For example researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are using satellite data and local measurements to build a tool that can tell governments about expected patterns of land sinking in delta areas.
In recent months, card data breaches At home Depot, Target, and others have alerted consumers that credit
and data about them to Apple, says Richard Crone, CEO of the payments advisory firm Crone Consulting.
Social scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys Gathering data about human preferences and activities is the bread-and-butter of much research in the social sciences.
But just how best to gather this data has long been the subject of fierce debate.
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
when it comes to analyzing the data collected in this way. Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale.
To find out these guys have developed a new type of data collection mechanism that they call a wiki survey.
These included ideas that would have been unlikely to emerge through other data gathering methods such as Keep NYCS drinking water clean by banning fracking in NYS watershed
That could be done by comparing the results to those gathered by other forms of data collection.
What s more analyzing the data from pairwise wiki surveys is still something of a statistical experiment.
That is an interesting new approach that allows the collection of data that would be difficult to get by other methods.
In particular it allows data to be gathered in a way that reflects the well-known long-tailed distribution of contributors.
and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz Ello contends that on social networks like Facebook we the users are the product as our data is sold to advertisers who hope to entice us with ads in our feeds.
It doesn t sell user data to third parties either and you can decide whether or not you want to let it gather information about your own Ello activity to improve the site.
I m accustomed to paying with the breadcrumbs of data I drop along the way.
and off every pixel in just under one millisecond (the flap of a fly wing takes almost three times as long).
About 90 percent of DNA data is produced on sequencing machines from a single company Illumina of San diego (see 50 Smartest Companies:
When it first announced the Minion in 2012 expectations soared off the charts (see Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data.
Bhowmik also showed how data from a tablet s 3-D sensor can be used to build very accurate augmented reality games where a virtual character viewed on a device s screen integrates into the real environment.
In a conventional LCD display the liquid crystals within the pixels need to be positioned perfectly between two sheets of glass.
These sheets cannot be bent without misaligning the pixels. According to Max Mcdaniel chief marketing officer for Applied materials, a company whose equipment is used to make displays,
is also extremely difficult to make a flexible backlighthe component needed to illuminate LCD pixels.
Rather than the pixels being illuminated by a backlight, each pixel glows on its own, like a minuscule light bulb.
Manufacturers can already make OLED displays flexible. They first laminate a sheet of plastic to glass and then deposit the materials for the pixels and the electronics on top of both.
The glass stabilizes the manufacturing process and afterwards the plastic, together with display and electronic components, is lifted off the glass.
OLED pixels can be destroyed by even trace amounts of water vapor and oxygen, so you have to seal the display within robust, high-quality, flexible materials.
while keeping the electronics lined up properly with the pixels they control. Making a flexible battery is another challenge.
and Facebook Data Datacoup one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data has closed finished a trial of its service
and other personal information and will gleaned sell insights from that data to companies looking for information on consumer behavior.
or not depends on which streams of data he s willing to share. Options include debit card and credit card transactions and data from Facebook Twitter and Linkedin.
Datacoup won t provide raw data to companies. Instead it will provide results of analyses performed on that data.
For example a company might ask Datacoup to provide information on how often women in a certain age group mention coffee on Facebook on the same day they use their credit card in a coffee shop.
Data streams like those that Datacoup collects could turn out to be worth more than $10 a month.
Tens of thousands of people already receive $100 a month from a company called Luth Research in return for very detailed data from their smartphones tablets
Hogan expects the price that Datacoup offers people for their data to change as his company assesses the supply of customer information
and demand from companies willing to pay for analyses of that data. The market will decide he says s
It s an emerging type of economic environment arising from the digitization of fast-growing multilayered highly interactive real-time connections among people devices and businesses.#
Now businesses processes data and things##everything###can be connected in a network. That is transforming everything.
In 2011 with SAP s help the port developed a cloud-based system to better coordinate both land-side and port-side traffic based on a steady stream of incoming data.
and form the perceived image, says Maimone. ince the light rays that hit each display pixel come from the same direction,
though, there a demographic that collectively shrugs at the notion of being mined for data. Some startups hope to exploit this by buying access to your Web browsing
and banking data (see ell Your Personal data for $8 a Month. Luth Research, a San diego company
and analyzes data from preselected participantsphones and computers via a virtual private network connection. Data is routed through the company servers where it is collected
and analyzed for trends. The company doesn view the contents of messages, but what it does gather includes where smartphone users are given at any moment,
Luth hawks that data to the highest bidder. Wu says her company approach is especially valuable
Luth says it is working on a program that will incorporate the audio in a person environment with the data being collected to try to determine what theye doing.
