#Facebook M Is trained and Monitored by Humans, Facebook Reveals Facebook has entered the virtual digital assistant space with a new service for its millions of Messenger users,
#Researchers Develop 3d printed Brain tissue The brain is amazingly complex, with around 86 billion nerve cells. The challenge for researchers to create bench-top brain tissue from
by developing a 3d printed layered structure incorporating neural cells, that mimics the structure of brain tissue.
The bio-ink is then optimised for 3d printing, and developed for use in a standard cell culturing facility without the need for expensive bioprinting equipment.
and remain in their designated layer. his study highlights the importance of integrating advances in 3d printing,
Professor Wallace said. his paves the way for the use of more sophisticated printers to create structures with much finer resolution. 3d printing of layered brain-like structures using peptide modified gellan gum substrates
California-based Ekso Bionics which captures data that enables the research team to determine how much the subject is moving his own limbs,
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use. AI2 is also building systems that can tackle science tests,
#They are now 3d printing drugs THE Food and Drug Administration has approved the first prescription drug made through 3d printing:
a dissolvable tablet that treats seizures. Aprecia Pharmaceuticals said Monday the FDA approved its drug Spritam for adults
The tablet is manufactured through a layered process via 3d printing and dissolves when taken with liquid. The Ohio-based company says its printing system can package potent drug doses of up to 1, 000 milligrams into individual tablets.
The FDA has approved previously medical devices including prosthetics made with 3d printing. An agency spokeswoman confirmed the new drug is the first prescription tablet approved that uses the process.
Doctors are increasingly turning to 3d printing to create customised implants for patients with rare conditions
self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, health care, GOOGLE TV mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
A tech company has decided to use the internet of things to give the people what they really need.
the company launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indigogo to help raise the funds required to get the Tailtalk into mass production.
#Gel scaffold paves way for 3d printing of biological organs To improve 3d printing, simply add gel.
A fresh technique uses one to support complex shapes that would fall apart under their own weight in normal 3d printing.
A hitch in using traditional 3d printing to create the kinds of structure found in our organs is that they collapse long before being finished.
so it couldn keep 3d printed tissue alive. Neither can the gel be used for structures printed below a certain size
The use of 3d printing to make working tissue and organs is still a long way off,
About 10 of the 1-kilogram satellites can hitch a ride into space with a larger payload.
A zero-index material that fits on a chip could have exciting applications, especially in the world of quantum computing.
a graduate student in the Mazur lab and co-author on the paper. t could also improve entanglement between quantum bits,
Cutting data center power consumption They suggest that a wide range of applications stand to benefit from the kind of low-cost,
Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
That would in turn enable a radical scaling of a data center capacity, while simultaneously reducing increasingly colossal power demands with higher-efficiency data transfer.
data centers are on track to consume more than 500 TWH of energy annually by 2020 but by implementing new technologies like silicon photonics this total could be cut by at least 10 per cent.
#3d printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You It a development that could spell the end of horse pills,
Yesterday, the FDA approved the first drug to be manufactured using 3d printing. In a buzzword-heavy press release that would make a venture capitalist swoon, Aprecia,
though, 3d printing could offer much more than just tinier pills. Here BBC News: Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
which they are used. 3d printing could bring those capabilities into hospitals and clinics, cutting time off delivery and making custom pharmaceuticals easier to obtain b
#Chip Simplifies Quantum Optics Experiments A silicon chip that can process photons in an infinite number of ways could speed up development of quantum computing.
Researchers say the lab-on-chip device is a step toward creating quantum computers that could help design new drugs,
Major barriers to testing new theories for quantum science and quantum computing are the time and resources needed to build new experiments,
Future versions of the hand could be made even more sensitive with artificial skin that incorporates stretchable fiber sensors based on commercially available silicone rubber.
The Stanford team ended up using our old friend graphene to play the cathode to aluminum's anode.
#A 3d printed, Battery-Powered Rocket engine Nothing demonstrates engineering prowess and technical knowhow quite like rocket science.
The design, made almost entirely of 3d printed parts, will be used on Rocket Labs Electron orbital launch vehicle,
Rutherford is produced also via electron beam melting, an advanced form of 3d printing. Its engine chamber, injector, turbopumps,
which the company hopes to use as a low-cost method for launching satellites and other small payloads of up to 220 pounds into space.
