it will send information about the time of the event and the magnitude of the shaking to a cloud-based server;
like the faint clatter of fingers on a keyboard. And the powerful coding-decoding (codec) software can run as a smartphone app. e want to bring telephony into the 21st century,
just as HD television has done for video, says H p. Baumeister, director of Fraunhofer IIS U s. branch, in San jose,
The broader bandwidth of the Internet allowed Skype and some other Voip services to carry 7, 000-Hz HD Voice,
or as apps running on a smartphone applications processor. The EVS codec s not complex compared to the apps in a smartphone,
like a Skype-to-Skype call between computers or smartphones. Fraunhofer Mobile World demonstration did that using apps on Google Nexus 5 phones.
"a small computer that records data and communicates to a user's smartphone or other systems.
using an area of about 3000 cm2 (about the size of the center back panel of a shirt) it is possible to store the equivalent energy of a 4 cm2,
It links data from an implanted blood-sugar sensor to a computer, which then controls how a pump worn on the hip dribbles insulin under the skin through a pipette.
it beams data to the screen of a pager-size reader. He uses the information to help decide what to eat
Once the data is in the servers, there a lot we can do to affect disease management.
it combined a pump with a large, complex continuous glucose monitor. In recent years, pumps have become smaller, more reliable, more programmable,
Continuous glucose monitors were approved first a decade ago, and they are beginning to replace the finger-prick method,
and also in displays because they have better light-transmission properties than glass, says Ma.
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. n work published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology researchers suspended graphene above a silicon substrate by attaching it to two metal electrodes
While a handful of paralyzed people have used previously brain-computer interfaces (BCIS) to control robotic limbs, those subjectsimplants recorded signals from the primary motor cortex,
a brain region involved in planning movements. human os iconlead researcher Richard Andersen, a neuroscience professor at Caltech,
The researchers connected cables to the pedestals, bringing the neural signals to a computer that analyzed them and sent commands to the robot arm.
in a pattern devised by their computer. The different heights change the phase of the light bouncing off different parts of the cloak to mimic the phase it would have
This particular cloak exists only in computer simulation, though the team is working on building a physical version,
a dimension easily achievable by the photolithography processes used for making computer chips. But Kante points out that microwave cloaks could be useful for the military,
#Why Aren't Supercomputers Getting Faster Like They Used To? Currently, the world most powerful supercomputers can ramp up to more than a thousand trillion operations per second,
or a petaflop. But computing power is not growing as fast as it has in the past.
On Monday, the June 2015 listing of the Top 500 most powerful supercomputers in the world revealed the beginnings of a plateau in performance growth.
There are a number of technical aspects and economic factors that interfere with supercomputing improvements. Experts disagree on the cause,
Computing hardware development projections are based on Moore Law which predicts that the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double about every two years, causing an exponential growth in performance.
Supercomputer power is expected, for the most part to follow the same curve. In the past, that was exactly the case.
The rate of performance developmenthe change in aggregate number of petaflops between Top500 listsad doubled each year.
One reason, says IBM senior manager of Data Centric Systems, John Gunnels, is that the pace of Moore Law has slowed. f you can shrink these chips at the rate you were shrinking them before,
IBM researchers are trying to prop up Moore law using silicon-germanium transistor channels in effort to create a 7-nanometer chip within the next four years.
The cost of the electricity to power these behemoths has played also a role in slowing the speed of supercomputer development. an somebody make a computer that has higher performance?
Other laboratories could reach the performance of the number one supercomputer, Tianhe-2 if they want to pay US $390 million for the same technology,
Dongarra predicts that the China Tianhe-2 will remain at the top of the supercomputer pyramid for at least two more lists because of the lack of funding for new systems.
