because it explores the world of'matter computers, 'where computations (including walking) are carried out by physical objects, rather than by electronic or magnetic shuttles.
DNA walkers may eventually allow protective cells to walk the surface of organs, constantly computing whether a cancer is present."
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
Led by Hongrui Jiang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UW-Madison, the researchers designed lenses no larger than the head of a pin and embedded them within flexible plastic.
#Researchers develop deep-learning method to predict daily activities Researchers from the School of Interactive Computing
and the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines developed a new method that teaches computers to"see
Researchers taught the computer to categorize images across 19 activity classes. The test subject wearing the camera could review
"said Steven Hickson, a Ph d. candidate in Computer science and a lead researcher on the project."
co-author and graduate research assistant in the School of Interactive Computing.""Activity tracking devices like the Fitbit can tell how many steps you take per day,
At a technical level, we are showing that it's becoming possible for computer vision techniques alone to be used for this."
Student Daniel Casto, a Ph d. candidate in Computer science and a lead researcher on the project, helped present the method earlier this month at UBICOMP 2015 in Osaka, Japan.
and Ear/Harvard Medical school and Boston University have prevented successfully the development of Parkinson's disease in a mouse using new techniques to deliver drugs across the naturally impenetrable blood-brain barrier.
and histological data capture that their delivery method was equivalent to direct injection of GDNF-the current gold standard for delivering this drug in Parkinson's disease despite its traumatic nature and high complication rates-in diffusing drugs to the brain.
an associate professor of the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University, in cooperation with Screen Holdings Co.,Ltd.
#Carnegie mellon researchers hack off-the-shelf 3-D printer towards rebuilding the heart As of this month, over 4,
"Traditional 3-D printers build hard objects typically made of plastic or metal, and they work by depositing material onto a surface layer-by-layer to create the 3-D object.
Printing each layer requires sturdy support from the layers below, so printing with soft materials like gels has been limited."
"3-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,
but until now, no one had developed a method for assembling common tissue engineering gels like collagen or fibrin,"said TJ Hinton,
however, has been able to implement their technique on a range of consumer-level 3-D printers,
000 by utilizing open-source hardware and software.""Not only is the cost low, but by using open-source software,
we have access to fine-tune the print parameters, optimize what we're doing and maximize the quality of
what we're printing, "Feinberg said.""It has enabled really us to accelerate development of new materials
And we are also contributing back by releasing our 3-D printer designs under an open-source license
#Physicists mimic quantum entanglement with laser pointer to double data speeds In a classic eureka moment,
and Corning Incorporated is showing how beams from ordinary laser pointers mimic quantum entanglement with the potential of doubling the data speed of laser communication.
"In principal, this could be used to double the data speed of laser communication, "said CCNY Distinguished Professor of Phyiscs Robert Alfano.""
this bioprinter can finish a 10-centimeter blood vessel within two minutes. he core of the printer is the Biobrick,
The delay in removing the aluminum from the chemical bath did not result in the shell around the aluminum core
but rather the shrinking of that core to a olkwith the all-important internal space. Though the team had meant not to create that unintentional chemical product,
It sandwiched between two polymer panels to form an airtight seal. The resin remains liquid as long as that seal remains unbroken.
but as wee all learned from TV and movies, the air inside a spacecraft will be sucked out quickly.
New iphones, ipads, and Apple TVS September 9th September is upon us, and that means a major Apple event is right around the corner.
In recent years, the September and October timeframe has come to signify new iphones, ipads, and new operating systems.
But given the fact that the Apple TV has received so much attention in the rumor mill this year,
we might just see a major announcement for the living room as well. On September 9th, Apple will be hosting an event in San francisco to unveil its latest products.
By and large, the next versions of the iphone are being referred to as the sand s Plus. Given Apple previous use of the ick-tockmodel, that certainly makes sense.
