#Maker Faire: How the DIY tech force has become strong DIY technology has taken traditionally place in a bedroom, garage or on a kitchen table.
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#Juicebox: Squeezing new life into old computers By supercharging PCS that seem past their sell-by date,
New smartphones and tablets are released barely months after their previous versions, and the hardware and software quickly become incompatible.
For those who believe that the age of tablets, smartphones, Google glass and the loudhas heralded the demise of desktop PCS,
says Jim Lynch, Director of Green Tech at Techsoup Global. ith the growth of internet and electricity in Africa,
Africa has a paltry recycling rate for mobile phones (just 1%in Nigeria, for example), and a similar recycling rate for PCS, says Lynch.
Mapping highly influential members of a social network has been done many times before for example in viral marketing and in studies of infectious diseases.
and his co-workers, have drawn on the large literature about mapping social networks. This body of work which has grown rapidly over the past decade,
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#New designs to breathe life back into our cities By the middle of this century,
and we are likely to see a change in our experience of cities thanks to augmented realities a new way of seeing via our smart phones and Google glasses.
people are exploring technologies that could transform one group of substances into another on a building site.
Sub-saharan africa has the fastest-growing mobile market in the world, increasing at an average of 44%annually since 2000, according to the worldwide mobile communications industry association GSMA.
ow, with information via mobiles, farmers are better able to bargain prices against middlemen, and can in some cases increase 25-35%of their profits.
resulting in more aggressive cells that can spread to other sites or cause regrowth of primary tumors.
thereby allowing the tumor to spread to a new organ site. They used a large screening approach
and does synthesis at the inert C-H sites.""We had demonstrated already that we have a tool box of reagents
which sites in a molecule will undergo C-H functionalization, "Davies says.""Novartis wanted to explore
Through computer modeling, researchers showed that asyn mostly can bind the membrane with four main sites, or zones.
While binding was shown to be superficial by three of the sites, one site Zone 2 had a particular affinity for the membrane.
Researchers found that asyn contacting the neuron membrane in that site immediately and deeply penetrated it,
which led to the creation of ring oligomers in the membrane, and eventually opened pores that allowed an uncontrolled influx of ions that ultimately killed the cell.
Her study is published in the Advance Online Publication (AOP) on Nature Photonics's website on January 19, 2015."
And now for a closer look at the Asian markets Katie Sargent joins us he is on the telephone from Singapore.
Apple was awarded just over $1 billion last week after a California jury found that Samsung had copied critical features of the iphone and the ipad.
Apple now seeking to have pulled eight devices from U s. store shelves including the very popular very very popular galaxy smart phones.
A lot of people actually like those smart phones but this was such Connell such a big you know victory for Apple.
the surgeon excises additional tissue from the surgical site to ensure that no additional cancer cells remain. he greatest benefit of Marginprobe is that we can perform this additional tissue removal during a patient initial surgery,
likes it so much theye made it available as a free download under a Creative Commons license.
which repairs broken phones and sells phones, offers a full menu of perks: meals, choose your own hardware,
field tripsnd a company yacht. Watertown, Massachusetts-based UX design outfit Fresh Tilled Soil sends employees to envy-inducing places
it no longer enough to have just a website, no matter how informative it may be. Today, companies are fielding their own mobile apps
so that customers can have constant connection. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2016, use of mobile apps will exceed Internet access to domain names.
Chemical companies are hungry for the fast insights they can get from big data, Iot (Internet of things), predictive analytics,
That people-centric radar has to be recalibrated to work across an interconnected range of social media channels and multiple platforms,
data-stuffed companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix. Finally, younger tech companies, including Airbnb,
we all have the same magic that Google has.""Box, a file storage provider that's expected to go public next year,
The room-rental site says the technology has improved matches by 4 percent. Airbnb is currently developing a system to look at the photos of homes uploaded to the site
and figure out how ttractivethey are to customers. e are trying to promote listings with more attractive images,
had joined the startup from Netflix and Facebook. Sabah had discovered that the same techniques Netflix uses to recommend movies with the familiarity you'd expect from a clued-in friend could be used to determine what going on inside of a company."
