At its core is a tiny raftmade up of three ubesats which are essentially tiny spacecraft that can be launched relatively cheaply.
In total, the core of the vehicle weighs 22lbs (10kg) and is just 11.8-inches (30cm) high and 3. 9-inches (10cm) wide-about the size of a loaf of bread.
chief executive of The Planetary Society Bill Nye said in a webcast after the launch. On this particular flight,
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
The chart displays letters that get progressively smaller in size. The benchmark, and vision that is considered healthy and'normal,
A basis for'normal'was determined using a large database of test results. By comparison 20/40 vision means the test subject sees at 20ft what a'normal'person sees at 40ft.
Elsewhere, ioptik announced at last year's CES it had developed contact lenses that allow the wearer to see high-definition virtual screens.
In particular, the system lets them see projected digital information, such as driving directions and video calls. The tiny'screens,
'which are the invention of Washington-based group Innovega, sit directly on a users'eyeballs
and work with a pair of lightweight glasses. Google is also working on'smart lenses'that contain a control circuit, an image capture component and an image sensor.
The system can be linked wirelessly to a mobile phone for data access and to issue commands via audio,
although it is unclear if the lens would be powered wirelessly or have wired a link to a battery. l
Immense black holes are common at the cores of galaxies, but finding one this big so'far back'in the cosmos is rare.
The discovery was made by Nasa as it was combing through data from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise),
000 A Japanese electronics firm is selling a 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon that can be controlled by an iphone,
A company called Emotiv adapted a $499 (£324) gaming headset that lets wearers control on-screen and physical objects with their brain as part of a racing game.
A riveris wired up to the electroencephalography (EEG) headset and the device is trained to read their unique brain patterns.
They first clear their mind to train the headset to their neutral state and then think of a repetitive task that will be associated with driving the car.
Once the headset has been calibrated, the game begins and the driver can control the shoebox-sized vehicle by thinking about their repetitive task.
The Emotive headsets are embedded with sensors that record electrical activity along the wearer scalp, forehead and above the right ear.
and these patterns are converted to commands using a brain-computer interface. The technology is currently a proof-of-concept
and there are no immediate plans to release the game and headset. However, the EPOC Emotiv headset is available from $499 (£324)
and it will work with existing brain-computer interface games and software that work with EEG readings.
The Emotiv headset used for the demonstration is called Insight and is available to buy now. WOLVERINE-SUPER-HEALING POWERSIN the X men films, Wolverine has mutant powers
which mean he can heal himself-even when he shot, or is thrown from a building. And researchers in the US are working on an implant that would make this useful superhuman ability to heal a reality.
In the body peripheral nervous system, neuromodulation monitors the status of organs and manages how they respond to disease.
By electronically recording data about individual's physical attributes such as fingerprints or iris patterns, security and law enforcement services can quickly identify people with a high degree of accuracy.
and public anxiety around having such sensitive data captured, stored, and accessed. We have researched this area by presenting people with potential future scenarios that involved biometrics.
For example, implementing biometric identification in smart phones and other everyday objects such as computers or cars could make people see the technology as useful and easy to operate.
This may increase their willingness to adopt such systems.''I could imagine this becoming normalised to a point where you don't really worry about it,
'The implementation of biometric systems is not just dependent on user acceptance or resistance. Before iris-scanning technology could be introduced in the EU,
The very fact that long-range iris scanners can capture data without the collaboration of their subject also creates legal issues.
and the existence of their rights surrounding the data. Another issue is how the data is kept secure, particularly in the case of iris-scanning by objects such as smart phones.
Scans stored on the device and/or on the cloud for purposes of future authentication would legally require robust security protection.
Data stored on the cloud tends to move around between different servers and countries, which makes preventing unauthorised access more difficult.
And processing data accurately is another principle of EU data protection law. Even if we do find ourselves subject to unwanted iris-scanning from 40ft (12 metres),
#Nasa joins US government project to create'Google for the deep web'that could uncover cyber criminals,
paedophiles and drug dealers in the online underworld The deep web is a hive of illegal activity,
But because it is buried'so deep it is considered out of the reach of mainstream search engines and many law enforcement agencies-until now.
