#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology
Following Facebook s $20 million purchase of U k.-based aerospace company Ascenta which has been working on the development of unmanned,
solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.
and nonstop for years at a time a technology Google hopes to utilize in order to extend its influence
a source close to Google said that the company offered to top any offer from Facebook for Titan Aerospace.
but as yet largely unproven technology that Google hopes can help beam internet access to areas of the globe that remain unserved by cellphone towers or telephone wires.
Solar-powered drones are an attractive proposition to company like Google and Facebook because of their reliability and stability in often adverse weather conditions.
Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,
and detail to atmospheric sensors used in many of Google s applications, such as Google maps. It is still early days
and environmental damage like deforestation, said a Google statement announcing the acquisition. Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
whether the solar technology is advanced currently enough to deliver the kind of long-range reliability that Google will require.
and it takes a lot of power to broadcast internet signals. However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,
and were impressed enough to open talks with the company about a possible acquisition. Google were evidently also eager to speak with Titan
and are believed to have gazumped Facebook s offer r
#Neuroscientists reverse symptoms of Alzheimer s in mice Researchers found that the overproduction of the protein known as p25 may be the culprit behind the sticky protein-fragment clusters that build up in the brains of Alzheimer patients.
The work, which was published in the April 10 issue of Cell, could provide a new drug target for the treatment of the disease that affects more than five million Americans,
and products could travel through the Internet as code, produced on demand at any location,
The files for these products could be sent in an email and then printed out, all in one operation,
Below is a U s. Naval Research Laboratory Youtube video explaining the breakthrough Y
#Israeli startup Storedot charges smartphone batteries to full in 30 seconds Storedot It possible that youl be able to plug the smartphone in
Press it and whatever you say will be stored as a search the next time you visit the Amazonfresh website.
The Dash is currently free but y invitation only, according to its website, and no release date has been announced yet.
with a view towards afeguarding citizensright to access an open Internet. Today that vision has become a reality.
This is an historic day for the open Internet. The finer nuances of the net neutrality law have yet to be ratified,
distinct capacity, cannot be mistaken for Internet, no replacement of Internet services by specialised services. In other words, an ISP can reclassify Amazon Instant Video
or Netflix as a service other than Internet to bypass these new net neutrality laws. It a pretty solid advance for the Internet in Europe,
one that will ensure providers can slow down or otherwise degrade the speed of an Internet connection on a whim.
The European parliament is being very clear about this: the Internet cannot be affected by specialised services.
While there could still be some twists and turns with the finer details still to be ironed out,
and Google have attracted much attention and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.
and Internet connectivity to people and villages living off-the-grid. Video) Think of these floating turbines as the wind farms of the future
Underpinning this vision is the provision of high-speed wireless internet connectivity for citizens in all public locations.
The machine sends out an email when it is running low on stock. It also has built-in security features such as cameras
A demo of Spritz technology can be found on the company website. Spritz is set to launch in April as a feature with the upcoming Samsung galaxy S5 smartphone
and the Gear 2 smartwatch. ith the growth of wearable devices, Spritz patent-pending technology will enable Samsung device users to read emails comfortably
social media streams, web content and digital books. At 1, 000 words per minute, users could potentially read the shortest Harry potter book he Sorcerer Stone,
wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet. When Katie Hall saw a light-bulb glowing in the middle of a room with no wires attached she was shocked.
they are the same kind of fields used in Wi-fi routers. In the house of the future, wire-free energy transfer could be as easy as wireless internet.
If all goes to Witricity plans, smartphones will charge in your pocket as you wander around,
It great to see so much discussion of this technology on social media and the comments thread.
As Witricity have mentioned on their website the Highly Resonant Wireless power transfer technology they have developed is also distinct from Tesla creations and
When the Internet was growing in the 90s it promised a future in which everyone everywhere had access to all the knowledge in the world,
Google, Facebook, as well as many others, all keep meticulous track of user data for advertising and other purposes.
On several occasions, the massive amounts of data collected by Internet service and telecommunications companies have been utilized by agencies such as the NSA, under morally questionable motives at best.