After taking advice from the likes of Microsoft and Google, officials were convinced that the state-school curriculum was out of step with modern-day technical standards.
Custom websites and mobile apps are now a must-have for companies in virtually every sector,
while research firm Gartner projects there will be 30 times as many physical devices connected to the Internet by 2020."
Arab-speaking Internet market, Peres said in an e-mailed statement. Takwin's investments will focus on mobile, Internet and media technologies,
where t is easy to accelerate a startup from zero to impressive in a year to a year
Arabic-language users are the sixth largest community on the Internet and could move into fourth place as early as next year,
There are more than 350 million Arabic-speaking mobile users and more than 120 million Internet users in 22 countries
#Bloomberg the Company Daniela Perdomo credits the absence of basic communication services after superstorm Sandy for inspiring Gotenna Inc. a do-it-yourself wireless network that can carry text
messages to Androids and Apple iphones. Perdomo 29 a Sao paulo native and Tufts University grad started Gotenna in Williamsburg Brooklyn with her brother Jorge in March 2013.
She spent the months after the storm bouncing her idea for a low-fi communications network off telecom
That led to a prototype cigar-sized antenna that connects phones via public unlicensed airwaves.
and the service operates independently from cellular or Wi-fi networks. The signal range is anywhere from 50 miles to several blocks depending on interference.``
Some of the uses for the point-to-point communication include outdoor adventurers who travel beyond the reach of cellular networks concertgoers who want to coordinate locations
According to a study listed in the Federal reserve website, at the end of 2011, roughly 62 percent of U s. hundred dollar bills were in circulation outside the United states
A new trial kicked off on March 31 in Silicon valley where Apple is accusing Samsung of copying its designs for the iphone and ipad.
"4ltr Press Online uses a two-pathway approach to learning to include the pedagogy of a printed textbook and the concept mapping and functionality of an Internet search engine,"according to a news release."
#UCLA Researchers Develop Device To Turn Smartphones into Fluorescence Microscopes Researchers at the University of California,
lightweight device that allows users to turn a smartphone into a fluorescence microscope capable of imaging objects 1, 000 times smaller than the width of a human hair.
a miniature dovetail stage and a laser diode that excites the fluorescently labeled DNA molecules"for the demonstration.
An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled
The results can be seen on both the smartphone and external computers connected to the UCLA servers.
a virtual router that provides routing and security functionality for physical, virtual and cloud networking environments."
"said Marisa Viveros, vice president in IBM's global telecommunications industry division. The collaboration, she said in a prepared statement,
and created the internet can figure out how to integrate alternative power sources into the power grid?
The site is seeded already with nearly 300,000 places across the United states. The platform asks as little as a petition people just click upportto participate.
Musk made the unprecedented announcement Thursday on his company blog. esla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport,
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and university curriculum in their own community via the Internet allowing them to attend university without having to physically relocate to a campus. hrough IBM contribution wee able to draw insights
Charger for Tablets and Phones Combine Efficient Green energy with Appealing Design for Unique Product (Currentmess LLC;
The trio were hoping to raise 30 000 US dollars over the course of a month via the popular American crowdfunding website just enough to start production of their eco-friendly device.
and an efficient solar panel which lets it users charge smartphones, and even tablets, on the go. Featuring a solar panel the size of an ipad,
or browsing the Internet. e wanted to create a really powerful charger that people would actually want to use,
and Google alone have made recently wind and solar investments totaling more than $1 billion. Using Methi, Vestre and Einberger new breed of solar charger,
keeping energy-hungry smartphones or tablets going all day at the beach, music festivals or picnics in the park is easier than ever.
all that left to do is plug in any smartphone or tablet and let nature take care of the rest.
enabling travellers to check emails and browse the Internet whilst travelling. Collaborators for the project include engineering firm Arup,
reading emails, reading papers whilst they go to the city centre itselfo they don have to concentrate in the long term in how they drive these things Beasley further stated that the technology used to design
*In Texas, Nest Labs, acquired by Google on Feb 7, announced 140 technical support and customer service jobs.
and their collaborators, offers the possibility that such devices may soon be as small as a typical smartphone.
and that excites the quartz tuning fork. he tuning fork is a piezoelectric element, so when the wave causes it to vibrate,
The updated version of the Blink App is currently available on Google Play for Android device
and China regarding lessons learned. e have been working with China on air and climate issues under a unique MOU signed by Gov. Jerry brown
#First GREENGUARD Certified Television UL Environment, a business unit of UL (Underwriters Laboratories), and LG Electronics USA today announced the landmark achievement of GREENGUARD Certification for LG newest OLED TV, model 55ec9300.
