and Time warner Cables well as many users of video-sharing websites. Today, 3play's system works much as it did at MIT,
Customers upload videos to 3play's site, where automatic speech recognition software produces transcripts and captions,
and how can we process thousands of files a day to scale up to meet the demands of the Internet?"
so your average Youtube uploader can learn if captioning is worth the cost. To do so, the company drew on third-party data on thousands of Youtube videos that showed significant increases in viewership with the addition of captions.
When given a video link the calculator crawls the user's channel to tally viewership of noncaptioned videos and, based on that data, estimates the boost in traffic and search-engine optimization,
tried to grow a Web-based company.""We had'Javascript for Dummies'books on our desks,"Johnson recalls."
"The scientist said the Hur-RNA binding site is like a long, narrow groove, not a well-defined pocket seen in other druggable proteins targeted by many current cancer therapies."
"The Hur protein grabs the'rope'r the RNAT a site called'ARE'on the rope.
and are enabling new technologies like flexible displays in mobile phone, wearable electronics, and the Internet of things (Iots).
However, is the degree of flexibility enough for most applications? For many flexible devices, elasticity is a very important issue.
which could one day make it into our homes, offices and perhaps even our mobile phones. The group, led by Dr Jason Alexander
and the Internet of things. A camera that can function as an untethered device foreverithout any external power supplyould be incredibly useful."
such as a phone or a watch. Nayar notes that the image sensor could use a rechargeable battery and charge it via its harvesting capability:"
What the EU says Google is doing wrong The European union slapped Google Inc. with antitrust charges Wednesday,
saying it is abusing its dominance in Web search to promote its own products Here are the major allegations:
The EU says Google is unfairly favoring its own comparison-shopping service in general search results.
a coffee mug would find Google Shopping results for mugs displayed at the top of the search page,
The EU says part of the reason for competing sites'low rankings is applied that Google different parameters to comparison-shopping services,
The EU pointed out that a previous Google shopping site called Froogle did not use a favorable system
The current Google Shopping product which allegedly uses the favorable system, is experiencing higher growth.
Also under investigation is Google's smartphone operating system, Android. The EU is looking in whether the company is giving smartphone makers unfair incentives for preinstalling Google's applications,
such as the Chrome Web browser and Youtube. The EU is also continuing a formal investigation into concerns that Google copies rivals Web content and places undue restrictions on advertisers a
#Using composite material samples, NRL scientists predict aspects of F/A-18 performance The U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has built a robot to pull, bend,
and twist samples of the composite materials used to build F/A-18s and other aircraft.
and act as easily accessed landing sites for fluorescently labeled"readout probes"that are applied to the cells in subsequent rounds.
Germany and Canada have built a miniature particle accelerator that uses terahertz radiation instead of radio waves to create pulses of high-energy electrons.
and some physicists are keen on using the radiation in much the same way that radio waves
#E-commerce Players Betting Big on Offline Presence Many e-commerce players have started foraying into physical retail space
some e-tailers are setting up shops offline. According to property consultant JLL India, Pepperfry is the latest to go'hybrid'.
"A significant share of our customers still prefer to buy offline and consider online website as a research tool.
The bigger ticket items are bought generally offline.""Therefore, in the race to provide a complete solution,
such phenomenon of online players going offline should stay, "said Vikas Bhasin, CFO, Pine Labs, an integrated payment solutions company."
"A larger portion of the Indian society is dominated middle class. This clientele is very skeptical about what,
For this strong bastion of middle class milieu, offline models like retailer shops have mushroomed all over, "said R P Yadav, CMD, Genius Consultants.
and offline models of e-commerce, "said Dinesh Gulati, Director, Indiamart. According to Tripti Lochan, CEO of VML, a leading digital marketing agency,"pureplay online retail will continue to live as not every e-commerce player has need either the
While IBM Corp, Cisco systems Inc and Hewlett-packard Co could theoretically be potential suitors for EMC,
On a flat lattice, atoms can easily move around from site to site. However, in a tilted lattice, the atoms would have to work against gravity.
However, these molecules can also cause collateral damage to healthy tissue around the infection site:
or site of damage in the structure of DNA, called 5-chlorocytosine (5clc) in the inflamed tissues of mice infected with the pathogen Helicobacter hepaticus.
the researchers first placed the 5clc lesion at a specific site within the genome of a bacterial virus. They then replicated the virus within the cell.
when triggered by infection, fires hypochlorous acid at the site, damaging cytosines in the DNA of the surrounding healthy tissue.
This research outcome potentially allows for great flexibility in the design and optimization of electronic and optoelectronic devices like solar panels and telecommunication lasers.
