#Turkey threatens to ban Twitter (again) Turkey-based Twitter users could soon be staring at blank screens again after the government threatened to block the social media service for the second time in less than a year.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the news organisation continued to post new messages relating to the raid on the trucks, with other Twitter users sympathetic to the media organisation stance retweeting the messages.
Wexler added that the U s. company would ontinue to work diligently to protect the rights of our users
and preserve access for millions of Twitter users in Turkey. Wouldn be the first time The Turkish authorities can evidently get a bit anxious
In March last year the government blocked the site after a number of users posted content claiming to expose alleged corruption among the then prime minister close associates,
though during its time offline tech-savvy users had spread the word on workarounds, meaning that for many the ban was largely ineffective r
The initial array of nearly 650 micro satellites is intended to provide ow-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user terminals deployed around the worldoneweb said in a release.
Just like other marttech that can complete tasks without its user providing instructions, this smart grenade can find its target itself.
#China tightens Web controls requires written pledge to avoid'unhealthy'activity online China announced Wednesday that users of blogs
since 2012 to obtain real names of some users. But compliance was uneven and the rules failed to specify what services were covered.
The rules also require Internet services for the first time to have users sign a contract that includes a pledge to refrain from"illegal and unhealthy"activity.
the agency said users took inappropriate online names such as Putin and Obama, promoted"vulgar culture,
and keep track of user details to ensure they comply, the agency said. The government of President Xi Jinping has been calling on Internet companies since last year to"spread positive energy"online.
It posted instructions for users to alert censors to possible violators. China operates the world's most extensive system of Internet monitoring and filters.
Until recently, users of virtual private network, or VPN, services were able to skirt those restrictions to reach business tools operated by Google and other blocked sites.
The number of users has declined since Beijing tightened control in 2013 over how such services could be used.
The number of microblog users as of the end of last year declined to 249 million, some 7. 1 percent,
and have been refining it with user feedback over the past year leading up to this week public launch. e have structured a very database of recipes that could give Watson this incredible resource,
of gathering the user perspective. And throughout the year, we have created some really great food.
presenting the user with Bon Appétit recipes that use those ingredients. The user can then modify
or adjust those recipes, adding or subtracting ingredients. Essentially, Abrams said it is important to think of Chef Watson as the ultimate cooking aid.
Rivera and Abrams said they have worked to make the app more user friendly over the past year,
Users will be able to handle objects and data in an entirely new fashion. A brain surgeon, for example, could use GHOST to create a virtual version of the brain that he
The mergeprototype, for example, lets users pull bar chart data out of a screen using their fingertips.
If a user needs to enter credit card details or a social security number while in a public area,
If a user, for example, wants to watch a movie on a bigger screen the device can row itselfto a larger size
and beef up the amenities users can enjoy Qualcomm is offering a new type of fingerprint technology.
and allowing its users to play video games and build 3d models. Microsoft Hololens headset was the most eye-catching thing at the event
Microsoft announced a free one-year upgrade to its users. So for the Windows users it is a good time to upgrade to Windows 10,
if they are using Windows 7 or Windows 8, 8. 1 on PC or phones. This would help Microsoft to get hundreds of millions of users running the older versions of Windows to upgrade quickly to the newest version.
Executive vice president at Microsoft Terry Myerson said indows 10 is so much more than the latest version of Windows.
"Plus, users don't have to worry about the safety issues of using high voltages or the complexity of other machines."
The researchers trialled it on 50 hardcore gamers playing Doom 3, with results that suggest no disadvantage for users of Kahawai versus a standard thin-client (i e.,
"The technology allows the user experience with their prosthesis to become more intuitive and integrative,
we are closer than ever to creating prosthetics that are integrated truly with their user. r
Users can connect a smartphone, tablet, or PC to it wirelessly using Wi-fi. With this option,
users can mirror their screens on the giant projector display. There's also a USB port that will allow users to directly play videos from a USB drive.
Lastly, there's the option to use HDMI for connecting an external device. As far as lifespan is concerned,
and not only provide context-appropriate assistance in the form of text, visuals or avatars on a virtual plane in the wearer's field of view,
while also integrating monitoring technology that enables reaction to and individualized support for the user's actions in real time.
Solar Paper also has some built-in smarts to help users get the most out of it.
however, in the form of a device that simply shines a laser on the user's finger.
which should let users maintain a smoother gait. By contrast, the prostheses used by many people in developing nations don't have a bending knee at all,
when users are not at home, or the Whirlpool washing machine can run on a quieter setting when the Nest thermostat senses that the house is occupied.
which uns the world largest collection of scientific user facilities (aka research infrastructure) operated by a single organization in the world,
At a basic level, motion controllers are premised on the idea that a user hands replace traditional input devices like touch screens or mouse and keyboards.
makes user interfaces much more intuitive and easy to use and opens up new ways for designers and developers to create better user experiences.
