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and understand everything that made an engine run, now the proliferation of sensors, computers, and safety devices makes this near impossible.

and is given computer-generated instructions on what to disassemble, in what order. The glasses the mechanic is wearing contain small screens to provide an overlay of computer-generated images on the real world augmented reality (AR.

From Google glass competitors, to contact lenses with built-in displays, this tech is coming in part enabled by the wide adoption of smartphones.

It seems to be almost waiting for people to come up with novel applications for it.

Computers have a much harder time. Is a straight edge a part of the car, or part of the building it is parked near?

or tablet, for help, which will replace complicated paper-based instructions. o couple AR with the user manual is the next logical step.

At the end of the simulation some interesting statistics are displayed on the screen. Over a 200-lap race, in a conventional car,

But the computer claimed that using the biofuel mix, and some regenerative braking, I would only have used 39 gallons (147 litres) of gasoline.

#How the world's tiniest film can transform computers Researchers at IBM have made the world's smallest movie.

#In 2012, IBM scientists announced the creation of the world's smallest magnetic memory bit,

BBC Future met researcher Andreas Heinrich in his laboratory at IBM's Almaden Research center in California,

Apollo spurred many advances, from portable cordless vacuums to microchips in your computer. China is hoping for a similar effect to make it more competitive globally.

The countries vast and beautiful landscape filled the screen, before cutting to the familiar and grainy Apollo landing footage.

A satellite captures real-time imagery of Sudan, enabling a team of analysts to monitor troop movements, bombings and other aggressive activities by al-Bashir in the disputed border areas between Sudan

or laptops in places where there is no grid, no power connection. Their cost analyses suggested that a single boiled potato battery with zinc

and computer monitors. He is investigating the precise details of what happens when fuel injection systems squirt petrol or diesel into the cylinders

It is open source, so anyone can download it, download the content to fill in the gaps,

and keyboard stroke a student makes, and this is revealing patterns of learning behaviour that are difficult, if not impossible,

offering a unique opportunity to monitor student behaviour during lessons in unprecedented detail. You can even monitor mouse clicks. e collect tracking data such as

says Chuong Do, a software engineer and leader of the data analytics team at Coursera. For starters, such data helps Coursera group participants into different types of student,

a Phd student at the Lytics Lab at Stanford university, the style of presentation on a computer screen can make a big difference to learning.

But those students who preferred to be taught verbally were much better off with the instructor face permanently in one corner of the screen. hat this result suggests is need a for adaptive systems,

For example, some researchers are working on using facial recognition to identify via webcam whether students are following the lesson

Their first product, Usalamame App for Android, introduces a digital anic buttonwidget to your phone home screen that sends a distress message with your exact location to preselected contacts.

All you need is servers and business development managers. So far, Badir has supported over 70 companies,

The campaign to make our cities more walkable begins in the virtual world. There are apps such as#Walk Score

With Google glass and other augmented reality devices, the route information we receive on our smartphones will be displayed in the urban environment, in real time.

But even with Google glass at the ready to tell us our favourite bar is a 400-calorie walk away,

electric cars are equipped with computers, sensors, and wireless connections that allow drivers to voluntarily share information on their driving

Trip information is collected by the vehicle's computer, including start and end times of journeys, connect and disconnect times of chargers,

#He and others discussed their initial findings at the recent Plug in 2013 conference in California,

As more and more computer-equipped, connected cars fill the roads, we will learn a great deal about how we actually drive,

Kickstarter's crowdfunding platform has funded 49,316 projects to the tune of $807m, revolutionising the way filmmakers, musicians and hardware companies raise money.

"Our hope is that our future generation will also be employed as software engineers in the offices that have sprung up here.

Hundreds of software companies and call centres have set up shop here. The private sector is championing the India dream#it accounts for 87%of the total investments worth $72 billion USD (4. 5 lakh crore rupees) that were attracted by the state (as of June 2012), according to the Associated

and in 1997 it became the first US company to outsource software work to India.

and statistics but who are trained also sufficiently in software and computing.""Here, we have universities that supply us with millions of such candidates,

says Sangeeta Gupta, senior vice-president of industry body the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom)."

