which you can temporarily store your solar energy. In short, for a solar fuels future we cannot ignore gallium phosphide any longer,
Visible light accounts for under half of the solar energy that reaches Earth's surface. Nearly all of the rest comes from infrared radiation.
and the Internet of things in order to encourage innovation. Yoo hopes the hackathon will get more students and recent graduates interested in startups,
from initial MRI to 3d printing, could be completed within days, said Dr. Mao. They will begin clinical trials once the team has raised enough cash to start printing
a fake Occupy Central app that spread phishing malware in Hong kong poked a few more holes in the perceived security of ios closed system.
Collaboration Leads to Innovation Some of the most talked-about startups in recent years would not exist if not for open data.
IFTTT was strategically positioning itself as the go-to platform for the impending Internet of things. This brilliant, long-game strategy landed the company a $30 million investment in August of this year.
For example, if Apple decides to throw its hat in the virtual reality ring, it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
and the world entire network of virtual reality developers are collaborating to create. Companies that rely on the idea that theye ompletely irreplaceableneed only look at the long list of alternatives that have arisen to even some of our most institutionalized services in recent years:
at home 3d printing for manufacturing; and right now in Hong kong, Firechat, which is enabling protesters to circumvent Internet service providers.
as Makerbot learned after it suddenly clamped down on its open-source 3d printing hardware after a community of early supporters spent years contributing to Makerbot design (it worth watching rint the Legend, a new documentary that chronicles the whole ordeal, available
access to Kindle Lending library and unlimited cloud storage for photos, among other things. Unlike Netflix, Amazon tests its original series with its audience first,
#With $16m In Funding Helium Wants To Provide The Connective tissue For The Internet of things Over the next few years,
There he led the company strategic software initiatives in open source, Internet of things, and wearables verticals. As a result, he has experience in large-scale wireless systems,
or Amazon data center, replacing hundreds or thousands of fans with ones using 35 percent less power could yield significant cost savings.
As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.
The feature will be powered by Canadian company##Graphite Software#s OS-level virtualization software. Speaking to Techcrunch back in October Blackphone cofounder Jon Callas indicated an app store was incoming detailing a plan##to expand its##hardened Android OS to include a curated app store experience#offering third party apps##it##has selected
and privacy within a familiar-looking Android##wrapper and by bolting on multiple third party services to put##secure alternatives for essentials such as##cloud storage within easy reach (as well as bundling up the cost of their initial subscription in with the phone).
The initiative is part of Box s work to become the leading cloud storage provider for the enterprise.
#Mesosphere Announces First Data center OS And $36m In Funding Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project,
what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.
Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS.
This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine,
the operating system sits on top of the data center and enables administrators to treat all of the resources in the data center as a single, virtual entity.
This allows for much simpler management and lets administrators spin servers and software up and down as needs require much more quickly than with current methods.
and allow you to apply that same principle to the entire data center. Because today applications tend to work across multiple servers,
By applying this virtual machine concept across the entire data center, you create a single pool of resources that you can manipulate any way that you like
What more, this ability to virtualize the entire data center dramatically speeds up the time it takes to spin up server clusters from days or weeks to hours or even minutes
Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes, or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,
and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.
Administrators can also set up triggers with a scheduler tool so that when certain conditions are met, the system will automatically run a predefined set of commands.
What more, administrators can take advantage of the API to build applications against the single pool of data center resources available from Mesosphere DCOS.
The new high-tech store Minkoff launched in Manhattan Soho neighborhood aims to capitalize on that kind of big data knowhow
Originally a collaboration between Rackspace and NASA, the Openstack cloud computing software platform is the most prominent open-source project to emerge in recent years.
In addition to financial services Alibaba hoard of data is used by its cloud computing subsidiary logistics and even health tech that organizes patient information for hospitals f
The early prototypes of the Cognitoys dinosaur were printed using a 3d printing system, but when they come to market,
#Datameer Heads To The Cloud With Latest Big data Product Datameer launched a new cloud service called Datameer Professional today that offers customers a Big data solution without the hassle of installing,
Datameer, which launched in 2009, offers big data and analytics running Hadoop for a range of applications.
which uses its own big data tools to analyze sales, started to see a decline in IT interest in the product in 2014.
especially when you consider a Hadoop installation can take up to 12 months to implement. The Datameer project could be faster
Both services are a good fit for the company as they each specialize in Hadoop offerings in the cloud.