Radar to gesturesproject Soli gesture-tracking takes a particularly unique approach in that it depends on radar.
if users don say that theye sent it in error. Users must enable the feature through the settings page in Gmail,
by clicking in the cog at the top right hand screen and scrolling through the general tab.
which gives Gmail users special features that can usually be accessed, before moving them to the main product if theye successful.
while helping a blind woman cross the street one day. he told me that all existing devices only let users see in one direction
and works by releasing sound waves that bounce-off objects in the user path to show how close things are to them.
and guide dogs Whereas canes tell users what directly in front of them, they don help them figure out where they are in relation their destination
The three of them successfully learnt to control a virtual avatar on a screen, working together to move its arm.
#Tech identifies users vulnerable to cyberattack based on ways they use their computers Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced the development of the industry first technology for identifying users vulnerable to cyberattacks based on the ways they use their computers,
such as their e-mail and web activities. This will make it possible to implement security measures tailored to individuals and organizations.
when a user carelessly clicks on a malicious link in a faked e-mail message. Because this depends on individual traits
such as, for example, by displaying individualized warning messages to users who often click on URLS in suspicious e-mail messages without checking them carefully,
or escalating the threat level of suspicious e-mails sent between departments with virus-prone users e
launching a trial run of a feature allowing smartphone users to make online purchases from their search results.
and enhance the user experience with our brand, Under Armour chief revenue officer of digital Jason Larose said in the blog post. oogle technology solutions help us innovate. interest last month dove into e-commerce with insthat let iphone
or ipad users in the United states buy items they like at the popular online bulletin board interest is designed already to work like a catalogue,
you are inherently close to a user of heat. So you can make use of that heat. ou cannot send heat down a power line;
both the user of electricity and the user of heat are there. he Ceres system,
works by allowing users to specify their preferences for example, by telling the software if they're willing to forgo going out for breakfast
what kinds of risks a user is willing to take. With this information, the program can help a user make plans that are feasible
but that also reflect his or her preferences.""Humans aren't very good at estimating risk,
These alternate solutions still keep the user's constraints or goals in mind, so even though the buses arrive less frequently,
or Coinstar machine) that allows users to exchange old electronics for cold, hard cash. While it's not exactly new (the first ecoatm launched in 2009),
Personalized preferences The early versions of fitness trackers would estimate how many calories a user burned based on weight and height.
It also lets users enter goals for themselves, such as maintaining their body weight, building muscle or controlling chronic health conditions.
Stonecrysus allows users to track the food they're eating with a user friendly picture of their mealthey can place portions of common foods on an image of a plate,
if the user has released a standby button, so that an onlooker can help administer it in case the owner of the pen is incapacitated p
what such perception could"feel like for a user, because there are many components that go into a person's perception of his or her own body.
or when an alarm on the pump is addressed not quickly by the user. The Minimed Connect device will be available for over-the-counter purchase for about $200.
The camera detects objects in front of the user, sending signals to the intraoral device that has an array of electrodes on the surface.
allowing the user to get a general idea of what ahead. The technology certainly doesn come close to natural vision in being able to recognize objects,
The team used a motorized robot that was controlled via an ECG cap by the user thoughts alone.
The users underwent about 10 days of training before testing their skills against other users.
This way the user can provide overall directions, and the robot figuring out the details of how to get from point A to B. Here an EPFL video showing off the technology n
and accompanying software that lets users type by simply looking at letters on a screen,
and software that is calibrated for the user unique needs. It can be used to issue a general alarm
ruining the experience for many potential users of the technology. The Invisible Trial System instead uses an Apple ipod touch and an ipad mini as the control system, improving how both patients
as well as harnessing the results to provide health guidance to the user. The team has developed a prototype device called a Wize Mirror,
They conducted x-ray studies at the National Synchrotron Light source (NSLS) and electron microscopy at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), both DOE Office of Science User Facilities."
This enables a large group of users to take advantage of cost division made possible, at silicon level,
In addition, it allows 3d-MPW users to divide the cost of post processing. This benefits a large group of customers, such as universities, SMES, research institutes and systems integrators,
"Plus, users don't have to worry about the safety issues of using high voltages or the complexity of other machines."
