#Smart mirror monitors your face for telltale signs of disease Mirror mirror on the wall, am I at risk of heart disease?
Facial recognition software looks for telltale markers of stress or anxiety, while the gas sensors take samples of the user breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke.
The 3d scanners analyse face shape to spot weight gain or loss while the multispectral cameras can estimate heart rate or haemoglobin levels.
After the software has analysed the face which only takes about a minute the mirror produces a score that tells the user how healthy they seem.
It also displays personalised advice on how to improve their health. Wize Mirror is being developed by a consortium of researchers
and industry partners from seven European union countries, with EU funding. Sara Colantonio and colleagues from the National Research Council of Italy,
Clinical trials of the device will begin next year at three sites in France and Italy, aiming to compare its readings with those from traditional medical devices.
is an app that uses a smartphone camera to monitor blood levels in the face
and migrate to the affected sites. We could also use this technique to study the early development of complex organisms,
towns and rural communities to offer their citizens fast and cheap broadband Internet. The move would ask the Federal Communications Commission to address state laws that prevent cities from building their own municipal Internet services.
But it's likely to anger major cable and Internet companies. Obama announced his plans in Cedar Falls, Iowa,
which is home to a 1 GB broadband network 100 times faster than the national average."
"He said greater access to faster Internet will make the U s. more competitive globally.""There are real-world consequences to this,
because his state has rural communities with no access to the Internet.""It's become a pattern that he goes to a state where there's a Republican governor that's doing something that he'd like to replicate on a national level,
cities and rural communities that want to improve Internet service for their residents.""I believe that a community has the right to make its own choice
The plan is likely to be opposed by companies such as Comcast and Verizon, which provide Internet services around the nation.
Obama's support for net neutrality and an open Internet have angered already these firms because the president wants the Internet reclassified as a public utility.
Broadband for America a group whose members include major Internet service providers, said while it strongly agrees Obama's plan to expand broadband access,
the president"is risking the success we have witnessed by advocating for the reclassification of broadband as a Title II public utility unprecedented government interference that would stifle private investment,
hinder innovation and undermine the growth of the Internet.""Chattanooga, Tenn. Chattanooga's publicly owned electric company has built already a municipal broadband network in the city. and Wilson,
N c.,have asked the FCC to intervene against state laws that limit publicly funded Internet.""I believe that it is in the best interests of consumers
"FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler wrote in a blog post last year.""Given the opportunity, we will do so."
NPR's Joel Rose has reported previously on how some cities are taking high-speed Internet into their own hands o
#Centcom's Twitter Feed Youtube Channel Hacked The Twitter feed and the Youtube channel of U s. Central Command were compromised on Monday a Pentagon spokesman said.
We are taking appropriate measures to address the matter. I have no further information to provide at this time the spokesman said.
and switched the avatar from the Centcom logo to a photo of a masked fighter.
and that none of the information posted came from CENTCOM's server or social media sites.
On Twitter the hackers released what they purported was a phone list of retired U s. generals as well as
what appear to be presentation slides from the government-funded Lincoln Laboratory at MIT. Pentagon Networks Hacked one tweet read.
At this time however there is no evidence Pentagon servers were compromised. The only thing we know for sure is that credentials for the social media channels
which are hosted on Twitter and Youtube servers were compromised. Quoting defense officials Reuters reports that the images published on Twitter do not appear to pose a security threat
or include classified information. Twitter and Youtube have suspended the accounts s
#Researchers Create Artificial organs That Fit in Your Hand Great balls of cells! Scientists are developing mock human organs that can fit in the palm of your hand.
These organs-on-a-chip are designed to test drugs and help understand the basics of how organs function
when they are healthy and when they are diseased. For instance, you have your gut-on-a-chip being developed at the Johns Hopkins School of medicine.
It's a high-tech approach to dealing with a scourge of the low-tech world.""I'm interested in solving a worldwide problem of diarrheal diseases,
#Wi-fi Everywhere May Let You Roam Free From Your Mobile Carrier To get the most out of your smartphone do need you really a cellphone plan?
when he spent a month relying only on Wi-fi networks for his mobile data and voice needs.
and adjustments to your routine you can get almost as much out of your smartphone with a monthly bill of $0.
