assistant professor of Biology in the UM College of Arts and Sciences and a senior author of the study. hese data support a critical role for SLC25A46 and mitochondrial dynamics in the establishment and maintenance of neuronal processes.
and active global data exchange were we able to solve this puzzle. r
#Herpes used in cancer treatment Researchers used a modified herpes virus to successfully treat patients with aggressive skin cancer
#Google working with Levis on smart clothes GOOGLE says it working with iconic US jean maker Levi strauss to make clothing from specially woven fabric with touch-screen control capabilities.
The internet titan used its annual developers conference in San francisco to reveal its so-called Project Jacquard
Project Jacquard is in the hands of a small Google team called Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP),
which is different from the Google (x) lab that develops big-vision innovations such as self-driving cars. e are enabling interactive textiles,
or computer screens with finger strokes on a blue cloth covering a table in the display area behind him. t is just like normal fabric.
and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms, according to Google. Anything involving fabric,
from suits or dresses to furniture or carpet, could potentially have computer touchpad style control capabilities woven.
with miniaturised electronics that can use algorithms to recognise touches or swipes, ATAP says. The data can be sent wirelessly to smartphones or other devices,
enabling actions such as making phone calls or sending messages with brushes of fabric. n our hyper-digital world,
who took part in a Google presentation at the gathering. he work that Google and Levi are embarking upon with Project Jacquard delivers an entirely new value to consumers with apparel that is emotional, aspirational and functional. i
No one had looked at the data in this way before, she said. lot of the people were convinced pretty is was some problem with the imaging,
Ms Loi said the drifting plasma tubes could distort astronomical data, especially satellite-based navigation systems.
As an undergraduate student with no prior background in this, that is an impressive achievement, said Dr Murphy, also of CAASTRO and the School of Physics at the University of Sydney. hen they first saw the data,
Founder Bob Roohparvar, a computer science professor at California State university, likened the technology a tube of toothpaste. f you just squeeze from the top,
Program director for the US NAVY Captain Jeff Dodge likened the upgrade from the MQ-8b based on a smaller airframe to the model aircraft to a brain transplant. e are taking the computer
He is a PC-3 Orion pilot by trade and while he is prepared not to write the obituary for airborne pilots just yet he understands that unmanned systems are booming,
Sensors on the ground at Point Mugu mimic a ship landing system so the chopper simply picks up a radio beam
mission payload operators and a tactical commander who are located in a control room with three large TV screens on the wall
and each operator working a keyboard, mouse and a bank of computer screens. There is no joystick and the system is ly by mousewith the operator using the computer mouse to control the aircraft
even if it is flying thousands of kms away. The future has arrived and as sure as night follows day it will involve fewer airborne pilots and increasing numbers of unmanned aircraft systems.
have seen we the last of piloted aircraft? Probably not, but it will become increasingly difficult in the years ahead to find a military pilot who actually takes to the air i
#Aussie bricklaying robot can build house in two days WORLD, meet your new bricklayer. A robotic, fully-automated machine is being developed in Perth,
It works by creating a 3d computer-aided design (CAD) laying program of a house or structure
while working in the area of computer-controlled machinery and witnessing the shortage of Perth bricklayers that the idea of a bricklaying robot really took hold.
"Our data are the clearest demonstration to date that Octopus bimaculoides skin is intrinsically light-sensitive, "they report.
paper, scissors Next, the team sent information from the implant to a computer, which translated it into instructions to move a separate robotic arm.
and have that trigger the television to switch on? Touchy feely For now though, the next step is to give people like Sorto back their sense of touch.
This is the worst in a string of threats to the site. Even before this engagement
destroying sites in the process. Before its retreat, the Syrian army evacuated as much of Palmyra's population as possible, together with the museum collections,
many other sites have been damaged in this and other conflicts and even more are harmed by activities such as development and agriculture.