Apple is putting a massive $848 million into solar energy. According to Cook, Apple is putting $848 million into building a 1, 300-acre solar farm in Monterey, Calif,
itl also come with an app that brings a nifty augmented reality feature, which I described when we first met Prynt back in November:
I call a product of the very recent Internet-applied-to-things (not the overused phrase Internet of things).
send it to a 3d printer and within hours it printed and installed on my car door.
IMG 6409 Cut the Cost of Tools Makers can access expensive professional tools through companies like Techshop where you can access large computational power/storage and machines like 3d printers, for example, for an hour at a time.
Or lease, instead of own, expensive additive manufacturing equipment through companies like Cathedral Leasing. Federal institutions like Oak ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee bring innovative researchers
because you can bring hardware and software to market at unprecedented rates with a much smaller amount of capital through crowdsourcing,
crowdfunding and microfactories. Meaningful Legal Protections Today, in the U s.,we have legal protections for user-generated content that now mean something.
Because microfactories move concepts to products faster by using crowdsourcing for the design and 3d printing for the manufacturing.
Crowdsourcing rapidly taps into a global talent pool of people who can solve any particular engineering challenge faster. 3d printers use less material,
#Amazon Invests In 150mw Indiana Wind farm To Power Its Data centers Amazon today announced that it is working with the Pattern Energy Group to construct
but the mazon Web Services Wind farm (Fowler Ridge) that the full name of what was called previously the owler Ridge IV Wind Projectwill only be used to power Amazon AWS data centers.
As Amazon announced last November, its long-term goal is o achieve 100 percent renewable energy usage for the global AWS infrastructure footprint.
in today announcement. his power purchase agreement helps to increase the renewable energy used to power our infrastructure in the US
and renewable energy projects for powering our datacenters that we currently have in the works. While Google has made various wind energy investments over the last few years
this is Amazon first (or at least the first one it is publicly talking about) s
#Cheaper Sensors Will Fuel The Age Of Smart Everything For better or worse, we are about the enter the age of smart everything.
the tiny devices that fuel the Internet of things are getting smaller and cheaper all the time. As they do,
The Internet of things is a term that being bandied about with increasing frequency these days. You could think of it as the loudof 2015 that buzzword that marketers put in absolutely everything
The Internet of things in actuality involves a network of smart sensors collecting data. As the sensors grow ever cheaper,
On The Edge Of A major Shift Nils Herzberg, global co-lead for Iot at SAP says the beauty of sensors that they bring real-time data to applications. ustomers run applications for business critical processes,
The reason why wee seeing more talk about the Internet of things is the diminishing size and cost of sensor technologies, says James Bailey,
Our perspective is literally everything will have IOT technology at some point, he said. James Bailey, Accenture Bailey believes that we are not there yet,
And while Analyticsmd does offer its own real-time dashboard view too its added layer of data processing helps hospitals achieve greater operational efficiencies by providing a nudge ahead of time.
which recently made a deal with Japan Komatsu to enable driverless bulldozers to take instructions from unmanned drones.
as well as crowdfunding campaigns. Among them, perhaps Flat 6 Labs is known the best. It gave birth to the startup Instabug a platform for in-app feedback for mobile apps,
Tennra A a gamified crowdfunding platform. Usertalk An embedded call button for customer support over VOIP.
After graduating from the University of Michigan with backgrounds in autonomous vehicle research the founders went on to found Skyspecs.
and big data the financial sector is a relatively new battleground for the two companies. Tencent first financial services product a fund called Licaitong was launched in January 2014
Imagine the power of state surveillance tapping into an expansive Internet of things infrastructure that ceaselessly gathers real-time data on every point of human intersection public
#The 3d printed Peek Camera Helps Diagnose Eye disease In Developing Areas The Peek, or Portable Eye Examination Kit app, is based a smartphone system for diagnosing eye problems.
