#Painting robot lends surgeons a hand in the operating room Would you let an artist perform lifesaving surgery on you?
if the artist is a painting robot. Timothy Lee built a robotic painting arm that can replicate the lines
I never really thought you could do music with robots he said. That got me thinking'What else can you do with robots that most people wouldn't think about
'I thought I could do something with painting and that prompted the idea of robotic surgery.
Lee said painting and surgery have more in common than initially meets the eye. A painter has to be nimble and precise with his brushstrokes much like a surgeon must be nimble and precise with a scalpel.
More than painting by numberslee ordered parts online and assembled his contraption. His invention took an artistic turn
You can think of a painting canvas as a body and the brush as a surgeon's knife.
This year the event will take place at the University of Pittsburgh where Lee will demonstrate his robot's painting abilities.
The researchers studied the squeezed B cells in culture and found that they could expand antigen-specific T cells at least as well as existing methods using antibody-coated beads.
and has the additional benefit of targeting the antigens to the CD8 T-cell presentation pathway, thus facilitating the activation of the killer T cells desired in many clinical applications. ain squeezearmon Sharei, now a visiting scientist at the Koch Institute,
and can cause cell damage and death. By delivering proteins directly into cells with minimal toxicity,
On either face of a silicon wafer, they etch dense arrays of tiny rectangular columns tens of micrometers across
Katsikis and Prakash built arrays of tiny iron bars on glass slides that look something like a Pac-Man maze.
which was based on work Sahin had started as a Scholar in Residence at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
thicker electrodes, the system reduces the conventional battery architecture number of distinct layers, as well as the amount of nonfunctional material in the structure, by 80 percent.
and a little bit more comprehensive than some of the other designs that might be reported in the literature.
for instance the well-known malformation of the limbs of infants of pregnant women taking the Thalidomide drug to relieve morning sickness that occurred around 1960.
which was already well-known for hosting a rich family of carbon-bearing molecules. The observations of disilicon carbide are in good (though not perfect) agreement with the chemical model expectations
The world leading infectious killer, HIV has caused approximately 40 million deaths worldwide since it was identified first in the early 1980s.
It can adversely affect sleep and quality of life. Standard treatments such as steroid creams and oral medicines, commonly fail to relieve symptoms in patients with moderate to severe eczema.
and adults in the United states, said King. hopeful we are entering a whole new era in treatment. he researchers note that further research is needed to confirm the treatment long-term efficacy and safety for eczema patients f
Nanjing, China implemented a social media program that engaged more than two-million people for the 2014 Youth Olympic games.
#A day without serious crime? Cities reap real benefits from predictive policing Can you imagine a day without serious crime?
Or a double-digit decline in crime rates without a double-digit increase in the size of your police force?
officers are increasingly able to stop them before they commit crimes. How it works Microsoft Domain Awareness System gets most of the attention for its work in preventing crimes.
Police departments can use it to analyze trends and other data so that they know where crimes are most likely to occur
and assign officers accordingly. But it also goes beyond that. It impossible to prevent every crime
so the system also helps officers be more effective when theye responding to calls. While officers are on the way,
they can receive information about other incidents in the area, the crime history there, and the criminal record of any suspects.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
A day without serious crime New york, which has been working for decades to reduce crime, continued to make dramatic progress after deploying the Domain Awareness System in 2012.
There were 35%fewer murders last year than in 2011. Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.
%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
On an annual basis, the amount of serious crime was cut by nearly a quarter.
And they already collect crime data. It the analytics that truly make all that useful,
enough to keep the juice flowing in a single-person residence. How does it work?
#Utah nearly eliminates homelessness with solution that sounds too simple to work It sounds like a solution a child might offer:
How do you end homelessness? Give them homes. Most people would dismiss that answer as a crazy idea,
Utah cut homelessness by so much that it now tracks the remaining homeless by name--not number.
"A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,
One woman kept her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor the first few weeks she was in her new house.
and was on track to essentially end homelessness by next year. Instead, the city support stalled after a few years.
Also, as the Eco-Business article notes, cities in Asia and Africa will be responsible for 90%of the world's population growth until 2050.
Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
"In this industry we have family producers who don invest a lot. If we were to develop something great at a very elevated price,
and architecture by prioritizing the process over the built form.""To this extent we are integrating the service,
while producing a piece of architecture as another equally important outcome. It is neither strictly service design or architecture,
but an integrated hybrid with aspects of each.""Mapping the user journey Elsewhere, Melbourne's Huddle has launched recently Smart Blocks, a collaboration with the Australian government.
Some block cell death and protect damaged tissue exposed to radiation; others replace cells lost to exposure.
Ex-RAD from Onconova inhibits certain proteins involved in the regulation of cell death. The molecule has been tested safety in more than 50 people, with few adverse effects reported.
