The humanoid robots Google recently bought are neat but most machines being used or tested by national militaries are, for now, more like robotic weapons than robotic soldiers.
as a spokesman put it in an email interview with Singularity Hub. Sensing and artificial intelligence technologies are sure to improve,
the history of the web suggests that terrorists could find others. Of course, most technologies stumble at first
and three-quarters said they would be excited more in financial services provided by Google, Amazon, Apple, Paypal,
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,
#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
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;
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,
With Paddle, they could manipulate a single mobile devicene that they operate with natural movementsreatly reducing the learning curve.
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.
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
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 combining telecommunications with the Bitcoin blockchain presents more intriguing possibilities for example, cars able to read the blockchain could disable themselves
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,
Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications. Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data
This article was adapted from a post on the UCS blog The Equation. Mellon contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:
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.
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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.
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#Hemopurifier FDA Approved to Filter Ebola Out of Blood in Clinical Study Aethlon Medical, a San diego, CA firm,
accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
Currently sodium cyanide is transported to and from a site, but the researchers developed a modular, self-contained,
particularly when there is no tool attendant on site to verify the checkout process, said Dean Perry, president of Toolhound.
And as the IEDS can be connected to the automation system by Ethernet one team can control substations in many different and distant locations o
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
Various output capability options are available, like 3 x 4-20ma, Modbus, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus, Devicenet, and Ethernet.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
Imergy flow batteries from low-grade vanadium will also be capable of storing more energy per kilogram than conventional vanadium flow batteries by more than twice, giving cell phone operators, solar power plant developers, microgrid owners
and smartphones use a model described by Hungarian-American mathematician and inventor John Von neumann in 1945.
Today's computers laptops, smartphones and even cars suffer from visual and sensory impairment, Modha said.
Greater energy efficiency means you could compute things directly on your phone instead of relying on cloud computing,
"It can be used on tall buildings with lots of windows or any kind of mobile device that demands high aesthetic quality like a phone or e reader.
and a quantum internet are just around the corner. here is a big race going on between five
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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
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#Scientists create'living materials'using E coli Imagine a world where nonliving devices and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things,
researchers are now aiming for ideas such as headsets that could assist people with vision problems.
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#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
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#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
I always take the email option. I know I giving up a little privacy when I do that
because the store now has my email and can send me offers. The stores that have offered are clothing stores and
Yesterday one of my local grocery stores Shoprite sent me an email letting me know that it will be offering digital receipts.
According to Shoprite's website this is a new program that is being tested so Il still be receiving paper receipts for now.
I not going to take the time to stop pull out my phone take a picture of the receipt
#Robots learn to cook with a little help from Youtube When it comes to learning how to cook,
We both turn to Youtube for online tutorials on how to chop garlic or how to whisk mashed potatoes.
#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.
Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.
In addition to providing access via current standards (Wifi LTE 3g or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.
As a comparison the average global broadband speed currently is only 21.9 Mbps. Oneweb is expected to cost between $1. 5 billion to $2 billion a relative bargain compared to
I would see people move into apartments and fill their living rooms with a big desktop computer, a big TV and a stereo system with giant CD racks.
Then the smartphone came along, and I became convinced that it was going to become our default computer, writing in Treehugger:
How the smartphone is changing the way we live and work. I made a number of predictions,
including that the big-screen television was going to follow the piano to the dump. I was wrong again.
a complete computer that runs Windows 8. 1 (or Linux) that you can plug into the HDMI port of your big TV.
and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing, and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games.
today I can just plug a computer that costs less than a retail box of software into my TV if
Now I can spend all day on the sofa in front of the TV and nobody can complain,
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across Sub-saharan africa,
The project is also looking into sending information to mobile phones, which are very common in Africa.
The NPCIL has readied four sites one for each vendor each capable of accepting eight to ten imported reactors.
"says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website on politics and technology.
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
and author of the blog CTOVISION. com."And Vivek has racked them up.""""There are three pillars to my agenda,
"We want to launch a data. gov site to make a vast array of government data public."
"Our study got enough interest to put together a series of sites for investigation to lead to potential FDA approval of this particular kit,
it s the quantum dot TV! Researchers working with nanoscale fluorescent particles called quantum dots have predicted long groundbreaking achievements,
Massachusetts, would supply Sony Corporation of Tokyo with quantum dots for flat-screen televisions that will transmit more richly coloured images than other TVS on the market.
"Television technology is more stable. His optimism will be tested this spring with the company s quantum dot debut in Sony LCD televisions,
to be sold under the Tri#luminos brand name. The contrast with today s flat screens begins with the light source.
white light used to make the moving TV images. The new Triluminos tele#visions instead pair an uncoated blue LED with a thin glass tube filled with quantum dots.
