Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
Researchers have considered putting the touchpad in a natural spot for drivers, mimicking a vehicle start button.
such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
It also calls for the government to not eakencommercial software e
#Google and Twitter sitting in a tree, putting tweets in search results for you and me In February,
Twitter search engine works, but it nothing special. Google is the king of search, and with Twitter data, it suddenly about to get even more useful.
they will only think more highly of the search engine, and presumably use it more. In this way, Google is next in line as the one to benefit from this new partnership.
and haptic feedback technology for the next iphones Apple is currently working on building orce Touchtechnology and haptic feedback into the screens of its new iphones,
When you press harder on the screen, it senses the increased pressure by measuring the increased surface area occupied by the finger.
On the larger screen of a phone, it could open up all kinds of possibilities. For instance, you may be able to Force Touch on any word on the screen to bring up a definition.
Or you may be able to Force Touch on the screen to change the backdrop image or animation on the home screen.
The end result could be the reduction of clutter in ios. A function that was activated once by a button might
instead be activated by a Force Touch, so the button is needed no longer. The source said that Apple will also couple the Force Touch feature with haptic feedback engine that might verify to the user that the for gesture has activated a feature.
sits just below the touchscreen and causes the device to vibrate in order to alert you to incoming messages or other notifications.
expects its touchscreen subsidiary to see handset pressure sensor shipments increase by 4. 8 times this year.
Moky hides a trackpad in the surface of a keyboard The keyboard is a popular accessory for mobile devices
because it often much easier to type with than the tiny one featured on a smartphone or tablet.
Moky is a twist on the typical mobile keyboard, featuring a large, invisible touchpad that controlled by the user gestures.
An infrared laser sensor module provides a thin optical surface on the keyboard. The device communicates wirelessly with whatever mobile device is used with it via Bluetooth Low energy 4. 0 technology.
The keyboard cover meanwhile, doubles as a portable device stand. Moky costs $149 and will ship in October.
Its maker is hoping to raise $30, 000 by July 9. The core technology may have broader potential.
Moky seems like a neat accessory for compatible mobile devices, but that means only Android and Windows for now, according to the Indiegogo campaign.
Only the keyboard itself is supported on ios devices as Apple doesn support mice or trackpads in that operating system.
Synaptics, for one, recently has shown off Smartbar technology that turns a keyboard space bar into a pointing device complement
and Apple is rumored also to be working on similar technology, perhaps for the Mac. From the campaign video, it not easy to tell just how easy it is to use Moky,
but the ability to conserve the space taken up by a trackpad would surely have allure for some users e
#El Ni#o Finally Arrives May Lead to Average Rainfall In July 2014, climatologists had predicted a 70 percent chance of a weak to moderate El niño in last August
#Nvidia's Tegra X1 Powers Smart cars At the Consumer electronics Show (CES) last week, Nvidia released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
These computing platforms are part of the venture called Nvidia Drive and are powered by the Tegra X1 mobile chip.
Nvidia Drive PX is for the actual driving side of the smart car equation, while Drive CX deals with digital systems on the dashboard and elsewhere in the vehicle.
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 kmph.
The famous graphics card manufacturer believes that this sort of situational awareness will help prevent accidents. Meanwhile Drive CX has been described as the digital cockpit computer,
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will facilitate digital instrument clusters
It will be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
Nvidia senior manager for CUDA Libraries and Algorithms Jonathan Cohen, said, ecause this is a neural network,
and has worked with HTC, Microsoft, Nike, etc. Horace said, ur products and business model will impact a variety of consumer areas to create a metropolitan ecosystem with better connectivity, easier access to energy,
The scooter features 30 onboard sensors, applications for Android and ios, cloud connectivity. The Gogoro electric scooter does need not to be plugged in for charging it.
#Nvidia Unveils Tegrax1 Soc Drive CX And Drive PX Nvidia has unveiled a chip that can pump out the quality of a high gaming console on your smartphones.
Additionally, the famous graphics card manufacturer also released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
The smartphone chip, Nvidia Tegra X1 Soc has an 8-core 64-bit CPU and a 256ore Maxwell-based GPU.
Nvidia claims that it is the first mobile chip that will provide a teraflop of processing power.
