while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
#EPGL Challenges Google in Smart Contact lens Revolution EP Global Communications, Inc. announces a challenge to Google to confirm it is speed up to with EPGL in the smart contact lens revolution.
A year ago, Google announced with great fanfare that it had developed a smart contact lens for monitoring glucose levels.
Google also announced that they possess technology for an"Autofocus"contact lens. Various executives from Google were quoted as saying that smart contact lenses could help millions of people in the future
and other technology writers and industry executives have predicted a multi-billion dollar market is coming.
EPGL fully agrees with Google on this point. EPGL has several patents pending now in the smart contact lens arena
Today, EPGL is issuing a challenge to Google to update the world on their smart contact lens progress
EPGL is challenging Google to make an announcement by August 31, 2015 that it has solved for the critical Silicone Hydrogel mass market production challenges as EPGL has."
"Google is an incredible company with incredibly talented engineers and executives. We have nothing but respect for them,
#MRI SCANNERS can Non-Invasively Steer Cells with Nanoparticles to Tumour Sites Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI SCANNERS have been used since the 1980s to take detailed images inside the body-helping doctors to make a medical diagnosis
which have been injected with tiny super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOS), to both primary and secondary tumour sites within the body.
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#Structured Illumination Microscopy and SPA Help Study SPB Duplication in Living Yeast Cells Cellular mitosis depends in part on small organelles that extend spindles to pull apart chromosome pairs.
In a study to be published on the elife website on September 15 2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.
#Platelet-Mimicking Nanoparticles Could Effectively Deliver Drugs to Targeted Sites Nanoparticles disguised as human platelets could greatly enhance the healing power of drug treatments for cardiovascular disease and systemic bacterial infections.
San diego, are capable of delivering drugs to targeted sites in the body--particularly injured blood vessels,
and release their drug payloads specifically to these sites in the body. Enclosed within the platelet membranes are made nanoparticle cores of a biodegradable polymer that can be metabolized safely by the body.
Researchers observed that the docetaxel-containing nanoparticles selectively collected onto the damaged sites of arteries
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
This will be the third power station at the site. Hinkley Point A was shut down in 2000,
News that the Talktalk website had been hit by a"significant and sustained cyber-attack"broke last week.
#EU votes down net neutrality protection The European parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard"net neutrality"in the EU. A series of amendments to a regulation on how internet traffic is managed in Europe were rejected all by MEPS.
Proponents of net neutrality, who demand that web traffic be treated equally by networks, have criticised already the move.
Campaigners have said that provisions for protecting net neutrality in the existing text of the rules are too vague and many worry that it will be easy for internet firms to strike deals with content providers
in which customers can access certain sites and services for free outside their data plans, might become more widespread.
what we use the internet for in 2015 is vastly different from those early days when Tim Berners-Lee was inventing the web,
"commented Chris Green of business consultancy Lewis as he pointed out that the rise of video streaming had placed extra burdens on network companies."
"For them, a two-tier internet makes much more sense, "he told the BBC. What is net neutrality?
is how most people assume the internet works. That's the essence of net neutrality.
For big video streaming sites, the prospect is worrying. They could find themselves coughing up lots of money in fees simply to give their users the same experience as before.
no matter how popular the streaming sites become. How could the rules affect internet use? Part of the problem with the rules in their current form, argued Joe Mcnamee at the European Digital Rights campaign group,
is that they are ambiguous.""As the text currently stands there is no indication as to how much abuse of dominance would be permissible under this arrangement,
The sort of scenarios that could impact internet use include the creation of"fast lanes"and"slow lanes"or the creation of"zero ratings"in
which some services may be accessed without using up any of the internet user's data quota. In Belgium, for example, some mobile phone companies currently allow unlimited access to Twitter
and Facebook while all other data usage is part of a monthly plan. In a few countries such as The netherlands
such practices are allowed not. Who had argued that the amendments be adopted? Besides a host of net neutrality campaigners, inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee had added his voice to those supporting the amendments."