#These companies include Siemens Industry Software. With design centres around India, they make software used for everything from designing car parts to building vehicles sent into space.

In a Gurgaon business park, a room of engineers train on computer-aided design, fashioning a tool to be used in an automobile.

Behind them are huge posters of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Nasa's Jet propulsion laboratory used a portfolio of design software made by Siemens to digitally design,

says Suman Bose, Managing director of Siemens Industry Software. While the company has extensive R&d labs across the country,

Some of the major international companies located here include Coca-cola, Pepsi, IBM, American express, Agilent, Microsoft, and Bank of america."

and my notebook dusted. I am as clean as I am ever likely to be.

Yet Taiwan still manages to make nine out of 10 of the world's laptop computers.

You may not have heard of the companies Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Pegatron, Wistron and Inventec, but together they make more than 90%of the laptops sold worldwide,

including those sold by top brands such as Apple and Dell. Yet making devices at low cost for others has become less profitable than it was,

PC shipments worldwide fell from 363 million in 2011 to 352 million last year, with further declines in the first half of this year.

Taiwanese PC makers have shifted their attentions to tablets; however, they do not enjoy the same dominance of this market as they do for laptops.

Small marketmeanwhile smart phone sales are growing rapidly. HTC, Taiwan's only manufacturer and its best-known brand, was once the number two vendor in the US.

and manufacturing hardware means it lacks expertise in software development, which generates a growing proportion of tech industry revenues.

making it a good testing ground of consumer acceptance of new gadgets such as netbooks and phablets.

Another is software start-up Goodlife. Its portal collects information on daily discounts from local restaurants, convenience stores and other businesses.

"It's hard to run a software start-up in Taiwan, #says cofounder Brenda Chen.""It's hard to make money.

#Big data pioneersinside the HQ of the Mamram, the Israel Defence forces (IDF) technical support unit in nearby Ramat Gan, computer training course commander Capt.

and make software that fits his demands. How to write good code that you will be able to debug

IBM has spent nearly $1bn(#640m) on four Israeli companies that all developed big data storage solutions:

High Power Microwave Weaponsimagine a weapon that can knock out all the computers in a Syrian military command centre without killing a single person.

In the short film, Champ was seen taking out a bank of computers. While the system is likely to be still several years away from being fielded,

and first identified that same year, is believed to have been a demonstration of the US's abilities to wage war by attacking enemy computer systems.

Some cyber attacks use malware (malicious software) to gain access to enemy systems in order to either steal sensitive information or gain control of them.

Information can be harvested using key logging software that tracks keystrokes, for example. Spoofing involves forging packets of data

usually using bot-nets#large numbers of compromised computers. If you would like to comment on this article

it is a technology that everyone is aware of on their computers and phones, yet not many people choose to use.

This data is transmitted via Bluetooth to users'phones or tablets. With recent advances in technology such as Bluetooth, we are now able to build medical devices that weren't possible just a decade ago#.

once embedded under the skin monitors substances in the blood such as glucose and cholesterol so that chronic diseases like diabetes or the effects of treatments such as chemotherapy can be monitored.

which is sent wirelessly via Bluetooth to an Android app, can be forwarded automatically to doctors. Bluecell is still a few years from commercialisation."

and sends that information directly to an ipad app via Bluetooth. By cross-checking this data against a database

Kenyan mobile tech company Virtual city has developed Agrimanagr an app designed to speed up and automate the flow of information

electronic scales are used to transmit the weight of produce via Bluetooth to a mobile phone which records this in farmers'accounts on a cloud-based server.

#says Virtual city chief executive John Waibochi.""Buyers would tamper with the weight scale.##Going digital and printing receipts"cuts out fraud#and increases the value to farmers 9-13%,#he adds.#

#This system could of course be done without Bluetooth, but being wireless makes it easier.""Out in the rural areas,

Gary Marsden, a computer scientist at the University of Cape town, developed Big board, an electronic notice board that disseminates information wirelessly and for free.