Though computer scientists in the United states say 2023 is a more feasible timeline to construct an exascale supercomputer
(and the U s. government is planning out an exascale supercomputer that would cost $200 million),
such as weather projection. he National Weather Service uses supercomputers to run physical models to predict what will happen in three to five days,
and faster computers will make those predictions better. r
#Diesel-Powered Fuel cell Produces Clean electricity Although several options to store hydrogen as a fuel for cars have been investigated,
asteroid mining firm Planetary Resources, aims to test critical electronic systems and software during its 90-day mission.
and the others that we manufacture using 3-D printers. t
#Nanowires Boost Hydrogen Production from Sunlight Tenfold Using the energy of the sun to split water into hydrogen
The fiber, made from sheets of carbon nanotubes wrapped around a rubber core, can be stretched to 14 times its original length
In research published in the journal Science, the team describes how they devised a method for wrapping electrically conductive sheets of carbon nanotubes around the rubber core in such a way that the fiber's resistance doesn change when stretched,
The researchers have also been able to add a thin coat of rubber to the sheath-core fibers
in the press release. he rubber cores used for these sheath-core fibers are inexpensive and readily available.
The device inventors suggest the laser could find use in video displays, solid-state lighting, and a laser-based version of Wi-fi. Although previous research has created red, blue, green and other lasers,
In addition, he says that white lasers could also lead to video displays with more vivid colors and higher contrast than conventional displays.
Google January 2012 decision to combine the privacy policies of some 60 different products in order for it to be able to gather more intel on webs users for targeting ads quickly triggered a data protection review in October 2012
but must be done ia a clear permission screen Google must also clearly explain what personal data is being obtained by which of its services and for what purpose,
#Baidu Maker Of China s Largest Search engine Confirms Its Strategic Investment In Uber It s official:
because Baidu operates China s largest search engine and will help it compete against its rivals##Didi Dache and rival##Kuaidi Dache
As mobile devices become magic wands for marketplaces, matching supply and demand and making goods and services more accessible than ever before,
Rather than relying on a combination of different banks and other payments processors for individual markets,
as well as local payment processors around the world. Its platform works in nearly 200 countries, allowing partners to get paid in virtually any currency and through a wide variety of payment methods.
through its platform payments can be accepted either online, via mobile devices, or even in store for businesses that have operations in multiple countries.
and you can even run the sound through an ios device to use software filters and effects.
and beef up its own servers and security infrastructure. Sony Tries Silencing Reporters Sony hack was made worse by its poor security infrastructure,
Large companies like Adobe and ebay have seen emails and other personal account information stolen. And whistleblowers like Snowden have revealed the most private and devastating aspects of government spying agendas.
if youe choosing to record Social security numbers, birth dates and salaries in Excel spreadsheets, you should protect them with at least a minimum amount of security,
#Skype Translator Preview Going Live Today Skype has been talking about and demoing its new real-time translation software for Skype for a while now
but users will begin getting firsthand experience with the tool as of today. The Skype Translator preview program begins welcoming its first participants into the fold based on sign ups to the Translator preview page we told you about in early November.
The Skype Translator project offers on the fly-fly translation of both spoken and written languages for participants in Skype conversations making it possible for two people who speak completely different languages to communicate with virtually no barriers to understanding.
The preview program starts with support for English and Spanish spoken translation as well as over 40 languages for real-time text chat.
At launch tis also limited to users of Windows 8. 1 software (either desktop or mobile) so Microsoft is playing platform favorites with this early beta program.
They ve also already been testing it out with schools in the U s . and Mexico as you can see in the video above.
The tech behind the translation involves advanced machine learning which also means that it ll get smarter with time
but everything we ve seen so far has been from Skype direct and likely involved a lot of control.
But while Android appears to have onthe so-called platform war, the two-horse race between the leading smartphone vendors Samsung and Apple looks like it may finally be breaking up a bit,
who started selling low-cost Android-based handsets to these markets early, are doing so well.
Gartner predicts that Apple momentum will continue unabated with its iggest ever fourth-quarter salesof both models of large-screen phones,
has essentially now been won by Android. Its share is now at 83.1%on sales of 250 million units.
while Windows, Blackberry and ther OS? s all continue their declines. In real terms, Windows sales were nearly flat over a year ago on 9 million units.