This revision will probably serve as a minor update to the existing hardware without a drastic change in design. 7000 series aluminum seems to be the alloy of choice here potentially the exact same material used in the Apple Watch Sport.
we might be in for a slightly thicker and heavier chassis. After some poking around with the latest Apple software developer Hamza Sood discovered some evidence that force touch is coming to ios devices.
so it a no brainer on the iphone. Unsurprisingly, the cameras will likely be upgraded as well. 9to5mac is reporting that the rear-facing cameras on the next iphones are being upgraded to 12 megapixels,
and they will be capable of recording 4k UHD video. But considering that the low-end model might still only ship with 16gb of flash storage
Wee bound to see an Apple A9 system-on-a-chip with a faster CPU and GPU.
so having a newer chip dedicated to handling the increasing amount of data makes sense.
While an Apple patent for wireless earbuds with bone conduction popped up recently on the USPTO website
I wouldn expect those to ship with the new iphone. If Apple does ever sell wireless earbuds like this,
After all, you can already buy $200 Beats wireless headphones from the Apple Store. ipad rumors are flying fast,
if wel see an ipad refresh during the September event. Last year, Apple held a separate event for the ipad Air 2 and ipad Mini 3,
so we may see the same events playout this year. By far, the biggest rumor here has revolved around the introduction of a 12.9-inch ipad Pro.
Not only is this giant ipad slated to sport a 2048×2732 resolution but it will also have a pressure sensitive stylus to boot.
If the rumors are true, this premium device will clearly be targeting the professional market.
Estimates range anywhere from one to five million ipad Pros shipping in this calendar year. However, the Pro might not even begin shipping until the release of ios 9. 1 sometime later this fall.
The rumor mill seems positive that wel see a new Apple TV SET-top box this go around.
Specifically, some outlets seem sure that the new Apple TV will cost $200 or less
and offer a TV service similar to Sony Playstation Vue. Of course, we heard similar rumors ahead of this year WWDC,
but all we got was a price drop on the existing hardware. It been about two
and a half years since the Apple TV has been refreshed, so itl be no surprise if Apple does finally deliver new hardware.
However, it possible that theyl ride out the current model until the 4k market penetration goes up.
As for an actual Apple-branded television, don bet on it. It always a possibility but only for high-end consumers.
so the odds of seeing new hardware are slim. We may see some new bands or colors,
Earlier this year at WWDC, Apple showed off the new versions of both of its major operating systems.
Most notably, rumor has it that ios 9 will offer animated wallpapers similar to the Apple Watch motion faces.
and Privacybadger making their way to the iphone someday. As always, wel be covering this Apple event as it happens,
but because the data gathered as it winks in and out of existence can offer a window into the very earliest events in the history of the universe.
Bermuda-based telecommunications company ABS. Because ABS-3a is a communications satellite, it needs to remain in a geosynchronous orbit.
meaning that those hours of phone time don need to be wasted. Right now, the UCLA team has made only a four-element-by-four-element prototype.
Wee developing the hardware necessary to restore the relationship between the brain and the outside world and in the process developing the hardware necessary to completely change that relationship forever.
If your brain is wired up and youe thousands of miles away on business, why not let your partner run your spare hand over their face,
when data is both money and power, and this genuinely altruistic medical research is thought slowly turning into data i
#New quantum dot could make quantum communications possible A new form of quantum dot has been developed by an international team of researchers that can produce identical photons at will,
From a mathematics perspective it trivially easy to encrypt any message so that nobody can read it,
In particular, the wavelength of photons changes as they move down an optical fiber not good since creating photon with precise attributes is the whole source of quantum security.
across or even between continents in the networked way of regular digital internet traffic. These quantum dots basically achieve perfect single-photon emission by super-cooling the quantum dots so the emitting atoms do not fluctuate.
they only attach at certain putative sites. On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags.
#Terahertz breakthrough allows for ultrafast wireless communications A collaboration between US and Japanese researchers, have developed a key component
in order to enable wireless communications which operate up to 100x faster than current generation routers. Current wireless communications operate at microwave frequencies,
however as the demand for faster speeds and larger bandwidths increases, scientists are looking for ways to alleviate the communication bottleneck.
Between the microwave and infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum lies an appealing candidate: Terahertz (THZ) radiation.