This certification is the first of its kind and sets a new precedent for television manufacturers to help create healthier indoor environments.
Televisions amass considerably more surface area in homes and built environments today than they have in decades past.
Complex components, plastics and other substances in TV products can create significant potential to contribute to high chemical and formaldehyde exposures, according to UL Environment.
UL Environment performed rigorous tests against the GREENGUARD Certification standard in its Marietta Ga. laboratory, to confirm low emissions from the LG 55ec9300.
LG taking the leadership role in obtaining GREENGUARD Certification for its new OLED TV demonstrates the company ongoing commitment to bringing safer and healthier products to market.
and its recognition as the first and only television to have achieved GREENGUARD Certification, worldwide, further enhances its standing as a groundbreaking new product.
Find more about the LG OLED TV and other UL Environment Certified and Validated LG Electronics products at this link on UL Environment online Sustainable Product Guide (www. ul. com/SPG), used by purchasers, specifiers,
The new 55-inch class LG OLED TV, on sale now at a suggested price of $3, 499, is amazingly thin 4. 5 millimeters at its thinnest point (11/64ths
In the United states, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG ife Goodmarketing theme.
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and entertainment. he vehicles with free wi-fi onboard arrive at stops frequently#from every 10-18 minutes depending on the time of day#
I have visited lots of similar sites, like power plants and paper mills, so when I heard about this onet part of the Gates Foundation effort to improve sanitation in poor countries was eager to check it out.
Users then access the modelling results via CLIM-RUN web portal which relates the modelsresults to their specific industries and regions.
English versions are available on the CLIM-RUN website, which will be online until at least 2017,
He declares the team will continue to distribute information to users even after the project stops maintaining the website.
Using face-to-face meetings, surveys, social networking and workshops, the CLIM-RUN team asked potential users to identify the main types of information that would be most useful to them.
CLIM-RUN FP7 project Youtube-Video Project details Project acronym: CLIM-RUN Participants: Italy (Coordinator), Cyprus, France, Spain, Germany, UK, Belgium, Croatia, Tunisia, United states Proj.
But what if sensors could harness energy directly from their environment from the sun, from ambient heat, from radio waves or vibrations?
And that is precisely what a team of EU-funded researchers are achieving in the SWAP('Symbiotic Wireless Autonomous Powered system')project.
and expertise to develop the next generation of innovative, autonomously powered wireless sensors. n recent years,
vibrations and radio waves The SWAP team are studying, testing and deploying novel technologies that enable sensors to use solar
and thermal energy as well as radio waves and vibrations to power themselves. They are focusing on making energy harvesters more efficient
sees such efficient energy harvesting systems playing a crucial role in the Internet of things, the concept that in the future myriad different devices,
#Putting the citizen at the centre of flood prevention Social media has broken down barriers between information providers and consumers.
And one of the project partners is seeking to market a social media analysis tool developed by the team in 2013.
The advent of mobile phones and social media means that citizens can be fully active in capturing,
and sending information and images by phone. They can also help by reading existing sensors
which carries out large scale social media analysis to help emergency responders during large scale floods, found an application in monitoring large city wide events in England.
is expected to enable construction workers and surveyors to test for the mineral's presence in building and demolition sites.
ALERT project coordinator Alan Archer says the tool is expected to instantly give potentially lifesaving information about the levels of asbestos to people working on building and demolition sites
emergency services, asbestos removal and hazardous waste sites. ith ALERT tool, we can give 30 million European workers a means of detecting asbestos the moment it is disturbed,
persistent multi-modal interfaces to the Internet')moves on from traditional task-based interaction to social interaction.