It uses a 3d printed add-on that can allow ophthalmologists to give detailed and complete eye exams in the field using an app and a small camera overlay.
and should begin shipping the app and 3d printed add-on shortly r
#Here Are connected The First Home Devices For Apple Homekit Apple Homekit is finally starting to roll out to actual consumers,
including Google glass, its driverless cars and Project Loon. The health wristband can monitor pulse, heart rhythm, skin temperature, light exposure and noise levels, providing valuable data not just about a patient,
and were convinced they could merge mobile commerce, social discovery, and big data. Of course, while Compelation sounds good,
Aclima-equipped Street view cars will crisscross the Bay Area and other cities this year as part of the next big data collection.
The ability to direct self-driving cars away from intersections where they might contribute to high-pollution zones could help convince cities theye a positive change.
Herzl concludes that Aclima sensors are producing social good out of the Internet of things, which is thought often of as just equipping homes with Wi-fi-connected appliances.
After that training process, the software was set loose on several large data sets of images from Flickr
#Driving Marketing Results with Big data For marketers trying to maximize their return on investment predictive analytics based on big data is an exciting new tool.
In the digital world predictive analytics based on big data holds the promise of creating a detailed view of
The promise of big data analytics is that marketers can analyze thousands of points of information about the digital activity of the purchaser stripped of personally identifiable information
We can do media-mix modeling using big data and machine learning says Madan Bharadwaj product marketing chief of Visual IQ an analytics firm based in Needham Massachusetts.
long-lived batteries that could make it possible to rely heavily on intermittent, renewable energy sources. Aquion Energy, a company spun out of Carnegie mellon University,
solar, and hydropower, could help hundreds of millions of people who live beyond conventional grids get reliable electricity.
or wind turbines to provide round-the-clock power. Alternatively, diesel generators can be used. Aquion batteries use sodium ions from saltwater as their electrolyte.
The new energy storage technology could be crucial to making renewable energy more viable, especially in remote locations.
By making solar power cheaper than diesel fuel in many places, it could help bring clean power to some of the more than one billion people in the world without reliable electricity (see Billion People in the Dark.
including stabilizing conventional power grids as they come to rely more heavily on renewable energy. The company isn disclosing where its batteries are being usedxcept to say the projects are international a
This contraption is part of one of the most efficient solar power devices ever made. Semprius, a startup based in Durham, North carolina,
claims that the next generation of this power unit will make solar power the cheapest option for utilities installing new power plants.
That raises a disturbing possibilityight a breakthrough technology that could make solar power truly competitive never see the light of day, not because of any lack of technical merit,
low-cost solar power possible. The stamp, developed in Rogers lab, allows Semprius to improve upon a type of solar power called concentrated photovoltaics,
which has been around for decades (see ltra-Efficient Solar. The idea is that you can increase the amount of energy any solar cell gathers by putting lenses over the cell to focus light into it.
and some clever lens designs, allowed Semprius to break a solar power efficiency record in 2012.
and Siemens drawing on its expertise in building solar power plants. But 15 months after Siemens invested in Semprius,
Huge investments in conventional silicon solar power, especially in China had lowered costs of production but also flooded the market with cheap solar panels.
Semprius solar devices are suited best for use in solar power plants. Having the backing of Siemens would have helped convince utilities to take a chance on novel technology.
Such advances might eventually make solar power cheaper than fossil fuels, even without Semprius technology. But silicon-based solar power is not yet there,
and that the opportunity for Semprius. The U s. Energy Information Administration estimates that new solar power plants will produce power at just under 15 cents per kilowatt-hourar higher than the 6. 5 cents per kilowatt-hour for natural gas power.
Thus, if Semprius is right that it will soon have technology to make solar panels capable of producing electricity at around 5 cents per kilowatt-hour,
#How Magic Leap s Augmented reality Works A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon valley investors led by Google to develop hardware
for a new kind of augmented reality hardware. The secretive startup has yet to publicly describe or demonstrate its technology,
The filings describe sophisticated display technology that can trick the human visual system better than existing virtual reality displays (such as the Oculus Rift) into perceiving virtual objects as real.
