The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
which each team will develop its own hardware and software. CHIMP is designed with static stability;
even if it experiences a computer glitch or power failure.''When we walk or stand, our brains are actively controlling our balance all of the time,
#Google confirms Buy button is'imminent':'Search giant to take on Amazon and ebay with shopping from search results Google is set to allow people to buy directly from search results.
The search giant's chief business officer Omid Kordestani confirmed the move at the Code Conference today.'
'90%of commerce is still offline, mobile devices are perfect for guiding people, 'Kordestani described the product launch as a way to remove friction for users
so they buy more things onlinereports in the Wall street journal suggested earlier this month the search giant was planning to rollout a'Buy'button on its Shopping tab.
Purchases would still be made from the original retailer, and Google won't reportedly receive any commission,
but it has been designed to streamline the process. According to the report, the buttons would appear alongside paid search results on mobile in the'Shop on Google'section.
When a potential shopper clicks the button they will be taken to a specially designed product page
within the Google search engine. The buttons will be rolled out on a'small number of searches, 'although details about which retailers-and what the partnerships will entail-have not been released.
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
when the user is signed into their Google account on the browser being used. The service may also take advantage of the site's same-day delivery service
Google Shopping Express. It is only currently available in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan, San francisco, WASHINGTON DC, West Los angeles. An overnight option is additionally available in Northern California.
Google is not commenting on the news, but it follows Facebook's plans to rival ebay with its latest secondhand selling tools.
Earlier this year Facebook made it easier to get rid of unwanted secondhand goods by adding official Sell buttons to its site.
And now the social network is helping buyers find these goods by expanding its search tool
and adding category filters. Similar to how categories appear on ebay Facebook now lets users sort
and find'For sale'posts across multiple groups based on the item being sold. These categories include Appliances, Event Tickets, Household Items, Mobile phones, Real estate and Rentals and more. e
#Chinese researchers at Tzekwan Technology unveil face-recognition ATM MACHINE By Edward Chow For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 1 june 2015 Updated:
13:48 GMT, 1 june 2015 Chinese engineers have developed a cash machine that uses facial features-instead of the traditional PIN number-to identify card owners.
The device, which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.
The cutting-edge technology was unveiled during a press conference on Saturday, reported the People's Daily Online.
When a user inserts a bank card into the device, the built-in camera will immediately start scanning his or her facial features.
A small window will pop up on the upper left corner of the screen to show the process.'
'If the face of the user does not match the ID photo that is used to open the account,
then the user will not be able to withdraw funds from the account, 'says a bank spokesman to Shanghai-based Dragon TV.
However, this also means only the owner of the card-not even their friends or family-will be able to get money from these cash machines.
Gu Zikun, Chairman of Tzekwan Technology, claims the device is the world's first cash machine to be equipped with the facial recognition function.
'Our facial recognition technology has passed the certification by authoritative industry experts and is authorised to be used in the financial services industry.'
Engineers gathered data before it splashed down. Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works, which built the Waverider,
and their audio features can be controlled using a smartphone app. Using innovative technologies they block out certain sounds,
and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth. They can also be recharged twice fully in a charging case.
users can adjust the volume of their surroundings as heard through the earbuds. With the live music equaliser
users can also alter the bass and treble of a musician or band singing at a gig.
The user can also create new algorithms by recording a new sound, presumably by recording certain sounds so the earbuds can recognise them.'
'Here is meant not to replace your headphones, headsets, or earbuds,'the company said.''The Here Active Listening System is designed for live listening environments,
they don lose quality or efficiency for 37 years, according to his website. Speaking in a video, Dyson said his greatest innovation to date is the ability to cool LEDS
vertically and rotationally with the touch of a fingertip, the website says. While conventional lights usually rely on springs
Dyson claims the light could save users up to £1, 200 ($1, 835) over 37 years.
The compound could also be used to make mobile phone screens that fix themselves and hardy nail polish where chips are repaired automatically.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
#Samsung's smart MIRROR shows weather, traffic information and even Facebook notifications as you brush your teeth You could soon see traffic delays as you take your morning shower,
or catch up with what's been happening on Twitter as you get dressed thanks to Samsung's latest display technology.
and Transparent OLED display solutions,'said Samsung. The technology consists of a 55-inch mirror fitted with a transparent OLED on the front.
