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#Samsung develops ultrasonic smartphone case to help visually impaired sense their surroundings A smartphone case that helps the visually impaired by enhancing their awareness of their surroundings has been developed by Samsung.

The Ultrasonic Cover for its Galaxy Core Advance smartphone helps owners sense the presence of people and objects up to two meters away.

The cover includes a number of physical buttons to aid disabled users. The Ultrasonic Cover emits a high-frequency sound, listening for the sound wave that bounces back.

the phone lets the smartphone owner know by sending a vibration alert or text-to-speech notification.


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When the Internet was growing in the 90s it promised a future in which everyone everywhere had access to all the knowledge in the world,

and closer everyday as more people in underdeveloped countries have access to cheaper and cheaper smartphones and Internet access.

Google, Facebook, as well as many others, all keep meticulous track of user data for advertising and other purposes.

On several occasions, the massive amounts of data collected by Internet service and telecommunications companies have been utilized by agencies such as the NSA, under morally questionable motives at best.

The result is a system that has evolved with the ability to track everything you do

like, go, and know, and then provide all of that data to one central authority you may

or may not trust, all with little choice for the consumer. The Internet has recently been more reminiscent of Orwell s 1984,

rather than the future of individual empowerment that was promised. Cryptocurrency is the first major technological advancement that,

and it is these key features within the Bitcoin protocol itself that may be the key to weakening the hold of massive data collecting service companies like Google.

which could allow users to opt out of advertising with anonymous#micropayments. Yet many#other cryptocurrencies#such as#Namecoin#are attempting to take the protocol that enables this

Among these can be email, domain names, and other such systems. Decentralized applications This is only the beginning however,

businesses will hopefully creatively utilize the open source design of Bitcoin to provide entirely secure and anonymous end-to-end experiences.

Because of that, it is conceivable that DAS for payments, social networking, and cloud computing may one day surpass the valuation of multinational corporations like Western union, Visa, Facebook, Google,

and Amazon that are are currently active in the space. At the very least, the ever-growing success of bitcoin thus far candidly illustrates that there is indeed a massive demand for anonymity online,

the Internet, or even to gold 5, 000 years ago. While it does possess similarities with many of these things,


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#U s. to give up remaining control over the internet U s. officials announced plans to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet last week.

and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web. Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U s. authority over the system of Web addresses

and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National security agency surveillance.

The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group.

That contract is set to expire next year but could be extended if the transition plan is not complete. e look forward to ICANN convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan,

Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, said in a statement. The announcement received a passionate response,

. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve

and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance. But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)tweeted:

hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?

This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet. The practical consequences of the decision were harder to immediately discern, especially with the details of the transition not yet clear.

Politically, the move could alleviate rising global concerns that the United states essentially controls the Web

An international meeting to discuss the future of Internet is scheduled to start on March 23 in Singapore.

a trade group representing major Internet commerce businesses. U s. officials said their decision had nothing to do with the NSA spying revelations

and international support continues to grow for the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, Strickling said in a statement.

inclusive process to find a new international oversight structure for the group. othing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,

The United states has maintained long authority over elements of the Internet which grew from a Defense department program that started in the 1960s.

The relationship between the United states and ICANN has drawn wider international criticism in recent years, in part because big American companies such as Google,

Facebook and Microsoft play such a central role in the Internet worldwide functioning. The NSA revelations exacerbated those concerns. his is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,

said Gene Kimmelman, president of Public knowledge, a group that promotes open access to the Internet.

Verizon, one of the world biggest Internet providers issued a statement saying, successful transition in the stewardship of these important functions to the global multi-stakeholder community would be a timely and positive step in the evolution of Internet governance.

ICANN most important function is to oversee the assigning of Internet domains such as dot-com, dot-edu and dot-gov

and ensure that the various companies and universities involved in directing digital traffic do so safely.

