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According to the official website, parks, playgrounds, sports fields, allotments and cemeteries will be connected to form a network,

particularly in the US. think it is fair to use our data to look at similar trends in say, France or England,

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through the Kickstarter crowdfunding website to enable people to have their own personal spacecraft, known as a sprite.

Those fitted with magnetometers like the ones that provide your smartphone compass will transmit data about the Earth magnetic field.

ee using a lot of the components that have been developed for smartphones to make these tiny satellites possible.

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and understand everything that made an engine run, now the proliferation of sensors, computers, and safety devices makes this near impossible.

and is given computer-generated instructions on what to disassemble, in what order. The glasses the mechanic is wearing contain small screens to provide an overlay of computer-generated images on the real world augmented reality (AR.

From Google glass competitors, to contact lenses with built-in displays, this tech is coming in part enabled by the wide adoption of smartphones.

It seems to be almost waiting for people to come up with novel applications for it.

The Augmented reality maintenance and service support system is named Marta (Mobile Augmented reality Technical assistance) and will provide instructions to help identify

Smartphone repair kit? As well as car companies using the technology internally to help engineers and mechanics, it is increasingly being made available to the rest of us.

Audi has released recently a mobile phone app in Europe that can identify over 200 elements on the inside of a car.

It is a user manual, and then some, with the ability to pick out what the camera is being aimed at,

The driver would simply point their smartphone camera in the general direction of the problem. t scans the engine,

a reliable AR app on their phone still needs to be able to identify that it is looking at an engine.

Computers have a much harder time. Is a straight edge a part of the car, or part of the building it is parked near?

they will simply turn to their phone, or tablet, for help, which will replace complicated paper-based instructions. o couple AR with the user manual is the next logical step.

It kind of surprising we don see this more than we do already, says Dr Jeffrey Miller, at the University of Southern California Computer science Dept,

and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). So the car of the future may come with one simple instruction DON read the manual t

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#Is this the year that green racing finally takes off? Motorsport has traditionally been speed about noise

running cars on ethanol and turning its race meets into centres for recycling everything from waste engine oil to old mobile phones.

At the end of the simulation some interesting statistics are displayed on the screen. Over a 200-lap race, in a conventional car,

But the computer claimed that using the biofuel mix, and some regenerative braking, I would only have used 39 gallons (147 litres) of gasoline.

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#How the world's tiniest film can transform computers Researchers at IBM have made the world's smallest movie.

Possibly quite a lot about the future of data storage and memory capacity. Research into atomic-scale memory focuses on the#ability to move single atoms, one of the smallest particles of any element in the universe.#

#In 2012, IBM scientists announced the creation of the world's smallest magnetic memory bit,

BBC Future met researcher Andreas Heinrich in his laboratory at IBM's Almaden Research center in California,

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#Would you take smart drugs to perform better at work? Would you let your child get on a bus driven by someone on mind-altering drugs?

What about having an operation conducted by a surgeon taking stimulant pills? Unappealing at first glance; however would your opinion change

While accurate data on the use of cognitive enhancers is lacking, there have been a few small surveys.

But the legality is of little relevance as customers turn to internet pharmacies to obtain them.

if we have data from larger studies into the effects of these drugs. The question is who would be willing to carry these tests out.

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#Will China have an Apollo moment? Huddled around television sets, a nation waits with baited breath as a spacecraft door is opened.

Slowly an astronaut emerges, the blackness of space behind him. He gestures to the camera before edging his way out.

Apollo spurred many advances, from portable cordless vacuums to microchips in your computer. China is hoping for a similar effect to make it more competitive globally.

One user posted in response on the social media site Weibo, according to CNN: The US used to be proud of their space class,

The countries vast and beautiful landscape filled the screen, before cutting to the familiar and grainy Apollo landing footage.

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#Africa, Clooney and an unlikely space race What do George Clooney and Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir have in common?

They both have their eyes on space #and in particular, harnessing the satellites orbiting above Africa's skies.