It is fitted with Intel's Real Sense technology, which uses 3d cameras to track the viewer and display clothes and other items virtually,
as if they were wearing them. Together, Samsung said the technology creates a'virtual fitting room'that will be used to help people see themselves wearing clothes
A spokeman added that the Samsung Mirror Display may also replace home mirrors in the future, showing digital information to homeowners in the same space where they now just have a traditional mirror.
It is not the first company to use technology in this way, but Samsung said its Mirror OLED display panel has more than 75 per cent reflectance level
compared to eight milliseconds on LCD transparent panels. Samsung's Mirror Display technology also does need not the ambient backlight for displaying on-screen images that LCD technology does.
Elsewhere, Samsung's Transparent Display uses Real Sense 3d-rotatable viewing systems, with full HD video playback.
These displays could be used to show adverts, public and transport information or be used in hotels and shops.
Intel Real Sense features a front-facing camera that captures subtle facial movements, precisely tracks widely varying finger
and hand movements, and clearly distinguishes between backgrounds and foregrounds. In addition, the Intel technology includes a rear-facing camera that can accurately scan
and measure rooms and objects, and a snapshot camera that can alter a photo's background after a photo has been taken.'
'We are excited very to help bring a new interactive dimension to the world of multi-channel shopping through the integration of our newest OLED displays with Intel Realsense technology,
'said Oseung Yang, vice president, Samsung Display Company y
#Holus, Star wars-style'holobox',creates virtual 3d worlds and makes holo calls By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
a new gadget may help bring that dream a step closer to reality. A tabletop device called the Holus converts any digital content into 3d holograms,
The team at makers H+claim Holus can convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or phone into a 3d image,
and a Wi-fi and Bluetooth connection to connect to different devices. The gadget is viewable from four different angles with 360-degree,
rotatable projections. o put it simply, whether it is a board game, DNA structure or the solar system,
'Four distinct are stitched together by algorithms provided in our applications and software development kit (SDK),
which can track users.''Based on this dynamic perspective, algorithms are computed then in order to achieve holographic effect on any digital content through Holus.'
'He said that software will let designers and artists connect devices to Holus with little programming.
Holus comes in two versions-a Home edition with two smartphone charging docks, and a Pro version with an HDMI port and SDK tool so developers to use other devices with the Holus and come up with new uses for it.
It is suggested currently that the device can be used by a group of people to play games face-to-face sitting round a table.
A video also shows it conjuring a 3d solar-system, meaning it can be used as an educational tool,
while the gadget can also be used for holographic teleconferencing -much as it is in the Star wars film.
and display its content from all sides. he Holus Pro can also olofydigital models before 3d printing
and could help in super-thin TV development By Colin Fernandez for the Daily mail Published:
The ability for the super-thin material to produce light is seen as a key step to create super-thin computer and TV screens.
'He added that the light'will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays'.
this can also include radio waves, lasers and even sound waves. The microwave gun is evidence of plans by Russia to modernise its armed forces,
Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
who intends to beam the internet to Earth from space. Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
The system will bring more than 10 Terabits per second of new capacity to rural areas around the globe
enabling rapid iteration and development of space related technologies. neweb plan involves 20 groups of low-orbiting satellites being connected to small terminals on the ground that would act as hubs to link to phones and computers.
whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups. r Musk has said previously that he expects his service to handle 10 per cent of all Internet traffic
However, it not clear how the Internet will be eamedto smartphones and other devices On earth. Each satellite will be placed at a height of 750 miles (1
200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online, by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
gyro-stabilised platform controlled by a computer on the ISS. The computers cancels out in real-time,
any vibrations caused by movements of the ISS, while keeping the camera pointed at different areas for about a minute at a time.
which boasts a 5-metre-per-pixel-resolution. Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk in January outside the ISS to complete the camera work on the Earth-observing cameras.
For example, a real-time view of Earth will give scientists a powerful tool to monitor climate change.
Premium accounts for enable users paying a fee to track an area without sharing it with others
and to monitor larger areas of interest as well as applying image processing techniques to reveal data. Urthecast said it plans to install two more cameras on the station
These cameras will double the resolution of the existing technology, from one metre per pixel on the ground to half a metre e
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
These new phyla were found from just one site using samples of groundwater in Colorado
10:54 GMT, 24 june 2015 Google and Blocks may be leading the way when it comes to modular phones and watches,
but Ford is hoping to bring the concept to your morning commute. At a conference in California, the car maker unveiled its latest prototype folding electric bike called Mode:
Link, currently only compatible with the iphone 6. This app acts as a sat-nav
Link app for use on the smartwatch to bring real-time data to the rider's wrist.
