while the device software development kit is $449 t
#Why This Collaborative Platform for Musicians Is Drumming Up Big Bucks Steve Martocci goal for Splice is nothing less than to change the course of music creation. e think we can lead an entire new movement in music,
The music platform is compatible with popular digital audio workstations such as Ableton, Logic pro and FL Studio,
Add in a community angle that allows aspiring musicians to play with tunes, isolating tracks and creating remixes,
New york-based Martocci sold Groupme to Skype in 2011 for a figure reported between $43 million and $85 million.
He met his Splice cofounder, Santa monica, Calif.-based software architect Matt Aimonetti, at a 2012 entrepreneurship conference.
Microsoft Is Now the Largest Company in the World to Accept Bitcoin The trouble at the popular exchange couldn come at a worse time for the ultra-hyped virtual money,
Wal-mart and Hewlett-packard are increasing their training, to help suppliers manage EHS issues. Theye also using new tools to track performance.
They have since been joined by more than 20 other leading multinational companies including Diageo General mills Johnson & johnson Mcdonalds Microsoft Nestl
#Intel Smart city Tech Furthers City's Green Goals Intel and the city of San jos Calif. are collaborating on a public-private partnership to further the city s Green Vision goals.
The pilot program in San jos is Intel s first smart city implementation in the US. The scalability of Intel architecture enables the intelligence
and flexibility necessary for cities across the country to quickly deploy a range of smart city solutions for everything from air
San jos known as the Capital of Silicon valley is installing a network of sensors to create a sustainability lens that uses Intel technology to measure characteristics such as particulates in the air noise pollution and traffic flow.
Intel says its technology can help cities cost-effectively manage infrastructure growth and resource sustainability that can help them meet the demands of escalating population rates.
The city of San jos has installed a sensor demonstration platform using Intel Gateway Solutions for the Internet of things with an Intel Quark processor and third-party sensors.
Each gateway incorporates Wind River Intelligent Device Platform software with Mcafee security features connected to Intel s Hadoop distribution in the cloud.
IBM and Cisco are the top smart city suppliers positioned to become global leaders in the market according to a July 2013 Navigant Research report.
##This could really be a game-changer for a lot of applications including diagnostics##say James Collins who is a professor of biomedical engineering and medicine at Boston University and a core faculty member at Harvard s Wyss Institute.##
Like computer circuits gene circuits usually consist of a sensing component (or##input##)a logic gate and an output but they are crafted from parts of cells rather than wires and transistors.
Using a standard laser printer stocked with special wax-based inks he printed patterns of small dots onto uncoated filter paper.
##But I knew that having that core insight was going to enable the whole thing.#####This was Keith s big insightâ##freeze-drying the circuit##says Collins.##I couldn t believe it worked as well as it did.
Then software on an attached laptop processes the results which takes another 30 seconds. Diets rich in fruit and vegetables have been linked to important health outcomes including reductions in cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
of mice that can be infected with Ebola and display symptoms similar to those that humans experience.
and if some are susceptible could they harness the power of mouse genetics to figure out what genes make someone susceptible to the disease.
and the NIH Rocky mountain National Laboratory where the research took place were breed able to together eight genetic mouse variants
A computer simulation based on the experimental data aimed at optimizing adoption showed a reminder every five to seven days delivered as a strong suggestion
##Not only did transplanted these cells survive in the mouse brain they showed functional properties similar to those of native cells##says senior author Andrew S. Yoo assistant professor of developmental biology at the Washington University School of medicine in St louis.##These cells
And we found the human transplanted cells also connected to these distant targets in the mouse brain.
The research involved adult human skin cells rather than more commonly studied mouse cells or even human cells at an earlier stage of development.
When transplanted into the mouse brain the converted cells showed morphological and functional properties similar to native neurons.
In collaboration with BD Technologies and Nexgen Arrays a start-up based at the Photonics Center and run by longtime SP-IRIS developers David Freedman
when the concept of programming as we know it from software engineering can be applied to biological computers.
Next they tested the idea in a mouse model of the bone infection osteomyelitis. Antibiotic-resistant small colony variant S. aureus is the cause of chronic and difficult to treat osteomyelitis and also of lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF.