The frustrations of the switch were relatively minimal Knutson told NPR's Robert Siegel in an interview conducted over Skype.
but with Wi-fi they're hotspots Knutson said. So you can't walk down the street
while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
if you're offline companies stitching individual hotspots into networks and carriers with cheap plans that rely on Wi-fi first
and roam on the network of a cellular provider such as Sprint as a backup. Google on Monday announced its own plans to enter the cellphone carrier market The New york times reported:
The ease of his transition and the burgeoning competition could pose serious issues for the industry Knutson writes:
Knutson told Siegel that cellphone providers aren't worried about the competition saying there always will be a market for people who will pay money to have connectivity wherever they go
but that the pattern fits into one described by Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen in The Innovator's Dilemma-a low-cost low-quality alternative that slowly improves until it has claimed the bulk of an industry's customers s
#Meet Mafiaboy The'Bratty Kid'Who Took Down The Internet This week, the country's second-largest health insurance company,
Anthem, said hackers broke into a database with personal information about 80 million of its customers.
brought down the websites of Amazon, CNN, Dell, E*Trade, ebay, and Yahoo!.At the time, Yahoo!
was the biggest search engine in the world.""The New york stock exchange, they were freaking out, because they were all investing in these e-commerce companies,
"he remembers.""And then it's like, 'OK a 15-year-old kid can shut us down at any point?
when Calce got his first computer, at the age of 6 ."I was a pretty bratty kid.
me so he took a computer from his work and brought it home and was like'Here,
It was his first time on the internet, and within a few days the 9-year-old hacked the system
and then harnessing their combined computing power to attack outside websites.""Basically when I hit enter on the keyboard,
the university networks all respond at the same exact time and basically overwhelm websites with too much information,
"he explains. It's called a denial-of-service attack. Within hours, he had taken down six major websites."
"The overall purpose was to intimidate other hacker groups, "says Calce. Back then, he says,
He says the internet is a far scarier place today than it was back in 2000.
and the problems and inherent flaws that come with computers and internet. s
#Hackers Strike Health insurer Anthem The country's second-biggest health insurer says cyberattackers infiltrated one of its IT systems
email addresses and employment information, including income data, "wrote Anthem CEO Joe Swedish in a letter to the company's policyholders."
The company says it has established a dedicated website where members can access information, and a dedicated toll free number that both current and former members can call
One in nine Americans receives coverage for his medical care through Anthem's affiliated plans, according to a statement on its website e
Inside a ground-floor windowless room there's a display that looks exactly like what you'd see out of an air traffic control tower.
But instead of windows these are actually screens. And the airport you're looking at isn't the one in Sundsvall.
And a problem landing an airplane is far more consequential than a laptop freezing up. Backman says when he saw the first mockup of this technology in 2004 he was dubious.
Many Uses Including Potentially For The Militarybecause once the windows are replaced with screens you can overlay all kinds of information on the display:
We watch it move across the screen. The sound shifts in stereo as the plane rolls along.
More data are needed to nail down the vaccine's efficacy. And there were a few issues with the design of the experiment that could have skewed the results."
"But recent advancements in the field of computer-based modeling may make it easier someday for good surgeons to be great.
One such technology comes from Dassault systèmes, a French company that specializes in 3-D software to help engineers who design cars
and planes avoid potentially fatal outcomes. Earlier this week, Dassault released its highly realistic digital model of the human heart,
"Doctors wear 3-D glasses and use a joystick to zoom in to a ventricle or valve,
The software is free to organizations that agree to conduct research and share their findings with the project.
"Challenges to greater adoption of computer-modeling include a lack of data for some medical conditions,
Internet connections were getting faster, hard drives stored more data in tinier spaces, songs were easier than ever to find and available for little or no money.
Every year, the new version of Apple's ipod, first introduced in 2001 with a now-adorable 5gb of storage space, held thousands upon thousands more songs.
ad-supported and paid-subscription services that offer instant access to libraries that would make the wildest dreams of the ipod user seem tame.
a subscription service that is scheduled to be rolled into the itunes platform sometime this year, possibly as soon as next week.
