#iphone 6s Plus photos: leaks show Force Touch display, subtly altered size The pictures are one of the first glimpses of the iphone 6s Plus,
the bigger of the two new phones that Apple is expected to release at its event next week.
They show a slightly bigger phone that contains a sensor for Apple Force Touch technology
which allows the phone screen to be pressure sensitive to allow extra input options. The pictures, reported to have leaked from the Taiwanese supply chain,
show the front of the new phone. As well as the slightly larger size and changed display
they appear to feature a bigger front camera. It has already been suggested that the new iphone will feature an improved front-facing,
or selfie, camera. As well as better hardware for more clear photos, the software will be improved ncluding a feature that will use the screen to create a flash for taking pictures in the dark.
Apple has previously been rumoured to be strengthening the body of the iphone 6, in order to avoid a repeat of the endgateproblems that led some to complain their phone had been curving in their pocket.
Apple will use a more reinforced metal for the phone body the reports have indicated. That slightly larger body will have a smaller battery than the iphone 6, according to previous leaks.
It isn't clear whether that will mean that the phone will have less battery life, however, since Apple has been rumoured to be adding new, more efficient components.
The company doesn't usually make any external changes to the"s"phones, instead using the same external design
but improving the internal hardware. Apple Force Touch powered by the small sensor that can be seen in the centre of the display allows the phone to tell how hard its screen is being pressed
and trigger extra events on screen. Some details of how exactly it will work have already been revealed
indicating that the hard press will trigger further menu options. Force Touch was launched with the Apple Watch in April,
helping users interact with its small screen. It was added then to Apple Macbooks, giving extra options for how quickly to fast forward, for instance d
#Prosthetic hand lets man actually feel what he touches for the first time Researchers have created a prosthetic hand that people can actually feel through, for the first time ever.
The technology lets paralysed people feel actual sensations when touching objects including light taps on the mechanical finger
and could be a huge breakthrough for prosthetics, according to its makers. The tool was used to let a 28-year-old man who has been paralysed for more than a decade.
While prosthetics have previously been able to be controlled directly from the brain, it is the first time that signals have been sent successfully the other way. ee completed the circuit,
said DARPA program manager Justin Sanchez in a statement. rosthetic limbs that can be controlled by thoughts are showing great promise,
but without feedback from signals traveling back to the brain it can be difficult to achieve the level of control needed to perform precise movements. y wiring a sense of touch from a mechanical hand directly into the brain,
attains international master level without being told the rules In the last two decades computers have become exponentially more powerful,
Lai machine was built with a neural network which was fed 175 million examples of real games. It then evaluated the pieces in play and
Thanks to recent advances in computer speeds, these neural networks have grown in size and complexity, greatly increasing their power and proficiency.
but to demonstrate the potential power of computer learning. Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.
Beyond playing games, Deep Learning Machines have a potential future in image recognition, drug discovery and even customer relations.
As a potential step towards powerful artificial intelligence Facebook Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
. an innovative Japanese biomedical 3d printing company, has created a 3d bone printer capable of producing artificial bone structures for humans.
The jigs that come from 3d printing are based on CT SCAN data and fit the patient anatomy.
#Diablo Rolls Out All-Flash DDR4 Memory Today Diablo Technologies announced the launch of Memory1, the first all-flash server system memory technology.
According to the company, Memory1 technology packs four times the capacity of the largest DRAM modules, delivering greater capability on fewer servers and lowering datacenter costs by up to 70 percent.
or 384 gigabytes of DRAM memory can house up to four terabytes of Memory1 and process data-intensive applications that were previously beyond reach.
Designed to replace DRAM with low cost, high capacity flash Memory1 is deployed into standard DDR4 DIMM slots
and is compatible with standard motherboards, servers, operating systems and applications. Memory1 represents a major evolution in server architecture.
The needs of the large-scale datacenter are changing, with a very sharp focus on increasing capability to win the Internet while managing tight constraints on cost and power.
The Memory1 platform allows customers to leverage NAND flash as pure system memory in a seamless manner,
with no changes to their hardware and software stacks, said Riccardo Badalone, Chief executive officer and Cofounder of Diablo Technologies. he business impact on datacenter economics and application performance is dramatic.
