transmitting their instructions in real time via internet from their home country. By virtue of its video camera, screen and wheels, the robot, located in an EPFL laboratory, was able to film itself as it moved
while displaying the face of the remote pilot via Skype. The person at the controls,
as if moving in place of the robot, was able to interact with whoever the robot crossed paths with. ach of the 9 subjects with disabilities managed to remotely control the robot with ease after less than 10 days of training,
and the computer, allowing the pilot to rest while navigating. No difference between healthy and disabled subjects In the end
Mature technology available The positive results of this research bring to a close the European project called TOBI (Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction
The varied approaches were effective in"recruiting"protective monocytes to"lesion sites"in the brain,
extracted from the bone marrow of healthy mouse donors and grafted into the bloodstream, can migrate into the brains of sick mice,
Koronyo added that the study gives unprecedented details about monocyte numbers migrating into brain lesion sites
#Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Created, University of California,
Los angeles (UCLA) Reveals UCLA Researchers Create Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,
A team of researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA has developed a new mobile phone-based device that can read ELISA plates in the field with the same level of accuracy as the large machines normally found in clinical laboratories.
and two other undergraduates also contributed to the research. t is quite important to have these kinds of mobile devices,
and attaches to a smartphone, illuminates the ELISA plate with an array of light-emitting diodes. The light projects through each well and is collected by 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment.
The smartphone transmits the resulting images to UCLA servers through a custom-designed app. The images are analyzed then by a machine-learning algorithm that the researchers wrote for this purpose,
and the diagnostic results are sent back to the phone within about one minute for the entire 96-well plate.
The app also creates a visualization of the results for the user. This mobile platform was compared with the standard FDA-approved well-plate readers in a UCLA clinical microbiology laboratory.
The ELISA tests included those for mumps, measles, and herpes simplex viruses 1 and 2. With a total of 571 patient samples used in the comparison,
and are looking to adapt the basic design of this ELISA cellphone reader to create smartphone-based quantified readers for other important medical tests,
#Detecting potent tumors using a smartphone! Ms Maryam Sadeghi shows off an early version of Molescope (Picture courtesy:
an innovative hand-held tool that uses a smartphone to monitor skin for signs of cancer.
Molescope comprises a mini-microscope that attaches to a smartphone, an app (ios, Android, or web compatible) and a cloud-based analytical platform called Dermengine.
Once people take high-quality, high-resolution images of suspicious moles or skin abnormalities, they can archive images
a sensor comprising multiple tiny test sites. The chip, known as proteo, functions by attracting a faintly luminous substance found in cancer patients,
Mr Hiroaki Ito, a researcher from Showa University, said the preliminary data suggests that the device could be more accurate and effective than existing blood tests."
Through animal and patient database studies, researchers found that women with an anomaly on the MEN1 gene are three times more likely to develop breast cancer at a relatively young age.
This database includes 90 percent of all MEN1 patients which were 16 years or older living in The netherlands;
I have noticed a promising trend the rise of open source drug R&d consortia that include large biotech
and data that can be shared in order to accelerate research at the early stage to collectively reduce costs,
and this has been flat for nearly 20 years (See this blog post)..Other challenges I see include low commercial investment in pediatric medicine and devices, development of effective therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders,
and clinical interpretation of genomic data into pediatric clinical care. At the Technology and Innovation Development Office (TIDO) at Boston Children, we have the honor
drawing on the expertise of our external advisory board made up of pharma, device, diagnostic and software experts,
Leaders from companies like IBM Vertex and Johnson & johnson will interact with thought leaders from leading children hospitals in the US
Most of the attention has focused on initiatives where big pharma offers access to non-core assets to outside researchers in the hope that they will develop them successfully or form collaborations.