#The full colour'skin screen'you can wear as clothing: Radical technology could let you alter your outfit instantly By Mark Prigg For Dailymail. com Published:
Researchers have unveiled the first fully flexible colour screen, and say it if so flexible it can be worn.
'All manmade displays-LCD, LED, CRT-are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus,
flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda's research was inspired by nature, he said. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, colour-changing displays that don't need a light source-their skin.'
'That was the motivation: Can we take some inspiration from biology and create a skin-like display?'
'The team is able to change the colour on an ultrathin nanostructured surface by applying voltage.
full-colour tunable display. The display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today's standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of.'
'Your camouflage, your clothing, your fashion items-all of that could change, 'Chanda said.''Why would I need 50 shirts in my closet
if I could change the color and pattern?''Researchers used a simple and inexpensive nano-imprinting technique that can produce the reflective nanostructured surface over a large area.'
'This is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
but to stay, she was quoted as saying by Motherboard. This oolkitwill involve genetically engineering organisms of all types,
A newly developed software called DTA GVIEW dubbed the oogle Maps of genomes, will help scientists correlate information on organisms.
Oblivion software could help Google remove hundreds of people from the web in seconds By Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
15:10 GMT, 26 june 2015 In the year since the European Court of Justice ruled that anyone can ask Google to remove personal information about them,
the site has evaluated more than one million links. Each request has to be verified and processed by a dedicated team of people,
and New zealand have developed an algorithm capable of analysing hundreds of such requests in seconds. And they hope to offer it to Google,
and other search engines, to help them manage future demands. Called Oblivion the software allows a user to automatically find
and tag their personal information on the web, using both text-or natural language processing (NLP)- and image recognition.
They are taken then to a form where they can securely and privately file their request with the relevant URLS.
To confirm their identity, the user sends a digital copy of their ID to what the researchers described as a certificate authority (CA)- a separate body designed to securely handle the data.
This software confirms their name, age, address and nationality. Oblivion will then check the webpages the user wants to remove
and tag relevant references. Following the tagging process Oblivion sends the request and tagged pages to Google who confirms the details match with those in the article,
and if they do, the user is given an'ownership token'.'These tokens are linked then with the information on the request form
and both are submitted to Google's takedown team. The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany,
have tested Oblivion on existing articles and found it to be capable of handling 278 removal requests per second.
This is on a standard notebook running a 2. 5 GHZ dual core processor, suggesting more powerful computers could process higher numbers.
The final takedown decision still needs to be made by a human because the variables, including the public interest defense,
needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis . But Oblivion would speed up this process and confirm the validity of the claims within seconds.'
'Search results typically comprise a variety of sources that contain personal information -either intentionally released by the person herself,
At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed 41%of those it has processed fully (interactive module above).
these technical means consist of a web form that requires a user to manually identify all relevant links herself upfront
and to insert them into the web form, followed by a manual evaluation by employees of the indexing system to assess
'At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed more than 41 per cent of those it has processed fully.
Last week France's data watchdog gave Google just two weeks to extend the'right to be forgotten'ruling to all of its domains.
because Google only deletes the information from searches made through European domains, such as google. fr or google. es.
By switching to a non-European Google domain, such as Google. com, internet users can still access the deleted links relatively easily.
Google added that Facebook accounted for the largest number of deleted URLS. But not all requests are granted,
only those deemed by Google to be valid. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of CNIL, said the order to remove search results globally'is only telling international companies that operate in Europe that they must conform to European law'.
'Google said that it is working to comply with the EU decision, but did not say
cooperating closely with data protection authorities, 'the company said in a statement.''The ruling focussed on services directed to European users,
and that's the approach we are taking in complying with it.''If Google does not meet the deadline,
it faces a relatively insignificant maximum fine of#150,000 (£110, 000). However, it will also be forced to put a banner on its homepage saying it had failed to follow French law.
if Google fails to meet the deadline, it would begin compiling a report about the company that would be used to decide
if the search engine should be sanctioned. h
#Scientists crack morphine gene in poppies amid homebrew drugs fears Scientists have identified a key gene used by poppies to make morphine.
Computer learns to create computer games by watching videos of Super Mario Brothers Researchers have created a system that can automatically design new levels of a computer game by simply watching other people play on Youtube or Twitch.
