#Airware Launches Its Commercial Drone Operating system Drones could save businesses big money by doing dull, dirty,
Commercial businesses can now license Airware Flight Core autopilot technology, Ground Control Station for dispatching drones,
and its cloud platform for customizing missions and collecting data. With well over $40 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins,
Airware integrated hardware software, and cloud system lets enterprises customize drones to check on gas pipelines,
survey farm land, inspect cell towers, patrol property, or do search & rescue, Now wel see just how many businesses will pay a monthly subscription for Airware to power their drones for industrial inspections, agriculture management, anti-poaching, and more.
But long-term, theyl likely be commoditized as hardware makers around the globe clone and undercut each other on price.
Whatever companies makes the software that runs these drones would make serious profits for years to come.
Following a brief introduction by Airware CEO Jonathan Downey, CTO Buddy Michini demonstrated Airware core technologies:
the Flight Core autopilot system, which provides the brains to each drone that Airware powers,
the Ground Control Station that lets a single user operate a fleet of drones from a Windows laptop or tablet,
and then painstakingly dump the data back to your servers, Airware can handle the whole process.
enhance it with cloud widgets to customize their drone to the day use case, and the data flows back automatically.
Operators can just trace a flight path on a map instead of driving the drone in real-time.
and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within
and give it parameters like required altitude. It wasn the flashiest demo wee ever seen with a drone after taking off
After several similar demos, Drone America CEO Mike Richards spoke about using his company larger drones with Airware software for missions outside of traditional industrial uses.
which lets customers create widgets for the Ground Control Station in the C# programming language. These widgets are actually the main reason Airware is sticking with Windows for its tablet app.
Instead of requiring customers to build their own app with the exact drone interface needed, building on Windows will allow them to download the same app to each tablet
but provide different interfaces by simply checking off which widgets should be available to different workers in the field on the cloud backend.
Michini was excited also to talk about the App Core which will provide a full-on Linux computer for developers to work with in addition to the standard Flight Core autopilot and Ground Control Station integration.
When it rolls out to select Airware partners this summer, this new system will let customers take advantage of more advanced sensor
and image processing tools without sacrificing an interface that actually usable for operators in the field.
Airware can roll out new products like App Core without having to find new companies to sell to or upsell its current customers.
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
monitor farm land, and survey big tracts of land. Planes and helicopters can be terribly expensive for collecting this overhead video and measurement data, though.
Meanwhile, sending humans around in trucks or dangling them in climbing harnesses can be slow and risky.
#Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure Strands Of DNA Researchers at the University of California,
Los angeles, have created a smartphone ultra-zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA.
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan laboratory
which measures the length of the DNA molecules. Assuming you have a reliable data connection,
the entire data processing takes less than 10 seconds. Considering current methods require non-portable heavy machinery and computers,
this seems like a godsend for researchers in the field. The team is currently using the tool to etect the presence of malaria-related drug resistance. g
Eyewire executive director, Amy Robinson, tells me its users are igh school students, grandmothers, tugboat drivers, animators, everything.
To remind users that they are indeed playing a game, Eyewire provides a typical gaming experience.
000 users. he top players are actually online for 30,40, 50 hours a week, Robinson adds.
a company that develops interactive 3d software and media with a medical focus, to develop an Oculus Rift version of the game.
Eyewire sent us about 650gb of the research data generated by their users. Individual neurons were identified
and encoded in this data, and we used that information to generate the surface models that you see and experience.
but correlate directly with the structures in the original source data. I was lucky enough to visit Eyewire office which is based out of a Wework space in Boston to try the game for myself.
(which lets a user fly toward a particular area simply by looking where they want to go).
which appear as virtual billboards hovering in front of the user. This was one of the coolest experiences
The game was launched just recently on the Oculus download page, which can be found here.
and allowing them to submit them to a social computing server. A sample app can be found here.
It consists of a barebones web app that can be used as the nucleus of new game designs or alternative applications.
Although Eyewire is continuously making revolutionary strides in the gamification of scientific research, it certainly not the only one doing it.
is a 3d puzzle game that challenges users to fold proteins into the best possible molecular structure.
Instead of scouring the surface of Mars, Tomnod users crowdsource observations about the Earth surface. When Malaysia Airlines flight 370 went missing,
Tomnod directed its users to help search for the missing aircraft. In fact the site couldn keep up with the traffic due to an influx of users looking to help. hrough games,
though building better computer vision AI and thus automating big neurodata analysis our collective, collaborative,
even gamified competitive brainpower will be the key to figuring complex problems out, Robinson concludes e
Liquidity core technology was developed and patented out of Stony Brook University. It a membrane with pores of. 2 microns in width, small enough to eliminate microbial contaminants that make up the vast majority of water quality incidents.
but often force users to choose between effectiveness and convenience, which has made adoption extremely difficult.
or a high level of pressure provided by the user the latter which is especially challenging for children.
Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 7. 29.15 AM To create the nanofiber thin membrane that could be produced at scale,
Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 7. 24.11 AM This filtration membrane is highly flexible and durable
Screen Shot 2015-05-04 at 7. 24.34 AM Liquidity tech has been verified third-party by Biovir Laboratories, a microbiological testing facility, that it meets the EPA standard of 99.9999
As of today, you can pre-order the Naked Filter bottle on their website; it ships this summer.
#Nikola Labs Launches iphone 6 Case Which Harvests Electricity From The Air Nikola Tesla pioneered the transmission of electricity over wires.
and the audience as the Wild Card choice from Startup Alley launched a device that converts radio frequencies into DC power,
a case for an iphone 6. It converts the wasted 90 percent of energy the phone produces trying to pump out a cellphone signal,
and puts it back into the phone, thus powering it for up to 30 percent longer.
Essentially it is harvesting back the ambient RF energy already being produced by the phone. They aim to bring the product to market within one year, in partnership with Ohio State university,
An algorithm will detect suspicious activity, like if someone is watching videos related to terrorism, and then record everything you do online.
The only problem is that nobody will see this algorithm source code and know what happening, except a new institution in charge of the technical control of intelligence systems.
In addition to the black boxes, there will be a new database of dangerous persons, new devices to record phone calls, FISA-like metadata collection and more.
#Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant Nosql Database With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new Nosql database offering today that,
is powered by the company Bigtable data storage system, but with the added twist that it compatible with the Apache HBASE API which itself is based on Google Bigtable project.
Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google search and Google analytics, so this is definitely a battle-tested service Google promises that Cloud Bigtable will offer single-digit millisecond latency
and 2x the performance per dollar when compared to the likes of HBASE and Cassandra. Because it supports the HBASE API
Cloud Bigtable can be integrated with all the existing applications in the Hadoop ecosystem, but it also supports Google Cloud Dataflow.
Setting up a Cloud Bigtable cluster should only take a few seconds, and the storage automatically scales according to the user needs.
It worth noting that this is not Google first cloud-based Nosql database product. With Cloud Datastore, Google already offers a high-availability Nosql datastore for developers on its App Engine platform.
That service, too, is based on Bigtable. Cory Oonnor, a Google Cloud platform product manager, tells me Cloud Datastore focuses on read-heavy workload for web apps
and mobile apps. loud Bigtable is much the opposite is designed for larger companies and enterprises where extensive data processing is required,
and where workloads are more complex, Oonner tells me. or example, if an organization needs to stream data into,
run analytics on and serve data out of a single database at scale Cloud Bigtable is the right system.
Many of our customers will start out on Cloud Datastore to build prototypes and get moving quickly,
#Voxiebox Displays 3d Images Just Like R2d2's Message From Princess Leia Voxon, chosen out of the Hardware Alley to do the ildcardpitch during Techcrunch Disrupt NY, demonstrated a truly amazing
Its unique combination of hardware and software, developed over 30 years of tinkering in a New york garage, literally rints lightin three dimensions,
thus tricking the human eye into thinking it seeing a 3d image, thanks to their proprietary algorithm.
meaning it extremely user friendly. Because you can display any image (moving or still), you can thus move
who can use the data to regulate dosage or recommend a different type of medication,
Miguel says. y analyzing data at a macro level, wee going to be able to tell what works
As recently reported, Mastercard is launching a facial recognition payment service based on elfiestaken on a smartphone.
but soon a elfiefrom a smartphone will be enough to close transactions. This program is to be tested initially on 500 card users in the coming months.
Mastercard stated that it also is working on a payment program based on voice recognition. Mastercard imminent transition to biometrics was preceded by Apple Pay launching in October 2014 of a biometric payment technology based on fingerprint ID. The newest iphone models are equipped with Apple Touch
ID fingerprint reader. And then there is Paypal, which has boosted security on its mobile app by using fingerprint sensors that are installed on some Samsung Electronics devices.
and patented the first algorithms for iris scanning and recognition. The iris is known to display a network of random patterns which are unique to each individual.
Special scanners are used to match these patterns to a database. A few years later, Christoph von der Malsburg from the University of Bochum in Germany developed a system known as ZN-Face that was capable of making facial matches on imperfect images.
The newfound availability of biometric technology for mobile and cloud-based platforms raises the security bar further.
The notorious hacking group called the Chaos Computer Club even replicated the fingerprint of the German Defense Minister.
Qualcomm Technologies recently announced the development of the first comprehensive mobile biometric solution based on ultrasonic technology.
