what telephone and Internet data the government can collect. Today was a step in the right direction
plagued by an infrastructure that can handle cell phone location data and that can repeatedly drop emergency calls.
location data that could be crucial for saving a life or finding a kidnap victim is often unavailable to the emergency operator.
In one test in Texas, for example, two-thirds of calls lacked such data. The problems don end there.
That one touch will immediately send location data to 911, but also includes data on medical conditions that a user can pre-populate into the app.
Thus, if you have a medical emergency and press the button, it will automatically send potential allergies
This data is compatible with all U s. dispatch centers although international compatibility for data transfer is not yet fully ready.
For institutions like universities and corporate campuses, Rapidsos offers a product it calls Geoalert that allows public safety officers to send out mass alerts to precisely the people they need to go to,
Longer term, Martin expects that the company data around emergencies will allow it to offer a predictive analytics platform that might be of interest to Wall street investment funds and insurance companies.
The health wristband can monitor pulse, heart rhythm, skin temperature, light exposure and noise levels, providing valuable data not just about a patient,
which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o
while scoring data on price sensitivity for businesses. And with a preset demand curve, merchants can choose exactly how much revenue they want to earn
and were convinced they could merge mobile commerce, social discovery, and big data. Of course, while Compelation sounds good,
and public-benefit organizations with data wants to give the world these insights. So today, Google revealed that it been working with SF startup Aclima for the last year
-and-a-half to attach air-quality sensors to its Street view cars. e designed our cities without data,
Literally piggybacking on Google could let Aclima produce the data necessary to make urban areas easier on the lungs.
The goal is to make data like this available to citizens so they and their local governments can see pollution on their own streets.
Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data
Aclima-equipped Street view cars will crisscross the Bay Area and other cities this year as part of the next big data collection.
manages the network as they collect data, processes the data on its cloud backend, and produces analytics and visualizations.
The first project it announced was using indoor sensors to help Google measure air quality in its offices to optimize productivity.
Google earth Outreach will help organizations use the data to visualize air-quality problems in cities,
There plenty more Google could potentially do with the data, though. It could allow Google maps to route cars
The new software is the latest product of Google research into using large collections of simulated neurons to process data (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
Instead, its networks earnedby consuming data. Though it just a research project for now, Vinyals says,
After that training process, the software was set loose on several large data sets of images from Flickr
though large databases of hand-labeled images have been created to train software to recognize individual objects,
Microsoft this year launched a database called COCO to try to fix that. Google used COCO in its new research,
and data capabilities and using an interface that consumers know and understand and is already part of their everyday life.
But the regulatory pathway for the use of smartphones and data aggregation has recently become much clearer.
and released draft guidance proposing deregulation of medical data aggregation systems. This clarification she says significantly reduces the risks of these opportunities for medical technology companies.
or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds. However with the clearer regulatory pathway emerging concepts are now starting to push the boundaries
and data capabilities and using an interface that consumers know and understand and is already part of their everyday life.
But the regulatory pathway for the use of smartphones and data aggregation has recently become much clearer.
and released draft guidance proposing deregulation of medical data aggregation systems. This clarification she says significantly reduces the risks of these opportunities for medical technology companies.
or a##data pipe to the cloud Pettigrew adds. However with the clearer regulatory pathway emerging concepts are now starting to push the boundaries
#Driving Marketing Results with Big data For marketers trying to maximize their return on investment predictive analytics based on big data is an exciting new tool.
In the digital world predictive analytics based on big data holds the promise of creating a detailed view of
The promise of big data analytics is that marketers can analyze thousands of points of information about the digital activity of the purchaser stripped of personally identifiable information
With that data marketers can make better decisions about how to allocate their ad budgets. Indeed the analytics themselves will identify the smart choices.
We can do media-mix modeling using big data and machine learning says Madan Bharadwaj product marketing chief of Visual IQ an analytics firm based in Needham Massachusetts.
Thanks to technologies such as cookies and browser pixels marketers can now tell exactly where a specific buyer saw their ads.
The data even shows how long that buyer watched a video or lingered on a page carrying the ad.
With enough data and a good algorithm the analytics companies say they can determine just which ads made a difference.
#Laser-Radio links Upgrade the Internet The rise of Wi-fi and cellular data services made Internet access more convenient and ubiquitous.
Now some of the high-speed backhaul data that powers Internet services looks set to go wireless, too.
