#NSA testing smartphones that can tell who you are by the way you write: Handwriting recongition system The NSA is set to begin using smartphone software that can recognise a person by the way they write.
The software, called Mandrake and developed by Lockheed martin, verifies a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual's finger strokes on a touch screen.
'We've done work with the NSA for secure gesture authentication as a technique for using smartphones,
and Android devices that keeps all corporate email, browsing, documents and applications encrypted, contained, and UNDER IT control no matter who owns the device.'
'It will enable smartphone and tablet users to authenticate into Fixmo Safezone with a simple, user-defined gesture,
The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
#Google confirms Buy button is'imminent':'Search giant to take on Amazon and ebay with shopping from search results Google is set to allow people to buy directly from search results.
The search giant's chief business officer Omid Kordestani confirmed the move at the Code Conference today.'
'90%of commerce is still offline, mobile devices are perfect for guiding people, 'Kordestani described the product launch as a way to remove friction for users
and Google won't reportedly receive any commission, but it has been designed to streamline the process. According to the report, the buttons would appear alongside paid search results on mobile in the'Shop on Google'section.
When a potential shopper clicks the button they will be taken to a specially designed product page
within the Google search engine. The buttons will be rolled out on a'small number of searches, 'although details about which retailers-and what the partnerships will entail-have not been released.
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
when the user is signed into their Google account on the browser being used. The service may also take advantage of the site's same-day delivery service
Google Shopping Express. It is only currently available in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan, San francisco, WASHINGTON DC, West Los angeles. An overnight option is additionally available in Northern California.
Google is not commenting on the news, but it follows Facebook's plans to rival ebay with its latest secondhand selling tools.
Earlier this year Facebook made it easier to get rid of unwanted secondhand goods by adding official Sell buttons to its site.
And now the social network is helping buyers find these goods by expanding its search tool
and adding category filters. Similar to how categories appear on ebay Facebook now lets users sort
and find'For sale'posts across multiple groups based on the item being sold. These categories include Appliances, Event Tickets, Household Items, Mobile phones, Real estate and Rentals and more. e
#Chinese researchers at Tzekwan Technology unveil face-recognition ATM MACHINE By Edward Chow For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 1 june 2015 Updated:
13:48 GMT, 1 june 2015 Chinese engineers have developed a cash machine that uses facial features-instead of the traditional PIN number-to identify card owners.
The device, which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.
and their audio features can be controlled using a smartphone app. Using innovative technologies they block out certain sounds,
and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth. They can also be recharged twice fully in a charging case.
'Here is meant not to replace your headphones, headsets, or earbuds,'the company said.''The Here Active Listening System is designed for live listening environments,
they don lose quality or efficiency for 37 years, according to his website. Speaking in a video, Dyson said his greatest innovation to date is the ability to cool LEDS
vertically and rotationally with the touch of a fingertip, the website says. While conventional lights usually rely on springs
The compound could also be used to make mobile phone screens that fix themselves and hardy nail polish where chips are repaired automatically.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
#Samsung's smart MIRROR shows weather, traffic information and even Facebook notifications as you brush your teeth You could soon see traffic delays as you take your morning shower,
or catch up with what's been happening on Twitter as you get dressed thanks to Samsung's latest display technology.
The team at makers H+claim Holus can convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or phone into a 3d image,
and a Wi-fi and Bluetooth connection to connect to different devices. The gadget is viewable from four different angles with 360-degree,
Holus comes in two versions-a Home edition with two smartphone charging docks, and a Pro version with an HDMI port and SDK tool so developers to use other devices with the Holus and come up with new uses for it.
this can also include radio waves, lasers and even sound waves. The microwave gun is evidence of plans by Russia to modernise its armed forces,
Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
who intends to beam the internet to Earth from space. Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
enabling rapid iteration and development of space related technologies. neweb plan involves 20 groups of low-orbiting satellites being connected to small terminals on the ground that would act as hubs to link to phones and computers.
whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups. r Musk has said previously that he expects his service to handle 10 per cent of all Internet traffic
However, it not clear how the Internet will be eamedto smartphones and other devices On earth. Each satellite will be placed at a height of 750 miles (1
200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online, by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
These new phyla were found from just one site using samples of groundwater in Colorado
10:54 GMT, 24 june 2015 Google and Blocks may be leading the way when it comes to modular phones and watches,
but Ford is hoping to bring the concept to your morning commute. At a conference in California, the car maker unveiled its latest prototype folding electric bike called Mode:
Link, currently only compatible with the iphone 6. This app acts as a sat-nav
Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
Oblivion software could help Google remove hundreds of people from the web in seconds By Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
15:10 GMT, 26 june 2015 In the year since the European Court of Justice ruled that anyone can ask Google to remove personal information about them,
the site has evaluated more than one million links. Each request has to be verified and processed by a dedicated team of people,
And they hope to offer it to Google, and other search engines, to help them manage future demands.