By examining satellite imagery and historic aerial photography, the team looks for and records sites, monitoring the extensive landscape changes of the past 70 years.
working with local heritage agencies to better protect the sites in the future. Others are looking to new technologies to help, such as 3d scanning.
a leader in this field, is scanning as many heritage sites, objects, famous landmarks, and even rock-art sites, as possible.
It is making them internationally accessible online but also creating records that could be used for reconstruction.
Some of these sites are now in areas of great risk, such as Babylon and Mosul in Iraq.
Cyark's goals include scanning 500 heritage sites in the next five years. Such technology is improving exponentially quickly:
new 3d scanning devices are as small as mobile phones, and NGOS hope to deploy them in conflict areas including Syria.
It is also possible to create 3d data even from tourist photographs, often using crowdsourced images.
Hopes for such fake DNA range from developing new drugs to creating artificial life. In 2006, Benner and his colleagues built two bases,
#Gadgets powered wirelessly at home with a simple Wi-fi router Our homes are tangled a mess of wires and chargers.
Work is under way to use the Wi-fi signals that surround us to power our gadgets.
which modified electrical devices were put in their homes along with a Wi-fi router. Over 24 hours, the devices were powered solely by the router's signal,
which also continued to provide wireless internet access to the home. How was this possible? The energy of the radio waves the router sent out was converted into direct current voltage with a component called a rectifier,
much as solar panels convert light energy into electrical energy. That voltage was boosted then to a useful level by a DC-DC converter (arxiv. org/abs/1505.06815.
The system powered temperature sensors and battery-less low-resolution cameras, and charged standard batteries. The hard part is getting the router to constantly push out enough energy,
says team member Vamsi Talla from the University of Washington in Seattle. When someone is browsing the web,
the Wi-fi signal is active and can be used to power devices. However, when not browsing the signal goes quiet."
"With Wi-fi for communications, you only want to transmit when you have data to send, "Talla says."
"But for power delivery, you want to transmit something all the time. There's a clear mismatch.""To get around this, the team designed software that broadcasts meaningless data across several Wi-fi channels
when no one is using the internet. Small devices could use this as part of an internet of things,
says Ben Potter at the University of Reading, UK.""Where we're heading is to have more sensors in everything around us,
"he says.""Innovations with microchips mean they can run with less power. For that type of application, this is interesting technology."
"The problem is that Wi-fi is never going to provide a very powerful signal. Wi-fi is regulated tightly in many countries the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for example, limits the power of a Wi-fi broadcast to 1 watt.
An iphone charger delivers at least 5 watts and has no other demands on its output. One company with a solution is Ossia in Bellevue, Washington.
It has called a system Cota that gets around the FCC regulations by designing a wireless hub that transmits waves at a Wi-fi frequency
but doesn't send a communications signal. The Cota setup can produce up to 20 watts
but would only deliver 1 watt to a single phone. CEO Hatem Zeine says that's enough to charge an iphone 5 several times over in a single day
if it has constant access to the signal.""Unlike Wi-fi, our power signal is unmodulated,
"says Zeine.""It's a continuous wave, there's no message in it.""A receiver chip on the device being charged tells the hub which of Cota's thousands of antennas it is receiving signals from.
Sensors powered by Wi-fi could be used to monitor air quality or the status of systems across a city
Elledge and his colleagues used an international database to look up all viruses known to infect humans around 1000 strains from 206 viral species. Using this information,
"The team used the test to screen blood samples from 569 people from four countries the US, South africa, Thailand and Peru.
Matthews thinks it would be worth extending the screen to animal populations. He envisages screening wild populations of animals thought to be linked to emerging diseases."
whether red light shone into mice's heads using fibre optics can help with Parkinson's disease. A better understanding of how red light affects cells should make it easier to expand its medical uses,
#Smart mirror monitors your face for telltale signs of disease Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease?
Facial recognition software looks for telltale markers of stress or anxiety, while the gas sensors take samples of the user breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke.
The 3d scanners analyse face shape to spot weight gain or loss while the multispectral cameras can estimate heart rate or haemoglobin levels.