If you pry open one of today ubiquitous high-tech devices whether a cellphone, a laptop,
the technology now used in everything from cellphones to electric cars. The electrolyte in such batteries typically a liquid organic solvent whose function is to transport charged particles from one of a battery two electrodes to the other during charging
Such batteries provide a 20 to 30 percent improvement in power density with a corresponding increase in how long a battery of a given size could power a phone, a computer,
write, watch television or even recognize a face. ARMD is due to the degeneration of the macula,
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#See through Walls by the Glow of Your Wi-fi It used to be that a bad guy besieged by police could just shoot out the lights and hide in the dark.
tomorrow thugs may also have to worry about the soft radio glow of wireless routers and mobile communications towers.
Researchers at University college London (UCL) have devised a system for detecting the Doppler shifts of ubiquitous Wi-fi
The UCL technique uses only passive radiationrom Wi-fi routers (using emissions in any of the IEEE 802.11 b, g, n, ac), ambient GSM and LTE mobile signals,
a reference channel, receiving the baseline signal from the Wi-fi access point or other RF source,
Tan and company built their igh Doppler resolution passive Wi-fi radaron two multi-frequency, software-defined, FPGA-based transceivers (National Instrumentsusrp,
Up until now, Inrix had gathered basic data from hundreds of millions of moving objects throughout the worldostly cell phones
Those companies, in turn, typically made it available through smartphone apps or dashboard consoles. The new service, called INRIX Road Weather, adds data gleaned from the actions of the caror instance,
and have widespread rooftop, mobile, and spaceborne applications. They added that kirigami systems might also be phased useful for array radar and optical beam steering.
and ultra-sensitive and low-power biosensors and gas sensors to enhance the Internet of things. However, Banerjee cautions that TFETS are designed not for speed
By taking a more camera-like approach to radio frequency imaging, essentially treating microwaves like waves of light
which means that it may not be scalable down to cellphone size. Obviously, this is a disappointment for those of us who were looking forward to regularly misusing this kind of technology,
These machines accelerate charged particles using either a pulse of radio frequency radiation or a wakefield (using high energy unchesof electrons to blast a tunnel through plasma;
#Bright blue PHOLEDS Almost Ready for TV A new energy-efficient organic LED (OLED) that glows a deep blue is finally close to meeting the most stringent U s. video display brightness requirements,
Green and red PHOLEDS are used already in smartphones and TVS leading to longer battery lives and lower electricity bills,
In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year in 2014,
Inexpensive and infinitely configurable mobile devices (enabled by advances in wireless and energy storage) have liberated technology from the office desktop.
and the Internet of things, have realized quickly that the agriculture value chain provides fertile first market opportunities for many technologies that are advanced not enough or have not yet found solutions in the consumer space.
Founders Fund, Li-Kai Shing Horizons Ventures, Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), and Eduardo Saverin (Facebook).
And even further out there, New york-based Modern Meadow is printing meat and leather products with 3d technology.
The key innovation Apple made with the iphone interaction model was based getting touch input right its capacitive screens
Some speculated at the time that Apple might be interested in using Primesense tech to add gesture-based input to Apple TV
#Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation.
is an email marketing tool gives physical businesses the same advantages of online stores. Square Marketing is a set of tools that lets brick
Email marketing has grown more sophisticated over the years, and the space is crowded with companies like Mailchimp, Marketo,
They might bounce out to an email tool to craft a campaign and send it to a list of emails gathered via paper,
or by hand using clerks at the counter. A retail store I worked at used to gather them by requiring an email with every transaction
but that requirement can slow down transactions, and is really only practical if a user terminal was involved in the flow.
And half the time you end up with fake emails and unverifiable information. Square data is already easier to gather
the Square flow asks them for an email for a receipt and because youe talking about money here people are more likely to give accurate info.
All of that leads to a Square business having a core list of emails for customers that is ready to act on.
Already youe far ahead of a dumb list of emails, which contain no such contextual data.
You can also add your own lists of emails gathered via conventional means. You can choose groups based on trends that youe seeing
show you delivery data as well as eadnotifications for your emails. But Square takes the next step here by allowing you to actually see
if those customers take action on your email with a visit and a purchase. It hard to overstate the importance of being able to directly track the return on your investment in this email marketing by equating it with dollars spent in your establishment.
Unless youe been in small business retail or sales and have tried to craft a marketing campaign
This is the kind of thing that has made marketers so hot and bothered about the possibilities of beacons small devices that track visitors via apps installed on their smartphones.
The emails are affordable, if a bit pricier than similar levels in services like Mailchimp. You can pay $0. 10 per email on an s you gobasis or $15/mo for unlimited emails to 500 customers.
The cost isn quite analogous to any other service because of Square unique ability to track customer visits
It lets them cut down on the number of moving parts they have to keep track of to make their email marketing effective.
a CRM, an email service and tracking software to attempt to link those emails to return customers hey can just click a link in the insights dashboard of their Square account.
