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#The XX Factor: Getting More Young Women Ready For STEM Jobs More girls and women than ever before are studying

The number of women working as computer scientists is actually declining, and women still make up only 12 percent of working engineers, according to the AAUW report, olving the Equation:

The Variables for Women Success in Engineering and Computing. Even more troubling, qualified women are leaving the STEM workforce in large numbers,

a familiar stereotype about engineering and computer science jobs is that they are solitary occupations offering few opportunities for contributing to society.

When teachers and mentors emphasize the importance of computer science and engineering in helping to address global and community problems,

At Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif.,one of the world premier colleges of science, mathematics,

and engineering, the percentage of women among graduates of its computer science programs jumped to 40 percent from 12 percent in just five years.

First, the college has made the computer science path more welcoming by revising introductory classes, splitting them into two levels based on experience.

female students attend the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, the largest gathering of women in technical professions,

Broadcom Presents Design code build, a program Broadcom Foundation created in partnership with the Computer History Museum in Mountain view

The closer we move toward gender parity in computer science and engineering, the more welcoming and engaging for women our workplaces will be.

but it will protect its user from the shockwaves of nearby impacts. As described in the typically dense language of a patent

when only one game has made it to American iphone Top 20 download chart. This is a radical,

On March 1, 2011,17 out of Top 20 most popular iphone apps in America were games. It was not unusual to have half a dozen new games enter the Top 20 each week each at least getting fair sampling by the public.

the mobile game industry is facing a huge challenge in building massive enough user bases.

many of the rare recent download winners on the US app chart are relatively low-budget, indie titles like Mr. Jump.

The biggest mobile money makers of Electronic arts right now are the ancient Simpsons and Simcity franchises

The robot battle game eal Steel World Robot Boxingis likely the best known Reliance Games app it has 7. 5 Million downloads,

while the cluster of three Real Steel tie-in apps has garnered 47 Million downloads. The Real Steel franchise has shown broad global appeal

or TV series can generate downloads across the globe, even years later. Real Steel is a 2011 movie that grossed $300 Million.

Earlier this March, eal Steel Champions a new spin-off app by Reliance Games, hit Top 5 of US ipad download chart.

Manish Agarwal, the CEO of Reliance Games, Digital, had some interesting comments about using licensed IP for developing mobile games. he biggest challenge is identifying play mechanics that fit both the license

On other platforms, such as console, designers have a wide array of popular play mechanics to choose from.

For example many movie inspired console games use third-person character action where the player can directly control the star of the film

which has become something of a gatekeeper in South korean mobile game market. Koreans increasingly use Kakaotalk as an app discovery mechanism,

Reliance has decided to use Facebook as the social media network for its apps. Few Western app vendors apart from Supercell and King have attacked seriously Korea notoriously insular market It is impressive that Reliance is tackling Korea seriously from the start.

and leading entrepreneurs including Monica Musonda, CEO, Java Solutions; Ory Okolloh, Director of Investments, Omidyar Network Government;

For example, Amazon already been hiring drone software developers, drone regulatory experts, and even drone pilots, too.

for all of the major new players eying the health care market with Apple AAPL-0. 46%pushing to collect health data through the Apple Watch,

For example, this Marketing and Planning Leadership Council research brief explores the rise in programs designed to remotely monitor patients.

Backers included major VC players like Adreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Google Ventures hope what youl see is the regulations get cleared very soon

This data is communicated then back to the building owner, via the cloud. Terralux wants to articulate the value it offers beyond simply providing light.

#Will Payments On Facebook Be Successful? Facebook: The Social Graph Of Payments Today March 17th, 2015 Facebook has entered into payments in a very big way 1. This is perhaps the biggest news in this sector since its inception.

Much like Wechat a sort of Facebook of China along with Alipay with their hundreds of millions of users to send money via instant message.

To become a person to person payment system in the US the company must apply for

and be granted a money transmitter license in every state. Facebook has been approved money transmitter licenses in every US state and territory along with many European and Asian countries.

My good friend Faisal Khan has been researching this for a number of years. In the US

One could argue that Google system was a communication platform centered around Gmail, but it was linked not fully to the chat system.

and there is a tipping point where one can be certain that the recipient can be found on Facebook.

It turns out a vast majority of Facebook 500 million monthly users are logged on to Facebook Messenger with about 80 million payment cards on file.

With Facebook Payments, the entire system is built currently around the Messenger platform. Fundamentally person to person payments are a form of deep communication

and Facebook Messenger is a logical jumping off point. A vast majority of person to person payments begin with a conversation, perhaps already within messenger.