#Augmented reality Glasses Are Coming To The Battlefield Using a pair of augmented reality glasses, a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground,
ODG Jameson says that the backlash against the form factor of Google glass shows that the public is not ready for computerized glasses for everyday wear."
#MIT Invention Turns Salt water Into Drinking water Using Solar power From plants to people, every living thing on this planet needs water.
#Haptic Gloves Use Air pressure To Simulate The Feel Of Virtual Objects Virtual reality has focused typically on matters of sight and sound,
The European union-funded Autonomous vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool (AVERT) project is intended a system to remove suspicious vehicles where there is concern over potential threats like IEDS,
#Walk Through The Belly Of A Tornado In Virtual reality On May 20, 2013, a massive tornado slammed into Moore, Oklahoma, killing 24 people and leaving 353 injured,
But now, researchers at Virginia Tech are able to walk inside a virtual reality version of the Moore tornado
Renewable energy is tricky in tunnels, since the sun's rays don't reach that far. But each GENESI node and sensor includes a miniature wind turbine that harvests energy from passing trains.
Also, if you click the period after mention of the self-driving car on Page's blog post,
#Nose-Like Biosensor Sniffs Out Stinky Drinking water Electronic noses can detect bugs, disease or even explosives.
according to a study published recently in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics. To make water drinkable, treatment plants weed out most harmful chemicals and bacteria.
and lasting the effects of the mountainslow snowpack levels will be on urban and agricultural water supplies, hydroelectric power,
And while the Internet of things has brought a number of water-conscious smart irrigation products into the agricultural market,
#Plug Your Toaster Into the Sun Sunport lets you use solar power at homeithout the panels.
Solar power has long been touted as a clean, green way to generate electricity. Typically, that means installing large, expensive solar panels,
But a new device called the Sunport lets you use solar energy, anywhere, and it only the size of a three-prong plug.
The accompanying app upgrades your usage to solar using Solar Renewable energy Credits (S-RECS). In effect,
it certifies that you have asked the energy grid to power your device with solar power. You see,
Although it lets you use solar energy, it won reduce your electric bill. But like organic foods or hybrid vehicles, it will help the environment. he more solar we use,
It probably not the breakthrough technology of the year, like 3d printing in 2014 or wearables,
and simple 3d printing techniques for production. The innovation is in how Spiers combined them to create a needed new technology.
and on a more global level it could connect to the future smart city and smart grid, says CEO Rao Mulpuri.
#Amazon Wants to Bring Augmented reality to the Streaming Services Game With its recently-published patent for AR smart glasses,
disruptive element to watching video There no doubt as to the potential for augmented reality to change how we interact with our future world.
And, as revealed by its new patent for augmented reality glasses it looks like Amazon wants to take a crack at it as well,
(which is one form of augmented reality). Rather, the augmented reality experience only appears when youe watching the screen in front of you.
On top of this, Amazon also purports a more comfortable version of augmented reality as well, citing the headsets of other augmented reality devices as sually heavy,
expensive and uncomfortable to use for long periods of time. While Google glass may not fall in with that crowd,
it is true that simple glasses versus large headsets lend themselves to a more casual and pleasurable wearing experience, one
which would be ideal if you were watching video. The larger implication here is that Amazon glasses would be changing the landscape of video streaming by adding augmented reality to the mix.
If the glasses catch on and the majority of Amazon Video new, original content require the device for the full experience,
and if augmented reality turns out to be needed the much element to complement our at home entertainment setups,
it will be the largest concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in the world, and the first phase, called Noor 1, will go live next month.
The potential for solar power from the desert has been known for decades. In the days after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 the German particle physicist Gerhard Knies
Morocco environment minister, Hakima el-Haite, believes that solar energy could have the same impact on the region this century that oil production had in the last.
so when we heard about the potential of solar energy, we thought; why not? olar energy will make up a third of Morocco renewable energy supply by 2020,
with wind and hydro taking the same share each. e are very proud of this project,
due to open in 2017 will store energy for up to eight hours opening the prospect of 24/7 solar energy in the Sahara,
says Ahmed Baroudi, manager of Société dnvestissements Energétiques, the national renewable energy investment firm. But he says the project ultimate impact will go far wider even as far as the Middle east. he ultimate objective given by his majesty the king is Mecca. hether that ambition is achieved remains to be seen
but exporting solar energy could have stabilising effects within and between countries, according to the Moroccan solar energy agency (Masen).
what is advanced the most renewable energy programme in the middle East and North African region. e are at the avant-garde of solar,
and prevent a cyber security attack. Called a"program anomaly detection approach, "a trio of Virginia Tech computer scientists has tested their innovation against many real-world attacks.