THZ waves were utilized previously for the wireless data transmission world record, whereby a team of researchers showed local data transmission could be up to 100gbit/s. However, for any real world system,
electronic components are required which perform common functions akin to our regular communication technology; such as transmission, multiplexing, demultiplexing,
and demultiplex signals (separate out the multiple independent data streams for further processing). This technique permits the transfer of the masses of data around the internet, TV,
etc. whereby a vast number of data channels are carried over a single optical fiber, wirelessly or copper cable.
However, multiplexing and demultiplexing of the much faster THZ signals remains an unaddressed challenge; despite the importance of such capabilities for broadband networks.
Until sufficient experimental biological data is gathered, one cannot be entirely certain as to the mechanisms involved,
improve the effectiveness by increasing the number of stem cells that survive to enact their programming.
NASA scientists noted they mined data going as far back as the Viking 1 an 2 landings in the mid-1970s,
But the primary data source was the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched in 2006 and contains four other primary science instruments
The data from that study, using the ESO Very Large telescope in Chilie, seemed to indicate that water persisted on the surface of the Red planet for at least a billion years.
#Microfluidic cooling yields huge performance benefits in FPGA processors As microprocessors have grown in size and complexity,
Intel CPU clock speeds have remained mostly flat for years, while AMD FX-9590 and its R9 Nano GPU both illustrate dramatic power consumption differences as clock speeds change.
One of the principle barriers to increasing CPU clocks is that it extremely difficult to move heat out of the chip.
New research into microfluidic cooling could help solve this problem, at least in some cases. Microfluidic cooling has existed for years;
we covered IBM Aquasar cooling system back in 2012, which uses microfluidic channels tiny microchannels etched into a metal block to cool the Supermuc supercomputer.
Now, a new research paper on the topic has described a method of cooling modern FPGAS by etching cooling channels directly into the silicon itself.
Previous systems, like Aquasar, still relied on a metal transfer plate between the coolant flow and the CPU itself.
and CPUS aren very good at spreading that heat out across the entire surface area of the chip.
This is why Intel specifies lower turbo clocks if youe performing AVX2-heavy calculations. By etching channels directly on top of a 28nm Altera FPGA, the research team was able to bring cooling much closer to the CPU cores
and eliminate the intervening gap that makes water-cooling less effective then it would otherwise be.
an associate professor and ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering. e have eliminated the heat sink atop the silicon die by moving liquid cooling just a few hundred microns
but whether or not it could ever scale to consumer hardware is a very different question.
As the feature image shows, the connect points for the hardware look decidedly fragile and easily dislodged or broken.
The amount of effort required to etch a design like this into an Intel or AMD CPU would be non-trivial,
and the companies would have to completely change their approach to CPU heat shields and cooling technology.
Still, technologies like this could find application in HPC clusters or any market where computing power is at an absolute premium.
Removing that much additional heat from a CPU die would allow for substantially higher clocks even with modern power consumption scaling n
unless they embrace new data analytics solutions. The report, ig & Fast Data: The rise of Insight-Driven Businesssurveyed over 1, 000 C-suite and senior decision makers across North america, South america, Europe and Asia-Pacific to understand the need and enterprise readiness for Big data adoption.
According to 64 per cent of enterprises surveyed Big data is changing traditional business boundaries and is enabling new providers to move into their industry.
while a majority,(53 per cent) expect to face rivalry from data-enabled start-ups. This suggests that mastering the management
Data-driven insights are fundamental to business performance There is widespread recognition that the data which organizations hold is becoming a core component of market value (59 per cent of respondees).
This is also reflected in the boardroom, with almost a third of companies (32 per cent) having already introduced
or in the process of introducing new C-level roles for data management. Further findings from the report show:
they have had to circumvent IT teams to carry out the necessary data analytics required to gain business insights-Over half (52 per cent) of respondents reported that developing fast insights from data was hampered by limitations in the IT development process Accessing Big data faster is where C-suite executives
77 per cent state that decision makers increasingly require data in real-time. John Brahim, Head of Capgemini Insights & Data global practice states:
e have reached an inflection point in the market. Information is at the heart of every business decision
and ultimately to monetize data in its own right. Every enterprise must now define a path to become an insight-driven business.