After the software has analysed the face which only takes about a minute the mirror produces a score that tells the user how healthy they seem.
It also displays personalised advice on how to improve their health. Wize Mirror is being developed by a consortium of researchers
and industry partners from seven European union countries, with EU funding. Sara Colantonio and colleagues from the National Research Council of Italy,
Clinical trials of the device will begin next year at three sites in France and Italy, aiming to compare its readings with those from traditional medical devices.
is an app that uses a smartphone camera to monitor blood levels in the face
and migrate to the affected sites. We could also use this technique to study the early development of complex organisms,
towns and rural communities to offer their citizens fast and cheap broadband Internet. The move would ask the Federal Communications Commission to address state laws that prevent cities from building their own municipal Internet services.
But it's likely to anger major cable and Internet companies. Obama announced his plans in Cedar Falls, Iowa,
which is home to a 1 GB broadband network 100 times faster than the national average."
"He said greater access to faster Internet will make the U s. more competitive globally.""There are real-world consequences to this,
because his state has rural communities with no access to the Internet.""It's become a pattern that he goes to a state where there's a Republican governor that's doing something that he'd like to replicate on a national level,
cities and rural communities that want to improve Internet service for their residents.""I believe that a community has the right to make its own choice
The plan is likely to be opposed by companies such as Comcast and Verizon, which provide Internet services around the nation.
Obama's support for net neutrality and an open Internet have angered already these firms because the president wants the Internet reclassified as a public utility.
Broadband for America a group whose members include major Internet service providers, said while it strongly agrees Obama's plan to expand broadband access,
the president"is risking the success we have witnessed by advocating for the reclassification of broadband as a Title II public utility unprecedented government interference that would stifle private investment,
hinder innovation and undermine the growth of the Internet.""Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga's publicly owned electric company has built already a municipal broadband network in the city. and Wilson,
N c.,have asked the FCC to intervene against state laws that limit publicly funded Internet.""I believe that it is in the best interests of consumers
"FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wrote in a blog post last year.""Given the opportunity, we will do so."
NPR's Joel Rose has reported previously on how some cities are taking high-speed Internet into their own hands o
#Centcom's Twitter Feed Youtube Channel Hacked The Twitter feed and the Youtube channel of U s. Central Command were compromised on Monday a Pentagon spokesman said.
We are taking appropriate measures to address the matter. I have no further information to provide at this time the spokesman said.
and switched the avatar from the Centcom logo to a photo of a masked fighter.
and that none of the information posted came from CENTCOM's server or social media sites.
On Twitter the hackers released what they purported was a phone list of retired U s. generals as well as
what appear to be presentation slides from the government-funded Lincoln Laboratory at MIT. Pentagon Networks Hacked one tweet read.
At this time however there is no evidence Pentagon servers were compromised. The only thing we know for sure is that credentials for the social media channels
which are hosted on Twitter and Youtube servers were compromised. Quoting defense officials Reuters reports that the images published on Twitter do not appear to pose a security threat
or include classified information. Twitter and Youtube have suspended the accounts s
#Researchers Create Artificial organs That Fit in Your Hand Great balls of cells! Scientists are developing mock human organs that can fit in the palm of your hand.
These organs-on-a-chip are designed to test drugs and help understand the basics of how organs function
when they are healthy and when they are diseased. For instance, you have your gut-on-a-chip being developed at the Johns Hopkins School of medicine.
It's a high-tech approach to dealing with a scourge of the low-tech world.""I'm interested in solving a worldwide problem of diarrheal diseases,
#Wi-fi Everywhere May Let You Roam Free From Your Mobile Carrier To get the most out of your smartphone do need you really a cellphone plan?
when he spent a month relying only on Wi-fi networks for his mobile data and voice needs.
and adjustments to your routine you can get almost as much out of your smartphone with a monthly bill of $0.
