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#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.

Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink, materials scientist Jennifer Lewisand her team created a patch of tissue containing skin cells and biological structural material interwoven with blood-vessel-like structures.

The tissue is built by the 3-D printer in layers. A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.

Two other inks contained the gelatin material and either mouse or human skin cells. All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.

A third ink with counterintuitive behavior helped the team create the hollow tubes. This ink has a Jell-o-like consistency at room temperature

and we think it going to be essential toward organ printing or regeneration, says Lewis, who is member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.

The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue

the over-the-air-software updates) and now it doing the same thing for the core part of the electric car:

like our laptops and cell phones. Given Tesla production goals outline above, the planned factory would more than double the current entire world lithium ion battery production.

and cell phones are sold and more devices get connected. And now if you look beyond just batteries,

Traditionally auto makers have multiple suppliers for core components so that they can get the best price and use the other suppliers as leverage.

Vicsek says that those attempts involved cutting some corners the copters were restricted to indoor arenas or controlled by a central computer.

Vicsek and his team drew inspiration from a computer program called Boids, created in 1986 by Craig Reynolds,

attraction, repulsion were enough to produce a computer simulation of a bird-like flock, but real fliers face other problems.

#Paddle an incredible shapeshifting smartphone You probably carry around a few gadgets. You probably have your smartphone, maybe a tablet or e reader.

You may also have a fitness band or even a second smartphone. That a lot of stuff to carry.

Imagine instead having just a single gadget that you deform physically into different shapes to suit your needs.

Pics and video) That the kind of smartphone that researchers at Hasselt University iminds in Belgium are building.

Called addle, their prototype phone, is designed around engineering principles derived from the popular 3-D Rubik Magic Puzzle.

Studying the puzzle over a period of seven months enabled the Hasselt researchers to create a phone that could be transformed quickly into various shapes in a few simple steps. t the moment our Paddle prototype supports around 15 different shapes

a Phd Student in Human computer interaction at the University. hen unfolding Paddle completely it is nearly the size of an ipad,

it can become smaller than an iphone. For instance, you might transform it into a book,

Simply turn your phone into a bracelet and roll through individual links to scroll through various list items.

Deformable phones like Paperphone explore the idea of using bends and folds to physically control the device;

Users can physically bend the phone in ways that resemble real-world behaviors, with input and output becoming virtually indistinguishable.

the user just uses the ring form-factor, Ramakers explains, referring to a shape that resembles a prayer bead necklace;

and just roll through it. e is not even aware that he is scrolling through elements as in a traditional interface where the user explicitly interacts with a scrollbar,

The user fingers are tracked also to enable touch interaction on the device. The projector maps the user interface onto the device

and also distorts the device in response to the user movements. The team plans to create a prototype that entirely self-contained by replacing the external tracking system with tiny integrated displays like O-LED

and E Ink displays that are sensitive to the user movements. They expect to have a working prototype in another 12 to 18 months.

Adding electronics to it Ramakers says won limit Paddle transformational capabilities. Currently Paddle provides visual cues to the user to communicate how the device can be transformed,

such as highlighting regions to show where fingers go or using arrows to indicate the folding or unfolding directions.

The team is studying how quickly people remember transformations to see whether their muscle memory can take over after a

while, allowing users to perform transformations as unconsciously as they might drive a car or play an instrument.

devices that combine the flexibility of touch screens with the physical qualities that real-world controls provide.

When taking into account the time we spend interacting with our phones nowadays one would expect us all to be veritable virtuosos on our devices,

Paddle could also provide a welcome relief to those who struggle with touch screens, such as the elderly.

With Paddle, they could manipulate a single mobile devicene that they operate with natural movementsreatly reducing the learning curve.

Our data pave the way for such a stem cell therapy, Blau said. Other recent work in stem cell therapy has looked similarly for ways the cells could improve functioning of existing organs, rather than building replacements through regenerative medicine.

and other financial agents just as peer-to-peer file sharing did the music industry #and some of the architects of this financial Napster seem gleeful about the possibility.

and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.

since Napster used centralized servers to track music sharing, while Bitcoin is distributed entirely. That means loans without banks, contracts without lawyers,

and recorded across hundreds of servers at all corners of the earth. Consultant Andreas M. Antonopoulos, echoing a 2012 white paper by software developer J. R. Willett,

says that the Bitcoin protocol is distributed to finance what Internet Protocol has been distributed to information. The blockchain is IP.

