and assembling them on a computer into a three-dimensional mapping. To date, there has been no comparable technique for imaging 3d magnetic structures on nanometre length scales.
The physicists then successfully reconstructed the magnetic features on a computer in three dimensions. hese samples displayed structures not smaller than 75nm.
the surgeon can move the tip of the needle to the site of surgery with great accuracy.
and may even enable us to perform operations that are not feasible at present. he team is now working on the user interface and control software for the device,
Jeff Clune, a computer scientist at the University of Wyoming, said: verything we take for granted works so well
The study, published in the journal Nature, describes the new algorithms that underpin the advance,
it uses a computer simulation of its own body to create a detailed map of the types of movements it can make something the researchers describe as the robot imulated childhood f you watch children play,
but via smartphones and without directly employing its drivers. The taxi drivers were protesting at seeing their livelihoods threatened:
as recently revealed by IBM. For comparison a strand of human hair, at 100, 000nm thick, is about 600,000 times wider than the atoms surrounding the new transistor.
The international team of researchers from Paul-Drude-Institut für Festkörperelektronik and the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, the NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan,
and opens the door to further research into harnessing these tiny transistors for computers and systems with orders of magnitude more processing power than today machines.
Chips used in computers are made currently at the 14nm scale, but going smaller has proven difficult, with 7nm the latest breakthrough.
widely considered to be the next stage in the evolution of computers. Quantum computing explained: harnessing particle physics to work faste o
and potential applications in everything from bulletproof vests to computer electronics but now we have discovered that limpet teeth exhibit a strength that is potentially higher.
Princeton university provides further details about the study's promising outlook for quantum computing here. The paper, Semiconductor double quantum dot micromaser, was published in the Science journal yesterday d
#Graphene sheaths could boost processor signal speeds by 30 per cent Scientists at Stanford have found a new use for graphene that will significantly increase the speed of standard computer processors.
and found that could boost the data transfer speeds of the wires: the graphene-coated interconnects,
can reliably transfer data between four and 17 per cent faster than the equivalent interconnects in today's processor designs, apparently."
TERABIT fibre tested Proximus and Huawei have successfully trialled a super-channel optical signal, flinging out information at up to one terabit per second (Tbps.
Tech lothario Huawei shacked up with Belgian box-wrecker Proximus back in January. The pairing has produced now a single super-channel optical transport network (OTN) card with a transmission speed of a pretty hefty 1tbps, running along Proximus'optical backbone.
Alcatel-lucent and BT managed to achieve 1. 4 Tbps using BT's fibre-optic pipe between the BT Tower and BT's Adastral Park in Ipswich.
Proximus/Huawei's transmission speed was conducted over a 1, 040km fiber link using an advanced"Flexgrid"infrastructure with Huawei's Optical Switch Node OSN 9800 platform.
The companies claim their approach increases the capacity on a fiber cable by compressing the gaps between transmission channels."
making it around 150 per cent more efficient than today typical 100gbps core network links,
Jeffrey Gao, president of the Huawei transmission network product line, said the network"is turning to data center centric,
"Geert Standaert, chief technology officer at Proximus, said"together with Huawei we want to let our network infrastructure evolve to support current and future bandwidth demands."
whether Huawei's technology can be integrated into the core network, to anticipate the constant and growing customers demand for more bandwidth."
we can hence upgrade the transmission capacity of the core network links from 16tbps to 20tbps,
#White house unveils $215 million plan to develop patient-specific medical treatments The White house unveiled a"Precision Medicine Initiative"today a $215 million investment that will go toward building a database containing genetic information
and health information technology to accelerate biomedical discoveries.""The White house investment is split in four parts.
or more volunteers"whose genetic information will be stored in a series of databases. About $70 million will go to the National Cancer Institute, a subsection of the NIH,
The FDA, for its part, will receive $10 million to improve its databases, as well as the technologies used to analyze DNA.
the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information technology will receive $5 million that will be used to address privacy issues
and ensure that data exchanges between research centers are secure. Some of the genetic data that will be included in this initiate has already been gathered, according to Jo Handelsman, associate director of the White house Office of Science and Technology Policy.