Technology that uses parallel radio and laser links to move data through the air at high speeds,
He says a faster way to install new capacity is to use his company wireless transmission towers to move data at two gigabits per second.
whose customers have growing appetites for mobile data. Many U s. providers are currently scrambling to install fiber to replace the copper cables that still link up around half of all cellular towers,
Routing data over both simultaneously provides redundancy that allows an AOPTIX link to guarantee a rate of two gigabits per second with only five minutes or less downtime in a year,
and it could be increased to four gigabits or more in the future. The radio and laser equipment inside an AOPTIX device move automatically to compensate for the swaying of a cell tower caused by wind.
AOPTIX originally developed its laser technology for the Pentagon, designing systems that actively steer laser beams to keep data moving between ground stations, drones, and fighter jets.
will use AOPTIX technology in New jersey to shave nanoseconds off the time it takes data to travel between the computers of Nasdaq Stock market and the New york stock exchange e
or she often doesn have an opportunity to radio for backup. Yardarm, a California-based company, is building technology that will automatically alert headquarters in such situations.
and transmits data over a cellphone network connection. The data transmitted includes the location of a gun
and whether it has been discharged unholstered or. The company is also working to track the direction in
The data can be fed to a police dispatch system or viewed on a smartphone. Founded in 2013
and officers realize that the data can help clear them of wrongdoing and save litigation costs.
a sensor that goes on the front of the gun and captures data on the weapon use.
says Santa cruz sheriff Phil Wowak. he product brings so much data that wee going to have to figure out how to respond to every element.
This is the ability to take a piece of data and assign it to a slot in the memory and to do this repeatedly with data of different length like chunks.
During the 1990s and 2000s computer scientists repeatedly attempted to design algorithms circuits and neural networks that could perform this trick.
But when it comes to sequences that are longer than the training data errors immediately become significant.
Our experiments demonstrate that our Neural Turing Machine is capable of learning simple algorithms from example data
, according to new data from the Energy Information Agency. Besides a small rise in the price of natural gas and slightly cheaper coal, the weather played the biggest role in in pushing up emissions,
apparently with a view to creating custom chips to process image data. Dedicated chips could make that work more energy-efficient, something important for a wearable device.
and Anthony Atkinson, an economist at the University of Oxford, Piketty collected and analyzed data, including tax records,
and several other European countries in which such historical data are available.)The gap between the wealthy and everyone else is largest in the United states. The richest 1 percent of the population has 34 percent of the accumulated wealth;
bove a certain level, it is very hard to find in the data any link between pay and performance.
Racing Ahead y reading of the data is that technology is the main driver of the recent increases in inequality.
but has shown not any data on the results. However he said of the plasma it looks like it s doing what it s supposed to do.
she paid $5 to upload her raw 23andme data. Within a few minutes she was looking into a report with entries dividing her genes into ad newsand ood news. As tens of thousands of others seek similar information about their genetic disposition,
they are loading their DNA data into several little-known websites like Promethease that have become, by default, the largest purveyors of consumer genetic health services in the United Statesnd the next possible targets for nervous
It works by comparing a person DNA data with entries in SNPEDIA, a sprawling public wiki on human genetics that the pair created eight years ago
because although DNA data is easy to gather, its medical meaning is less certain. Consumer DNA tests determine which common versions of the 23,000 human genes make up your individual genotype.
In barring 23andme health reports, the FDA also cited the danger that erroneous interpretations of gene data could lead someone to seek out unnecessary surgery
MIT Technology Review tested several interpretation-only sites using DNA data of anonymous donors posted publicly by the Personal Genome Project,
a data sharing initiative started by Harvard Medical school. All the sites quickly reported gene variants contained in the files
They use a special SIM CARD-the tiny card that allows your device to connect to a carrier network-called Apple SIM.
And unlike SIM CARDS in use today, it is locked not to a single carrier. You will be able to use a setting in ios to quickly switch from carrier to carrier right on the ipad
you may also be able to choose a data plan from a local carrier for the duration of your trip.
what more interesting is the impact this could have on wireless data competition and prices if more carriers are added to the mix.
if you see that a carrier that supported by your Apple SIM is having a sale on a short-term data plan,
the Apple SIM is added eventually to the iphone (and, perhaps, similarly flexible SIMS appear for other smartphones as well).
Not only would it make it easier to move from one carrier to another, but it could also make it more affordable for people all over the world to communicate.
Given that the Apple SIM seems like a really intriguing technology that could change the wireless industry,
Perhaps it can come up with a way to convince the wireless companies to get on board for the Apple SIM
For example researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder are using satellite data and local measurements to build a tool that can tell governments about expected patterns of land sinking in delta areas.
In recent months, card data breaches At home Depot, Target, and others have alerted consumers that credit
and data about them to Apple, says Richard Crone, CEO of the payments advisory firm Crone Consulting.
Social scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys Gathering data about human preferences and activities is the bread-and-butter of much research in the social sciences.
