what telephone and Internet data the government can collect. Today was a step in the right direction
The new Hub is available at Amazon com and Smarthome. com right now for $149. 99
#Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team up To Launch Webassembly, A New Binary Format For The Web Google, Microsoft,
Mozilla and the engineers on the Webkit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch Webassembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
The web thrives on standards and, for better or worse, Javascript is its programming language. Over the years,
Webassembly can be decoded significantly faster The idea is that Webassembly will provide developers with a single compilation target for the web that will,
eventually, become a web standard that implemented in all browsers. By default Javascript files are simple text files that are downloaded from the server
Mozilla asm. js has aimed long to bring near-native speeds to the web. Google Native Client project for running native code in the browser had similar aims
but got relatively little traction. It looks like Webassemly may be able to bring the best of these projects to the browser now.
but to allow many more languages to be compiled for the Web. Indeed, chances are that both Javascript
#Google New Health Wearable Delivers Constant Patient Monitoring Often when we think of the wearable tech category,
Google has unveiled a new niche device that designed to do serious work in a specific setting,
is the product of Google X, the experimental group within the search giant that is responsible for some of its more noteworthy oon shotprojects,
Testing for the medical band begins this summer, according to Google, and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
like on their site or in retail stores. Other attempts at name-your-price ecommerce typically don aggregate demand,
while being the CMO of paper invitations site Storkie. In 2014 after seeing no true evolution from in the janky Groupon model
Gudai began to work full-time on bootstrapping Compelation, and recruited dev shop Cybergroup Nicholas Babb as CTO.
With enough awareness and the partnerships its working on with big Internet retailers, it could earn a fortune undercutting standard $50 to $100 ophthalmologist visits
you just go to Opternative website and answer some eligibility questions regarding when you were last tested
While Opternative reviews the results before issuing a prescription through its HIPAA-compliant site, it takes more faith that the test won be botched by some bad answers.
so if a glasses site potential customers haven been to an eye doctor lately, they can get the right specs.
#Google Straps Aclima Sensors To Street view Cars To Map Air pollution If a city knows what intersections are full of smog,
Google earth Outreach program that equips nonprofits and public-benefit organizations with data wants to give the world these insights.
So today, Google revealed that it been working with SF startup Aclima for the last year
Literally piggybacking on Google could let Aclima produce the data necessary to make urban areas easier on the lungs.
Google has agreed now to purchase more of Aclima outdoor sensors for a bigger rollout to map air quality.
The first project it announced was using indoor sensors to help Google measure air quality in its offices to optimize productivity.
by tracking conference rooms throughout the day, Google could determine if CO2 levels climbed high enough to degrade brain function.
With productivity of its huge elite workforce translating into billions in earned or lost revenue for Google,
Google earth Outreach will help organizations use the data to visualize air-quality problems in cities,
The Google partnership will allow it to rapidly scale the deployment of its sensors. This way, Aclima can pursue its mission to make a business out of improving human health through environmental protection.
There plenty more Google could potentially do with the data, though. It could allow Google maps to route cars
or pedestrians away from high-pollution areas to avoid exacerbating condensed pollution or breathing it in.
Ie asked Google for a comment on these possibilities and am waiting to hear back.
Herzl concludes that Aclima sensors are producing social good out of the Internet of things, which is thought often of as just equipping homes with Wi-fi-connected appliances.
and the online ordering function on Subway website. e do anticipate this hockey stick will continue to happen as we put more resources to it,
#Google Loon To Cover Entire Country Of Sri lanka With Internet Google is working on many things,
and that includes balloons that fly high in the sky to bring Internet infrastructure to locations that can be wired for it easily.
Today, Sri lanka announced that it the first country to ever get universal Internet access from Google Project Loon.
Thanks to a partnership with Google, the country promises ffordable high-speed Internetfor all of its residents.
Google Loon was announced in 2013, with only incremental and anecdotal information hitting the presses up until now.
#Google s Brain-Inspired Software Describes What It Sees in Complex Images Experimental Google software that can describe a complex scene could lead to better image search
Researchers at Google have created software that can use complete sentences to accurately describe scenes shown in photos significant advance in the field of computer vision.
a research scientist at Google. sure there are going to be some potential applications coming out of this.
The new software is the latest product of Google research into using large collections of simulated neurons to process data (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes. Instead, its networks earnedby consuming data.
he and others at Google have begun already to think about how it could be used to enhance image search
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
Google software posted scores in the 60s on a 100-point scale. Humans doing the test typically score in 70s,
That result suggests Google is far ahead of other researchers working to create scene-describing software.
However, Vinyals notes that researchers at Google and elsewhere are still in the early stages of understanding how to create
When Google asked humans to rate its software descriptions of images on a scale of 1 to 4
Google used COCO in its new research, but it is still relatively small. hope other parties will chip in
A key challenge for any marketer is deciding what mix of media TV Internet direct mail radio print will best promote a product or service.