But Wetzstein says Magic Leap will need likely to make major breakthroughs in computer vision software for a wearable device to make sense of the world enough for very rich augmented reality. hey will require very powerful 3-D image recognition,
Dedicated chips could make that work more energy-efficient, something important for a wearable device. Magic Leap already employs Gary Bradski, a pioneer of computer vision research and software, notes Wetzstein.
Altogether, many of the underlying techniques Magic Leap needs to realize highly realistic augmented reality have been demonstrated,
and such high-profile technologies as Google driverless car are happening more slowly than some people may think.
which fills half of a large open room on the Media Lab's second floor may come to see the future of bionics
Lockheed martin s announcement last week that it had developed secretly a promising design for a compact nuclear fusion reactor has met with excitement but also skepticism over the basic feasibility of its approach.
Nuclear fusion could produce far more energy far more cleanly than the fission reactions at the heart of today s nuclear power plants.
Based on that as far as I can tell they aren t paying attention to the basic physics of magnetic-confinement fusion energy.
The FDA is being cautious with personal genomics because although DNA data is easy to gather,
what Cariaso calls ecreational genomics. Lennon, who had soured on venture capital, also didn involved want investors. As a result, their work was overshadowed by 23andme,
#Why Coconuts Could Be the Hydrogen storage Material of the Future Hydrogen is a potential renewable fuel
Today, they show that it outperforms a number of other hydrogen storage materials, particularly in its ability to work over many charging cycles.
To help evaluate hydrogen storage materials, the US Department of energy has set a number of targets that these materials must meet to be considered viable technologies for future transport systems.
the current criteria is that a hydrogen storage system must store at least 5. 5 percent of hydrogen by mass (5. 5 wt%.
#A Promising Step Toward Round-the-clock Solar power If solar power is to become a primary source of electricity around the world,
You wouldn t want to use the technique to ensure that an autonomous car could detect jaywalkers for example he says.
and one can envision how the extension of these concepts might lead to better sensors for advanced active safety and driverless car systems.
Maureen Hansen a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell says the advances won't be seen in commercially grown food crops for at least five or 10 years.
and invested in another Stratos Genomics. Hitachi is also working on nanopore technology as are startups like Electronic Biosciences.
Energy storage is still a challenge he says
#Gene-Silencing Drugs Finally Show Promise The disease starts with a feeling of increased clumsiness.
Bhowmik also showed how data from a tablet s 3-D sensor can be used to build very accurate augmented reality games where a virtual character viewed on a device s screen integrates into the real environment.
#Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum computer Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer a type of machine that can exploit quantum physics to solve problems that would take a conventional computer millions of years.
which claims to make the first commercial quantum computer. And last year Google purchased one of D-Wave s machines.
Martinis has spent more than a decade working on a more proven approach to quantum computing and built some of the largest most error-free systems of qubits the basic building blocks that encode information in a quantum computer.
We would like to rethink the design and make the qubits in a different way says Martinis of his effort to improve on D-Wave s hardware.
We think there s an opportunity in the way we build our qubits to improve the machine.
Martinis has taken a joint position with Google and UCSB that will allow him to continue his own research at the university.
That s because qubits working together can use the quirks of quantum mechanics to quickly discard incorrect paths to a solution
However qubits are tricky to operate because quantum states are so delicate. Chris Monroe a professor who leads a quantum computing lab at the University of Maryland welcomed the news that one of the leading lights in the field was going to work on the question of
whether designs like D-Wave s can be useful. I think this is a great development to have legitimate researchers give it a try he says.
and Jeff Bezos Bet on Quantum computing). There is no question that D-Wave s machine can perform calculations.
And research published in 2011 showed that the machine s chip harbors the right kind of quantum physics needed for quantum computing.
But evidence is lacking that it uses that physics in the way needed to unlock the huge speedups promised by a quantum computer.
