because corrupt politicians threaten innovation and a fair Internet. We have no protection for network neutrality because of the enormous influence of cable company s money in the political system
and will also wirelessly connect to the internet to provide location-based information, like air quality data.
and designed by three female engineers working with the MIT Media Lab spinoff startup Changing environments, according to Yahoo Tech.
one of the three inventors of the Soofa, told Yahoo Tech. One trait we have is we run around with our phones all the time,
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#Banking with startups a growing trend Majority of the people in the U s. could bebanking with startups in the next three to five years.
(and other startups) by adopting a model that has been used by many other successful tech companies, like#ebay#and#Amazon, for example.
Companies like Intuit, ebay/Paypal, Mint. com started the ball rolling when it comes to disintermediation,
and even Amazon and Groupon are playing thedisintermediator and are putting credit card processing in the hands of SMBS (small and medium businesses) and consumers.
Rather than consumers being forced to go to their banks websites, their utility company s website and so on,
and a digital currency of record could become the micropayment system for the web, allowing publications, for example,
As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
#Google announces Google Drive for Work with unlimited storage for businesses Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month
Google just announced a new product that will offer business users unlimited storage for a set monthly fee per user.#
##Google Drive for Work#will cost $10 per month and come with unlimited storage, as well as a full license for Gmail and Google Apps.
It s a huge change for Google, which previously had a maximum storage limit of 30gb per user for Google Apps,
with extra storage tiers starting at $1. 99 per month for 100gb and going up to 30tb for $300(!)
per month. No more. Now every user will have unlimited storage, with no catches. Google is also increasing the maximum file size to 5tb larger than the largest hard drive on any PC available today.
I asked Google Drive product manager Scott Johnston what type of file could possibly run into the previous 1tb limit,
and he suggested high-defintion video (like 4k from a Gopro camera) or exceptionally large data files the kind of files usually stored on servers.
The move to unlimited storage was inevitable Box CEO Aaron Levie predicted this day on Twitter#back in March
Johnston told me that Google absolutely intends to offer feature parity between mobile and web,
and web close significantly, Johnston told me. We ll march in lockstop with Android and ios
Johnston also emphasized that Drive is not exclusively for Google Apps customers, but will be catered to all companies,
Google is also addressing some longstanding complaints with Google Apps and Office file compatibility by integrating Quickoffice, acquired more than a year ago, into the suite.
Now, users will be able to edit Microsoft-formatted files directly within Google Apps without converting them to Google s file formats.
but Google Apps director of product management Ryan Tabone promises that round-tripping will be more reliable in these cases.
Google Apps is also getting revision tracking and commenting, another long-overdue feature inherited from Quickoffice.
In addition to making storage size irrelevant, Google is also offering features designed to reassure IT managers who might be nervous about moving files to the cloud,
On the security front, Google will offer encryption at rest on its servers. In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers,
Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise. The Apps suite has been pretty static for the last couple of years,
and it seemed that Larry page was satisfied to keep the product around as a decent side business (advertising still makes up 90%of Google s more than $40 billion in annual revenue) and a thorn in Microsoft s side,
but didn t think of it as a core part of Google s larger strategy. Today s announcements,
show in fact that Google won t cede any part of its enterprise cloud business to newcomers. You shouldn t expect Google to get into verticals like CRM or HR management,
but as far as broad-based infrastructure and horizontal Saas offerings go, Google is in the enterprise game to stay.
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#New recyclable plastics discovered by accident A collection of new plastics that are recyclable and adaptable have been developed by researchers
The site also reported that Oak ridge is considering processing 3d printed objects after they are printed so that they appear smooth.
highly customized modules that will go into Google s Project Ara phones, 3d Systems turned to an old concept:
but even the largest units would have trouble keeping up with the volume of phones Google expects to need.
Blinding lasers Desert Wolf s website states that its Skunk octacopter drone is fitted with four high-capacity paintball barrels, each capable of firing up to 20 bullets
the Defence Web news site has published a photo of the drone after it was unveiled at a security trade show near Johannesburg in May.
Guy Martin, the editor of Defence Web, said he believed the drone was unique. The Skunk unmanned aerial vehicle with its four paintball guns, loudhailer and cameras is only a logical next step in the development of UAVS,
Dr. Eric Topol, director of the#Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes in a#Youtube#video#how patient-focused technology improves medicine.
and many websites provide free medical advice; and even TV ads often disclose critical data.