Wee seen customers envisioning everything from aggressive server consolidation all the way to doubling and tripling individual machine profit.
a multinational information technology company headquartered in Jinan, China. he combination of Diablo and Inspur enables us to deliver a cost-effective and high capacity solution to meet the demands of the world largest datacenters.
Memory1 brings the low cost and high capacity of flash to large-scale enterprise and datacenter customers.
It is ideal for environments that require large memory footprints per server for workloads such as big data analytics and complex Web applications.
The average Memory1 use case enables a four-to-one server reduction, and one customer use case requires 90 percent fewer servers.
Accordingly, Diablo will initially focus on delivering Memory1 to cloud and hyperscale datacenters, which stand to see significant economic benefits because of their scale.
Jeff Janukowicz, Research director for Solid state drives and Enabling Technologies at IDC said, he cloud, virtualization, big data and analytics are pressuring the infrastructure of many of today enterprise datacenters.
Solutions such as Diablo Memory1, can accelerate application performance while bringing higher capacities lower power and cooling costs,
#Concept E-Kaia charge your mobile phone from cactus It sounds funny, but soon mobile gadgets can be recharged from any flower.
Home cactus, for example. In what way? With the device E-Kaia. This extraordinary invention introduced a team of scientists from Chile.
and built-in sensors collect information about users to create an environment, customized for the current needs of man.
#Innovative Smart T-shirt for the posture correction How often, sitting at the computer or watching television, you will notice that you not are sitting correctly?
and informs the user in the mobile app to a stoop or curved position in real time.
Product Truposture equipped with Bluetooth for wireless data transfer to a mobile device that runs on the ios
Android and Windows. Through the company application, the user can see the status of your spine at the moment,
and track individual progress. The main purpose of the invention accustom the owner always keep your back straight g
A separate study by financial software group Intuit found 25 to 30 percent of the U s. workforce is ontingentand that 80 percent of large corporations plan to increase their use of a lexible workforcein coming years.
Rothman said in a blog post. Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United states this year,
Reich said on his blog about the hare the scraps economy.?In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century
user creativity Tokyo-based venture Agic Inc. silver magic marker looks like any other average marker. But in fact, it far from ordinary.
Last December, his firm displayed Christmas tree posters with LEDS at NTT Docomo flagship store in Tokyo.
and can be printed using an inkjet printer. Shimizu stressed that it is tough to have both features at the same time,
it usually clogs the heads of the printer ink cartridge. But Agic he said, has succeeded in preventing this.
Another hurdle Shimizu sees is that consumers may not know the creative potential of the markers or the limits to their use. n our website
adding that he hopes users will create communities where they can post examples of what they have made.
#Technology No phone signal in a disaster? Solar network'in a box'to the rescue Pakistani researchers have developed a portable,
solar-powered mobile phone network for use in disasters like floods and earthquakes when regular communications are disrupted often.
Researchers at the Information technology University (ITU) in Lahore, together with a team from the University of California, have developed a prototype escue Base Station (RBS) for Pakistan-the country first emergency telecoms system
that would work on normal cell phones. hen the RBS is installed in a disaster-struck area,
people automatically start receiving its signals on their mobile phones. They can manually choose it and then call
send messages and even browse (internet) data free of charge, said Umar Saif, ITU vice chancellor and an adviser to the project.
but the ITU expects it to be used in the next six to eight months in partnership with the National Disaster Management Authority and a local telecoms company.
age and blood group to a special number. his helps generate an automatic database of people in distress,
according to official data. Potential users of the RBS system can get the information they need in just a few seconds by sending a text message to specific numbers appearing on their mobile phone.
For example, if a person needs to contact a fire brigade, they text the words ccupation: firefightersto the relevant number.
Saif said RBS teams on the ground plan to collect information about disaster-affected people in a database,
which operates using open source software, offers all the features provided by regular cellphone companies, he added.
Ghaznavi said it costs around $6, 000 to develop an RBS, and the Pakistan prototype has been funded by a Google Faculty Research Award.
The RBS team is now working with Endaga, a U s.-based company that connects rural communities through small-scale independent cellular networks,
and a local telecoms firm to commercialise the project, he added. The aim of the collaboration is to help phone companies keep their communications systems functioning in a disaster until their regular networks are restored.