He told The New york times that"there are existing cohorts around the country that have already been started
and have rich sources of data. The challenge in this initiative is to link them together
"if the databases developed through this initiate are constructed poorly.""I am very leery of big, centrally organized science endeavors,
anonymous accounts will no longer be permitted on many Chinese web services. The Cyberspace Administration of China set the policy today in a statement on the China Communication Network,
which said the policy was aimed at wiping out the"username chaos"that allowed users to masquerade as world leaders or counterfeit news organizations.
The new regulations will still allow users to choose their own username and photo but require them to register an actual name with the service
and stamping out the casual anonymity that defines US social networks like Twitter and Tumblr. Enforcement of the policy has been left to companies
Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging service similar to Twitter, has adopted already real-name registration at the urging of the central government,
when a paralyzed man named Matthew Nagle moved a cursor on a computer using only his thoughts.
and lets the computer figure out how to make the movement.""I wanted to run around and just high-five everybody.""
That way, the computer gets information about intent and precise movements, more closely mimicking how we control our own limbs."
That's because right now, Sorto has wire bundling connecting his implant to the computer that controls his robot limb.
The wire bundling goes through a plug in his skin which could be a prime site for infections.
Sorto hasn't had any infections there yet, Andersen says.)Ideally, the implants would need to be wireless,
but the amount of information coming out of the chips is so large, it's a tough problem to solve,
Maybe moving objects or playing video games with your mind isn't going to be routine any time soon but for patients like Sorto,
Today, United will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the largest makers of aviation biofuels.
#Obama wants to build an exascale supercomputer by 2025 The White house is getting serious about supercomputers.
Today, President Obama issued an executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Intiative essentially a federal strategy for making sure America leads the field in supercomputers.
within the next ten years, the government pledges to build an exascale computer, capable of 10 18 operations per second.
but supercomputer experts had predicted already the US could break the so-called exaflop barrier as early as 2023.
The most powerful supercomputers currently in development in the US are the twin Summit and Sierra supercomputers, built by IBM for the Department of energy
and expected to handle 100 petaflops each when completed in 2017. But breaking the exaflop barrier is complicated more than simply strapping ten Summits together.
Without architectural breakthroughs a computer that powerful would require an entire power plant's worth of energy to keep going,
making it impractical for publicly funded science. The hope for data-crunching scientists is that in the years to come,
new architectures will be developed alongside software formats that can make use of all that raw power w
#Ebola vaccine is 100 percent effective in Guinea trial, WHO reports A vaccine is"highly effective"against Ebola, according to the World health organization.
but white lasers could serve as a potential alternative light source both in people's homes and in the screens of their electronics.
and the ASU researchers claim that their white lasers can cover 70 percent more colors than current standard displays.
a developing technology that uses multiple colors of light to enable high-speed wireless internet access. Currently, LEDS are being used to develop Li-Fi technology,
which could be 10 times faster than current radio-based Wi-fi. Ning and his colleagues argue that Li-Fi using white lasers could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED-based Li-Fi.
#Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive post-password certification This morning, the plot to kill the password got a little stronger. 18 different companies received an official FIDO certification for 31 different products,
a fingerprint reader can authenticate a user without sharing the fingerprint itself, using a zero-knowledge proof to protect sensitive biometric data.
receiving a certification as a universal two-factor server. Yubico also received a certification for two different USB security keys
which are designed for use as a physical second factor. Google announced support for Yubico keys in October, allowing users to opt for the physical keys rather than the standard four-digit authentication code.
But two-factor authentication is just the first step of the process, and a number of FIDO services have moved already into more ambitious territory.
letting users authenticate through a combination fingerprint reader and biometric wristband. Samsung's secure identification framework was certified also,
Today's certification also included a number of software development tools and there's also reason to believe more services are on the way.
One name missing from the list was Microsoft, which plans to integrate Windows 10 and FIDO once the next version of the specification is released.