Futurist Marshall Brain in his#Robotic Freedom Blog#agrees with the idea. America should create a $25, 000 annual stipend for every U s. adult,
since the Internet exploded into our lives in the mid-1990##s. We now go into a store to figure out what we want to buy only to go home
which consists of walls with grids on them that the phone uses to track with technology similar to#Google s Tango.
and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma. We need to take
and experience, wrote#Linkedin cofounder Reid Hoffman. Last year, on stage with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun#announced#a new consortium of businesses, the Open education Alliance,
Continuing, the blog explains, Our early nanodegrees will prepare you for a job as a front-end web developer,
back-end web developer, ios mobile developer, Android mobile developer, or data analyst. The first nanodegree will start this fall.
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
#Google buys startup Skybox Imaging for $500 million Google#will use Skybox s satellite-photo tech to improve Google maps.
Google is buying the startup, Skybox Imaging, a company that specializes in photos taken by satellites, for $500 million.#
Google#said#the buyout will help bolster Google maps by keeping the service accurate with up-to-date images.
The acquisition will give Google the ability to design and build its own fleet of satellites.
and disaster relief areas Google has long been interested in, Google said in a statement. The deal comes as big tech companies have become more interested in aerial technology including satellites
and drones to expand their reach and business operations: getting more people online means being able to offer services to larger populations.
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
In March, the company#announced#a new lab dedicated to developing that technology. The effort is in line with the mission of CEO Mark Zuckerberg s Internet. org
which aims to bring the Web to everyone in the world. Skybox and Google share more than just a ZIP CODE,
reads a#blog post#by Skybox, which, like Google, is based in Mountain view, Calif. We both believe in making information (especially accurate geospatial information) accessible and useful.
Google maps itself got its start after Google#acquired#another satellite imaging company, Keyhole, a decade ago.
Skybox in November#launched#Skysat-1, a satellite capable of taking 90-second videos at 30 frames per second.
The satellite was to be the first of a fleet of 24 launched to capture views of Tokyo;
Bangkok; Baltimore; Las vegas; and Aleppo, Syria. Google hasn indicated t if the rest of the launches will remain on schedule after the startup joins the company.
We ve asked Skybox for comment and will update this post when we hear back.
Though people have for some time been speculating about Google s interest in Skybox, Tuesday s announcement pegged the deal at half the price of the#rumored $1 billion#that had originally been reported.
Google also warned that the price tag could be adjusted and that the deal is subject to approval by regulators.
But it has introduced also new Google Chromebook laptops and an experimental new desktop aimed at businesses that runs Android.
Meanwhile, Facebook Inc. agreed in March to spend $2 billion to buy Oculus VR Inc.,maker of the Oculus Rift headset that pulls users into a 360-degree virtual environments.
Facebook CEO#Mark Zuckerberg#was convinced, in part of the value of virtual reality after he accidentally tried to set down a real world object on a virtual table
but has raised $90 million from venture-capital firms and Peter Thiel, Facebook s first outside investor,
or Darpa, the government s futurist agency that worked on the predecessor to the Internet and self-driving cars.
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#Classcraft a new way to teach students by turning the classroom into a giant role-playing game Classcraft Shawn Young,
something he believes is important in a 21st century that s proving a boom time for sharing, not least through social media.
Higuera told me via email. Before, some of my more apathetic students wouldn t care
But what makes this one different is that it also a social network of sorts. If your lost jacket isn in some mysterious corner of your home
In 2013, Tile made news for being the most successful campaign to use open source crowdfunding software elfstarter, on its own website to raise funds.
Mason tells us he dabbles in some Angel investing, specifically nternet of Things (Iot) startups, companies making internet-controlled objects t
Set up by two former Google employees, it used remote sensing and other cartographic techniques to map every field in America (all 25m of them) and superimpose on that all the climate information that it could find.
An aluminium factory used to stand on the site but was closed down in 2007. The freshwater lagoon will be 300m long
#25%of patients now read online physician reviews There has always been a love/hate relationship between doctors and the Internet.
using online review sites. A recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan says 25 percent of Americans now look online for doctor reviews before making an appointment.
There are now 40 to 50 doctor-review sites for patients to choose from, the biggest among them being Healthgrades, Ratemds and Vitals.
Also, general review sites such as Yelp also offer ratings for medical practices and specific physicians. It gets better.