It very hard to think of how Microsoft will manage to turn this around, and you do have to wonder
when Windows phone-based devices grew quarter-on-quarter thanks to the introduction of more mid-range devices,
The big picture for feature phones is not unlike that of Microsoft legacy smartphone maker Blackberry:
Here will power both desktop as well as Android and ios apps starting with Taiwan first and then adding other territories at a later stage.
Here has announced just an update that will make its mapping apps available across all Google Play markets and Android devices,
and is finally republishing a new ios app in early 2015, after pulling it in 2013.
Elsewhere, Baidu has been flexing its international muscle by building services for users outside its core Chinese-language market.
Baidu inked a deal with France telecom to load its mobile browser on to Android devices that were getting sold in Africa.
Adobe, AIG, Akamai, AOL, Appnexus, AT&T, BSA, ebay, Electronic arts, Expedia, Facebook, GE, Goldman sachs, Google, Groupon, IAC, IBM, Lockheed martin, Massmutual, Microsoft
, Moody, Pixar Animation Studios, Square, The Honest Company, Twitter, Viacom, Intel, Intuit and Verizon in order to reach its goal.
a fake Occupy Central app that spread phishing malware in Hong kong poked a few more holes in the perceived security of ios closed system.
Even a closed behemoth like Microsoft is now recognizing the value of open-sourced collaboration,
recently announcing its decision to open source its server-side. NET Framework and also take it to Mac and Linux.
Launching a startup with rtificial wallsin place, such as exclusive partnerships or extensive restrictions, in all likelihood means signing your own death sentence.
it will have to do on its own what the united front of Samsung (in other words, Google android OS), Oculus Rift (in other words, Facebook),
as Makerbot learned after it suddenly clamped down on its open-source 3d printing hardware after a community of early supporters spent years contributing to Makerbot design (it worth watching rint the Legend, a new documentary that chronicles the whole ordeal, available
The software then alerts a healthcare provider that something is off. Utah Smartcare partners with three local mental health authorities and 2 community health clinics in Utah.
#TV s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes More proof that good television doesn have to be developed by traditional industry players:
#Schmidt also added that Google s first priority in Myanmar is to improve access to information with its search engine and tools such as Google translate and Maps.
#Amazon s Connected Speaker Echo Now Has An ios App When Amazon launched its $199 connected speaker Amazon Echo last month,
The app was initially available only for Amazon Fire OS and Android, but not ios. Instead, iphone and ipad users had to use Safari or a desktop browser instead.
Today, that changes as Amazon has released now Amazon Echo for ios. Like its Android counterpart
the new ios app allows you to use your ios device as a remote control of sorts for interacting with Echo.
To get started, the app guides you through a simple set up process, after which you can use the app to control the output to Echo as an alternative to using voice commands.
Additionally, the main screen of the application shows you weather and other recent queries, including those Echo has looked up on Wikipedia on your behalf,
which is one of the hardware device more interesting functions. Amazon Echo, as a reminder, is not yet broadly available.
whether or not Amazon can manage to produce enough hardware to fulfill demand but rather whether there will actually be demand.
As with its other hardware-based shopping assistant Amazon Dash, the company is basically running its hardware consumer trials in the open to see how people respond.
Amazon Echo for ios is a free download here
#Update Lending Club IPO Shows The Profit Potential For Financial Technology Investments Lending Club $5. 4 billion initial public offering on the New york stock exchange is more than just the largest IPO
Workflow is a new app for ios that lets you create shortcuts for the things you do all the time on your phone or tablet.
You can create action extensions (a new feature in ios 8 that you can bring up by tapping the share button) that save the URL of the page youe on to Evernote
You can access your shortcuts within Workflow or turn them into semi-apps in themselves via bookmarks on the home screen (with a customizable icon.
#What s really special about Kinsa and the thermometer in general is that it is the first device the first piece of hardware that actually verifies that you re sick#said founder and CEO Inder Singh.#
And when you add in social functionality parents can start to differentiate between a common cold (that may not require an immediate doctor visit) and strep throat.
