#This new high-power diamond laser can cut steel Although lasers based on diamond have been around around for several years,
In general, it been assumed that any particle collider looking to create a sample of quark-gluon plasma would have to smash together very heavy atomic nuclei.
as work with real amputees shows how natural bionics sensing can really be. The researchers recount an episode in which they decided to trick the participant by stimulating two fingers,
in addition to Hirise and CRISM. he ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these:
#Big data driving market disruption, leaving many organizations fearing irrelevance: Study A global report by Capgemini, provider of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, in partnership with EMC Corporation, reveals that amid the market disruption being driven by Big data,
two-thirds of organizations (65 per cent) acknowledge they are at risk of becoming uncompetitive
The rise of Insight-Driven Businesssurveyed over 1, 000 C-suite and senior decision makers across North america, South america, Europe and Asia-Pacific to understand the need and enterprise readiness for Big data adoption.
According to 64 per cent of enterprises surveyed Big data is changing traditional business boundaries and is enabling new providers to move into their industry.
and analysis of Big data is now key not just to success but also to business survival.
-54 per cent say that investment in Big data over the next three years will outstrip past investment-61 per cent acknowledge that Big data is now a driver of revenues in its own right
in order to exploit new Big data opportunities-36 per cent of respondents say that due to the strategic importance of Big data,
they have had to circumvent IT teams to carry out the necessary data analytics required to gain business insights-Over half (52 per cent) of respondents reported that developing fast insights from data was hampered by limitations in the IT development process Accessing Big data faster is where C-suite executives
and companies need to fully embrace the opportunities of Big data or risk losing out in the market place.
while some organizations are using Big data to reduce cost and improve existing performance, others are using it to drive into new markets
organizations must build for Big data business models and insight economies. Success requires the mastery of data to decisions.
The world's first aircraft powered by solar energy was to remain in Ahmedabad for two days before flying to the holy city of Varanasi on Saturday.
The swiss explorers say their aim is to highlight the importance of renewable energy and the spirit of innovation.
and also as a cartridge for 3d printing. opo was a joint award winner at the Thought for Food Challenge in Lisbon,
#Crowdfunding's Continued Maturity Is Empowering Entrepreneurs Like Never Before One of the core ideas in my latest book Bold is that today, for the first time in history,
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
These are things like crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, incentive competitions and online communitiesssentially techniques that let you leverage the three billion people who are currently online (the crowd) to scale up your business like never before.
Crowdfunding is a great example. Essentially, even though exponential technologies put the power of the gods (especially if wee talking AI or synthetic biology) into the hands of mere mortals,
And crowdfunding is a large part of that solution. For starters, there are more than 700 different crowdfunding sites online,
providing platform-level support for whatever kind of campaign you might have in mind. More importantly, the total amount raised via crowdfunding is following an exponential curverom $530 million in 2009 to $1. 5 billion in 2011 to $2. 7 billion in 2012.
This year, experts are predicting the total size of the crowdfunding market will come in somewhere between $5 billion and $15 billion.
And a great example of the power of this rising market emerged a few days ago
when Eric Migicovsky and his team at Pebble Watch set a new crowdfunding record, raising $20, 338,996 for a new iteration of their smart watch.
and his Pebble team owned one of the earlier crowdfunding records, having already raised $10. 3 million dollars back in 2012 for the initial iteration of the watch.
But crowdfunding provides far more than access to capital. Again, consider the Pebble. Migicovsky launched his first (2012) crowdfunding campaign as a last resort.
By the time he turned to Kickstarter, he had taken already the concept of the smart watch to a couple dozen venture capitalists in Silicon valley.
When he decided to launch a crowdfunding campaign it was a desperation movee literally had no other hope for keeping his company alive.
But what he gained from crowdfunding success was far more than $10. 3 million to build the watche also got of market validation.
And it was this very community he tapped into on his second crowdfunding campaign. With a mailing list over 100,000 names strong (made up of fans
The point here is that crowdfunding solves multiple challenges. It provides access to capital, pre-development market validation and serves a significant marketing/pr function true multi-tool for the modern era.