"he wrote in a blog. And a string of tech companies signed a letter to the president of the European parliament, Martin Schulz,
what deals could be sought by internet firms with content providers. But in other countries, such as India,"zero rating"is allowed."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
The amendments would ban the agency's mass collection of telephone data-phone numbers, time and duration of calls-as well as emails and web addresses."
#Ashley Madison passwords cracked More than 11 million passwords stolen from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website have been decoded,
When stolen data from the site was dumped first, the encrypted passwords were said to be almost uncrackable because of the way they were scrambled.
But programming changes by the site's developers meant more than a third of the passwords were protected poorly.
The Ashley Madison website was breached by a group of hackers called The Impact Team which stole gigabytes of data including login names and passwords of more than 30 million users.
However, an amateur password cracking group called Cynosure Prime looking through code also stolen from Ashley Madison realised that at some point the site changed the way passwords were stored.
In a blogpost, the group said it had found two insecure functions in the site code that meant it was"able to gain enormous speed boosts in cracking the bcrypt hashed passwords".
and changes the site made to passwords when they were entered by users. By focussing on these vulnerable steps the group has managed already to decipher 11.2 million passwords
The remaining passwords from the site are not susceptible to this attack because they were hashed by code lacking the insecure functions.
It speculated to news site Ars Technica that the insecure hashing system was introduced to ensure that users could log in to the site quickly y
And more recently, Sundar Pichai took over as chief executive of Google-a role many said had been years coming.
Mr Modi's plans to get a billion more Indians on the internet, they say that's a front to mass surveillance.
"by which he meant fibre internet, connecting each and every Indian town and village. Earlier on Sunday, Mr Modi spent time with someone who could help,
taking part in a Q&a with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It was decidedly more A than Q,
The meeting at Facebook was mutually beneficial. Mr Zuckerberg, keen as ever to expand Facebook's user base and global influence,
talked up the prospect of connecting a billion more Indians to the internet. In one of the most pointed exchanges in the entire session, Mr Modi said he hoped Mr Zuckerberg's motivations weren't purely about Facebook's bank balance.
For Mr Modi, this entire Silicon valley visit is a chance to put a little pressure on the tech giants.
He wants India to graduate from being home to the low-end of the tech trade-call centres
He claims that a technology called Freevolt can be the power source for the"internet of things,
which are preparing for the next phase of the internet, where billions of small cheap sensors are online providing data about their operations.
"He says it"closed the loop"on the internet of things and the industry would embrace it
"We decided to systematically test why it was that truncating guides too much caused Cas9 to no longer cut the intended genomic site,
We envision future uses for the technology that can help decipher the tangled web of interactions underlying for example cancer drug resistance and stem cell differentiation,
Kleiner and their colleagues zeroed in on the sites in chromosomes where DNA repair happens. Specifically
This process, called phosphorylation, occurs at sites of broken DNA as a way to mediate interactions between key proteins.
This interaction helps bring 53bp1 to the site of DNA damage, where it mediates the repair of double-stranded breaks in DNA by encouraging the repair machinery to glue the two ends back together."
since to phase II trials at multiple test sites. Results have not yet been released. The published findings come from AD patients who participated in safety trials from March 2001 to October 2012 at UC San diego Medical center.
and then attacks a previously unknown binding site on STAT3, disrupting its disease-promoting effects.
and modifies an inhibitor-binding site on the protein coiled coil literally protein coils coiled around each other
to the modified site. his is the confluence of two ideas wee been working on around
The human proteome (the entire set of expressed proteins) is estimated to be phosphorylated at more than 100,000 unique sites,
The reagents are fluorescent detection analytes that competitively bind to a key cofactor binding site of enzymes that catalyze methylation of histones, DNA, and RNA.