They also added that it is equivalent to the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2000.
The Tegra X1 is also much more efficient than the Tegra K1. Nvidia showed a demo of the Unreal Engine Elemental sequence to display the power and efficiency of the Tegra X1.
Jen-Hsun Huang, cofounder of Nvidia, said, ast year, when next generation game consoles were released,
they consumed 100 watts when running Unreal Engine Elemental demo. Now we can do it on Tegra X1 at 10 watts.
Nvidia believes that the first beneficiaries of the Soc will be cars. The Nvidia Drive CX is based on a single Tegra X1 platform
whereas the Driver PX is based on the dual Tegra X1s. Nvidia Drive CX will act as the digital cockpit computer,
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will also be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
Drive CX will also be able to recognize speech and faces of it users. Meanwhile, Drive PX is an image processing platform
and it will have the capability to work with inputs from up to 12 cameras. All these cameras will work in tandem
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 km h.
With these two platforms Nvidia hopes to revolutionize the dashboard and give a boost to the concept of driverless cars s
which let people communicate using Gmail on apps like the Apple iphone Mail and Microsoft Outlook.
#Google's Algorithm Masters Video games Google has stated that they have developed the first computer program capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in
According to the engineers at Google, the program (or agent as its developers call it) learnt to play 49 different retro computer games,
and apply it to more realistic 3d computer games. Demis Hassabis founder of Deepmind, said, his is the first significant rung of the ladder towards proving a general learning system can work.
The catalysts which have been used in the system are adapted highly well as well as compatible with the conditions required for the bacterial growth.
One scenario being bandied about is using these CICADAS to monitor extreme weather situations, such as tornadoes. Within a few years,
Researchers claimed that the tiny man-made catalysts can purify drinking water and waterways by getting rid of oestrogenic hormones and pharmaceuticals,
For the Internet this means an infrastructure of supercomputers strategically located at network nodes regenerating
The new Coolpad Arise is powered an Android smartphone that can use Scratch software to make voice, text,
theyl have access to a capable Android smartphone with a 4-inch display, rear camera,
an Android phone that sold for $269. Scratch Wireless has raised $5 million from investors including Commonangels
which acquired Mysql when it bought Sun microsystems for $7. 4bn in 2010, Mysql Cluster 7. 4 has faster in-memory processing
if you have more cores on the system, so it can run on bigger machines with about a 50 percent improvement.
But at the higher node counts with more cores, it performs better.""Ulin said version 7. 4 of the technology,
#Intel theory on opening software During December last year, Intel showcased a special project we worked on for renowned English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author,
Intel was able to demonstrate for the first time with Professor Hawking an Intel-created open-source communications platform to replace his decades-old system,
and the very specific relationship between this man and his machine, Intel has delivered a tailored solution--called ACAT (Assistive Context Aware Toolkit)--resulting in improved communication for Hawking with the world.
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Intel Labs has been working for three years with Hawking to replace his current communications system with modern technology.
providing ongoing feedback to help Intel improve the system with every iteration. Similar to the parts of an engine interacting smoothly to run a car,
the Intel-created software user interface enables existing and new technologies to efficiently work with each other.
and helps him select a character on the computer. Integrating software from British language technology company Swiftkey has improved greatly the system's ability to learn from Hawking to predict his next characters
and words so he only has to type less than 20 percent of all characters. This information is sent to his existing speech synthesizer
so he can communicate to others through his laptop. For example, to conduct a web search,
navigating a mouse to run the browser, navigating the mouse again to the search bar,
and finally typing the search text. The new system automates all of these steps for a seamless and swift process.
The value Intel sees in using open software extends to the cloud. This is why it has been proactive in making sure open-source solutions for the cloud,
Intel has a long history of using open-source software for its Design Grid and now it can add to that list creating open-software as well l
#Samsung begins production of next-gen embedded NAND flash Samsung has begun production of Universal Flash Storage (UFS) chips, the world's first production example of the technology with a maximum
and is considered the next-generation NAND flash product after embedded Multi Media Cards (emmc) to be used in mobile devices.
which allows it to have a 2. 7 times faster reading time than the average emmc 5. 0. The latest chip achieved a random reading speed of 14,000 IOPS, 28 times faster than external memory cards,
UFS can be stacked atop processors to allow smartphones to be thinner. A Samsung spokesperson declined to comment on which client it is supplying the chips to.