We have designed a core set of guidelines and created underlying frameworks that will help enterprises to go on the journey to get insights at the point of action everywhere.
Paul Maritz, Pivotal Chief executive officer, EMC Federation-ompelling user experiences and new business models in the digital age are fueled by the dramatically increasing availability and usage of data.
and rapidly react to multiple sources of data, but to build the insights gained into the fabric of
"With 90 per cent of all the data in the world created in the last two years
Success requires the mastery of data to decisions. The ability to ingest all types of data,
transform data to information, surface up insights, and take action on insights will enable organizations to create disruptive business models.
Those leaders that succeed will find that 20 per cent of their revenue streams will come from these insights by 2020.
not just FX,"said the head of Travelex's new digital team, former Google and e-Harmony executive Sean Cornwell."
Ola due to high encryption codes, say ISPS Dot had issued a letter to Internet service providers (ISPS) asking them to block websites of taxi operators Uber,
However, websites are still accessible to all. ISPS now say they are unable to block taxi aggregator websites Ola and Uber due to high encryption codes.
ISPS can only block http sites and not https as the latter have higher encryption. This means they can block Taxiforsure,
but not Ola and Uber. hese sites can not be blocked because of technical issues. We have given already representation to government earlier.
This was a general representation. We are giving compliance except in https sites, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said.
He added that Dot had accepted itself that there was a need to set up a committee to discuss modalities around blocking of https sites around 3-4 months back.
The Delhi government had written to the Department of Electronic & Information technology (Deity) in March that despite the ban, Uber,
Ola Cabs and Taxiforsure continue to book passengers through their apps. All app-based cab services were banned in the national capital last year after a driver of Uber,
the US-based online taxi-hailing company, was accused allegedly of raping a female passenger e
Massachusetts institute of technology spin out Cambridge Electronics Inc (CEI) has announced a line of Gan transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centres, electric cars,
CEI is currently using its advanced transistors to develop laptop power adaptors that are approximately 1. 5 cubic inches in volume the smallest ever made.
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud. Currently, these data centres eat up about 2 per cent of electricity in the US.
But Gan-based power electronics, Palacios said, could save a very significant fraction of that.
lets your smartphone hear in noisy parties People trying to talk to Apple electronic personal assistant Siri in a crowded place may soon no longer have to look like they are about to eat their iphones,
said the paper lead author Abel Xie. his could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles, Xie added.
said Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. When a sound wave gets to the device,
the sound is transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the jumble of noises based on these unique distortions.
#Blackberry introduces Porsche Design P983 Graphite at Rs 99,990 in India Blackberry has launched the Blackberry Porsche Design P983 Graphite smartphone in India at a price of Rs 99,990.
The company has listed also out a few exclusive Porsche Design accessories that will be included in the box such as a premium stereo headset,
an international charging kit, a polishing cloth and a USB cable for high-speed data transfer. In terms of specifications, the smartphone features a 3. 1-inch touch screen with a 720 x 720 pixel resolution and offers a pixel density of 330ppi.
It is powered by a 1. 5 GHZ dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor paired with 2gb RAM.
It includes an internal storage at 16gb and can be expanded further up to 128gb via microsd card.
It comes equipped with an 8mp rear camera along with a 2mp front facing camera. In terms of connectivity, the device includes Wi-fi 802.11 a b/g/n, Bluetooth 4. 0, LTE, FM radio, Micro-USB,
and Micro-HDMI. Running blackberry 10, it is packed by a 2100 mah battery. Commenting on the launch, Hitesh Shah, Director of Sales and Distribution, at Blackberry India stated, ith the launch of the new P983 Graphite from Blackberry,
we bring a unique stylish smartphone combined with the superior productivity and ultimate security experience of Blackberry 10 technology for our Indian consumers.
This new smartphone is custom-built for power professionals aiming to make a style statement while not willing to compromise on effective communication and collaboration. ags:
#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Looks like, amidst the all new structuring happening at Google, the modular device will have to wait until next year.