Cayman is poised to expand on the technology with a patent pending second-generation SAM mimic-based probe designed to competitively bind to SAM-binding sites of a different set of methyltransferases.
including new cancers at other sites or in the opposite breast.""These patients who had low risk scores by Oncotype did extraordinarily well at five years,
not only attack the main tumor site, but are more likely to find and attach themselves to tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream essentially attacking new tumors before they start,
which the platelet membrane could help us target relevant sites in the body. i
#An Accessible Approach to Making a Mini-brain If you need a working miniature brain say for drug testing, to test neural tissue transplants,
you could use these to measure dissolved oxygen or ph from a lot of different sites all over a pond or a lake,
leading viruses to binding sites that allow infections to spread at the molecular level. They serve as a key of sorts that gives viruses entry into the host to begin spreading.
which cells are transplanted into the injury site, "says research supervisor Dr James St john, from Griffith's Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.
and better integrate into the injury site. In turn, this will help the spinal cord to regenerate more effectively."
Music streaming is finally bigger than downloads We've just hit a massive milestone in the evolution of the music industry:
a record label is reporting higher revenues from music streaming than paid downloads. Warner Music group has announced that its streaming revenues have passed those from digital downloads.
CEO Stephen Cooper said"the rate of this growth has made it abundantly clear that in years to come,
"Paid downloads have long been the primary way listeners consume music, with downloads overtaking physical sales in the US (by volume) back in 2012.
But downloads have gone into decline as faster internet connections have allowed the rise of streaming services, often offering users free access to libraries of millions of tracks,
But as digital downloads decline it risks losing its industry-leading position to challengers like Spotify, Tidal, and others.
or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.
And as the internet of things grows, so does the number of threat actors bent on exploiting its ubiquity.
outlined to Business Insider four major ways that advancements in internet technology could threaten national security.
At Infiltrate, a professional penetration tester for a major company in Silicon valley told Business Insider that the easiest way to infiltrate a client's system is to bait an employee into clicking on an infected link in a seemingly innocuous email.
"Modern aircraft are connected increasingly to the internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems,
Fans remain largely confused as to why Tidal even exists it offers streaming music at twice the price of Google, Apple, and Spotify.
If you used a mobile phone to browse the internet back in 2003, then you probably did
It let older mobile phones download data using their cellular service. It was a precursor to the much faster networks that we use today.
Aspirothe Aspiro website in 2001. Aspiro grew quickly thanks to partnerships with European phone manufacturers such as Ericsson and Nokia.
Flickr/sigurdgaaspiro partnered with a Norwegian music store to launch its streaming site. Aspiro focused on WAP for years,
"a company he had set up with the sole purpose of buying a music-streaming site.
Entertainment news site Showbiz 411 heard about the secret meeting and published a list of names that were in attendance.
when musicians began turning their social media profiles light blue in anticipation of the relaunch of Aspiro's streaming service.
and Jay z's streaming site would be called Tidal. The March 30 press conference was meant to be the opportunity for Tidal to reboot its public image and present itself as a major player in the world of music streaming. ew York
The relaunched streaming site would be based around exclusive music and video content, as well as special live events for subscribers.
the site encompasses high quality sound, video, exclusive editorial but there are more features on the way. In time, TIDAL will be not just a streaming service but a platform with enhanced experiences.
"Journalists and amused fans took to Twitter to mock Jay z's ignorance of the fact that people pay taxes
and his music is now available to stream on the site. The backlash against Tidal began in earnest after the New york press conference.
and Swedish news site Breakit claimed that 25 employees in Aspiro's Norway office had also been forced to leave."
Jay z took to Twitter on April 26 to air his views on Tidal.""Stream of consciousness coming in 5, 4, 3, 2,
Another view that Jay z made clear in his Twitter"stream of consciousness"was that he felt that other music-streaming services were out to get him.
"Tidal employees suggested via email at the time that Jay z was referring to rivals like Apple and Spotify.
I take my respectpharrell even told me go with the safest betjimmy Iovine on for the safety netgoogle dig around a crazy checki feel like Youtube is the biggest culpritthem n---pay you a 10th of what you supposed to getyou know I came in this game independent right?
they ain say s---Jay z suggested that Google offered him money to partner with its own streaming service,
but hinted that he was upset with music appearing on Youtube (and the diminished revenue he receives from it).
