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the UCSD cloak works by manipulating electromagnetic waves, such as visible light or radio waves. Because it can scatter these waves,

#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,

As result, only about 20 percent of the population is able to connect to the Internet.

Facebook hopes to change those statistics with a new project in its Internet. org initiative.

As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."

"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.

Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,

which will cover West, East and Southern Africa. Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity

--so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future. Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business

while Facebook will work locally in Africa to deliver Internet service to rural communities. The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016.

The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative which debuted in 2013.

Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.

Internet. org was criticized highly for providing access only to Facebook and a handful of other web sites and services instead of the full, open internet.

Internet. org responded to critics by recently expanding its service to include any sites that meet Facebook's development criteria a

The MIT has developed a new programming approach that in enabling the robots to perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.

The new programming approaches developed by MIT engineer enables robots perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.

or reconfigure the hardware to get over a failure, on the fly. Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions,

Most states have a prescription drug monitoring database that allows doctors and pharmacists to see if an individual is going to multiple doctors

CHEAP CATALYST Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.

Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,

This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen, protons,

#How to build millions of tiny microscopes all at once A new optical device made of silicon anopillarscould lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors,

and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. urrently,

Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;

the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. sing our metasurfaces,

and differentiates them from larger sound waves that are reflected in the ormalway. his type of measuring method delivers similar results to the edge detection filter in an image-processing software,

which allows the outline of prominent photo objects to be identified with the click of the mouse,

and generate the outline image from the measured sound data. According to the scientists the new measuring method is most useful

A new artificial intelligence system can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student.

This system, called Geos, uses a combination of computer vision to interpret diagrams, natural language processing to read

the computer roughly achieved an SAT score of 500 (out of 800), the average test score for 2015.

Researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2) and the University of Washington computer science and engineering department shared a paper on the findings at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP) in Lisbon

senior research manager for Vision at AI2 and UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. ur biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language.

all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use

#Vaccine might replace surgery for cervical cancer A genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine performed well in a clinical trial,

The result is a metabolic core that takes CO2 out of the atmosphere and converts it into sugar.

Printing multiple materials with different dynamic mechanical properties in prescribed patterns throughout the 3d object enables the ability to create objects that change shape in a controlled sequence over time.

and Design Centre. e are now extending this concept of digital SMPS to enable printing of SMPS with dynamic mechanical properties that vary continuously in 3d space.

if you are talking on the phone with someone you know very well, and they are crying,

The voice device is made up of a small computer connected to a camera that is attached to darkened glasses,

A computer algorithm scans each camera image from left to right and for every column of pixels, generates an associated sound with a frequency

and volume that depends upon the vertical location and brightness of the pixels. A large number of bright pixels at the top of a column would translate into a loud, high-frequency sound,

whereas a large number of lower dark pixels would be a quieter, lower-pitched sound. A blind person wearing this camera on a pair of glasses could then associate different sounds with features of their environment.

HEAR A SOUND, SEE A COLOR IN the trials, sighted people with no training or instruction were asked to match images to sounds;

while the blind subjects were asked to feel textures and match them to sound. Tactile textures can be related to visual textures (patterns) like a topographic mapright regions of an image translate to high tactile height relative to a page,

The intuitively identified textures used in the experiments exploited the crossmodal mappings already within the voice encoding algorithm. hen we reverse the crossmodal mappings in the voice auditory-to-visual translation

the group is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) data to analyze the crossmodal neural network. These preexisting neural connections provide an important starting point for training visually impaired people to use devices that will help them see.

generally requiring a user full concentration and attention to interpret information about the environment. The Shimojo lab new finding on the role of multimodal processing and crossmodal mappings starts to address this issue.

and the Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology funded the work

which is like a computer hard drive, is read, so that the cell switches from a lung cell to a serotonin neuron,

TWO YEARS LATER The data indicate that all patients achieved complete clinical response to the treated lesions within one to three months of starting the intralesional IL-2-based therapy.

#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:

associate professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University. e don need new image-processing algorithms, and we don need extra processing to eliminate the noise,

It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones. Depth cameras work by projecting a pattern of dots

if only briefly, notes Kyros Kutulakos, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. ven though wee not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,

Alternatively, if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture

and only those rays. n addition to enabling the use of Kinect-like devices to play videogames outdoors,

#Tantalum shows promise for high-density storage Scientists have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.