Concern about ICANN stewardship has spiked in recent years amid a massive and controversial expansion that is adding hundreds of new domains,

to the Internet infrastructure. More than 1, 000 new domains are slated to be made available, pumping far more fee revenue into ICANN.

however, that con artists already swarm the Internet with phony Web sites designed to look like the authentic offerings of respected brands. o set ICANN so-called free is a very major step that should done with careful oversight,


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Duke university engineers have demonstrated the world first three-dimensional acoustic cloak using a few perforated sheets of plastic and extensive computation.

Duke university professor of electrical and computer engineering Steven Cummer and his colleagues used metamaterials the combination of natural materials in repeating patterns to achieve unnatural properties.


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The humanoid robots Google recently bought are neat but most machines being used or tested by national militaries are, for now, more like robotic weapons than robotic soldiers.

or if their user experience made it easier to accept than reject automated targeting. What if, for example, a robot tasked with destroying an unmanned military installation

as a spokesman put it in an email interview with Singularity Hub. Sensing and artificial intelligence technologies are sure to improve,

but there are some risks that military robot operators may never be able to eliminate. Some issues are the same ones that plague the adoption of any radically new technology:

but as a computer scientist there are other things that bother me. I mean, how reliable is a computer system?

Sharkey, of Stop Killer Robots, said. Sharkey noted that warrior robots would do battle with other warrior robots equipped with algorithms designed by an enemy army. f you have two competing algorithms

and you don know the contents of the other person algorithm, you don know the outcome.

Anything could happen, he said. For instance, when two sellers recently unknowingly competed for business on Amazon,

the interactions of their two algorithms resulted in prices in the millions of dollars. Competing robot armies could destroy cities as their algorithms exponentially escalated,

Sharkey said. An even likelier outcome would be that human enemies would target the weaknesses of the robotsalgorithms to produce undesirable outcomes.

say a machine that designed to destroy incoming mortar fire such as the U s c-RAM or Germanymantis, is tasked also with destroying the launcher.

The U s. sometimes programs its semi-autonomous drones to locate a terrorist based on his cell phone SIM CARD.

The terrorists, knowing that, often offload used SIM CARDS to unwitting civilians. Would an autonomous killing machine be able to plan for such deception?

the history of the web suggests that terrorists could find others. Of course, most technologies stumble at first


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This is the first time cannabinoid receptors have been identified in the central nucleus of the amygdala in a mouse model,

The discovery may help explain why marijuana users say they take the drug mainly to reduce anxiety,


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and three-quarters said they would be excited more in financial services provided by Google, Amazon, Apple, Paypal,


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A device that allows desktop 3d printers to print in color for less than $100 Full color printing is generally a privilege limited to professional and high-end consumer 3d printers,

so the more casual user is stuck likely printing in one or two colors. But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:

a sub-$100 device that upgrades desktop 3d printers to print in a full rainbow of colors.

FDM printers melt string-like plastic bit by bit and lay it down in layers to create an object.

allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing

a desktop printer maker that has been teasing the community for years with its full-color printing abilities,

Spectrom doesn require a specialized printer to work. The idea is that you install it on your existing printer

and youe ready to go. Your computer outputs code that tells the device when to switch between colors

and your printer operates as if it was printing with a regular filament spool. The duo didn arrive at the method immediately.

During a year and a half of development, they tried combining different colors of filament and different dyeing methods.

and as a result are focused on making sure it is compatible with any printer. e want to get it out to as many people as possible,


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#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.

Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink, materials scientist Jennifer Lewisand her team created a patch of tissue containing skin cells and biological structural material interwoven with blood-vessel-like structures.

The tissue is built by the 3-D printer in layers. A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.

Two other inks contained the gelatin material and either mouse or human skin cells. All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.

A third ink with counterintuitive behavior helped the team create the hollow tubes. This ink has a Jell-o-like consistency at room temperature

and we think it going to be essential toward organ printing or regeneration, says Lewis, who is member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.

The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue


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the over-the-air-software updates) and now it doing the same thing for the core part of the electric car:

like our laptops and cell phones. Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.

Of course, global lithium ion battery production would also ramp up outside of Tesla as well as more gadgets and cell phones are sold

and more devices get connected. And now if you look beyond just batteries, Tesla factory could be the largest factory of any kind,

Traditionally auto makers have multiple suppliers for core components so that they can get the best price and use the other suppliers as leverage.