Microsoft has taken an active role in managing the spec this year, with Microsoft executive Dustin Ingalls taking on duties as President of the FIDO alliance in January n
#Facebook is testing a new tool to lock down user logins As services go mobile,
Once you've logged in on a phone or tablet, that login will usually stick around until you actively turn it off, a particular problem if that phone ends up lost, stolen,
or just re-sold. There are tools to protect against that, but you may not have checked them out in a while.
Login alerts will send you an email any time there's a new login, while device management can show you every device that's accessed your account.
You can find versions of those tools from Google Facebook, Paypal, or half a dozen other services,
but most users skip past them, if they even know they're there. Today, Facebook is releasing a new feature that will give those tools a higher profile.
It's called Security Checkup, and should be popping up into select users'News Feeds starting today.
The Checkup will pop-up over top of the site, prompting users to explore"a couple options you have to increase your security."
"From there, Facebook will walk users through password security options and show the computers logged into different Facebook services.
If anything's fishy, it should be obvious from there. Those tools were already available to Facebook users,
but thanks to Security Checkup, they'll be a lot harder to miss. It's a minor update,
but an interesting one. For years, the conventional wisdom has been that security should be invisible,
interfering as little as possible with user experience. Security Checkup is the opposite, forcing itself into view
and encouraging users to grapple with options they probably didn't know existed. Beyond Facebook
it's a sign that after a year full of bad security news, a more conspicuous approach to security may be coming back into style e
#Intel's new storage chip is 1, 000 times faster than flash memory Intel and Micron have a new way to store data that they say is denser, tougher,
and faster than the competition, and it's already starting production. In a live keynote today, the companies announced 3d Xpoint, a new category of nonvolatile memory that claims to be 1,
000 times faster than the NAND architecture underlying most flash memory cards and solid state drives. The new architecture does without transistors entirely,
relying on a bulk material property change to switch bits from a low-resistance to a high-resistance state.
From there memory cells are layered in an intricate three-dimensional checkerboard pattern that Intel researchers say is 10 times denser than conventional memory."
"For decades, the industry has searched for ways to reduce the lag time between the processor
and data to allow much faster analysis, "said Intel VP Rob Crooke in a statement."
"This new class of nonvolatile memory achieves this goal and brings game-changing performance to memory and storage solutions."
"The limitations of the new memory class are still unclear, but its earliest applications are likely to be in real-time data analysis,
Intel singled out fraud detection and disease tracking as likely early applications, but said the chip could also be used to power more immersive gaming experiences
if brought to the PC. Because the memory is durable and nonvolatile, it's likely to be used primarily for long-term storage,
but executives at the keynote said fast access to that long-term data could enable entirely new applications for everyday services s
#Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard Nvidia promised spectacular, unprecedented gaming performance from its 8-inch Shield Tablet last year,
The company is now recalling its first Android tablet device due to a potential fire hazard posed by the battery,
though Nvidia is being extra cautious and"asking consumers to stop using the recalled tablet,
and back up data.""When it launched the Shield Tablet, Nvidia made a big deal out of the extra thermal dissipation of its design,
claiming it was double what you'd get from a typical tablet. So the Shield Tablet was designed deliberately to handle greater loads and heat than usual,
but apparently its battery hasn't lived up to the same high standards. Nvidia has set up a replacement program
and a dedicated website to help owners of Shield Tablets purchased between July of last year
and today swap their faulty devices i
#New prosthetic limbs can be controlled by the mind NEW YORK Engineers at Johns hopkins university Applied Physics lab have developed a next-generation prosthetic:
A robotic arm that has 26 joints and can be controlled by a person mind, just like a regular arm.
Researchers think the arm may help people such as Mr Les Baugh, who lost his arms at the shoulder after an accident as a teenager.
A video posted on Youtube last Thursday displayed the technology via a test vehicle equipped with mock-up DADSS,
Engineers Unveil Method to Dispel Noise Effects The fiber optic data transmission will soon be enhanced significantly as electrical engineers at the UC San diego Qualcomm Institute have divulged a method to increase the capacity limit of high-bandwidth fiber optic cables.
which will increase the data transmission rates through the cables. The researchers from the Qualcomm Institute claim that they were able to increase the signal power in a fiber cable by 20 fold
which enabled them to send data to a record-breaking 12, 000 kilometres with standard amplifiers and no repeaters.
when the data is transmitted along longer cables. Therefore, the new discovery marks a milestone in data transmission as it does not have any limitation with regards to power.