The discovery by the Rice university lab of chemist James Tour could allow for crossbar array memories that store up to 162 gigabits

Eight bits equal one byte; a 162-gigabit unit would store about 20 gigabytes of information.

Details appear online in the journal Nano Letters. Like the Tour lab previous discovery of silicon oxide memories, the new devices require only two electrodes per circuit,

making them simpler than present-day flash memories that use three. ut this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory,

Nonvolatile memories hold their data even when the power is off, unlike volatile random-access computer memories that lose their contents

when the machine is shut down. 100 times less energy Modern memory chips have many requirements: They have to read

and write data at high speed and hold as much as possible. They must also be durable and show good retention of that data

while using minimal power. Tour says the new design, which requires 100 times less energy than present devices,

has the potential to hit all the marks. his tantalum memory is based on two-terminal systems,

This will be a real competitor for the growing memory demands in high-definition video storage and server arrays.

and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer

The panel, the scientists say, has demonstrated already better than 90%accuracy. Moreover, it readily distinguishes between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis,

the scientists discovered, yielded a robust panel. The panel performance was described August 3 in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, in an article entitled, dentification of a Three-Biomarker Panel in Urine for Early Detection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. hen comparing

PDAC with healthy urine specimens, the resulting areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves (AUC) of the panel were 0. 89 in the training (70%of the data)

and 0. 92 in the validation (30%of the data) datasets, wrote the authors. hen comparing PDAC stage II with healthy urine specimens,

the panel achieved AUCS of 0. 90 and 0. 93 in the training and validation datasets,

respectively. At present, noninvasive biomarkers for early detection of PDAC are not available. The biomarker panel established by the Barts Cancer Institute scientists,

This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we're hopeful that a simple,

as they noted that their CNV data would have impacted the diagnosis or classification in almost 10%of the patients they studied."

as they noted that their CNV data would have impacted the diagnosis or classification in almost 10%of the patients they studied."

a variation of structured illumination microscopy (SIM), can now show the movement and interactions of proteins as cells remodel their structural supports

In traditional SIM, the sample under the lens is observed while it is illuminated by a pattern of light (similar to scanning a barcode).

Computer software then extracts the information from the moiré images and translates it into a three-dimensional, high-resolution reconstruction.

"I fell in love with SIM because of its speed and the fact that it took so much less light than the other methods,"Dr. Betzig noted.

Dr. Betzig and his team were convinced that SIM had the potential to generate significant insights into cellular mechanics,

However, traditional SIM was not suitable for living cells, as the method was designed to generate an image by switching on all of the fluorescent labels in the cell

"Alternatively, the new method, called patterned photoactivation nonlinear SIM, begins by switching on just a subset of fluorescent labels in a sample with a pattern of light."

The combined effect of those patterns led to final images with 62-nanometer resolutionuch better than standard SIM and a threefold improvement over the limits imposed by the wavelength of light."

I have to take the data in a tenth of a second, or else it will smear out."

However, he went on to note that"most of the magic is in the software, not the hardware. t

and used directed evolution techniques to identify molecules that bound near the active site of ß-Gal,

a member of the Cerberus gene family, is expressed in the developing and adult mouse retina. pon exposure to recombinant COCO,

affording the parasite time to grow out of site from the immune system. Some these parasite-derived red blood cell surface proteins have an affinity for carbohydrate residues found on the surface of cells lining blood vessels.

"Based on our clinical data, we helped validate that this could be applied to melanoma and lung cancers,"explained co-author Nhan Tran, Ph d.,associate professor in TGEN's Cancer and Cell biology Division."

As if smartphones can't already do enough, soon they may be able to scan three-dimensional objects

and distance at each pixel of the part of a scene or object that it represents.

while at the same time the NCI's tiny size just 300 microns across in their 16-pixel proof of concept makes possible incorporation into even very small devices.

The current limitation of 16 coherent pixels did not stop the researchers from imaging the front face of an American one-cent coin from half a meter (1. 5 ft) away with a method that scanned in four

-by-four pixel increments. The researchers see broad applications for their device, which they believe could easily be scaled up to house arrays of hundreds of thousands of pixels

which is closer to what would be required in real-world high-resolution 3d imaging through a camera lens.