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Video)##The aircraft, called quadcopters because they have four rotors, navigate using signals from Global positioning system (GPS RECEIVERS,

Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.

Vicsek and his team drew inspiration from a computer program called Boids, created in 1986 by Craig Reynolds,

attraction, repulsion were enough to produce a computer simulation of a bird-like flock, but real fliers face other problems.


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#Paddle an incredible shapeshifting smartphone You probably carry around a few gadgets. You probably have your smartphone, maybe a tablet or e reader.

You may also have a fitness band or even a second smartphone. That a lot of stuff to carry.

Imagine instead having just a single gadget that you deform physically into different shapes to suit your needs.

Pics and video) That the kind of smartphone that researchers at Hasselt University iminds in Belgium are building.

Called addle, their prototype phone, is designed around engineering principles derived from the popular 3-D Rubik Magic Puzzle.

It a folding plate puzzle consisting of a loop of eight square shaped tiles that can be transformed in a variety of surprising ways.

Studying the puzzle over a period of seven months enabled the Hasselt researchers to create a phone that could be transformed quickly into various shapes in a few simple steps. t the moment our Paddle prototype supports around 15 different shapes

a Phd Student in Human computer interaction at the University. hen unfolding Paddle completely it is nearly the size of an ipad,

it can become smaller than an iphone. For instance, you might transform it into a book,

Simply turn your phone into a bracelet and roll through individual links to scroll through various list items.

Deformable phones like Paperphone explore the idea of using bends and folds to physically control the device;

Users can physically bend the phone in ways that resemble real-world behaviors, with input and output becoming virtually indistinguishable.

the user just uses the ring form-factor, Ramakers explains, referring to a shape that resembles a prayer bead necklace;

and just roll through it. e is not even aware that he is scrolling through elements as in a traditional interface where the user explicitly interacts with a scrollbar,

The user fingers are tracked also to enable touch interaction on the device. The projector maps the user interface onto the device

and also distorts the device in response to the user movements. The team plans to create a prototype that entirely self-contained by replacing the external tracking system with tiny integrated displays like O-LED

and E Ink displays that are sensitive to the user movements. They expect to have a working prototype in another 12 to 18 months.

Adding electronics to it Ramakers says won limit Paddle transformational capabilities. Currently Paddle provides visual cues to the user to communicate how the device can be transformed,

such as highlighting regions to show where fingers go or using arrows to indicate the folding or unfolding directions.

The team is studying how quickly people remember transformations to see whether their muscle memory can take over after a

while, allowing users to perform transformations as unconsciously as they might drive a car or play an instrument.

devices that combine the flexibility of touch screens with the physical qualities that real-world controls provide.

When taking into account the time we spend interacting with our phones nowadays one would expect us all to be veritable virtuosos on our devices,

Paddle could also provide a welcome relief to those who struggle with touch screens, such as the elderly.

With Paddle, they could manipulate a single mobile devicene that they operate with natural movementsreatly reducing the learning curve.


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Our data pave the way for such a stem cell therapy, Blau said. Other recent work in stem cell therapy has looked similarly for ways the cells could improve functioning of existing organs, rather than building replacements through regenerative medicine.


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and other financial agents just as peer-to-peer file sharing did the music industry #and some of the architects of this financial Napster seem gleeful about the possibility.

and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

since Napster used centralized servers to track music sharing, while Bitcoin is distributed entirely. That means loans without banks, contracts without lawyers,

and recorded across hundreds of servers at all corners of the earth. Consultant Andreas M. Antonopoulos, echoing a 2012 white paper by software developer J. R. Willett,

says that the Bitcoin protocol is distributed to finance what Internet Protocol has been distributed to information. The blockchain is IP.

And through manipulation of that we can build a whole other system. In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming

the Bitcoin protocol and its miners can support a variety of financial functions. Alternately, Antonopoulos suggests thinking of thebitcoin blockchain as#having an API#(application programming interface) that makes its data usable by third parties,

in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present

and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms. Efforts to make complex financial functions a part of Bitcoin have been bubbling through 2013,

but 2014 will see them come to fruition. The most prominent active development of these functions is taking place under the auspices of the Mastercoin Foundation

Mastercoin, based on Willett s white paper and programming, is projected to add many functions to the Bitcoin blockchain.