Apple stands to gain plenty by luring its hundreds of millions of users to a subscription-based streaming service,
The transition will speed surely the decline of the single-song download, and itunes, the world's largest music store, will feel that pain acutely.
Apple's entry into the market isn't the signal that the world is ready for streaming music;
when itunes will launch its attack on established services like Spotify, we're going to examine the world of streaming music that is upon us in a series called Streaming At The Tipping Point.
The recording industry's fight against that principle took on the form of invasive digital rights management software, advertising campaigns, threats and lawsuits.
Every time you click play on a streaming service, from Pandora to Youtube to Spotify, you're licensing the right to listen to the song in that particular moment,
the digital download, but also the concept that fans might possess music itself. No format lives forever.
"Benefitting from the large data set provided by the LHC, and the excellent precision of our detector, we have examined all possibilities for these signals,
Over recent years, Proximion has been developing complete temperature monitoring systems including interrogator and analysis software on an OEM basis. In addition to the launch of Wistheat,
this project will utilize 3ds's Direct Metal Printing technology as well as the additive manufacturing and materials expertise of Penn State's Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition (CIMP-3d).
and aerospace companyith the hard data necessary to evaluate the technology. Further, it is expected that this project's results could accelerate validation of 3ds'manufacturing capability as a new component of Honeywell's supply chain.
and will provide valuable data on part strength, pressure resistance and performance."#"#In February, 3d Systems was awarded two research contracts worth over $1 million,
Sandia National Laboratory and Lockheed martin. The project is designed to integrate predictive technologies with 3dssls 3d printers to dynamically monitor parts at the layer level during the manufacturing process,
More specifically, it produces 400x400 pixel images at a rate of 30 frames per second from a package with an outer diameter of just 1. 6 mm
and an interactive UI to provide users with a visual fixation cue indicating when the alignment is correct-the first time interactive self-imaging of the retina has been demonstrated.
a user has no way of knowing if the edge of their pupil is occluding the image of the retina."
"a simple light pattern seen by the user and produced at their pupil. A novel interactive ray-based approach developed by the team allows images with the same field-of-view to be projected onto the retina simultaneously,
Lateral and axial movement of the eye is perceived then by the user as a shift in this pattern of pinhole light."
"Multi-view or glasses-free 3d displays have used a similar concept; but this work differs because the perceived images change with small movements in the near-field."
Traditional systems, including applications found outside ophthalmology in head-mounted displays, have tried to enlarge the eye box
"Our design has a large'partial'eye box in the sense that it's easy for a user to see part of the pattern when partially aligned,
"That partial pattern indicates how the user needs to realign. We believe this is the first time such a'layered
"Global impact Challenges during the development process included finding a display approach that reduced any ambiguity about
Determining the common set of perceptual cues between different users and accounting for differences in pupil size and corneal shape was another important consideration.
allowing clinicians to better observe changes after treatment or perhaps enabling new ways to monitor diabetes."
"Furthermore, our light-field pattern can be incorporated readily into artificial reality headsets for self-calibration of near eye displays.
Emerging light-field-based near-eye displays could use such patterns for user alignment straight out of the box."
and perhaps be integrated with other health data. This could soon become a reality through LVPEI-MITRA,
which in turn extends how far signals can travel in optical fiber without needing a repeater, said Nikola Alic, a research scientist from the Qualcomm Institute, the corresponding author on the Science paper and a principal of the experimental effort.
crosstalkthat arise between bundled streams of information travelling through the optical fiber are predictable, and therefore, reversible at the receiving end of the fiber. rosstalk between communication channels within a fiber optic cable obeys fixed physical laws.
In this study, we present a method for leveraging the crosstalk to remove the power barrier for optical fiber,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering and the senior author on the Science paper. ur approach conditions the information before it is sent even,
called the ptical carrierspropagating through an optical fiber. This approach compensates in advance for the crosstalk that occurs between the multiple communication channels within the same optical fiber. fter increasing the power of the optical signals we sent by 20-fold,
we could still restore the original information when we used frequency combs at the outset,
when it is sent through the optical fiber. With the frequency comb, the information can be unscrambled and fully restored at the receiving end of the optical fiber t
#Terahertz sensor achieves faster detection of hidden objects A new type of terahertz sensor, claimed to be much faster than competing technologies used to detect
and of applications for terahertz technologies, underscored by a busy panel session at the LASER World of Photonics show in Munich.