The user can view the full colour image in both transmission and reflection (shining a light on
The Center for Nanoscale Materials and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility are DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
Using the Center for Nanoscale Materials, a DOE Office of Science user facility at Argonne,
The Center for Nanoscale Materials is a DOE Office of Science user facility.#####About Argonne National Laboratoryargonne National Laboratory seeks solutions to pressing national problems in science and technology.
a DOE Office of Science User Facility.""Although surface atoms represent a minuscule fraction of the total number of atoms in a material, these atoms drive a large portion of the material's chemical interactions with its environment."
and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light source--both DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
They conducted x-ray studies at the National Synchrotron Light source (NSLS) and electron microscopy at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), both DOE Office of Science User Facilities."
a limited-liability company founded by the Research Foundation for the State university of New york on behalf of Stony Brook University, the largest academic user of Laboratory facilities,
SARS or MERS, could also benefit from the user friendly chip and its rapid results. is award is truly helping our lab become translational,
& Electron microscopy from their user groups at the Universities of Delft and Groningen July 14th, 2015global Sol-Gel Nanocoatings Industry 2015:
and robots more intuitive would be to endow machines with the ability to read their users'emotions
however, thanks to soft, wearable robotic systems and the Wyss Institute's"from bench to bedside"translational approach that has enabled the glove's potential end users to be involved in every step of testing and development.
The holistic approach ensures that technology development goes beyond achieving functionality to also incorporate social and psychological elements of design that promote translation and seamless adoption by its intended end users."
"Science benefits from an environment that allows access to valuable insights that can only be gained by working with actual potential end users of a developing technology,
and alert the user when radiation hits harmful levels. Gutruf said the research used zinc oxide-present in most sunscreens as a fine powder mixed into a lotion-as the UV sensing material.
of which are U s. Department of energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facilities. But first, many atoms and molecules will have to meet with a sci-fi appropriate demise.
The high purity graphene device was fabricated by NIST researcher Y. Zhao in the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology's Nanofab, a national user facility available to researchers from industry, academia and government t
"says Jim Ciston, a staff scientist with the National Center for Electron microscopy (NCEM) at the Molecular Foundry, a DOE Office of Science User Facility."
Wrights team is now looking to find out how easy it is for users. The USAID competition was intended actually for systems built for individual farms,
and x-ray scattering at the National Synchrotron Light Sourceoth DOE Office of Science User Facilities.
The user draws the desired structure in the form of a polygon object, in 3d software normally used for computer-aided design or animation.
"said Anand Bhattacharya, a physicist in Argonne's Materials science Division and the Center for Nanoscale Materials (a DOE Office of Science user facility),
The drone operates based on user cognitive commands. When the user thinks forward, the drone moves forward towards the direction it is facing.
While the drone flies, the user is able to view the flight from FPV (first-person view) via a front-facing camera. his project serves as the beginning of brain-machine control as a human-centric application says Marvin Andujar
who is also a member of our Neurogadget editorial team. The idea is to use the BCI, drones and other machines such as a humanoid as a third arm for humans.
The next step for this research is to incorporate a two way system that monitors user levels of engagement, cognitive workload
and provide a positive user experience, they need to understand how the users feel. By Marvin Andujarvideo credits:
The Division of Multimedia Properties at University of Florid f
#Jaguar land rover Mind Sense research monitors brainwaves through the hands via sensors in the steering wheel Jaguar land rover has revealed the ixth Senseproject,
or be less aware of other road users so we are looking at how we could identify this
and filter out the pure brainwave from any background oisejaguar Land rover is currently conducting user trials to collect more information on the different brainwaves identified through the steering wheel sensors
which means users wouldn have to touch the screen itself. In user trials this increases the speed of successful button selection by 22 per cent and therefore reduces the amount of time the driver is looking at the screen with their eyes off the road.
The system could also use mid-air touch to provide the driver with a sensation,
while the gas sensors take samples of the user breath looking for compounds that give an indication of how much they drink or smoke.
which only takes about a minute the mirror produces a score that tells the user how healthy they seem.
and switched the avatar from the Centcom logo to a photo of a masked fighter.
ad-supported and paid-subscription services that offer instant access to libraries that would make the wildest dreams of the ipod user seem tame.
Apple stands to gain plenty by luring its hundreds of millions of users to a subscription-based streaming service,
and an interactive UI to provide users with a visual fixation cue indicating when the alignment is correct-the first time interactive self-imaging of the retina has been demonstrated.
a user has no way of knowing if the edge of their pupil is occluding the image of the retina."
"a simple light pattern seen by the user and produced at their pupil. A novel interactive ray-based approach developed by the team allows images with the same field-of-view to be projected onto the retina simultaneously,
Lateral and axial movement of the eye is perceived then by the user as a shift in this pattern of pinhole light."
"Our design has a large'partial'eye box in the sense that it's easy for a user to see part of the pattern when partially aligned,
"That partial pattern indicates how the user needs to realign. We believe this is the first time such a'layered
Determining the common set of perceptual cues between different users and accounting for differences in pupil size and corneal shape was another important consideration.