"Modern exploits have manipulation tactics that hide them from existing detection tools. An example is an attacker who overwrites one of the variables before the actual authentication procedure.
#Researchers grow nanocircuitry with semiconducting graphene nanoribbons In a development that could revolutionize electronic circuitry, a research team from the Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison (UW)
and the U s. Dept of energy (DOE)' s Argonne National Laboratory has confirmed a new way to control the growth paths of graphene nanoribbons on the surface of a germainum crystal.
and this method provides a straightforward way to make semiconducting nanoscale circuits from graphene, a form of carbon only one atom thick.
"UW researchers used chemical vapor deposition to grow graphene nanoribbons on germanium crystals. This technique flows a mixture of methane, hydrogen,
At high temperatures, methane decomposes into carbon atoms that settle onto the germanium's surface to form a uniform graphene sheet.
when graphene grows on germanium, it naturally forms nanoribbons with these very smooth, armchair edges,"said Michael Arnold, an associate professor of materials science and engineering at UW-Madison."
so all the desirable features we want in graphene nanoribbons are happening automatically with this technique.""Graphene, a one-atom-thick, 2-D sheet of carbon atoms, is known for moving electrons at lightning speed across its surface without interference.
This high mobility makes the material an ideal candidate for faster, more energy-efficient electronics. However, the semiconductor industry wants to make circuits start
As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
researchers confirmed the presence of graphene nanoribbons growing on the germanium. Data gathered from the electron signatures allowed the researchers to create images of the material's dimensions and orientation.
graphene and it shows some characteristic electronic properties, "said Kiraly.""What's even more interesting is that these nanoribbons can be made to grow in certain directions on one side of the germanium crystal,
0). Previous research shows that graphene sheets can grow on germanium crystal faces (1, 1, 1) and (1, 1,
0). However, this is the first time any study has recorded the growth of graphene nanoribbons on the (1,
researchers can now focus their efforts on exactly why self-directed graphene nanoribbons grow on the (1, 0,
and graphene that may play a role. This research is detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications s
#Shortening Organic solar cell Production One of the building blocks of the solar panel, solar cells are responsible for converting solar energy into electricity.
#Cobalt atoms on graphene a powerful combo Graphene doped with nitrogen and augmented with cobalt atoms has proven to be an effective, durable catalyst for the production of hydrogen from water, according to scientists at Rice Univ. The Rice lab of chemist James Tour and colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences,
The researchers discovered that heat-treating graphene oxide and small amounts of cobalt salts in a gaseous environment forced individual cobalt atoms to bind to the material.
They tested nitrogen-doped graphene on its own and found it lacked the ability to kick the catalytic process into gear.
Atom-thick graphene is the ideal substrate, Tour said, because of its high surface area, stability in harsh operating conditions and high conductivity.
#Nanoquakes probe new 2-D material In a step towards a post-graphene era of new materials for electronic applications,
including quantum computing. Csáthy specializes in the study of topological phases in semiconductors and works to discover
"By integrating genomics and genome engineering, we have developed a method to comprehensively interrogate how this genetic silencing system works
in conjunction with international researchers, have discovered five new atomic nuclei to be added the chart of nuclides.
and therefore interesting for the development of theoretical models describing atomic nuclei. hese results really push what we know about nuclear structure to the extreme, neutron-deficient end of the chart of the nuclides,
In the collisions studied, the atomic nuclei of the two elements touched and formed a compound system for an extremely short time.
#How wireless-ray visioncould power virtual reality, smart homes, and Hollywood A team of researchers at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has believed long that wireless signals like Wifi can be used to see things that are invisible to the naked eye.