When used in conjunction with a smartphone, the system offers the potential of diagnosing diseases in remote locations from anywhere in the world.

Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera and send it off to a medical professional for analysis,

especially in developing countries with limited resources,"says Waseem Asghar, Ph d.,assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer science at FAU,

#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease

and food contaminants may soon be printed on paper using ordinary office inkjet printers. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors

and scientists in the field quickly detect certain types of cancer or bacterial and respiratory infections or monitor toxin levels in water.

In 2012 they used specialized inkjet printers to produce paper strips that change color in the presence of E coli.

"Our original E coli sensor required a very sophisticated ink jet-printer printer and very specialized inks in order to be produced,

and a basic office printer to produce the test strips, meaning that it should be much easier to scale up and manufacture."

using data collected during testing to adjust the height and width of the channel, as well as the tilt angle of the transducers,

and alkaline batteries powering our gadgets today. The prototype aluminum-ion battery is also safer,

"Our latest unpublished data suggest that an aluminum battery can be recharged tens of thousands of times.

A working prototype of the technology will be on display from Apr 13 to 17, at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show d

there's still a long way to go before quadcopters are dropping parcels in your front yard.

#IBM sets new tape storage record For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies.

and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,

When the first half-inch-wide computer tape was invented in 1952, it had about 2 megabytes per reel of storage.

Previously the main storage medium was punch cards, but the development of electronic computers produced machines that soon operated at the limits of the speed of punch card systems.

Over the years, hard drives, CDS, DVDS, and solid state memory came along, but tape is still very much a mainstream technology used in backups, disaster replicas,

video, archiving and other renditions, with over 500 exabytes of data currently on tape. The new IBM tape has an areal density 110,000, 000 times greater than IBM s first tape drive,

which could result in a hand-sized tape cartridge that holds the equivalent of 220 terabytes of data.

IBM compares this to 220 million books that would need 2, 200 km (1, 367 mi) of bookshelf.

The new tape is the result of 13 years of work on a high-density barium ferrite tape combined with new control technology for read write-heads heads involving advanced servo control technologies

a high bandwidth head actuator, and a set of tape-speed, optimized, H-infinity, track-follow controllers that place the head within 6 nanometers;

IBM sees the new tape technology as having applications in big data and cloud computing at a cost of pennies per gigabyte.

which lets users inexpensively migrate cold data to a highly durable cloud based storage tier.

A research prototype of the new tape drive is on display at the 2015 National Association Broadcasters Show.

The video below discusses the new IBM storage tape. Source: IB B

#Modified Salmonella eats away at cancer, without a side order of food poisoning Though generally a bacteria we'd associate with a severe bout of food poisoning,

#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in

and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.

and compare data. The system draws on the combined expertise and technology of University of New south wales (UNSW) professor Melissa Knothe Tate

Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,

and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.

Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,

this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."

Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.

as its core function is to collect valuable data. Fundamentally, what makes a smart sensor"smart"is its onboard signal/data-processing capabilities.

Through the Iot, large amounts of quality, sensor-based data can be collected at any time and from anywhere,

Detection and Distance Measurement The detection and distance measurement is performed by the sensor's processor,

and filter false detections in the application software. Another setting available on Leddar sensors IS LED the intensity.

the multi-element sensor software generates a combined graphical representation of all segments, as shown in Figure 4 below.

Leddar excels on the widest range of performance criteria, due to its ruggedness, rapid data acquisition,

The modules were designed to facilitate both mechanical and software integration. Namely, the included software development kit provides sample code for developers to quickly integrate sensor data into their application software.

There is also a choice of popular communication interface options (e g.,, USB, RS-485 and UART),

and additional headers are also available for custom expansion. As for the receiver, one can choose from several beam options,

Conclusion This innovative core technology is giving rise to the creation of a completely new generation of ultra-efficient smart sensors,

#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications

pulse-shaped laser to provide the ultrafast flashes of light, along with an ultra-sensitive pulse detector to capture the speed of conversion to electrical energy.

#IBM's Watson does some culinary computing for its first cookbook These days, it seems like every celebrity comes out with a cookbook at some point,

and IBM's Watson supercomputer is no exception. The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes, developed with the help of

"is the result of a three-year collaboration between IBM Research and chefs at the Institute of culinary education (ICE).

