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consumers could tap into through their computers or cellphones. The ne step forward, one step backtraceability requirement for processed food and produce is designed to make it easier for the Food

or micro-percussion markers that make tiny indents. hey each believe they have the holy grail product tracking solutions sitting in their laptop,

Paul Chang, who leads the traceability initiative at IBM, said the company is basically taking the tracking system it uses for the pharmaceutical industry

Harvestmark provides him with a laptop computer and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons. And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank

or some other place with Internet service to upload the data to Harvestmark. One day he was surprised to get a letter from an unhappy customer who had tracked down his address from the Harvestmark sticker.

It has infrared two monitors mounted on the trunk that record any numbers it sees##such as license plates and addresses.

and microprocessors that monitors the body s internal changes and alters the flow of blood as needed.

#3d printed eye cells could one day cure blindness Researchers have printed actually viable retina cells using an inkjet printer.

and cuts and scrapes aren t the only maladies that medical 3d printing can help cure.

##At the University of Cambridge, researchers have pulled off something of a 3d printing coup. Using lab rats,

using an inkjet printer, of all things. The printer was able to first print a layer of retinal ganglion cells and then a layer of glial cells on top of them,

all while keeping the tiny structures vital. In doing so, the Cambridge research team was able to prove that eyes

but eventually professor Martin and his team believe that their process will be capable of 3d printing#retinal#grafts tailored for individual patients.

Cells used in this sort of medical 3d printing will be grown to perfectly match those of the patient prior to surgery.

Instead, a call-center worker in Utah or the Philippines is pressing buttons on a computer, playing through a marketing pitch without actually speaking.

##At its best, computer system and operator merge like a character from the movie#Avatar#and his or her steed.

The keyboard has hotkeys that can play different sound clips that were recorded by a perfect English speaker.

I found three other companies that sell cyborg call-center software or services like this, all of which are based in Utah.#

they expressed skepticism that the system found in the#Time#recordings could be a computer.

It opens with these words flashing on the screen:####Level Up. Step up. Stand out. Work with the pros

We sold software to manage the paperwork about chemicals used at factories, which are known as#material-safety data sheets.

what was on the screen. My manager, whose name was asked Jim that we call him Jimbo,

##The software can improve the experience people are already having.####Often, when we look around our world at the technologies we have,

The couple looked forward to joining neighbors who had added panels, to cutting their $250 monthly power bills

##Their plans shifted the day after the PV panels went up in early October. The Walkers learned from a neighbor about a major change in the local utility s solar policy.

It led to those 18 panels sitting dormant nearly three months later. Hawaiian Electric Co,

They re now paying $300 per month on a loan for the panels, plus the $250 electric bill.##

or default, method for number generation in the BSAFE software, according to two sources familiar with the contract.

and Microsoft initially#hummed its way through calls for a Skype transparency report before#giving in#to pressure from privacy groups.

In May, Microsoft said its Xbox One console would have an#always-on microphone, constantly listening to whatever people say near it.

It alleged that the NSA had#direct access to the servers#of the big U s. tech firms, such as Google, Microsoft and Apple.

involving malware and hacking into desktop and#mobile devices. It can also involve knocking on the door of Google or Facebook.

Google, Microsoft, Apple and others appeared utterly complicit with the NSA, as though they were happily inviting them into their data centers for a look around,

Fallout The post-Snowden months have seen a rash of interest in privacy-protecting#plug-ins,#search engines#and#anonymous surfing appliances,

Early warnings from IBM and Cisco indicate that some big U s. tech firms are already seeing a#significant drop-off#in orders

which delighted privacy advocates in July by releasing an Android feature called#App Ops#that made it possible to turn off specific tracking functionalities in individual apps,

pulled that feature in a later Android update, claiming it had been included by accident. The online ad industry is also doing its best to ensure everyone remains trackable.

Anyone carrying a mobile device should now understand that they are being tracked constantly. Now we must address the fundamental questions of our time.

However, experts suggest it may make use of ultrasound to create tiny vibrations on the screen

#IBM unveils top 5 technology predictions for the next 5 years This year s ideas are based on the fact that everything will learn.

IBM reveals its five big innovation predictions that will change our lives within five years.

now that IBM has made predictions about technology, and this year s prognostications are sure to get people talking.#

#We discussed them with Bernie Meyerson, the vice president of innovation at IBM, and he told us that the goal of the predictions is to better marshal the company s resources

##In a nutshell, IBM says: The classroom will learn you. Buying local will beat online. Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well.

IBM can already#figure out your personality by deciphering 200 of your tweets, and its capability to read your wishes will only get better.

