Google recently built a robot car that can drive by itself, which has a similar objective.
It might seem a simple matter for someone to use Google earth say or Microsoft's Bing images to obtain evidence to support their case.
Why would they need space detectives? But it is not so simple. Finding the right pictures means trawling through huge databases of historical satellite data
#Water-splitter could make hydrogen fuel on Mars Making fuel on site for a return trip to Mars may be a step closer.
On 10 june Google acquired Skybox Imaging a 5-year-old Silicon valley firm for $500 million.
The appeal for Google and other firms is the potential to mine profitable data from satellite images.
Google has said it will use the images to improve Google earth and its Maps app though that is likely to be just the beginning of its plans.
It wants to hire satellites already in orbit to prospect landfill sites for potentially valuable materials.
If the satellite gives us 1000 potential sites from the 25000 in the UK we would then use drone reconnaissance to get a richer picture of say the wood cover
and was due to be shipped to the launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan. Recognising the current events in Ukraine we had been engaged in discussions with the government of Canada with respect to a potential delay of the launch of M3m
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
and missions further afield (see a map of planned landing sites). The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 december 1972.
It could reveal different episodes of volcanism at the site which is covered with solidified lava.
The Google Lunar X Prize is offering $20 million to the first private team that by the end of 2015 launches a lunar spacecraft that can land on the moon travel 500 metres
Longmier's team began their first crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter website in July. Although they failed to raise their $200
For this mission there is a better than 90 per cent chance of any one of those sites being open Cornwell says.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
Added to the time for the other trips your data must take across the rest of the internet,
based In virginia, has provided satellite telephone services and low-bandwidth internet since the late 1990s. Its existing network of 66 satellites is set to be replaced by a new one called Iridium NEXT.
the new satellites will be capable of delivering high-speed internet on a par with what Oneweb and Spacex envisage.
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,
However, as anyone who has had trouble with their wireless router knows, working with radio waves is finicky.
"Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
Cutler says satellite internet will really take off if companies make their equipment small enough to fit in Cubesats small,
it's being fuelled by an internet perspective i
#Running the color gamut If LCD TVS start getting much more colorful and energy-efficient in the next few years,
Choices we are making today about Internet governance and security have profound implications for the future.
CSAIL is home to much of the technology that is at the core of cybersecurity such as the RSA cryptography algorithm that protects most online financial transactions and the development of web standards via the MIT-based World wide web Consortium.
That gives us the ability to have our hands on the evolution of these technologies to learn about how to make them more trustworthy says Weitzner who was the United states deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White house from 2011 to 2012 while on leave from his longtime position at MIT.
and obtain real-time biochemical information about disease sites and also healthy tissues which is not always straightforward.
Individuals have access to their personal data via a Web dashboard or smartphone but companies are given only anonymous aggregated results of patterns and trends in behavior.)
They also found evidence of communication overload where high volumes of email due to lack of face-to-face interaction were causing some employees difficulty in concentrating
Some major companies such as Google and Facebook Waber says are already promoting socializing by for instance building campuses where all workers come to collaborate.
or a specific sequence of single stranded-dna DNA into a targeted site. However this DNA is produced only when activated by the presence of a predetermined molecule or another type of input such as light.
After the DNA is produced the recombinase inserts the DNA into the cell s genome at a preprogrammed site.
compared with today more common 260-foot towers. hat site-dependent, Smith adds. f you go somewhere in the Midwest where there open plains,
but to do so with considerable mobility, enabling immediate transport to a construction site, streamlining delivery and increasing construction efficiency.
similar to zoomed-in perspectives on Google maps. magine we can project a bunch of apartments in Cambridge,
and Twitter to name a few. In the mobile marketeta Devices commercial success is in part a product of engineering ingenuity intersecting with business acumen at MIT.
White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound.
But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult. Now a team of researchers at MIT led by Alfredo Alexander-Katz the Walter Henry Gale Associate professor of Materials science and engineering has demonstrated a new target-finding mechanism.