Pakistan is a disaster-prone country which needs $6 billion to $14 billion to help it adapt to climate change impacts,
such as unusually heavy rains, droughts and melting glaciers, through to 2050, according to a 2011 study funded by the U n. climate secretariat.
But that system could only send text messages to its subscribers on their mobile phones, unlike the RBS which allows users to call,
send texts and even browse the web for free. Cutting-edge technologies like the RBS could help save more lives by delivering timely advice to disaster-hit people,
said Pervaiz Amir, country director for the Pakistan Water Partnership. ocal researchers should be encouraged to develop innovative solutions to help people in distress,
Turing then raised the price to $750 a tablet from $13. 50, bringing the annual cost of treatment for some patients to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
#Researchers Use'Avatar'Equipment to Study Locomotion Simple mechanical descriptions of the way people and animals walk, run, jump
Using an"Avatar"-like bio-robotic motor system that integrates a real muscle and tendon along with a computer controlled nerve stimulator acting as the avatar's spinal cord
The researchers, from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk Univ. in the Republic of korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA.
#Scientists Create LEDS From Food, Beverage Waste Most Christmas lights, DVD players, televisions and flashlights have one thing in common:
theye made with light emitting diodes (LEDS. LEDS are used widely for a variety of applications
cadmium selenide is also expensivene website listed a price of $529 for 25 ml of the compound. ith food
The transformation would present serious challenges for those who are unfamiliar with computers and mobile phones mainly older people living in rural areas.
Other segments of the population likely to feel the impact are the homeless and undocumented immigrants.
#Mobile Eye-test Device Could Lead to Prescription Virtual-reality Screens After five years of development and about 40,000 tests worldwide,
But on the heels of its commercial release, Eyenetra says it been courting offers from virtual-reality companies seeking to use the technology to develop ision-correctedvirtual-reality displays. s
The device, called Netra, is a plastic, binocular-like headset. Users attach a smartphone, with the startup app, to the front and peer through the headset at the phone display.
Patterns, such as separate red and green lines or circles, appear on the screen. The user turns a dial to align the patterns
and pushes a button to lock them in place. After eight interactions, the app calculates the difference between
what the user sees as lignedand the actual alignment of the patterns. This signals any refractive errors
such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. The app then displays the refractive powers, axis of astigmatism,
and pupillary distance required for eyeglasses prescriptions. In July, the startup launched Blink, an on-demand refractive test service in New york,
he says. f youe to play that role of smartphone-based personalized health solutions, then we have an amazing lead over anyone else. ersonalized correction Over the past six months,
is to use the startup technology to develop custom screens to fit a user eyeglass prescription.
Prescription screens could make virtual-reality devices more formfitting for a more immersive and comfortable experience,
Eyenetra technology measures how a user optical refractive errors will affect how they see patterns on a digital display in an environment very similar to a virtual-reality headset,
Therefore, companies could use these precise measurements to develop screens that are corrected pre to a user specific refraction errors. t personalized correction
says Raskar. our vision correction is built into the headset. Such an approach could be game-changing,
In 2014, Facebook acquired Oculus Rift for $2 billion; Google and other big companies recently backed Magic Leap with more than $540 million;
and Microsoft has starting pooling resources into virtual-reality research. n addition to the major business Eyenetra is doing for prescriptions,
it can also disrupt virtual reality, which is an even bigger market, says Raskar. User friendly optics Around 2009, Raskar and some of his Media Lab students developed a prototype of Netra:
A small, plastic device was clipped to a smartphone, and viewers used the phone keyboard to align the patterns.
The device was designed as an inverse of a traditional Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensor machine, which shines a laser into the patient eye
and measures the refracted light with a photon sensor to find optical aberrations that affect eyesight.
Essentially, Netra replaces the expensive sensor with a smartphone display. Because the red and green light goes through different parts of the eye,
About 340 product iterations led to an improved device and better user interface. For instance, around three years ago
the team realized that people didn perform well interacting with the phone. So, for the current design, they moved all buttons and knobs to the actual device.