One of the printed engines is currently on display at the Avalon International Airshow in Victoria,
Computer giant Hewlett-packard has announced that it will put an ultra-fast 3d printer on the market by 2016.
#Apple, Google urge Obama to reject smartphone backdoor proposals Symantec Apple, Google and other technology companies are petitioning US President Obama to stop new regulations
which may threaten the personal security of mobile devices and communication. As reported by The Washington post,
which would allow law enforcement to view decrypted data on mobile devices. According to the publication, the signatories are appealing to government officials to protect privacy rights in light of companies adding increased security and encryption to mobile devices in a post-Snowden era.
Encryption and personal privacy hit the spotlight after former US National security agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden released a swathe of confidential files documenting the widespread, bulk data collection and spying activities
undermine, weaken or make vulnerable"software offered commercially. In October last year, FBI Director James Comey said unchecked encryption could lead us to a"dark, dark place,
"as law enforcement will become blind in tracing criminal suspects who are able to hide their digital communications. window. console && console. log && console. log("ADS:
queuing sharethrough-top-555b0a6bacc4e for display";"var cbsigptdivids=cbsigptdivids; cbsigptdivids. push("sharethrough-top-555b0a6bacc4e";"The FBI support encryption as a concept,
In order to restore public trust in mobile devices shown to be vulnerable to the NSA's spying activities,
Apple's ios 8 is once such system which was met not with applause from law enforcement.
The operating system contains encryption which prevents the company from releasing user data, forcing police to go after the device owners themselves in the quest for data rather than the tech giant.
Google reversed its original decision to enable encryption by default due to legacy issues with older Android operating systems,
For one, Amazon's energy timeline is a lot blurrier than those outlined by Apple, Google and IBM.
"On average, AWS customers use 77 percent fewer servers, 84 percent less power, and utilize a 28 percent cleaner power mix,
#Hardware prices could come down after WTO tariff repeal on chips, switches and touchscreens Consumers may see prices for certain tech products fall thanks to a new trade deal between 54 World trade organisation (WTO) members.
According to the WTO, the 54 members have agreed to cut tariffs on a list of 201 IT products with that account for $1. 3 trillion in trade each year.
a deal launched in 1997 to cover a range of technology products such as typewriters, word processors, hard drives, and other items,
which include magnetic resonance imaging machines, machine tools for manufacturing printed circuits, telecommunications satellites and touchscreens"."Announcing the trade deal,
the European commission noted members would also remove customs duties on video games and consoles, home hi-fi systems, headphones, Blu-ray and DVR players, semiconductors, TV cameras, routers, and switches.
Monitors, projectors, non-digital car radios and TVS will be excluded from the pact in the EU. The full terms of the agreement will be circulated at a WTO General council meeting on 28 july.
#Intel, Micron unveil 3d XPOINT as first new class of memory tech in decades Building off a partnership forged over the last decade,
Intel and Micron jointly debuted a new memory storage technology on Tuesday. Dubbed 3d XPOINT, the transistor-less storage and memory platform is designed to offer a nonvolatile,
and applications stored closer to the processor. The two memory producers touted this is the first introduction of a new memory category
and many people gave up trying to accomplish,"reflected Rob Crooke, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Nonvolatile Memory Solutions Group, during a media presentation on Tuesday morning.
Intel and Micron executives shared a forecast that the world will generate roughly 44 zettabytes in the next five years.
Intel and Micron said they are already developing products based on 3d XPOINT with samples scheduled to start rolling out to select customers later this year.
Showing no signs of a summer slowdown, Intel has had already quite a big month--most notably a solid second quarter earnings report two weeks ago.
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich credited the results to growth in three departments--memory, data centers and the Internet of things--altogether
Those units also made up for continued pitfalls surrounding the PC space. More Intel news can be expected soon as the tech giant's annual conference
Intel Developer Forum (IDF), is taking place in San francisco a bit earlier this year from August 18 to 20.
Skylake, the code name for Intel's sixth-generation Core processor aimed at PCS, is slated also to drop during the second half of 2015.
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