The satellites it put into the space provide everything from high-resolution imagery to monitor the country's shrinking farmland, to cheaper wireless and internet coverage.

satellite technology has played a role in everything from telecommunications, broadcasting and GPS mapping to weather forecasting for agriculture and climate monitoring.

#Over 70%of Africans have mobile phones, according to a recent report from Mckinsey, a global consulting firm#and satellites have made often it easier to connect remote areas,

citing mobile phones, agricultural activities, and aviation.""If we want to use the applications, we need to know the hard part of science.#

and control of data and information generated. When it comes to what happens over Africa's skies,

A satellite captures real-time imagery of Sudan, enabling a team of analysts to monitor troop movements, bombings and other aggressive activities by al-Bashir in the disputed border areas between Sudan

and Information technologies"to liberate Africa from the technological domination #and establish the Afrispace space agency. As it happens,

or society website was loaded with incomplete or broken content#some were not even functioning. On one call to Ethiopia's former Minister of Capacity Building,

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#Potato power: the spuds that could light the world Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes.

ut enough to construct a battery that could charge mobile phones or laptops in places where there is no grid,

no power connection. Their cost analyses suggested that a single boiled potato battery with zinc and copper electrodes generates portable energy at an estimated $9 per kilowatt hour,

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and computer monitors. He is investigating the precise details of what happens when fuel injection systems squirt petrol or diesel into the cylinders

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many people are turning to the internet to educate themselves, switch careers, or change their life.

but the fact that two-thirds of the world population still doesn have access to the internet means that a large proportion of people are excluded from this.

It is open source, so anyone can download it, download the content to fill in the gaps,

There are several initiatives trying to connect the entire world to the internet, but the needs of unconnected communities need to be addressed now,

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#Moocs data offers promise of perfect teaching One day, Sebastian Thrun ran a simple and surprising experiment on a class of students that changed his ideas about how they were learning.

But what matters is that the data was unequivocal and crucially it challenged conventional assumptions about teaching,

It was an early example of a trend promising to transform online education the exploitation of huge amounts of data about how people actually learn.

and keyboard stroke a student makes, and this is revealing patterns of learning behaviour that are difficult, if not impossible,

This wealth of data is only available thanks to the recent rise in popularity of Moocs (massive open online courses),

which offer anyone with access to the internet the chance to sign up for university courses and study them for free.

offering a unique opportunity to monitor student behaviour during lessons in unprecedented detail. You can even monitor mouse clicks. e collect tracking data such as

whether they press pause or play at certain parts of a video, says Chuong Do, a software engineer and leader of the data analytics team at Coursera.

For starters, such data helps Coursera group participants into different types of student, such as those who watch all the lectures and complete all the assignments, others who lose interest over time,

and those that like to watch the videos but have no interest in completing any homework.

a Phd student at the Lytics Lab at Stanford university, the style of presentation on a computer screen can make a big difference to learning.

But those students who preferred to be taught verbally were much better off with the instructor face permanently in one corner of the screen. hat this result suggests is need a for adaptive systems,

Mooc data is also revealing how to best motivate students online. Joseph Jay Williams and other researchers at Stanford university

alongside Jascha Sohl-Dickstein at nonprofit online education provider Khan academy, added messages above mathematics problems on the Khanacademy. org website to keep students motivated

when they lipped ininformation within an email that focused more on the positive achievements students had made that week,

For example, some researchers are working on using facial recognition to identify via webcam whether students are following the lesson

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emails and tweets arrived. Messages such as re u okay??or tay away from Westgate! packed my inbox as they did for many others in the city.

and emails as long as batteries lasted desperately hoping for rescue, or information on a passage to safety.

Nearly three quarters of humans on this planet are tethered practically to their mobile phones. Yet it is only during emergencies that we realise how precious this connection is to our lives.