The research team at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy used DILISYM a computer program designed to predict how drugs will affect the liver.
The study shows that a computer model could accurately forecast the occurrence of troglitazone-induced liver injury.
The DILISYM software is the result of the DILI-sim Initiative a partnership between the Hamner-UNC Institute for Drug Safety Sciences
Using the diagnostic panel researchers were able to make diagnoses that consistently distinguished kids with autism spectrum disorder from those with other similar disorders.
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We believe that the development of this model in the mouse is important for making progress in the field of skeletal repair where an acute clinical need is present for ameliorating skeletal injury chronic osteoarthritis
At the early stages in our understanding the mouse provides us with an exceptional ability to make progress
#Heart disease could be written on your face University of Rochester rightoriginal Studyposted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on September 2 2014new technology that uses software algorithms
The technology described in the study employs a software algorithm developed by Xerox Corp. that scans the face
while someone is reading their email on their tablet computer or smart phone. Other researchers from University of Rochester and from Xerox Corp. contributed to the study
##In the first phase of the study two percent of urinary catheters were removed after an initial##off-the-shelf##electronic alert was triggered (the stock alert was part of the standard software package for the electronic health record.
##We will continue to work on refining the fingerprint matching software and finding the best reader to capture fingerprints of young children
much work needs to be done before the mouse-based research could help human patients, says Lowenstein,
or NIR-IIA, involves injecting water-soluble carbon nanotubes into a live mouse bloodstream. The researchers then shine a near-infrared laser over the rodent skull.
within a mouse kidney, for example, or a human tumor biopsy? we have to slice the tissue very thin,
and put all of the images back together with a computer. t a very time-consuming process and it is error prone,
she explains. ediatricians don usually want to screen for a condition if they can then refer patients to someone who can help.
and the new molecular testing panel can be run using the sample collected through the initial,
When the panel shows these mutations, a total thyroidectomy is advised. Yip and her colleagues followed 671 patients with suspicious thyroid nodes who received biopsies.
Approximately half the biopsy samples were run through the panel, and the other half were not.
Patients whose tissue samples were tested not with the panel had a 2. 5-fold higher statistically significant likelihood of having an initial lobectomy
and then requiring a second operation. ee currently refining the panel by adding tests for more genetic mutations,
Based on Schatz belief in combination therapies, the group began shepherding a cocktail of Thymoglobulin and Neulasta through early studies done with mouse models. espite tremendous strides in our understanding of the natural history of Type
QUESTIONS FROM THE IPHONE APP Along with the software improvements that allow the device to adapt to widely varied individual dosage needs,
the new version also relies on improved hardware, including a smartphone (iphone 4s) capable of practical wireless communication with two pumps delivering doses of insulin and glucagon.
Every five minutes the smartphone receives a blood sugar reading from an attached continuous glucose monitor,
But virtually all of the research to date has been theoretical or computer model-based. A handful of papers including several by Kono
as the mouse has a large amount of its brain devoted to process the sense of smell and needs these new neurons to support learning.
These emerging threads have Kuo hopeful researchers will eventually be able to find the way to ngage certain circuits of the brain to lead to a hardware upgrade.
if you could upgrade the brain hardware to keep up with the new software? He says perhaps there will be a way to combine behavioral therapy
Peter M. Kasson of the molecular physiology and biological physics department then created a computer model of the process.
The software, which is currently under development as a tablet application, tracks and records infantsactivity during videotaped autism screening tests.
Results show the program is as effective at spotting behavioral markers of autism as experts giving the test themselves,
and the software performs better than non-expert medical clinicians and students in training. ee not trying to replace the experts,
a graduate student in computer and electrical engineering at Duke university. ee trying to transfer the knowledge of the relatively few autism experts available into classrooms and homes across the country.
GENERAL PRACTITIONERS he great benefit of the video and software is for general practitioners who do not have trained the eye to look for subtle early warning signs of autism
and Treatment. he software has the potential to automatically analyze a child eye gaze, walking patterns,
TABLET APP Later this year, the Duke team plans to test a new tablet application that could do away with the need for a person to administer any tests at all.