IBM believes the technologies will be developed with the appropriate safeguards for privacy and security, but each of these predictions raises additional privacy and security issues.

As computers get smarter and more compact, they will be built into more devices that help us do things

IBM believes that these breakthroughs in computing will amplify our human abilities. The company came up with the predictions by querying its 220,000 technical people in a bottoms-up fashion

But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,

##In the next five years, IBM believes teachers will use##longitudinal data##such as test scores, attendance,

IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia, the 14th largest school district in the U s. with 170,000 students.

IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.####You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly,

Retailers could rely on artificial intelligence akin to IBM s Watson which played#Jeopardy#better than many human competitors.

IBM wants computers to help doctors understand how a tumor affects a patient down to their DNA.

IBM recently made a#breakthrough with a nanomedicine#that it can engineer to latch on to fungal cells in the body

IBM envisions a#digital guardian that will become trained to focus on the people and items it s entrusted with.

##The city will help you live in it IBM says that, by 2030, the towns and cities of the developing world will make up 80 percent of urban humanity and by 2050,

where smarter cities can understand in real-time how billions of events occur as computers learn to understand what people need,

IBM predicts that cities will digest#information freely provided by citizens to place resources where they are needed.

Mobile devices and social engagement will help citizens strike up a conversation with their city leaders. Such a concept is already in motion in Brazil,

where IBM researchers are working with#a crowdsourcing toolthat people can use to report accessibility problems, via their mobile phones,

Of course, as in the upcoming video game Watch Dogs from Ubisoft, a bad guy could hack into the city and use its monitoring systems in nefarious ways.

#What happens when we put computers in our brains? This may seem like a wild idea,

This is the first step in creating computers more powerful than human brains, says futurist Ray Kurzweil, in#The Singularity is Near.##

##Today, computers capable of crunching this amount of data do not exist, but IBM experts believe that supercomputers with increased computational

and memory capacity that can process this data will be available within three years. Nano engineer John Burch, commenting on this molecular nanotechnology#video,

Our artificial brain will allow wireless interface with computers and other digital technologies. We could access the Internet

But its role will be reduced to that of a language for displaying content on screens, which are likely to be more ubiquitous but less necessary.

or Android phone to#know its position in space with centimeter precision. You can think of ibeacon as a version of GPS that works indoors

Right now#companies like Estimote#are#pitching to retailers#the hardware##beacons##that broadcast the signal required to make ibeacon work.

That Apple has made ibeacon open enough to work with third-party hardware providers like Estimote shows that Apple wants the standard to spread.

Notably, the signals broadcast by any ibeacon-compatible radio (which broadcast signals known as Bluetooth Low energy) can also be picked up by Android and Windows phones,

Anticipatory computing and the end of interfaces Objects on our bodies (health monitors, smart glasses) and in our homes and businesses (smart thermostats, lights, appliances and security systems) can all be programmed to interact in complicated and unexpected ways

but add in data about who else is present and a computer algorithm can tell you#how likely you are to get the flu.

Finding the connections##in other words, meaning##in all this data is key to making it useful.##

##Mike Bell, head of the new devices group at Intel, says that the future of smart devices,

##whether it s a wearable computer or a next-generation tablet replacement, will have a real user interface,

can t talk about what Intel is currently working on, but I d guess from our conversations that it s more likely to look like a wristband fitness monitor than another cell Phone in other words,

the internet of things will replace the internet, but not by giving us another way to explicitly tell computers what we want.

Instead, by sensing our actions, the internet-connected devices around us will react automatically, and their representations in the cloud will be updated accordingly.

In some ways, interacting with computers in the future could be more about telling them what not to do##at least until they re smart enough to realize that we are modifying our daily routine.

and are directed for the most part by computers, the world becomes#something like a living creature.####We believe the digital world

#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,

sand-fed 3-D printer, he knew the gray skies outside his London apartment wouldn t do.

##The idea for the printer first came to Kayser a few months earlier. He wanted to find a project in which the sun did more than just power a device.

Markus Kayser s homebuilt 3-D printer created this glass bowl out of heated sand from the Sahara For the printer to work efficiently

and solar panels at the other, can pivot from straight overhead down to a 45-degree angle to chase the sun. directed by a CAD design from a connected laptop,

the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.

Sensors inside detect the shadows and feed the data on their position to Kayser s computer,

The printer s motors the electronics, cameras and a laptop all run on batteries charged by the solar panels PRINTING Kayser first designs the object he wants to print in a CAD program.

His computer sends instructions to the printer, which works from the bottom up. After a layer has cooled into glass,

he adds more sand to the sandbox in the center of the machine and flattens it out,

and the printer begins heating the next layer. Kayser s first major piece, a bowl, took about four and a half hours to print.