'When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren't the whole story,
The Internet contains a vast trove of information-sometimes called the'Deep Web'-that isn't indexed by search engines:
According to Nasa, scientists could also use it to search for images and data from spacecraft.
for example, help catalog the vast amounts of data NASA spacecraft deliver on a daily basis.'We're developing next-generation search technologies that understand people, places,
'We're augmenting Web crawlers to behave like browsers-in other words, executing scripts and reading ads in ways that you would
'This information is catalogued normally not by search engines, 'Mattmann said. Additionally, a standard Web search doesn't get much information from images and videos,
but Memex can recognize what's in this content and pair it with searches on the same subjects.
The video and image search capabilities of Memex could one day benefit space missions that take photos, videos and other kinds of imaging data with instruments such as spectrometers.
Scientists analyzing imaging data from Earth-based missions that monitor phenomena such as snowfall and soil moisture could similarly benefit.
Memex would also enhance the search for published scientific data, so that scientists can be better aware of
Memex would make PDF documents more easily searchable and allow users to more easily arrive at the information they seek.
Awareness of existing publications also helps program managers to assess the impact of spacecraft data.
All of the code written for Memex is open-source. JPL is one of 17 teams working on it as part of the DARPA initiative.
and analyzing large amounts of data, with defense, government and civilian applications. JPL was one of 24 groups involved.'
'We are developing open source, free, mature products and then enhancing them using DARPA investment and easily transitioning them via our roles to the scientific community,
'Today's web searches use a centralised, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the internet with the same set of tools for all queries.'
'But common search practices miss information in the deep web-the parts of the web not indexed by standard commercial search engines
-and ignore shared content across pages.''Memex was designed to overcome these challenges by extending'the reach of current search capabilities
The software scours all aspects of the web-including those hidden in the dark net-to create data maps that might reveal clues about illegal activity.
or porn sites featuring the same email addresses or phone numbers. These patterns could reveal links that human investigators could miss,
search results and interface tools to individual users and specific subject areas, and not the other way around,'said Chris White, Darpa program manager.'
Ease of use for non-programmers is essential.''The Memex program gets its name from a hypothetical device described in'As We May Think'-a 1945 article for The Atlantic Monthly.
It would store and automatically cross-reference all of the user's books, records and other information.
'would let users quickly search large amounts of information, and gain insights from it. Targeting the deep web is also an initiative being developed in the UK.
In December the UK government said a specialist unit was being set up to hunt down paedophiles using the dark net to share child pornography.
and communications to trace the'digital footprints'left by the users who share them. Prime minister David cameron said the new unit is aimed at'shining a light on the web's darkest corners'as he announced a package of measures to tackle online child abuse.
The National Crime Agency estimates that around 20,000 people from the UK use secret or encrypted networks each day.
The dark net consists of a network of encoded websites that sit behind the publicly available websites
and cannot be found with normal search engines. It came to prominence in 2012 when the FBI made a series of raids on Silk road-an online marketplace described as the'ebay for illegal drugs'.
'Figures compiled by the National Crime Agency suggest that use of the dark net rose by two thirds in 2012.
Hidden capabilities that let users email and host file storage through encrypted and anonymous networks are provided by services the The Onion Router (Tor).
Tor users currently represent 0. 18 per cent of the total number of internet uses in the UK.
However, in a recent investigation, GCHQ and the NCA were able to track down a British man who had been maintaining chat rooms
and websites in the Far east and Eastern europe that were used to share child pornography around the world.
and was using software to keep himself anonymous. Analysis by experts at GCHQ allowed them to trace the man
'The US Department of agriculture panel, which has been given the task of overhauling the guidelines every five years,
#NSA testing smartphones that can tell who you are by the way you write: Handwriting recongition system The NSA is set to begin using smartphone software that can recognise a person by the way they write.
The software, called Mandrake and developed by Lockheed martin, verifies a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual's finger strokes on a touch screen.
Experts say it could be far more reliable than traditional passwords, and it virtually impossible to fake.'