And doctors sometimes simply must give patients bad news. Some doctors believe bad news in the exam room can cause bad feelings that turn into bad reviews on sites like Healthgrades. com
. But the review sites are on the minds of doctors. Both the Congress of OBGYNS and the American Psychiatric Association have held panel discussions about online reviews at recent meetings
Pristine, and Google is involved not currently. In August, another 20 to 30 pairs will go to first-and second-year students, for use in anatomy labs, the medical simulation center, the ultrasound institute,
Google self-driving cars are legal and in use in several states at this point. As researchers, we are playing catch up trying to figure out the ethical and legal implications.
and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
via email. n fact there are no technical and economic obstacles to go first to 20 percent of annual electricity demand penetration rate from a combination of those two technologies,
which was quickly moving to a web-based approach, business software was sold still in boxes.
and wanted to start selling takeout on the Web, you had to either buy a product that was compatible with your accounting software or basically run two sets of books.
there are millions of social media posts, customers filling out comment cards, mentions in mass media and on blog posts.
For a large enterprise, a keyword search would turn up thousands of hits per day. It simply not possible for a human to read it all but now machines can.
So, for example, customer service organizations can monitor the web for complaints in order to intervene and financial analysts can track sentiment on the companies they cover.
but can be accessed by anybody with an internet connection. That a real game changer. One thing is clear.
as well as offer the convenience of simple apps and websites. Simple provides mobile-first banking with no need to visit a branch, no hidden fees and great customer service.
there is an easy-to-use app or web-based money transfer service. Here in the UK, our challenger bank Virgin Money are disrupting that idea with stunning free lounges,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
Video) efore today, you had to go to our website or app to give us your flight information.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
Youl receive an email with interesting stats and potential claims a few hours later. After that, you have to give Airhelp the rights to handle the claims,
when each technology will be scientifically viable (the kind of stuff that Google, governments and universities develop),
Some details about the evolution of the project over the last few years can be seen on our Glove Project Blog.
Fast Company has covered previously New york-based medical concierge service Sherpaa and Oscar, a new health insurer which tailors its products for web and mobile use.
According to THECB website, students arriving ith no prior college credits should be able to complete the degree program in three years at a total cost of $13, 000 to $15, 000.
#Facebook and Google are drooling over drone companies Last month it seemed as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace
and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world. It was ostensibly a hedge against Google balloon-driven Project Loon and the possibility that Google,
rather than Facebook, would connect the ext billioninternet users. Today that picture is opaque at best.
Google not Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta.
And an answer to the question of how exactly the two Silicon valley giants will leverage their new technology?
Still elusive. What is clear is that while delivering connectivity to far-flung parts of the globe is advantageous for both Facebook and Google,
the race to acquire unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, technology is about much more. Exactly what, well, that more difficult to discern. ou definitely have to look at it as part of a broader business strategy,
says Mark Bünger, research director at Lux Research. he two of them are shooting for the strategic high ground here Amazon is obviously doing this, too.
For Facebook, the incentive is simple: catch up. Rival Google has been developing a means to provide Internet connectivity to remote regions of the world for years now through Project Loon,
which uses Internet hubs suspended from high-flying balloons to provide bandwidth to areas of New zealand that are wired off the grid.
Facebook isn breaking new ground by getting into commercialized drone technology, Bünger says, just keeping up. oogle has been working on the autonomous vehicles, the Nest acquisition,
and a bunch of other stuff that surprising if you think of them as a search engine company which hopefully nobody does anymore,
Facebook knows that if it wants to remain a major presence in the emerging Internet of things, it will need to extend beyond software and into hardware.
which have given Facebook some trouble in parts of the developing world, particularly where the company has attempted to negotiate ero-ratedeals that allow customers to use some of Facebook offerings without it counting against their data plans.
If Facebook does follow through with its ambitious plans to connect the next billion people through Facebook-owned Internet drones
Facebook can not only bypass mobile carriers that don want to play ball, but also push those new users toward Facebook offerings like its recently acquired messaging app Whatapp.
But one oft-overlooked area where UAS technology could really be a boon for Facebook is in data moving the other direction.
Right now, Facebook owns mountains of data on its users, but relatively little on the parts of the world that aren connected already to Facebook.