Moreover, the size of the crowdfunding market continues to grow. Experts are predicting that by 2025,
crowdfunding raises will top $100 billionearly double the size of today venture market. Of course, for that to happen, equity crowdfundinghich was legalized by the JOBS act back in 2012as to become a real force.
senior VP at the equity crowdfunding company Crowdfunder. hile they don cover everything, they will make a difference in helping people close late-stage deals
but the main thrust is that all the signs continue to point towards crowdfunding maturity development that democratizes fund raising
Aluminum batteries could be used for storing renewable energy on electrical grids. Electrical grids need batteries with a long cycle life to store
#That Self-driving car In Your Future Might Make You Sick Remember back when virtual reality was being touted as The next Big Thing the first time around?
Videogame maker Sega developed a mass-market head-tracking VR system and showed it to reporters and industry representatives with great fanfare at the 1993 winter Consumer electronics Show.
The report suggests between six and 10 percent of Americans riding in autonomous vehicles would be expected to always,
Authors Sivak and Schoettle suggest automakers can design self-driving cars specifically to help reduce the inherent proclivity for car sickness,
Mercedes-benz recently showed a prototype driverless car that featured deeply tinted windows and rear-facing front seats,
Whichever automaker becomes the first to market a fully autonomous vehicle might take heed to place one important item on the standard equipment list a barf bag
#Want More Wind And Solar energy? Invest A lot More In The Grid Want to increase the use of green energy
all of which favors wind and solar energy that is variable in nature. EPB technicians connect high-voltage electric wires on Tuesday, April 24, 2012, in Chattanooga, Tenn.
and solar energy that need access to the transmission lines. Professor Amin says that if wind energy is to swell by 40 percent during this time,
high-voltage, long distance transmission will need to enlarge by 9 percent. To that end, the PJM Interconnection that manages the transmission grid over 13-states in the Mid-atlantic
With that, it sees 19,700 megawatts of wind going up before 2020 that will also demand investments in energy storage that can harness the power
The American Wind energy Association says that up to 60,000 megawatts of new wind energy development is planned possible
allowing the transmission operator known as ERCOT to nearly double its use of wind energy. There, nearly $15 billion has been invested to generate about 19,500 megawatts of wind energy.
Meantime, it says that transmission operators in the Midwest and the Southwest are enacting similar policies.
But what about solar energy? The Obama administration Clean Power Plan could also boost that industry,
Along with wearables, biosensors are advancing to the point at which within the next five years, they will not only become incorporated into clothing (Athos, Under Armour Under Armour, etc.
Big data analytics & Patient Access Analytics will provide valuable insights in operations and more importantly at the point of care.
Currently, many of the big data analytics and insights revolve just around operations. It is there that administrators revise,
For providers, the Holy grail of big data analytics will be at the point of care through data-enrichment,
Central to the concept of onsite generation that links with microgrids is energy storage, which can harness electricity
which seeks to beef up cyber security, reduce emissions and cut costs s
#Can Apple And IBM Change Health care? Five Big Questions Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM new Watson headquarters in Manhattan swank Silicon Alley, IBM IBM and Apple Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post,
which already has a massive Big data-style collection of health care information, to both know more about its customers
and has had some notable failures recently outside its core markets (Google+and Google glass. Just how long Google will continue growing,
which in coming years would render renewable energy with reliable storage cheaper than a new nuclear plant.
Other customer benefits that we have not analyzed include improved power quality and support for customer-side renewable energy usage.
ut as prices decline for energy storage, we expect a substantial broadening of the economically viable projects.
Theye even been approached by other producers of wine, hops and biofuel to join. Take that Chicago Board of Trade.
The company is pushing an Internet of things (Iot) slant on LED LIGHTS. LEDSENSE units include sensors that can determine building temperature
Even surgery can now be taught remotely with technologies that combine virtual reality with AI techniques to train both real time decision-making and psychomotor skills.
A wave of phishing attacks followed the announcement of the Anthem breach. In light of this
To protect against phishing attacks, Premera members should avoid opening attachments and links or replying to emails about the breach.
