the app asks users discrete and subtle psychological questions purposed to gather information to identify
and was built on the SAP Mobile Platform to provide Heidelberg University Hospital an intuitive interface to connect doctors with patients and vice versa.
Vodafone Italia's CEO Aldo Bisio has proposed a'newco'should be created, a private-public vehicle in
The government has dismissed also the rumour circulating recently that it would force Telecom italia to replace its copper network with fibre."
#Yahoo launches password-free logins Yahoo If remembering passwords is too much of a chore, Yahoo will make them for you.
During a session at the South by Southwest festival hosted in Austin, Texas, as reported by sister site CNET,
the tech giant launched"on-demand"passwords, which takes remembering your security password to access accounts of the equation.
Yahoo's vice president of product management for consumer platforms Dylan Casey said during the event that the service is the"first step to eliminating passwords."
"Available now in the US, on-demand passwords work by users first logging into their Yahoo accounts normally.
The next step is to register your phone and connect it to your account. When you next login,
A password containing four characters will then be sent to your phone, verifying your identity through the linked device
While Casey said the service was designed after Yahoo put itself"in the shoes of the people using our products"
which is slowly being adopted by web services worldwide. Two-step verification services rely not only on the traditional password--which is often easily crackable,
--but also often involves an additional code being sent to a linked mobile device to heighten account security.
which makes breaking into accounts far more difficult without an attacker having physical access to your mobile device.
While users may enjoy the convenience of on-demand passwords --as long as their devices are lost not
or stolen--Yahoo's new scheme could be viewed as a lax security protocol designed to appeal to the general public,
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Yahoo chief information security officer Alex Stamos confirmed that end-to-end encryption will be introduced to Yahoo Mail by the end of 2015.
Encryption will be offered via a plugin, developed by Yahoo and Google after the Edward Snowden US National security agency (NSA) revelations.
While Google has said previously it will include encryption services by default within the Android operation system,
the tech giant has been forced to backtrack on its decision across the board due to compatibility and performance issues in older devices.
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#Samsung, Dell, other OEMS to bundle Microsoft apps, services on Android tablets Microsoft has announced an expanded partnership with Samsung and new deals with Dell and other OEMS to preload Microsoft
mobile apps and services on Android tablets. The Android preload deals, announced March 23, cover both consumer and business Microsoft apps and services.
Samsung, for its part, will preinstall Microsoft services and apps on its"portfolio of Android devices.""Samsung committed to offering Microsoft office 365
and Samsung Knox Business Pack on Android tablets, as well. Samsung announced last month it would preinstall Onenote,
Onedrive and Skype on the Glaxy S6 and S6 Edge in the coming months--some time in the first half of calendar 2015,
Samsung also will preinstall Microsoft word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on"select"Samsung Android tablets,
Samsung announced today. Users who purchase new Android tablets via Samsung's business-to-business sales channels will have the option of purchasing a bundle of one of three versions of Office 365--Businesss
Business Premium or Enterprise, coupled with Samsung's Knox security offering. Microsoft also announced today it has expanded bundling deals with Dell,
as well as regional OEMS including Trekstor of Germany, JP Sa Couto of Portugal, Datamatic of Italy, DEXP of Russia, Hipstreet of Canada, QMOBILE of Pakistan, Tecno of Africa,
and Casper of Turkey, and Pegatron. These hardware partners will preinstall Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Onenote, Onedrive and Skype on Android devices coming to market later this year.
Interestingly, Microsoft's blog post on the new bundling deals is authored by Peggy Johnson, Microsoft's Executive vice president of Global Business Development,
who reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella.)If the rumor mill is right, Android distribution startup Cyanogen might be next up to forge a similar bundling relationship with Microsoft.
A recent Forbes report claims Cyanogen is"close to finalizing a wide-ranging partnership to incorporate several of Microsoft's mobile services,
including Bing, the voice-powered Cortana digital assistant, the Onedrive cloud-storage system, Skype and Outlook, into Cyanogen's devices."
"Microsoft originally was rumored to be considering making a minority investment in Cyanogen, but supposedly the Redmondians have decided against that, at least for now
#Electronic voting will eventually replace postal ballots: NSWEC CIO The NSW Electoral Commission (NSWEC) is looking to replace postal votes,
and believes the solution is the ivote platform. NSW Electoral Commission CIO Ian Brightwell outlined during recent state elections 283,000 people relied on ivote to cast their votes, many of
"There was no fault on the computer systems per se; it was a human error in data entry,
"Brightwell told ZDNET at the time.""Unfortunately, at the time of going live, we didn't have an opportunity to view the ballot paper."
"But this particular problem is a human error in data entry. To wrap it up as an ivote error is a little bit misleading
TRU-D's system analyzes the variables of the room and floods the space (both line-of-site and shadowed spaces) with the proper dose of UV LIGHT energy.