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
and digital storage for music and movies--all#decedents#of technologies that he pioneered and championed.
richest companies abandoned this idea as a red flag. Not Feedly, Digg, AOL, Newsblur, and others,
retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars. Especially in the U s.
and even the National Basketball Association are leveraging APIS to open up new markets and advance product innovation.
The machine can also produce original sports stories from data. And what's surprising is that the sports stories aren't actually that bad.
Local news stations could find this kind of news generation useful, but Hammond's personal goal is to create content for every little league player in the country so the team member's family can read about their performance.
Enter the world of robot journalism. What made you think a machine could generate news?
Then how did you get into creating sports stories? It's a natural progression. We are looking at computer generated content.
We think we can generate into any sport where there is numerical data. We are generating college level softball stories.
Every child up until about adolescence is capable of learning a second or third or fourth language as long as they have an immersion experience.
If a child is immersed by a native speaker at least once a week for a significant period of time,
but from a child s perspective, they are in an exciting parents and tots program that happens to be in another language.
as long as your child learns a language young. The decision should be driven by two things: What language is most likely to have reinforcement outside the classroom?
Which language do you think will give your child the biggest advantage in the future? Some parents end up enrolling their children in more than one.
We have a child who has taken all five of our languages. He turned 10 and just recently graduated from the program.
We try to play good music for them. It s a matter of having the right temperature, right moisture levels and not too much light.
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where the length of the mercury column in a capillary is controlled by the thermal expansion of the mercury in a reservoir connected to the capillary.
Tuning the voltage allowed them to control the length of the metal column in the capillary.
My family primarily uses ios devices, but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
because speech and music are compressed in different ways. Voice compression typically relies on algorithms called code-excited linear prediction (CELP),
containing algorithms for both voice and music, and it switches between them as needed. The new voice algorithms are substantially more complex than those of the decade-old 7, 000-Hz codec.
a skeletal wraith on the left, a rosy-cheeked child on the right. But the promise of insulin has yet to be fulfilled.
whose child goes to a first sleepover, says Jorge A. Valdes, chief technical officer of Dexcom,
the resulting material preserved the natural architecture found in the reeds. After 200 cycles of charging
The source of college funding changed from family wealth to federal loans. Most importantly, the goal of attending college moved from holistic education and a future in academia and research to career development and jobs.
when they started families and millennials want to live closer to each other and where the action is.
which supports companies that solve social problems. Furthermore, the South korean government recently announced that it plans to reduce regulations on industries such as financial technology
but let them experience the hacker culture, and collaborate with really different thinkers of this world,
its employees (and their families) in unencrypted Excel and Word files and carelessly shared emails.
The Sony hack has displayed a lot about the failing of our modern, wired corporate culture. Like just how casual internal company HR employees treat email communication, for example.
But more importantly, employees dealing with sensitive information seem not to understand that email is not a place where an HR employee needs to be detailing a child medical treatment,
where that treatment is taking place, the child name, how the child was doing in treatment, and more.
Sony, and likely other organizations that are currently fortunate enough to not have their poor security policies exposed,
or which child medical claims were being denied. The media has reported, however, that is the kind of information these documents contain.
According to the China National Tourism Association (via China Travel Guide) the number of Chinese travellers visiting foreign countries have grown drastically over the last several years as China economy has expanded its number of moneyed citizens
This is in addition to The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF), Saban Family Foundation, CUNY,
but also raise red flags, it makes more sense than ever for tech startups to adopt a policy of radical openness:
such as exclusive partnerships or extensive restrictions, in all likelihood means signing your own death sentence. Hold up Apple as a shining exception
A company that starts out with a closed paradigm and later chooses to open up will have a tough time rerouting company culture
Utah leads the nation in depression and suicide. Doctors prescribe antidepressants in the Beehive state at nearly twice the average rate in the U s. Speculation as to
Utah Smartcare is funded a grant project in association with Cambia Health Foundation. It aims to use technology to improve the quality and cost of healthcare for underserved populations in the state.
which follows the story of a family dealing with the late-in-life revelation that the family patriarch (Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender.
and director David Fincher and actress Robin Wright both brought home a statue for their work.
television hasn been as quick to have been disrupted by the Internet as other industries, like music or books.
music, shopping lists and more. It offers a basic music player as well that lets you see what playing,
what youe played recently and what in your queue, while also offering player controls that let you play,
it also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged in overturning the ways in
Exit Music In the following years attention and capital turned to payments companies like Braintree (acquired by Paypal), Stripe or Square as the hope for fintech biggest home runs.
Kinsa s Fluency program begins with a campaign that lets schools sign up to receive free Kinsa thermometer kits for each family.