#Researchers develop new Algorithm to empower Robots to Learn like Humans New algorithms enable robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error, like humans.
The algorithm gives rise to a new branch of artificial intelligence, known as deep learning. The researchers chose Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks (BRETT) to take up a challenge of dealing with a relatively promising form of artificial intelligence called deep structured learning.
The researchers have claimed that smaller amount of pre-programming is required when the algorithm is used in the robot.
Also, it provides the capacity to work outside controlled environments like medical centers factories or laboratories.
an associate professor in the campus electrical engineering and computer sciences department, developed the new algorithm. Abbeel said the best thing about the technique is that it rids the need of reprogramming
Use of the algorithm is seen currently in voice recognition software, such as the iphone's Siri
#New Algorithm enables Robot to Learn through Trial and error UC Berkeley's BRETT (Berkeley Robot for the Elimination of Tedious Tasks) is capable of learning through trial and error, like humans.
New algorithms developed by researchers empower the robot to master tasks through trial and error, ridding the need of pre-programming.
Among many tasks, it can perform is assembling a toy, and the best thing is it keeps trying figuring out the way to accomplish the task until it finally done.
The researchers are optimistic that the further development of the robotic technology will enable robots to handle lots of data.
The technology gives rise to artificial intelligence to allow robots to do anything their designs Allow for example
New algorithms developed by researchers from UC Berkeley brought this trial and error process to robots. UC Berkeley said in a press release that the technology is a giant leap in the field of artificial intelligence.
The exact same software, which encodes how the robot can learn, was used to allow the robot to learn all the different tasks we gave it said UC Berkeley Professor Pieter Abbeel.
The data about Nivolumab was presented by the pharmaceutical company Bristol-myers squibb. Luis Paz-Ares, doctor at the Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre in Madrid
Stephen Elledge, an HHMI investigator at Brigham and Women's hospital and his colleagues made use of Virscan in order to screen the blood of 569 people in the US, Thailand, South africa and Peru.
Virscan screens the blood for antibodies against any of the 206 species of viruses that are known to attack humans.
#Stanford university Engineers create World First water-Operated Computer World's first water-operated computer has been developed. Researchers from Stanford university created this wonder by using magnetized particles flowing through a network of channels.
The computer working involves using droplets of water soaked with magnetic nanoparticles, the computer then uses electromagnetic field to pump the droplets around gates to perform logical operations.
The researchers said the droplets in the system can be used to complete any process that a normal electronic computer can.
and he developed the computer which could run with water. After carrying out a lot of research, Prakash has built a rotating magnetic field to coordinate with the flow of droplets in a timely manner and acts as a clock."
"The reason computers work so precisely is that every operation happens synchronously; it's what made digital logic so powerful in the first place,
The new computer provides a way to develop new high-speed, complex, electronic computers. This way, there are chances that the fluidic computer may find its uses in areas like biology, chemistry,
and other physical sciences. Prakash made it clear that their aim is not to compete with the electronic computers.
They aim to build a new class of computers having ability to control and manipulate physical matter r
thus facilitating the development of organic computers created by the interfacing of multiple animal brains with computers c
SCAPE yields data equivalent to conventional light-sheet microscopy, but using a single, stationary objective lens;
This unique configuration permitted volumetric imaging of cortical dendrites in the awake, behaving mouse brain.