And through manipulation of that we can build a whole other system. In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming

the Bitcoin protocol and its miners can support a variety of financial functions. Alternately, Antonopoulos suggests thinking of thebitcoin blockchain as#having an API#(application programming interface) that makes its data usable by third parties,

in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present

and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms. Efforts to make complex financial functions a part of Bitcoin have been bubbling through 2013,

but 2014 will see them come to fruition. The most prominent active development of these functions is taking place under the auspices of the Mastercoin Foundation

Mastercoin, based on Willett s white paper and programming, is projected to add many functions to the Bitcoin blockchain.

These include allowing users to create new asset classes, such as stocks or other ownership certificates,

which recreate financial functions in software code by matching offered and desired transactions between parties without the need for intermediary institutions.

If you hack my servers, there s nothing to get. Somebody call#Target#(TGT. Such hedging functions have particularly unique promise because of the extremely low transaction costs of peer-to-peer currency.

This idea was explored in a#1997 paper#by computer scientist and former George washington University law professor Nick Szabo (who has come under occasional suspicion of being pseudonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto).

but by hardware or software that wouldfully embed in property the contractual terms which deal with it.

But combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves

one of the main developers of the Bitcoin architecture alongside the mysterious Nakamoto, has said that any implementation of the concept is at least a decade away because of the need for hardware upgrades on physical goods. The functions that advocates say could be automated through the Bitcoin network

#Bitcoin partisans, from developers down to rank-and-file users, often seem to revel in the idea that they are threatening the control and profits of Wall street institutions,

#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.

Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.

believe such 3d printers may help craft a new generation of materials lighter than water and strong as steel.

Now, there s the Nanoscribe 3d printer. The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.

A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.

Once complete, the excess liquid is washed away, leaving a pristine structurewith features a few millionths of a meter across.

Microscale 3d printing is still new, but it s quickly progressing. In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.

it s a fascinating peek into a future where information technologies may direct the fabrication of amazing newmicroarchitectural materials.

it may not be the only new computer-enabled approach to materials research. In a recent article, Scientific American predicted supercomputerswill yield a Golden age of materials science.

The article went on to note that the powerful modeling capabilities of supercomputers and the principles of quantum mechanics are together allowing scientists to build virtual materials atom by atom.

from the filament in a light bulb to the silicon in a computer chip. Whether we 3d print them

The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology, and a targeted molecular agent that makes cancer cells glow

With his software Witty says users can set up and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain

but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually

and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)

Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,

with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.

Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,

#New Algorithm for Real-time Simulations in Materials Research Researchers at LBNL have have developed a new algorithm that opens the door for real-time simulations in atomic-level materials research.

For example, it can take a supercomputer several weeks to simulate a 10-femtosecond process. One reason for the high cost is that real-time simulations of ultrafast phenomena require small time steps to describe the movement of an electron

and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time

The traditional algorithms work by directly manipulating these equations. Wang new approach, which involves adding a new algorithm on top of his PETOT (parallel total energy) code,

originally developed by Wang when he worked at the National Renewable energy Laboratory and later parallelized by Wang

PETOT is a plane-wave pseudopotential density functional ground-state calculation package designed for large system simulations to be run on large parallel computers

and Linux cluster machines.""With this new algorithm, the rt-TDDFT simulation can have speed comparable to the Born-Oppenheim ab initio molecular dynamics simulations,

the researchers wrote in the Physical Review Letters paper.""To achieve this, the algorithm expands the equations in PETOT into individual terms, based on

which states are excited at a given time. The challenge, which Wang has solved, is to figure out the time evolution of the individual terms.

describing the key to the algorithm success: Solving the equations in bigger time steps reduces the computational cost and increases the speed of the simulations."

"Comparing the new algorithm with the old, slower algorithm yields similar results, e g.,, the predicted energies and velocities of an atom passing through a layer of material are the same for both models,

Being able to run the code on a supercomputer like Hopper for long periods of time was central to the success of this study, according to Wang.

The new supercomputers are critical, and so are the fast processors, he said. his code does not necessarily scale to many processors.

Typically we use a few hundred processors. But the long time run is critical. Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory t

#Pointwise Adds Overset Grid Assembly to CFD Meshing Software Today Pointwise announced the latest release of its computational fluid dynamics (CFD) meshing software featuring direct integration with overset grid

assembly (OGA) software. The integration of grid generation and overset grid assembly represents a vast improvement over the hodge-podge of disparate tools typically employed by practitioners of overset CFD,

said Nick Wyman, Pointwise director of applied research. hat we are releasing today for production use is the result of a multi-year research effort Pointwise conducted with funding from the U s. Air force Arnold Engineering Development Complex,

Air force Materiel Command. That research was followed by a full year of fine-tuning in preparation for release to all our customers.