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.
#Users will then also be able to spec out additional Spaces on the device as they desire#such as for instance a child-friendly bucket with access to a sub-set of apps.
Amazon is rolling this out across about 150,000 items initially one-off products ranging from sports
and contributes weekly to art & culture magazine Beautiful/Decay. With online sales up 17%and physical retail down 11%,it no wonder retailers large and small are increasingly living online.
and has defined both the controller architecture and use cases for SDNS through open APIS and standards-based protocols.
Opflex was designed to offer a highly scalable architecture that works across a broad range of hardware devices to enable multivendor innovation.
and evolve with the child as he or she grows. Cognitoys, as the toy line is being called,
instead inside the device and the toy gets to know the child, engage the child,
and includes a variety of specific educational content that infused into the interaction. t provides educational benefit, beyond just the play, Coolidge notes.
And due to its connected nature, the toy becomes smarter the more it used both by the child him or herself,
the next child to ask the same question will now have an answer. Aimed at those ages four to seven
The team also points out that the toy doesn answer everything a child might ask,
For example, if a child asks where babies come from, the toy tells them to go ask a parent instead.
Meanwhile, parents can customize the system with some basic information like the child name and age
and they can then monitor their child learning progress in real-time, using a cloud-based connected dashboard.
the startup has a small amount of funding from friends and family, but will likely raise a seed round in the future.
or even a possible pregnancy. lot more healthcare is going to happen in the home in the future,
#Bittorrent Teams Up With Rapid Eye Studios To Make Young Adult Original Content Last November,
As part of this, part of Bittorrent team from Bundles Bittorrent paid content service covering different kinds of media from books to music
the content should be aimed at young adults between 14 and 25, and it needs to be new and fresh.
and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members.
He says he was just building something he thought could have saved him some trouble one time on a trip home to Argentina. was trying to bring a bunch of electronics some ipads home to my family for Christmas.
but his family had to wait a week after Christmas for their gifts. What was a horrible experience for him
and his family sparked an idea. Make a trackable suitcase. Saez-Gil had previous experience in travel tech with another startup called Wehostels that hooked up travelers with hostels (sold to Studentuniverse.
or technology to the Crimea region of Ukraine Other areas covered in the order include investments and immigration.
More importantly, deep fragmentation between language and cultures meant humans from different backgrounds were unable to effectively communicate with each other.
Wide adoption of a set of unicode ideograms helped people of different cultures to communicate with one another
which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft
and less diverse samples that might not be generalizable to the world population. With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
With a burgeoning family of hardware and smart home products including an air purifier blood test device smart TV
or technology to the Crimea region of Ukraine Other areas covered in the order include investments and immigration.
Nevertheless with a population of 144 million people and a strong tech culture the country represents a lot of emerging market opportunity for Apple (and others.
for Real estate. Now the company is launching a way for them to focus on investing in specific markets around the U s. Realtyshares works to crowdfund available real estate investments allowing investors to put in as little as $5000 into single-family homes multifamily homes and even commercial
If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death the drone will casually back out of the way.
especially when they are sending salaries they have earned in the hope of supporting their families back home. or its part,
When every family on the planet has access to a smartphone with fast Internet, the paradigm changes.
if a family was living in a school catchment area. So there a clear need for ripping up RIPA and starting again.
and when people do have snooped their data on it only used in a very serious process of tracking down organised crime and terrorism?
which you apply to your temple and neck. When you open Thync app, it quickly connects to the module
Instead, it uses tiny pulses of electricity to stimulate the skin at your temple, which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
there will be moments when mere seconds can make the difference between life and death. A fire starts in a home
and I really wanted a simple way to send donations to our local church, which typically collected cash
Beyond the fact that Smart Vision is working to solve a problem that can improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world
I note that I into music and fashion related categories. You then browse reams of products that each show their typical retail price.
Next is designing the high-level system architecture to minimize patient risk and ensure that it is usable.
Next is designing the high-level system architecture to minimize patient risk and ensure that it is usable.
Our architecture draws on and potentiates this work say Alex Graves Greg Wayne and Ivo Danihelka at Deepmind which is based in London.
Yet an estimated 31 percent of jobs pay $16 per hour or less, below what is needed to support a family in an area with notoriously expensive housing.
and TV had broadened greatly the audiencesnd hence the rewardsor those in show business and sports. Thirty years later
There no longer a middle class. The economy is bifurcated and there nothing in the middle. He blames globalization for wiping out the semiconductor industry
and other support services. here used to be a ladder to get into the middle class, and some sense of mobility, Hancock says.
digital technologies inevitably mean you can generate billions of dollars from a low employment base. here used to be a ladder to get into the middle class,
then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
but no one else in her family had gone to college, and she couldn imagine leaving home to do so.