These include allowing users to create new asset classes, such as stocks or other ownership certificates,

which recreate financial functions in software code by matching offered and desired transactions between parties without the need for intermediary institutions.

If you hack my servers, there s nothing to get. Somebody call#Target#(TGT. Such hedging functions have particularly unique promise because of the extremely low transaction costs of peer-to-peer currency.

This idea was explored in a#1997 paper#by computer scientist and former George washington University law professor Nick Szabo (who has come under occasional suspicion of being pseudonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto).

but by hardware or software that wouldfully embed in property the contractual terms which deal with it.

But combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves

one of the main developers of the Bitcoin architecture alongside the mysterious Nakamoto, has said that any implementation of the concept is at least a decade away because of the need for hardware upgrades on physical goods. The functions that advocates say could be automated through the Bitcoin network

#Bitcoin partisans, from developers down to rank-and-file users, often seem to revel in the idea that they are threatening the control and profits of Wall street institutions,


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Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.

The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.

A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.

it s a fascinating peek into a future where information technologies may direct the fabrication of amazing newmicroarchitectural materials.

it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.

The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.

from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them


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The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology, and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow


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With his software Witty says users can set up and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain

but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually

and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)


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Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,

with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.

Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,


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#New Algorithm for Real-time Simulations in Materials Research Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.

For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron

and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time

The traditional algorithms work by directly manipulating these equations. Wang new approach, which involves adding a new algorithm on top of his PETOT (parallel total energy) code,

originally developed by Wang when he worked at the National Renewable energy Laboratory and later parallelized by Wang

PETOT is a plane-wave pseudopotential density functional ground-state calculation package designed for large system simulations to be run on large parallel computers

and Linux cluster machines.""With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,

the researchers wrote in the Physical Review Letters paper.""To achieve this, the algorithm expands the equations in PETOT into individual terms, based on

which states are excited at a given time. The challenge, which Wang has solved, is to figure out the time evolution of the individual terms.

describing the key to the algorithm success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations."

"Comparing the new algorithm with the old, slower algorithm yields similar results, e g.,, the predicted energies and velocities of an atom passing through a layer of material are the same for both models,

Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.

The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.

Typically we use a few hundred processors. But the long time run is critical. Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory t


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#Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid

assembly (OGA) software. The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,

said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,

Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.

The price paid for that flexibility is need the to ensure a sufficient degree of overlap so the CFD solver can accurately share data between the component grids.

The overlap is computed using overset grid assembly software. Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.

By integrating OGA (in the form of the PEGASUS and Suggar++software packages) with Pointwise the entire process is made more efficient.

Pointwise has been a proud, long-time sponsor of and participant in the biannual Overset Grid Symposium, said John Chawner,

and several user experience enhancements e


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#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380

Gen9 the world's best-selling server. AMD Firepro server GPUS combine with HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 servers for a variety of specialized applications including Academic

and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics

Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2. 0

TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16gb of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts AMD Firepro S9150 server GPUS provide massive compute performance

while helping maximize available power budgets. With AMD STREAM technology customers will be able to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU

and accelerate applications beyond just graphics. The server GPU features: The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU also provides support to handle workloads in a variety of sectors by enabling Openmp an API for high-level parallelism in the C C++ and Fortran languages.

In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.

AMD's collaboration with Pathscale to provide support for Openmp 4. 0 will allow customers in these HPC fields to harness the compute power of AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU.

Additionally AMD Firepro-S4000x server GPUS can be found the HP Proliant WS460C Graphics Server Blade5.

With high-quality 3d graphics and multidisplay functionality the AMD Firepro S4000x server GPU module delivers workstation-class graphics performance on remote desktops.

Designed with blade server and blade workstation platforms in mind each module consumes 45w maximum power includes 2gb of GDDR5 memory up to 72 GB/s of memory bandwidth

and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s


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