#How wireless x-ray vision could power virtual reality A team of researchers at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) Computer science
'fluffy'carbon electrode made from graphene (comprising one-atom-thick sheets of carbon atoms), and additives that alter the chemical reactions at work in the battery,
electric cars and grid-scale storage for solar power.""In their simplest form, batteries are made of three components:
and lithium-air batteries are considered the ultimate in next-generation energy storage, because of their extremely high energy density.
changing it to a highly porous form of graphene, adding lithium iodide, and changing the chemical makeup of the electrolyte,
%The highly porous graphene electrode also greatly increases the capacity of the demonstrator, although only at certain rates of charge and discharge.
One compelling idea is to use solar energy to split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen and then harvest the hydrogen for use as fuel.
This meant that more of the solar energy could be used by the electrode.""Now we understand what's going on at the microscopic level,
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.
#Storage advance may boost solar thermal energy potential Engineers at Oregon State Univ. have identified a new approach for the storage of concentrated solar thermal energy,
Auyeung said. he molten salts now being used to store solar thermal energy can only work at about 600 degrees centigrade,
and might be twice as efficient as existing systems. his has the potential for a real breakthrough in energy storage,
which consumes thermal energy. During discharge, the recombination of strontium oxide and carbon dioxide releases the stored heat.
when the energy storage capacity of the process declined after 45 heating and cooling cycles, due to some changes in the underlying materials.
#Energy-efficient reaction drives biofuel conversion technology A new study from the U s. Dept of energy (DOE)' s Oak ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) explains the mechanism behind a technology that converts bio
Uncovering the mechanism behind the reaction helps support the potential economic viability of ORNL's direct biofuel-to-hydrocarbon conversion approach."
#In a first, drug using 3d printing technology gets FDA nod The U s. Food and Drug Administration has approved,
for the first time a drug that uses 3d printing technology, paving the way for potential customization of drugs to suit patients'needs.
which disintegrate in the mouth with a sip of liquid. 3d printing could help companies make products"to the specifications of an individual patient rather than (take a) one-size-fits-all kind of approach,"
"Wedbush Securities analyst Tao Levy said. 3d printers help make products by layering material until a three-dimensional object is created.
British scientists have used also 3d printing to create personalized replica models of cancerous parts of the body to allow doctors to target tumors more precisely y
#Eco-friendly 3d printed supercar Kevin Czinger of Divergent Microfactories has spent most of his career in the automotive industry.
"3d printing of metal radically changes that. By looking at 3d printing not for that overall structure
but to create individual modular structures that can be combined, that 3d printing transforms everything, "said Czinger during an interview with Reuters in Silicon valley.
According to Czinger, 3d printing transforms everything by changing the way the structural components of cars are fabricated.
Currently cars are pieced together on long assembly lines inside large factories that use massive amounts of energy.
To accomplish this they printed the modular pieces that are used to connect carbon rods that make up the Blade's chassis."The 3d printed chassis is only 102 pounds
but they believe their new 3d printing method for car manufacturing will have a huge impact on how the cars of the future are built t
Conventional propeller-type turbines are like underwater wind turbines and the number of suitable sites for them are reduced vastly by the size of their large blades,
or six hundred megawatts and just to visualize that that's like one small nuclear reactor's worth of electricity being generated from the tides in the Bristol Channel,
Sato says customers will be able to reserve their own Walkcars from autumn 2015 on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter.
which will contain subsidiaries to separate its core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars.
Google is not going to slow the pace of their experimental processes like self driving cars, "said Michael Yoshikami,
and separate the core web advertising business from newer ventures like driverless cars s
#Nine of world's biggest banks join to form blockchain partnership Nine of the world's biggest banks including Goldman sachs
such as nacre or tooth enamel. ur technique is similar to 3d printing, but 10 times faster and much more cost-effective, says Florian Bouville,
and stretchable material with the consistency of memory foam that has potential for use in prosthetic body parts, artificial organs and soft robotics.
#Artificial skin That Can Send Pressure sensation To Brain cell Stanford engineers have created a plastic"skin"that can detect how hard it is being pressed
The team then hooked this pressure-sensing mechanism to the second ply of their artificial skin,
Covering a large surface is important to making artificial skin practical and the PARC collaboration offered that prospect.