#U s. Warrants for Overseas Data Trample Foreign Privacy Laws U s. Internet companies and indeed all multinationals with a presence in the United states appear to be trapped between the data access requirements of U s. law enforcement agencies
The company objected to the warrant with regard to data stored at its data center in Ireland claiming that U s. courts are authorized not to issue warrants for extraterritorial searches.
if it turned over data stored abroad to the U s. government it would be more difficult for the company to resist requests by foreign governments for data stored in the U s
because Microsoft is subject to U s. jurisdiction it must turn over data it controls regardless of where the data is stored.
This may be the first case in which a company has opposed formally a U s. search warrant concerning data stored abroad.
The revelations of Edward Snowden have put them all under increasing pressure to resist U s. requests for data access.
Dozens of countries around the world grant broad privacy protection to data processed for commercial purposes (the U s. is one of the few that do not.
They generally do not allow data to be transferred to foreign authorities without the approval of local regulators.
because they are subject to U s. data access requests. For example in June the German government cancelled a contract with Verizon for Internet services.
Many more companies have a commercial incentive to contest these cross-border requests for data. The issues raised in the Microsoft case are relevant to all companies subject to U s. jurisdiction not just those in the Internet sector including companies based abroad but active in the U s. market.
The privacy expectations of the Internet users whose data may be accessed have received little attention. The best way to resolve this conflict would be to make changes to U s. legislation that balance the interests of companies and law enforcement while taking the privacy expectations of individuals into account.
and the E u. known as the Umbrella Agreement might provide some relief by establishing formal rules about data sharing.
And the privacy of individuals whose data is held by companies with a U s. presence will remain largely unconsidered.
#How to Break Cryptography With Your Bare Hands With enough technical savvy, simply touching a laptop can suffice to extract the cryptographic keys used to secure data stored on it.
when cryptographic software operates to decrypt data using a secret key. Measuring the electrical potential leaked to your skin
The catch is that contact must be made as data is unlocked with a keyuring decryption of a folder or an e-mail message, for instance.
Tromer says he doesn know of anybody performing a ground-potential attack to steal real data
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
After building up a set of training data, which included images of hands, the group found it could measure a person motions at a speed of 220 frames per second.
While the training data focused on faces and hands, the group wasn actually training the machines to recognize hands or faces,
The huge amount of training data allows the machine to build enough associations with the data points in the pictures that it can then use additional properties of the image to estimate the depth.
what sort of training data that you give it, he says. he approach in itself can be tailored to work on any other scenario. n
#Super-Fast Pixels Could Make Smartphones Brighter and Longer-Lasting Displays account for between 45 and 70 percent of the total energy consumption in portable electronics.
A new kind of liquid crystal display (LCD) with pixels that switch much more quickly could give smartphones brighter screens
a layer of liquid crystal material in each pixel switches from one state to another to block the passage of specific colors of light.
and one green, that illuminate all of the pixels in the display in very rapid successionoo quickly for the eye to perceive.
The color of each pixel then depends on perfectly timing when it opens to let light through.
In a conventional LCD, pixels switch much too slowlyn the range of a couple of millisecondsor the technique to work.
It involves using a new material that strongly anchors a kind of liquid crystal that switches pixels on and off very quickly.
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
and other sensory data. IBM Synapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million eurons,
When data is fed into a Synapse chip it causes a stream of spikes, and its neurons react with a storm of further spikes.
simulated neural networks to work on data (see eep Learning. But those networks require giant clusters of conventional computers.
because they store data and program instructions in a block of memory that separate from the processor that carries out instructions.
And it doesn work on data in a linear sequence of operations; individual neurons simply fire
but it can still send data over Wi-fi. These prototype gadgets, developed by researchers at the University of Washington,
and battery-free sensors behind couches and cabinets could provide the detailed data needed to make such thermostats more effective. ou could throw these things wherever you want
the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher. Harvesting ambient radio waves can collect on the order of tens of microwatts of power.
But sending data over Wi-fi requires at least tens of thousands of times more powerundreds of milliwatts at best
To send data to a smartphone for example, one of the new prototypes switches its antenna back and forth between modes that absorb
To send data to the battery-free device a conventional Wi-fi device sends a specific burst of packets that lets the receiving device know it should listen for a transmission.
The data is then is encoded in a stream of further packets with gaps interspersed between them.
is a much better source of data than the wrist because it offers an area where blood flows neatly in and out,
and Leboeuf contends it not necessary to keep them on constantly to collect useful data.
or outside the earbud) analyzes the data, removing oiselike skin movement or sunlight and extracting information like heart and respiration rates.
With accelerometer and blood-flow data, Leboeuf says, Valencell algorithms can also estimate things like the number of calories youe burned.
The data is sent then on to your smartphone. Leboeuf says Valencell technology has been validated by groups outside the company;
Accelerometer data already being collected by the earbuds could even be used to create a sort of 3-D stereoscopic audio experience
in theory, let you store tens or even hundreds of times as much data on your smartphone.