'Nobody else has the same strokes,'John Mears, senior fellow for Lockheed IT and Security Solutions, told Nextgov. com.'People can forge your handwriting in two dimensions,
'We've done work with the NSA for secure gesture authentication as a technique for using smartphones,
The firm says it is a'defense-grade secure workspace solution for ios and Android devices that keeps all corporate email, browsing,
documents and applications encrypted, contained, and UNDER IT control no matter who owns the device.''It will enable smartphone
and tablet users to authenticate into Fixmo Safezone with a simple, user-defined gesture, which has been proven to be more secure and far easier to use than a 14-character complex,
randomly generated password.''The system potentially could be used for emergency responders who often don't have the time
The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
which each team will develop its own hardware and software. CHIMP is designed with static stability;
even if it experiences a computer glitch or power failure.''When we walk or stand, our brains are actively controlling our balance all of the time,
#Google confirms Buy button is'imminent':'Search giant to take on Amazon and ebay with shopping from search results Google is set to allow people to buy directly from search results.
The search giant's chief business officer Omid Kordestani confirmed the move at the Code Conference today.'
'90%of commerce is still offline, mobile devices are perfect for guiding people, 'Kordestani described the product launch as a way to remove friction for users
so they buy more things onlinereports in the Wall street journal suggested earlier this month the search giant was planning to rollout a'Buy'button on its Shopping tab.
Purchases would still be made from the original retailer, and Google won't reportedly receive any commission,
but it has been designed to streamline the process. According to the report, the buttons would appear alongside paid search results on mobile in the'Shop on Google'section.
When a potential shopper clicks the button they will be taken to a specially designed product page
within the Google search engine. The buttons will be rolled out on a'small number of searches, 'although details about which retailers-and what the partnerships will entail-have not been released.
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
when the user is signed into their Google account on the browser being used. The service may also take advantage of the site's same-day delivery service
Google Shopping Express. It is only currently available in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan, San francisco, WASHINGTON DC, West Los angeles. An overnight option is additionally available in Northern California.
Google is not commenting on the news, but it follows Facebook's plans to rival ebay with its latest secondhand selling tools.
Earlier this year Facebook made it easier to get rid of unwanted secondhand goods by adding official Sell buttons to its site.
And now the social network is helping buyers find these goods by expanding its search tool
and adding category filters. Similar to how categories appear on ebay Facebook now lets users sort
and find'For sale'posts across multiple groups based on the item being sold. These categories include Appliances, Event Tickets, Household Items, Mobile phones, Real estate and Rentals and more. e
#Chinese researchers at Tzekwan Technology unveil face-recognition ATM MACHINE By Edward Chow For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 1 june 2015 Updated:
13:48 GMT, 1 june 2015 Chinese engineers have developed a cash machine that uses facial features-instead of the traditional PIN number-to identify card owners.
The device, which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.
The cutting-edge technology was unveiled during a press conference on Saturday, reported the People's Daily Online.
When a user inserts a bank card into the device, the built-in camera will immediately start scanning his or her facial features.
A small window will pop up on the upper left corner of the screen to show the process.'
'If the face of the user does not match the ID photo that is used to open the account,
then the user will not be able to withdraw funds from the account, 'says a bank spokesman to Shanghai-based Dragon TV.
Engineers gathered data before it splashed down. Darryl Davis, president of Boeing Phantom Works, which built the Waverider,
and their audio features can be controlled using a smartphone app. Using innovative technologies they block out certain sounds,
and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth. They can also be recharged twice fully in a charging case.
users can adjust the volume of their surroundings as heard through the earbuds. With the live music equaliser
users can also alter the bass and treble of a musician or band singing at a gig.
The user can also create new algorithms by recording a new sound, presumably by recording certain sounds so the earbuds can recognise them.'
'Here is meant not to replace your headphones, headsets, or earbuds,'the company said.''The Here Active Listening System is designed for live listening environments,
they don lose quality or efficiency for 37 years, according to his website. Speaking in a video, Dyson said his greatest innovation to date is the ability to cool LEDS
vertically and rotationally with the touch of a fingertip, the website says. While conventional lights usually rely on springs
Dyson claims the light could save users up to £1, 200 ($1, 835) over 37 years.
The compound could also be used to make mobile phone screens that fix themselves and hardy nail polish where chips are repaired automatically.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
#Samsung's smart MIRROR shows weather, traffic information and even Facebook notifications as you brush your teeth You could soon see traffic delays as you take your morning shower,
or catch up with what's been happening on Twitter as you get dressed thanks to Samsung's latest display technology.
and Transparent OLED display solutions,'said Samsung. The technology consists of a 55-inch mirror fitted with a transparent OLED on the front.