#3d printing And The Momentous Change For Africa's Amputees A stunning breakthrough has been achieved with 3d printing,
Professor Matt Ratto, of the University of Toronto faculty of information, tells Forbes that 3d printing offers faster way to create prosthetics with the time to completion cut rom one week to approximately one
and the thermoplastic moulding or fibreglass layout is replaced with 3d printing. A 3d scan of a residual limb can be sent within seconds to a prosthetist who can design a replacement,
but it does allow those with the skills to be more productive. ur toolchain includes an inexpensive 3d scanner, a standard laptop with our Socketmixer software,
and a home or small business type 3d printer, totalling about $6, 000 in value, he says.
and printing technology and the development of new materials for 3d printing, there is huge potential development for the future o
Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.
and hydropower could have contributed to the reversal. The agency also cited the ongoing deployment of energy-efficiency and renewable power policies in Europe, the U s. and other developed economies as additional factors.
the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).
Initial plans would call for small scale uses such as camouflaging unmanned aerial vehicles, while future uses may include larger endeavors like hiding ships, aircraft,
he added. ou might send ocean vessels that send one autonomous vehicle; however that does not show you lots.
#Solar device shatters records for splitting water A new rtificial leafsystem that uses solar energy to split water can safely
#3d printed dge detectorsorts sound waves Scientists have developed a new method to differentiate very weak and short sound waves from longer ones.
and produced with 3d printing by postdoc Miguel Molerón, is central to the new method. The structure is a pipe with a square cross-section
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use
#Vaccine might replace surgery for cervical cancer A genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine performed well in a clinical trial,
#wiss Army knifehelps turn algae into biofuel Scientists have figured out a way to streamline the molecular machinery that turns cyanobacterialso known as blue-green algaento biofuels.
organisms that have many potential uses for making green chemicals or biofuels. The new protein
#Heat makes 3d printed box fold itself up Scientists are using a new 4d technology to create complex self-folding structures.
ALLOVER TEMPERATURE The research creates self-folding structures from 3d printed patterns containing varying amounts of different smart shape-memory polymers.
The patterning, done with a 3d printer allows the resulting flat components to have varying temporal response to the same stimuli.
The team used companion finite element simulations to predict the responses of the 3d printed components, which were made from varying ratios of two different commercially available shape-memory polymers.
#Can 3d printing keep lab-grown organs alive? Using sugar, silicone, and a 3d printer, bioengineers and surgeons have created an implant with an intricate network of blood vessels.
The work points toward a future of growing replacement tissues and organs for transplantation. The research may provide a method to overcome one of the biggest challenges in regenerative medicine:
and nutrients to all cells in an artificial organ or tissue implant that takes days or weeks to grow in the lab prior to surgery.
if there were a way to implant a 3d printed construct where we could connect host arteries directly to the construct
In this study, we are taking the first step toward applying an analogy from transplant surgery to 3d printed constructs we make in the lab. Miller
SUGAR AGESBIOENGINEERING graduate student Samantha Paulsen and research technician Anderson Ta worked together to develop a proof-of-concept construct small silicone gel about the size of a small candy gummy bearsing 3d printing.
Using an open-source 3d printer that lays down individual filaments of sugar glass one layer at a time
such as in maintaining spacing between self-driving cars that are latoonedfollowing each other at close intervals. The National Science Foundation
Applying voltage to a 250-nanometer-thick sandwich of graphene, tantalum, nanoporous tantalum oxide, and platinum creates addressable bits where the layers meet.
"said Stephen Scherer, Ph d.,principal investigator on the current study and Director of The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) at Sickkids."
since completing his doctorate in molecular biology in 1997.""During my post-doc at the Max-Planck Institute in Germany,
a collaborative team of researchers from the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN), University of Copenhagen, University of British columbia (UBC), Vancouver Coastal Health and the BC Cancer Agency, found that the malaria protein,
#New chip could turn phone cameras into high-res 3d scanners As if smartphones can't already do enough,
and send the resultant high-resolution 3d images to a 3d printer that produces hyper-accurate replicas.
The NCI could add 3d imaging to a variety of other devices and applications such as improving motion sensitivity in human machine interfaces and driverless cars.
This would make it attractive for storing renewable energy on the electrical grid.""The grid needs a battery with a long cycle life that can rapidly store
the researchers are additionally exploring the possibilities of using the facade to store thermal energy during the day
IBM sees the new tape technology as having applications in big data and cloud computing at a cost of pennies per gigabyte.
Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
View all Sensors are linked very closely to the Iot, as its core function is to collect valuable data.
Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
In this vein, researchers from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (Institut de Ciències Fotòniques/ICFO) in Barcelona have demonstrated a graphene-based photodetector they claim converts light into electricity in less than 50 quadrillionths of a second.