Bayer developed an entire website page dedicated to bee care. It holds general information on bees and
and allow them to access information quickly through their smartphones. Nanette Byrnes, writer for the MIT Technology Review, calls this the ew food economy. y combining this information with data generated by soil sensors and weather reports,
farmers could find ways to use water, seed, and fertilizer more efficiently, lowering their costs enough to more than pay for the technology investment
and is popular among Google Ventures, Silicon valley, and Monsanto investors. Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones
One of the stations transmits that information to a main database via cell signal. Larrabee uses his smartphone
or tablet to log on to see that data, which is available almost instantaneously. It is nearly common knowledge that by 2050 farmers will struggle to feed the massive growing population;
this industry relies on innovative technologies and creative investors to ensure economic stability and food for all.
a data modeling firm that Monsanto bought for $930 million in 2013
#Computers can now see images Artificial intelligence has graduated past the infancy stage of figuring out what's in an image.
Computers have previously been capable of little more than a simple game of I Spy: Name a specific object or person,
and they'll show you an image containing it. But thanks to new developments in AI research, machines can now answer more complex questions,
The research was conducted by a team comprised of experts from the Chinese Internet search company Baidu and a student at the University of California at Los angeles,
and coincides with similar research from Microsoft, Virginia Tech, and various other academic institutions that came out recently."
"Our goal is to enable the computer to connect language with experiences in the physical world,
"says Wei Xu, a distinguished scientist in Baidu's research group.""This is important for solving the problem of common sense reasoning."
"Bloomberg put the Baidu and UCLA system to its own test. I took a picture of a small citrus fruit in the palm of my hand,
and sent it to Baidu with the question, "What is in the centre of the hand?"
"The software answered:""An orange."("It's actually a satsuma, but we'll let it slide.)
but teaching computers to discern what's inside of images and associate them with language has proved immensely challenging.
when we may be able to ask a search engine like Google or Baidu to ferret through millions of images,
The development from Baidu and UCLA, while important, is far from perfect. The system can't handle multiple questions in a row
Creating computers that can look at images and answer specific questions about them"has the distinctive advantage of pushing the frontiers on'AI-complete'problems,
"Microsoft says.""Given the recent progress in the community, we believe the time is ripe to take on such an endeavour."
Baidu is interested in other aspects, too.""In the future, potential applications are education and mobile image search,
With the new research, computers have reached a milestone, not unlike that of many young kids figuring out the world.
#Soon, a Mastercard phone app to verify online payments via selfies Mastercard is experimenting with a smartphone app
Users will have to download the Mastercard phone app and at checkout they will be asked to hold up their phone to stare
and blink at it.""The new generation, which is into selfies...I think they'll find it cool.
Currently, users can set up something called"Securecode, "which requires a password when shopping online. However, passwords can be forgotten,
Mastercard said it has partnered with every smartphone maker to make this method of verification possible.
Users who choose facial recognition have to stare at the phone and blink once. Mastercard's security researchers believe blinking is the best way to prevent a thief from just holding up a picture of a person
Mastercard said it does not actually get a picture of the user's finger or face.
The facial recognition scan will map out a user's face, convert it to 1s and 0s and transmit that over the Internet to Mastercard.
Bhalla said Mastercard is also experimenting with voice recognition, so people may be able to simply approve an online transaction by speaking to their phone.
Mastercard is also working with a Canadian firm Nymi, to develop technology that will approve transactions by recognising a person's unique heartbeat t
#Google wants you to buy things straight through Youtube videos (GOOG) Youtube is rolling out a new feature that will let advertisers easily lists goods that they are selling alongside or within their video ads.
and links to their websites on their videos. Now, Youtube is linking videos ads into the same dashboard it uses for Google Shopping,
so instead of manually connecting individual products and ads, advertisers can have added product links automatically. Essentially, Google its taking the technology and infrastructure it built for Shopping
and letting advertisers use it in on Youtube.;With Trueview ads, which the company launched five years ago,
Google only charges advertisers if a viewer doesn't skip their ad and watches for at least 30-seconds or to the end of the video (whichever is less.)
When it rolled out cards, it started charging either for a click or a full-view,
The key is that Youtube bets the greater emphasis on this shopping element will make its ads more effective.
and then the more that Youtube can charge per view. Trueview for shopping is optimized for both desktop and mobile."