The price paid for that flexibility is need the to ensure a sufficient degree of overlap so the CFD solver can accurately share data between the component grids.

The overlap is computed using overset grid assembly software. Users of OGA software typically rely on a circuitous collection of homegrown tools that are patched together.

By integrating OGA (in the form of the PEGASUS and Suggar++software packages) with Pointwise the entire process is made more efficient.

Pointwise has been a proud, long-time sponsor of and participant in the biannual Overset Grid Symposium, said John Chawner,

and several user experience enhancements e

#HP Sports AMD Firepro GPUS in Proliant DL380 Gen9 Servers Today AMD announced that the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU for HPC is now available on the HP Proliant DL380

Gen9 the world's best-selling server. AMD Firepro server GPUS combine with HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 servers for a variety of specialized applications including Academic

and Government clusters Oil and Gas research and Deep Neural networks. The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU is supported by a powerful software ecosystem enabling developers to better harness its compute performance including support for Opencl 2. 0. Featuring the first AMD Graphics

Core Next (GCN) architecture specifically with compute workloads in mind the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU supports enhanced double precision floating point computation and breaks the 2. 0

TFLOPS double precision barrier. With 16gb of GDDR5 memory and maximum power consumption of 235 watts AMD Firepro S9150 server GPUS provide massive compute performance

while helping maximize available power budgets. With AMD STREAM technology customers will be able to leverage the massive parallel processing power of the AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU

and accelerate applications beyond just graphics. The server GPU features: The AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU also provides support to handle workloads in a variety of sectors by enabling Openmp an API for high-level parallelism in the C C++ and Fortran languages.

In segments such as Oil and Gas Computer Aided Engineering and Computational Science many organizations have made substantial investments in Openmp to create scalable workloads.

AMD's collaboration with Pathscale to provide support for Openmp 4. 0 will allow customers in these HPC fields to harness the compute power of AMD Firepro S9150 server GPU.

Additionally AMD Firepro-S4000x server GPUS can be found the HP Proliant WS460C Graphics Server Blade5.

With high-quality 3d graphics and multidisplay functionality the AMD Firepro S4000x server GPU module delivers workstation-class graphics performance on remote desktops.

Designed with blade server and blade workstation platforms in mind each module consumes 45w maximum power includes 2gb of GDDR5 memory up to 72 GB/s of memory bandwidth

and the ability to support up to six high resolution remote displays s

#Mellanox Shows Record Performance with Connectx-4 100gb/s Interconnect Adapters Today Mellanox announced world-record performance on its Connectx-4 EDR 100gb/s Infiniband adapters.

Achieving Infiniband throughput of 100gb/s, bidirectional throughput of 195gb/s, applications latency level of 610 nanoseconds and message rate of 149.5 million messages per second,

Connectx-4 is the highest performing adapter for the HPC, Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications.

Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data -and compute-intensive applications which require ultra-low latency

and a high rate of message communication in order to deliver faster results, said Gilad Shainer, vice president of marketing at Mellanox Technologies. t 100gb/s, for example,

you can transmit a whole Blu-ray disc of data in two seconds. Connectx-4 opens new capabilities for high-performance, data analytics, machine learning and storage applications.

With the new records of interconnect performance, Connectx-4 adapters provide the means to increase data center return on investment while reducing IT costs.

Connectx-4 has already been selected to power CORAL (Collaboration of Oak ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore National Labs) to help ease the Department of energy new mission-critical applications.

Connectx-4 adapters are sampling today with select customers. With Connectx-4 Mellanox offers a complete end-to-end EDR 100gb/s Infiniband solution,

including the EDR 100gb/s Switch-IB Infiniband switch and Linkx 100gb/s copper and fiber cables

#Seagate & Supermicro Optimize SQL Databases As part of our strategy and commitment to engage with ecosystem vendors to jointly bring optimized

and turn-key solutions to market, wee excited to be working closely with industry leaders Microsoft

and Supermicro to provide enhanced performance and efficiency to our customers, said Manish Muthal, vice president strategy,

planning and architecture for Seagate electronic solutions. his reference design strives for the best balance of all componentspu, memory,

Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track is a program to develop reference architectures to give medium to large data warehouses a step-by-step guide to building out a data warehouse using well-tuned hardware.

and grow while maintaining a common experience across the data warehouse. Our efforts are targeted at supporting organizations that seek to optimally deploy SQL SERVER 2014 flawlessly in their data center,

said Tiffany Wissner, senior director product marketing, data platform, Microsoft. ee proud to work with companies such as Seagate

and Supermicro who continue to innovate and deliver highly reliable and high performance Microsoft Fast Track Data warehouse designs.

