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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

in a similar way to a new smartphone owner might be. Trip information is collected by the vehicle's computer,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

head over to our Facebook page or message us on Twitter. There was a summit, a steering committee, a policy document and even a somewhat awkward new brand name:"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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#Antibiotics: Light-sensitive drugs to tackle hardy bugs The voices warning of the demise of our antibiotic defences are getting louder.

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#Edge-of-space planes to free-up congested skies Making predictions about the future of aviation is dangerous;

It is too late to turn our backs on air travel, so how do we make it more efficient,

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#Gurgaon: From fields to global tech hub The farmers'children in dusty Darbaripur no longer want to work the land.

The diversity of companies here#ranging from every major telecom player to automobile manufacturer to banking company means that the talent pool is diverse and with valuable experience.

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#Taiwan's struggle to become an innovation leader It has a population that is half that of Spain's crammed into a land mass one-fiftieth the size of Mexico.

Neither are they cheap enough to compete with increasingly popular low-cost Chinese brands, such as Huawei and Xiaomi.

mobile internet, such as apps and games, and internet advertising are all growing rapidly. Yet it may be that the decline of Taiwan's traditional hi-tech companies contains within it the seeds of a solution, with a growing number of people breaking out to set up their own companies.

Mr Lin's tech incubator appworks provides office space for around 40 start-ups. He says the number of start-ups in Taiwan has doubled at least in the past three years to several thousand.

which has developed an app that helps people search for and watch television programmes shows and music videos on their smart phones.

It has accumulated more than two million downloads. Another is software start-up Goodlife. Its portal collects information on daily discounts from local restaurants, convenience stores and other businesses.

it's now one of the top 130 websites in Taiwan and its fan page has more than 500,000 members."

I used to go on Google search on companies'websites, and spend a lot of time doing that. Now, I can easily find discounts and coupons.#

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#Solar-power vehicles pushing boundaries of possibility The promise of fleets of clean, green transport powered by solar energy has for decades just been that:

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#Israel: Boot camp for start-up success Rothschild Boulevard has always been one of the grandest streets in Tel aviv, with its broad tree-lined central promenade and elegant Bauhaus architecture.

Earlier this year, Google acquired the mapping app Waze for more than $1 bn. The founders of Waze received their technical training in Israeli military intelligence.

a website security start-up he#founded with ex-army buddies. A white-hat hacker (one that works for non-malicious motives),

he was running his own web security consultancy by the age of 17, before being headhunted for Matzov, the#army's cybersecurity unit."

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#The latest tech weapons the US might deploy in Syria Military action against Syria may have been put on hold, at least for now.

Agent Defeat Weaponsthe US military has for many years been working on weapons designed specifically to target sites believed to house weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical or biological weapons.

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#Why Bluetooth use is on the rise Bluetooth has been with us for around 15 years.

it is a technology that everyone is aware of on their computers and phones, yet not many people choose to use.

Now however, with the rapid growth in the use of mobile and sensing technologies along with the release of an updated version of the system,

Earlier this year, a Silicon valley-based start-up called Scanadu sought to raise $100, 000 on the crowdfunding site Indiegogo.

making it the most funded project in the site's history. The product description may have helped:

This data is transmitted via Bluetooth to users'phones or tablets. With recent advances in technology such as Bluetooth, we are now able to build medical devices that weren't possible just a decade ago#.

#at an affordable price using existing infrastructure of smart phone telecoms#says Scanadu's CEO Walter de Brouwer."

Kenyan mobile tech company Virtual city has developed Agrimanagr an app designed to speed up and automate the flow of information

electronic scales are used to transmit the weight of produce via Bluetooth to a mobile phone which records this in farmers'accounts on a cloud-based server.

Users take a picture of an icon they are interested in with their phone and send it via Bluetooth to a nearby device which sends them the information they want.

and the internet create and share content. This includes a solar-powered phone charging station and a Bluetooth-based local version of Dropbox

designed to allow off-grid communities to share and store information in a variety of formats.

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#Electric cars: A universal plug for all models? Electric vehicles promise us a future of guilt-free travel.

The second site will open in Petten The netherlands and Ispra, Italy, in 2014. Walking through the Chicago facility (see video above),

Often to our frustration, so many of our devices like laptops and phones have different chargers for different models,

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#Exoplanets: New missions hunting for alien worlds As mountains go, Cerro Armazones may not be much to look at.

