though it possible the recent release of its large-screen iphones impacted sales to some extent.
it still wasn enough to spur ipad sales given the excitement around the launch of the new iphones.
A myriad of factors are set to haul the business one way or the other, among them increased rivalry in emerging markets, saturation in established ones, the presence of Apple large-screen iphone 6 devices,
We have to figure out what microorganisms there arehe added. re the population sites healthy? Are they normal?
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#Futuristic cargo vessel looks to revolutionize shipping Norwegian ship designer Lade AS has unveiled a futuristic new design for cargo vessels
Testing of a model in a water tank is scheduled to begin in April he explained in an email.
--and based on this we were invited into the Vindskip project he explained in an email. Our vision is'shaping the maritime industry
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#US Air force confirms Boeing's electromagnetic pulse weapon For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had outpaced seemingly the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field.
the simple act of taking a photo with your smartphone could help fight crime, and prevent you from getting ripped off in the process.
Northwestern University scientists have invented new advanced fluorescent inks revealed through a phone's ultraviolet light that serve as the product barcodes of the future.
when highlighted by a smartphone ultraviolet light. To defeat counterfeiters, this ink could be applied to nearly anything, from the world most expensive handbags to rare liquor and even banknotes.
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#IBM and Bon Appétit's Chef Watson app cooks up some surprising dishes Meet Chef Watson, the most versatile culinary genius around.
and a tool that can be enhanced through social media. Abrams said that the app emphasizes that
in the statement. f you want your smartphone to project the landscape of a terrain 20 or 30 cm 8 to 12 inches out of the display,
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#Darwin Finches Found To Have interbred Repeatedly Genetic Study Say In a broad genetic study, Charles darwin Galapagos Island finches have been uncovered to have a rare and complicated evolutionary history.
#China Updated Great Firewall: Bans Numerous Internet service providers It appears as if China wants to create a boundary wall around its cyber space.
In the past few years the Chinese government has blocked multiple popular sites like Gmail Google Facebook Instagram Flicker and much more.
Recently the concerned authorities have updated its Great Firewall in order to save"cyberspace sovereignty"."In the latest upgrade the government has banned
These services were the only means to access Google and other blocked sites. Since last few months these services were working like a very useful alternative for the people living in China.
Wen Ku the director of telecom development at the Ministry of Industry and Information technology discussed the recent attacks.
The free use of internet gives birth to numerous crimes and problems all around the country.
On the other hand the government spokesman informs that authorities have blocked merely sites that are not obeying the rules and regulation.
The new technology made its debut at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Currently on the market mobile devices have more of a touch based type of fingerprint technology.
The fingerprint scanning could detect a number of different variations in the finger making it much more difficult to hack into a cellphone.
By using this new type of technology on mobile devices passwords will quickly become of thing of the past making your cellphone more secure.
Additionally any website that supports FIDO will be compatible with this new technology allowing you to log in with no password d
Launched Hololens 3d headset at Windows 10 Event On Windows 10 event, Microsoft introduced its Hololens 3d headset
which can be used to interact with holographic images and allowing its users to play video games and build 3d models.
Microsoft Hololens headset was the most eye-catching thing at the event when Windows 10 was showcased,
The company said the headset would be available around the same time that Windows 10 is released,
Hololens is a bit different from the virtual reality headset that has been focused by Samsung, Sony and many others.
The headset is part of the emerging category augmented reality, in which virtual 3-D objects appear to be inserted into the real world.
The Hololens headset is see-through so that people who wear it can continue to see the physical environment around them, unlike virtual reality headsets that completely envelope people with 3-D imagery.
Microsoft employee demonstrated it by designing a model of drone with the hand gesture to manipulate tools that were visible to her with the help of headset.
Microsoft did revealed not key details about the headset; including the most important question that how much it will cost.
Most of the event was dedicated to the Windows, which is in fact the biggest engine of the Company profit.
if they are using Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8. 1 on PC or phones. This would help Microsoft to get hundreds of millions of users running the older versions of Windows to upgrade quickly to the newest version.
and radar or telecommunication antennas, the researchers wrote about their findings. Guo and his colleagues were also the ones who have designed previously materials that are hydrophilic able to absorb water extremely quickly and efficiently d
#Device delivers drugs to brain by remote control A new wireless device the width of a human hair can be implanted in the brain
researchers made the tiny wireless devices capable of delivering drugs directly into the brain, with the remote push of a button.
