#HPV Vaccine Is Effective Against Multiple Cancer-Causing Strains The human papillomavirus vaccine, Cervarix, not only has the potential to prevent cervical cancer,
it is also effective against other common cancer-causing stains, according to a recent study. Researchers found that Cervavix was effective aside from just the two HPV types, 16 and 18,
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#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
It should make it possible to undertake many smartphone functions while barreling down the interstate at 60 miles per hour.
users will be able to access Google maps, send text messages, query their phones for information, play music storeed in the phone and other functions.
And they can do it any of three ways: the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice."
"Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety, intuitiveness and simplicity,"said Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, in a statement."
More useful was the ability to text others and tap the smartphone's music collection.
"Together with his partner, pediatrician Dr. Barry Heath, Finette has developed a smartphone-based medical intelligence platform that allows community health workers without medical training to diagnose
On his smartphone, Finette played one of the training videos available on the Medsinc platform,
Finette brought up a screen on his smartphone with a large red dot.""We built this thing you just tap every time you feel a heartbeat,
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#These smart glasses know when you need a nap From heart sensors to concussion trackers,
With the free smartphone app, I was able to tell exactly how tired I was,
#Apple, Google and 140 others ask Obama to reject ackdooraccess to encrypted data Apple and Google are adding their names to an open letter to President Obama asking him to quash any moves to create ackdooraccess to encrypted data on smartphones and other communication devices.
More than 140 tech firms, civil society organizations, and cryptologists have signed a letter to be sent on Tuesday,
Last year, both Apple and Google revealed they were now encrypting their phonesdata by default,
#Google and Twitter sitting in a tree, putting tweets in search results for you and me In February,
Twitter signed a firehose deal with Google to bring tweets right into Google search results. This week, that integration started rolling out on mobile,
with a promise to also update the desktop version hortly. As I wrote while covering the announcement,
Google is hoping to boost its real-time search chops while Twitter is aiming for more users and engagement.
Yet at the end of the day, this is one of those rare partnerships that benefit the user first
and the companies later (Twitter is getting an undisclosed amount of money from Google, and Google can potentially monetize tweets with its own ads,
but right now it unclear if either will be significant). First and foremost, this partnership means Google users finally have access to Twitter stream.
Because tweets are often full of timely information, this means searching for anything relatively recent on Google will start bringing up messages sent out on Twitter.
Many events often happen on Twitter first, and that data that can be incredibly useful to have indexed for users to quickly find.
Twitter search engine works, but it nothing special. Google is the king of search, and with Twitter data, it suddenly about to get even more useful.
Assuming that Google users find the tweets theye looking for they will only think more highly of the search engine,
and presumably use it more. In this way, Google is next in line as the one to benefit from this new partnership.
You think Twitter would be next, but there actually one more entity to acknowledge: Twitter users.
Yes, we realize there is a big overlap between Google users and Twitter users. Still, if we examine them separately,
it clear they both win. Twitter users start to benefit once incoming Google users act on the tweets they find.
That can be a favorite, a retweet, or even a reply. If that starts to happen at scale,
and Google has plenty of that, Twitter users should see more content on the social network,
especially in relation to tweets that Google deems important and relevant. Last on the list is Twitter itself,
if the company can convert all this new traffic into users who keep coming back. Signing up to engage is one thing
but actually choosing to become an active Twitter user is what the company really needs.
That no easy feat, and so Twitter opportunity to benefit from this partnership requires the most work.
To recap, here the order of winners: Google users, Google, Twitter users, and Twitter. The biggest loser?
#This was a big week for driverless, anti-alcohol, and parking space-sensing cars For fans of automated autos that don need drivers, don like alcohol,
and sniff out empty parking spaces, this was a big week. On Thursday, the federal government National Highway Traffic safety Administration showed a prototype vehicle with alcohol-detection technology.
Called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or a parental-sounding DADSS for short, it features two methods for preventing drunk drivers from driving.
One is a breathalyzer on the steering wheel that reads the driver breath and determines if the blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) level is over 0. 08 percent,
Google has agreed to acknowledge accidents involving the testing of its driverless cars. The new transparency was announced at the end of the week
after Google cofounder Sergey Brin initially said on Wednesday his company would not release such accident reports,
and haptic feedback technology for the next iphones Apple is currently working on building orce Touchtechnology and haptic feedback into the screens of its new iphones,
The new features are very likely to show up in the next iphone, probably be called the iphone 6s,
which will debut this fall. Force Touch debuted on the Apple Watch, where it is used to change the watch face.
including the iphone. On the larger screen of a phone, it could open up all kinds of possibilities.
For instance, you may be able to Force Touch on any word on the screen to bring up a definition.
Venturebeat information dovetails with numerous earlier rumors that Force Touch would be part of the new phones.
the Chinese company that assembles the iphone, expects its touchscreen subsidiary to see handset pressure sensor shipments increase by 4. 8 times this year.
A spike that big could be from advance orders from Apple for the new iphone
because it often much easier to type with than the tiny one featured on a smartphone or tablet.