and tag their personal information on the web, using both text-or natural language processing (NLP)- and image recognition.
and tagged pages to Google who confirms the details match with those in the article,
and both are submitted to Google's takedown team. The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany,
At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed 41%of those it has processed fully (interactive module above).
these technical means consist of a web form that requires a user to manually identify all relevant links herself upfront
and to insert them into the web form, followed by a manual evaluation by employees of the indexing system to assess
'At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed more than 41 per cent of those it has processed fully.
Last week France's data watchdog gave Google just two weeks to extend the'right to be forgotten'ruling to all of its domains.
because Google only deletes the information from searches made through European domains, such as google. fr or google. es.
By switching to a non-European Google domain, such as Google. com, internet users can still access the deleted links relatively easily.
Google added that Facebook accounted for the largest number of deleted URLS. But not all requests are granted,
only those deemed by Google to be valid. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of CNIL, said the order to remove search results globally'is only telling international companies that operate in Europe that they must conform to European law'.
'Google said that it is working to comply with the EU decision, but did not say
'If Google does not meet the deadline, it faces a relatively insignificant maximum fine of#150,000 (£110, 000).
if Google fails to meet the deadline, it would begin compiling a report about the company that would be used to decide
Computer learns to create computer games by watching videos of Super Mario Brothers Researchers have created a system that can automatically design new levels of a computer game by simply watching other people play on Youtube or Twitch.
The computer software was able to create its own levels for Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers after analysing Youtube footage of the game.
and a broken heart'A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3d position.'
when patients were shown the famous sites. This means the researchers were able to watch in real-time as the patients'neurons recorded a new memory of the person at a particular place.'
vibrating motors similar to the technology that makes a cell phone buzz, and a wireless USB adapter, among other technologies.
in order to send digital signals across wireless communication links to handlers, 'Roberts says. The technology can also reveal the position of the dog
said spokesman Luca Gamberini. e also have a sensor panel with live data feed from the lab biosphere so all data is live on the internet and accessible to anyone. c
The website Hacked obtained a copy of Tajmar's Propulsion and Energy Forum paper.''Our measurements reveal thrusts as expected from previous claims after carefully studying thermal and electromagnetic interferences,
'wrote Tajmar in the paper, according to the website.''If true, this could certainly revolutionise space travel.'
'announced Nasaspaceflight. com in April The site has become an unofficial source of EMDRIVE news,
'However, Nasa's official site says that:''There are many'absurd'theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research.'
access to devices and social media tagging, for example. At the moment, facial recognition systems tend to rely on matching clear and well-lit photos
and CEO michael schmidt, the HYVE caroshome gym works with a virtual reality headset, that can imitate flying, roller coasters,
when a VR boom started with oculus rift a few months later. we could then work on making our concept become reality. he icaros works along with virtual reality headsets the design
and roll axis are detected by smartphone accelerometers, that send user data into the virtual world, which was created by HYVE companion animation studio, lumacode. the combination movement and visual cues,
and smartphones. ola fingerprint smart lock wants to bring it to the forefront with faster operation, longer battery life,
and phone-less independence. made of zinc aluminum alloy, the lock incorporates the most advanced fingerprint sensor from sweden. it utilizes a radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin to guarantee its authenticity. the body is has no keyholes to deny any idea of lock picking,
and is installable in minutes with a mortise lock or a standard latch bolt system. the ola fingerprint lock uses four AA BATTERIES with a back up AAA BATTERY that are all replaceable by dissembling the back casing on the side of the home.
it is equipped with bluetooth 4. 0 and an app that is intuitive and intentionally minimal. it grants access to friends and family members with either a bluetooth key,
or by registering their fingerprints. the ola fingerprint lock currently looking for funding on its kickstarter campaign with a march 2016 shipping date. the companion app for ola the sensor uses radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin schematics of the ola fingerprint lock n
#droprinter exclusively developed for smartphones for truly mobile printing droprinter exclusively developed for smartphones for truly mobile printing all images courtesy droprinter the droprinter is designed solely for printing from a smartphone with a basic geometry that is made to fit in small bags
and be extremely portable. it can print text, photos, doodles and websites and doesn need ink
because it uses thermal paper to print anything displayed on the screen. the thermal paper is coated with a solid state mixture,
but they always bring their smartphone everywhere. that idea spawn the printer for moments when paper feels the most natural and organic way to communicate. checkout their kickstarter campaign that is looking for funding. the portable printer doesn need ink n
On a video posted to Youtube, Yvonne wrote: Kathy and I have been legally blind since we were children. esight glasses, an amazing new technology that
#Fraunhofer reveals chip-scale solar-powered wireless sensor node German lab Fraunhofer IMS has created a self-contained solar-powered wireless chip-scale IC that can warn
, cytoskeletal webs, neural circuits, and vasculature networks) form naturally to provide essential functions in even the most basic forms of life.