Ronald and her laboratory colleagues have prepared a new posting for the Scientific American blog, which tells the story of the new discovery
Like radio transmitters and receivers, brain cells send and receive transmissions in fine-tuned ways that separate the signals from the noise.
Scientists have created ellular backpacksthat could carry therapeutic agents to the site of inflammation and then release them.
Once at the site, these monocytes transform into macrophages, cells that reside in the affected tissues to engulf
hold therapeutic agents that can be released at the site of the inflammation. These polymeric discs are coated on one side with a single layer of an antibody that can bind to receptors on the monocyte surface.
At the inflamed site, the particles would simultaneously degrade and release their drugs.""It is a good idea to get your levels checked on a yearly basis
but it could also allow for higher doses of drug to the site, which could decrease treatment time h
while the research center in Newcastle is expected to serve as the site for the first procedure. ur findings have considerable implications for all countries that are
#New Microchip Design Captures Circulating Tumor Cells Circulating tumor cells (CTCS) represent the metastatic seed that can break away from the primary tumor site,
and the delivery of drugs directly to the site of infection.""The process we have developed makes it possible for almost anyone to manufacture high-quality nanofibers without the need for expensive equipment,
#Pall Acquires Innovative Acoustic Wave Separation Technology Pall obtained an exclusive license for acoustic wave separation (AWS), a disruptive technology from Flodesign Sonics for cell culture clarification for both
The AWS technology works by applying acoustic forces across a flow channel to generate a three-dimensional standing wave.
and the process works in a robust manner at high yields, notes Egholm, who adds that the integration of the AWS technology expands the portfolio of continuous bioprocessing
"The AWS products will eliminate the reliance on centrifugation for cell culture clarification, and will provide a continuous feed stream for direct integration with the Biosmb platform.
Pall plans to introduce a single-use product line using AWS technology for the clarification of cell culture at both bench scale
The team found that formation of the MERS protease dimer can be stimulated by the binding of a third molecule at a particular site on its surface to trigger the formation of a strong dimer The particular site is where the protease would normally bond to the strand of protein it is meant to cut.
This also was the site the team was targeting with an inhibitor molecule. By sending another molecule to attach to
and block this key site, the protease would be unable to bind to the strand of viral protein,
If the second protease had a vacant binding site, it was capable of binding to
the scientists found that it would fill the target sites of all of the 3c-like proteases,
and discovered 15 phosphorylation sites in core autophagy proteins that were verified as in vivo ULK1 targets,
the researchers describe a novel cell-to-cell communication system that enables one yeast cell to regulate the expression of genes and influence the behavior of an entirely separate yeast cell.
The mobile or console device sketches out the key parts of each frame or the bulk of the image in a subset of the 60 frames displayed per second (at least six frames must be generated client side to be worthwhile),
Kahawai was also found to work offline, sans remote server connections, at lower graphical fidelity,
(because play could continue uninterrupted) and for people with slow internet connections. Kahawai may have applications beyond gaming, too."
The new technology uses implanted sensors sending wireless signals to the artificial limb's built-in computer, enabling subconscious, real-time control and faster, more natural responses and movements.
#Wi-fi signals used to perform a head count The technology is basically the same as that previously used by Mostofi's team to look through walls.
the changes in the strength of the sent and received Wi-fi signals was used to estimate how many people were walking in a given area.
the researchers used two Wi-fi cards, placing one at each end of a target area of roughly 70 sq m (753 sq ft). Using the received power measurements of the link between the two cards,
and search and rescue given the near-ubiquity of Wi-fi signals in many areas. In terms of energy efficiency
Mostofi says she plans to eventually bring the two Wi-fi-based technologies together, which could result in a system that could estimate the number of people moving in a given area,
The video below explains the head-counting Wi-fi technology, with the team's paper scheduled for publication in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
#Remote-control Range rover can be driven with a smartphone app High end cars are creeping towards full autonomy,
and drive it using your smartphone. It's an incredibly handy way to get this huge thing in and out of tight parking spots,
The prototype smartphone app lets you start the car and control the brakes, throttle and steering, as well as gearshifts.
if the smartphone or the car key get more than 10 meters (33 ft) from the vehicle.