Graphene has already been identified as a superior substance for the transformation of photons to electrical current
However, prior to the ICFO research, it was unclear exactly how fast graphene would react
when subjected to ultra-rapid bursts of light energy. To test the speed of conversion, the ICFO team in collaboration with scientists from MIT and the University of California,
Riverside utilized an arrangement consisting of graphene film layers set up as a p-n (positive-negative) junction semiconductor, a sub-50 femtosecond, titanium-sapphire,
According to the researchers, this blistering speed of conversion is due to the structure of graphene which allows the exceptionally rapid and effective interaction between all of the conduction band carriers contained within it.
In other words, the excitation of the molecules of graphene by the laser pulses causes the electrons in the material to heat up,
And, as the electrons in the laser-excited graphene do not cool down rapidly because they do not easily recouple with the graphene lattice,
they remain in that state and transfer their energy much more rapidly. As such constant laser pulse excitation of an area of graphene quickly results in superfast electron distribution within the material at constantly elevated electron temperatures.
This rapid conversion to electron heat is converted then into a voltage at the p-n junction of two graphene regions.
Significantly, this"hot-carrier"generation is quite different from the operation of standard semiconductor devices. This is because their operation is dependent upon overcoming of the binding electron energy inherent in the material for an incoming photon to dislodge an electron
And, given that the basic operating principles of hot-carrier graphene devices are substantially different from traditional silicon or germanium semiconductors,
with a focus on cloud storage. Both the 11 and 14-inch versions of the Aspire One Cloudbooks are powered by Windows 10, with Intel Celeron processors, 2 GB RAM and 1, 366 x 768 LED
but that's combined with between 100 GB and 1tb of Onedrive cloud storage (dependant on storage tier) for one year.
a carefully designed exterior formed with layers of peptide sequences protects its payload from breaking down.
#New 3d printer should work in the vacuum of outer space Last November, California-based Made in Space grabbed headlines
when one of its specially-designed 3d printers became the first such device to print an object in outer space...
Made in Space has created already vacuum-compatible extrusion heads for its existing Additive manufacturing Facility (AMF) 3d printer,
#Breakthrough photonic processor promises quantum computing leap Optical quantum computers promise to deliver processing performance exponentially faster and more powerful than today's digital electronic microprocessors.
which can be applied to sets of qubits to perform the equivalent of Boolean algebraic functions found in standard electronic logic processors also referred to as quantum gates.
"where a universal quantum computer can efficiently simulate an arbitrary digital computer. Although still as yet at a modest scale,
and creating a large scale universal quantum computer will have been made. The next phases in its development will be to scale up its function and capacity,
As part of this greater encouragement of quantum computing research and development the University of Bristol has pioneered the"Quantum in the Cloud"service,
if we are to realise our vision for a quantum computer. t
#The Drinkable Book has water-purifying pages For people in developing nations or rural locations,
and autonomous vehicle recharging. And now the physics of snake scales may help to reduce friction and wear in mechanical systems.
This is not the first time that scientists have attempted to grow artificial heart tissue. One technique used springy, coiled fibers as scaffolding,
a 3d printed shell that contains the control electronics, and a placeholder for a wireless video camera.
#3d printed guide aids in complex nerve regeneration Complex nerve injuries are a challenging problem for the medical fraternity,
In this vein, US researchers have created the first-ever 3d printed guide specifically designed to assist in the regrowth of the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves.
and Johns hopkins university collaborated on a ground-breaking procedure to produce a 3d printed silicone support structure that is implanted into living tissue to guide
and foot) the researchers employed a 3d scanner to intricately map the arrangement of this nerve in a rat.
Following this, the researchers fed the information into the software used to control a custom-built 3d printer
"This represents an important proof of concept of the 3d printing of custom nerve guides for the regeneration of complex nerve injuries,
"Someday we hope that we could have a 3d scanner and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."
or cadavers could be used as proxies to create 3d printed guides for patients suffering from nerve injury.
The short video below shows the 3d printing process used for the production of the silicone guides u
#Self-driving truck hits the highway in world first Daimler Trucks'has shifted gears in its ongoing effort to develop autonomous vehicles.
Much like the posited advantages of self-driving cars, Daimler says improvements in driver safety are a compelling reason to pursue the technology in the road freight sector.