The program would watch for physical and facial responses to visual cues played on the screen,
which connects researchers from disparate fields to experts in computer programming to help analyze large data sets. ee currently working with autism experts at Duke Medicine to determine what sorts of easy tests could be used on just a computer
or tablet screen to spot any potential concerns, says Sapiro. he goal is to mimic the same sorts of social interactions that the tests with the toys and balls measure,
The researchers then used a mouse model to show that PIP5K1C was responsible for generating at least half of all PIP2 in these neurons.
the new method is a computer program that lets physicians see how much gadolinium, the contrast material injected into a patient vein during an MRI scan,
Leigh says his computer program, working with an MRI scan, can detect subtle changes to the blood-brain barrier that are otherwise impossible to see.
MORE EFFECTIVE THAN DRUGS The discovery could spawn a new generation of programmable microimplantsensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body;
#App analyzes your voice for mood swings Researchers are testing a smartphone app that monitors your mood by listening for changes in your voice.
and automatically monitors the patientsvoice patterns during any calls made as well as during weekly conversations with a member of the patient care team.
The computer program analyzes many characteristics of the soundsnd silencesf each conversation. Only the patient side of everyday phone calls is recordednd the recordings themselves are encrypted
They can see only the results of computer analysis of the recordings, which are stored in secure servers that comply with patient privacy laws.
Eventually, it will include a feedback loop to the patient and his or her care team and even a chosen family member.
The detection of mood states will improve over time as the software gets trained based on more conversations and data from more patients.
Over time, they hope to develop software that will learn to detect the changes that precede the transitions to each of these states.
The app currently runs on Android operating system phones, and complies with laws about recording conversations
#Chip uses magnetism to sort living cells Researchers have developed a chip-like device that similar to a random access memory chip,
The result is an integrated circuit that controls small magnetic objects much like the way electrons are controlled on computer chips.
Applications for HIV and cancer In a random access memory chip, similar logic circuits manipulate electrons on a nanometer scale, controlling billions of compartments in a square inch.
alkaline phosphatasehat are produced naturally by bone tissue. he catalysts are naturally present in your body at all times, in low levels.
and wirelessly send updates to your cellphone or computer. The patches stick to the skin like a temporary tattoo
They report their findings in Science. e designed this device to monitor human health 24/7
and can send high-quality data about the human body to a computer, in real time. Researchers did a side-by-side comparison with traditional EKG
and EEG monitors and found the wireless patch performed equally to conventional sensors, while being significantly more comfortable for patients.
and hugely beneficial, says Professor Paul Orien from Monash University Centre for Obesity Research and Education (CORE).
By validating this core switch as a viable drug target, we can now continue our work to improve the chemical compounds
to follow up on the mouse study to determine if a haywire PAK cascade also occurs in humans.
and protein sequences of the FAT10 gene are conserved highly between man and mouse. If it serves the same functions in humans
with type 1 diabetes use continuous glucose monitors, which examine the fluid underneath the skin,
Patients may become hypoglycemic well before the glucose monitor alarm tells them they are hypoglycemic
or implantable automated insulin-delivery system consisting of a continuous glucose monitor, an insulin pump,
The new technology builds on standard two-dimensional imaging and uses computer analytics to evaluate the amount of so-called contrast dye absorbed by tumor tissue.
Geschwind and colleagues plan further software refinements to the new approach before training more physicians to use it.
The software used in the MRI scans was developed at Johns Hopkins and at Philips Research North america.
since software that could handle the enormous amount of data was not available. he development of novel software
Then software on an attached laptop processes the results which takes another 30 seconds. Diets rich in fruit and vegetables have been linked to important health outcomes including reductions in cardiovascular disease type 2 diabetes and some forms of cancer.