With this solution companies will be able to more efficiently support real time reporting and streaming data,

which are now the norm for business expectations and productivity. Predicting the performance capabilities of a collection of components can be difficult

and a reference architecture helps to eliminate any uncertainty in determining the right mix of components to best suit the specific needs of a data warehouse.

This reference design utilizes the Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator Card, Supermicro Superserver SYS-4048b-TRFT system and Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Enterprise Edition to deliver a fully-optimized,

consistently high performing solution for quick and trusted deployment. Supermicro high-performance 4u 4-way SYS-4048b-TRFT Superserver

optimized for IO-intensive environments, enables rapid, efficient deployment of Microsoft SQL SERVER 2014 Fast Track Data warehouse, said Don Clegg,

vice president of marketing and business development at Supermicro. ur Microsoft certified solution comes preconfigured with quad Intel Xeon E7 processors, Seagate Nytro Flash Accelerator cards, memory,

storage and SQL SERVER 2014 installed and validated. With this turnkey solution, organizations can focus efforts on more strategic decision making activities around data analytics

and business intelligence to accelerate growth. For more information please visit http://www. seagate. com and Seagate and Microsoft Fast Track.

Information on Microsoft SQL SERVER Fast Track Data warehouse reference architecture can be found at Microsoft Solutions o

#Concept lamp on bioluminescent bacteria Bright (literally) marine life bioluminescent bacteria look very beautiful and unusual in their natural habitat,

causing the glow tentacles octopus of some species in which they live. The soft blue glow is emitted

This article was adapted from a post on the UCS blog The Equation. Mellon contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.

According to the Monsanto website the variety has produced a five-bushel (or about 4 percent) yield advantage in field tests against competitor hybrids.

This article was adapted from Cover crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields specially In Drought Conditionson the UCS blog The Equation.

#Precision farming Gains Global Foothold (Op-Ed) Lloyd Treinish leads the environmental science team in the Industry Solutions Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research center.

A co-developer of IBM's Deep Thunder precision agriculture system he contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

which uses extensive data from a farmer's field and the surrounding region to help predict weather conditions

While collecting real-time data on weather soil health of crops and air quality is important as is the availability of equipment

At IBM we developed a precision agriculture weather-modeling service using Deep Thunder our Big data analytics technology for local customized high-resolution and rapid weather predictions.

It gathers data from sensors placed throughout fields that measure the temperature and moisture levels in soil and surrounding air.

The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.

A supercomputer processes the combined data and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere.

By combining supercomputing and Big data analytics with other technological innovations even farmers with modest means can bolster production and profits.

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#'Roboclam'Digging Machine As Fast as Natural Burrowers A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables,

and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.

and debates and become part of the discussion on Facebook Twitter and Google+.+The views expressed are those of the author

"These devices are capable of producing black-and-white patterns that spontaneously match those of the surroundings, without user input or external measurement,

#Facial recognition Tech Can Read Your Emotions If someone is described as smiling but not with their eyes that person is likely faking the smile.

New software by California-based company Emotient can do just that. Using a simple digital camera Emotient's software can analyze a human face

and determine whether that person is feeling joy sadness surprise anger fear disgust contempt or any combination of those seven emotions.

The company's software called Facet can reconnect those dots by accurately reading the emotions registering on a person's face in a single photograph or video frame.

All it needs is a resolution of at least 40 by 40 pixels. Smile Secrets: 5 Things Your Grin Reveals About You Using Facet on a video sequence produces even more interesting results

because the software can track the fluctuations and strengths of emotion over time and even capture microexpressions or little flickers of emotion that pass over people's faces before they can control themselves

The software can also pick up on other subtle facial signs that a human might miss.

In these types of cases the software does need images clearer than 40 pixels but the required resolution is still within a common webcam's capabilities.

Medical applications So what are some uses for software that can identify human emotions based on facial expressions?

Facet's applications are incredibly far-reaching from treating children with autism to play-testing video games.

Recognizing other people's emotions based on their facial expressions is a challenge for many people who have an autism spectrum disorder particularly children.

As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments

Using an earlier version of Facet's software for example Bartlett and her colleagues created a game in

which players are asked to mimic the facial expressions of a cartoonish character on the screen. Using Emotient's software the game assesses the player's success in recreating that expression and returns a score.

This game helps children with autism recognize other people's emotions through their facial expressions as well as teaches them how to make facial expressions that express their own feelings.

#It's easy to speculate on how software that can recognize the emotions behind human facial expressions

Instead Bartlett said Emotient is now working on among other things the software's potential for identifying

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