a scale of 1 to 4
it averaged only 2. 5, suggesting that it still has a long way to go.
though large databases of hand-labeled images have been created to train software to recognize individual objects,
and software to perform more advanced functions. An emerging example of this is Setpoint Medical s implantable neurostimulation device (currently in development) configured via an ipad app.
It s not just a software tool he says. MMAS should be treated like any other medical device.
and software to perform more advanced functions. An emerging example of this is Setpoint Medical s implantable neurostimulation device (currently in development) configured via an ipad app.
It s not just a software tool he says. MMAS should be treated like any other medical device.
Paying search engines for stimulating clicks that led to purchases was fine but most consumers take a more circuitous route to their final decisions.
and software-based design and computing together. Sprout is a clunky device to gaze upon,
me how it works during an interview conducted via Skype video. The Poynt terminal he used said Welcome to Main St. Bakery on the customer screen
and Kabbage and releasing a software development kit in hopes of attracting other developers too o
But Wetzstein says Magic Leap will need likely to make major breakthroughs in computer vision software for a wearable device to make sense of the world enough for very rich augmented reality. hey will require very powerful 3-D image recognition,
Magic Leap already employs Gary Bradski, a pioneer of computer vision research and software, notes Wetzstein.
and thanks to software and other digital technologies. Why hire a local tax consultant when you can use a cheap,
The ability to copy software and distribute digital products anywhere means customers will buy the top one.
Why use a search engine that is almost as good as Google? Such economic logic now rules a growing share of the marketplace;
This science he says is critical for designing the hardware and software control systems of bionic devices.
the FDA said it has authority to regulate software that interprets genomes, even if such services are given away free.
After all, they named their software after Prometheus, the titan who defied the gods by stealing fire from Mt olympus and giving it to mankind.
You will be able to use a setting in ios to quickly switch from carrier to carrier right on the ipad
But one shopper tries it by taking out his Android phone and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal.
because card numbers aren stored directly on the phone or on Apple servers. Instead, digital tokens, encrypted numbers that look like card numbers,
says David Brudnicki, chief technology officer for Sequent Software, which provides mobile wallet services to banks, retailers,
AT&T, and Verizon is touting its support of more than 80 Android phones and the ability to pay at retailers including Mcdonald, Subway, and Walgreens.
He and his colleagues are developing design software that simulates the way different patterns of these materials printed onto different kinds of composite materials will behave under different conditions.
The factory will be able to produce a million 15-centimeter-wide panels per month. Even with such advances, it will take years to bring costs low enough to make OLED lighting widely used.
Apps for iphone and Android are in the offing but for now the only way to use it on a smartphone
Izhikevich s startup Brain Corporation based in San diego has developed an operating system for robots called Brainos to make that possible.
To teach a robot running the software to pick up trash for example you would use a remote control to repeatedly guide its gripper to perform that task.
Brain Corporation hopes to make money by providing its software to entrepreneurs and companies that want to bring intelligent low-cost robots to market.
and could then copy its software to new robots with the same design before they headed to store shelves.
Brain Corporation s software is based on a combination of several different artificial intelligence techniques. Much of the power comes from using artificial neural networks
But they might eventually offer a more powerful and efficient way to run software like Brainos.
Intel is working with software companies to develop applications that use the technology. In the next few weeks the chip maker will release free software that any software developer can use to build apps for the sensors.
Partners already working with Intel include Microsoft s Skype unit the movie and gaming studio Dreamworks and the 3-D design company Autodesk according to Achin Bhowmik general manager for Intel s
perceptual computing business unit. None of those partners showed off what they re working on at the event this week.
The Michigan State university researchers developed software that makes it feasible to accurately match fingerprints of children under five with off-the-shelf equipment.
The Michigan State university researchers needed to process images taken from fingerprint sensors using software to compensate for the small size of the children s fingerprints as well as their sometimes wet and oily skin.