"Advertisers had used annotations in the past to make their videos interactive, but these didn't work on all screens
and viewers didn't always know what to expect, "Youtube product Manager Avi Fein told Business Insider via email."
"So with cards and Trueview for shopping we created a very consistent experience that creates a much more engaging and interactive format for viewers."
"Along with the feature announcement, Google also stressed that people are using Youtube to help them make shopping decisions more than ever.
There are now more than 1 million channels on Youtube focused on product reviews, and views of those videos have grown 50%year-over-year.
For example, Wayfair said it saw a 3x revenue increase per ad impression served over its previous Youtube campaigns.
This rollout comes not long after the Wall street journal reported that Google plans to roll out a new"buy"button in its Google Shopping search results that will let users make a purchase without being shuttled to a brands website e
the bulk collection of American phone records by the National security agency will no longer be permitted legally, Spencer Ackerman of the Guardian reports.
since October 2001 that US phone calls weren't collected en masse from America's three largest telecommunications providers.
for another 90-day extension of the order needed to continue the collection of domestic phone records. e did not file an application for reauthorization,
which would ban bulk collection of data by the NSA but renew an expiring provision permitting the FBI to access business records
The section, known as the business-records provision, gave intelligence agencies authorization to seek communications data if he records are relevant to an ongoing foreign intelligence investigation. n appeals court ruled earlier this month that most of the NSA surveillance
Mcconnell, whose bill would continue all phone-records collection by the FBI and NSA, and the rest of the Senate will meet again on May 31.
At that point, discovery was done by literally printing out every possible relevant e-mail for attorneys to sift through.
That print shop got tapped to print the emails for the landmark 2001 Microsoft antitrust case. Wilson recalls printing out piles and piles of Bill gates'and Steve Ballmer's emails
boxing them up, putting them on trucks, and delivering them to the courthouse, where as many as 300 attorneys would be searching them for anything relevant to the case."
000 per gigabyte.""ediscovery sucks, "says Wilson.""It's an insanely inefficient process that would drive any normal human insane."
"The way you pay for ediscovery software from legacy vendors like HP Autonomy and Symantec involves a lot of nickel-and-diming, according to Wilson.
First, you pay for the ediscovery software itself. Then, you pay for having your data processed. Then, you pay to keep your files in the system until the case is resolved
which can take a while, since some lawsuits can take years. Even once those documents are in the ediscovery software,
it usually goes into"really s---y databases, "Wilson says. You can search by keyword,
or by column heading, but you can't do a lot of deep searching. And usually you could only access the database from a Windows computer running an outdated version of Internet explorer,
if you could get to it from the browser at all. Logikcull pricing starts at a flat $2, 000 monthly fee for four cases,
with 50 gigabytes of uploading per month included and $30/GB after that. That may seem expensive,
but remember that it's still a lot less than that $18, 000-per-gigabyte average from other vendors.
Wilson says it can save law firms as much as 80%on their litigation costs. And the e-mails themselves get tagged
Wikimedia Commonsbill Gates gives his deposition during the landmark United states v. Microsoft case. Logikcull got its start as Logik. com,
Charging $2, 500 per gigabyte, Logik. com took in $4. 5 million in revenue and $3 million in profit every year between 2004 and 2009 with only seven employees.
Even without outside investment, Logikcull was able to hire the experts it needed to develop a browser-based, computer-plus-smartphone software solution,
what it will be like to use the iphone as a remote control for your entire home (AAPL) The first home appliances that will work with Homekit, Apple's platform for connecting all of the devices in your home,
and door locks that you can control with your iphone, Apple has added a new support page with a few new details about
Apple's support page says you'll need a third-generation or later Apple TV running software 7. 0 or after.
As long as you're signed into the same Apple ID account on your iphone and Apple TV,
#This US military-funded security company can tell who you are just from the way you touch your phone Passwords could soon be going the way of the dodo as digital security gets more sophisticated.
move your mouse or touch your phone screen. Behaviosec tracks these movements and maps them against past interactions to see
or pressing a phone screen harder the company will let the bank know it thinks someone else is trying to get into your bank account.
