#Report: Walmart could start using drones to start delivering things to your house Amazon and Walmart have been jockeying for position in the battle to be the number one U s. retailer.
Now it looks like they'll take that battle to the skies as Walmart joins the online retailer in a quest to use a legion of drones for product deliveries and pickups.
Nepal's national emergency operation centre said on twitter, less than three weeks after a similar disaster killed more than 8, 000 people.
and avoid jamming the fragile cellphone network.""Please stay in open field, help us make free road,
do not make phone nw (network) busy. SMS is suggested, "said a message from the national police service's Twitter account.
Nepal's National Emergency Operation center tweeted:""Pray to Almighty: Keep all Nepalese Safe in this difficult period of time."
including Bihar where television footage showed residents gathering on the streets and goods having toppled over in shop windows.
"Yasmin Kahn of Skype said in a blog post. Skype Translator was made available as a free download at the Windows Store for computers
or tablets running on the latest version of Microsoft's operating software, according to Kahn. Skype Translator preview debuted late last year,
Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
#Google Self-Driving Cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
with our safety drivers aboard,"said project chief Chris Urmson in a blog post.""We've been running the vehicles through rigorous testing at our test facilities,
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
sends the electrical signal to a mobile phone or a server. The signal can be accessed using 3g, Wi-fi or a USB connection on a computer.
The scientists, who started working on FRED while undergraduates at the University of Calgary, have won several competitions for their device
The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
before settling in a new site, and are thus very hard to spot. The study, published in the journal Nature Communication, suggests that capturing CTCS would prevent their spread and help halt disease progression."
"Shea said by email.""The initial benefit is detection--catching the metastasis before it spreads widely throughout the body,
future cell phones may see an increase in run time after many uses, rather than a decrease,
For more details, be sure to check out Wookieepedia, the world best-named wiki fan site.
and you can say same thing for screens on laptops and phones. A team from the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science are working toward that goal.
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.
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.
Ramos and his colleagues envision deploying HERMES to a disaster site, where the robot would explore the area,
That means these components can directly follow the spectacular successes of the optical fiber systems that run the Internet, cautions Lionel Kimerling,
Cpf1 cuts far away from the recognition site, meaning that even if the targeted gene becomes mutated at the cut site,
it can likely still be recut, allowing multiple opportunities for correct editing to occur. Fourth:
The Cpf1 system provides new flexibility in choosing target sites. Like Cas9, the Cpf1 complex must first attach to a short sequence known as a PAM,
As with earlier Cas9 tools, these groups will make this technology freely available for academic research via the Zhang lab page on the plasmid-sharing website Addgene, through
The Zhang lab also offers free online tools and resources for researchers through its website.
The emitted radiation is approximately 1/10,000 the amount given off by a standard cellphone.
In August the team presented Emerald to President Obama as part of the White house first annual Demo Day. n the same way that cellphones and Wifi routers have become indispensable parts
"Swantee told the BBC that"We have worked more than a year to make sure that everything works like a normal phone connection."
"Ringtone, voicemail, and quality of the conversation remains the same with the EE solution. EE is also promoting ease of adoptiono special app is needed for the service
Wifi Calling from EE uses the phone's normal dialer and contacts book to make calls,
The launch involves the Lumia 640 and Samsung galaxy S6 and S6 Edge. EE said, "More new and existing devices will be added to the Wifi Calling range in the coming weeks,
The Wifi Calling service will be limited to pay monthly subscribers using Samsung's Galaxy S6 and S5 phones and Microsoft's new Lumia 640."
Its mobile and fixed communications services are delivered to consumers, businesses, government and the wholesale market a
#Singapore Telecom to buy US cybersecurity firm for $810 mn Singapore Telecom (Singtel) said Wednesday it will buy almost all of US cybersecurity firm Trustwave for $810 million,
Southeast asia's biggest telecom firm by revenue said it will acquire a 98 percent equity interest in Trustwave under an agreement it signed with the Chicago-headquartered company.
and holds substantial stakes in mobile telecom firms in key Asian markets including India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Thailand.
'When social media software firm Sprinklr unveiled its latest funding last month, it vaulted into the club of"unicorns,
The use of the term"unicorn"began with a blog from investor Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures in late 2013,
"You have a frenzy of investors looking for the next Facebook. They saw the possibility of a return of 1,
said in a blog post that both investors and startups are pushing too hard, ignoring traditional standards of risk."
"In a running Twitter conversation on the subject, Danielle Morrill of the research firm Mattermark said"I've narrowed it down to 61 potential dead unicorns.
"Prominent equity investor Marc Andreessen, one of the founders of Netscape during the dot-com era, expressed similar concerns in a series of tweets last year, saying too many startups are"burning
Mark Cuban, an early dot-com entrepreneur, said on his blog that the current situation is"worse than the tech bubble of 2000"because of"angel"investors investing in apps
but this produced a Google and an ebay and a number of other standouts.""Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing
"In a blog post, Barris said he sees unicorns transforming the way we live.""Perhaps there will even be a flameout
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
$11 billion The bulletin board-style social network confirmed in March a fresh investment round at a valuation of $11 billion,
The fast-growing social network founded in 2010 in San francisco has disclosed not the number of its users
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.
#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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tomorrow thugs may also have to worry about the soft radio glow of wireless routers and mobile communications towers.
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,
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
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,
#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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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