The Internet has recently been more reminiscent of Orwell s 1984, rather than the future of individual empowerment that was promised.
and it is these key features within the Bitcoin protocol itself that may be the key to weakening the hold of massive data collecting service companies like Google.
Among these can be email, domain names, and other such systems. Decentralized applications This is only the beginning however,
Because of that, it is conceivable that DAS for payments, social networking, and cloud computing may one day surpass the valuation of multinational corporations like Western union, Visa, Facebook, Google,
and Amazon that are are currently active in the space. At the very least, the ever-growing success of bitcoin thus far candidly illustrates that there is indeed a massive demand for anonymity online,
the Internet, or even to gold 5, 000 years ago. While it does possess similarities with many of these things,
#U s. to give up remaining control over the internet U s. officials announced plans to relinquish federal government control over the administration of the Internet last week.
and others who rely on the smooth functioning of the Web. Pressure to let go of the final vestiges of U s. authority over the system of Web addresses
and domain names that organize the Internet has been building for more than a decade and was supercharged by the backlash last year to revelations about National security agency surveillance.
The change would end the long-running contract between the Commerce department and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a California-based nonprofit group.
That contract is set to expire next year but could be extended if the transition plan is not complete. e look forward to ICANN convening stakeholders across the global Internet community to craft an appropriate transition plan,
Lawrence E. Strickling, assistant secretary of commerce for communications and information, said in a statement. The announcement received a passionate response,
. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve
and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance. But former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.)tweeted:
hat is the global internet community that Obama wants to turn the internet over to?
This risks foreign dictatorships defining the internet. The practical consequences of the decision were harder to immediately discern, especially with the details of the transition not yet clear.
Politically, the move could alleviate rising global concerns that the United states essentially controls the Web
An international meeting to discuss the future of Internet is scheduled to start on March 23 in Singapore.
a trade group representing major Internet commerce businesses. U s. officials said their decision had nothing to do with the NSA spying revelations
and international support continues to grow for the multistakeholder model of Internet governance, Strickling said in a statement.
inclusive process to find a new international oversight structure for the group. othing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,
The United states has maintained long authority over elements of the Internet which grew from a Defense department program that started in the 1960s.
The relationship between the United states and ICANN has drawn wider international criticism in recent years, in part because big American companies such as Google,
Facebook and Microsoft play such a central role in the Internet worldwide functioning. The NSA revelations exacerbated those concerns. his is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,
said Gene Kimmelman, president of Public knowledge, a group that promotes open access to the Internet.
Verizon, one of the world biggest Internet providers issued a statement saying, successful transition in the stewardship of these important functions to the global multi-stakeholder community would be a timely and positive step in the evolution of Internet governance.
ICANN most important function is to oversee the assigning of Internet domains such as dot-com, dot-edu and dot-gov
and ensure that the various companies and universities involved in directing digital traffic do so safely.
Concern about ICANN stewardship has spiked in recent years amid a massive and controversial expansion that is adding hundreds of new domains,
to the Internet infrastructure. More than 1, 000 new domains are slated to be made available, pumping far more fee revenue into ICANN.
however, that con artists already swarm the Internet with phony Web sites designed to look like the authentic offerings of respected brands. o set ICANN so-called free is a very major step that should done with careful oversight,
The humanoid robots Google recently bought are neat but most machines being used or tested by national militaries are, for now, more like robotic weapons than robotic soldiers.
as a spokesman put it in an email interview with Singularity Hub. Sensing and artificial intelligence technologies are sure to improve,
the history of the web suggests that terrorists could find others. Of course, most technologies stumble at first
and three-quarters said they would be excited more in financial services provided by Google, Amazon, Apple, Paypal,
and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.
what Internet Protocol has been distributed to information. The blockchain is IP. And through manipulation of that we can build a whole other system.
In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming
in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present
and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms. Efforts to make complex financial functions a part of Bitcoin have been bubbling through 2013,
Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,
with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.
Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,
Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications. Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data
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According to the Monsanto website the variety has produced a five-bushel (or about 4 percent) yield advantage in field tests against competitor hybrids.
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#'Roboclam'Digging Machine As Fast as Natural Burrowers A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables,
and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.
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#Hemopurifier FDA Approved to Filter Ebola Out of Blood in Clinical Study Aethlon Medical, a San diego, CA firm,
accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
Currently sodium cyanide is transported to and from a site, but the researchers developed a modular, self-contained,
particularly when there is no tool attendant on site to verify the checkout process, said Dean Perry, president of Toolhound.
And as the IEDS can be connected to the automation system by Ethernet one team can control substations in many different and distant locations o
Various output capability options are available, like 3 x 4-20ma, Modbus, Profibus, Foundation Fieldbus, Devicenet, and Ethernet.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
and a quantum internet are just around the corner. here is a big race going on between five
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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
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#Scientists create'living materials'using E coli Imagine a world where nonliving devices and building materials had some of the same advantages as living things,
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#'Yarn muscles'100 times stronger than human muscles Using just coiled fishing line and sewing thread a team of scientists has developed a way to create super-strong artificial muscles.
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#For stem cells in 30 minutes just add acid Embryonic stem cells have huge potential in treating everything from cancer to diabetes because of their ability to morph into almost any other type of cell within the human body.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
I always take the email option. I know I giving up a little privacy when I do that
because the store now has my email and can send me offers. The stores that have offered are clothing stores and
Yesterday one of my local grocery stores Shoprite sent me an email letting me know that it will be offering digital receipts.
According to Shoprite's website this is a new program that is being tested so Il still be receiving paper receipts for now.
#Robots learn to cook with a little help from Youtube When it comes to learning how to cook,
We both turn to Youtube for online tutorials on how to chop garlic or how to whisk mashed potatoes.
#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.
Google is exploring the use of high-altitude balloons Facebook is eyeing autonomous drones and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters.
and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing, and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games.
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across Sub-saharan africa,
The NPCIL has readied four sites one for each vendor each capable of accepting eight to ten imported reactors.
"says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website on politics and technology.
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
and author of the blog CTOVISION. com."And Vivek has racked them up.""""There are three pillars to my agenda,
"We want to launch a data. gov site to make a vast array of government data public."
"Our study got enough interest to put together a series of sites for investigation to lead to potential FDA approval of this particular kit,
Its axle would have selective binding sites. Once the amino acids have been stripped off the axle, the axle would'reload,
'with new amino acids binding to those sites in the right order. Leigh s machine will probably never compete with automated methods of making peptides.
They found that it contains about 70 binding sites for a microrna called mir-7. Micrornas are short fragments of RNA that can block gene expression by binding to
Some have possible binding sites for viral micrornas, which can subvert immune responses. Rajewsky hypothesizes that circular RNA could even interact with RNA BINDING-PROTEINS proteins.
But Dylla suggests that the full text of papers could reside on publishers websites, with agencies just providing links.
which they see as deflecting attention from their own web pages. The embargo time before papers are free could vary by discipline and journal
#When Google got flu wrong When influenza hit early and hard in the United states this year,
A comparison with traditional surveillance data showed that Google Flu Trends, which estimates prevalence from flu-related Internet searches,
had overestimated drastically peak flu levels. The glitch is no more than a temporary setback for a promising strategy,
and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data
and on social media proliferate, the episode is a reminder that they will complement, but not substitute for, traditional epidemiological surveillance networks."
"It is hard to think today that one can provide disease surveillance without existing systems, says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
But the near-global coverage of the Internet and burgeoning social media platforms such as Twitter have raised hopes that these technologies could open the way to easier
The mother of these new systems is launched Google s in 2008. Based on research by Google and the CDC, it relies on data mining records of flu-related search terms entered in Google s search engine,
combined with computer modelling. Its estimates have matched almost exactly the CDC s own surveillance data over time
Google Flu Trends (www. google. org/flutrends; CDC; Flu Near Yougoogle Flu Trends has continued to perform remarkably well,
It is not the first time that a flu season has tripped Google up. In 2009, Flu Trends had to tweak its algorithms after its models badly underestimated ILI in the United states at the start of the H1n1 (swine flu) pandemic###a glitch attributed to changes in people s search behaviour as a result of the exceptional nature of the pandemic (S. Cook et al.