Comparatively, Google acquisitions and exclusive deals with third parties provide it with everything from the rich trove of geospatial data that powers Google maps to the energy use
and living habits of those using its Nest smart home technology, providing a far more robust picture of the world
and a wider range of services it can provide. With a fleet of UAS in the sky, Facebook could begin gathering its own proprietary geospatial data, aerial imagery, traffic data,
meteorological data information that it could then integrate into new products or sell to companies that need it,
much like Google does and other companies threaten to do, at least with regard to drones. or Facebook and Google and those guys,
they know they need a toehold in this space, Bünger says. here are a hundred other areas like that where theye having to compete now to get a toehold in the technology,
and they can really know right now what theye going to use it for. Nobody really knows.
At $20 million, Facebook found its way into the drone space for a third of
The terms of Google purchase of Titan haven yet been disclosed, but whatever the final figure, it will likely be worth it.
both of these drone acquisitions by Facebook and Google; a lot of this technology that has to do with wearables;
#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology
Following Facebook s $20 million purchase of U k.-based aerospace company Ascenta which has been working on the development of unmanned,
solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.
and nonstop for years at a time a technology Google hopes to utilize in order to extend its influence
a source close to Google said that the company offered to top any offer from Facebook for Titan Aerospace.
but as yet largely unproven technology that Google hopes can help beam internet access to areas of the globe that remain unserved by cellphone towers or telephone wires.
Solar-powered drones are an attractive proposition to company like Google and Facebook because of their reliability and stability in often adverse weather conditions.
Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,
and detail to atmospheric sensors used in many of Google s applications, such as Google maps. It is still early days
and environmental damage like deforestation, said a Google statement announcing the acquisition. Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
whether the solar technology is advanced currently enough to deliver the kind of long-range reliability that Google will require.
and it takes a lot of power to broadcast internet signals. However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,
and were impressed enough to open talks with the company about a possible acquisition. Google were evidently also eager to speak with Titan
and are believed to have gazumped Facebook s offer r
#Neuroscientists reverse symptoms of Alzheimer s in mice Researchers found that the overproduction of the protein known as p25 may be the culprit behind the sticky protein-fragment clusters that build up in the brains of Alzheimer patients.
The work, which was published in the April 10 issue of Cell, could provide a new drug target for the treatment of the disease that affects more than five million Americans,
and products could travel through the Internet as code, produced on demand at any location,
The files for these products could be sent in an email and then printed out, all in one operation,
Below is a U s. Naval Research Laboratory Youtube video explaining the breakthrough Y
#Israeli startup Storedot charges smartphone batteries to full in 30 seconds Storedot It possible that youl be able to plug the smartphone in
Press it and whatever you say will be stored as a search the next time you visit the Amazonfresh website.
The Dash is currently free but y invitation only, according to its website, and no release date has been announced yet.
with a view towards afeguarding citizensright to access an open Internet. Today that vision has become a reality.
This is an historic day for the open Internet. The finer nuances of the net neutrality law have yet to be ratified,
distinct capacity, cannot be mistaken for Internet, no replacement of Internet services by specialised services. In other words, an ISP can reclassify Amazon Instant Video
or Netflix as a service other than Internet to bypass these new net neutrality laws. It a pretty solid advance for the Internet in Europe,
one that will ensure providers can slow down or otherwise degrade the speed of an Internet connection on a whim.
The European parliament is being very clear about this: the Internet cannot be affected by specialised services.
While there could still be some twists and turns with the finer details still to be ironed out,
and Google have attracted much attention and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.
and Internet connectivity to people and villages living off-the-grid. Video) Think of these floating turbines as the wind farms of the future
Underpinning this vision is the provision of high-speed wireless internet connectivity for citizens in all public locations.
The machine sends out an email when it is running low on stock. It also has built-in security features such as cameras
A demo of Spritz technology can be found on the company website. Spritz is set to launch in April as a feature with the upcoming Samsung galaxy S5 smartphone
and the Gear 2 smartwatch. ith the growth of wearable devices, Spritz patent-pending technology will enable Samsung device users to read emails comfortably
social media streams, web content and digital books. At 1, 000 words per minute, users could potentially read the shortest Harry potter book he Sorcerer Stone,
wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet. When Katie Hall saw a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached she was shocked.
they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-fi routers. In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
If all goes to Witricity plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around,
It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.
As Witricity have mentioned on their website the Highly Resonant Wireless power transfer technology they have developed is also distinct from Tesla creations and
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