But just how best to gather this data has long been the subject of fierce debate.
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
when it comes to analyzing the data collected in this way. Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale.
To find out these guys have developed a new type of data collection mechanism that they call a wiki survey.
These included ideas that would have been unlikely to emerge through other data gathering methods such as Keep NYCS drinking water clean by banning fracking in NYS watershed
That could be done by comparing the results to those gathered by other forms of data collection.
What s more analyzing the data from pairwise wiki surveys is still something of a statistical experiment.
That is an interesting new approach that allows the collection of data that would be difficult to get by other methods.
In particular it allows data to be gathered in a way that reflects the well-known long-tailed distribution of contributors.
when it comes to data analysis. And therein lies a significant challenge. Time for the statisticians to get busy y
and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz Ello contends that on social networks like Facebook we the users are the product as our data is sold to advertisers who hope to entice us with ads in our feeds.
It doesn t sell user data to third parties either and you can decide whether or not you want to let it gather information about your own Ello activity to improve the site.
I m accustomed to paying with the breadcrumbs of data I drop along the way.
and off every pixel in just under one millisecond (the flap of a fly wing takes almost three times as long).
About 90 percent of DNA data is produced on sequencing machines from a single company Illumina of San diego (see 50 Smartest Companies:
When it first announced the Minion in 2012 expectations soared off the charts (see Why a Portable DNA Device Could Yield Better Data.
Bhowmik also showed how data from a tablet s 3-D sensor can be used to build very accurate augmented reality games where a virtual character viewed on a device s screen integrates into the real environment.
In a conventional LCD display the liquid crystals within the pixels need to be positioned perfectly between two sheets of glass.
These sheets cannot be bent without misaligning the pixels. According to Max Mcdaniel chief marketing officer for Applied materials, a company whose equipment is used to make displays,
is also extremely difficult to make a flexible backlighthe component needed to illuminate LCD pixels.
Rather than the pixels being illuminated by a backlight, each pixel glows on its own, like a minuscule light bulb.
Manufacturers can already make OLED displays flexible. They first laminate a sheet of plastic to glass and then deposit the materials for the pixels and the electronics on top of both.
The glass stabilizes the manufacturing process and afterwards the plastic, together with display and electronic components, is lifted off the glass.
OLED pixels can be destroyed by even trace amounts of water vapor and oxygen, so you have to seal the display within robust, high-quality, flexible materials.
while keeping the electronics lined up properly with the pixels they control. Making a flexible battery is another challenge.
and Facebook Data Datacoup one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data has closed finished a trial of its service
and is now opening it to anyone (see Sell Your Personal data for $8 a Month).
and other personal information and will gleaned sell insights from that data to companies looking for information on consumer behavior.
or not depends on which streams of data he s willing to share. Options include debit card and credit card transactions and data from Facebook Twitter and Linkedin.
Datacoup won t provide raw data to companies. Instead it will provide results of analyses performed on that data.
For example a company might ask Datacoup to provide information on how often women in a certain age group mention coffee on Facebook on the same day they use their credit card in a coffee shop.
Data streams like those that Datacoup collects could turn out to be worth more than $10 a month.
Tens of thousands of people already receive $100 a month from a company called Luth Research in return for very detailed data from their smartphones tablets
Hogan expects the price that Datacoup offers people for their data to change as his company assesses the supply of customer information
and demand from companies willing to pay for analyses of that data. The market will decide he says s
Privacy groups have warned that biometric data can be misused or faked. However people in developing countries typically do not voice concerns over privacy
and security with biometric data says Mark Thomas the executive director of Vaxtrac a nonprofit that worked with the Benin trials.
It s an emerging type of economic environment arising from the digitization of fast-growing multilayered highly interactive real-time connections among people devices and businesses.#
Now businesses processes data and things##everything###can be connected in a network. That is transforming everything.
In 2011 with SAP s help the port developed a cloud-based system to better coordinate both land-side and port-side traffic based on a steady stream of incoming data.
and form the perceived image, says Maimone. ince the light rays that hit each display pixel come from the same direction,
though, there a demographic that collectively shrugs at the notion of being mined for data. Some startups hope to exploit this by buying access to your Web browsing
and banking data (see ell Your Personal data for $8 a Month. Luth Research, a San diego company
and analyzes data from preselected participantsphones and computers via a virtual private network connection. Data is routed through the company servers where it is collected
and analyzed for trends. The company doesn view the contents of messages, but what it does gather includes where smartphone users are given at any moment,
Luth hawks that data to the highest bidder. Wu says her company approach is especially valuable
Luth says it is working on a program that will incorporate the audio in a person environment with the data being collected to try to determine what theye doing.
