#Report: Walmart could start using drones to start delivering things to your house Amazon and Walmart have been jockeying for position in the battle to be the number one U s. retailer.
Now it looks like they'll take that battle to the skies as Walmart joins the online retailer in a quest to use a legion of drones for product deliveries and pickups.
Walmart plans to use drones from DJI to monitor inventories outside their warehouses, deliver packages to customers, many of
Nepal's national emergency operation centre said on twitter, less than three weeks after a similar disaster killed more than 8, 000 people.
and avoid jamming the fragile cellphone network.""Please stay in open field, help us make free road,
do not make phone nw (network) busy. SMS is suggested, "said a message from the national police service's Twitter account.
Nepal's National Emergency Operation center tweeted:""Pray to Almighty: Keep all Nepalese Safe in this difficult period of time."
including Bihar where television footage showed residents gathering on the streets and goods having toppled over in shop windows.
#Skype's Real-time Translator Now Open to All Microsoft-owned Skype has cleared the way for anyone to use a new feature that translates video chats or instant messages in real time.
People no longer need to sign up to use a preview version of Skype Translator, which handles spoken English, Spanish, Italian and Mandarin.
with missives written in one language arriving converted into a preferred language, according to Skype.""We are breaking down language barriers that have made historically it challenging for friends
"Yasmin Kahn of Skype said in a blog post. Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers
or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,
but was invitation-only to allow time and testing for refining the service.""Our goal for Skype Translator is to translate as many languages as possible on relevant platforms,
and to deliver the best speech translation experience to our more than 300 million connected Skype customers,
"Kahn said. Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
and also automatically translates when pointed at text items or signs s
#Artificial Octopus Arm Performs Surgery About 10 years ago, the Pentagon funded a science project to build an entire eight-armed artificial octopus,
capable of squeezing, holding and grabbing objects with soft, flexible arms just like a real one.
#Google Self-driving cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post.""We've been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities,
and ensuring our software and sensors work as theye supposed to on this new vehicle."
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
there hasn been a simple, inexpensive and quick way to monitor water quality. But a team of entrepreneurs from Calgary, Canada, has developed a solution.
and then from there you can wirelessly monitor remote locations without needing to go there and physically take a sample yourself,
sends the electrical signal to a mobile phone or a server. The signal can be accessed using 3g, Wi-fi or a USB connection on a computer.
The scientists, who started working on FRED while undergraduates at the University of Calgary, have won several competitions for their device
The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
before settling in a new site, and are thus very hard to spot. The study, published in the journal Nature Communication, suggests that capturing CTCS would prevent their spread and help halt disease progression."
and implanted two per mouse. The implant--which used immune cells as bait--also contained a scanner to detect the presence of trapped cells."
"Shea said by email.""The initial benefit is detection--catching the metastasis before it spreads widely throughout the body,
Existing neuroprostheses require the user to generate specific brainwave activities for particular motions xtend left arm, for instance.
It artificial intelligence goes beyond reflecting your bad hair day and to actually displaying information about your health from your cholesterol levels to indicators for diabetes.
A breathalyzer is used to detect blood sugar levels that can be influenced by alcohol and smoking. According to the SEMEOTICONS project,
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
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and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones. A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
The authors used computer simulations to figure out what would happen if engineers removed a whopping 5 gigatons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year.
Very few people have data supporting it, says Judy Van de Water, an internal medicine specialist at the University of California,
Davis, who did not take part in the research. his study getting data that can begin addressing the connection more directly.
#Light-based memory chip is first to permanently store data Today electronic computer chips work at blazing speeds.
and moves data with photons of light instead of electrons would make today chips look like proverbial horses and buggies.
When electrons move through the basic parts of a computer chipogic circuits that manipulate data,
can store data only if they have a steady supply of power. When the power is turned off,
the data disappear, too. Now, researchers led by Harish Bhaskaran, a nanoengineering expert at the University of Oxford in the United kingdom,
and electrical engineer Wolfram Pernice at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology in Germany, have hit on a solution to the disappearing memory problem using a material at the heart of rewritable CDS and DVDS.
and CDS and DVDS use this difference to store data. To read out the datatored as patterns of tiny spots with a crystalline
or amorphous order CD or DVD drive shines low-intensity laser light on a disk and tracks the way the light bounces off.
whether they could use this property to permanently store data on a chip and later read it Out to do used so,
To write data in this layer, the scientists piped an intense pulse of light into the waveguide.