COMPANIONS sought to bring to the internet a tailor-made, conversational interface that recognises its user. A key component of the research was machine learning developing software with the ability to learn without explicitly programming it to modify the way it behaves.
and act as an alternative access point to resources on the internet. The team English Companion is able to listen to long statements
It can find tagged photos of users on the internet and create a timeline bringing together life events and special memories.
It can be used via a mobile phone a computer shaped like a head or even a handbag,
like a television or a motorised system for the home, said Arnau Espinosa Manzanal of the Research and development department,
This way even severely disabled people can compose text messages to communicate with others in social networks on the Internet.
Boston, on the east coast of England, is one of the main test sites for the new technology.
These indications can be followed in real time using any internet-enabled device. A touch screen panel installed in a Boston café allows the public to see how the system works.
The software calculates how fast the site will be flooded if the dam fails, and even suggests the best ways to move citizens into safer areas.
the system can send immediate and personalised messages via SMS, email, voice messages over digital radio and Facebook alerts.
This helps the drug hone in on tumour sites, control the release of therapeutic compounds and enhance the efficiency of the treatment. he decorating of nanoparticles very tiny particles with cyclodextrins allows us to play with the functionality,
eat, talk on the phone, catch up on work, write letters or watch television, if they so wish.
If the lead vehicle has to turn, speed up, slow down or even brake suddenly, the action is sent instantaneously to the following vehicles,
it also means we now only need days rather than months on site to erect the bridge."
and design rules via the Internet, and there are plans to use Preco-Beam for buildings.
The tags needed for Radio frequency identification (RFID) can be removed or altered. Laser marking might be the answerbut existing techniques produce microscopiccracks in the glass.
More details about exploitable results like this can be found on the project website, including training materials on using robots for machining,
#HELIOS makes silicon breakthrough Experts from the Electronics and Information technology Laboratory of The french Atomic energy commission (CEA-Leti) and III-V lab, a joint lab of Alcatel-lucent Bell labs France,
Available as a smartphone app, it a breakthrough that could save harvests, as well as trillions of litres of water wasted in world farming every year.
The new research harnesses technological advances in wireless networking, environmental sensors and soil water movement models.
which is developed why we a smartphone app. Thanks to sensors planted across the field, the Waterbee system can continuously monitor water movement in the root zone.
low power consumption wireless sensor network, sending the data to an intelligent web service software application for analysis. Once the numbers are crunched-taking due account for weather and other local parameters-it automatically activates the selected irrigation nodes in the areas
The possibilities include wireless communication between fire fighters sending images when visibility is extremely low and identifying toxic fumes in the air.
The PCB (printed circuit board) consists of a Bluetooth module, a small power supply unit, interfaces connected to sensor modules and an RFID (radio frequency identification) reader.
Information is collected from the RFID reader and the sensors and sent via Bluetooth to a computer.
One prototype is controlled a wristband by hand gestures. It reacts to upwards and sideways movements recognising the speed of movement.
The wristband has now been developed to react to micro gestures, after the larger, less subtle movements during earlier testing made patients feel uncomfortable.
so it's an internet-of-things, connected kitchen appliance,"said Kucsma. Users will also be able to control the device remotely using a smartphone,
and share their recipes with the community. That is, if people don't balk at the idea of eating printed food."
Letv launched its Internet video streaming service three years before Netflix (2004 versus 2007. It was producing original movies and series long before Netflix rolled out House of cards.
It sells TV settop boxes and smart TVS--devices that can help you watch all that video."
bringing Letv's video streaming service, its original programming, its Apple-TV-like settop boxes, its smart TVS,
and, now, smartphones. Letv announced its entry into the Chinese smartphone market in April, and according to Li and his colleague JD Howard, the company plans to offer phones in the United states by year's end."
"We're going to be building a big presence here, "says Howard, a former executive with Chinese computer marker Lenovo, referring to the west coast of the United states. Read:
The deadly global war for sandit's an audacious move, given the dominance of Apple
and Google in the stateside smartphone market--and the limited track record of Chinese tech companies in the United states. But as Li and Howard explain it,
Letv isn't a smartphone company. It's an Internet video company. The phones are a way of delivering video."