The computer software was able to create its own levels for Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers after analysing Youtube footage of the game.
The Georgia Institute of technology system focuses on the gaming terrain (not the playable character) and the positioning between elements on-screen be it pipes
lead researcher and Ph d. student in Computer science at Georgia Tech. Key to the process is watching the players in action to see where they actually spend most of their time in the game.
After recording on-screen locations of sprites, Georgia Tech's algorithms determine what are high-interaction areas those spots where players spend more time to collect bonus items or master a challenge.
'says Mark Riedl, associate professor of Interactive Computing.''One could say that the system'studies'the design of Mario levels until it is able to create new playable areas.'
and whistle attached to attract attention to the user. The company founder, Tom Agapiades came up with the idea after his friend drowned. fter
and they respond to touch without burning the user's skin. Scroll down for video Researchers from the University of Tokyo used femtosecond lasers to create 3d holograms that are safe to touch
When pixels are beamed and visible in 3d space they're known as voxels and are created when the energy from the laser ionises the air and releases extra energy in the form of photons
Researchers and companies have used this technology to create plasma displays in the past but these involved lasers that pulse with bursts that last for nanoseconds, for example.
and record a user's interactions, allowing the voxels to be touched.''In reality, when a person touches the voxels the finger generates a shockwave,
which the user feels as an pulse. And because of the high-speed nature of the femtoseconds, the voxels are able to respond in real-time to these touches.
and a broken heart'A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3d position.'
when patients were shown the famous sites. This means the researchers were able to watch in real-time as the patients'neurons recorded a new memory of the person at a particular place.'
#Hi-tech'dog translator'harness lets owners communicate with canine companions It could be the ultimate gadget for dog owners-a hi-tech back for their pet that lets them communicate.
'and you can think of the'smart harness'as a platform for two-way computer-mediated communication between dogs and handlers,'
an assistant professor of computer science at North carolina State university whose dog Diesel is one of their primary lab partners.
The smart harness is equipped a computer backpack that fits comfortably on a dog's back.
One of the project's prototypes features a twin battery back on both sides of the dog, a mounted webcam,
vibrating motors similar to the technology that makes a cell phone buzz, and a wireless USB adapter, among other technologies.
Using a tablet to send signals to the harness and to the dog, the researchers are able to see how the dog reacts
and interprets the modes of communication. On a recent day the team was training Diesel to associate the vibrating buzz on its sides with hand signals given by Roberts.
One member of the team used a tablet to prompt the vibration on the side of the dog's body which he wanted the dog to turn.
'We're using this technology to ask some very fundamental questions about the nature of the way that animals can perceive computer-mediated communications
and the way they can interact with computers in order to send digital signals across wireless communication links to handlers,
'Roberts says. The technology can also reveal the position of the dog --whether it's standing,
and transmit that data to a tablet. This allows researchers and dog handlers to monitor the dog's physical well-being.'
Dr. Alpert Bozkurt, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, says that the technology offers everyday people an opportunity to bond with their dogs
The technology also includes physiological sensors that monitor things like heart rate and body temperature. The sensors not only track a dog's physical well-being,
These technologies form the core of the platform but it can be customized with additional devices depending on the specific application.'
A control centre on dry land allows the scientists to monitor the status of crops without having to dive down every day to tend to them. e have installed many webcams
said spokesman Luca Gamberini. e also have a sensor panel with live data feed from the lab biosphere so all data is live on the internet and accessible to anyone. c
which have been named Pc (4450) +and Pc (4380)+(marked on this graph)+ 5 The physicists studied the way in
which an unstable subatomic particle called Lambda b turned into three other particles. They found that the production of the three new particles sometimes involved intermediate states,
which have been named Pc (4450) +and Pc (4380)+(marked on this graph) He also theorised that there could be called a particle a pentaquark,
made up of four quarks and an antiquark, which is the antimatter equivalent of a quark, the BBC reported.
which have been named Pc (4450)+ and Pc (4380+.+LHCB physicist Tomasz Skwarnicki of Syracuse University in New york, said:'
and one antiquark-and a baryon, made up of three quarks weakly bonded together Using the LHC allowed experts to look at data from four different perspectives, giving them a multidimensional view of the transformation of subatomic particles.
'The discovery comes just four months after the LHC shut down for repairs and upgrades for two years.
are aiming to see dark matter for the first time ever thanks to the device's upgrade. Instead, they have discovered the pentaquark, for now.
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
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