How Does Facebook Payments Work? To use the system, the sender will need to associate a US based debit card with a Visa or Mastercard logo to their Facebook account.

If the user already has a debit card on file with Facebook from gaming, advertising, or donations, this can be the default card.

The system will allow for the user to image the card via a camera or to manually enter the card into the setup form.

Users will be prompted to set a passcode or use Apple Touchid on compatible ios devices to confirm transfers,

though one can opt out of this authentication in the settings panel. Once an account is confirmed

it will ready for use. Specimen of Facebook Payments payment sending sequence. To send money press the button in the Messenger message composer,

you have an option to send a photo or sticker along with a text message and the money, enter in an amount that is currently less than $250 and tap the aybutton.

Specimen of Facebook Payments payment receipt screen. The money is removed instantly from the sender debit account

and delivered to the recipient Facebook associated debit card. Facebook uses the debit card network and the recipient bank

and can take about 24 hours to become usable. Both sender and recipient will see a confirmation message detailing the transfer status and time.

If the recipient has associated not a debit card, they will be prompted to register going through the same process and choices as the sender.

Along the way, Facebook will send the recipient notices to claim the money. As an added security feature, Facebook may ask users some extra security questions before a transfer can be authorized.

This may take the form of id you ever own a red caror n what city did you live in during the period of 1984 1986 etc.

Banking On Debit cards Facebook is currently a debit card based system and is using a similar system that Square adopted for Square Cash 2,

and optimizations made by Facebook to make the system more fault tolerant and redundant. Facebook is also using more recognized APIS that will have the ability in the future to also allow payments from credit cards using the full extent of systems like Visa VPP API 2. The system will also be able to easily scale to countries outside the US

and localize from a technical standpoint and a regulatory stand point. I am rather certain that Facebook has negotiated with a number of regional debit card networks to lower effective rates that Facebook will pay for each transaction.

This will actually be a win/win for both camps. The debit card networks will see a huge growth of aggregate transactions allowing the networks to continue to be relevant and vital in this new space.

And Facebook will of course see lower costs than most companies in this space. I see this pattern perhaps playing out through the world and thus

By the next Facebook developer conference we may see this presented along with very unique useless for the APIS Facebook most certainly will produce.

Now The Person To Person Payments Party Is Ready To Begin Facebook is entering into a market that has many existing solutions,

including: Google Paypal Venmo Square Banks And others It is very clear that a sort of shakeout will commence that will define competing products and perhaps remove a few products from the market.

There is little doubt that the landscape will be changed far one year from now. Square Square Cash seems to be in a very vulnerable position before Facebook Payments 3 and

I tried to present the case days after the product was announced that this will prove to be a huge waste of time, talent,

Paypal+Venmo Paypal and Venmo will see a challenge from Facebook Payments. There is no doubt about it.

and marketing needed to respond to Facebook. There are many ways that Paypal and Venmo can stay vital and relevant because of the scale they have achieved already.

Google Google has been sending person to person money via Gmail for over two years and although it is not breaking any records,

and become a platform for many users. The simplicity of attaching payments like a document

or a picture is quite genius. Google will need to lower costs and continue to innovate.

and a system that will surprise even Facebook. The plans have been in process for quite some time and unlike Facebook

Paypal, Google, and Square, Apple will not handle any payments themselves. High Likelihood Of Success There is little doubt that Facebook will be successful In person to Person payments.

If not just by the size of the user base and the utility this new feature will offer.

One can surmise that at some point, even though currently there is no revenue model from Facebook pavements,

there is a path where the cards on file will become a source for payments for products and services from merchants.

Thus, I predict revenues from payments to soar over time once the merchant payment system is activated.

Specimen of revenue sources at Facebook. The Payment isruptionera Is Now Officially Over In less then 12 months

and listed Apple, Facebook, and retailers themselves. Today, Apple Pay, Facebook Payments, and MCX/Currentc are here.

It was fun times as my thesis and postulations were controversial and constrain. This was the height of the ayments disruptionmania

and many medical schools now use e-learning tools like webcasts and online study aids to broaden enrollment

though often-onerous data charges, patchy connections, lack of technological competency, and other challenges can limit their efficacy.

when it opened two small program sites in Kenya and Haiti, it delivered classes to students in many of the world poorest places.

In radiology, for instance, a growing number of hospitals around the world now use software by Lifetrack Medical Systems,

The software enables radiology residents to receive virtual training from qualified practitioners anywhere in the world boon for places like Indonesia and Myanmar with acute radiologist shortages.