In a trial in Benin West Africa the software successfully matched about 70 percent compared to 98 percent in another test in Lansing Michigan.
and uses software to segment the resulting 3-D model into pieces, similar to the way in
ük re-registers the real couch location with Vizera server; and if I were to move the carefully positioned throw pillow,
so the team has compensated for this by performing some image manipulation in software. ne could think of Pinlight Displays as exploiting how the eye sees an image that is out of focus,
There may be other potential benefits to the team approach. ince part of the image formation process takes place in software,
or ordinary glasses, creating a display that looks like ordinary glasses with the addition of an LCD panel.
Data is routed through the company servers where it is collected and analyzed for trends. The company doesn view the contents of messages,
Roseanne Luth, says participants can uninstall the software anytime they want (though theyl stop earning any money at that point.
when cryptographic software operates to decrypt data using a secret key. Measuring the electrical potential leaked to your skin
and analyzing that signal using sophisticated software, can be enough to determine the keys stored within,
The work contributes to a growing body of evidence that regardless of the software protections people place on computers
but he has notified cryptography software makers. It is possible to avoid such attacks by adding random data to computations.
The developers of one popular free cryptographic software package, Gnupg, incorporated such a patch into the latest version of their software a
Marc Mcconnaughey, CEO of Light Polymers, says the company materials are being evaluated by flat-panel display manufacturers.
000 computers with 16 processors apiece (see elf-Taught Software. Although the new Synapse chip has more transistors than most desktop processors,
Server chips with similar numbers of transistors consume tens of watts of powerround 10,000 times more.
Software installed on the phone allows it to read that signal by observing the changing strength of the signal it detects from that same router as the battery-free device soaks some of it up.
or requires software that tracks head movement and adjusts the image accordingly. Barsky expects this won be much of a problem,
and advances in analytic software now make it possible to capture vast amounts of information about our individual makeup and the environment around us.
#Amazon s Zocalo Cloud Service Casts a Shadow over Startups In the 1990s Microsoft became identified with the Death Star partly by enticing developers to build applications (such as Wordperfect
and Lotus 1-2-3) on its platform and then releasing copycat versions that ran more smoothly thanks to proprietary access to the underlying code.
The stock market chose the same moment to pound cloud-software companies giving rise to reports that Box would postpone its public offering.
The company has built server farms in Europe Asia and South america to deal with local regulations and provide a responsive experience to international customers and deal with local regulations.
Exploits Cyber attacks rely on exploitation of ulnerabilitiesbugs in the source code of commonly used software to infect target computers.
Some U s.-based defense contractors are openly advertising positions for people with Top Secret/SCI clearance to create offensive exploits targeting iphones, ipads, and Android devices.
Because the U s. is home to the most ubiquitous Internet services, search engines, webmail sites, browsers,
and mobile operating systems, it can basically spy on the whole world at a level no other country can.
#Google Makes Its Search engine a Remote control for Some Mobile Apps Getting stuff done using a smartphone often involves swiping through a jumble of icons looking for just the right app then navigating within it to find what you want.
So far aimed only at devices running Google s mobile operating system Android the new system also expands the company s vision for mobile voice-operated functionality that competes with Apple s Siri and Microsoft
On Thursday at the Google I/O conference for software developers in San francisco the company announced that its search engine will now index any
Chang said the company was interested in eventually rolling out the new features to devices based on Apple s ios operating system
We re focused naturally right now on Android he said but Google users are on all different platforms and that s really important to us.
The key to searching inside apps is modified a version of the Googlebot software that constantly trawls the Web.
Facebook for example has launched a program called App Links designed to help spread the practice on both Android
and ios devices and a well-funded startup recently announced its own plans for a search engine focused on searching inside apps (see A Search engine for the App Era
however, it may also be creating a powerful new mobile search engine that could evolve into a simpler way to find all sorts of information on the fly.
During yesterday event in Seattle, Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos introduced the Fire Phone black handset that runs a modified version of Google android system and looks pretty similar
says Ramneek Bhasin, general manager of mobile and vice president of product for shopping search engine Thefind. Bhasin is interested in using Firefly to expand the Thefind search capabilities.
which often exceed the cost of the panels themselves, because fewer panels are needed to generate a given amount of power.