"Behaviosec's tech plugs directly into banks apps and websites, so even if you've never downloaded it you may have used it.
and software licensing as people wouldn't be able to share passwords a
#All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web Blendle,
the Dutch startup that allows users to pay small micropayments for individual newspaper and magazine articles rather than having to sign up to digital subscriptions,
has signed just up all the major German national newspapers to its service. Not just some of them all of them.
Blendle users register and enter their credit-card details just once. The service creates a type of digital newsstand that serves a feed of stories about the topics users are interested in,
trending stories, and those that have been curated by their friends or celebrities and public figures.
When users click on a headline, the app or website takes a small payment, with revenue split roughly 30/70 between Blendle and the publisher.
And if readers don't like an article they can get an instant refund if they provide feedback on what wasn't to their liking.
and Alexander Klöpping says it has attracted more than 300,000 users to date. It says Blendle has generated more revenue for Dutch publishers where most of its users are based than Apple.
Back in March The New york times (which is also an investor in Blendle, alongside the German publisher Axel Springer), The Washington post,
"In May, Facebook partnered with nine major news publishers to launch Facebook Instant, a feature that allows the publishers to publish directly to Facebook's mobile app.
And in April Google created a#150 million fund for journalism in Europe, partnering with eight European publishers to invest in training
and research n
#Intel is spending $125 million to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley (INTC) Intel is opening its wallet to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley:
gender and racial imbalance in the workforce. On Tuesday, Intel's investment arm, Intel Capital, launched a new $125 million fund intended to boost women and minority representation in tech.
The fund, called Intel Diversity Fund, will invest in startups run by women and underrepresented minorities.
At launch, it's already committed to invest in and share its network and expertise with four startups, including Brit+Co, Carecloud, Mark One,
and ultimately to benefit Intel and the broader economy through its success,""Intel CEO Brian Krzanich said in a statement.
Today's announcement is part of a bigger plan by Intel, revealed in January called Diversity in Technology initiative.
The plan is to spend $300 million to help train more female engineers and computer scientists,
and to achieve full representation of women and underrepresented minorities in the US workforce by 2020.
'Israel unleashed one of the world's most sophisticated cyber weapons on the Iran talks The computers in three luxury hotels that hosted high-stakes negotiations on Iran's nuclear program were infected with an improved version of one
and borrowed so heavily from Duqu that it'could not have been created by anyone without access to the original Duqu source code,"according to the Journal and Kaspersky's report.
extract files, track any activity that occurs on the infected Windows PC or laptop,"Jeff Bardin,
"This includes the capturing of user ids, passwords, and sensitive files.""Bardian added:""Once the code is installed,
Trojan) on computers through which it sucks information from networks by actions Bardin described as functions of Duqu.
#It's no longer all about ads ere's how publishers, streaming sites, and apps are using subscriptions to boost revenues
While ads account for the bulk of revenue at most publishers, music streaming sites, and on apps, the subscription model is gaining traction.
Internet companies are exploiting the opportunity to boost ARPU (average revenue per user), helped along by recurring payments from a subscriber base.
the categories are video, music, news publishing, social networks/messaging, and dating apps. Access The Full Report And Data sets By Signing Up For A Trial Membership Here are some of the key takeaways:
Success in freemium boils down to offering a core audience exclusive value that can only be accessed beyond a paywall.
The proportion of paying subscribers within the total user base varies considerably across digital media industries.
Here are some of the proportions of subscribers in apps'user bases: Spotify (25%),Whatsapp (21%),Pandora (5%),Match Group (5%),The New york times (3),
%and Linkedin (2%).The report is full of charts, data, and case studies that can easily be downloaded
#Dropbox found a brilliant way to add a lot of new users by killing email attachments On Wednesday,
allowing users to request and receive files from non-Dropbox users. The goal is to make sharing big files even easier,
and possibly replace email attachments. But the service is designed cleverly in a way that also introduce Dropbox to a ton of new users.