Its axle would have selective binding sites. Once the amino acids have been stripped off the axle, the axle would'reload,
'with new amino acids binding to those sites in the right order. Leigh s machine will probably never compete with automated methods of making peptides.
and energy of the light (see Metamaterial TV). The device is sensitive enough to pick up a signal even from materials that are barely luminescent, such as metals.
potentially delivering hydrogen for fuel cells in mobile phones, computers or even cars. Edman Tsang, a chemist at the University of Oxford, UK, who also works on storing hydrogen in liquids including methanol2,
or methanol-hydrogen systems, in cars or mobile phones are"seriously underestimating the engineering complexity of first developing a practical system
They found that it contains about 70 binding sites for a microrna called mir-7. Micrornas are short fragments of RNA that can block gene expression by binding to
Some have possible binding sites for viral micrornas, which can subvert immune responses. Rajewsky hypothesizes that circular RNA could even interact with RNA BINDING-PROTEINS proteins.
But Dylla suggests that the full text of papers could reside on publishers websites, with agencies just providing links.
which they see as deflecting attention from their own web pages. The embargo time before papers are free could vary by discipline and journal
watch TV and drive. The chip helps generate at least partial vision by stimulating intact nerve cells in the retina.
#When Google got flu wrong When influenza hit early and hard in the United states this year,
A comparison with traditional surveillance data showed that Google Flu Trends, which estimates prevalence from flu-related Internet searches,
had overestimated drastically peak flu levels. The glitch is no more than a temporary setback for a promising strategy,
and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data
and on social media proliferate, the episode is a reminder that they will complement, but not substitute for, traditional epidemiological surveillance networks."
"It is hard to think today that one can provide disease surveillance without existing systems, says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
But the near-global coverage of the Internet and burgeoning social media platforms such as Twitter have raised hopes that these technologies could open the way to easier
The mother of these new systems is launched Google s in 2008. Based on research by Google and the CDC, it relies on data mining records of flu-related search terms entered in Google s search engine,
combined with computer modelling. Its estimates have matched almost exactly the CDC s own surveillance data over time
Google Flu Trends (www. google. org/flutrends; CDC; Flu Near Yougoogle Flu Trends has continued to perform remarkably well,
It is not the first time that a flu season has tripped Google up. In 2009, Flu Trends had to tweak its algorithms after its models badly underestimated ILI in the United states at the start of the H1n1 (swine flu) pandemic###a glitch attributed to changes in people s search behaviour as a result of the exceptional nature of the pandemic (S. Cook et al.
) Google would not comment on thisyear s difficulties. But several researchers suggest that the problems may be due to widespread media coverage of this year s severe US flu season,
Few doubt that Google Flu will bounce back after its models are refined, however.""You need to be constantly adapting these models,
Brownstein is one of many researchers trying to harness the power of the web to establish sentinel networks made up not of physicians,
#Europe bets on drug discovery Two sites shuttered by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, one in Scotland and one in The netherlands, will soon be humming again with the work of drug discovery.
#Scientists use 3-D printer to speed human embryonic stem cell research A blog by Scientific American.
#'Hologram-lite'idea for 3d phone displays Now physicist David Fattal and his colleagues at Hewlett-packard Laboratories in Palo alto have developed a sort of'hologram-lite'approach.
For example, many commercial 3d televisions use lenses to send underlying light sources in different directions. But the pixels in that case tend to be larger
And the cloud-based interfaces let him collaborate with doctors in Israel without worrying about repeatedly transferring data on slow Internet connections."
or enter their nesting sites, or take off from the pavement, Brown explains. And that in turn would enable them to survive
Lever now plans to analyse fragments of crust collected from other sites in the Pacific ocean and the North atlantic."
#Wireless brain-computer interface streams thought commands with the speed of an Internet connection Following more than a decade of engineering work,
The researchers say that the wireless BCI is able to stream thought commands via its radio at a rate of 48 megabits per second, about the speed of a home Internet connection.
This is the first time throughout the world that the spinal-cord activation patterns for walking have been decoded Paraplegics still have neural connections (so-called locomotion centers) below the site of the injury
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
it binds itself to catalytic sites on its surface. This essentially forms a coating that prevents the fibrils from assisting other proteins in misfolding
The country Center for Research in Legitimacy and Political Protest claims that it has developed a computer program that will sift through social media websites every five minutes looking for signs of organized political opposition.
it alerts law enforcement officials and others via a mobile phone app. The Russian site, Izvestia (via Google translate) says that illegal activity and unauthorized actions,
according to Russian law, includes: Meetings, rallies, demonstrations, marches and pickets. The software dubbed Laplace Demon after Pierre-Simon Laplace theoretical all-seeing intellect that could calculate the future based on the state of all matter pays particular attention to social media groups known to organize such rallies
and monitors the number of likes and reposts. In this way, it can anticipate when momentum is building
Yevgeny Venediktov, Twitter is the main focus for the software. He wrote, e conducted a survey
and found out that it is precisely this social network is not only the leader among social media on the number of hosted links to extremist content,
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
did that someone racist post on Facebook really stick in your craw and leave you peeved all morning,
and bioengineering and Isy Goldwasser, is a wireless device that pairs with an iphone or ipad via a Bluetooth connection (Android app coming soon).