Silevo isn the only company to produce high-efficiency solar cells. A version made by Panasonic is just as efficient,
But Silevo claims it could make its panels as cheaply as conventional ones if it can scale up from its current production capacity of 32 megawatts to the factory Musk has planned,
That effort has seen already the data use of Facebook main Android app drop by 50 percent.
or Skype them. The problem is real, and as our devices grow more and more capable, we had better do something about reversing this trend.
First Emotion-Reading Apps for Kids with Autism The first mobile apps that use emotion-reading software to help kids with autism are nearing release,
Affectiva grew out of emotion-detecting research at MIT Media Lab. The company software, called Affdex, analyzes images of faces to detect features such as smiles, frowns, raised eyebrows, furrowed brows, and smirks.
last year, the company released the software to app writers for ios, the operating system used in iphones and ipads.
And now the first apps are said coming el Kaliouby. utistic kids have trouble reading and understanding social and emotional cues,
The advertising work helped make the software more accurate by rainingit she added. After three years analyzing faces seen on webcams,
if it gains access to an e-mail provider servers. Even here, though, the tide may be turning:
says the Google data shows progress. ore e-mail is being encrypted between mail servers, he says. ne would hope that a general,
Software built a 3-D model of my head and shoulders and then used that model to calculate a personalized filter that made it possible to fool my auditory senses.
or software, says Ivan Tashev, the researcher at Microsoft Redmond labs working on the project with colleague David Johnston. ou can use this for virtual reality and augmented reality,
his software generates an approximation of that subject HRTF that seems good enough to produce unusually accurate spatial audio. ssentially we can predict how you will hear from the way you look,
The software that does that was created by capturing accurate HRTFS for 250 people and then comparing them with 3-D scans of their heads.
if we didn have so many wires and gadgets to plug in. Yet many of the wireless charging products that have come to market have relied on special charging mats that juice up devices at a short distance,
and ipad apps for Microsoft office was word of a new app that could put the company at the forefront of productivity software again.
will be included in Office 365, Microsoft subscription-based productivity software for PCS and mobile devices, in the second half of 2014.
general manager of the Microsoft office suite. y work is no longer about who sent me e-mail most recently;
which runs in the background on Android devices, waiting for the moment to pop up with timely information about traffic patterns
Microsoft is struggling to compete not only with Google search, Google docs, Google Drive, and Android but with Google ability to leverage big data.
With Oslo, the company is trying to take advantage of the information that its customers have poured into various products,
in areas including search (Bing), e-mail (Outlook), social media (Yammer), document creation (Office), and content distribution (Sharepoint).
Where his predecessor Steve Ballmer clutched the fading Windows operating system like a frayed security blankethe ios version of Office appeared four years after the iphone debutadella has acknowledged the company need to move on,
New sensors and software allow these machines to predict collisions and avoid them as humans go about their work.
and Openremote (see ree Software Ties the Internet of things Together, with different business models and levels of complexity.
Big companies like General electric are developing factory-monitoring software platforms. Yet Freeboard stands out among the various platforms because t the easiest to use, says Venkatesh Prasad, group and technical leader for vehicle design and infotronics at Ford motor.
Electronics manufacturing giant Wistron has modified now equipment at one of its factories in China to produce touch-screen panels with the shape-shifting technology inside.
But the panel feels noticeably less smooth to a finger swiping the surface. The guides provide physical feedback
Wong-Foy has written software to do that, and used it to choreograph the movement of over 1, 000 tiny robots in a complex circulating pattern.
The software controlling the robots can also move the platform they are sitting On it moves the platform each time a new layer is complete so the robotsworking space stays the same as the structure theye building grows.
Firechat makes use of a feature Apple introduced in the latest version of its ios mobile software ios7 called multipeer connectivity.
He hopes to enable many more Internet-optional apps with the upcoming release of software tools that will help developers build Firechat-style apps for iphone or for Android Mac and Windows devices.