The device communicates wirelessly with whatever mobile device is used with it via Bluetooth Low energy 4. 0 technology.
The potential applications for anti-icing surfaces involve protection of aerofoils, protection of aerofoils, pipes of air conditioners and refrigerators, radar or telecommunication antennas,
It also has Bluetooth connection. It can be connected through a smartphone app, through which a user can change settings on the scooter.
Like every modern machine the key is wireless. The scooter can cover about 60 miles on one battery with a Panasonic cell.
And Drive PX Nvidia has unveiled a chip that can pump out the quality of a high gaming console on your smartphones.
The smartphone chip, Nvidia Tegra X1 Soc has an 8-core 64-bit CPU and a 256ore Maxwell-based GPU.
Nvidia claims that it is the first mobile chip that will provide a teraflop of processing power.
#China Blocks Google's Gmail According to Google, their Gmail service is virtually inaccessible in Mainland china.
After months of disruptions to its service, Google Gmail seems to have finally been blocked by the country reat firewall Large number of Chinese Gmail users said that they haven been able to access their emails for the past four days.
According to Greatfire. org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group, e think the government is just trying to further eliminate Google presence in China
Google Transparency Report, which shows real-time traffic to Google services, displayed a sharp decline in the traffic to Gmail from China.
The company stated that there is nothing wrong on their end. The communist government of China maintains a tight control over the nation internet.
It is always quick to act against any signs of dissent or criticism of its party leadership.
The country also has the world most sophisticated internet censorship mechanism. Tech experts call it reat Firewall of China.
This year, which also marked the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy demonstrations,
Google has been facing problems in the country, since June this year. However, its users could still access email downloads via protocols like Imap, SMTP and Pop3,
which let people communicate using Gmail on apps like the Apple iphone Mail and Microsoft Outlook.
Meanwhile, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying, said, e do not know anything about Google being blocked.
China has had consistently a welcoming and supportive attitude towards foreign investors doing legitimate business here. We will,
Tech experts have said that using VPN (Virtual Private Network) seems to be the only answer against Chinese internet censorship.
The VPN allows unhindered access to blocked sites and services
#Google's Algorithm Masters Video games Google has stated that they have developed the first computer program capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in
what has been hailed as a significant step towards true artificial intelligence. According to the engineers at Google, the program (or agent as its developers call it) learnt to play 49 different retro computer games,
and came up with its own strategies for winning. They added that in the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
The research was carried out by Deepmind which is a British company that was bought by Google last year for $500 million,
whose stated aim is to build mart machines The team of engineers stated that a total of 49 classic Atari arcade games from the 1980 were utilized as part of the experiment.
#Google Presents Steady Spoon for Shaky Hands Using advanced technology, Google has engineering a spoon that promises to make the daily lives of people suffering from tremors easier.
The spoon uses a number of algorithms and helps in steadying the tremors so that the patients can eat without spilling the food.
However, according to the experts, Google has utilized the technology in a unique way. Dr. Jill Ostrem, a neurologist at the University of California San francisco Medical center, commented t totally novel.
when Google indulged into no-shake utensil business and acquired a small startup called Lift Labs funded by National of Institutes of Health.
Over 10 million people across the globe, including Google cofounder Sergey Brin mother, suffer from tremors and Parkinson disease.
Anupam Pathak, the founder of Lift Lab, appreciated the shift of a four-person startup in San francisco to the colossal Google campus in Mountain view which has encouraged them to enhance their creativity.
Google (x) Life sciences is the department where his team works. It is involved also in developing a contact lens for measuring glucose levels in tears for diabetics
For the Internet backbone which is built largely on fiber optic cables, this has significant ramifications. Before this breakthrough fiber optic signals ran into a limit.
For the Internet this means an infrastructure of supercomputers strategically located at network nodes regenerating
The implications on Internet infrastructure will be significant. Eliminating repeaters will make the Internet cheaper to operate
while increasing the amount of information transmitted through the pipe. So what did these University of California engineers discover to achieve their success?
and entitled,"Overcoming Kerr-induced capacity limit in optical fiber transmission.""For the telecommunications industry this is a very big deal.
The engineers have filed a patent covering their method and application to transmission of data. Essays and comments posted in World Future Society
and THE FUTURIST magazine blog portion of this site are the intellectual property of the authors,
2015-In his latest email blast Peter Diamandis talks about four revolutions in transportation that he expects will take place within this decade.
#Scratch Wireless Unveils New i-Fi Firstsmartphone for $99 Scratch Wireless is trying to make bills from wireless companies a relic of the past.
It an ambitious dream, and the Cambridge, MA, startup has taken a step forward by partnering with a Chinese manufacturer to release an inexpensive smartphone that could move it a little closer to its goal.
The new Coolpad Arise is powered an Android smartphone that can use Scratch software to make voice, text,
and data services free whenever smartphone users have access to a Wi-fi network. The device sells for $99
and can be bought from the Scratch Wireless website as of today. Users won have to pay Scratch anything more for service
as long as they use Wi-fi It the first time Scratch Wireless is opening up its service to the general public.