The system also tracks infection control data and simultaneously uploads the information to the hospital's web portal,
meaning it integrates well into a new health care paradigm centering around data collection and analysis."With rising issues around health care-associated infections,
hospitals that provide an extra level of care for patients by disinfecting rooms with TRU-D are not only protecting patients'well-being,
it's expected that more data will become available about the advantages and flaws of each product
#Spain's 3d food printing lab: Bringing technology to the table Technology has been encroaching into the professional kitchen for years.
"Printing flat designs can be done, but 3d is said something else Castells as he demonstrated how layers of chocolate are used to build up three-dimensional structures,
and working on an open hardware basis, has been selling 3d printers since 1998, according to Felip Fonollosa, its director general.
It has incorporated recently a paste extruder system into its printers, using it to control the amount of material deposited by each layer through the pressure exerted by the piston of a syringe.
#Google shuffles leadership structure with new CEO, Alphabet company Google made waves on Monday afternoon with the surprise announcement of a new CEO and leadership structure.
First, Google's product chief Sundar Pichai has been promoted to the top gig at the Internet giant, replacing cofounder Larry page as CEO.
or a"collection of companies,"according to Page's blog post. Page specified Google will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alphabet."
"We liked the name Alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanity's most important innovations,
and is the core of how we index with Google search, "Page exclaimed.""We also like that it means alphabet (Alpha is investment return above benchmark),
"Google crafted Alphabet to both consolidate and scale its multiple businesses, according to the 8-K form.
Basically, the top leaders of Google have shifted over to the new Alphabet leadership structure, with some overlaps.
For example, the 8-K noted Porat will also be CFO at Google. Other product leadership roles will remain the same, such as Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki.
Alphabet Inc. will replace Google Inc. as the publicly-traded entity. All Google shares will automatically convert into the same number of shares for Alphabet with all of the same rights.
However, both classes of shares will continue to trade on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the ticker symbols GOOGL and GOOG.
Pichai is slated to takeover the company when the deal goes through. Google plans to separate financial reporting from the rest of Alphabet businesses on the fourth quarter earnings report.
But the decision to promote Pichai is perhaps the least surprising bit of news in all of this as his status at the tech behemoth has risen dramatically in the last two years.
Pichai was appointed head of both of Google's operating systems in 2013, taking over Android from the unit's founder Andy Rubin,
who then moved elsewhere within Google to work on more innovative, moonshot-like projects. He was promoted eventually to oversee Google's entire product portfolio, encompassing Google maps, research, search, commerce and ads and infrastructure on top of his prior existing duties.
Page highlighted the recent launches of Google Now and Google Photos as examples of Pichai's success during his tenure thus far."
"I feel very fortunate to have talented someone as as he is to run the slightly slimmed down Google
and this frees up time for me to continue to scale our aspirations, "Page wrote.
As for those aspirations, Page dropped a few hints, highlighting some recent works from the secretive Google X lab, such as drone delivery dream Project Wing,
as well as incubators tied to Google Ventures and Capital. Acknowledging that the entire shift overall--let alone the new name--might be asserted puzzling,
#Windows 10 Mobile preview 10512 goes to testers It's been a month since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile test Build on August 12,
Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512, which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring."
"Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality, "said Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program,
in announcing availability of the new build. Among the list of what's new in today's new Windows 10 Mobile test build:
There are a number of known issues, as usual, which Aul itemizes in today's post. Also worth noting:
No new Windows phone devices beyond those already supported are able to run today's build.
Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
#inuxone: IBM's new Linux mainframes SEATTLE--At Linuxcon, IBM launched Linuxone, a new pair of IBM mainframes along with Linux and open-source software and services.
These new systems are the Linuxone Emperor, which built on the IBM z13 mainframe and its z13 CPU,
and its little brother, Rockhopper, which uses the older z12 processor. IBM's new Linuxone mainframes aren't only powerful,
they're very affordable. IBM claims that Linuxone Emperor is capable of scaling up to 8, 000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers and that's more than any other single Linux system.
Linuxone Rockhopper is an entry-level mainframe. It's designed for clients and emerging markets seeking mainframe speed
security and availability but for a smaller price-tag. The z13 mainframe series can hold up to 10 TBS of memory.
Its 8-core z13 CPU can run up to 5ghz. On IBM benchmarks, a loaded Linuxone could perform 30-billion Representational State Transfer (RESTFUL) transactions a day using Node. js and Mongodb in Docker containers.
In brief, these are spectacularly speedy systems. IBM also states that the Linuxone are the most secure Linux systems ever with advanced encryption features built into both the hardware and software to help keep customer data and transactions confidential and secure.
This is done with dedicated crypto processors and cards so your company can handle millions of transactions per second securely.