#Untangling how cables coil The world fiber-optic network spans more than 550,000 miles of undersea cable that transmits e-mail, websites,
#MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment The MIT Media Lab today announced the creation of the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), funded by a five-year, $10 million
commitment from Twitter. As part of the new program, Twitter will also provide full access to its real-time, public stream of tweets,
as well as the archive of every tweet dating back to the first. The new initiative, based at the Media Lab, will focus on the development of new technologies to make sense of semantic and social patterns across the broad span of public mass media
social media, data streams, and digital content. Pattern discovery and data visualization will be explored to reveal interaction patterns and shared interests in relevant social systems,
Though funded by Twitter, the LSM will have complete operational and academic independence. In keeping with the academic mission of LSM, students and staff will work across many social media
and mass media platforms including, but not limited to, Twitter. he Laboratory for Social Machines will experiment in areas of public communication
and social organization where humans and machines collaborate on problems that can be solved manually or through automation alone, says Deb Roy,
and who also serves as Twitter chief media scientist.""Social feedback loops based on analysis of public media
""With this investment, Twitter is seizing the opportunity to go deeper into research to understand the role Twitter
"says Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.""As social media leads us into the emergence of a new era of communication and engagement, the LSM,
in collaboration with Twitter, will create analytical tools to help turn the vision of a new public sphere into reality,
"adds Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab T
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
or check email surreptitiously under the table that can be electrifying force for the enterprise,
whether the primary cancer has moved to a new site to generate metastatic tumors, Dao says. his method is a step forward for detection of circulating tumor cells in the body.
sales, opening a Web platform to users, and hiring. e needed a sounding board, Knezevic says. e go into meetings
which has amassed a vast facial-expression database is also setting its sights on a mood-aware Internet that reads a user s emotions to shape content.
The broad goal is to become the emotion layer of the Internet says Affectiva cofounder Rana el Kaliouby a former MIT postdoc who invented the technology.
Still in their early stages some of the apps are designed for entertainment such as people submitting selfies to analyze their moods and sharing them across social media.
One of Affectiva s long-term goals is to usher in a mood-aware Internet to improve users experiences.
Imagine an Internet that s like walking into a large outlet store with sales representatives el Kaliouby says.
Websites and connected devices of the future should be like this very mood-aware. Sometime in the future this could mean computer games that adapt in difficulty and other game variables based on user reaction.
this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
or other apps and of course websites like Amazon or Netflix track your browsing history in the interest of making personalized recommendations.
For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets,
where each core has associated an router, and data travels between cores in packets of fixed size.
Groups of declarations reach the routers associated with the cores at discrete intervals intervals corresponding to the time it takes to pass from one end of the shadow network to another.
Each router can thus tabulate exactly how many requests were issued during which interval, and by which other cores.
Core 32 router may receive core 10 request well before it receives core 1 . But it will hold it until it passed along 1. This hierarchical ordering simulates the chronological ordering of requests sent over a bus,
pulling it slightly toward the leak site. That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),
By now most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web. The cryptographic schemes that protect online banking
you may want your family to be able to share the pictures you post on a social-networking site.
DIG is directed by Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the Web and the 3com Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT and it shares office space with the World wide web Consortium (W3c) the organization also led by Berners-Lee that oversees the development of Web protocols like HTTP XML and CSS.
DIG s role is to develop new technologies that exploit those protocols. With HTTPA each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) a key component of the Semantic web a new set of technologies championed by W3c that would convert the Web from essentially a collection of searchable
text files into a giant database. Remote access to a Web server would be controlled much the way it is now through passwords and encryption.
But every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data it would also send a description of the restrictions on the data s use.
It s not that difficult to transform an existing website into an HTTPA-aware website Seneviratne says.
But using standard Semantic web techniques it would mark that record as derived from the PCP s record
Liberating data By bringing all this data about building equipment to the cloud, the technology has plugged into the nternet of thingsa concept where objects would be connected, via embedded chips and other methods, to the Internet for inventory and other purposes.
so people can read all data associated with it. s more and more devices are connected readily to the Internet,
Google; the NSF Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines at MIT; and Jeremy and Joyce Wertheimer n
Next year the BAT will test its ability to power microgrids at a site south of Fairbanks Alaska in an 18-month trial funded by the Alaska Energy Authority.
which can be difficult to maneuver around certain sites. The modular BAT Rein says packs into two midsize shipping containers for transport
Target sites include areas where large diesel generators provide power such as military bases and industrial sites as well as island and rural communities in Hawaii northern Canada India Brazil and parts of Australia.
and bowling with training videos culled from Youtube. They found that according to metrics standard in the field of computer vision their algorithm identified new instances of the same activities more accurately than its predecessors.