POWER Two photovoltaic panels, one on either side of the machine keep the printer powered

. since the panels are attached to the same arms as the lens, they also benefit from the sun tracking,

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In the U s.,the outlook for solar power is bright and sunny. The solar industry in America has recorded its second largest quarter ever in the third quarter of 2013,

a transparent display specialist and military head up screen supplier, is wading into the wearable computing market, revealing a new#developer#kit that, unlike#Google s Glass, offers full augmented reality support.

but where Google s headset has a small display-block suspended in the corner, the entire right lens of the Lumus wearable is in fact a 640 x 480 display.

That means developers building apps for the Android-powered headset can overlay graphics directly on top of the real-world view

rather than simply sliding in separate notifications as Glass does.####Lumus might not be the household name that Google is,

but it has some history in#wearable#displays. The company developed a patented##Light-guide Optical Element##(LOE) in effect a tiny projector that projects onto a special lens

so that the computer-generated image is see-through and has been supplying it to industrial and military customers for some years,

including the helmet displays the US Air force has deployed in the F-16 and A-10. The company s consumer plans have been a little later to the game,

Whereas the last Lumus prototype we saw#the OE-31 wearable display back in March 2012#was somewhat geeky in its appearance,

The VGA-resolution display with 25-degree field of view is integrated into the right lens, while the block section on the side accommodates the 5-megapixel camera,#

#processor, battery, and sensors. Android runs on an OMAP processor Lumus isn t saying which one specifically

and there s a motion sensor with 9 degrees-of-freedom to do precise head tracking, important when you want to exactly match what s on-screen with what s in front of the wearer.

Lumus is billing the DK-40 as completely wire-free, though not commenting on battery life expectations as yet.

For developers, there ll be an SDK to get them up to speed with coding Android apps to take advantage of the platform,

It s not the first lens-as-display wearable we ve seen in recent months,

that has two transparent screens, one for each eye, unlike the single-display Lumus. Unfortunately, while Lumus intends to start shipping the DK-40 monocular dev kit at the end of Q1 2014,

The end-goal is still to sell the displays to other companies who will put them into their own consumer products,

Israeli hacking school that trains corporate cyber warriors Trainees work in front of their computers at the##Cyber Gym##center.

Mister launches simulated attacks against the computer systems of the trainees, who sit in an adjacent building.##

##he said while seated in the##attack room##a computer nerd s paradise, decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.

But the work is serious Cyber Gym s launch was attended by members of Israel s intelligence community

Now, computer software is using frame-by-frame video analysis to read subtle muscular changes that flash across our faces in milliseconds, signaling emotions like happiness, sadness and disgust.##

##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student

Or computer-based games with built-in cameras could register how people are reacting to each move in the game

Now computers can be programmed to make those distinctions, too. Companies in this field include#Affectiva, based in Waltham, Mass.,

and#Emotient, based in San diego. Affectiva used webcams over two and a half years to accumulate

These recordings served as a database to create the company s face-reading software, which it will offer to mobile software developers starting in Mid-january.

The company strongly believes that people should give their consent to be filmed, and it will approve

#such as software that analyzes people s voices, said#Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster. If computers reach the point where they can combine facial coding,

voice sensing, gesture tracking and gaze tracking, he said, a less stilted way of interacting with machines will ensue.

And Affectiva is aware that its face-reading software could stir privacy concerns. But Dr. Kaliouby said that none of the coming apps using its software could record video of people s faces.##

##The software uses its algorithms to read your expressions, ##she said, ##but it doesn t store the frames.##

##So far, the company s algorithms have been used mainly to monitor people s expressions as a way to test ads, movie trailers and television shows in advance.

Face-reading software is unlikely to infer precise emotions 100 percent of the time, said Tadas Baltrusaitis,

By wearing Google glass or other Internet-connected goggles with cameras, they could get clues to the reactions of the people with

as long as people agreed in advance to have webcams watch and analyze the emotions reflected in their faces.##

The battery charges via mini USB and lasts for 10 minutes of continuous flight. The app itself gives you a pilot s view, complete with a range indicator, a thrust level indicator,

#Will 3d printing bring space-based solar power to reality? Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy

but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.

Video)##The overall vision is to create a satellite chrysalis with compact, durable software DNA assembly instructions,

and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,

Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.

##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,

Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques

First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.

With the reductions in volume and mass promised by 3-D printing, those launch costs could be reduced significantly,

##and Lobbyists who protect#other energy sources subsidies#who would be##out of their jobs###The term 3-D printing has become a catch-all for a number of purposes

#Computer analyzes images to teach itself common sense At Carnegie mellon University computers are running a program that analyze images to learn common sense.