Now, the company has tweeted about the delay in the Project Ara with testing pushed to 2016.
The company disclosed that there are no plans to test the modular phone project in Puerto rico later this year.
on day 2 of the Google I/O developers conference, at the ATAP keynote, Google engineer Rafa Camargo assembled a Project Ara phone as part of a live demo,
and the phone came alive soon after. Google, known by its employees for frequent eorgs announced a major shake up with the holding company Alphabet.
Google, Google X and other products now become subsidiary of the parent company. Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara.
The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions, and a 2mp front-facing module is also in the works.
Last year the company had released a video showing the first prototype of the device. The techie for whom the project is named,
Project Ara comes with a structural frame that holds smartphone modules of the owner choice,
such as a display, keyboard or say the battery. The approach allows users to swap out malfunctioning modules
or upgrade as new innovations emerge. This also means that the handset can potentially last much longer than normal smartphones do.
Undoubtedly it is an interesting project that has the potential to revolutionise the mobile world e
#Competition and opportunity: What will ASEAN mean for EU industry? By the end of this year member states of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) will be harmonised under one legal framework after ten years of planning.
and data demands many ASEAN players couldn match up to. By mimicking the EU process and therefore bringing the two regionsstandards closer together,
#Indeed, the nutrition and diet expert added that the very high intake values used in the mouse study mean that it bears no impact for humans,
"A mouse weighs about 20g and drinks about 5 ml water a day, so an intake of 1%of these additives corresponds to an intake of 50mg/d or 2500 mg/kg.""
10.1038/nature14232#Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome#Authors: Benoit Chassaing, et a e
The company's Modesto Carnation Evaporated milk plant, for example, sits in an area currently in the midst of an'Extreme Drought',according to the US Drought Monitor."
Nestlé unveiled its first'zero water'manufacturing site in the"water-stressed"Mexican state of Jalisco in October 2014.
Nestlé immediately started to look for other sites where we would apply the technology, "the Nestlé spokesperson said."
producing real data in a time-intensive process
#Scientists design technology to make PLA production process simpler Polylactic acid (PLA) is already a part of our everyday lives in biodegradable drinking cups
And Bluetooth Good news for blind people wanting to travel on the London Tube. While at the moment they still have to rely on station staff to assist them on to their train,
a new smartphone app created by the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB) Youth Forum
The app, called Wayfindr, uses Bluetooth and beacon technology to trace the user location in the subway
each time a beacon signal is picked up by the smartphone. At the same time, the headphones do not prevent wearers from hearing the sounds around them,
as Kevin, one the first users said, there is still a long road ahead to Wayfindr being rolled out to the masses,
#Crowdfunding's Continued Maturity Is Empowering Entrepreneurs Like Never Before One of the core ideas in my latest book Bold is that today, for the first time in history,
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
because of the development of user friendly interfaces (a topic covered in this earlier blog) for these accelerating technologies,
For starters, there are more than 700 different crowdfunding sites online, providing platform-level support for whatever kind of campaign you might have in mind.
it also helped him build up a core supporter base, essentially a community of like-minded individuals who shared his passion for cutting edge smart watches.
#Stanford Researchers Created A Smartphone Battery That Charges In Only One Minute Last year, emarketer reported that the global smartphone audience passed 1. 75 billion people.
As smartphones become ubiquitous, the demand for longer-lasting batteries will continue to increase. Fortunately, researchers at Stanford university are building an aluminum-ion battery prototype that speeds up the charging times.
And the aluminum-ion battery could eventually replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries used in many smartphones today. e have developed a rechargeable aluminum battery that may replace existing storage devices, such as alkaline batteries,
which are bad for the environment, and lithium-ion batteries, which occasionally burst into flames, said Stanford university chemistry professor Hongjie Dai, the lead researcher of the project,
The voltage of the aluminum battery made by the Stanford researchers is about half the average smartphone lithium battery.
And the other authors are Di-Yan Wang (Stanford), Mingyun Guan (Stanford), Michael Angell (Stanford), Changxin Chen (Stanford), Jiang Yang (Stanford) and Bing-Joe
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