Then the same algorithms can find similar audiences on other websites and present the ads to them.
Sometimes though such events will cause a spike in discussion on social media here they are monitored
or impressions) to avoid fraud David Perez Convertro s chief marketing officer wrote in a recent blog post.
#Laser-Radio links Upgrade the Internet The rise of Wi-fi and cellular data services made Internet access more convenient and ubiquitous.
Now some of the high-speed backhaul data that powers Internet services looks set to go wireless, too.
in wireless hops of up to 10 kilometers at a time, is in trials with three of the largest U s. Internet carriers.
and is helping build out the Internet infrastructure of Nigeria, a country that was connected to a new high-capacity submarine cable from Europe last year.
and provide Internet to corporate customers. And before the end of the year, Anova Technologies, a networking company that specializes in the financial industry,
and devices to come with Internet connectivity. The gun industry is gradually taking notice of these trends.
#Google's Secretive Deepmind Startup Unveils a Neural Turing Machine""One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.
Today Google s secretive Deepmind startup which it bought for $400 million earlier this year unveils a prototype computer that attempts to mimic some of the properties of the human brain s short-term working memory.
Google s Deepmind has stated that its goal is solving intelligence. If this solution is anything like human intelligence a good test would be to see
#A Credit card Terminal That Takes Apps Last year Osama Bedier then the head of Google Wallet decided he was on the wrong side of the payments business.
Google s digital payment app Google Wallet offers consumers a number of payment-related features including a quick way to pay at stores by tapping a phone that contains a near-field
Although adoption of Google Wallet has been slow NFC technology is gaining in popularity and that is likely to accelerate with the introduction of a similar system from Apple called Apple Pay (see With Apple Pay Forget Cash Just Pull out Your Phone).
Bedier a former Paypal executive who came to Google in 2011 saw an opportunity to switch his focus from the gadgets we can use to make payments to the ones used to handle the transactions:
It accepts payments via NFC (used by services such as Google Wallet and Apple s new Apple Pay) and QR code.
#Internet-Connected Battery Could Bring Smoke alarms Online A startup has come up with a simple way to make smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors more useful:
We were approaching the Internet-of-things space not from a perspective of##How can we build a whizzy new device that does something?
#How Magic Leap s Augmented Reality Works A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon valley investors led by Google
Indeed, people are stoning buses transporting Google employees to work from their homes in San francisco. The anger in Northern California
Why use a search engine that is almost as good as Google? Such economic logic now rules a growing share of the marketplace;
and building a business becomes less capital-intensiveou don need a printing plant to produce an online news site,
and such high-profile technologies as Google driverless car are happening more slowly than some people may think.
Whereas brain-machine interfaces would require invasive surgery for brain implants he wants to connect electronic devices to the peripheral nerves at the site of the injury allowing people to control bionic limbs with their existing nerves
Using a low-budget Web service called Promethease she paid $5 to upload her raw 23andme data.
they are loading their DNA data into several little-known websites like Promethease that have become, by default, the largest purveyors of consumer genetic health services in the United Statesnd the next possible targets for nervous
consumers complained angrily about the FDA on the company Facebook page, where they also uploaded links to the Promethease website,
calling it a orkaround, a way to get xhaustive medical infoin reports that are imilar,
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
or out there on the Internet so people can interact? Now a question is whether Promethease and sites like it could,
or should, be the next target of regulators. Lennon believes his service is outside the FDA reach,
and you have to shut down Webmd and Wikipedia, too. Reached by MIT Technology Review, the FDA said it has authority to regulate software that interprets genomes,
MIT Technology Review tested several interpretation-only sites using DNA data of anonymous donors posted publicly by the Personal Genome Project,
All the sites quickly reported gene variants contained in the files although the number of variants reported varied, from as few as 35 to as many as 17,667 for Promethease.
Two of the sites appeared designed to steer users toward alternative medicine. Genetic Genie, a free service that carries ads for vitamins,
That site, however, directed users to get an xplanationof the results by contacting chiropractors, dieticians,
they launched SNPEDIA as a site that would let themnd anyone elseeep tabs on what science was learning about each gene variant.
Lennon says the site was modeled on Wikipedia. hat was the promise of the genome, that it should be for everybody,
Its CEO, Anne Wojcicki, who is married to Google cofounder Sergey Brin, landed on magazine covers,
and a board member predicted that her startup would ecome the Google of personalized healthcare. It didn happen that way.
traffic to interpretation-only sites jumped. Interpretome maintained by Konrad Karczewski, a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital,
Lennon says the site averages between 50 and 500 reports per day, including a free version and a faster-running paid product.
If you happened to pore over the details added to Apple website yesterday about its new ipads,
and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal. Nothing happens.