The system displays a series of icons representing information on various topics on a screen.

He also developed Com-Me, a collection of hardware and software components to help people with limited access to electricity

Often to our frustration, so many of our devices like laptops and phones have different chargers for different models,

but in November 2012, it suffered a computer malfunction, which made it impossible to send any data back to Earth.

By the time the story was adapted loosely for the big screen in the 1973 film Soylent Green,

Nasa recently admitted that as part of a programme"to turn science fiction into fact#they are funding work to develop a 3d food printer.

The catalysts are cheap, earth-abundant materials and form by self-assembly, which should make manufacture cheaper.

When new businesses based on the computer chip began to cluster in Santa clara Valley, it did not take long for someone to come up with the name Silicon valley.

From Adobe through to Yahoo, via Apple, Intel, Google and Oracle, the Valley, as its occupants call it,

The average annual cost of a workstation in an office in Berlin including maintenance costs,

and once you got a core of people, which started round 2009, you started to get a lot of investors from the US

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.

Tablets won allow you to swap out parts, new laptops won let you remove batteries,

and the whole lifecycle of technology is becoming shorter, less sustainable, and more expensive for consumers.

But what if you could help extend the lifespan of technology that already exists? Give it a little boost, perhaps?

Its Juicebox promises to make ld computers run like new Now, I know what some early adopters may be thinking.

For those who believe that the age of tablets, smartphones, Google glass and the loudhas heralded the demise of desktop PCS,

there still one place youe guaranteed to find a growing need for them. And that in schools.

Robert Hornik, Assistant Principal at East New york Family Academy in Brooklyn, remembers weekend trips to far-flung corners of New york city to hunt for old desktops from other city agencies like the Police

Pension fund that were giving them away for free. e had about 20 computers working at best, out of about 100, for a school with 450 students and 50 teachers, he recalls. hey were mostly the big, boxy computers,

like the Dell GX270, all about 8-10 years old. With an entire technology budget of just $12, 000 per year, including one part-time IT person (an undergraduate at a local university),

new desktops at around $500 a pop was not an option. chools usually acquire computers in big batches all at once in hope that they don have to get them anytime again soon, hich of course,

Computers eventually breakdown, wear out, or become overloaded with junk and must be replaced over time with spare parts

and hardware on a limited budget resulting in a jigsaw puzzle of infrastructure, like at Hornik school.

Then, when the computers start to get sluggish, preventing even basic browsing and application use, getting them all back up to the same speed becomes practically impossible.

Power up Neverware Juicebox fixes this problem by turning school PCS into a hin client Inside the physical box is a server with virtual machines

and computing power that many computers share across a single network. So, instead of each computer being stuck with ageing components,

suddenly all the computers have access to this powerful central store that does all the eavy lifting allowing the computers to run like new.

The Juicebox can supercharge any PC or even laptop even if it missing a hard drive and the whole system is completely wireless.

Since Hornik installed Neverware Juicebox over a year ago, East New york Family Academy now has over 100 working computers almost four in every classroom,

with two fully functioning computer labs. They haven slowed down a bit. he Neverware system gave us a big break.

We were able to make all those old computers work Hornik says, adding nd lightning fast.

This idea of esktop virtualization has been around for over a decade, says Neverware 27-year-old founder Jonathan Hefter. his is something banks

and Fortune 500 companies around the world are using, he says, and something that cloud computing now offers. ut no one has created a simple cost-effective methodology,

and automated it, so that you can operate without expensive IT departments. Currently, Neverware is piloting their solution around New york city public school system,

It is simply a hardware solution. hat Jonathan is doing with Neverware is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient, worries Steven Hodas. very school will be where it was 5 years ago

when it got that brand new shipment of computers. Basically, it a great point of departure, he explains. ut

Just because computers are working better and kids can browse, research, and use programs faster,

the actual hardware lifespan of a PC is around fifteen years because most of the weaker parts are interchangeable.

theye been used for a few yearslynch says. o get a second life out of these things, youe got to clean it out,

test it, put a new OS on it, and then it will run like it came out of the box.