Users can connect a smartphone, tablet, or PC to it wirelessly using Wi-fi. With this option,
users can mirror their screens on the giant projector display. There's also a USB port that will allow users to directly play videos from a USB drive.
such as the Motorola HC1, Golden-i and the AITT system, which are designed to give industrial workers or military personnel a helping hand in carrying out highly specialized tasks.
taking a diagnostic system that is usually stationary and making it mobile, while also integrating monitoring technology that enables reaction to and individualized support for the user's actions in real time.
sticking to the tissue at the site of injury and creating a barrier over a wound."
#Turning the smartphone into a mobile pregnancy test Today's smartphones come chock-full of technological capability,
with smartphones repurposed as blood-scanning microscopes, HIV testers and sleep apnea detectors. The latest advance in this area comes in the form of a fiber optic sensor for smartphones that monitors bodily fluids,
a tool that could be used for biomolecular tests such as pregnancy or diabetes monitoring. Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) is a process where a stream of light is directed onto a metallic film, with most,
Researchers at the Hanover Centre for Optical Technologies figured that a modern smartphone contained much of
The scientists fixed a 400 micrometer fiber optic cable curved into a U-shape across the phone's camera and LED light.
The team says the sensor's readings could then be processed by a smartphone application to turn out real-time results."
"We have the potential to develop small and robust lab-on-a-chip devices for smartphones, "says Kort Bremer,
#New wireless power tech can charge multiple devices in any orientation Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST) have developed an omnidirectional wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices at once, at a distance and, crucially, at peak efficiency regardless
since many high-end smartphones have started to include it as one of their flagship features. And soon we might have the ability to charge our devices by the dozen from up to 30 ft (9 m) and coming straight from our furniture.
For smartphones and tablets, this means they can't be charged very effectively while they're being used.
which was tested on a Samsung galaxy Note equipped with a special reception coil, has the potential to bridge this gap by introducing the ability to charge devices efficiently regardless of their orientation,
An effective wireless transmitting power of 30 watts means the device can, according to the researchers, power either 30 smartphones or five laptops simultaneously.
Prof. Rim and colleagues say the level of magnetic flux exposure is within the safety levels set by the International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP
yet is lighter than an iphone 6 Plus and only slightly wider and longer. So called because its panels are thing enough to slot between the pages of a notebook
connective tissue cells called fibroblasts migrate to the site of the wound and kickoff the healing process.
which uses the latest wireless and connectivity technologies to integrate further into a coordinated transportation system.
Ford revealed them at Mobile World Congress back in March and has continued its research in the area since then.
But thanks to a new Kickstarter project you may not have to worry about your smartphone dying before the electricity comes back on.
The Candle Charger is described as an"indoor power plant for smartphones, "providing USB charging capabilities with just a candle and five ounces of water.
your phone can keep charging The device is being funded on Kickstarter and is expected to go on sale in December We've seen outdoor chargers based around camping stoves and boiling water before,
and is roughly enough power to charge two iphones from one candle. Cameras, torches and other small devices can be recharged through the Candle Charger, too.
and high-speed telecommunications. The team next plan to build and test hardware to prove the practicality of the technology."
which sends alerts to smart phones or readings directly to doctors, allowing them to profile how a person is managing their diabetes over time."
while researchers at Google, Fraunhofer and Microsoft are developing noninvasive sensors that measure glucose content in tears or sweat.
Now, an international team from Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik (PDI), the Freie Universität Berlin (FUB), the NTT Basic Research Laboratories (NTT-BRL),
the Mobile Bridge Version 4. 0 (MB4. 0) was inspired by the Japanese folded-paper art of origami.
Once it gets to the site of a destroyed bridge, however, it employs a scissor-like action to fold out,
Safety features are also part of the integration for devices such as Philips'LED Hue bulbs and Beep, a Wi-fi-connected music dial.
and when they trip offline when grid fluctuations arise. Standard settings for low-voltage ride-through (LVRT),
which its inverters will trip offline, as well as extending how long each inverter waits for disruptions to correct themselves before switching off,
#Meet Milli 5 Silver Spring#s Tiny Wireless Smart grid Node Silver Spring Networks wants to push wireless connectivity beyond smart meters
That the purpose of the Milli 5, the new, super-small wireless node unveiled Wednesday by the Redwood City, Calif.-based smart metering giant.