Over the past decade, tech companies including Google, ebay Paypal, and upstart Square, along with mobile carriers,
Though Google Wallet and others have used tokens, Apple Pay will deploy them more widely. Notwithstanding Apple own recent icloud breach that exposed nude celebrity photos
Paypal, soon to split off from ebay, and Google continue to push their wallet apps as well.
Individual retailers which have persuaded customers to use their own apps have no intention of replacing them with Apple Pay.
#Inspired by Wikipedia, Social scientists Create a Revolution in Online Surveys Gathering data about human preferences
Today Matthew Salganik at Princeton university in New jersey and Karen Levy at New york University outline an entirely new way of gathering data inspired by a new generation of information aggregation systems such as Wikipedia.
Just as Wikipedia evolves over time based on contributions from participants we envision an evolving survey driven by contributions from respondents they say.
Projects like Wikipedia are the result of user-generated content on a massive scale. The question that Salganik and Levy ask is
and Levy created a free website called www. allourideas. org on which anybody can create a pairwise wiki survey
Since 2010 this website has hosted some 5000 pairwise wiki surveys that have included 200000 items
For example on Wikipedia most of the information is intuited by a tiny proportion of editors.
If Wikipedia were to allow 10 and only 10 edits per editor akin to a survey that requires respondents to complete one and only one form it would exclude about 95%of the edits contributed say Salganik and Levy.
an Ad-Free Facebook Alternative The first thing I noticed on Ello a new ad-free social network is the abundance of white space.
Unlike Facebook which rages with status updates trending topics and ads imploring me to click on things my friends like Ello is quiet and calm.
and entrepreneur Paul Budnitz Ello contends that on social networks like Facebook we the users are the product as our data is sold to advertisers who hope to entice us with ads in our feeds.
and one of several manifestos posted on the site says that those behind Ello dislike ads more than almost anyone else out there.
whether or not you want to let it gather information about your own Ello activity to improve the site.
This anti-ad (and in many ways anti-Facebook) ethos coupled with a stark simple design that looks
as if the German industrial designer Dieter Rams had created a more social version of Tumblr is probably not causing many people to ditch Facebook
but it is making plenty of them curious about the new social network. Ello began its invite-only beta test in August with 90 people
In a smartphone-obsessed world that s a lot attention for a social network that doesn t even have an app yet.
But since the social network is still so small it s hard to tell whether I ll need it in the same way
I do Facebook and Twitter where I m accustomed to paying with the breadcrumbs of data
which is the opposite of how it s done on Facebook or Twitter. And it s embarrassingly easy to delete a friend s comment on one of your posts by clicking a tiny gray x next to the comment which
So Ello is basically a stripped-down (commercial-free for now) Tumblr/Twitter? Is that it?
and for a number of other startups like Evernote and Strava but it s not clear how well it can work on a social network especially one that wants to grow.
and its sudden popularity appears to be straining the social network. The search function seemed really slow
There s room for a social network that is both pretty to look at and a pleasure to use e
and Facebook Data Datacoup one of the first companies to offer people money in exchange for their personal data has closed finished a trial of its service
Datacoup will pay up to $10 for access to your social network accounts credit card transaction records and other personal information and will gleaned sell insights from that data to companies looking for information on consumer behavior.
Options include debit card and credit card transactions and data from Facebook Twitter and Linkedin. Datacoup won t provide raw data to companies.
For example a company might ask Datacoup to provide information on how often women in a certain age group mention coffee on Facebook on the same day they use their credit card in a coffee shop.
#Google Launches Effort to Build Its Own Quantum computer Google is about to begin designing and building hardware for a quantum computer a type of machine that can exploit quantum physics to solve problems that would take a conventional computer
Since 2009 Google has been working with controversial startup D-Wave Systems which claims to make the first commercial quantum computer.
And last year Google purchased one of D-Wave s machines. But independent tests published earlier this year found no evidence that D-Wave s computer uses quantum physics to solve problems more efficiently than a conventional machine.
Now John Martinis a professor at University of California Santa barbara has joined Google to establish a new quantum hardware lab near the university.
Martinis has taken a joint position with Google and UCSB that will allow him to continue his own research at the university.
Martinis s work on D-Wave s machine led him into talks with Google and to his new position.
However Google has given not up on D-Wave. In an online statement the leader of Google s quantum research said that the two companies will continue to work together
and that Google S d-Wave computer will be upgraded with a new 1000 qubit processor when it becomes available e
#Germany and Canada Are Building Water Splitters to Store Energy Germany which has come to rely heavily on wind
Over the last few decades we ve grown beyond the industrial economy to the IT economy and the Internet economy each
Social networks let billions of people collaborate in a variety of ways. Meanwhile business networks have enabled new types of frictionless commerce.