after a 10.1%decline in 2013, said Norwood. he smartphone market continued to perform well, with production growth of around 34%,down slightly from 39.5%in 2013,
although there was a distinct shift to utility and basic smartphones away from premium handsets. Tablet production,
and the Bluetooth chipset firm has combined its in-the-home wireless mesh network technology with Android Wear to allow home control
The CSRMESH protocol is used to connect Bluetooth Smart enabled devices controlling lights heating thermostats or even mechanisms to open and close curtains.
and minerals and has secured substantial financial backing on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. The pen-like device is called Vitastiq and uses a smartphone as an interface.
The device uses a method called electro-acupuncture (EAV), a traditional technique for measuring vitamin and mineral levels.
The smartphone app saves and evaluates previous reading from the device. The Croatia-based company has been working on the device and ios app development for two years.
and transmits the results wirelessly to a smartphone. It can do a complete blood test a PSA test
from the Gogoro mobile app on the riders smartphone or when a battery is exchanged at a Gostation via NFC. iders get to select specific ride feel,
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft
Sealed inside resin micro pods within yarns, the fabrics incorporating RFIDS can be run through washing machines
Similar to the RFID devices now used in bank cards for contactless payments, the tiny chips can contain all the information
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes. s
A likely application says Johan Liu is the integration of graphene-based film into LEDS, lasers and radio frequency components for cooling purposes n
Clinical trials of the device will begin next year at three sites in France and Italy, aiming to compare its readings with those from traditional medical devices.
is an app that uses a smartphone camera to monitor blood levels in the face
#Will car makers become internet companies? Connected vehicles will create a new business opportunity proving the internet-based mobile services to the driver.
Car manufacturers will soon be competing against technology companies to provide the online services to connected cars. Autonomous connected vehicles are seen as the first major market for so-called internet of things (Iot.
Connecting vehicles to the internet will add a far greater level of complexity to the automotive business model.
and sell internet based services. Whether they are successful in doing this will determine they business growth in the years ahead.
save and share digital recipes on their smartphones or tablets and, via partnerships with retailers like Freshdirect, turn recipes into shopping lists
The Smartgrill by Lynx, programmable via smartphone, is activated voice to cook on user command or automatically via a database of more than 200 preprogrammed recipes.
She relies on that baseline information to reply to customer email and answer phone calls; if she understands the query,
she scans the web or the corporate intranet for clues. Only when Amelia cannot locate the relevant information does she escalate the case to a human expert,
NTT Group and Baker hughes, tackling everything from overseeing technology help desks to supporting financial operations to advising remote workers in the field.
and now Google has them on the road. The pace of change is so rapidlmost exponentialhat even though Amelia is not yet really operational in too many situations,
But then I talk to people at the biggest computer science departments in the U s. laces like Google
he says. n the next few years you will start to see customers hanging up the phone and asking,
#Big U s. Data Breaches Offer Treasure trove for Hackers A massive breach of U s. federal computer networks disclosed this week is the latest in a flood of attacks by suspected Chinese hackers aimed at grabbing personal data,
adding that the attack on the pharma company involved malicious software installed together with the Chinese-language search engine Baidu.
and F-35 built by Lockheed martin Corp. Lockheed redoubled security efforts focused on suppliers after a"significant and tenacious"attack on its computer networks in 2011 that was enabled by lax security at a supplier.
including potential passwords for websites that may be portals to information about weapons systems or other research data."
which hackers gained access to private data of a website administrator by finding passwords on a public website linked to the person's hobby."
These cutting edge companies rely heavily upon mobile and cloud technologies and a wide variety of online services and platforms.
the president and founder of 10up Inc. 10up is a website design and development company with 115 team members working remotely from 20 locations.
While most remote companies reported using phone and video conferencing to conduct job interviews, some used other means.
Automattic, the web development company that operates Wordpress. com and has more than 325 remote workers,
Origin Eight, a web and application development company with 25 remote workers, takes time to build culture.