All of these networking advances are built on Silver Spring use of the IEEE 802.15. 4g specification,
Cisco and Itron are using 802.15. 4g wireless for their smart grid and smart city efforts and Toshiba Landis+Gyr is using it for its 27-million smart meter deployment in Tokyo,
since the world of internet-of-things connectivity should really be built on common standards. It's technically possible to extend an 802.15. 4g network to in-home devices now served by bridges to Zigbee
Z-Wave and other low-power wireless protocols, for example--but only if everyone's low-power IPV6 mesh technologies can get along.
Internet software/services came in second place with 13 percent. And what was the big winner?
though the company has been officially silent on recent investments (leaving reporters to sift through emails from fund managers).
a telecom entrepreneur with a family foundation, gives away millions each year to projects in the energy sector.
Chiang said in a phone interview last week. 24m has made about 10,000 test cells so far,
#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.
announced recently that five million medications have been tracked using radio frequency identification technology. Adam Buckley, MD, interim chief information officer and chief medical informatics officer at UVMC, said any time a system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside,
A vial of the drug Glycopyrrolate with a strength of 1mg/ML became the five-millionth RFID-tagged dose at UVMC tracked by Kit Check, a Washington, D c,
Karen Mcbride, UVMC's director of pharmacy services, said that patient safety was the main reason for utilizing RFID technology."
and that the RFID kit technology essentially eliminates that possibility. The way Mcbride explained it,
preparation and administration, said Kitcheck"has succeeded out of the gate"by applying RFID tags to anesthesia kits, already operational in over 100 hospitals.
Neuenschwander noted that in the past RFID companies thought at a universal rather than a macro level,
For example, MEPS Real-time Inc. a company that offers a suite of Intelliguard RFID Solutions, has shifted its from focus from macro to micro RFID solutions,
and track bullets throughout hospitals'pneumatic transport tubes with RFID. RFID vs. barcode Despite the progress RFID has made in the hospital setting, the debate over
which technology will sustain over the long hall, RFID or bar code, is ongoing among industry experts.
According to Neuenschwander, each technology has its advantages and disadvantages. Barcodes, he said, are less expensive data carriers than RFID chips.
And RFID chips have higher read-failure rates than bar codes.""Proximity reads are an advantage when
I want to read everything that is in a kit, as opposed to handling and scanning items one by one,
Why RFID hasn't been applied to drug packaging for point-of-care verification scanning? Neuenschwander said that he doubts
if RFID chips will ever displace barcodes on drug packages any more than on cereal boxes in grocery stores.
Rather, he contends that RFID will augment printed codes on a select number of items."
however, RFID is more than just a mirage on the frontier, he said:""RFID has materialized finally beyond prototypes to products that are live in hospitals today,
"said Neuenschwander. UVMC's Buckley said that people are going to figure out the best way to leverage RFID technology."
"Whether it will be the best way to leverage it or whether the price will be cost-prohibitive
"Going forward, UVMC said that its next step is to talk to Kitcheck about leveraging similar RFID technology in the OR setting."
and adapted to correct for near-field loading problems such as the iphone 4 well-publicized eath gripissue of dropped calls
is published in the Advance Online Publication on Nature Nanotechnology website on June 15. ee created what is essentially the world thinnest light bulb,
Potential sites include businesses near U s. Route 95 that are willing to host the charging stations
Host sites must agree to let consumers use the stations at no charge for at least five years
#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.
one of Google latest cutting-edge experiments from its secretive Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), provides an enticing example of the type of powerful motion controller that could actually change how we interact with everything from smartwatches and tablets to appliances and other everyday objects.
Radar, which detects objects in motion through high frequency radio waves, enables what Project Soli design lead Carste Schwesig calls a undamentally different approachto motion tracking. typical model of the way you think about radar is like a police radar
Imagine dismissing smartphone notification with the wave of a hand or pressing your fingers together to play music from a bluetooth speaker.