Google new venture called Project Soli enlists the help of radar to accurately detect minute hand
Google wants to put the chip into small electronic devices like smartwatches, along with everyday objects. The release date for the API to Soli has not yet been announced yet. via Business Inside n
and sends information about the user state of mind to a smartphone app, Calm, which is available on both ios and Android.
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? Users are asked then to participate in a three-minute guided exercise that aims to reduce stress, calm anxiety and increase focus and concentration.
Stress Slows Metabolismthe product website explains the benefits of focused attention training: esearch has shown using an app
Then they compared the daily temperature at sites with contrails above them with similar data from places where there weren any of the man-made clouds in the sky.
Otherwise, the sites were basically similar in terms of land use, cover, soil moisture and air-mass conditions. The researchers found that contrails somehow depress the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
#LED Bulbs Offer a Low energy, Wireless Connection This lightbulb could work as your next wireless router.
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? e developed a modulation algorithm that increases the throughput of data in visible light communications, Maite Brandt-Pearce,
developed this new way to connect to the Internet. The technology would require no more energy than is used currently to emit light.
a desk lamp that provides an Internet connection when the light is on. Bring The nternet Of Thingsinto Your Homeesearchers have called it i-Fi?
the concept could provide a big boost to connectivity speeds with the potential to use every light in a building as an Internet transmitter. via Phys. or a
You want to make sure they have the right medication. n an interconnected world where smartphones and Apple Watches are becoming ubiquitous,
There is really an impenetrable firewall between your body and the information that you are getting from the product. uh said that there has been avid interest in the technology,
Late last year, hi-tech waste management company Bigbelly upgraded two of its waste recycling stations in downtown Manhattan with Wireless internet hubs.
The Wireless internet option essentially turns the trash cans into free public Wi-fi hotspots, providing throughput of 50 to 75 MB per second.
Google recently built a robot car that can drive by itself, which has a similar objective.
and linked with your smartphone. Other portable spectometers have been deployed by scientists in the field, but SCIO is the first to market itself as a consumer device.
and identification information is delivered back to your phone within seconds. As more people use the SCIO system,
#Lab on a chip turns smart phones into mobile disease clinics Smart phones can pay our bills,
easy-to-use smart phone attachment (shown above) that can test patients for multiple deadly infectious diseases in 15 minutes.
It only takes a tiny bit of power from the smart phone to detect and display the results:
Theye also developing a version that attaches to cellphone cameras as a quick and portable diagnostic test. s
It might seem a simple matter for someone to use Google earth say or Microsoft's Bing images to obtain evidence to support their case.
Why would they need space detectives? But it is not so simple. Finding the right pictures means trawling through huge databases of historical satellite data
#Water-splitter could make hydrogen fuel on Mars Making fuel on site for a return trip to Mars may be a step closer.
On 10 june Google acquired Skybox Imaging a 5-year-old Silicon valley firm for $500 million.
The appeal for Google and other firms is the potential to mine profitable data from satellite images.
Google has said it will use the images to improve Google earth and its Maps app though that is likely to be just the beginning of its plans.
It wants to hire satellites already in orbit to prospect landfill sites for potentially valuable materials.
If the satellite gives us 1000 potential sites from the 25000 in the UK we would then use drone reconnaissance to get a richer picture of say the wood cover
and was due to be shipped to the launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan. Recognising the current events in Ukraine we had been engaged in discussions with the government of Canada with respect to a potential delay of the launch of M3m
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
and missions further afield (see a map of planned landing sites). The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 december 1972.
It could reveal different episodes of volcanism at the site which is covered with solidified lava.
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first private team that by the end of 2015 launches a lunar spacecraft that can land on the moon travel 500 metres
Longmier's team began their first crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter website in July. Although they failed to raise their $200
"like existing satellite phone coverage, would require thousands of big satellites, which is prohibitively expensive.
#Virgin galactic joins the reality TV space race Reality TV is set to become a little more out of this world.
Last month Sony Pictures Television announced a partnership with Dutch firm Space Expedition Corporation (SXC) for a show called Milky way Mission
For this mission there is a better than 90 per cent chance of any one of those sites being open Cornwell says.
We've never taken a picture of it IBEX mission scientist Eric Christian said today in a teleconference.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
Added to the time for the other trips your data must take across the rest of the internet,
based In virginia, has provided satellite telephone services and low-bandwidth internet since the late 1990s. Its existing network of 66 satellites is set to be replaced by a new one called Iridium NEXT.
the new satellites will be capable of delivering high-speed internet on a par with what Oneweb and Spacex envisage.
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,
However, as anyone who has had trouble with their wireless router knows, working with radio waves is finicky.
"Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
Cutler says satellite internet will really take off if companies make their equipment small enough to fit in Cubesats small,
it's being fuelled by an internet perspective i
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