Martinis s previous work has been focused on the conventional approach to quantum computing. He set a new milestone in the field this April
when his lab announced that it could operate five qubits together with relatively low error rates.
Larger systems of such qubits could be configured to run just about any kind of algorithm depending on the problem at hand much like a conventional computer.
To be useful a quantum computer would probably need to be built with tens of thousands of qubits or more.
The chip at the heart of D-Wave s latest machine has 512 qubits but they are wired into a different more limited component known as a quantum annealer.
Martinis thinks his technology for fabricating qubits could make better quantum annealers. Specifically he hopes to make one
whose qubits can more stably maintain a quantum state known as a superposition effectively both 0 and 1 at the same time.
The qubits of D-Wave s machine can maintain superpositions for periods lasting only nanoseconds.
Martinis has built qubits that can do that for as long as 30 microseconds he says. Martinis makes his qubits from aluminum circuits built on sapphire wafers
and chills them to 20 millikelvin a fraction above absolute zero so that they become superconducting. D-Wave s chip requires similar cooling to operate
Martinis is in the process of switching to making his own qubits on silicon and believes certain electrical insulator materials used in D-Wave s chips may be limiting its performance.
and that Google S d-Wave computer will be upgraded with a new 1000 qubit processor when it becomes available e
and solar power in recent years is launching more than 20 demonstration projects that involve storing energy by splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen.
whether electrolysis as the technology is known could address one of the biggest looming challenges for renewable energy its intermittency.
The electrolyzer projects under construction in Germany typically consist of a few buildings each the size of a shipping container that consume excess renewable energy on sunny and windy days by turning it into an electric current that powers the water-splitting reaction.
Electrolysis has advantages over some other energy storage options. It can be deployed almost anywhere it can store vast amounts of energy
and the large-scale use of renewable energy is creating new needs for storage making electrolysis a practical option in a growing number of places.
because excess wind and solar power creates a glut of power on the grid. Because power needs to be used as soon as it s generated to keep the grid stable prices are dropped sometimes to zero
But it can compete with storage options such as batteries says Kevin Harrison a senior engineer at the National Renewable energy Laboratory in Golden Colorado.
Now these two trends are converging catalyzed by the exponential increase in the network of devices connected via the Internet of things (Iot.
In fact Gartner projects that the number of connected devices in the Iot will increase nearly 30-fold in just over a decade growing from about 900 million connected devices in 2009 to more than 26 billion by 2020.
The numbers of people-to-people connections##business networks social networks##they ve all been growing over the past 10 years says Dinesh Sharma SAP s vice president of marketing for the Internet of things.
But while social mobile and cloud computing helped set the groundwork for the Networked Economy it s important for businesses to understand that this revolutionary economic environment goes far beyond those technologies creating unprecedented new opportunities for collaboration and customization.
Precision agriculture will allow us to optimize resources so that it should be possible to deliver 70 percent more food on the land we have today.
#Furniture Shopping with Augmented reality In a darkened room in the back of a small furniture store just south of San francisco International airport, the couch in front of me keeps changing colors and patterns, from red to blue to beige
and poke the cushionsut the psychedelic surface-shifting effect is created with augmented reality technology that projects fabric patterns onto the surface of the couch
#A Headset Meant to Make Augmented reality Less of a Gimmick Andrew Maimone thinks augmented reality hasn been much more than a gimmick so far.
Maimone, a Phd student at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality hereby digital objects
Conventional augmented reality glasses use lenses, beam splitters, waveguides, reflectors, and other optics to relay an image to the eye,
Maimone has been working on an entirely new kind of augmented reality device that is light and compact, and offers a wide field of view.
While state-of-the-art commercial augmented reality glasses have a field of view of 40°or less early Pinlight prototypes have demonstrated fields of view of 100°or more.
The prototype suffers from low resolution and image quality, far below the level of existing commercial augmented reality glasses.
And despite his skepticism about the current state or augmented reality, he believes that with the right research and engineering,
The company objected to the warrant with regard to data stored at its data center in Ireland claiming that U s. courts are authorized not to issue warrants for extraterritorial searches.
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