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#Nanotubes: Can we make speakers as thin as paper? It's time for one of those imagined futures

In 1917 Harold Arnold and IB Crandall of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Western electric Company showed that they could create sound by simultaneously passing alternating and direct currents through a very thin platinum foil.

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#Smart cards that top-up health Zack Oloo and Sam Agutu have been friends since they met at school 43 years ago.

and finance healthcare through use of mobile phones, mobile money and smart cards. While all employers are required by law to enroll their employees into the National Hospital Insurance Fund,

the mobile money service that allows the nearly 75%of adult Kenyans who subscribe to it to use their phones to store money

which work the same way as the previous system except now providers bill patients via a secure website,

##Changamka, in collaboration with one of Kenya's largest insurance companies British American Insurance and telecom provider Safaricom, launched a microinsurance scheme called Lindi Jamii in November last year.

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#Artificial food: Incredible or inedible? Pass the salt. And the pepper. And while you're at it, the ketchup too.

Funded by Google cofounder Sergey Brin, the five-year project took cells from organic cows,

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#Organs on chips: How to make a microchip that breathes Drug testing is a costly business.

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#Artificial leaf hopes to power the world Imagine if you could draw energy from almost unlimited sources found in nature#water and light.

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#Berlin start-ups: Cool and commerce coming together? When new businesses based on the computer chip began to cluster in Santa clara Valley,

Parse, was bought recently by Facebook for $85 million. Of course, Berlin is many leagues behind Silicon valley.

From Adobe through to Yahoo, via Apple, Intel, Google and Oracle, the Valley, as its occupants call it,

such as the social game developer Wooga or Research Gate, a networking website for scientists. The darling of the scene is Soundcloud

But this resistance is beginning breaking down, on both sides, according to David Knight, editor-in-chief of Berlin tech scene blog Silicon Allee."

which received##1 million in funding from Google, has rented space to over 15 companies, including Soundcloud.

Florian Lanzer is trying to build a website selling green products to people who are committed not necessarily environmentalists.

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#Maker Faire: How the DIY tech force has become strong DIY technology has taken traditionally place in a bedroom, garage or on a kitchen table.

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#Juicebox: Squeezing new life into old computers By supercharging PCS that seem past their sell-by date,

New smartphones and tablets are released barely months after their previous versions, and the hardware and software quickly become incompatible.

For those who believe that the age of tablets, smartphones, Google glass and the loudhas heralded the demise of desktop PCS,

says Jim Lynch, Director of Green Tech at Techsoup Global. ith the growth of internet and electricity in Africa,

Africa has a paltry recycling rate for mobile phones (just 1%in Nigeria, for example), and a similar recycling rate for PCS, says Lynch.

Mapping highly influential members of a social network has been done many times before for example in viral marketing and in studies of infectious diseases.

and his co-workers, have drawn on the large literature about mapping social networks. This body of work which has grown rapidly over the past decade,

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#New designs to breathe life back into our cities By the middle of this century,

and we are likely to see a change in our experience of cities thanks to augmented realities a new way of seeing via our smart phones and Google glasses.

people are exploring technologies that could transform one group of substances into another on a building site.

Sub-saharan africa has the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, increasing at an average of 44%annually since 2000, according to the worldwide mobile communications industry association GSMA.

ow, with information via mobiles, farmers are better able to bargain prices against middlemen, and can in some cases increase 25-35%of their profits.

resulting in more aggressive cells that can spread to other sites or cause regrowth of primary tumors.

thereby allowing the tumor to spread to a new organ site. They used a large screening approach

and does synthesis at the inert C-H sites.""We had demonstrated already that we have a tool box of reagents

which sites in a molecule will undergo C-H functionalization, "Davies says.""Novartis wanted to explore

Through computer modeling, researchers showed that asyn mostly can bind the membrane with four main sites, or zones.

While binding was shown to be superficial by three of the sites, one site Zone 2 had a particular affinity for the membrane.

Researchers found that asyn contacting the neuron membrane in that site immediately and deeply penetrated it,

which led to the creation of ring oligomers in the membrane, and eventually opened pores that allowed an uncontrolled influx of ions that ultimately killed the cell.

Her study is published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Photonics's website on January 19, 2015."

And now for a closer look at the Asian markets Katie Sargent joins us he is on the telephone from Singapore.

Apple was awarded just over $1 billion last week after a California jury found that Samsung had copied critical features of the iphone and the ipad.

Apple now seeking to have pulled eight devices from U s. store shelves including the very popular very very popular galaxy smart phones.

A lot of people actually like those smart phones but this was such Connell such a big you know victory for Apple.

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