Square says that sellers using the service have seen open and redemption rates that are double the ndustry averageand that Square sellers generated almost $1m in sales tied to promo redemptions.
slick analytics tools and cleverly executed email marketing will lead to new business, not just retention and satisfaction.
and they can do it right from their phones that a tectonic shift in that arena. The suite of tools Square is building out like Register
The new Apple patent details a system that would use all relevant signals from a mobile phone,
with the user of the phone sending status able to specify which contacts specifically should be able to have access.
It would appear in contact cards on the iphone, with status polling happening on demand to ensure youe looking at current information.
and data analysis can more reliably predict what youe doing with your phone at any given time.
The Bluetooth-powered device can stick to your wall or you can put it on any surface.
said Han. he devices can be configured easily with just a smartphone app. The separation of the control plane from the power plane makes a foundation for fully configurable ecosystem.
a feature that will impress folks who have tried to connect to Bluetooth light bulbs in the past. The martphone-centricapproach lets the company add tools like the Control to the mix as well.
and can be played either as a web app via the Code Kingdomssite, or as an ios app.
having being built for an earlier, desktop computing world, rather than the modern mobile-focused space.
and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
#Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure Strands Of DNA Researchers at the University of California,
Los angeles, have created a smartphone ultra-zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA.
and Windows smart application running on the same smart phone. The scanned information is sent then to a remote server in Ozcan laboratory
The game was launched just recently on the Oculus download page, which can be found here.
It consists of a barebones web app that can be used as the nucleus of new game designs or alternative applications.
the site couldn keep up with the traffic due to an influx of users looking to help. hrough games,
As of today, you can pre-order the Naked Filter bottle on their website; it ships this summer.
#Nikola Labs Launches iphone 6 Case Which Harvests Electricity From The Air Nikola Tesla pioneered the transmission of electricity over wires.
and the audience as the Wild Card choice from Startup Alley launched a device that converts radio frequencies into DC power,
a case for an iphone 6. It converts the wasted 90 percent of energy the phone produces trying to pump out a cellphone signal,
and puts it back into the phone, thus powering it for up to 30 percent longer.
Essentially it is harvesting back the ambient RF energy already being produced by the phone. They aim to bring the product to market within one year, in partnership with Ohio State university,
such as wearable technology, embedded sensors, medical devices and Internet of things devices anything that doesn require massive amounts of electricity.
#Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant Nosql Database With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new Nosql database offering today that,
but with the added twist that it compatible with the Apache HBASE API which itself is based on Google Bigtable project.
Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google search and Google analytics, so this is definitely a battle-tested service Google promises that Cloud Bigtable will offer single-digit millisecond latency
and 2x the performance per dollar when compared to the likes of HBASE and Cassandra. Because it supports the HBASE API
but it also supports Google Cloud Dataflow. Setting up a Cloud Bigtable cluster should only take a few seconds,
It worth noting that this is not Google first cloud-based Nosql database product. With Cloud Datastore, Google already offers a high-availability Nosql datastore for developers on its App Engine platform.
That service, too, is based on Bigtable. Cory Oonnor, a Google Cloud platform product manager, tells me Cloud Datastore focuses on read-heavy workload for web apps
and mobile apps. loud Bigtable is much the opposite is designed for larger companies and enterprises where extensive data processing is required,
As recently reported, Mastercard is launching a facial recognition payment service based on elfiestaken on a smartphone.
but soon a elfiefrom a smartphone will be enough to close transactions. This program is to be tested initially on 500 card users in the coming months.
Mastercard imminent transition to biometrics was preceded by Apple Pay launching in October 2014 of a biometric payment technology based on fingerprint ID. The newest iphone models are equipped with Apple Touch
The newfound availability of biometric technology for mobile and cloud-based platforms raises the security bar further.
Qualcomm Technologies recently announced the development of the first comprehensive mobile biometric solution based on ultrasonic technology.
Imagine a world in which there is no need to remember a slew of passwords and PINS for various sites.
The mobile cloud, banking and payments industries must prepare themselves for the shift from traditional authentication methods to the new biometric systems.
the team thinks there are long-term possibilities to build an Internet-of-Things model that could tell consumers how much water
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
Since you always pay by credit card or mobile, he hopes to create discounts for regulars that increase every time you dine at Eatsa.
as the release merely states that the companies are dedicated to roviding unique collaboration on iphone
and ipad. few tweaks will also be put in place to make the hop between a Cisco desk phone
and iphone more seamless than it is today. Tim cook had this to say about the tieup:
and nearly every Fortune 500 and Global 500 company today has put ios at the center of their mobile strategy. iphone
There no reason for a corporate customer to use phones that aren good for their employees simply
The areas that should see streamlining are Cisco mobile, cloud, and premises-based collaboration tools like Webex.