The new study, based on data from the first 500 volunteers scanned as part of the HCP,
the researchers examined a HCP database that included resting-state connectomes from about 460 people ages 22 to 35 years,
and information about 280 different behavioral and demographic traits that were recorded for these same participants. he quality of the imaging data is unprecedented really,
but the spatial and temporal resolution of the fmri data is way ahead of previous large datasets.
Smith and his colleagues ran a massive computer analysis to examine how brain connectivity patterns correlated with individual behavioral traits, such as age, socioeconomic status, history of drug abuse, personality traits and various
who is a principal investigator of the HCP. t is also a testament to the intense efforts by the HCP team to improve the methods of imaging data acquisition
The Reading-led team used supercomputer simulations to look at many different candidates as potential photocatalysts for fuel production reactions.
"The challenge now is to incorporate these wonderful natural catalysts into materials capable of doing the specific chemical job we need.
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
"There needs to be a good way to obtain data about a drug's side effects before exposing a lot of people to the drug.
Researchers used data from different people's genotypes and metabolism to build personalized models that simulate how a drug will affect a particular set of cells in the body."
and metabolomics data obtained from blood samples of 24 individuals. Researchers used these data to build a personalized
predictive model for each individual. Researchers then used these predictive models to understand--at the metabolic level--why some individuals experienced side effects to ribavirin,
In both, researchers used machine-learning and parallel processing techniques to"teach"computers to characterize microbiotic colonies
and computer science to demonstrate that people have a variety of"microbial fingerprints"that could be used to distinguish them from many others,
and the surfaces of their cellphones share enough microbiotic commonality that samples from one could probably be used to match an owner with her mobile.
which the surface of a cellphone put down in a new environment will pick microbiotic stowaways.
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#FDA proposes letting gay men donate blood, with some caveats The Food and Drug Administration proposed new rules Tuesday that would allow gay and bisexual men to donate blood in the U s. for the first time in decades.
Last year, a panel of independent experts concluded that imposing a yearlong waiting period would not endanger the safety of the nation supply of donated blood.
the most recent year for which data were available. The FDA, which regulates how blood donations are collected
"the National Gay Blood Drive said on its website.""We will continue to encourage the FDA to move toward a deferral based upon individual risk assessment."
querying DNA databases, to also figure out how that process worked. Another technical challenge Smolke's group addressed was maintaining efficiency in the process as they stringed all of the steps together.
in a paper posted on the biorxiv preprint server, suggesting that"additional technical challenges, some
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#Nepal Earthquake: Health Threats Loom Over Survivors The aftermath of the Nepal earthquake brings a risk of disease outbreaks including measles and diarrheal diseases among the survivors,
The interactive database is designed to compile reports and images of the damage caused to cultural heritage sites in Nepal n
#4d Implant Saves Babies with Breathing Problems Three baby boys with life-threatening breathing problems are alive today thanks to a 4d biomaterial,
Three-dimensional printers can create items from a wide variety of materials: plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients such as living cells.
just as ordinary printers lay down ink, except 3d printers can also lay down flat layers on top of each other to build 3d objects.
Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ ESA/DLR Microwaves and Radar Institute/GFZ/e-GEOS/INGVSA SEOM INSARAP study) Moving up Nepal Insar By analyzing the satellite images,
ESA SEOM Insarap Study Norut/PPO. labs/Univ Leeds) Mountains shift Nepal Insar The German Aerospace Center (DLR) used the satellite radar data
Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ R. Grandin/IPGP/CNRS) Near the Tibetan Plateau Combining two Sentinel-1a radar scans from 17 and 29 april 2015,
Contains Copernicus data (2015)/ ESA/Norut/PPO. labs/COMETSA SEOM INSARAP study) Grading map Based on imagery from the Worldview-3 satellite acquired on April 28,
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#Simple Chemical Stops Prion Disease Mad cow, scrapie and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease are all diseases of the brain that debilitate before they kill,
In the study, Aguzzi said the team did extensive computer simulations of how the molecules interact before they injected them into the animals
Computer simulations showed that the polythiophenes could indeed fit into a space found on one end of a prion,
Best Places to See'Shooting stars'This Week The annual Perseid meteor shower is typically the most spectacular"shooting star"display for people in the Northern hemisphere,
The National park service website has listings of all U s. National and State Parks. Public observatories Although most astronomical observatories are reserved for professional research,
Meteor experts Bill Cooke, Danielle Moser and Rhiannon Blaauw, all from NASA Meteoroid Environment Office at the Marshall Space flight Center, will also provide onair commentary.