"What's going to be critical, "Howard says, "is what you use your smartphone for.""The company joins a wave of Chinese Internet companies eying the United states. E-commerce conglomerate Alibaba recently debuted on Wall street (its market cap the day of its IPO exceeded that of Facebook, Amazon,
and IBM), and it has invested in a handful of companies that operate in the United states. Search giant Baidu has an R&d center in Silicon valley.
And Tencent, another sprawling Chinese Internet company, now has a U s. partner to offer ebooks stateside.
So many questions hang over the American aspirations of these Chinese companies --and Li admits as much.
But he and Howard aim to enter the U s. market with a certain blend of patience and audacity.
They will respect the unique nature of the market, they say, but also offer tools no one else has offered."
Basically, they see their phones as a way of delivering Chinese video to Chinese speakers in the United states. Then they may do much the same for people who've immigrated to the United states from other countries."
Still, the hurdles to entering the highly competitive U s. smartphone market are enormous.""This is probably more work than they expect,
And he points out that the company will offer more than phones, including settop boxes and smart TVS.
recently tried and failed to crack the smartphone market (its tablets and e readers do okay).
According to literature on the D-Shape website, the material produced by the printer is"similar to marble"in its constitution.
The process of contour crafting--where large 3d printers are assembled on a building site (much like what will happen on Kushner's estate)
Khoshnevis told industry website 3dprint. com earlier this year that the first printers large enough for his version of contour crafting should become available within the next two years.
Dr. Phil Reeves, managing director of UK-based 3d printing consultancy and research firm Econolyst, described 3d printing a house on site like that planned by DUS as counter to existing building techniques
and rapidly piecing them together on a building site. Chinese firm Broad Sustainable building claimed to have used this method to piece together a 57-story skyscraper in just 19 days earlier this year.
Softbank will be releasing information about additional sales on their website in July J
#Researchers create guilt-free superfood that tastes like bacon As will be familiar to anyone miserably chewing through leaf after leaf of kale in a beleaguered attempt to shed a few pounds,
telling them about federal guidelines on the amount of radiation that cell phones can emit
and the instructions on safe phone use. Lawyers and clinicians involved in creating the new law said that it is meant to make consumers aware of the already existing regulations.
In 2011, the World health organization classified the kind of low energy radiation that cell phones emit as"possibly carcinogenic"because of a link between cell phone use and a type of malignant brain tumor called glioma and a benign brain tumor called acoustic neuroma.
One study of nearly 360,000 adults in Denmark did not find an increase in the number of brain tumors even among those who had been using a cell phone for at least 13 years.
THE WHO panel took into account studies that suggested that those who used cell phones did have higher rates of certain brain tumors.
The Interphone study is the largest study to date looking at cell phones and brain tumors. It involves 13 countries,
and glioma rates except in the group of participants who reported using their cell phone for at least 1, 640 hours in their lifetime without a headset.
Those participants were 40%more likely than those who never used a cell phone to have a glioma.
and thus the link between heavy phone use and brain tumor risk in the study might not be real."
A recent analysis found that people who used a mobile phone were 30%more likely to have a glioma,
The researchers also found that users of cordless phones which emit less radiation than cell phones,
had 40%to 70%higher glioma risk.""There are individual studies and findings that do produce a risk,
Another argument against the possibility that cell phones cause cancer is that there has not been an increase in the incidence of brain tumors in the United states,
they were not in a part of the brain that researchers predict would be affected by cell phone radiation.
Cell phones (and to a lesser extent cordless phones) give off non-ionizing radiation, which unlike ionizing radiation such as X-rays,
The COSMOS study is looking at cell phone records and the long-term health of 290,000 participants in five countries in Europe including the United kingdom and Sweden.
and could at least in theory be more vulnerable to the effects of phone radiation. The Mobi-Kids study is currently comparing cell phone use between 2,
"I wouldn't make the recommendation for my grandchildren that they shouldn't use a cell phone.
Unlike its neighbor Berkeley, San francisco would have required cellphone retailers to post information about health concerns and carcinogenic potential of cell phone radiation."
Moskowitz said he said that he hardly ever uses his cell phone, but when he does he uses a headset or speaker mode.
He carries the phone turned off in his briefcase. There are a number of ways to reduce exposure to cell phone radiation,
if users are worried about the possibility of health risks, including using a headset and texting instead of talking g
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