Like flash memory, RRAM can store data without a constant supply of power. Whereas flash memory stores bits of information in the form of charge in transistors
Some prototypes can store data densely enough to enable a terabyte chip the size of a postage stamp. hy don you have all the movies you would like on your iphone?
each one so thin that the memory chip could still easily fit inside portable electronic products.
But he notes there are several options for next-generation memory chips, and that getting advances to market is challenging. hile you can get many materials to switch,
The algorithm alters the light from each individual pixel so that, when fed through a tiny hole in the plastic filter, rays of light reach the retina in a way that re-creates a sharp image.
if researchers used a display with a high enough resolutionbout double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paperhe technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once t
After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age. Mobile technologies, sensors, genome sequencing,
here is a lot of data being gathered. That not enough, says Ed Martin, interim director of the Information Services Unit at the University of California San francisco School of medicine. t really about coming up with applications that make data actionable.
The business opportunity in making sense of that dataotentially $300 billion to $450 billion a year, according to consultants Mckinsey & Companys driving well-established companies like Apple, Qualcomm,
and IBM to invest in technologies from data-capturing smartphone apps to billion-dollar analytical systems.
and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013 rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group.
The groups that control the most medical data today are insurance companies and care providers, and their data analysis is already beginning to change health care.
and processes 1. 4 billion prescriptions a year, has scoured its data from doctorsoffices, pharmacies, and laboratories to detect patterns that might alert doctors to potential adverse drug interactions and other prescription issues.
Data brought in from electronic health records would add doctorsinsights, test results, and medical history. Genetic data would offer insight into
whether patients are predisposed to certain conditions or how they might react to treatments. e want to believe that most of the things we do in medicine are based on evidence,
Data is also changing the role of patients, offering them a chance to play a more central part in their own care.
and provides the patient doctor with treatment recommendations based on the data and established medical guidelines.
Ginger. io uses data collected (with permission) from a phone and other sensors to assess the behavior of people with mental illnesses such as depression.
which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
The goal is to create a central repository where researchers can examine multiple sources of data simultaneously.
data that once would have been locked up in one academic researcher lab will now be readily available to many different experts. o much of that data is already out there,
These guys have gathered the largest historical data set on smoking ever compiled and study how its prevalence is correlated with the types of societies involved.
And yet the Swedes had access to the same data about the dangers of smoking at more or less the same time.
The puzzle is that the data on smoking shows exactly the reverse. Sweden was much slower to adopt smoking and much slower to stop.
The price of hard disk capacity per megabyte plummeted from $700 in 1981 to two-tenths of a cent in 2010.
50 gigabytes at Mega one terabyte at Flickr. This week in fact Box announced that it would offer unlimited storage to customers of its business product.
According to data released by Alphabet Energy tetrahedrite costs about $4 per kilogram, whereas other thermoelectric materials cost between $24 and $146 per kilogram.
the project expects to be able to compare DNA data with detailed centralized health records (see hy the U k. Wants a Genomic National Health service.
Each one focuses light onto 29 megapixel chip. The dome is designed so that the fields of view of each of the small telescopes overlap to cover around 10,000 square degrees of sky simultaneously
That will produce 700 megapixel images every two minutes at a data rate of 5 MB per second.
This will be stored on a 20 TB storage unit that should help to handle three months of data,
And because Law and co intend to store all the data produced by the Evryscope, it should also be handy for after-the-fact study of any event in the night sky.
and objects on minute-by-minute timescales in archival data, say Law and co. And they should do at the relatively low cost in the near future. e expect to deploy a prototype of the Evryscope system in early 2015,
Cyber-spies use rojansand ack doorsto access data on their targetscomputer networks, remotely monitor them,
The most effective method to protect data against cyber-spying is to process confidential information on dedicated computers that are connected not to the Internet.
However, the same advancements in computing power and data storage that have made wholesale surveillance possible have made also leaking possible.
That allows the data from each sensor to be compared and combined to produce a far more precise estimate of orientation than a single measurement alone.
which combines the data from all the sensors. The fused data is streamed then to a conventional laptop.
However Nguyen and Banic recognised the bulkiness of this set up. This wired connection later could be replaced by a wireless solution using a pair of XBEE modules they say.
#Facebook s Emotional Manipulation Study Is Just the Latest Effort to Prod Users With emotion-triggering effort, Facebook pushes beyond data-driven studies on voting, sharing,
With huge amounts of data flooding in from more than a billion users, the company has a unique position to study their every move
Mining personal data is a billion-dollar business (see he Data Made Me Do it designed to elicit purchases, garner eyeballs,
Facebook data use policy is far more vague, saying that it might use your data for nternal operations,
including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and service improvement. This lack of consent is concerning to Antonio Damasio,
and that it was powered by Google s database of facts and relationships known as Knowledge Graph (see How a Database of the World s Knowledge Shapes Google s Future).