Or Suffer Flat Sales When Apple hot on iphone 6ad campaign covered billboards and posters in 24 cities around the world,
At least when confined to the flat images smartphone cameras provide today. But Intel new Realsense/Project Tango phone concept shows there is still more valuable data to be captured:
Depth. Small, inexpensive sensors can now see our world in all three dimensions, for which consumer applications no amount of megapixels alone could achieve.
when Allied Market research predicts 80 percent of smartphones will carry 3d sensors by 2018, earning a total of $2. 02 billion by 2020.
Depth will bring eye-catching special effects to everybody the way high-resolution smartphone cameras made everyone a photographer.
Allied Market research predicts 80 percent of smartphones will carry 3d sensors by 2018. And that just the start.
Not Another Flash In The Pan Memories of the not-so-memorable attempts at 3d smartphones a few years ago may stir up doubts of this trend.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
Investigating the RSL sites themselves to probe for life is challenging, according to NASA, because the streaks have so far only been observed on steep slopes.
"The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country, "said P Vijaya Saradhi, group director, management system area.
"The radome which is radio frequency transparent was not available in the country, "said P Vijaya Saradhi, group director, management system area.
In the study, the researchers studied liver function in mice following long-term exposure to carbon tetrachloride, a chemical commonly associated with Superfund sites.
The site, about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, has yielded some 1, 550 specimens since its discovery in 2013.
The researchers announced the discovery Thursday in the journal elife and at a news conference in the Cradle of Humankind, a site near the village of Magaliesburg.
They said they were unable to determine an age for the fossils because of unusual characteristics of the site,
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#Editing our genes In April this year, a team of Chinese researchers created a global uproar
She told TOI the technology is a"site-specific DNA`scissors, 'allowing researchers to cut
first, a piece of RNA is created for unzipping a DNA strand at the target site;
"The remarkable aspect is that the ability to target a new genomic site simply requires one to alter the sequence on the GUIDE-RNA-this makes the technique really democratic in its ease of use.
#Robot journalist introduced in China A Chinese internet company has developed a robot journalist, who has written its first news story.
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain o bypass the injured spinal cord
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
made from the same material found in smartphone and TV screens, which could improve vision in older people with presbyopia and cataracts.
which we probably know better as the material used in the screens of TVS and smartphones,
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According to the project website, the technology has the potential to ramatically reduce the dependence on more traditional sources of electricity in developed countries such as Australia,
"ipad covers, laptop bags, skins of iphone will no longer be just for casing electronics, but to collect some energy as well
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and that can capture images with a smartphone camera over the past two years: the Ultrascope. ifty years ago space exploration was the domain of governments,
Altogether-without the smartphone-the cost of building the telescope is just $312. In an interview with Science Magazine
When paired with an internet-connected smartphone camera, the Ultrascope will also be able to take high quality photographs
they now announce on their website. These tests took place in a vacuum chamber. The zero gravity 3d printer used in space.
By observing the transmitted video on a TV monitor, doctors can get a firsthand view of the patient organs
While similar devices, known as wireless capsule endoscopes, have been created in the past, the TE is notable for its soft tail,
which uses a bidirectional wireless charger to direct energy to and from the car or house as needed.
#This OLO box will turn your smartphone into a DLP 3d printer for just $99 The great majority of consumers today aren familiar with the processes behind 3d printing,
That right, our beloved smartphones, which follow us everywhere and replace an ever-increasing number of tools
the world first app-powered smartphone 3d printer, and are about to unleash accessible, affordable, and socially driven 3d printing on the world.
The OLO, for all intents and purposes, is powered a battery box (consisting of seven parts plus an engine) that fits on top of your Android, OS or Windows smartphone.
put the box on their phones and hit rint. The device has a build volume of 7. 6 x 12.7 x 5 cm,
(or shall we say, all who already own smartphone). Priced at just $99 and with its free, easy-to-use app,
3d printed objects directly from our smartphones? It turns out, it not as terrifyingly complicated as it seems.
However, in order to make full use of the smartphone exising features, the OLO simply replaces expensive lasers and projectors with the phone own LED display.
When you place your smartphone underneath the glass surface of the resin container, the app will make the screen light up in a pattern specific to the object you are printing.
As the directed light moves upward and hardens the resin, the object is built layer by layer,
optimized for the OLO smartphone display light-source. In order to get the OLO on the market and into the hands of new or would-be makers,
200 projects for top clients including Calvin klein, Vodafone, and Coca cola, this is the first time any of their companies has used Kickstarter.
Then again, what better way is there to reach the socially connected in-crowd than through social media-driven crowdfunding itself?
and excitement, usually in that order, he said. hen told that OLO could turn your phone into a 3d printer,
whether the key to consumer 3d printing has been our smartphones all along. The official Kickstarter launch date hasn been announced,
Until then, users can register to win a free OLO 3d printer through their social media contest by taking a picture and posting it to Instagram with the hashtag#olo3d p
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