Energy challenge International organisations, like World Computer Exchange and Techsoup Global, facilitate the refurbishing, but Neverware Juicebox could also play a new,

according to recent research creating an enormous amount of wasted hardware. By boosting the performance and extending the lifespan of old PCS in developing countries,

and effort in sourcing and shipping in new or donated PCS. ne of the problems with donated computers is that getting them through the port isn straightforward.

Wherever the potential impact of Neverware promise to make old computers run like new lies,

for Hefter the bottom line is clear. t seems silly that schools are replacing their computers every 4 years

#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.

A team at the West point Military academy in the US state of New york has released just details of a software package it has developed to aid intelligence gathering by police dealing with street gangs.

The gyroscopes are under full computer control; no driver input required. The company says it is confident that the C-1 will stay upright

with one seat and a large bank of computer processors taking up most of the internal space, but the final design calls for two seats, one behind the other."

and using 3d desktop printers to mix chemistries as a form of wet fabrication, which is a very flexible material.

In each store, owners are given an Android-powered tablet with software that allows them quickly and easily order inventory all at the touch of a button.

Weather stations are equipped with small sim cards that wirelessly transmit data every five minutes to a cloud-based server.

and operating and application software for automated execution of user-selected protocols. The System will provide a flexible small scale process suitable for GMP manufacturing of autologous and other patient-specific products where small scale is full scale,

and catalysts that allow us to control which sites in a molecule will undergo C-H functionalization,

The results outlined in the paper demonstrate the efficiency of rhodium catalysts to selectively install a new carbon-carbon bond into complex alkaloids in a highly controlled manner.

Protein kinase c (PKC) is a group of enzymes that act as catalysts for a host of cellular functions, among

tumor growth in a mouse model was reduced, demonstrating that normal PKC activity inhibits cancer. One possible explanation, said the researchers,

In models of tumor promotion, a sub-threshold dose of a carcinogen is painted on mouse skin,

Mitchell believes the technique will be transformative in providing improved cancer diagnostics that can both predict treatment outcomes and monitor patient responses to therapy.

Robust mutation panels vastly improve monitoring since cancer cells are constantly deleting chromosomal DNA and liquid biopsies with only one or two mutations will allow cancer cell escape variants to go undetected,

#UCSD Study Shows Why Protein Mutations Lead to Familial Form of Parkinson Disease Researchers at the San diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San diego, have shown for the first time why protein mutations

Using SDSC data-intensive Gordon supercomputer to find hidden rules of the conformational changes of asyn

Through computer modeling, researchers showed that asyn mostly can bind the membrane with four main sites, or zones.

The resulting compound, called DBIBB, protected mouse embryonic skin cells from radiation-induced DNA damage and enhanced the survival of radiation-exposed blood cells, intestinal cells,

#Wearable sensor clears path to long-term EKG EMG monitoring Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new, wearable sensor that uses silver nanowires to monitor electrophysiological signals, such as electrocardiography

Hillman and her collaborators have used already the system to observe firing in 3d neuronal dendritic trees in superficial layers of the mouse brain.

A few thoughts here for the same Zales comes on the heels of Movado and Tiffany which both some good outlook.

Great outlook there. So we've already seen Zales on the upside as well. And Heinz we've already got the glimpse from at the CEO yesterday just talking about emerging markets and growth there for the catsup company.

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.

This technique allows the researchers to follow hundreds of cell pairs over time and monitor

In 2012, Saitou team reported in Science creating mouse pups from oocytes created by turning back the clock on adult skin cells.

and Azim Surani of the University of Cambridge reported they had replicated the in vitro part of Saitou mouse work.