Now, at Foothill, she works with families and local communities to expand the ambitions of students from backgrounds like hers. iketty says the best predictor of access to universities is parentsincome,
As Sean Reardon, a sociologist at Stanford, points out, differences in educational achievement are associated now more closely with family income than they are with factors that have been more important in the past,
But if differences in educational achievement based on family incomes are really what driving inequality, Grusky worries,
An associate professor of media arts and sciences and leader of the Biomechatronics Group in MIT's Media Lab Herr is sophisticated building devices that aid human movement by mimicking nature.
one man who was trying to rescue them died. Herr's frostbitten legs were amputated below the knees.
Climbing is a sport in which the typical human body can feel awkward as anyone who has tried to balance on a small foothold
Our culture is trained to think about a person with an unusual body or mind as weak Herr says.
Promethease was created by a tiny, two-man company run as a side project by Greg Lennon
The mood was one of civil disobedience. on let the man stop you from getting genotyped,
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
What itunes Did for Music? The point-of-sale terminal at the CVS drugstore in Palo alto, California, can accept payments through a quick tap from a smartphone.
Now Viney Dixit and buddies at the Hydrogen energy Center of Banaras Hindu University in India say they have discovered that carbonized coconut flesh is particularly good at this task.
While some features have already been built a long list of them are still to come such as the ability to block other users from seeing your profile to post music
A sequencer this small might one day let police read off a genome from a spot of blood at a crime scene or permit doctors to pinpoint viruses in the midst of an epidemic.
Alnylam looked everywhere for solutions scouring the scientific literature collaborating with other companies considering novel approaches of its own.
Partners already working with Intel include Microsoft s Skype unit the movie and gaming studio Dreamworks and the 3-D design company Autodesk according to Achin Bhowmik general manager for Intel s
Recording fingerprints from infancy into early childhood and adulthood would also allow countries to link civil registries such as birth
and death certificates to health care records school enrollments and voter registration. The Michigan State university researchers needed to process images taken from fingerprint sensors using software to compensate for the small size of the children s fingerprints as well as their sometimes wet and oily skin.
Three Pillars of the Networked Economysap has identified three main areas where the Networked Economy is having
a diet cola with lime a classic root beer unsweetened iced tea spring water or a favorite sports drink.
The huge amount of training data allows the machine to build enough associations with the data points in the pictures that it can then use additional properties of the image to estimate the depth.
The Synapse chip breaks with a design known as the Von neumann architecture that has underpinned computer chips for decades.
and scalability of this architecture are really unique. One downside is that IBM chip requires an entirely new approach to programming.
The effect could be applied in navigation and gaming applications, and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well.
Families affected by Phelan-Mcdermid syndrome, a rare condition in which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
and more. The goal is to create a central repository where researchers can examine multiple sources of data simultaneously.
#Mathematicians Explain Why Social Epidemics Spread Faster in Some Countries Than Others Psychologists have puzzled always over why people in Sweden were slower to start smoking and slower to stop.
In January 1964, the U s. Surgeon general Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health published a landmark report warning of the serious health effects of tobacco.
because it kick-started a global campaign to reduce the levels of smoking and the deaths it causes.
the patterns of smoking all over the world have changed dramatically. In the U s.,the numbers of smokers peaked in 1965
While the general pattern of smoking has been similarn increase in numbers followed by a decreasehe rate of change has been dramatically different from one country to another.
In other words, some countries adopted smoking more quickly and stopped smoking more quickly than others. That raises an important question.
These guys have gathered the largest historical data set on smoking ever compiled and study how its prevalence is correlated with the types of societies involved.
Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.
And they say the crucial difference is the level of individualism in each society. Perhaps the most extreme difference in smoking patterns come from the U s
So the Swedes adopted smoking more slowly, peaked later, and then stopped smoking at a slower rate than people in America.
And yet the Swedes had access to the same data about the dangers of smoking at more or less the same time.
a Dutch social psychologist who developed ways to measure a set of cultural dimensions for comparing cultures.
Sweden was much slower to adopt smoking and much slower to stop. Now Lang and co think they know why.
The model reveals why Sweden stopped smoking more slowly. ur model suggests that social inertia will inhibit decisions to stop smoking more strongly in collectivistic societies than in individualistic societies,
the social freedoms in individualistic societies allow anybody to make a decision to stop smoking more easily.
It shows that differences in culture affect the dynamics of social spreading processes in a measurable way.
That will be crucial for the way that governments design strategies to help people stop smoking. nterventions designed to discourage smoking should be tailored diferently in societies or social groups
whose cultures differ in how they value individualism versus collectivism, say Lang and co. What more,
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