In most photovoltaic (PV) materials, a photon (a packet of sunlight) delivers energy that excites a molecule,
Kushman found a website on which algebra students posted word problems they were having difficulty with,
which is developing smart LED LIGHTS that can wirelessly connect to the Internet and change colors to match people moods p
Depending on several site factors, this produces anywhere from 30 to 400 kilowatts of electricity. Treated wastewater exits the reactor with 80 to 90 percent of pollutants removed,
Ecovolt, on the other hand, is applicable to a range of sites, and has demonstrated a more robust treatment process,
and sciences at MIT gets about 100 emails daily from people across the world interested in his bionic limbs.
which excites electrons that flow through the thylakoid membranes of the chloroplast. The plant captures this electrical energy
and survive at a distant site, the researchers say. Many of the proteins overexpressed in the more aggressive tumors are activated by the same cellular signaling pathways,
With the Internet boom in full swing he co-founded a couple of dot-coms but began viewing climate change and energy as the real challenges of my generation.
These particles congregate at tumor sites where MMPS cleave hundreds of peptides which accumulate in the kidneys
More memorable or lessthe system could ultimately be used in a smartphone app to allow people to modify a digital image of their face before uploading it to their social networking pages.
The research was funded by grants from Xerox Google Facebook and the Office of Naval Research h
This approach offers a huge array of recognition sites specific to different targets, and could be used to create sensors to monitor diseases such as cancer, inflammation,
Synthetic antibodies The new polymer-based sensors offer a synthetic design approach to the production of molecular recognition sites enabling, among other applications, the detection of a potentially infinite library of targets.
In the new paper, the researchers describe molecular recognition sites that enable the creation of sensors specific to riboflavin, estradiol (a form of estrogen),
but they are now working on sites for many other types of molecules, including neurotransmitters, carbohydrates, and proteins.
it forms a binding site, Strano says. Laurent Cognet, a senior scientist at the Institute of Optics at the University of Bordeaux, says this approach should prove useful for many applications requiring reliable detection of specific molecules. his new concept,
and Dust environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft had made history by using a pulsed laser beam to transmit data over the 239000 miles from the moon to Earth at a record-breaking data-download speed of 622 megabits per second (Mbps). This download speed is more than six times faster than the speed achieved by the best
and delivered these various parts to the spacecraft and to the ground site. Finally we designed
and Systems Glover and MIT alumna Sanja Popovic 12 MENG 13 who is now at Google describes a new robot-vision algorithm based on the Bingham distribution that is 15 percent better than its best
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
#Drive-by heat mapping In 2007, Google unleashed a fleet of cars with roof-mounted cameras to provide street-level images of roads around the world.
#Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors The latest buzz in the information technology industry regards he Internet of thingsthe idea that vehicles, appliances, civil-engineering structures, manufacturing equipment,
at very limited input power levels 10 nanowatts to 1 microwatt for the Internet of things. The prototype chip was manufactured through the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's University Shuttle Program.
is better power electronics for data centers run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud.
Doggie Wearables Monitoring Shoppers and Catching TV While You Doze off In the past two years there been a boom in talk around the Internet of things and Wearables.
First the cell absorbs sunlight which excites electrons in the active layer of the cell.
A similar effect can be realized at a much smaller scale by using arrays of metallic nanostructures since light of certain wavelengths excites collective oscillations of free electrons known as plasmon resonances in such structures.
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#New technique allows low-cost creation of 3-D nanostructures Researchers from North carolina State university have developed a new lithography technique that uses nanoscale spheres to create three-dimensional (3-D) structures
Nanoporous metals offer an increased number of available sites for the adsorption of analytes a highly desirable feature for sensors.
Once injected, the material locks into place at the site of the injury and rapidly decreases the time it takes for blood to clot in some instances by a whopping 77 percent,
or she can inject the material into the wound site where it will trigger a rapid coagulation
and his colleagues solidifies at the site of the wound and begins promoting coagulation in the targeted area.
and then regain its shape once inside the body something necessary for locking itself in place at the wound site,
Blood rushes to the site of the injury and within minutes the flow stops as a plug forms at the site.
The tissue beneath and around the plug works to knit itself back together and eventually the plug disappears.
and enable the transition between a free-flowing fluid at the site and a viscous substance that brings healing factors to the injury.
of which are platelets the blood component that accumulates at the site of the wound to form the initial plug.
and congregate binding to the site of the injury and to each other. As they do so the platelets release chemicals that call other platelets to the site eventually plugging the wound.