Imagine a world in which there is no need to remember a slew of passwords and PINS for various sites.
The mobile cloud, banking and payments industries must prepare themselves for the shift from traditional authentication methods to the new biometric systems.
It also allows for multi-user interaction one designer can sketch some furniture while another can move it around.
e use a Butterfly-net analogy to explain how the cursor selects objects in space the users simply sweep the 3d cursors through,
the users can use gestures and movements such as pinching and orientation. The cursor is in fact being demonstrated within the researchershyve-3d design system,
a full scale immersive 3d environment that enables users to create drawings on hand-held tablets, which can then be manipulated on the tablets to create a 3d design within the space.
As the designers are immersed in their work, for example designing a living room, they can test different furniture options according to the scale
and a dome mirror projecting the image onto the screen. Specialized techniques render the 3d scene onto a spherical projection in real-time In other words,
the tablets act as 3d cursors. Your finger can slide through various objects and select them or you can draw right into the scene.
For now, it not connected to any kinds of software. However the team thinks there are long-term possibilities to build an Internet-of-Things model that could tell consumers how much water
and energy theye using or later down the line, a smart water heater. So far though, the startup has focused on getting an initial version right by modeling droplet sizes
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
You order on an ipad, your name comes up on a transparent LCD screen box, and you pull out a bowl of quinoa.
Opening today in San francisco at 121 Spear St, Eatsa is a new restaurant designed around technology.
Since you always pay by credit card or mobile, he hopes to create discounts for regulars that increase every time you dine at Eatsa.
The edict that Microsoft has enterprise on lockdown is dissipating. Huge enterprise player Cisco and Apple announced a ast Lanefor ios enterprise users,
which promises a more streamlined and optimized experience for those enterprise customers using Cisco networks and products.
as the release merely states that the companies are dedicated to roviding unique collaboration on iphone
and ipad. few tweaks will also be put in place to make the hop between a Cisco desk phone
and iphone more seamless than it is today. Tim cook had this to say about the tieup:
ios is the world best mobile platform, and nearly every Fortune 500 and Global 500 company today has put ios at the center of their mobile strategy. iphone
and ipad have become essential tools for the modern workforce and are changing the way work gets done.
Together with Cisco, we believe we can give businesses the tools to maximize the potential of ios
and help employees become even more productive using the devices they already love. There a lot of words here and not a lot of meat,
and Cisco is working on is an environment to enable easier onboarding for enterprise users. There no reason for a corporate customer to use phones that aren good for their employees simply
because it easy to get your software onto it. Cisco Executive Chairman John Chambers calls it an ngineering
and go-to-market partnershipwhich again doesn say much other than the two companies probably have a few projects going on
The areas that should see streamlining are Cisco mobile, cloud, and premises-based collaboration tools like Webex.
#Mobile devices Will Either Have 3d Sensors Or Suffer Flat Sales When Apple hot on iphone 6ad campaign covered billboards and posters in 24 cities around the world,
it proved two things: The quality of mobile camera technology is astronomical, and mobile device manufacturers badly want you to know about it.
Moves like these are smart in a world where 1. 8 billion digital photos are shared on a daily basis
A well-built 8 megapixel camera is plenty for all nonprofessional uses. More has stopped being better.
At least when confined to the flat images smartphone cameras provide today. But Intel new Realsense/Project Tango phone concept shows there is still more valuable data to be captured:
Depth. Small, inexpensive sensors can now see our world in all three dimensions, for which consumer applications no amount of megapixels alone could achieve.
Exploiting depth is the only logical choice mobile device manufacturers have if they are to keep their products competitive.
And I not the only one who thinks so. Breaking 3d Out Of Hollywood Intel isn the only one at the party.
Apple recently confirmed acquiring 3d-sensor manufacturer Linx for $20 million. They didn say why,
when Allied Market research predicts 80 percent of smartphones will carry 3d sensors by 2018, earning a total of $2. 02 billion by 2020.
With depth, a computer can understand the size, shape and distance of all objects within its field of view.
The simplest examples are for image and video editing. An image with depth information would allow you to change things like focus
Depth will bring eye-catching special effects to everybody the way high-resolution smartphone cameras made everyone a photographer.
Allied Market research predicts 80 percent of smartphones will carry 3d sensors by 2018. And that just the start.
The IDF15 keynote had Intel CEO Brian Krzanich quickly calculating storage space needed for objects by scanning them with a 3d sensor.
and stick them on a 3d avatar for use in teleconferencing or even video games Further applications exist for 3d printing, design, mapping, object recognition, facial recognition, gesture-based control and more.