The Kinsa costs $29. 99 and alongside hardware sales the company is considering how they can be a communications layer for other companies working on telemedicine prescription delivery and other startups in the health ecosystem.
#We need marketers engineers operations people who can handle the hardware and supply chain side of our business.
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
you may be interested to hear that the company has jumped on the bitcoin wagon. The Redmond-based tech giant is now accepting bitcoins for buying games
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
Members of Reddit bitcoin subred noted that Microsoft appears to be working with payments firm Bitpay to make this happen.
Neither Microsoft nor Bitpay have announced formally the partnership or details but the former does have a series of instructions related to bitcoin payments within its illing helppages.
Microsoft has confirmed now that it is indeed working with Bitpay. It described its adoption of Bitcoin as being bout giving people options
Customers can use bitcoin to load money into a Microsoft wallet or to create digital gift cards,
million registered accounts on iphone, launches on Android April 4th, 2012: Instagram sees 1 million Android signups in the first 24 hours April 9th, 2012:
Instagram hits 5 million Android users, is acquired by Facebook April 30th, 2012: 50 million users February 2013: 100 million users September 2013: 150 million users March 2014: 200 million users Considering Twitter
has added only around 38 million users since March while Instagram has added 100 million, you can expect the gap to expand
Measuring the energy consumption of a Macbook Air compared to that of a Dell Desktop PC, for example, will prove to be difficult.
While some organizations already have the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) in place allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems,
SCCM lacks the capability to provide the accuracy the ESOS audits will require. Utilizing power-management solutions,
Though the U k. has been relatively slow to implement PC power-management technology, mostly due to tax incentives, perhaps by example,
taking into consideration that the U s. wastes an approximate $2. 8 billion in PC energy every year, the U k. may need to take a more effective approach to energy security.
In a beta release of Dashlane out this week, Passomatic technology has been baked into Dashlane core product
The first version is available for PC and Mac with mobile support arriving oon, the company says.
and change the passwords at once it even displays little progress bars at the bottom to show you how the work is progressing.
On Android, we should note, things are a little easier thanks to support for autofilling logins. ios and Windows phone,
sadly, don allow for this.)You can try the new features for yourself, for free. Dashlane users can sign up for early access,
#Youku Tudou One Of China s Leading Streaming Video Sites Launches Its First Hardware Line Youku Tudou, already one of China largest streaming video
sites, is moving into hardware as well. The company said that its first three devices Wifi router, smart TV box,
and 15.6-inch Android tabletill be available next January. To provide content for those devices,
will eventually start using Alibaba Aliyun operating system, which includes online shopping connected to the e-commerce giant sites,
and services reach all Internet enabled screens in the forms that our users want, and offer a seamless experience across devices.
Youku Tudou decision to enter the hardware business comes at a time of rapid growth for China streaming video market.
Youku Tudou agreements with different hardware and software companies (including Aliyun and Xiaomi) is interesting
Though the Chinese government closely monitors what is shown on TV channels it has so far been more flexible with online video.
There he led the company strategic software initiatives in open source, Internet of things, and wearables verticals. As a result, he has experience in large-scale wireless systems,
#Coolchip Technologies Is Redesigning The Humble Computer Fan If there one part of a PC that doesn get enough love, it the fan.
These small plastic spinning pieces cost almost nothing and keep hundreds or thousands of dollars of advanced technology from cooking itself.
The only time anyone talks about a computer fans is when we notice them doing their jobs. can go on Youtube without them winding up,
tablets and even some laptops are designed to use small enough amounts of power than they can dissipate heat without blowing a bunch of air all over everything.
and achieve 35-40 percent greater thermal performance than traditional PC fans. That impressive, but not something that most consumers would be aware of or care about.
Among PC gamers, this could be huge. An enthusiast gaming rig typically has one CPU and one to four graphics cards, each
of which generate enough heat to warrant one of Coolchip fans. Anyone with a PC built for maxing out their games
or software would notice the noise reduction from switching to fans this quiet. Apparently I not the only one to notice that.