The engineers have advocated the use of requency combsto condition signals as this will increase the capacity limit of high-bandwidth fiber optic cables
#Researchers make breakthrough advance towards potentially super-fast Internet A team of researchers from the University of California,
San diego, has surpassed the limits of transmitting fibre optic signals; thereby making a substantial breakthrough which can result in super-fast and cheap Internet.
Highlighting the feat achieved by the researchers, a paper published in the university's Science journal on June 26 has revealed that the researchers managed to break the barriers in the way of increasing the maximum power,
and hence the distance, for the transmission of optical signals through optical fibres. According to the details shared in the paper,
researchers were able to transmit the fibre optic signals 12,000 kilometres-that is, nearly 20 times farther than the earlier maximum limit-without any significant degrading of signals.
theoretically at least, the rate of data transmission through optical fibres can be increased without distorting the information which travels through the fibre optic cable.
#Google: Youtube has overtaken cable TV in terms of popularity During Google's 2015 second-quarter earnings call last week,
Google's chief business officer Omid Kordestani revealed that the company's video-sharing service Youtube has witnessed a tremendous growth in popularity over the last one year.
Asserting that Youtube's popularity has surpassed cable TV's popularity for a whole generation of consumers,
Kordestani said that Youtube has seen a threefold increase in the number of homepage visits year-on-year.
According to the details shared by Kordestani, the Youtube video-sharing platform -which was launched by Google back in 2006-now reaches a much higher number of 18-to 49-year-olds in the US than any other cable network in the country.
Kordestani also said that the average length of homepage visits on Youtube has increased 60 percent since last year.
In addition, there has also been a 50 percent year-on-year increase in average visit times on the mobile,
which have reached now 40 minutes per session. Highlighting the fact that"once users are in Youtube,
they are spending more time per session watching videos, "Kordestani said that the increasing popularity of Youtube among the younger demographics can be described as a revolution of"the television experience for the digital age
#HPV Vaccine Is Effective Against Multiple Cancer-Causing Strains The human papillomavirus vaccine, Cervarix, not only has the potential to prevent cervical cancer,
it is also effective against other common cancer-causing stains, according to a recent study. Researchers found that Cervavix was effective aside from just the two HPV types, 16 and 18,
For the study, researchers collected and analyzed data from nearly 20,000 young women. They found that the vaccine was extremely effective in young women who had never been infected with HPV.
and 4, 000 deaths occur annually, according to the SEER database of the National Cancer Institute.
"Consumer payments in the U s. have been slow in keeping up with an on-demand economy where consumers have instant access to so many services through their mobile devices,
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#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
Hyundai thinks it has found the most seamless way yet to let drivers integrate their smartphones seamlessly into their cars.
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
a service that will go initially into its new Sonata sedan. All that's needed to get it is a free software flash at a dealership.
Android Auto and the yet-to-arrive Apple Carplay are aimed at preventing drivers from becoming distracted.
It should make it possible to undertake many smartphone functions while barreling down the interstate at 60 miles per hour.
With the Android Auto companion app users will be able to access Google maps, send text messages,
query their phones for information, play music storeed in the phone and other functions. And they can do it any of three ways:
the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice.""Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety,
intuitiveness and simplicity,"said Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, in a statement.""We launched this highly anticipated feature on our best-selling Sonata,
adding to our promise of value.""USA TODAY was allowed to be among the first in the automotive media to test the system.
We found ourselves relying heavily on the voice commands, simply because it's the easiest way to keep focused on the road.
The navigation system worked fine, but it was duplicative of a key function that the car was already able to perform through its own navigation system.
More useful was the ability to text others and tap the smartphone's music collection.
The function that really made Android Auto worthwhile was the ability to seek information. From finding the nearest dry cleaner to settling bets about presidential history,
The decision to make Android Auto available for free should engender lots of warm feelings from Sonata buyers.