) Google would not comment on thisyear s difficulties. But several researchers suggest that the problems may be due to widespread media coverage of this year s severe US flu season,
Few doubt that Google Flu will bounce back after its models are refined, however.""You need to be constantly adapting these models,
Brownstein is one of many researchers trying to harness the power of the web to establish sentinel networks made up not of physicians,
#Europe bets on drug discovery Two sites shuttered by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, one in Scotland and one in The netherlands, will soon be humming again with the work of drug discovery.
#Scientists use 3-D printer to speed human embryonic stem cell research A blog by Scientific American.
And the cloud-based interfaces let him collaborate with doctors in Israel without worrying about repeatedly transferring data on slow Internet connections."
or enter their nesting sites, or take off from the pavement, Brown explains. And that in turn would enable them to survive
Lever now plans to analyse fragments of crust collected from other sites in the Pacific ocean and the North atlantic."
#Wireless brain-computer interface streams thought commands with the speed of an Internet connection Following more than a decade of engineering work,
The researchers say that the wireless BCI is able to stream thought commands via its radio at a rate of 48 megabits per second, about the speed of a home Internet connection.
This is the first time throughout the world that the spinal-cord activation patterns for walking have been decoded Paraplegics still have neural connections (so-called locomotion centers) below the site of the injury
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
it binds itself to catalytic sites on its surface. This essentially forms a coating that prevents the fibrils from assisting other proteins in misfolding
The country Center for Research in Legitimacy and Political Protest claims that it has developed a computer program that will sift through social media websites every five minutes looking for signs of organized political opposition.
The Russian site, Izvestia (via Google translate) says that illegal activity and unauthorized actions, according to Russian law, includes:
The software dubbed Laplace Demon after Pierre-Simon Laplace theoretical all-seeing intellect that could calculate the future based on the state of all matter pays particular attention to social media groups known to organize such rallies
Yevgeny Venediktov, Twitter is the main focus for the software. He wrote, e conducted a survey
and found out that it is precisely this social network is not only the leader among social media on the number of hosted links to extremist content,
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
did that someone racist post on Facebook really stick in your craw and leave you peeved all morning,
Google new venture called Project Soli enlists the help of radar to accurately detect minute hand
Google wants to put the chip into small electronic devices like smartwatches, along with everyday objects. The release date for the API to Soli has not yet been announced yet. via Business Inside n
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? Users are asked then to participate in a three-minute guided exercise that aims to reduce stress, calm anxiety and increase focus and concentration.
Stress Slows Metabolismthe product website explains the benefits of focused attention training: esearch has shown using an app
Then they compared the daily temperature at sites with contrails above them with similar data from places where there weren any of the man-made clouds in the sky.
Otherwise, the sites were basically similar in terms of land use, cover, soil moisture and air-mass conditions. The researchers found that contrails somehow depress the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
#LED Bulbs Offer a Low energy, Wireless Connection This lightbulb could work as your next wireless router.
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? e developed a modulation algorithm that increases the throughput of data in visible light communications, Maite Brandt-Pearce,
developed this new way to connect to the Internet. The technology would require no more energy than is used currently to emit light.
a desk lamp that provides an Internet connection when the light is on. Bring The nternet Of Thingsinto Your Homeesearchers have called it i-Fi?
the concept could provide a big boost to connectivity speeds with the potential to use every light in a building as an Internet transmitter. via Phys. or a
There is really an impenetrable firewall between your body and the information that you are getting from the product. uh said that there has been avid interest in the technology,
Late last year, hi-tech waste management company Bigbelly upgraded two of its waste recycling stations in downtown Manhattan with Wireless internet hubs.
The Wireless internet option essentially turns the trash cans into free public Wi-fi hotspots, providing throughput of 50 to 75 MB per second.
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