Watson can handle extremely large amounts of data as an aid to decision making in medicine, customer service, finance,

"IBM says that Cognitive Cooking is not only a compendium of recipes, but also discusses the evolution of Chef Watson.

This allows it to produce a database of recipes, dish types, cooking styles, human psychology,

According to IBM, what works with food also works with other things, like creating new pharmaceuticals and cancer-fighting proteins.

while simultaneously making it easier for users to drag the pen across the surface of the paper.

because such a light-sensitivity would be ludicrous for most users. Well, that hasn't stopped the folks at Canon stepping things up in a big way with its full-frame ME20F-SH, a 4,

The sensor's pixels measure 19 microns, which is more than five times larger than those generally found in high-end DSLRS and amounts to a modest 2. 26 megapixels.

Canon has made efforts to stave off the inevitable noise that will accompany such an insanely high ISO with

what it describes only as proprietary pixel and readout circuitry technologies. The result is, Canon says in lieu of sample footage, the capture of low-noise, color, Full-HD video of subjects with a minimum illumination of less than 0. 0005 lux.

reality TV and whatever else your mind sees but your eyes do not. It shoots 1080p at 24,30

or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.

With a suggested retail price of US$30, 000, the ME20F-SH is geared certainly more towards professional users than hobbyists trying to get a crisp shot of the night sky.

#Acer's Cloudbooks offer Windows 10 from just $169 Acer has announced a pair of new laptops that are set to provide access to Windows 10 at a very reasonable price point.

Both the 11 and 14-inch versions of the Aspire One Cloudbooks are powered by Windows 10, with Intel Celeron processors, 2 GB RAM and 1, 366 x 768 LED

backlit displays. There's also built-in 802. 11ac wireless a full-sized HDMI port, a pair of USB ports and an SD card slot included.

The systems will ship with a choice of just 16,32 or 64 GB internal storage,

The highest tier internal storage option is reserved for the larger of the two notebooks. These machines are designed essentially to function in the same way as Chromebooks not offering much in the way of internal storage space,

Chromebooks have the benefit of running on Google's stripped-back CHROME OS platform though, meaning they don't need much horsepower to run smoothly.

Acer's Cloudbooks on the other hand, run the more power-hungry Windows 10. While that opens the door to much more local functionality,

The smaller laptop is set to arrive later this month, while the larger machine will hit shelves in September b

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#Google just became part of a new company called Alphabet Today Google, the company, is smaller

while the Google universe seems to be expanding with the announcement by CEO Larry page of a new umbrella company called Alphabet,

which will include a stripped down Google focused on search and Internet products and other companies like Calico operating as subsidiaries of the new company.

The announcement came in a post on the Google company blog by Page that is also cross-posted on the new,

otherwise barren Alphabet home page.""Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.

In essence, what yesterday was Google today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is owned a wholly subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products.

Alongside the new, smaller Google within Alphabet will be a number of other companies working on disparate projects like the aforementioned longevity company, Calico,

a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,

just for starters. Page will be CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be President. Sundar Pichai, who has been in charge of products at Google,

including Android, Chrome and Maps, will be the new CEO of the new, stripped-down Google. Although Page doesn't say so specifically,

it seems that some of the company's biggest properties like Android and Youtube will remain a part of the smaller Google.

Normally news of what is basically a corporate restructuring isn't so interesting except that it involves a company that is,

itself, involved in so many interesting and disparate pursuits. While Page is framing the structural change as a way for Google (erm

Alphabet) to stay on its toes and maintain its innovative spirit as it continues as a mega-corporation,

we have to wonder if there might be myriad and more esoteric legal and financial benefits to this move that aren't immediately apparent to the lay tech enthusiast.

According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,

For those who follow Google's moves with interest, the creation of Alphabet could hopefully give more of the company's many diverse projects a fighting chance of reaching fruition by having the support

Google has created a number of products that are shuttered later suddenly to the dismay of their user base (Google Reader, Glass, Buzz, Notebook, Wave, Health. just for starters), usually in the name of greater corporate focus.

Google shareholders will automatically convert to Alphabet shareholders, but the stock will continue to trade under the same GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols s

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