It is fitted with Intel's Real Sense technology, which uses 3d cameras to track the viewer and display clothes and other items virtually,
as if they were wearing them. Together, Samsung said the technology creates a'virtual fitting room'that will be used to help people see themselves wearing clothes
A spokeman added that the Samsung Mirror Display may also replace home mirrors in the future, showing digital information to homeowners in the same space where they now just have a traditional mirror.
It is not the first company to use technology in this way, but Samsung said its Mirror OLED display panel has more than 75 per cent reflectance level
compared to eight milliseconds on LCD transparent panels. Samsung's Mirror Display technology also does need not the ambient backlight for displaying on-screen images that LCD technology does.
Elsewhere, Samsung's Transparent Display uses Real Sense 3d-rotatable viewing systems, with full HD video playback.
These displays could be used to show adverts, public and transport information or be used in hotels and shops.
Intel Real Sense features a front-facing camera that captures subtle facial movements, precisely tracks widely varying finger
and hand movements, and clearly distinguishes between backgrounds and foregrounds. In addition, the Intel technology includes a rear-facing camera that can accurately scan
and measure rooms and objects, and a snapshot camera that can alter a photo's background after a photo has been taken.'
'We are excited very to help bring a new interactive dimension to the world of multi-channel shopping through the integration of our newest OLED displays with Intel Realsense technology,
'said Oseung Yang, vice president, Samsung Display Company y
#Holus, Star wars-style'holobox',creates virtual 3d worlds and makes holo calls By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
The team at makers H+claim Holus can convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or phone into a 3d image,
and a Wi-fi and Bluetooth connection to connect to different devices. The gadget is viewable from four different angles with 360-degree,
'Four distinct are stitched together by algorithms provided in our applications and software development kit (SDK),
which can track users.''Based on this dynamic perspective, algorithms are computed then in order to achieve holographic effect on any digital content through Holus.'
'He said that software will let designers and artists connect devices to Holus with little programming.
Holus comes in two versions-a Home edition with two smartphone charging docks, and a Pro version with an HDMI port and SDK tool so developers to use other devices with the Holus and come up with new uses for it.
It is suggested currently that the device can be used by a group of people to play games face-to-face sitting round a table.
A video also shows it conjuring a 3d solar-system, meaning it can be used as an educational tool,
and display its content from all sides. he Holus Pro can also olofydigital models before 3d printing
The ability for the super-thin material to produce light is seen as a key step to create super-thin computer and TV screens.
'He added that the light'will pave the way towards the realisation of atomically thin, flexible and transparent displays'.
this can also include radio waves, lasers and even sound waves. The microwave gun is evidence of plans by Russia to modernise its armed forces,
Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
who intends to beam the internet to Earth from space. Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
The system will bring more than 10 Terabits per second of new capacity to rural areas around the globe
enabling rapid iteration and development of space related technologies. neweb plan involves 20 groups of low-orbiting satellites being connected to small terminals on the ground that would act as hubs to link to phones and computers.
whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups. r Musk has said previously that he expects his service to handle 10 per cent of all Internet traffic
However, it not clear how the Internet will be eamedto smartphones and other devices On earth. Each satellite will be placed at a height of 750 miles (1
200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online, by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
gyro-stabilised platform controlled by a computer on the ISS. The computers cancels out in real-time,
any vibrations caused by movements of the ISS, while keeping the camera pointed at different areas for about a minute at a time.
which boasts a 5-metre-per-pixel-resolution. Russian cosmonauts took a spacewalk in January outside the ISS to complete the camera work on the Earth-observing cameras.
For example, a real-time view of Earth will give scientists a powerful tool to monitor climate change.
Premium accounts for enable users paying a fee to track an area without sharing it with others
and to monitor larger areas of interest as well as applying image processing techniques to reveal data. Urthecast said it plans to install two more cameras on the station
These cameras will double the resolution of the existing technology, from one metre per pixel on the ground to half a metre e
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
These new phyla were found from just one site using samples of groundwater in Colorado
10:54 GMT, 24 june 2015 Google and Blocks may be leading the way when it comes to modular phones and watches,
but Ford is hoping to bring the concept to your morning commute. At a conference in California, the car maker unveiled its latest prototype folding electric bike called Mode:
Link, currently only compatible with the iphone 6. This app acts as a sat-nav
Link app for use on the smartwatch to bring real-time data to the rider's wrist.