But what happens when the injury is too severe or the patient is on anticoagulation medication
With surfaces functionalized with the same biochemical motifs found in their human counterparts these PLNS also can summon other platelets to the site
They posit that the microtubes could one day be implanted like stents to promote neuron regrowth at injury sites
#What exactly is Google's'cancer nanodetector'?'Last week US tech giants Google made a splash in the media announcing plans to develop new'disease-detecting magnetic nanoparticles'.
'This was welcomed almost universally after all trying to detect diseases earlier is something that's a focus of many research organisations including ours.
what Google are actually planning apart from getting a lot of coverage in the media he says.
But then they're Google he says. They do things differently. The way traditional science works is to map out all the possible risks demonstrate you've accounted for them
Google are doing the opposite they're saying'we want to get to here we'll worry about the details later'.
Google have been similarly vague about the precise form of nanotechnology they aim to use Graham points out:
This isn't all about Google says Graham. It's worth pointing out that Google are far from being the only show in town.
There are loads of different research groups looking into what is called collectively'biosensing'continuous monitoring of
it seems according to this article in Wired that Gambhir originally advised Google about nanotechnology. What are the current challenges facing nanodetectors?
So for Google's biomonitor they need to work out how to keep the particles in the body
This is something Google really seem to have ducked in their announcement. We don't need to dwell on it too much
but there's been a lot in the press in the last year about who has access to Google's data and under
what circumstances says Graham referring to reports of Government agencies accessing user data from tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Professor Graham's'take-home'message is that it's a mistake to see Google as the only organisation focusing on nanotechnology to detect disease it's a vibrant active field with incredible potential but still in its early days.
Google seeks way to search bodies for diseas s
#Cancer-killing nanodaisies NC State researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer:
So far in vivo testing in mice has shown that this approach produces significant accumulation of drugs in tumor sites instead of healthy organs.
The central technological revolution of the 20th century was the development of computers, leading to the communication and Internet era.
to specific cells and identifying sites of disease. Bin Liu of the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research
The doxorubicin that was released in the cell cytoplasm readily entered the nucleus its site of activity.
It's important to note that for the Gan micro-rod growth the very stable and inactive surface of graphene offers a small number of nucleation sites for Gan growth
Researchers develop method to measure positions of atomic sites with new precision More information: Real-time imaging and local elemental analysis of nanostructures in liquids.
which helps to understand how their reaction sites can be uncovered when they are at work. Most excitingly the team says these flexing
ultraflexible electronics into the brain and allow them to become fully integrated with the existing biological web of neurons.
The film can be applied onto degradable nanoparticles for injection into local sites or used to coat permanent devices such as orthopedic implants.
In that case collision of a hot carrier with a valence-band electron excites it across the energy gap Klimov said.
Although very compact (only a few square centimeters) the lab-on-a-chip hosts various sensing sites distributed across a network of fluidic micro-channels that enables it to conduct multiple analyses.
or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said. Chen's lab has demonstrated already the ability to print complex 3-D microstructures such as blood vessels in mere seconds out of soft biocompatible hydrogels that contain living cells.
#Google Has added Quantum Physics To'Minecraft'Video#Minecraft the Lego-style build-your-own-game game has been the canvas for some awesome projects.
Now Google's Quantum A i. Lab is taking it in an even weirder direction: quantum physics.
From a post on#Google+#announcing the game: We talked to our friends at Minecraftedu
and Google admits as much:##Of course qcraft isn t a perfect scientific simulation but it s a fun way for players to experience a few parts of quantum mechanics outside of thought experiments or dense textbook examples.#
Google via Polygon
#Check This Out: A 3-D Printer Made From E waste#The circle of electronic life:
From the project site: The Open source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialised nations around the world.
and you can find the source code for the hives at the project site.##Boing Boing t
Further integrate with Multi-point Ultrasonic Haptic feedback (youtube. com/watch? v=-e8tsg4uit0) and we've finally got ourselves a holo-deck!
virtusphere google it this is what you need to make it workmy mum in-law got a fantastic white Cadillac CTS-V Sedan by working part time off of a home computer...
or read more over at the Australian space agency's site. I am sure a great many Popsci readers are thinking this at the same time I'm typing it Attachã this to a drone for remote scouting in 3d!
And to keep the weight down for processing this data the data could just be beam back to the drone remote site to be processed there.
We think it's the world's first 3-D printed room Hansmeyer tells us in an email in the sense that it's fully structural
Give it a shot. my friend's half-sister makes $72 an hour on the internet.
but last month her pay check was $15553 just working on the internet for a few hours. link www. jobs35. comomg
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