The frustrations of the switch were relatively minimal Knutson told NPR's Robert Siegel in an interview conducted over Skype.
but with Wi-fi they're hotspots Knutson said. So you can't walk down the street
while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
if you're offline companies stitching individual hotspots into networks and carriers with cheap plans that rely on Wi-fi first
and roam on the network of a cellular provider such as Sprint as a backup. Google on Monday announced its own plans to enter the cellphone carrier market The New york times reported:
The ease of his transition and the burgeoning competition could pose serious issues for the industry Knutson writes:
Knutson told Siegel that cellphone providers aren't worried about the competition saying there always will be a market for people who will pay money to have connectivity wherever they go
but that the pattern fits into one described by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma-a low-cost low-quality alternative that slowly improves until it has claimed the bulk of an industry's customers s
#Meet Mafiaboy The'Bratty Kid'Who Took Down The Internet This week, the country's second-largest health insurance company,
Anthem, said hackers broke into a database with personal information about 80 million of its customers.
brought down the websites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, E*Trade, ebay, and Yahoo!.At the time, Yahoo!
was the biggest search engine in the world.""The New york stock exchange, they were freaking out, because they were all investing in these e-commerce companies,
"he remembers.""And then it's like, 'OK a 15-year-old kid can shut us down at any point?
when Calce got his first computer, at the age of 6 ."I was a pretty bratty kid.
me so he took a computer from his work and brought it home and was like'Here,
It was his first time on the internet, and within a few days the 9-year-old hacked the system
and then harnessing their combined computing power to attack outside websites.""Basically when I hit enter on the keyboard,
the university networks all respond at the same exact time and basically overwhelm websites with too much information,
"he explains. It's called a denial-of-service attack. Within hours, he had taken down six major websites."
"The overall purpose was to intimidate other hacker groups, "says Calce. Back then, he says,
He says the internet is a far scarier place today than it was back in 2000.
and the problems and inherent flaws that come with computers and internet. s
#Hackers Strike Health insurer Anthem The country's second-biggest health insurer says cyberattackers infiltrated one of its IT systems
email addresses and employment information, including income data, "wrote Anthem CEO Joe Swedish in a letter to the company's policyholders."
The company says it has established a dedicated website where members can access information, and a dedicated toll free number that both current and former members can call
One in nine Americans receives coverage for his medical care through Anthem's affiliated plans, according to a statement on its website e
Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
But instead of windows these are actually screens. And the airport you're looking at isn't the one in Sundsvall.
And a problem landing an airplane is far more consequential than a laptop freezing up. Backman says when he saw the first mockup of this technology in 2004 he was dubious.
Many Uses Including Potentially For The Militarybecause once the windows are replaced with screens you can overlay all kinds of information on the display:
We watch it move across the screen. The sound shifts in stereo as the plane rolls along.
More data are needed to nail down the vaccine's efficacy. And there were a few issues with the design of the experiment that could have skewed the results."
"But recent advancements in the field of computer-based modeling may make it easier someday for good surgeons to be great.
One such technology comes from Dassault systèmes, a French company that specializes in 3-D software to help engineers who design cars
and planes avoid potentially fatal outcomes. Earlier this week, Dassault released its highly realistic digital model of the human heart,
"Doctors wear 3-D glasses and use a joystick to zoom in to a ventricle or valve,
The software is free to organizations that agree to conduct research and share their findings with the project.
"Challenges to greater adoption of computer-modeling include a lack of data for some medical conditions,
Internet connections were getting faster, hard drives stored more data in tinier spaces, songs were easier than ever to find and available for little or no money.
Every year, the new version of Apple's ipod, first introduced in 2001 with a now-adorable 5gb of storage space, held thousands upon thousands more songs.
ad-supported and paid-subscription services that offer instant access to libraries that would make the wildest dreams of the ipod user seem tame.
a subscription service that is scheduled to be rolled into the itunes platform sometime this year, possibly as soon as next week.
Apple stands to gain plenty by luring its hundreds of millions of users to a subscription-based streaming service,
The transition will speed surely the decline of the single-song download, and itunes, the world's largest music store, will feel that pain acutely.