Dr. Peter Haddawy, a Bangkok-based computer scientist who developing these technologies, says theye actively being used for surgery students in Thailand.

a web and mobile application that supports workforce skill building. The app delivers informational content to distributed teams,

In the Philippines, for example, a group of doctors founded an online community called Healthxph that uses social media to mobilize discussion about healthcare topics.

In neighboring Indonesia, more than three-quarters of doctors in major cities reported using the Internet regularly to build their knowledge and skills

And Financial Data Medical and financial data belonging to as many as 11 million Premera Blue Cross customers may have been exposed in a breach discovered on the same day as the Anthem breach, the health insurance company

A broad range of customer and applicant data may have been exposed in the attack, ranging from medical records

While Premera says it does not have evidence that the data was removed from the system or sed inappropriately,

Unlike in the Premera breach, medical data and banking information were believed not to have been exposed in the Anthem breach.

Premera is stressing that the company will not email or call customers about the breach. To protect against phishing attacks,

and links or replying to emails about the breach. Based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, Premera is one of the largest health insurance providers in the Pacific Northwest, with $7. 6 billion in revenue in 2013 and 1. 8 million members in Washington and Alaska n

the University of Toronto is working with Christian Blind Mission a non-governmental organization that helps people with disabilities in developing countries as well as software supplier Autodesk ADSK+0. 17%and the Corsu rehabilitation hospital in Mpigi, Uganda.

but it does allow those with the skills to be more productive. ur toolchain includes an inexpensive 3d scanner, a standard laptop with our Socketmixer software,

#At SXSW, Retail's Data-Driven Future Is On Display Apart from expanding to sell merchandise online,

a new slant on an old industry that leverages data and analyticsnd puts power in the hands of its customers.

On Friday at SXSW Interactive, Hyman spoke on a panel along with Katrina Lake, founder and CEO of Stitch Fix, about the next-generation retail experience.

The ability to use data to make personalized recommendations to customers is critical. In fact, the first C-level executive Hyman hired was a chief analytical officer

because she understood that what the company was creating was data products. e use data to price by demand dress may be higher in the holiday season,

she said. ut we also understand that data is a precious asset we can use with our suppliers.

But another key aspect of Rent the Runway approach to its customers goes deeper than data

enabled by her company focus on data, analytics, and incredibly efficient logistics. y dream is traveling without suitcases.

#Youtube Now Lets You View And Upload 360-Degree Videos Youtube has announced that it is now supporting 360-degree video uploads.

Some of the cameras that are compatible with Youtube 360-degree video uploads include Bublcam, 360cam by Giroptic, Allie by IC Real Tech, the SP360 by Kodak and the RICOH THETA.

This means that viewers can watch videos in any direction for a different perspective instead of just where the camera is facing.

said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,

When you upload a Youtube video with a 360-degree camera, the viewer is able to tap on the video

and drag the screen to look around at different angles. In the screenshot below, you will notice that there are navigational controls at the top left of the videos.

If you are using the Youtube app on an Android device then you can pan around the video simply by moving your smartphone and tablet around.

As of right now, the 360-degree Youtube videos are supported by just the Chrome browser on the desktop and the Youtube app on Android devices.

Youtube said that 360-degree videos will be supported on other platforms in the near future like the iphone and ipad.

Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.

The experience feels very similar to Google GOOGL-0. 94%Street view . If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles,

the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras and put together those types of videos with help from the staff between now through April.

When you are ready to upload 360-degree videos on Youtube, you can find technical information on Github with a Python script to insert the correct video metadata.

Youtube plans to make the process of uploading 360-degree videos automatic, but that script will be required in the meantime.

Keep in mind that the quality of the 360-degree videos are not as high as we see in the standard Youtube videos.

The 360-degree videos need to be at 24 25 or 30 frames per second.

And the 360-degree videos take up about four-to-five times the bandwidth of regular Youtube videos.

Youtube set up a playlist of some 360-degree videos so that you can see multiple examples.

Here are a few examples of the new 360-degree videos on Youtube (watch these using Google chrome on your desktop

or the Youtube app for Android to see the 360-degree controls) e

#In Historic Turn, CO2 EMISSIONS Flatline in 2014, Even as Global economy Grows A key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth.

and again in 2009, accompanied periods of global economic stagnation. he latest data on emissions are indeed encouraging,

and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,

and outside a user vehicle to easily track and monitor a number of incidents. Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions

location, movement and vandalismnd notifies users with alerts, live video and image playback that can be viewed with the Lyfelens app on a user smartphone.

Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,

automatically capturing video and alerting the user. e designed Lyfelens with the goal of providing car owners with peace of mind, said cofounder

and CEO Allen Stone. yfelens keeps an eye on your car even when youe not there,

and is an invaluable resource for when the worst happens. Lyfelens is available for pre-order at a discounted price of $199 (plus $20 shipping.

Outside of the vehicle, Lyfelens users can access real-time data, footage and push notifications by participation in a monthly subscription plan.

With this subscription, Lyfelens also broadcasts a 4G LTE Wifi hotspot to keep driver and passengersdevices connected on the go.

In addition to monitoring for incidents in and around the vehicle, Lyfelens features built-in GPS that provide access to the speed and location of the vehicle, mileage tracking and historical trip data,

however it does enable full functionality/user experience of the product. Without the subscription, the device still functions

and pairs with the phone via Bluetooth when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,

the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).

The final cost of the subscription is still being determined. It will likely be a monthly cost of $19. 99-$29. 99 for a single unit (depending on data usage),

and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e

#Can't Stop The Tweet: How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square,

but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier and so happily jostled the turtle-paced tourists.

but instead she smiled at her phone, here Wi-fi here. My friend wasn alone. Before the first jubilant percussion beats could settle,

an ipad blocked my visibility like a solar eclipse. Turning for a better view revealed a conglomeration of glowing devices not only grabbing pics and vids,

Our smartphones, and the instant communication they lend tempt us to forget the real moment in which we are involved.

but nothing can overpower the frenetic pattern of fingers on lucent screens. Is this an essential part of the concert experience or a divergence from it?

nd the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage.

According to T-Mobile, 47%of audience members text during shows. There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene.

It is distracting for fellow fans and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists.

But no amount of audio or visual stimulation can negate the distraction of an LED screen shoved in your face by an overeager fan.

it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,

There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a

My friend was sending emails while I played ninja to avoid flailing ipads the mini ones feel mega

when they hit you in the nose and the band I had waited for was not helping the situation.

and Twitter campaign#bestdayofmylife, after their biggest hit. Besides adding another incentive for all phones on deck,

they ran the tagged photos on a huge onstage screen for parts of the performance.

the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along. I smiled, but felt weird.

almost like slides of paintings on a screen we could all talk about, instead of the paintings themselves in their grandeur on museum walls.

It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show. The San francisco Symphony orchestra actually set aside weet seatsin

Frampton is no social media scrooge, he one of the few artists who personally engages with his online fan base.

Pink floyd cofounder Roger Waters told his Facebook followers that he ould never turn on a cell phone at any musical event.

The Huffington Post reports that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs prohibit the tendency to atch the show through a screen.

Prince posts his urple Ruleswhen touring that forbid phones in the concert hall. Outcries like these do not seem to be just about profit and image

These artists are not damning social media, but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,

then smartphones detract from that, and if the purpose of social media and mobile messaging is communication,

a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.

While sharing might be caring, we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,

but not necessarily including a pod of iphones. Placing a screen between eyes and stage alters the DNA of a piece.

Unless you can combine both experiences you must ask which expands your world more: eyes piercing a screen

or music piercing a soul. Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.

Twitter mission statement iso give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.

According to Twitter website, more than 80%of active users tweet from their phones, making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising.

The purpose of concert going is less definable than the purpose of tweeting. What seems to be unique about live music is presence,

Where is the line between engaging in Twitter purpose and engaging in the concert purpose?

Smartphones invading musical experiences are inevitable, but so are creative solutions. Some artists request that pictures

giving fans the peace of keeping phones on their person while removing the temptation to use them.

Bright screens attached to waving arms looked like some kind of extraterrestrial seabed or the luminescent Tree of Souls in Avatar.

I took a few videos, but did not feel the need to prove I was there.

but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.

Georgia Tech has the answer Researchers at Georgia Tech have built a tablet-based system that lets people control a fleet of robots with just the swipe of a finger.

when someone swipes the Apple ipad to drag the light across the floor, the robots follow.

If, however, the person puts two fingers in different locations on the tablet the machines split into teams

Georgia Tech says that its algorithm for controlling large teams of robots could be used in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture,

or a million robots by individually programming each one where to go, said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,

the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job. eorgia Tech says that its robotic algorithm is flexible enough to let robots hange their minds."

"In a demonstration of the system, each robot is constantly measuring how much light is in its local eighborhood. hen there too much light in a robot area,

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