"Together with his partner, pediatrician Dr. Barry Heath, Finette has developed a smartphone-based medical intelligence platform that allows community health workers without medical training to diagnose
"We use that data and put it in our algorithm and scoring systems to try to gauge respiratory distress."
On his smartphone, Finette played one of the training videos available on the Medsinc platform,
You put this data into Medsinc.""The Medsinc questions keep coming. Why is the child coming in?
Finette brought up a screen on his smartphone with a large red dot.""We built this thing you just tap every time you feel a heartbeat,
a health science software company eventually sold to Oracle, volunteers as a strategic advisor to THINKMD.
I got involved with software was wanted because I to participate in creating artificial intelligence software that would behave as a doctor,
"Rosenblum said.""Thirty years later we're finally doing it.""Like Rosenblum and Donowitz, THINKMD and Medsinc is attracting interest
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#These smart glasses know when you need a nap From heart sensors to concussion trackers,
With the free smartphone app, I was able to tell exactly how tired I was,
In research settings, scientists could more accurately gather data on sleeping patterns, and, more alarmingly, marketing professionals could learn
and interpret data in innovative ways. They're even sponsoring a contest to find the coolest uses for their product.
While we don't know exactly how accurate the collected data is, it will be interesting to see what kind of functionality third-party developers will come up with.
Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
Researchers have considered putting the touchpad in a natural spot for drivers, mimicking a vehicle start button.
such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
#Apple, Google and 140 others ask Obama to reject ackdooraccess to encrypted data Apple and Google are adding their names to an open letter to President Obama asking him to quash any moves to create ackdooraccess to encrypted data on smartphones and other communication devices.
More than 140 tech firms, civil society organizations, and cryptologists have signed a letter to be sent on Tuesday,
since whistleblower Edward Snowden made a series of revelations about how the National security agency (NSA) mines its data from private communications.
Some of the major tech companies have also been accused of complicitly allowing the government access to backdoor portals to their data.
Last year, both Apple and Google revealed they were now encrypting their phonesdata by default,
It also calls for the government to not eakencommercial software e
#Google and Twitter sitting in a tree, putting tweets in search results for you and me In February,
Twitter signed a firehose deal with Google to bring tweets right into Google search results. This week, that integration started rolling out on mobile,
with a promise to also update the desktop version hortly. As I wrote while covering the announcement,
Google is hoping to boost its real-time search chops while Twitter is aiming for more users and engagement.
Yet at the end of the day, this is one of those rare partnerships that benefit the user first
and the companies later (Twitter is getting an undisclosed amount of money from Google, and Google can potentially monetize tweets with its own ads,
but right now it unclear if either will be significant). First and foremost, this partnership means Google users finally have access to Twitter stream.
Because tweets are often full of timely information, this means searching for anything relatively recent on Google will start bringing up messages sent out on Twitter.
Many events often happen on Twitter first, and that data that can be incredibly useful to have indexed for users to quickly find.
Twitter search engine works, but it nothing special. Google is the king of search, and with Twitter data, it suddenly about to get even more useful.
Assuming that Google users find the tweets theye looking for they will only think more highly of the search engine,
and presumably use it more. In this way, Google is next in line as the one to benefit from this new partnership.
You think Twitter would be next, but there actually one more entity to acknowledge: Twitter users.
Yes, we realize there is a big overlap between Google users and Twitter users. Still, if we examine them separately,
it clear they both win. Twitter users start to benefit once incoming Google users act on the tweets they find.
That can be a favorite, a retweet, or even a reply. If that starts to happen at scale,
and Google has plenty of that, Twitter users should see more content on the social network,
especially in relation to tweets that Google deems important and relevant. Last on the list is Twitter itself,
if the company can convert all this new traffic into users who keep coming back. Signing up to engage is one thing
but actually choosing to become an active Twitter user is what the company really needs.
That no easy feat, and so Twitter opportunity to benefit from this partnership requires the most work.
To recap, here the order of winners: Google users, Google, Twitter users, and Twitter. The biggest loser?
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