Scratch is betting that customers, especially those on tight budgets, will go for low-cost smartphones even if the devices are dependent on Wi-fi. Most of the time, that not a problem,
as users are in range of their home or office network. Plus, public Wi-fi hotspots are getting better,
cable companies including Comcast are offering subscribers access to their networks when theye away from home,
and Google is testing out Wi-fi-based mobile wireless services with its Project Fi. Wireless provider T-Mobile also is selling handsets that can make calls
and send texts over Wi-fi . But everyone is out of range sometimes, especially when commuting.
Scratch has a contract with Sprint that allows Scratch phones to use Sprint network for voice, texts,
and data on a pay-as-you-go model. Scratch users pay an extra fee that as low as $1. 99 per month for a limited amount of time on Sprint national 3g network.
In an interview last year with Xconomy, Scratch cofounder and CEO Alan Berrey said the startup approach is disruptive, both from a technical (the shift to Wi-fi) and economic perspective.
Scratch is going after consumers who want smartphones and data packages but with low-cost plans. ur biggest competitors are not AT&T and Verizon.
It actually more the entry-level folks, for people who want a low-cost service, Berrey said.
Typically those customers have relied on prepaid services instead of using major carriers. Scratch would not say how many customers it has said,
but it it has operated on an nvitation onlybasis since launching in 2014. nder the invitation only wall,
Scratch has had hundreds of thousands of consumers express interest in purchasing a Scratch phone, a representative said. ith the introduction of this new Coolpad device,
and make phones generally available to consumers. ith the new product, theyl have access to a capable Android smartphone with a 4-inch display, rear camera,
and ability to run apps from the Google Play Store. Scratch also says Wi-fi call quality, multimedia messaging,
and call handoffs across networks are improved. The phone is made by Coolpad, a Chinese company that makes low-cost handsets.
Coolpad is a virtual unknown in the U s. he company only entered the market in 2012ut it expects to sell about 100 million smartphones
and is one of the five largest sellers in the Chinese market. The Coolpad Arise is the second model that works with Scratch.
The previous phone was the Motorola Photon Q, an Android phone that sold for $269.
Scratch Wireless has raised $5 million from investors including Commonangels and has the equivalent of 20 full-time employees.
It declined to release sales and revenue information. Michael Davidson is the editor of Xconomy Boulder/Denver.
managing and navigating the web, emails, and documents; opening a new document; and saving, editing,
For example, to conduct a web search, Hawking previously had to take arduous routes, such as exiting from his communication window,
UFS can be stacked atop processors to allow smartphones to be thinner. A Samsung spokesperson declined to comment on which client it is supplying the chips to.
However, it is expected widely that it will first be used in its upcoming Galaxy S6 smartphones, along with epop.
#Apple, Google urge Obama to reject smartphone backdoor proposals Symantec Apple, Google and other technology companies are petitioning US President Obama to stop new regulations
which may threaten the personal security of mobile devices and communication. As reported by The Washington post,
and Google have taken a different view. In order to restore public trust in mobile devices shown to be vulnerable to the NSA's spying activities,
both firms have begun offering smartphone encryption which hands the keys over to consumers --which means even by court order
Google reversed its original decision to enable encryption by default due to legacy issues with older Android operating systems,
#AWS plans 80 MW solar farm In virginia to power eastern US datacenters Amazon web services (AWS) has announced plans for an 80-megawatt solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia.
Once operational in October 2016, AWS says the Amazon Solar Farm US East will be the largest solar farm In virginia,
generating 170,000-megawatt hours of solar power annually that will be pumped into the electrical grids that power AWS cloud datacenters in the eastern and central US.
The Virginia solar farm is part of AWS'larger goal to power its global infrastructure footprint with 100 percent renewable energy.
AWS also claims to operate three carbon-neutral regions--US WEST in Oregon, the US Govcloud,
But even with its grand energy commitments, AWS is criticized still highly--mostly by the environmental organization Greenpeace--for its lack of transparency surrounding energy consumption and the way it sources renewable energy.
For one, Amazon's energy timeline is a lot blurrier than those outlined by Apple, Google and IBM.
AWS does say it expects to run its infrastructure on 40 percent renewable power for by the end of 2016.
So far approximately 25 percent of the power consumed within its global datacenters comes from renewable energy sources, according to a recent blog post by AWS cloud chief Jeff Barr.
In the lengthy post, Barr acknowledged a recent Greenpeace energy report that blasts AWS for being stuck in the"dirty energy past
"On average, AWS customers use 77 percent fewer servers, 84 percent less power, and utilize a 28 percent cleaner power mix,
for a total reduction in carbon emissions of 88 percent from using the AWS Cloud instead of operating their own data centers
which include magnetic resonance imaging machines, machine tools for manufacturing printed circuits, telecommunications satellites and touchscreens"."Announcing the trade deal,
the European commission noted members would also remove customs duties on video games and consoles, home hi-fi systems, headphones, Blu-ray and DVR players, semiconductors, TV cameras, routers, and switches.
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