Early signs suggest that the rise in mobile phone ownership is beginning to mitigate the impact of emergencies and natural disasters.

but argues that technology played a significant role in reducing the human toll specifically ownership of phones,

because 99%of the population has access to a mobile phone and could receive early warnings

And in the US, Wireless Emergency Alerts from the Federal Emergency Management Agency now warn people of severe weather and other hazards

with a special sound and vibration on their phones. The UK government is also piloting both SMS

and ell broadcasttechnology to send emergency alerts to phones in areas at risk of flooding or industrial accidents.

twitter, phone or email, during Kenya 2007-2008 post-election violence. Distress alert During the Westgate siege, Hersman and

However, the Ping website also allows one person to send out a mass text message to a preprogrammed list of contacts, saying, essentially, re you safe?

the same message is sent then via secondary and tertiary channels, like email, Twitter and Whatsapp. f it doesn't hear from the primary person,

it goes to their next contact and tries them as a backup says Hersman, ust in case the guy/gal had a late night drinking session

and is just not waking up, their spouse or roommate can check in for them. Ping responses are filed into three categories:

Their first product, Usalamame App for Android, introduces a digital anic buttonwidget to your phone home screen that sends a distress message with your exact location to preselected contacts.

One advantage of the app is that unlike other similar products such as Redpanic Button for iphones,

it doesn require internet connection. If your data signal or GPS is switched off, Usalama pinpoints your nearest location by using your cell service provider,

and sends that information via a text message to your recipients. The company also offers a portable PS Panic Buttondevice,

says Talbot. ften they are more traditional technologies, like mobile phones. It is impossible to prevent many emergencies and natural disasters from happening,

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All you need is servers and business development managers. So far, Badir has supported over 70 companies,

which links usersaddresses with their mobile phone number to make deliveries easier; physical residence addresses don exist in much of Saudi.

helped spearhead Facebook Arabic user growth. He now a echnology evangelistfor the country. his number of Saudi students outside the country has happened not in 13 years,

Prince Fahad quit Facebook and hopped on a plane back to Saudi, itching to gnite the cultureof entrepreneurship and new media,

like drinking water and energy but these entrepreneurs are building a different economy. audi is the largest consumer of Youtube content per capita in the world,

More than 90 million Youtube views per day come from the Kingdom. Saudis are also the biggest content producers in the region 40%of Arabic tweets

In 2011,39%of internet users, approximately three million people, bought products and services online. According to economists, Saudi e-commerce sales are now over $4bn per year,

and customers send their orders via Whatsapp. nstagram is better than a website, because it much easier.

Dr Jaser says the internet as well as slowly loosening restrictions for women makes starting businesses for women ore accessible hen

the first website in Saudi arabia that helps women find jobs. Last month, India largest IT company, Tata announced plans to build an ll-female services centrein the country next year.

and Glowork database, which has registered now over 1. 2 million unemployed Saudi women between 18 and 35,

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The site recently started featuring apartment rentals with Walk Scores prominently displayed#a different way to place value on

#Google maps'addition of walking, biking and transport options to its directions has been the greatest game-changer for increasing walking.

With Google glass and other augmented reality devices, the route information we receive on our smartphones will be displayed in the urban environment, in real time.

#The signs, in a sense, convert the invisible app data into a kind of value proposition for the walker.

A site called#Walkonomics#takes into consideration eight additional factors ranging from safety to beauty when ranking walkability.

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#Electric cars: Big data helps designs shift gears You wouldn't think that anybody would care about your drive to the supermarket to buy milk.

Electric car makers have begun poring over a wealth of data on how their vehicles are used. The information promises to provide insights about how people drive that were impossible to gain on such a large scale before#from charging habits to the ways people adapt to life with an electric car.

electric cars are equipped with computers, sensors, and wireless connections that allow drivers to voluntarily share information on their driving

Usually a new owner will be prompted to opt-in to sharing location data, in a similar way to a new smartphone owner might be.

Trip information is collected by the vehicle's computer, including start and end times of journeys, connect and disconnect times of chargers,

and the battery level. Cars with GPS navigation systems can also collect detailed information about routes.

The Volt, for example, is fitted with Chevrolet's Onstar communication system that can broadcast driver data via its cellular connection.

Manufacturers promote these data collection services as a bonus to consumers, helping them save fuel and money,

or allowing them to see stats on their car via a mobile phone app, but the information is also a goldmine for car makers.