Emerging light-field-based near-eye displays could use such patterns for user alignment straight out of the box."
hollow component that fits over a user's residual limb, and connects to the prosthesis.
can help the blind navigate by processing visual information and communicating it to the user through electrodes on his tongue.
When cameras in the glasses pick up visual stimuli, software converts the information to electrical pulses sent as vibrations to be felt on the user tongue.
training users to interpret the vibrations. Studies showed that 69 percent of the test subjects were able to identify an object using the Brainport device after a year of training.
A camera underneath the hologram captures user interaction, allowing the dots to respond to being ouched.
and notify users when radiation hits harmful levels, so they know to get out of the sun
Similar to an iphone, in which each user curates their own apps, the future suits will enable the owner complete control over the functions.
It is employing a new AI machine-learning system that the online retailer built in-house to boost the prominence and weight of verified customer purchase reviews, those marked as helpful by other users and newer, more up-to-date critiques
Where users cannot see in person what the products are like before they buy them, the ratings and reviews of users who have bought supposedly them before can make
or break a product. Can you trust that five star review? That means marketers have taken to attempting to influence star ratings,
They post fake, inflationary reviews or pay users to do so on their behalf. The practice known as stroturfingfake grassroots campaigns is widespread across a variety of sites and services.
The reviews of the fixed product will be used to outweigh older ones of the broken product to create a more consistent and useful rating of the product users would receive now.
To maintain user trust, more and more sites that host user reviews will have to implement smarter and smarter systems to prevent abuse.
Amazon AI-based system will be watched closely by both competitors and creators. If it works it could end astroturfing as we know it today
Alerts are sent to the user smartphone device to remind them to reapply sunscreen or get out of the sun altogether,
Both products enable users to download and use the Spinali app. For more promotional videos and demonstrations of how the sensor is attached to the suit,
This display will show updates chosen by the user from social media and the Internet, such as posts by friends, meeting reminders or a weather report.
The user interacts with Mirrormirror using gestures and speech commands to program it. The display layout is equally personalizable
allowing a user to set updates at the top, weather and news at the bottom,
The mirror also allows users to set a space to handwrite notes to other users with the tip of a finger.
which will be limited to 500 users. If all goes well, however, the credit card company plans on launching the technology for the public.
For smartphone users who end to forget passwords when shopping online, the iris recognition feature eliminates these problems altogether.
back in 2010, NTT Docomo introduced a prototype that uses the eye sensor system to help users navigate their phones with eye movement.
Hence, the phone user can answer a call, make a call, switch music tracks, increase
which already automatically adapt to their user's gait, speed and the ground terrain, but still require intentional thought.
Ingvarsson said Ossur was on the way to creating prosthetics that are integrated more with their user."
The consumer version of the product, known as Ritmo Beats, is to be launched for users by the end of 2015
#Mood-changing wearable tech sets pulses racing The makers of'doppel'call it the next generation of wearable technology-one that can actually change the mood of the user.
with their controlled tests showing the device can improve alertness when correctly set to the user's preference.
"This breakthrough in user interaction with technology allows us to handle objects, and even data, in a completely new way.
and also highlights how close we're getting to a world like the one James cameron dreamed up in Avatar,
and tentatively attempted the avatar brain-brain communication"."The video on their research, which you can see below,
#This new technology lets you change the channel with your mind The BBC is testing a new type of headset that can read a user brainwaves
and the headset allows the users to pick one using the strength of their brain activity.
so the user can either'tune out'mentally when they see a program theye not interested in,
which will show the user how close they are to successfully selecting a specific program.
If the user wants to switch programs or turn iplayer off halfway through, they will need to concentrate to turn on the iplayer main menu.
Nancy Owano describes the user reactions at Phys. org:""One user, smiling, said, 'It's nuts He was wondering if,
when watching with his son they would be fighting over brain waves to choose the program they could both watch.
Another user, looking puzzled over its being able to work as easily as it did said for her
technologists and other users an idea of how this technology might be used in future"."And while it will take a whole lot of upgrading to get even close to the speed and versatility of a good, old-fashioned TV remote,
This doesn just mean the patch will be a hell of a lot more convenient for its users than the injection system,
If that all sounds very James cameron's Avatar to you, you're not wrong-the premise here isn't actually that dissimilar.
Once connected, the three monkeys were able to control the movements of a virtual avatar arm on a computer screen in front of them.
By being so adaptable the walking aid will be able to meet the user's exact needs
because the walking aid will gradually evolve with the user rather than having to get an entirely new aid each time their condition changes.
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