Linuxone isn't just a new use of hardware. IBM has enabled key open source and industry software for Linuxone and IBM z Systems.
This includes Apache Spark, Node. js, Mongodb, Mariadb, Postgresql and Chef. These technologies work seamlessly on the mainframe
just as they do with other platforms, requiring no special skills and with compelling performance advantages.
Is that really true? You can see for yourself. IBM, in partnership with Marist College and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies will host clouds that provide developers access to a virtual IBM Linuxone at no cost.
IBM will also create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVS) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing,
and Boeblingen, that provide application vendors access and a free trial to Linuxone resources to port, test and benchmark new applications.
Ross Mauri, IBM's General manager of z Systems said in a Linuxcon keynote speech, that Linuxone comes with a new financing model.
With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but, like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use.
IBM will work with existing customers who want to move to the new elastic pricing model."
The new data which builds on preliminary findings presented at the American Society of Hematology's annual meeting in December 2013 include results from the first 25 children and young adults (ages 5 to 22
Building accurate computer reconstructions of historical global precipitation is tricky business. The statistical models are complicated very the historical data is often full of holes
and researchers invariably have to make educated guesses at correcting for sampling errors. Hard sciencethe high degree of difficulty and expertise required means that relatively few climate scientists have been able to base their research on accurate models of historical precipitation.
Now a new software program developed by a research team including San diego State university Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Now anybody can play with this user friendly software use it to inform their research and develop new models and hypotheses.
The problem for historical models is that reliable data exists from only a small percentage of Earth's surface.
Satellite weather tracking is only a few decades old so for historical models researchers must fill in the gaps based on the data that does exist.
Shen and his SDSU graduate students Nancy Tafolla and Barbara Sperberg produced a user friendly technologically advanced piece of software that does the statistical heavy lifting for researchers.
SOGP 1. 0 which stands for a statistical technique known as spectral optimal gridding of precipitation is based on the MATLAB programming language commonly used in science and engineering.
New tool for climate change modelsfor example Shen referenced a region in the middle of the Pacific ocean that sometimes glows bright red on the computer model indicating extreme dryness
Combining this data with land-record data the model can retroactively demonstrate the Dust bowl's especially brutal dry spell.
Shen hopes that its ease of use will encourage climate scientists to incorporate this historical data into their own models improving our future predictions of climate change.
Researchers interested in using SOGP 1. 0 can request the software package as well as the digital datasets used by the program by e-mailing sogp. precip@gmail. com with the subject line SOGP precipitation product request followed by your name
#Precision printing: Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed Researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure
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#Researchers turn to 3-D technology to examine the formation of cliffband landscapes A blend of photos
From there we can build a 3-D computer model of that landscape. Months of fieldwork in comparison would only produce a fraction of the data that we produce in the computer model says Ward.
Ward says that ultimately examining this piece of the puzzle will give researchers an idea as to how the broader U s. landscape was formed.
and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits cracks open
and installs a crucial ring-shaped protein structure (Mcm2-7) that lies at the core of the helicase enzyme.
The key question then was how does a second helicase core get recruited and loaded onto the DNA in the opposite orientation of the first?
which a computer then reconstructs into three-dimensional structure. This technique is ideal because we're imaging relatively massive proteins here Li said.
The software called Open Book provides synonyms images metaphors and definitions of complex verbs explains Paloma Moreda computer programmer at the University of Alicante.
It provides additional information to understand the main ideas of a document and therefore increases independence
and social inclusion of the users as they gain better access to education employment health care and social activities she adds.
An important feature of the software is that it is personalisable and adapts to the abilities of each person.
In other words the user can choose to just see definitions or images interpretation of metaphors or analyses of a feeling for example.
The project coordinator was Ruslan Mitkov Professor of Computational linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
While we did not observe significant clinical activity with disulfiram in men with recurrent prostate cancer in our recent clinical trial this new data suggests a potential way forward
The paleomagnetic data are done very well. This is one of the best records we have so far of
Astronomers measure it by capturing the spectrum of a star on the pixels of a digital camera
They hit the same pixels as starlight of the same wavelength. This creates a comb-like set of lines that lets us map the spectrograph down to 1/10000 of a pixel.
So if I have light on this section of the pixel I can tell you the precise wavelength Phillips explained.
By calibrating the spectrograph this way we can take into account very small changes in temperature or humidity that affect the performance of the spectrograph.
This way we can compare data we take tonight with data from the same star five years from now
In a study recently published in the Journal of Transport Geography Zachary Patterson uses census data to map seniors'moving habits.
The proof is in the population These findings are based on micro census data pulled from Canada's six largest metropolitan areas:
Patterson and his co-authors focused on data from the long-form censuses done in 1991 1996 2001 and 2006.
seniors are more likely to move to suburbs than to the urban core. In fact in all cities the rate at which seniors are moving to the suburbs appears to be increasing faster than for all other age groups.