The way it works is pretty simple: users send out file requests by email, and the recipient can upload files up to 2gb in size to a designated Dropbox folder,
without having to log in. For example, teachers can collect homework assignments all in one go in a single folder,
from both existing and non-Dropbox users, forgoing the need to go through multiple email attachments or physical copies.
This could potentially replace email attachments, as it offers bigger file limits and a more convenient way to upload files.
But the bigger play here is to introduce Dropbox to a much larger set of people.
multiple people, some of whom may not be Dropbox users yet, will get to try Dropbox. Dropbox calls it a any-to-onesharing model,
where a single file request attracts a group users. That means the new file request feature could play an even bigger role for Dropbox once it becomes available for Dropbox for Business in the next few weeks.
It available for Dropbox Basic and Pro users from today. Dropbox is counting on Dropbox for Business,
and sharing is far more common among business users than consumers, Dropbox could tap into a huge untapped market whol get introduced to its service for the first time through a simple file request.
Dropbox is by far the most popular file sync and sharing service, with over 300 million users worldwide.
It has over 100,000 business users, including MIT, Under Armour, and Hyatt
#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
This represents a breakthrough in terms of three dimensional printing of electronic circuits. Polymers are poor conductors of electricity
"One day, people may simply download 3d printing files from the Internet with customized shapes and colors and print out useful devices at home."
The research has been published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, in an article headed"3d printed microelectronics for integrated circuitry and passive wireless sensors. e
and perforated to guide users in construction, but features no written instructions, making it universally understandable.
Recently, Prakash also developed a computer than runs on water droplets. The droplets are suspended in a magnetic field
effectively serving as a computer clock, an essential piece of any working computer. More than just helping combat disease
For the last two years, Amal Graafstra, the founder and CEO of the Seattle-based company, has sold implantable devices including near-field communication (NFC) chips, radio-frequency identification chips (RFID), biomagnets,
Dangerous Things/Facebookimplanting a RFID tag only takes a few minutes and is a relatively painless procedure.
For example, Graafstra, who has an RFID chip implanted in each hand, has stopped almost completely using keys and passwords.
and unlock doors and log into his computer and password-secured websites. He even rigged his motorcycle
If you have enabled a NFC phone like most major Android phones, you can also unlock it with an implanted device just by holding it.
Dangerous Thingsbiohacking kits range in price from about $40 to $100. This RFID kit comes with everything needed to perform an implant.
Eventually, implantable devices could even be tied to your bank account so that you can make transactions, Graafstra said.
Prices for products range from $39 for a basic RFID/NFC glass tag to $99 for a NFC injection kit and take only a few minutes to implant into the hands.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved RFID chips for human implantation in 2004.
Dangerous Thingsgraafstra has a RFID tag in each of his hands. e have been picking up things like rocks
and demonstrates how the RFID tag implanted in his hand can be used to unlock a smart doorlock.
#Google has a brilliant new tool for avoiding long lines at stores and restaurants Google has added a new tool to its search bar that helps people avoid long lines at stores and restaurants.
The feature reveals peak traffic hours for millions of businesses on every day of the week,
the company said in a blog post. The tool is accessed by searching for a retailer,
"Google's post reads.""Now, you can avoid the wait and see the busiest times of the week at millions of places and businesses around the world directly from Google search.
For example, just search for"Blue Bottle Williamsburg,"tap on the title and see how busy it gets throughout the day
#Smartphone skin cancer app developed by Vancouver dermatologist A new smartphone app for monitoring skin cancer made its debut at the World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver on Tuesday.
I don't have to wait 12 months to use a doctor's phone or...camera to look at my mole.
"The app works by attaching a mini-microscope to a smartphone camera, which takes images of skin moles
Maryam Sadeghi shows off an early version of Molescope, an app for smartphones and ipads that people can use to monitor for signs of skin cancer.
"Usually what I try to do is get good images with my iphone hovering over the dermatoscope,
The app currently only runs on ios, with an Android version in the works e
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