They translated the electronic pressure signals from the artificial skin into light pulses which activated the neurons,
proving that the artificial skin could generate a sensory output compatible with nerve cells. Optogenetics was used only as an experimental proof of concept,
I now see a clear path where we can take our artificial skin
#New Test To Predict Relapse Of Testicular cancers Scientists have developed a new test to identify patients who are at risk of suffering a relapse from testicular cancer.
#Artificial'skin'Provides Prosthetics With Sensation Using flexible organic circuits and specialized pressure sensors, researchers have created an artificial skin"that can sense the force of static objects.
Furthermore, they were able to transfer these sensory signals to the brain cells of mice in vitro using optogenetics.
To create the artificial skin, Benjamin Tee et al. developed a specialized circuit out of flexible, organic materials.
Transferring the digital signal from the artificial skin system to the cortical neurons of mice proved to be another challenge,
and lung cancers,"said Dr. Nhan Tran, an Associate professor in Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGEN)' s Cancer and Cell biology Division,
which offers low-cost, high-energy storage capabilities.""The solar cell is also super-efficient, known as a dye-sensitised solar cell.
"This solar flow battery design can potentially be applied for grid-scale solar energy conversion and storage, as well as producing'electrolyte fuels'that might be used to power future electric vehicles,"one of the team,
's goal of being powered by 90 percent renewable energy by 2025. The decision means that, with the exception of a few small-scale industrial plants,
"But significant market investment in other forms of renewable energy in recent years, particularly in geothermal, means that a coal backstop is becoming less of a requirement."
Over the past year and a half, New zealand has increased significantly the amount of electricity it produces from renewable energy,
with nearly 80 percent of its electricity coming from renewable sources in 2014 thanks to huge expansion in geothermal.
when it comes to renewable energy. But if recent research has shown us anything, it's that there are plenty of renewable energy sources out there to be exploited,
and every country On earth has more than enough to go around. We just need to follow New zealand's lead,
#Flexible skin sensors turn your body into a digital touch panel The rise of wearable technology is inevitably leading towards our clothes becoming the next touch-enabled smart accessories,
Google glass. By using skin as the location for a near-invisible control overlay, iskin developers think theye discovered the perfect natural touch surface. urrent electronics are mostly using rigid components
say researchers Figures indicate that the world uptake of renewable energy has eclipsed finally its demand for fossil fuel sources,
which effectively mimics plant-based photosynthesis by using solar energy to convert water into hydrogen. The process,
clean and renewable source of hydrogen as the ultimately sustainable fuel, said Leone Spiccia, lead author of the research,
the wearable device needs to be circular in nature (like the coil shown in the image above),
Theye since been working towards a battery-integrated window that can store energy from sunlight while also changing its structure automatically to provide a tint during the day.
and as hydrogen storage materials in next generation batteries,"he added. Last year, scientists used metallic glass to create an iphone case that was 50 times harder than plastic.
This progressed to the man using his thoughts to control the walking of a virtual reality avatar,
The newly developed device allows two quantum bits -or qubits-to communicate and perform calculations together,
which is a crucial requirement for quantum computers. Even better, the researchers have worked also out how to scale the technology up to millions of qubits
which means they now have the ability to build the world's first quantum processor chip and, eventually, the first silicon-based quantum computer.
Right now, regular computer chips store information as binary bits, which are either in a 0 or 1 state.
This system works well, but it means that there's a finite amount of data that can be processed.
Qubits, on the other hand, can be in the state of 0, 1, or both at the same time, which gives quantum computers unprecedented processing power...
if we can work out how to build them. Scientists are getting pretty good at controlling these qubits,
but what they've struggled with is getting them to communicate with each other and perform operations.
in order to create a silicon-based quantum computer.""Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips,
"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today computer industry."
in order to get two qubits to'talk'to each other, they have to be incredibly close together-generally within 20 to 40 nanometres of each other
Quantum bits, on the other hand are defined by the spin of a single electron. But by reconfiguring traditional transistors to only be associated with one electron,
Dzurak and his team were able to have them define qubits instead. ee morphed those silicon transistors into quantum bits by ensuring that each has only one electron associated with it.
We then store the binary code of 0 or 1 on the'spin'of the electron,
The team then showed that they could use metal electrodes on these transistors to control the qubits
The researchers have patented already a design"for a full-scale quantum computer chip that would allow for millions of our qubits,
we'll then be able to build a functioning quantum computer, which would revolutionise the way we process information,
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