One of the best examples of just how much data is available came earlier this year

"We actually have data now, #says Mike Tinskey at Ford motor company.""We know our customer better than we've ever known them before because of these telematics.#

#He and others discussed their initial findings at the recent Plug in 2013 conference in California,

Ford's data shows that electric vehicles, including hybrids, are being driven about 203,000 miles every day in the United states,

Data from the Nissan leaf, meanwhile, has thrown up a few surprises. It has a range of about 75 miles (120 km) between charges,

"A lot of our cars are equipped with a data sharing system, #says Eric Gottfried of Nissan North america.""We find that most people drive about 30 to 35 miles a day.#

#Collecting driving habit data on this scale promises to reveal much more in the coming years-and not only about electric vehicles.

As more and more computer-equipped, connected cars fill the roads, we will learn a great deal about how we actually drive,

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Yahoo acquired the company for $1. 1bn in May. The company had just $16m left in the bank,

After five years of venture capital-supported growth and little revenue, the social networking app was running low on funds.

too, launching initiatives like the We Are made in NY portal, Bigapps, a contest for building apps on the city's application programming interface (API),

and Wirednyc,#a rating platform that for Internet speed in office buildings.##Prior to this new Bloomberg-endorsed era, New york start-ups had a reputation for focusing too much on monetisation.

You don't build a Facebook, or Google, or Twitter by optimizing for revenue on day one,

the thinking goes. This new era was all about building a Silicon valley-style company. The crowd at a New york Tech Meetup,

which boasts 33,000 members, famously boos anyone who asks about business models. New york is now home to more than 1,

Google's Chelsea offices employ more than 3 000 people; a number of top-tier venture firms including Accel Partners,

Even with 300 million monthly unique users or a hit app, it's still a brutal fight to survive.

It would be great to have our own Google, Facebook, Twitter, ebay, Amazon or Yahoo.

he wrote in a recent blog post. With Foursquare's experiences a downturn, and with Tumblr tucked away inside Yahoo,

a new set of companies is poised to lead New york's start-up scene. They range from the high fashion commerce of Gilt Groupe to the quirky marketplace of Brooklyn-based Etsy.

Kickstarter's crowdfunding platform has funded 49,316 projects to the tune of $807m, revolutionising the way filmmakers, musicians and hardware companies raise money.

Nosql database vendor Mongodb was called recently the King of New york start-ups after it raised an eye-popping $150m in funding at a valuation of $1. 2 bn.

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#Philippines: The innovation drive that turned social There was a summit, a steering committee, a policy document and even a somewhat awkward new brand name:"

In 2011,93. 9%of internet users in the Philippines were Facebook users#the highest penetration in the world,

according to an analysis published by web analytics company comscore. But what's interesting is that the drive for innovation hasn't been driven primarily by profit motives.

comparative youth and high social media use, Earl Martin Valencia returned to his home country after studying for an MBA at Stanford university, California.

#says Valencia, Head of Corporate Innovation for Smart Communications, the country's largest telecoms company."

was Tudlo, a smart phone app that crowdsources information in real-time on road accidents, storms, floods and other natural disasters,

while displaying hotline numbers as well as relevant user-generated content. In 2011 over 1, 200 people were killed in severe flooding in the Philippines,

is backed by Globe, the country's second biggest telecoms company. While these telecom giants are helping fund and spur grassroots entrepreneurial social innovations,

they are also backing novel solutions to social problems more directly. The Philippines is hailed as the"text messaging capital#of the world.

Mobile subscribers send an average of 600 text messages per month, around 43%more than those in the US.

The market for mobile phones is 90%prepaid and people change Sim cards frequently. Last year, Smart realized they were sitting on a stockpile of unused and expired Sim cards,

and decided to try to put them to good use. The result was Txtbks, a system that transforms Sim cards into lightweight textbooks,

with lessons broken down into 160-character text messages. The scheme has been tested, primarily as a means to teach English, in three schools.

Smart hope to turn the pilot into a commercial service for the country's Alternative Learning System programme,

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