When the researchers wanted to read the data, they beamed in less intense pulses of light and measured how much light was transmitted through the waveguide.
they knew their data spot on the GST had an amorphous order; if more was absorbed, that meant it was crystalline.
and their colleagues also took steps to dramatically increase the amount of data they could store
and read multiple bits of data simultaneously, something you can do with electrical data storage devices. And, as they report this week in Nature Photonics,
by varying the intensity of their data-writing pulses, they were also able to control how much of each GST patch turned crystalline or amorphous at any one time.
With this method they could make one patch 90%amorphous but just 10%crystalline, and another 80%amorphous and 20%crystalline.
That made it possible to store data in eight different such combinations, not just the usual binary 1s and 0s that would be used for 100%amorphous or crystalline spots.
This dramatically boosts the amount of data each spot can store, Bhaskaran says. Photonic memories still have a long way to go
the resulting chips have the potential to run at 50 to 100 times the speed of today computer processors f
and the data are exciting, but we will need to move carefully, says Steven Deeks, an HIV/AIDS clinician at the University of California, San francisco (UCSF),
To do that, they employ a special algorithm that calculates the exact interference patterns needed to levitate an object using this ingle-sided emitter.
But with the algorithm help, Drinkwater and his colleagues were able to dictate the bead motion
or danced from side to side. fter we got the algorithm working, we put the bead in
and it just stayed theret was absolutely amazing The algorithm works by constructing the best possible interference patterns,
As the algorithm tunes the phases, the interference pattern and resulting hologram change, enabling researchers to move the bead around.
The algorithm can fashion acoustic holograms of various spatial configurations, but Drinkwater and his team focused on three:
However, these molecules can also cause collateral damage to healthy tissue around the infection site:
or site of damage in the structure of DNA, called 5-chlorocytosine (5clc) in the inflamed tissues of mice infected with the pathogen Helicobacter hepaticus.
the researchers first placed the 5clc lesion at a specific site within the genome of a bacterial virus. They then replicated the virus within the cell.
when triggered by infection, fires hypochlorous acid at the site, damaging cytosines in the DNA of the surrounding healthy tissue.
On a flat lattice, atoms can easily move around from site to site. However, in a tilted lattice, the atoms would have to work against gravity.
Ramos and his colleagues envision deploying HERMES to a disaster site, where the robot would explore the area,
With computer software, the researchers translated the robot center of pressure to the platform motors,
But perhaps more important than just a way to control a robot in the absence of knowing how to do it autonomously is being able to observe and collect data from the robot.
Given hours of data recording the details of human strategies for balance and pose adjustment,
he lab focuses on how to bring computer science to our physical world, how to program our physical world to assemble itself
Moving forward with 4-D printing Another active area of investigation for the lab is-D printing,
and the software firm Autodesk to print customizable smart materials. raditional smart materials are exciting,
After demonstrating the 4-D printing concept, the lab soon found itself pursuing a number of intriguing applications with several companies.
Tibbits posits. ou can actually transform the wing panels on the car so that when they meet moisture they change
acoustic panels are static, but the acoustics in the room are completely dynamic. Your acoustic panels could adapt to the noise levels in the room to help amplify the noise
or help dampen it. Commercializing collaborations Self-Assembly Lab researchers may have certain applications in mind as they develop new concepts such as 4-D printing.
But their first corporate partners may bring quite different ideas Tibbits says: heyl say, an we do it in sportswear?
#Silicon photonics meets the foundry Advances in microprocessors have transferred the computation bottleneck away from CPUS to better communications between components.
(I/O)- intensive applications such as server farms is required the energy consumption to transport bits of data around.
That means these components can directly follow the spectacular successes of the optical fiber systems that run the Internet, cautions Lionel Kimerling,
on the photonics side, is the difference in design paradigms between computing and optics. In computers, Kimerling explains,
engineers design a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) circuit and can expect it to work.
He notes that IBM is creating such a kit for its semiconductor foundry in Burlington, Vermont.
Into the microprocessor foundryadvances in microprocessor performance increasingly are limited by the ability to feed data into the microprocessor
and the energy cost of getting the data, says Rajeev Ram, professor of electrical engineering at MIT.
His group develops energy-efficient photonics, nd the way we do that is to miniaturize the devices,
and his colleagues are now working to demonstrate full-scale multi-core computing with an entire computer that uses only photons to communicate with memory,
and to show that such a computer should be much more energy-efficient and offer potentially higher performance.
Ram lab aims to overcome major hurdles in integrating optical interconnection for microprocessors within existing manufacturing systems. typical microprocessor fab costs between 1 and 3 billion dollars,
Ram says. Making material progressover time, new materials and devices will provide far more powerful integration of photonics on silicon.
a team of MIT researchers developed a domain-specific programming language for generating custom materials based on a set of design specifications.