You can tune in to the NASA TV webcast on Space. com . If you miss the Perseids this time around,
"These data unequivocally demonstrate that human irisin exists, "the researchers wrote in the Aug 13 issue of the journal Cell Metabolism.
Dr. Valerie Sim, of the Centre for Prions and Protein Folding Diseases at the University of Alberta in Canada, said that the traditional definition of a prion is an infectious protein that can transmit disease to another host.
Sim said.)""The problem with branding something a prion is it induces fear, because people have heard of it as a scary transmissible disease,
"Sim said. But the new study, "if anything, shows MSA is not easily transmissible, "she said.
or can happen,"Sim said i
#Disappearing Ancient Texts Could Be saved by Solar-Powered Device TORONTO A 13th-century text recording the discoveries of a medieval polymath,
taking them out briefly to be put on display or for study. However for facilities in the developing world this can be a problem as the energy needed to power dehumidifiers
Clarke asks anyone who can help to contact him through the CCED website. Help required The solar-powered device requires no fuel
Known as the Compact Laser weapons System, the futuristic, drone-shooting weapon is a smaller, more versatile version of the High energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD),
but from many hundreds of meters away,"Isaac Neal, a Boeing engineer, said in a video about the new weapons system that was posted on the defense contractor's website.
The new gadget could help scientists better understand and treat mental health disorders such as depression, according to a new study.
The human brain is the most powerful computer known, an extraordinary assembly of living electrical circuits. To gain greater understanding of how the human brain works
However, previous wireless brain-stimulating devices were limited by their power harvesting components. If these parts were small,
"Now the researchers have created implantable wirelessly powered brain-stimulating devices by essentially using the mouse's body to help collect energy."
Rather, the mouse bodies interact with surrounding magnetic fields, helping focus energy like a lens from the transmitter to the receiver in the implant.
The device was implanted in a region of the mouse brain known the infralimbic cortex, which is implicated in animal models of depression and anxiety."
#3d Computer Chips Could Be 1, 000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,
000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say. The new method,
which stores data, and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip,
and a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford university in California. Reducing the distance between the two elements can dramatically reduce the time computers take to do their work
Shulaker said Sept. 10 here at the"Wait, What?""technology forum hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency,
Progress slowing The inexorable advance in computing power over the past 50 years is largely thanks to the ability to make increasingly smaller silicon transistors,
the three-pronged electrical switches that do the logical operations for computers. According to Moore's law, a rough rule first articulated by semiconductor researcher Gordon E. Moore in 1965, the number of transistors on a given silicon chip would roughly double every two years.
Beyond that, shrinking transistors to the bitter end may not do much to make computers faster. Long commute time The main roadblock to faster computers is not flagging processor speed,
but a memory problem, Shulaker said. Big data analysis requires the computer to draw some tiny piece of data from some previously unknown spot in truly staggering troves of data.
Then the computer must shuttle that information via an electrical signal back and forth across the (relatively) vast inches of wire between the computer's memory (typically a hard drive)
and the processors, facing the speed bump of electrical resistance along the entire path.""If you try to run that in your computer,
you would spend over 96 percent of the time just being idle, doing absolutely nothing,"Shulaker said."
"You're wasting an enormous amount of power.""While the Central processing unit (CPU) waits for a piece of data to make the return trip from the memory, for instance,
the computer is still hogging power, even though it's not calculating a thing. Solving the memory-CPU"commute time,
"however, is tricky. The two components can't be put in the same wafer because silicon-based wafers must be heated to about 1, 800 degrees Fahrenheit (1, 000 degrees Celsius),
while many of the metal elements in hard drives (or solid state drives) melt at those temperatures, Shulaker said.
Carbon nanotubes To get around this issue Shulaker and his advisers at Stanford university, Subhasish Mitra and H.-S. Philip Wong, looked to a completely different material:
That computer, however, was slow and bulky, with relatively few transistors. Now, they have created a system for stacking memory and transistor layers,
and the resulting architecture can produce lightning-fast computing speeds up to 1, 000 times faster than would
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