We will be expanding over time he said. Chang said the company was interested in eventually rolling out the new features to devices based on Apple s ios operating system
capture free over-the-air TV broadcasts on tiny antennas in data centersne antenna per customernd send that content over the Internet to individual subscribers,
and senior author of the JAMA study. think the data supports implementing tomosynthesis for screening,
the technology could also allow confirmation that data streaming from the device is coming from the right person,
what the phone camera sees with information from its database of products. And, interestingly, it allowing developers to use Firefly in their own apps.
That could mean anything from multimedia scavenger hunts to faster access to nutritional data. Bezos used the example of an app called Myfitnesspal
which could use Firefly to recognize something like a bag of Cheetos and show its nutrition data.
Bezos also indicated that developers could use Firefly with their own image-recognition technology and databases of known objects.
so that it can be matched up against known objects in a database. And it can get trickiernd slowero determine a match with authority as the database gets larger. here still a gap between science and fiction there;
what we like to do and what the state-of-the-art allows, Shiftan says t
#Elon musk Needs a Very Big Factory for His New Solar technology The Tesla founder and private space entrepreneur Elon musk announced yesterday that Solar City,
Just like a transistor in a conventional computer, a qubit can switch between states that represent either a 1 or 0 of digital data.
That would allow a quantum computer to process data many times faster than any conventional computer.
Microsoft research focuses on a type of qubit known as a topological qubit that theory suggests would encode data in a much more robust way.
Facebook Puts Its Apps on a Data Diet as Part of a Global Internet Campaign As Facebook eyes the six billion or so people in the world who don use its services,
Not with moneyrofits are growing healthilyut with the data demands that Facebook use places on mobile networks.
The data diet campaign began after a group of Facebook product managers traveled to several African countries last year. ur apps were crashing all the time
and they maxed out their data plan in 40 minutes, said Parikh. e now have a whole team of people focused on reducing data consumption.
There continual effort to drive data use down. That effort has seen already the data use of Facebook main Android app drop by 50 percent.
That trend continues across all of Facebook apps, said Parikh. The move to be thriftier with usersdata is a part of the Internet. org project launched by Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg last year.
Its stated aim is to bring affordable Internet access to everyone on the planet an effort that could incidentally supply Facebook with many new customers (see acebook Two Faces.
Parikh said that slashing app data use fits into an equally important arm of the project focused on people that can access Internet infrastructure
Making apps more economical with data is one thing that could help such people, he said.
and charge for data use. ee working with carriers to rethink how they price and offer data plans,
said Parikh t
#Designing Connections From the beginning, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab has focused on using digital technology to maintain human interaction and human connections at the community level.
and data about their communities using a smartphone application based on the Mobile Experience Lab Open Locast technology.
Affectiva database now holds more than a billion facial expressions
#A Simple Plan to Impede the NSA Is Taking hold A year after revelations first emerged from former National security agency contractor Edward Snowden about mass Internet surveillance,
says the Google data shows progress. ore e-mail is being encrypted between mail servers, he says. ne would hope that a general,
To work properly, Tashev system also needs data on the position of the headphones as a person moves his head
It draws on online content and a company internal data to offer important information, context,
a database developed by the former employees of Fast Search & Transfer in Oslo, Norway,
and cars to the Internet, unleashing new streams of data about our everyday lives, one mobile ad company scents a new opportunity.
when more and more data on people actions in the real world is becoming available as wearable devices, Internet-connected home automation equipment,
and cars with integrated data connections head to market. Those new data streams could form the basis for many new services and products,
but they also bring new privacy concerns. Ads tailored to driving behavior will be possible thanks to a partnership with fellow startup Mojio.
and streams vehicle data to a smartphone app to help users track their driving, their fuel economy,
and their vehicle maintenance status. Kiip will use data from that device to target promotions inside the Mojio phone app.
Sprague says that getting access to data from a car engine and safety systems could unlock some unprecedented approaches to ad targeting.
Similarly, Sprague says that gaining access to data from connected home gadgets, such as thermostats or home automation systems, could also allow for creative new ads.
Kiip hasn announced yet any partnerships that that might provide that data, though. Kiip currently sells ads to brands including General mills and American Apparel.
and some other companies make it clear that a person is getting a direct benefit in return for sharing data,
However, Kiip and other companies moving in that direction must try to find a way of offering advertisers new ways to reach people without leaving those people feeling that they no longer control their own data. he user that going to interact with your brand really needs to know what they are giving up,
because Geico looked at my data, I want to be the one in control. The way I drive my car is personal information. l
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