Onstage, Sanchez noted that Coolchip has partnered with Cooler Master to bring its technology to market as aftermarket add-ons early next year
and Microsoft consulted with the startup to make quieter fans for the Xbox One games console,
As data centers move from big PC processors to large networks of ARM chips, there will likely be even more individual chips to keep cool.
And Device Sandboxes Incoming Blackphone the post-Snowden pro-privacy Android smartphone joint venture between secure comms company Silent Circle and phone maker Geeksphone has confirmed it will be adding an app store
The feature will be powered by Canadian company##Graphite Software#s OS-level virtualization software. Speaking to Techcrunch back in October Blackphone cofounder Jon Callas indicated an app store was incoming detailing a plan##to expand its##hardened Android OS to include a curated app store experience#offering third party apps##it##has selected
and vetted/reviewed for potential security concerns. The Blackphone device and startup business is an attempt to consumerize the hard problem of security
and privacy within a familiar-looking Android##wrapper and by bolting on multiple third party services to put##secure alternatives for essentials such as##cloud storage within easy reach (as well as bundling up the cost of their initial subscription in with the phone).
Adding its own privacy-focused store to the OS is therefore a natural next step#given it will expand the utility of the device
However it s also##a trade-off given that running third party software introduces more security risks.
An early mover the firm has seen increased competition from younger firms like Dropbox and older companies like Microsoft and Google.
The San francisco-based lender will provide software that allows brands to offer small loans to their consumers,
Didi Dache core offering is a taxi booking service. It integrates with Tencent Wechat, China hugely popular chat app,
and funded by ex-Skype employees and IMBOX. me backed by ex-Nokia President and CEO Olli Pekka Kallasvuo to name but a few.
because modern companies use an increasing amount of specialized tools for specialized services like Trello for Task Management Github as a Code Repository and Google docs for online collaboration.
#We ve built a type of search engine that indexes every tool/service you connect with Chatgrape (so far we ve got Github Bitbucket Google Drive Google Calendar
#In a demo given to me over Skype and in my own testing I could grok immediately how much time this feature alone could potentially save.
A large hardware reseller obviously handles different internal data than say a large furniture manufacturer. We aim to have at least five large enterprise customers by summer 2015
#Mesosphere Announces First Data center OS And $36m In Funding Mesosphere, the commercial entity built on top of the open source Apache Mesos project,
announced some major milestones today, starting with $36m in Series B funding along with the early release of
what they are calling the first data center operating system. The round was led by new investor Khosla Ventures with additional funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Fuel Capital, SV Angel and other unnamed investors.
Besides the funding though, the bigger news was the announcement of their first data center operating system (DCOS.
This is a new kind of operating system that operates on the scale of the entire data center, which means instead of controlling a single machine,
the operating system sits on top of the data center and enables administrators to treat all of the resources in the data center as a single, virtual entity.
and lets administrators spin servers and software up and down as needs require much more quickly than with current methods.
The virtual machine allowed you to make the best use of your resources on a single machine
Because today applications tend to work across multiple servers, no matter how many ways you break down a single machine resources,
What more, this ability to virtualize the entire data center dramatically speeds up the time it takes to spin up server clusters from days or weeks to hours or even minutes
and drop resources from a library to the command line panel. This gives administrators the ability to start multiple instances of any software in the library very quickly.
The library includes popular open source products by default such as Apache Spark Apache Cassandra, Apache Hadoop and Google Kubernetes,
or customers can add internal software packages. DCOS is compatible with several versions of Linux including Redhat, Centos, Ubuntu,
and Coreos, as well public cloud infrastructure services from companies like Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Finally, you can use it with private cloud infrastructure services including virtual machines, bare metal and Openstack.
Administrators can also set up triggers with a scheduler tool so that when certain conditions are met, the system will automatically run a predefined set of commands.
For instance, administrators could run a set of commands based on cost so the job would only run
lingerie and adidas lines through a large touch screen display on the shop floor. It goes beyond just the boutique scene:
An Ugg store in D c.-area mall Tysons Galleria now enables customers to browse touch screen catalogs
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