Apple's entry into the market isn't the signal that the world is ready for streaming music;
when itunes will launch its attack on established services like Spotify, we're going to examine the world of streaming music that is upon us in a series called Streaming At The Tipping Point.
The recording industry's fight against that principle took on the form of invasive digital rights management software, advertising campaigns, threats and lawsuits.
Every time you click play on a streaming service, from Pandora to Youtube to Spotify, you're licensing the right to listen to the song in that particular moment,
the digital download, but also the concept that fans might possess music itself. No format lives forever.
"Benefitting from the large data set provided by the LHC, and the excellent precision of our detector, we have examined all possibilities for these signals,
Over recent years, Proximion has been developing complete temperature monitoring systems including interrogator and analysis software on an OEM basis. In addition to the launch of Wistheat,
this project will utilize 3ds's Direct Metal Printing technology as well as the additive manufacturing and materials expertise of Penn State's Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3d).
and aerospace companyith the hard data necessary to evaluate the technology. Further, it is expected that this project's results could accelerate validation of 3ds'manufacturing capability as a new component of Honeywell's supply chain.
and will provide valuable data on part strength, pressure resistance and performance."#"#In February, 3d Systems was awarded two research contracts worth over $1 million,
Sandia National Laboratory and Lockheed martin. The project is designed to integrate predictive technologies with 3dssls 3d printers to dynamically monitor parts at the layer level during the manufacturing process,
More specifically, it produces 400x400 pixel images at a rate of 30 frames per second from a package with an outer diameter of just 1. 6 mm
and an interactive UI to provide users with a visual fixation cue indicating when the alignment is correct-the first time interactive self-imaging of the retina has been demonstrated.
a user has no way of knowing if the edge of their pupil is occluding the image of the retina."
"a simple light pattern seen by the user and produced at their pupil. A novel interactive ray-based approach developed by the team allows images with the same field-of-view to be projected onto the retina simultaneously,
Lateral and axial movement of the eye is perceived then by the user as a shift in this pattern of pinhole light."
"Multi-view or glasses-free 3d displays have used a similar concept; but this work differs because the perceived images change with small movements in the near-field."
Traditional systems, including applications found outside ophthalmology in head-mounted displays, have tried to enlarge the eye box
"Our design has a large'partial'eye box in the sense that it's easy for a user to see part of the pattern when partially aligned,
"That partial pattern indicates how the user needs to realign. We believe this is the first time such a'layered
"Global impact Challenges during the development process included finding a display approach that reduced any ambiguity about
Determining the common set of perceptual cues between different users and accounting for differences in pupil size and corneal shape was another important consideration.
allowing clinicians to better observe changes after treatment or perhaps enabling new ways to monitor diabetes."
"Furthermore, our light-field pattern can be incorporated readily into artificial reality headsets for self-calibration of near eye displays.
Emerging light-field-based near-eye displays could use such patterns for user alignment straight out of the box."
and perhaps be integrated with other health data. This could soon become a reality through LVPEI-MITRA,
which in turn extends how far signals can travel in optical fiber without needing a repeater, said Nikola Alic, a research scientist from the Qualcomm Institute, the corresponding author on the Science paper and a principal of the experimental effort.
crosstalkthat arise between bundled streams of information travelling through the optical fiber are predictable, and therefore, reversible at the receiving end of the fiber. rosstalk between communication channels within a fiber optic cable obeys fixed physical laws.
In this study, we present a method for leveraging the crosstalk to remove the power barrier for optical fiber,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
called the ptical carrierspropagating through an optical fiber. This approach compensates in advance for the crosstalk that occurs between the multiple communication channels within the same optical fiber. fter increasing the power of the optical signals we sent by 20-fold,
we could still restore the original information when we used frequency combs at the outset,
when it is sent through the optical fiber. With the frequency comb, the information can be unscrambled and fully restored at the receiving end of the optical fiber t
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