#The full colour'skin screen'you can wear as clothing: Radical technology could let you alter your outfit instantly By Mark Prigg For Dailymail. com Published:
Researchers have unveiled the first fully flexible colour screen, and say it if so flexible it can be worn.
'All manmade displays-LCD, LED, CRT-are rigid, brittle and bulky. But you look at an octopus,
flexible thin-film reflective display. Chanda's research was inspired by nature, he said. Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
But animals like chameleons, octopuses and squids are born with thin flexible, colour-changing displays that don't need a light source-their skin.'
'That was the motivation: Can we take some inspiration from biology and create a skin-like display?'
'The team is able to change the colour on an ultrathin nanostructured surface by applying voltage.
full-colour tunable display. The display is only about few microns thick, compared to a 100-micron-thick human hair.
Such an ultrathin display can be applied to flexible materials like plastics and synthetic fabrics. The research has major implications for existing electronics like televisions,
computers and mobile devices that have considered displays thin by today's standards but monstrously bulky in comparison.
But the potentially bigger impact could be whole new categories of displays that have never been thought of.'
'Your camouflage, your clothing, your fashion items-all of that could change, 'Chanda said.''Why would I need 50 shirts in my closet
'This is a cheap way of making displays on a flexible substrate with full-color generation,
but to stay, she was quoted as saying by Motherboard. This oolkitwill involve genetically engineering organisms of all types,
A newly developed software called DTA GVIEW dubbed the oogle Maps of genomes, will help scientists correlate information on organisms.
Oblivion software could help Google remove hundreds of people from the web in seconds By Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
15:10 GMT, 26 june 2015 In the year since the European Court of Justice ruled that anyone can ask Google to remove personal information about them,
the site has evaluated more than one million links. Each request has to be verified and processed by a dedicated team of people,
and New zealand have developed an algorithm capable of analysing hundreds of such requests in seconds. And they hope to offer it to Google,
and other search engines, to help them manage future demands. Called Oblivion the software allows a user to automatically find
and tag their personal information on the web, using both text-or natural language processing (NLP)- and image recognition.
They are taken then to a form where they can securely and privately file their request with the relevant URLS.
To confirm their identity, the user sends a digital copy of their ID to what the researchers described as a certificate authority (CA)- a separate body designed to securely handle the data.
This software confirms their name, age, address and nationality. Oblivion will then check the webpages the user wants to remove
and tag relevant references. Following the tagging process Oblivion sends the request and tagged pages to Google who confirms the details match with those in the article,
and if they do, the user is given an'ownership token'.'These tokens are linked then with the information on the request form
and both are submitted to Google's takedown team. The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany,
have tested Oblivion on existing articles and found it to be capable of handling 278 removal requests per second.
This is on a standard notebook running a 2. 5 GHZ dual core processor, suggesting more powerful computers could process higher numbers.
The final takedown decision still needs to be made by a human because the variables, including the public interest defense,
needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis . But Oblivion would speed up this process and confirm the validity of the claims within seconds.'
'Search results typically comprise a variety of sources that contain personal information -either intentionally released by the person herself,
At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed 41%of those it has processed fully (interactive module above).
these technical means consist of a web form that requires a user to manually identify all relevant links herself upfront
and to insert them into the web form, followed by a manual evaluation by employees of the indexing system to assess
'At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed more than 41 per cent of those it has processed fully.
Last week France's data watchdog gave Google just two weeks to extend the'right to be forgotten'ruling to all of its domains.
because Google only deletes the information from searches made through European domains, such as google. fr or google. es.
By switching to a non-European Google domain, such as Google. com, internet users can still access the deleted links relatively easily.
Google added that Facebook accounted for the largest number of deleted URLS. But not all requests are granted,
only those deemed by Google to be valid. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of CNIL, said the order to remove search results globally'is only telling international companies that operate in Europe that they must conform to European law'.
'Google said that it is working to comply with the EU decision, but did not say
'The ruling focussed on services directed to European users, and that's the approach we are taking in complying with it.'
'If Google does not meet the deadline, it faces a relatively insignificant maximum fine of#150,000 (£110, 000).
if Google fails to meet the deadline, it would begin compiling a report about the company that would be used to decide
if the search engine should be sanctioned. h
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