A computer program analyzes images 24 hours a day to try to learn common sense.##The aim is to see

if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.##

Computer programs can already identify and label objects using computer vision, which models what humans can see using hardware and software,

but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra analysis to the data.####Images are the best way to learn visual properties,

##said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon s Robotics Institute.####They also include a lot of common sense information about the world.

we hope that computers will do so as well.####Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads

what to teach computers, ##he said.####But humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong.##

##Another reason for NEIL to run is to create the world s largest visual knowledge database where objects, scenes, actions,

##What we have learned in the last five to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have,

the better computer vision becomes, ##Mr Gupta said. The program requires a vast amount of computer power to operate

and is being run on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores. The team plans to let NEIL run indefinitely.

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#Uber teams with GM and Toyota to help 100k drivers buy cars to get more Ubers on the road The expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system.

Flying machines modeled on insects typically require a computer on board or fins of some kind to maintain their stability,

In Sword Art Online, an anime series, gamers take part in a#virtual world#that is teeming with danger,

They plan on doing that with 3-D printing.####The company has inked a deal#with 3d Systems, a global 3-D printing manufacturing company,

to help produce parts of the phone. Assuming the projectstill officially in developmenttakes off, 3d Systems would be#a##multi-year###production partner, making smartphone##enclosures and modules##for the Google-owned phone company.

as if it was ink in ordinary, everyday desktop printers, and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts,

A $1000 3d printer that prints metal http://www. vimeo. com/78961565 The Mini Metal Maker prints 3d objects from digital files directly in precious metal clay, rather than in plastic.#

or printing detailed jewelry or metal ornaments. The Mini Metal Maker is built around the concept of using the minimum number of parts

so that it can be printed easily on low cost printers such as the Makerbot and Reprap.**Refine custom firmware for the printer to further optimize printing for clay.*

*Create the Mini Metal Forge software environment in order to foster a good user experience, particularly for the nontechnical craftsperson.*

*Work with industrial partners to tool up for production of the machine with injection molding.

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The software teaches everything from basic logic to Java and C++ for older students. Finland is emerging as one of the hottest new startup hubs in the world,

as well as#newcomer Supercell###which has two of the most popular ios games:##Clash of Clans#and#Hay Day###Finland has attracted tech talent from all over Europe looking to set up shop in its capital city.

long before#Nokia sold its mobile division to Microsoft#in September, and is encouraging venture capitalists from around the world to invest in the local talent.##

along with Nokia and Microsoft, and is set up to spur app development for Windows phones. Startups from various countries around the globe,

as well as founders of all ages, are now working with Appcampus to secure funding and become successful in the Windows phone app store.##

##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.

A small display and a fancy magnetic strip let you choose from a range of your cards and memberships before paying.

and the small display shows you what you have selected with a nickname, the last four digits of the card,

seven of the top 10 are#technology positions that necessitate specific#technical skills#for developing software, at places like Davinci Coders,

Devops engineer ios developer Data scientist UX designer Staff accountant Paralegal UI developer Administrative assistant Android developer Business intelligence developer Indicating

a trend beyond employment, four of the seven fastest-growing technology jobs##Devops engineer, ios developer, data scientist and Android developer##did not even exist on Theladders five years ago.##

and IBM Corp are facing unprecedented difficulties selling their goods and services in#China.####Cisco said on Wednesday that its revenue would drop 10 percent this quarter,

and added urgency to#Beijing s efforts to use its market power to create indigenous software and hardware capabilities,

One of those peers, IBM, reported in October a 22 percent drop in#China#revenue, leading to a decline of 4 percent in third-quarter profit for the world s biggest technology services company.

IBM Chief Financial officer Mark Loughridge attributed the company s problems to the##process surrounding#China s development of a broad-based economic reform plan##

IBM declined to comment for this story. FOREIGN COMPANIES MISTRUSTED Beijing#has mistrusted long foreign technology companies,

##The government s signal is pretty clear they want to rely less on U s. products, such as IOE (IBM,

Four domestic software and hardware makers, including#China National Software & Service Co.,announced this month they have received a##top-tier##rating from the#Ministry of Industry and Information technology.

China National Software s share price has gained nearly 250 percent since Snowden first revealed the existence of the NSA s clandestine#data mining#program in June.

Huawei, too, is making rapid progress in its server business, with shipments jumping 258 percent in the second quarter.

IBM saw its market share shrink to 13 percent from 18 percent, during the same period, according to Jefferies LLC.

Huawei now is the second-biggest server vendor in#China s double-digit growing market, behind Dell Inc,

however, was that companies like IBM don t have competitors for their high-end equipment, the expert added.##

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