The software, dubbed Matriarch for aterials Architecture allows users to combine and rearrange material building blocks in almost any conceivable shape.
The work suggests that engineers will be able to reach the next stage of materials design through fundamental control of a protein final assembled structure. atriarch could very well be the core of a new molecular design process,
Accessible as an open source Python library the program will ultimately be used as a tool for engineers to quickly discover new materials
Category theory is a fairly new field of mathematics, focused on structural relationships and compositionality.
Jagadeesan, writer of the majority of the software library, explained the code follows the mathematics very closely.
From these configurations, the program creates Protein Data Bank (PDB) files to be passed to molecular dynamics software.
To perform this study with existing software would have been nearly impossible and time-intensive, says the team.
Ultimately, they hope to create an extensible database of structures for engineers to estimate the final configuration that a new material
The self learning database, after running a stream of simulations, will record the protein preferred conformations and store the final structures. ith this program,
Simultaneously, the cost of 3-D printers has fallen sufficiently to make them household consumer items.
Now a team of MIT researchers has opened up a new frontier in 3-D printing:
Like other 3-D printers now on the market, the device can print designs created in a computer-assisted design program,
producing a finished product with little human intervention. In the present version, molten glass is loaded into a hopper in the top of the device after being gathered from a conventional glassblowing kiln.
far higher than the temperatures used for other 3-D printing. The stream of glowing molten glass from the nozzle resembles honey as it coils onto a platform,
Klein says the printing system is an example of multidisciplinary work facilitated by MIT flexible departmental boundaries in this case
an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science and biological engineering. hese bacteriophages are designed in a way that relatively modular.
the researchers combed through databases of phage genomes looking for sequences that appear to code for the key tail fiber section, known as gp17.
Cpf1 cuts far away from the recognition site, meaning that even if the targeted gene becomes mutated at the cut site,
it can likely still be recut, allowing multiple opportunities for correct editing to occur. Fourth:
The Cpf1 system provides new flexibility in choosing target sites. Like Cas9, the Cpf1 complex must first attach to a short sequence known as a PAM,
As with earlier Cas9 tools, these groups will make this technology freely available for academic research via the Zhang lab page on the plasmid-sharing website Addgene, through
The Zhang lab also offers free online tools and resources for researchers through its website.
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.
director of the Wireless@MIT center. ou could also imagine it being used to operate your lights and TVS,
The emitted radiation is approximately 1/10,000 the amount given off by a standard cellphone.
he data you get back from these reflections are very minimal, says Katabi. owever, we can extract meaningful signals through a series of algorithms we developed that minimize the random noise produced by the reflections.
The technology operates in two stages: First, it scans 3-D space to capture wireless reflections off objects in the environment,
the device then monitors how these reflections vary as someone moves in the environment and intelligently stitches the person reflections across time to reconstruct his silhouette into a single image.
In August the team presented Emerald to President Obama as part of the White house first annual Demo Day. n the same way that cellphones and Wifi routers have become indispensable parts
#Wifi Calling offers coverage for UK homes, small offices EE on Tuesday announced the launch of Wifi Calling to make calls and texts available in every home and small office in the UK.
The numbers lead EE to believe that Wifi Calling could benefit the country's increasingly mobile workforce.
What's more, the National Association of Estate agents said Wifi Calling can stop house sellers suffering from losing out because of poor mobile coverage.
The EE release went on to promote Wifi Calling as having a potential change on the value of a home.
"Wifi Calling will make a real difference to millions of customers across the UK, from basement flats in London to the most rural homes in the country."
"Swantee told the BBC that"We have worked more than a year to make sure that everything works like a normal phone connection."
"Ringtone, voicemail, and quality of the conversation remains the same with the EE solution. EE is also promoting ease of adoptiono special app is needed for the service
and it is not necessary that friends be in the same closed user group service for talking and messaging.
Wifi Calling from EE uses the phone's normal dialer and contacts book to make calls,
The launch involves the Lumia 640 and Samsung galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. EE said, "More new and existing devices will be added to the Wifi Calling range in the coming weeks,
and by summer 2015 more than five million EE pay monthly customers will have access to Wifi Calling."
"Initially, said the BBC, The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
"Since it requires specific mobile data components to be built into the devices, it cannot be extended to other older models,
"said the BBC. John Mccann of Techradar meanwhile, delivered a Tuesday overview of what the feature is and how it works."