#Quantum computing breakthrough: qubits made from standard silicon transistors In what is likely a major breakthrough for quantum computing,
researchers from the University of New south wales (UNSW) in Australia have managed for the first time to build the fundamental blocks of a quantum computer in silicon.
The device was created using standard manufacturing techniques, by modifying current-generation silicon transistors, and the technology could scale up to include thousands, even millions of entangled quantum bits on a single chip.
Gizmag spoke to the lead researchers to find out more. Researchers at UNSW are focusing on the potentially revolutionary approach of building quantum computers out of...
Quantum leap: Lead researchers Menno Veldhorst and Andrew Dzurak The gate is controlled through an external voltage
and microwave radiation The technique could scale up to hold thousands, even millions of qubits on a single chip
What are quantum computers for? Quantum computers are a peculiar beast. Though the machines we've been building
since the 50s have been aiming to be as deterministic and reliable as possible so a certain input will always result in the same output in a quantum computer,
this dynamic is turned on its head, and predictability is sacrificed for (sometimes) incredible speedups. A quantum bit,
or qubit, has two awesome and confusing properties. First, it can set itself to both 0 and 1 at the same time.
And second, it can commune (or entangle) with other qubits to compound this ability. This means five entangled qubits can store
and process as much information as 32 (two to the power of five) classical bits; 10 qubits can do as much as 1, 000 classical bits;
and 300 fully entangled qubits can manipulate as many classical bits of information as there are atoms in the Universe.
You might think this would lead to much faster number-crunching over a regular computer and you'd be right, to a point.
A quantum computer can perform any operation a classical computer can, but its exponential speedups only take effect
when a quantum algorithm can process data in a massively parallel fashion, such as searching through a very large database,
virtually designing a new drug by choosing among quadrillions of possible combinations, or simulating the behavior of every single atom in your right toe.
That is, even in the best of cases, a quantum computer is guaranteed never to return the correct result.
So, in practice, classical computers will probably be faster and more practical than quantum computers for day-to-day operations
and quantum computers will only come in useful where massive parallelism is involved. When they are let loose, though, their speed will be spectacular.
Quantum CMOS Most of the prototype quantum computers developed so far feature a limited number of entangled qubits made from exotic and expensive materials like cesium or diamonds and which,
However, researchers at UNSW are focusing on the potentially revolutionary approach of building quantum computers out of silicon, a material that is cheap
and which could ultimately pave the way for quantum computers with not 300 but thousands, even millions of fully entangled qubits.
Last year, UNSW scientists were able to create single"CMOS type"qubits that leveraged current transistor technology and silicon-28, a very common isotope of silicon,
Together with a single controllable qubit, this is the basic building block of a quantum computer and paves the way to quantum chips that can perform just about any operation.
and an external current and microwave field control the qubits and make them interact as needed."
"A CNOT gate is a...two-qubit gate that flips the state of the target qubit depending on the state of the control qubit,
"In our case, the target qubit flips its spin if the control qubit is pointing down.
If the control qubit is pointing up, the target qubit will remain in the same state."
"This two-qubit gate is most essential for a quantum computer and together with single qubit operations,
which we have demonstrated already with very high fidelity, provides what is called a universal gate set. This means that any gate set can be constructed out of it."
"Although their quantum computers wouldn't work at room temperature, this approach lets the researchers operate their device at approximately 1 Kelvin(-272°C,
-458°F). That may not seem like much of an improvement over previous designs, but, the researchers told us,
but in the fact that these basic building blocks of quantum computers were built by doing simple modifications to current-generation silicon transistors.
The researchers say they have worked out a way to extend this technique to a much larger number of qubits
"Our team is looking for industrial partners to construct a chip that would contain between tens and hundreds of qubits,
so that we can demonstrate a manufacturing process that can be scaled up to the thousands or millions of qubits."
"I believe that a Si-CMOS qubit prototype containing between tens and hundreds of qubits could be made within five years,
provided we have the right level of investment and the right industry partners. Our main aim is to develop a prototype that can demonstrate that it is possible to go all the way with'Quantum CMOS
"Such a powerful quantum computer would have major implications for the finance, data security, and health industry.
and the one advanced by Richard Feynman decades ago as he first proposed the idea of a quantum computer,
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