#U s. Warrants for Overseas Data Trample Foreign Privacy Laws U s. Internet companies and indeed all multinationals with a presence in the United states appear to be trapped between the data access requirements of U s. law enforcement agencies
The company objected to the warrant with regard to data stored at its data center in Ireland claiming that U s. courts are authorized not to issue warrants for extraterritorial searches.
if it turned over data stored abroad to the U s. government it would be more difficult for the company to resist requests by foreign governments for data stored in the U s
because Microsoft is subject to U s. jurisdiction it must turn over data it controls regardless of where the data is stored.
This may be the first case in which a company has opposed formally a U s. search warrant concerning data stored abroad.
The revelations of Edward Snowden have put them all under increasing pressure to resist U s. requests for data access.
Dozens of countries around the world grant broad privacy protection to data processed for commercial purposes (the U s. is one of the few that do not.
They generally do not allow data to be transferred to foreign authorities without the approval of local regulators.
because they are subject to U s. data access requests. For example in June the German government cancelled a contract with Verizon for Internet services.
Many more companies have a commercial incentive to contest these cross-border requests for data. The issues raised in the Microsoft case are relevant to all companies subject to U s. jurisdiction not just those in the Internet sector including companies based abroad but active in the U s. market.
The privacy expectations of the Internet users whose data may be accessed have received little attention. The best way to resolve this conflict would be to make changes to U s. legislation that balance the interests of companies and law enforcement while taking the privacy expectations of individuals into account.
and the E u. known as the Umbrella Agreement might provide some relief by establishing formal rules about data sharing.
And the privacy of individuals whose data is held by companies with a U s. presence will remain largely unconsidered.
Christopher Kuner is senior privacy counsel with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in Brussels and associate professor of data protection law at the University of Copenhagen n
#How to Break Cryptography With Your Bare Hands With enough technical savvy, simply touching a laptop can suffice to extract the cryptographic keys used to secure data stored on it.
when cryptographic software operates to decrypt data using a secret key. Measuring the electrical potential leaked to your skin
The catch is that contact must be made as data is unlocked with a keyuring decryption of a folder or an e-mail message, for instance.
Tromer says he doesn know of anybody performing a ground-potential attack to steal real data
It is possible to avoid such attacks by adding random data to computations. The developers of one popular free cryptographic software package, Gnupg, incorporated such a patch into the latest version of their software a
After building up a set of training data, which included images of hands, the group found it could measure a person motions at a speed of 220 frames per second.
While the training data focused on faces and hands, the group wasn actually training the machines to recognize hands or faces,
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.
what sort of training data that you give it, he says. he approach in itself can be tailored to work on any other scenario. n
#Super-Fast Pixels Could Make Smartphones Brighter and Longer-Lasting Displays account for between 45 and 70 percent of the total energy consumption in portable electronics.
A new kind of liquid crystal display (LCD) with pixels that switch much more quickly could give smartphones brighter screens
a layer of liquid crystal material in each pixel switches from one state to another to block the passage of specific colors of light.
and one green, that illuminate all of the pixels in the display in very rapid successionoo quickly for the eye to perceive.
The color of each pixel then depends on perfectly timing when it opens to let light through.
In a conventional LCD, pixels switch much too slowlyn the range of a couple of millisecondsor the technique to work.
It involves using a new material that strongly anchors a kind of liquid crystal that switches pixels on and off very quickly.
#IBM Chip Processes Data Similar to the Way Your Brain Does A new kind of computer chip,
and other sensory data. IBM Synapse chip processes information using a network of just over one million eurons,
When data is fed into a Synapse chip it causes a stream of spikes, and its neurons react with a storm of further spikes.
simulated neural networks to work on data (see eep Learning. But those networks require giant clusters of conventional computers.
because they store data and program instructions in a block of memory that separate from the processor that carries out instructions.
And it doesn work on data in a linear sequence of operations; individual neurons simply fire
but it can still send data over Wi-fi. These prototype gadgets, developed by researchers at the University of Washington,
and battery-free sensors behind couches and cabinets could provide the detailed data needed to make such thermostats more effective. ou could throw these things wherever you want
the power required to actively transmit data is significantly higher. Harvesting ambient radio waves can collect on the order of tens of microwatts of power.
But sending data over Wi-fi requires at least tens of thousands of times more powerundreds of milliwatts at best
To send data to a smartphone for example, one of the new prototypes switches its antenna back and forth between modes that absorb
To send data to the battery-free device a conventional Wi-fi device sends a specific burst of packets that lets the receiving device know it should listen for a transmission.
The data is then is encoded in a stream of further packets with gaps interspersed between them.
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