But when you look at actual data rather than anecdotal evidence it's clear that seniors prefer the suburbs.
#Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter more powerful and more efficient.
At the core of this development is wide bandgap material made of silicon carbide with qualities superior to standard semiconductor materials.
Research for this project was conducted at ORNL's National Transportation Research center and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility DOE user facilities with funding from DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
of which was to investigate the scattering of pulsars--the cores of dead stars--by interstellar gas.
--and the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West virginia showed the presence of lumps in the image of Sagittarius A*.Recent upgrades have increased greatly the sensitivity of these telescopes.
and confirm the statistics of our sample with more data Gwinn said. We're also interested in looking at shorter wavelengths where we think the emission region may be smaller
and optimization of the device which is based on a phosphor screen and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes in a diode structure.
Our simple'diode'panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
The electrons then fly through the vacuum in the cavity and hit the phosphor screen into glowing.
Thus the new flat-panel device has compared smaller energy loss with other current lighting devices which can be used to make energy-efficient cathodes that with low power consumption.
When Illinois researchers set out to investigate a method to control how DNA moves through a tiny sequencing device they did not know they were about to witness a display of molecular gymnastics.
The researchers extensively used the Blue waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications housed at the University of Illinois. They mapped each individual atom in the complex DNA molecule
Scientists at the National institutes of health (NIH) report that newly formed brain cells in the mouse olfactory system--the area that processes smells--play a critical role in maintaining proper connections.
In the first set of mouse experiments Dr. Belluscio's team first disrupted the organization of olfactory bulb circuits by temporarily plugging a nostril in the animals to block olfactory sensory information from entering the brain.
New approaches that can improve the outlook for patients especially in the later stages of injury development would be of great benefit she says.
It was applied furthermore in the data of 14 EU countries in the period between 1961 and 2009.
When applied to farm and country level data the results reveal that the nutrient outflows are much more stable over time compared with the net inflows.
Unfortunately this indicator is sensitive to random fluctuations due to weather measurement errors and other noise in data
Analysis of the sequences and comparison with reference data demonstrated that the complete mitochondrial genome of the rodents had been retrieved from the DNA pool.
#Unique catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells synthesized in ordinary kitchen microwave oven Swedish and Chinese researchers show how a unique nano-alloy composed of palladium nano-islands embedded in tungsten nanoparticles creates a new type of catalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction the most important reaction in hydrogen fuel cells.
Their results are published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The world's rapidly growing demand for energy and the requirement of sustainable energy production calls for an urgent change in today's fossil fuel based energy system.
however by the need of efficient catalysts to drive the chemical reactions involved in the fuel cell.
Historically platinum and its alloys have frequently been used as anodic and cathodic catalysts in fuel cells
but the high cost of platinum due to its low abundance motivates researchers to find efficient catalysts based on earth-abundant elements.
The core of the nano-cocoon contains the anticancer drug doxorubicin (DOX) and a protein called DNASE.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
In 2006 the Sony Corporation recalled millions of lithium-ion batteries after reports of more than a dozen consumer-laptop fires.
That's still a big problem considering that hundreds of millions of computers and cellphones are sold each year.
We want to lower the odds of a battery fire to one in a billion or even to zero.
You might get a message on your phone telling you that the voltage has dropped to zero so the battery needs to be replaced Zhuo said.
In a new study in EPJ Plus French scientists have come up with an open source simulation method to calculate the actual cost of relying on a combination of electricity sources.
The simulation tested on the case of France based on 2011 data shows that an optimal mix is 2. 4 times the average demand in this territory.
Users take a small water sample and mix it with an enzyme substrate a nutrient that activates certain enterobacteria
and computer modeling by an international team that included researchers in China Japan and Pittsburgh as well as at MIT.
The idea for the coating evolved from SLIPS a pioneering surface technology developed by coauthor Joanna Aizenberg Ph d. who is a Wyss Institute Core Faculty member and the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials science at Harvard SEAS.
This year's Nobel prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of how to make blue LEDS allowing everything from more efficient light bulbs to video screens.
While the discovery has had an enormous impact on lighting and displays the slow speed with
and off has limited their use as a light source in light-based telecommunications. In an LED atoms can be forced to emit roughly 10 million photons in the blink of an eye.
Modern telecommunications systems however operate nearly a thousand times faster. To make future light-based communications using LEDS practical researchers must get photon-emitting materials up to speed.
One of the applications we're targeting with this research is said ultrafast LEDS Maiken Mikkelsen an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke.
and Chair of Electrical and Computer engineering at Duke they used computer simulations to determine the exact size of the gap needed between the nanocubes
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