In hands-on demos at Google I/O, ATAP focused more on displaying Soli gesture-recognizing capabilities rather than specific implementations.
but doesn have the cash to make it happen. very single major invention like thishether they were cell phones
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years wee going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves if they crack,
letting people take back their embarrassing emails Gmail newest addition is an ndo sendfeature, which lets people recall emails that have been sent,
up to 30 seconds after theye been despatched. It works by holding back the email for a predefined time,
and then letting it go if users don say that theye sent it in error.
Google's special mobile app that organises emails and aims to make them easier to read.
Other features currently being experimented with are options to use canned responses to emails so that they don have to be typed out every time,
scientists could make an internet of human brains Scientists have attached successfully together the brains of monkeys
Smartphone-Based 3d printed Diagnostic Device for Viruses (3ders. org) A team of researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA has created a low-cost,
smartphone-based device and app that is made with a 3d printer and can read enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) diagnostic plates on the spot, with up to 99.6 percent accuracy for certain viruses. With the UCLA researcher new invention,
a small and low-cost 3d printed device is attached to a smartphone and illuminates a 96-well plate with an LED array.
A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images and analyzes them using a machine-learning algorithm.
The diagnostic results can be sent back to the phone within one minute. The ELISA is a common diagnostic tool that requires large and expensive readout instruments that can only be found in well-equipped hospital labs. ELISA is not typically available in remote or developing countries in
which will allow the bulk manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers. Research into ways of boosting the speeds of both processors
which will soon enable manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers. This will allow datacenters to offer greater data rates and bandwidth for cloud computing and Big data applications.
IBM silicon photonics chips uses four distinct colours of light travelling within an optical fibre to transmit data in and around a computing system.
where the optical signals are transported via multimode optical fibre. Demands for increased distance and data rate between ports, due to cloud services for example, are driving the development of cost-effective single-mode optical interconnect technologies,
check your email, count your sperm: Taiwanese start-up Aidmics is hoping to cash in on the $40 billion global human fertility market with an ipad compatible gadget it calls isperm.
with global behemoths including Daimler and Google in play. Japan is concerned that if U s. and European rivals lead in developing the industry standards,
#Google releases work tools designed for Android phones Google is releasing a set of tools designed for businesses
and employees who want to get work done on Android-powered smartphones setting up a skirmish on another key front of mobile computing.
The technology unveiled Wednesday launches Google's attempt to turn Android phones into the digital hub of people's personal and professional lives.
The expansion will pit Google Inc. against Microsoft corp. and Blackberry Inc . which have been focusing on the corporate market for years.
Google will also be dueling its biggest rival in mobile computing Apple which forged a partnership with IBM last year to build more iphone
and ipad applications tailored for businesses and government agencies. Google and Apple have become so dominant that 96 percent of the smartphones sold last year run on the companies'software according to the research firm IDC.
But most people use those phones to take pictures message their friends check Facebook and Twitter and engage in other personal endeavors.
In many cases people also may check their work email on their phones. But Google and Apple are trying to make it more enticing and convenient for people to transplant their more of their professional lives on to their phones.
As part of that process the companies are rolling out more business-oriented applications and tougher security to make employers feel more comfortable about their workers using their phones for their jobs."
"Our vision is that every employee out there should have enabled a work device in their hands"said Rajen Sheth director of product management for Android's push into the office.
Far more people already own Android phones than iphones a lead that Google hopes works to its advantage in the corporate mobility market.
IDC estimates more than 1 billion Android phones were sold last year compared to 193 million iphones.
The huge disparity has largely been driven by Google's decision to give away its Android phones helping to make the devices running on the software more affordable than iphones.
By design Apple has focused on more affluent consumers. The corporate and government market is appealing because employers are willing to spend more people on applications and security than most consumers.
Google announced its Android for Work program at a conference eight months ago but needed more time to test the technology before its release.
The tools include the ability to create separate personal and professional profiles on the same phone in an effort to reassure workers worried about their bosses snooping on their private lives.
Even though the data is kept in separate silos Google has created a way for work programs and personal apps such as Facebook to appear on the same home screen for convenience.
Android for Work will be automatically available on phones running on the most recent release of the operating system'Lollipop
'or version 5. 0. An Android for Work app can be downloaded to make the package work on phones running older versions of the software.
Google's Play store is also opening a section devoted to work applications s
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