However Open Garden s forthcoming software will extend the feature so that data can hop between two iphones out of range of one another via intermediary devices.
and North korea says Mattt Thompson a software engineer who writes the ios and Mac development blog NSHIPSTER.
Recent revelations about large-scale surveillance of online services and the constant litany of data breaches make this a good time for apps that don t rely on central servers he says.
Open Garden s main product is an app that allows Android devices to share their Internet connections (see Could You Spare Some Internet access?.
He argues that the spread of cheap Android phones across the world will make mesh networking feasible.
cofounder of BT Software, based in San diego. He is one of a very few developers
Called Kaliki, BT Software app provides audio readings of storiesone by humans, not text-to-speech softwareulled from mainstream publications such as USA Today and TV Guide,
or calls by nationalists in Russia to block Skype, or an unfolding German plan to keep most e-mail traffic within its borders.
After all, the Snowden documents suggest how vigorously the NSA worked to insert back doors in gear, software,
In this issue we travel to an old bunker in Switzerland that local entrepreneurs have turned into a server farm,
environmentally friendly device,'explains Jonathan Bouzy, a project manager at Soft IQ and member of the Humanitech Challenge panel of judges.'
environmentally friendly device,'explains Jonathan Bouzy, a project manager at Soft IQ and member of the Humanitech Challenge panel of judges.'
"This has been the first attempt in India to develop such a product using odour sensors that make use of intelligent software to identify odorous molecules.
It is also possible to train the software by feeding information based on observation of experts,
and piloted driving system at the Consumer electronics Show (CES) in Las vegas. The virtual cockpit unveiled by Audi at the CES is based on the Android platform;
a group of international researchers and engineers have combined Artec Scanning Software and the Artec Spider,
a handheld 3d scanner designed specifically for CAD users, to create a new, high-fedelity 3d scanning technique.
and processing 3d surfaces, also offers software licenses for roughly#500 more. In order to prove the superiority of their new scanning method,
and parts as well as developments in making 3d printing material recipes open source-such as Autodesk decision to release the recipe of their Ember 3d printer resin.
when the technology is combined with various electronics and built with an open source mentality, the possibilities are seemingly endless.
Dustin, Experience Designer Matt Reamer ustin Wordsis an open source invention that helps people who can speak
"We're also going to open source everything we dorom our code, to the 3-D models, to the platform itself,
open source device and platform that families can use to meet their unique communication needs, says Matt. any families who already struggle with financial burdens due to health-related issues end up spending thousands of dollars on assistive communication tools.
Matt wants to make his entire project open source for everybody to be able to have access to.
but they will also serve as inspiration as Matt continues to further iterate on Dustin Words to make it the the penultimate affordable, open source,
to application development everything we do will be shared on open source platforms so that we can engage an impassioned global community.
so it kind of works kind of like a muscle sensor in that it picks up small electric discharges and turns that into something you can actually read within software,
while all designs are open source with the express purpose of making it suitable for any type of situation, amputation or genetic defect.
because we this open source, we want someone that has a 3d printer, or very little printing experience, to be able to replicate this,
and the software does the rest. The turntable is removed completely from the scanning process The patent also concerns the technology ability to distinguish between the object, the users fingers and even the objects around it.
to create new Handomatic software and perhaps most impressive of all, they plan on putting 6, 000 3d printed prosthetic hands out into the world for children in need.
if the software determines that an oncoming object may be a hazard,(in this case, anything that measures more than 3 inches/76 mm) the cyclist is alerted via an audio alert.
because it doesn require the need for large quantities of silicon-based panels which are produced in wafers
For the study, the researchers used design software to draw complex shapes including a bunny, a waving humanoid and a bottle.
and Microsoft look to dominate the software and hardware of 3d printing, Eastman, Mistubishi, and Natureworks are looking at the materials side of the industry.
It my personal opinion that the open source community will win out in the long term and with Eastman picking partners already valued by the DIY and open source communities,
I think theye placed the appropriate bets p
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