Now these two trends are converging catalyzed by the exponential increase in the network of devices connected via the Internet of things (Iot.
In fact Gartner projects that the number of connected devices in the Iot will increase nearly 30-fold in just over a decade growing from about 900 million connected devices in 2009 to more than 26 billion by 2020.
The numbers of people-to-people connections##business networks social networks##they ve all been growing over the past 10 years says Dinesh Sharma SAP s vice president of marketing for the Internet of things.
Google Waze an app allowing drivers to share local real-time traffic and road information; and Uber a mobile app that connects people seeking taxicabs or ridesharing services.
A business looking to purchase say a particular machine part can now turn to the ultimate consumer marketplace##ebay.
Now technology can easily extend a search via a consumer network like ebay. That dramatically increases the number of choices available
and the Internet##millennials are natural networkers. They re completely at home in highly connected collaborative spaces like those underlying the Networked Economy.
Anyone paying attention knows that his or her Web searches, Facebook feeds, and other online activity isn always safee it from the prying eyes of the NSA
or those of the companies providing a social networking service. While a substantial chunk of the populace finds all this tracking creepy and invasive,
Some startups hope to exploit this by buying access to your Web browsing and banking data (see ell Your Personal data for $8 a Month.
what websites they are visiting, what queries they are feeding into Google, and how often they check Twitter.
The program participants are asked also to answer questions about their behavior. Luth current and former clients include Subway, Microsoft, Walmart, the San diego padres, Nickelodeon, and Netflix.
The information it collects can help companies decide where to spend advertising dollars. Advertisers want better targeting
If it turns out that consumer review sites are a prominent part of the process, for instance,
partnering with the sites, and buying ads there. Ultimately, Luth found that by the time a customer actually visits a car manufacturer website,
theye most likely ready to buy a car. hat a big deal, says the company senior executive for marketing,
and Web browsing behavior to be tracked and sold to marketers. This kind of tracking will only get more sophisticated.
#U s. Warrants for Overseas Data Trample Foreign Privacy Laws U s. Internet companies and indeed all multinationals with a presence in the United states appear to be trapped between the data access requirements of U s. law enforcement agencies
For example in June the German government cancelled a contract with Verizon for Internet services. Many more companies have a commercial incentive to contest these cross-border requests for data.
The issues raised in the Microsoft case are relevant to all companies subject to U s. jurisdiction not just those in the Internet sector including companies based abroad but active in the U s. market.
The privacy expectations of the Internet users whose data may be accessed have received little attention. The best way to resolve this conflict would be to make changes to U s. legislation that balance the interests of companies and law enforcement while taking the privacy expectations of individuals into account.
The ground signal can also be measured by fastening an alligator clip at the far end of an Ethernet, VGA,
But several experimental options for energy harvesting or wireless charging might eventually make that possible (see Batteryless Sensor Chip for the Internet of Thingsand obile Gadgets That Connect to Wi-fi without a Battery w
Yet while efforts like Google Project Tango are adding depth cameras into mobile gadgets, new research from Microsoft shows that with some simple modifications
But the group needed to train the machines (in this case a Samsung galaxy Nexus smartphone and a Microsoft Lifecam Web camera) on that relationship,
Google famous neural network capable of recognizing cat and human faces required 1, 000 computers with 16 processors apiece (see elf-Taught Software.
The technology could free engineers to extend the tendrils of the Internet and computers into corners of the world they don currently reach.
and reflect the signal from a nearby Wi-fi router. Software installed on the phone allows it to read that signal by observing the changing strength of the signal it detects from that same router as the battery-free device soaks some of it up.
The battery-free Wi-fi devices can harvest enough energy to receive and decode Wi-fi signals in the conventional way.
this provides a great way to get low-power Internet of things devices to communicate with a large swath of devices around us,
Google, and perhaps Apple are mobilizing to sell
#Can Technology Fix Medicine? After decades as a technological laggard, medicine has entered its data age.
as well as the corporate venture funds of Google, Samsung, Merck, and others, have invested more than $3 billion in health-care information technology since the beginning of 2013 rapid acceleration from previous years, according to data from Mercom Capital Group.
And that an idea that could influence everything from drugs policy to social network studies to the marketing of beef burgers r
as well as AME Cloud Ventures, the venture fund of Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang, to further develop its proprietary chemistry and finance the batteriescommercial launch.
and Schneider Electric but it faces blistering competition from EMC Syncplicity and Citrix Sharefile as well as Microsoft Onedrive Google Drive and a host of others.
That pressure has spurred Microsoft Google and now Amazon to evolve from providing generic file storage to specialized services aimed at large organizations that have real problems
It has sparked also a price war that so far has seen Google drop prices and Microsoft boost per-customer storage allotments.
Given that Amazon web services has become the go-to source of computing power for new-breed online businesses the company may well threaten Google Microsoft
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