Together they are being used to peer into the microenvironment of tumors and other tissues while learning about the coregistration of multiple lines of imaging data."
and how to leverage data with statistical analysis while advancing new radiotracers and contrast agents for the imaging and treatment of a range of diseases,
to transmit and manipulate light signals fast enough to handle increasingly large quantities of data. Glass, an amorphous material with an inherently disordered atomic structure, cannot meet these challenges,
but the principle of light-emitting filaments may have a new use in displays and optical communications.
and will pave the way towards the realization of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays,
After identifying brain cancer's OCT signature, researchers at Johns hopkins university have developed a computer algorithm that rapidly generates a color-coded map that shows cancer in red and healthy tissue in green."
and the surgeon could look at a screen to get a continuously updated picture of where the cancer is
including future generations of film displays for smartphones and tablets e
#Laser-Writing of DVDS May have a Speed limit Phase-change materials used in DVDS and other digital storage media pass through a previously unknown intermediate atomic state under laser pulses.
The discovery could lead to faster computer memory systems with larger storage capacity but may also point to an unavoidable limit to data recording speeds, according to researchers at the California Institute of technology.
The atomic structure of phase-change materials changes from an ordered crystalline arrangement to a more disordered,
or amorphous, configuration when illuminated with laser pulses. These two states represent the ones and zeroes of digital data.
The speed with which data can be recorded is determined both by the laser's pulse width
and by how quickly the material can shift from one state to the other. With a nanosecond laser,"the fastest you can record information is one information unit, one 0 or 1,
and to how fast data can be recorded, regardless of the laser speeds used.""Even if there is a laser faster than a femtosecond laser,
the research could one day aid the development of better data storage for computers, the researchers said.
when a rewritable DVD is erased i
#Optical Glucose Sensors on Commercial Path Optical Glucose Sensors on Commercial Pathleeds, England, July 17, 2015 A University of Leeds spin out company is seeking to commercialize an optical glucose sensor that could make finger
which sends alerts to smartphones or readings directly to doctors, allowing them to profile how a person is managing their diabetes over time."
suggest that the new monitor has the potential to perform as well as conventional technologies. More clinical trials and product optimization are required for regulatory approvals
Able to rapidly process very large amounts of biomedical imaging data, the system addresses what has been a major bottleneck in pharmaceutical development, according to a team of researchers from the U s. and Australia.
but also provides data about the specific colors within that image. Researchers are able to study these frequencies to learn about the composition of biological samples and chemical processes taking place within them.
The raw data produced by this was a series of small images, each roughly 1200 × 200 pixels wide.
Taking inspiration from modern computing methods, Orth and colleagues at Harvard and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. of Pittsburgh worked to overcome the limitations imposed by current multispectral microscopes.
Veering away from the use of multicore processors capable of simultaneously handling massive amounts of data and instructions,
Slices of a spectral data cube. Human epithelial cells are imaged at 11 wavelengths from blue to red.
The team plans to expand its technique to billion-pixel, time-lapse movies of cells moving
and refrigerators--to the Internet so they can work in concert with one another and be controlled remotely
with algorithms and sensors that automatically adjust the angle of the foot during different points in its wearer's stride.
But 14 months ago Ossur upgraded his hardware. Now, at age 48, Olafsson can move his right ankle by thinking about it.
and collects data, but the limbs are theirs. And the surgery to implant the sensors was minimal.
hollow component that fits over a user's residual limb, and connects to the prosthesis.
#Computer Chips Can Now Be made From Wood Not quite what we had in mindthe woods are lovely, dark, deep,
and filled with potential computer components. In a paper published in Nature Communications this week,
researchers announced the construction of computer chips made from wood. But don't expect to see hipsters advertising hand-carved artisan computer chips.
The wood product that the scientists are using is called cellulose nanofibril, or CNF. It is thin, flexible,
or attract moisture like wood normally does (think of a warped board--not something you want in a computer).
unlike a lot of the petroleum-based alternatives that manufacturers use to build the bases of modern computer chips.
"It will be years before computers containing wood-based computer chips hit store shelves, but computers as fertilizer isn't a totally crazy idea.
Society tends to treat electronics as disposable commodities. But unlike a glass bottle that gets recycled or food that hits a compost heap,
once that broken laptop heads into the trashcan, it doesn't disappear. Every year, 3. 2 million tons of electronic waste are thrown out in the United states alone.
and others like him (another team is building dissolvable circuits) are trying to deal with the e waste problem at the start--long before your phone gets stepped on or your computer crashes.
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