#dgy films are perfect catalysts for fuel cells Chemists have found an easy and inexpensive way to create flexible films from molybdenum disulfide a versatile chemical compound with edges that are highly efficient catalysts.
and as catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) a process used in fuel cells to pull hydrogen from water.
when the concept of programming as we know it from software engineering can be applied to biological computers.
either too close or too far away. any movement-recognition programs need plenty of processor and memory powerexplains Hilliges adding that their new algorithm uses a far smaller portion of computer memory
and is thus ideal for smartphones. He believes the application is the first of its kind that can run on a smartphone.
Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it. eople got used to operating computer games with their movements. ouchscreens Hilliges reminds us also required a very long adjustment period before making a big impact in consumers lives.
He is therefore certain that this application or at least parts of it will find its way onto the market.
and 70 percent larger current density than platinum-based catalysts The materials required to make the flake-like hybrids are much cheaper too Tour says. he efficiency is better than platinum in terms of oxygen
#Google glass software adds captions to conversation Georgia Institute of technology Posted by Jason Maderer-Georgia Tech on October 3 2014new speech-to-text software for Google glass can help hard-of-hearing people with everyday conversations.
and displayed on its heads-up display. A group in Georgia Tech s College of Computing created the Glassware
. However if captioning errors are sent to Glass the smartphone software also allows the speaker to edit the mistakes
which sends the changes to the person wearing the device. he smartphone uses the Android transcription API to convert the audio to textsays Jay Zuerndorfer
the Georgia Tech computer science graduate student who developed the software. he text is streamed then to Glass in real time. aptioning on Glass is currently available to install from Myglass.
The Intel Labs University Research Office and the DARPA Inpho (Information in a Photon) Program supported the work n
The core of the nanothreads is a long thin strand of carbon atoms arranged just like the fundamental unit of a diamond s structure zigzag yclohexanerings of six carbon atoms bound together in
and to link up in a highly ordered chain of single-file carbon tetrahedrons forming these diamond-core nanothreads. adding s team is the first to coax molecules containing carbon atoms to form the strong tetrahedron shape then link each tetrahedron end to end to form a long thin nanothread.
The resulting diamond-core nanothread is surrounded by a halo of hydrogen atoms. During the compression process the scientists report the flat benzene molecules stack together bend
so that when we release the pressure very slowly an orderly polymerization reaction happens that forms the diamond-core nanothread.
necessary to make these diamond nanothreads under more practical conditions. he nanothread also may be the first member of a new class of diamond-like nanomaterials based on a strong tetrahedral core. ur discovery that we can use the natural
of making many other kinds of molecules based on carbon and hydrogenbadding says. ou can attach all kinds of other atoms around a core of carbon and hydrogen.
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#Computer recreates powerful solar flares ETH Zurich rightoriginal Studyposted by Barbara Vonarburg-ETH Zurich on September 26 2014physicists have used computers to model solar explosions
The computer model demonstrates that the shorter the interval between two explosions in the solar atmosphere the more likely it is that the second flare will be stronger than the first one. he agreement with measurements from satellites is strikingwrite the researchers from ETH Zurich in the journal
A theoretical physicist and expert in computer physics Herrmann developed a method to examine phenomena from a range of diverse fields.
Conventional computer models have been able to qualitatively reconstruct this statistic size distribution but unable to make any quantitative predictions.
Using a supercomputer the team was able to show that the model consistently generated correct results even when changing details such as the number of flux tubes or the energy of the plasma.
which comprises groups from the universities of Basel Lausanne Geneva and ETH Zurich and representatives from IBM.
#Scientists use light to make mice asocial California Institute of technology rightoriginal Studyposted by Jessica Stoller-Conrad-Caltech on September 19 2014scientists have discovered antagonistic neuron populations in the mouse amygdala that control
That is when high-intensity light was used the mice became aggressive in the presence of an intruder mouse.
When the neurons associated with asocial behavior were turned on the mouse began self-grooming behaviors such as paw licking
For example if a lone mouse began spontaneously self-grooming the researchers could halt this behavior through the optogenetic activation of the social neurons.
and the activation stopped the mouse would return to its self-grooming behavior. Surprisingly these two groups of neurons appear to interfere with each other s function:
#Color display designed for squid skin camo Rice university rightoriginal Studyposted by Jade Boyd-Rice on September 16 2014scientists have developed a new full-color display technology that once refined could be a critical component for creating artificial
The technology uses aluminum nanoparticles to create the vivid red blue and green hues found in today s top-of-the-line LCD televisions and monitors.