15-year veteran teacher and cofounder of Quick Key Mobile. his collaboration puts the power of teaching back into the capable hands of teachers.
the most widely used web-based student information system, supports more than 13 million students globally. Powerschool enables today educators to make timely decisions that impact student performance
and the mobile app can be used without Wi-fi. Quick Key Team Management and Quiz Sharing features allow district
#Google#s Project Ara update: New partners inductive data transfer and cutting-edge battery tech Ever since Google Project Ara debuted,
consumers have been interested in the possibility of a customized smartphone with hot-swappable modules and varying functionality that can be changed on the fly depending on the user needs.
Today, Google gave a major update on where the program is and where it headed through 2015.
Right now, Google is focused on building what it calls the Spiral 2 device, a new version of the hardware that will include multiple modules, greater flexibility,
the option to swap out the battery while the device is in low power mode, and the opportunity to use multiple antennas for better signal sourcing and multiple carrier support.
Google is reportedly working on induction signaling, with a 150-micron gap between components that will prevent the wear and tear that comes with repetitive switching back and forth.
Project Ara roadmap Google also laid out the Project Ara longer-term roadmap through 2015,
Spiral 3 will add the Rockchip reference design, an LTE 4g modem, an Android release, packaging
Google also talked up the concept of giving new and unusual battery designs a forum to experiment with Project Ara there are battery technologies that offer substantial improvements over conventional lithium polymer architectures
but either cost too much for typical inclusion into smartphones or have specialized other requirements. Some of these could be met within the Project Ara modular concept,
and Google wants to see the platform used for prototyping and market testing. Longer term, the goal is to create an initial pool of some 20-30 modules,
Google didn go into detail on what a ollution sensormight be, but it possible to include a carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide,
and other types of smoke detector modules in a smartphone platform. A Project Ara device could conceivably include multiple modules to scan for various types of atmospheric contaminants
along with an LTE modem to report their prevalence at specific locations. Google has stressed the goal of creating an entire ecosystem around this concept rather than simply throwing it to the consumer-wolves,
which implies that the device could at least find targeted applications in specific markets or spaces where its customizability are a selling point.
and hobbyists who want the ability to customize a phone for particularly long battery life or with specialized sensors.
if the phone can be equipped with a sufficiently flexible LTE radio to allow for a truly global device.
Google intends to move forwards with market availability in the 2016 timeframe 0
#In wake of Paris terror attacks UK Prime minister proposes ending secure communication The recent terror attacks against The french satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have rocked the international community. UK Prime minister
noting that the government has retained always the ability to intercept letter or phone traffic, and that he viewed it as essential that the UK be able to intercept email and online traffic as well.
Cameron has been a strong supporter of the UK internet filtering campaigns and has pushed ISPS to adopt policies that require every single household to choose
whether or not to receive a filtered service as quickly as possible, despite the well-known problems that filter systems have
#Google throws nearly a billion Android users under the bus refuses to patch OS vulnerability When it comes to providing security updates for previous products,
Others, like Google and Apple, have pursued tighter timelines for security updates. Google is now doubling down on that schedule,
refusing to patch bugs in Android 4. 3 or prior, even when those bugs could expose critical vulnerabilities on nearly a billion devices.
Up until quite recently, Google has patched aggressively problems in Android Webview rendering engine. Before Kitkat (Android 4. 4
With Kitkat and Lollipop, Google updated the operating system to use a Webview plugin derived from its Chromium project.
it contacted Google to inform the company that Android 4. 3 and below were vulnerable.
Google response and policy change are raising major eyebrows. Specifically, the company states that: If the affected version of Webview is before 4. 4,
Google will onsiderthe patch to see if it resolves the problem. If they don, Google now says the only thing it can do is inform various OEMS of the problem.
What Google is doing in essence, is telling its user community orry, you have to tell Samsung, LG,
and Motorola to provide you with an updated version of our operating system. This is hilariously impossible.
It would never fly in the PC WORLD imagine Microsoft telling customers orry, you have to make HP, Dell,
The average phone or tablet buyer has no way to upgrade their operating system unless the carrier provides an OTA update,
and two-year upgrade cycles means that plenty of people are going to be stuck on broken devices with known exploits that Google isn going to fix.
Granted, the fact that Google fixes an exploit doesn mean that carriers will deploy it,
Pushing OEMS off open-source Android One obvious reason for Google to stop fixing Android Browser problems is that the company is aggressively moving to get OEMS to stop using Android open-source features
and to replace them with features licensed directly from Google. Ars Technica has done an extensive write-up on this trend here,
No, Google isn killing Android it just ensuring that the only parts of the program that get feature updates, capability improvements,
and Samsung continued interest in Tizen are both the result of Google push to embed itself into the center of mobile business
Google is telling OEMS that they can either agree to its licensing terms and fall in line,
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