Intel Realsense, like Microsoft more famous Kinect cameras, work by projecting a signal (a laser
They work well for indoor situations and benefit from an existing base of software designed for this technique,
comparing the feeds in real time takes lots of computing power, and calibrating multiple cameras gets complicated. However, recent advances in mobile chipsets are beginning to remedy these issues.
Not Another Flash In The Pan Memories of the not-so-memorable attempts at 3d smartphones a few years ago may stir up doubts of this trend.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
So when you take your first selfie with the next generation of mobile devices, put on your best smile:
Juan M. Banda, a biomedical informatics researcher at Stanford, has created a tool that helps patients
and doctors search through pharmaceutical research, sourced from eight NIH-and FDA-approved medical databases,
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
Investigating the RSL sites themselves to probe for life is challenging, according to NASA, because the streaks have so far only been observed on steep slopes.
While we believe there is still significant opportunity to improve upon the automotive user experience, the vehicle itself is just one part of
"The software for operating the system and analysing the data was developed in-house and around Rs 100 crore value could be put for that,
"said V Seshagiri Rao, the former project director. To the best of his knowledge only select group of countries have the capacity to build such radars in the world,
Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa. The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro."
"The project got the green signal in 2012 with a target to get the radar ready by February 2015
"The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country, "said P Vijaya Saradhi, group director, management system area.
"The software for operating the system and analysing the data was developed in-house and around Rs 100 crore value could be put for that,
"said V Seshagiri Rao, the former project director. To the best of his knowledge only select group of countries have the capacity to build such radars in the world,
Currently Isro uses the space debris data provided by US space agency Nasa. The commissioning of MOTR would provide real-time data for Isro."
"The project got the green signal in 2012 with a target to get the radar ready by February 2015
"The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country, "said P Vijaya Saradhi, group director, management system area.
In the study, the researchers studied liver function in mice following long-term exposure to carbon tetrachloride, a chemical commonly associated with Superfund sites.
and converts'breath signals'into words using pattern recognition software and an analogue-to-digital converter.
The device learns from its user, building up its knowledge as it goes. It allows the user to control how he
or she wishes to communicate-effectively enabling them to create their own language by varying the speed of their breathing g
In the study, researchers collected data on the cellular proteins of nine species representing a broad cross-section of the animal kingdom.
"One purpose of this experiment was to show we could integrate bacterial catalysts with semiconductor technology.
To do that, they need model systems to study nature's best designs, especially the catalysts that convert water and carbon dioxide into sugars at room temperatures."
The site, about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, has yielded some 1, 550 specimens since its discovery in 2013.
The researchers announced the discovery Thursday in the journal elife and at a news conference in the Cradle of Humankind, a site near the village of Magaliesburg.
They said they were unable to determine an age for the fossils because of unusual characteristics of the site,
''he said in an email l
#Editing our genes In April this year, a team of Chinese researchers created a global uproar
She told TOI the technology is a"site-specific DNA`scissors, 'allowing researchers to cut
first, a piece of RNA is created for unzipping a DNA strand at the target site;
"The remarkable aspect is that the ability to target a new genomic site simply requires one to alter the sequence on the GUIDE-RNA-this makes the technique really democratic in its ease of use.
#Robot journalist introduced in China A Chinese internet company has developed a robot journalist, who has written its first news story.
The first news item by the"robot journalist"used data from the National Statistics Bureau and quoted the bureau's officials.
150, were associated with inpatient stays in health care facilities, according to the Active Bacterial Core surveillance report by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in US.
#A super computer that knows if you're going to die NEW YORK: A super computer developed in the US can predict the likelihood of a person's death with almost 100 per cent accuracy,
a media report said. The machine, installed at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical centre, draws on the data of more than 250,000 people collected over a period of 30 years to make speedy diagnoses,
The Mirror reported on Monday. The machine's ability to speedy disease recognition could potentially save lives as well as predict patients'imminent demise, the report added."
Patients at the hospital are linked up to the super computer which collects and analyses data about their condition every three minutes,
measuring everything from oxygen levels to blood pressure to give doctors"everything we need to know about a patient".
"When the computer says no, doctors can"predict with 96 per cent confidence "when patients may die."
"If the computer says you're going to die, you probably will die in the next 30 days,
#Paraplegic man walks using only his brain power A brain-to-computer echnology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enab ed a man paralysed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become the first such
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain o bypass the injured spinal cord
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to elec rodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled eg muscle movements.
but incremental achievement in the development of brain-computer interfaces that may one day help stroke
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient's knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
but incremental achievement in the development of brain-computer interfaces that may one day help stroke
The world produced nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic according to 2013 data published by the Worldwatch Institute.
The world produced nearly 300 million tonnes of plastic according to 2013 data published by the Worldwatch Institute.
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