Other groups have found the transition from mouse to human cells difficult. One reason: standard mouse embryonic stem (ES) and ips cells are aïve, unlike standard human ES and ips cells,

more responsive to attempts to differentiate into any number of mature cells. But Hanna had created some of the first naïve human ES cells in a Nature study published in 2013.

One key difference between the mouse and human work: in human cells, a protein called SOX17 performed critical tasks that in mice are performed by SOX2. t will be interesting to test in the future a variety of conditions

After two years of trial, Adobe recently launched Kickbox, a program to help encourage innovation.

As the technology that enables virtualization becomes more sophisticated, activity outside of traditional (and often urban) innovation centers will increaseike Fruitworks,

Software company Fullcontact really wants its employees to take a break. Pushing back against today 24-7 workaholic society

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

Plants monitor production in real time using sensors that feed quality and performance data to dashboards in real time.

New populations, new tools, new culture, new outlooks, new roles for recruiters. Those who acquire

Psychology at the core of recruiting. Ie known some top recruiters who even at the peak of the powers remain deeply empathetic,

which makes software for human resources departments. The system delivers notifications about when employees might be getting ready to quit,

data-stuffed companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Netflix. Finally, younger tech companies, including Airbnb,

"In the past five years, because of the steady advance of computers and storage and so on, everybody has sufficient data,

Similar to the Workday system, Box legal team had to train the DLOOP software to improve the recommendations.

Computer predictions aren just about making office life a little more pleasant. Airbnb uses a variation of these algorithms to predict which renters

To train the software companies must look back on worker-retention predictions and give the software an electronic pat on the head for ones it got it right

and a virtual swat with a newspaper for those it got wrong. The system learns over time how each company works and,

Bob Pasker, a technologist who helped define how the computer industry architects the modern cloud, expects these kinds of machine-learning applications to soon become ubiquitous.

"This is what the computer industry does, "Pasker says.""We take hard problems that have been solved by scientists and turn them into tools for regular human beings. t

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.

The old system emphasized word processing and spreadsheets, but not much else. The government now wants the nation's kids to not only consume technology

but to build it instead of just playing computer games, they might create them one day. To prevent the youngest pupils from turning into zombies in front of screens

much of the initial learning takes place outside of the computer lab. Five-year-olds will play abstract games

and complete puzzles to familiarize themselves with the concept of algorithms without the complexity. By the time they hit 14,

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.

The panel allocated 49 million shekels ($14 million) a year to execute the program.""China is Israel largest trading partner in Asia,

Starting this month the South korean giant will begin to supply 30000 mobile devices to Switzerland's state-owned rail company.

Shortly after Apple introduced ios 6 in September 2012 with a redesigned clock app on the ipad SBB said the software infringed a trademarked design created in 1944.

By the time ios 7 came out in 2013 The swiss clock was gone. The history wasn't mentioned in Samsung's press release

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.

Designed for use on PCS or mobile devices, 4ltr Press Online is built around student"learnflow,"the workflow behind learning, according to information released by the company."

"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."

"The second pathway attempts to discourage student use of search engines, which can point them to inaccurate resources,

and indexing learning resources to mimic search engine results, allowing students to find related content aligned with course goals.

An app connects the phone to the university's servers to measure the molecules which are labeled

and external computers connected to the UCLA servers. The device was developed by team led by Aydogan Ozcan, a professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering at the Henry Samueli School of engineering and Applied science and director of the California Nanosystems Institute."

#Microsoft Open Tech Integrates Office 365 Moodle Moodle partner Remote-Learner. net has teamed up with Microsoft Open Technologies to integrate Office 365 with Moodle.

The integration will also allow"instructors to easily embed interactive online lessons created in Powerpoint with Office Mix through an open format standard,"according to information released by the companies."

""We are thrilled to be able to work with Microsoft to integrate Moodle with the Office 365 platform.

With the Office 365 plugins for Moodle, Microsoft continues to demonstrate its commitment to open source software

Moodle administrators can deploy these new features knowing they have the support of both Microsoft and the Moodle Partner community

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