"Wi-fi calling allows you to use a Wi-fi network to make and receive phone calls, rather than using the traditional mobile network,
"he wrote. With EE's service,"you may not even notice you're actually using a Wi-fi network rather than the mobile one
-although you do get an icon in the status bar alerting you to the fact."
when using a Wi-fi network to connect to friends. EE is a digital communications company in Britain.
Its mobile and fixed communications services are delivered to consumers, businesses, government and the wholesale market a
#Shifts in electricity generation spur net job growth, but coal jobs decline In the four years following the 2008 recession,
Pratson and research analyst Drew Haerer examined data relating to both direct and indirect job growth and loss for each industry.
Data for solar and wind generator operations and maintenance jobs were provided by the industries themselves. Job changes in the coal
#Singapore Telecom to buy US cybersecurity firm for $810 mn Singapore Telecom (Singtel) said Wednesday it will buy almost all of US cybersecurity firm Trustwave for $810 million,
Southeast asia's biggest telecom firm by revenue said it will acquire a 98 percent equity interest in Trustwave under an agreement it signed with the Chicago-headquartered company.
protect their data and reduce security riskas three million business subscribers served by 1, 200 employees in 26 countries.
and holds substantial stakes in mobile telecom firms in key Asian markets including India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
'When social media software firm Sprinklr unveiled its latest funding last month, it vaulted into the club of"unicorns,
which makes a business software collaboration tool, entered the group which includes well-known names like Uber
The use of the term"unicorn"began with a blog from investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in late 2013,
"You have a frenzy of investors looking for the next Facebook. They saw the possibility of a return of 1,
said in a blog post that both investors and startups are pushing too hard, ignoring traditional standards of risk."
"In a running Twitter conversation on the subject, Danielle Morrill of the research firm Mattermark said"I've narrowed it down to 61 potential dead unicorns.
"Prominent equity investor Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape during the dot-com era, expressed similar concerns in a series of tweets last year, saying too many startups are"burning
Mark Cuban, an early dot-com entrepreneur, said on his blog that the current situation is"worse than the tech bubble of 2000"because of"angel"investors investing in apps
said that while financial data on these unicorns is limited often, few have demonstrated an ability to grow revenues
"Based on historical data, I wouldn't be surprised if a vast majority of these firms fail to live up to their valuations,
but this produced a Google and an ebay and a number of other standouts.""Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing
"In a blog post, Barris said he sees unicorns transforming the way we live.""Perhaps there will even be a flameout
Palantir Technologieshich specializes in data analyticsaw its valuation jump to $15 billion in December with its latest funding round.
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
$11 billion The bulletin board-style social network confirmed in March a fresh investment round at a valuation of $11 billion,
The fast-growing social network founded in 2010 in San francisco has disclosed not the number of its users
but analysts say it has some 47 million in the United states and additional users worldwide.*
Preventing kinase over-activity The'Phosphosense'technology screens compounds for use in drugs and has produced a new way of detecting the activity of enzymes called kinases.
A software program compares both arcs to determine if the leg is the same length it was before the procedure.
The system used automated speech recognition software to produce"rough-draft"transcripts, displayed on a simple interface,
and Time warner Cables well as many users of video-sharing websites. Today, 3play's system works much as it did at MIT,
Customers upload videos to 3play's site, where automatic speech recognition software produces transcripts and captions,
which are pushed then to the cloud. Then, any of the contracted editors can choose which transcripts to edit.
who co-invented the system in MIT's Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).""The questions we asked were:
and how can we process thousands of files a day to scale up to meet the demands of the Internet?"
"The transcripts created by the system also have time data behind each word. This has paved the way for"interactive transcripts"that accompany video content posted by MIT,
and let users click words to bring them to that exact moment in the video. In addition to Johnson, 3play's cofounders and system co-inventors are Josh Miller MBA'09, Chris Antunes MBA'08,
3play has developed also a number of tools aimed at easing workflow. One tool allows users to switch captioning formats with the click of a button;
another lets users cut -and-paste text from the interactive transcript to create clip reels.
so your average Youtube uploader can learn if captioning is worth the cost. To do so, the company drew on third-party data on thousands of Youtube videos that showed significant increases in viewership with the addition of captions.
When given a video link the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,
and how that could all add value with more advertising revenue, among other things.""Everyone wants to know,
Automatic speech recognition technology seemed like the clear solution. But, as it turns out, the technology is only about 80 percent accurate, at best,
tried to grow a Web-based company.""We had'Javascript for Dummies'books on our desks,"Johnson recalls."
"We were figuring it all out on the fly.""At one point, they found a list of every college and university in the country,
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