The color display technology delivers bright red blue and green hues from five-micron-square pixels that each contains several hundred aluminum nanorods.
and blue that are comparable to those found in high-definition LCD displays. luminum is useful
Olson s five-micron-square pixels are about 40 times smaller than the pixels used in commercial LCD displays.
and Link say the research team hopes to create an LCD display that uses many of the same components found in today s displays including liquid crystals polarizers and individually addressable pixels.
The photonic aluminum arrays would be used in place of the colored dyes that are found in most commercial displays.
It could be useful in a number of ways. hey hope to further develop the display technology
In addition University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign co-principal investigator John Rogers and colleagues published a proof-of-concept study in PNAS in August about new methods for creating flexible black-and-white polymer displays
and computers and smartphones to issue the commands. What's missing is a wireless controller cheap enough to
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Pervasive Computing at the University of Washington and the Sloan Foundation supported the work.
and the prototype was created in the clean room at the IBM Research Centre in Ruschlikon Switzerland.
or the study the research team trained animals (Rhesus macaques) to use a brain-computer interface (BCI) similar to ones that have shown recent promise in clinical trials for assisting quadriplegics
and directed the recordings into a computer which translated the activity into movement of a cursor on
the computer screen. This technique allowed the team to specify the activity patterns that would move the cursor.
The test subjects goal was to move the cursor to targets on the screen which required them to generate the patterns of neural activity that the experimenters had requested.
Unlike other water splitters that use precious-metal catalysts the electrodes in the Stanford device are made of inexpensive and abundant nickel
professor at Stanford university. his is the first time anyone has used non-precious metal catalysts to split water at a voltage that low.
But scientists have yet to develop an affordable active water splitter with catalysts capable of working at industrial scales. t s been a constant pursuit for decades to make low-cost electrocatalysts with high activity
Demille and his colleagues built their own apparatus in a basement lab. It is an elaborate multilevel tangle of wires computers electrical components tabletop mirrors and a cryogenic refrigeration unit.
but we have shown its feasibilityjain says. e will continue to work on refining the fingerprint matching software
or mobile devices to harvest solar energy without obscuring the view. Past efforts to create similar materials have been disappointing with inefficient energy production
The technology is featured in the journal Advanced Optical Materials. t opens a lot of area to deploy solar energy in a nonintrusive waylunt says. t can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
#Algorithms could adjust screens to your vision University of California Berkeley Original Studyposted by Sarah Yang-Berkeley on August 15 2014.
Researchers are developing vision-correcting displays for computer monitors that would let people see text and images clearly without their glasses or contact lenses.
The technology could potentially help hundreds of millions of people who currently need corrective lenses to use their smartphones tablets and computers.
More importantly the displays could one day aid people with more complex visual problems known as high order aberrations
and vision science and affiliate professor of optometry at University of California Berkeley. e now live in a world where displays are ubiquitous
and being able to interact with displays is taken for grantedsays Barsky who is leading this project. eople with higher order aberrations often have irregularities in the shape of the cornea
because many workers need to look at a screen as part of their work. he UC Berkeley researchers
and Ramesh Raskar colleagues at the Massachusetts institute of technology to develop their latest prototype of a vision-correcting display.
The setup adds a printed pinhole screen sandwiched between two layers of clear plastic to an ipod display to enhance image sharpness.
when the intended user looks at the screen the image will appear sharp to that particular viewersays Barsky. ut
This latest approach improves upon earlier versions of vision-correcting displays that resulted in low-contrast images.
The new display combines light field display optics with novel algorithms. Huang now a software engineer at Microsoft corp. in Seattle notes that the research prototype could easily be developed into a thin screen protector
and that continued improvements in eye-tracking technology would make it easier for the displays to adapt to the position of the user s head position. n the future we also hope to extend this application to multi-way correction on a shared display
so users with different visual problems can view the same screen and see a sharp imagesays Huang.
The National Science Foundation helped support this work t
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