The Tidal Twitter account publicly shut down the rumour. Right now there are two big reasons why someone would sign up to Tidal:
and it just raised $40 million Massdrop is a new kind of Internet retailer. Actually, it's technically not a retailer at all.
The site doesn't have any kind of item on hand to sell you. Instead, it acts as a middleman between manufacturers, enthusiasts, and would-be customers."
the site now has over one million monthly users. To keep up with that demand, Massdrop's employees have ballooned from 14 just over a year ago to 70 today.
El-Hage says that the company's unique relationship with vendors sets it apart from other failed flash sale websites.
Multiple sources confirm that Google Wallet saw a jump in payment volume following the launch of Apple Pay.
and why the fledgling mobile payments feature is sure to be a success. Provides a quarterly update on the mobile payments industry including analysis of Softcard, Google Wallet, Currentc, Paypal, and Looppay.
a popular social coding site for programmers, is fighting a days-long cyberattack that reportedly originates in China.
The U s. coding site Github said on Sunday it was deflecting most of the traffic from the cyberattack that had caused intermittent outages.
The attackers paralyzed the site at times by using distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks, a technique commonly used to disrupt websites and computer networks,
according to the Wall street journal. They pushed massive amounts of traffic to Github by redirecting overseas users of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu Inc,
according to the Wall street journal. The newspaper said they targeted two Github pages that link to copies of websites banned in China-a Mandarin-language site from the New york times Co and Greatfire. org,
which helps Chinese users circumvent government censorship. A Beijing-based Baidu spokesman said a thorough investigation had determined it was neither a security problem on Baidu's side nor a hacking attack."
"We have notified other security organizations and are working to get to the bottom of this, "the spokesman said.
On its blog, Github said the attack began early on Thursday and involved"every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github. com with high levels of traffic.
Github said it believed the intent of the attack was to convince the company to remove a specific class of content.
#Facebook says drones could help extend internet access around the world A fleet of solar-powered drones could help provide high-speed internet to people around the world who currently live without it,
Facebook says of a project in development. The company's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer unveiled the plans during a keynote speech on Thursday at the F8 conference in San francisco. The drones,
000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,
."Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Thursday, paired with a photo of an early prototype drone soaring over Palo alto,
a U k.-based company that Facebook acquired in 2014. Despite Facebook's obvious enthusiasm for the project, it's still in the early stages of development.
The social media giant told the New york times it hopes to have a fleet of 1 000 drones,
but it will probably be years before it becomes a reality. And that's to say nothing of the red tape Facebook would have to manoeuvre to get a fleet of remotely controlled aircraft in the skies around the world.
The Aquila project is part of Facebook's Internet. org initiative, which it says aims to extend internet access to people around the world who live outside of mobile networks."
"Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world, because they can affordably serve the 10 per cent of the world's population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure,
"wrote Zuckerberg g
#India's top court upholds free speech online or via cellphone India's top court affirmed people's right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send"offensive"messages by computer or cellphone.
Police arrested a man last year for saying on Facebook that Prime minister Narendra Modi, then still a candidate, would start a holocaust in India
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh arrested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attributed to a top state minister.
although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twitter messages."
"Cyber analysts said the ruling marked a positive step in ensuring that the Internet would be governed by the same norms and laws as newspapers, TV commentary and other forms of communication as India's Internet users increase from today's 100 million online."
however, that there was still more work to be done in guaranteeing the Internet was governed fairly, including a provision that allows the government to block websites without announcing
or explaining its decision to do so. The Supreme court on Tuesday upheld that part of the law."
#The internet is almost out of IP ADDRESSES It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions.
The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP ADDRESSES. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new system to route internet traffic to the right place.
IP ADDRESSES are like the internet's phone numbers. Under the web's current system, there are billions of them. 3 billion to be exact.
But as more of us do more and more online, those addresses are being gobbled up. And soon, very soon, that supply will run out."
"The second half of 2015, maybe if we're lucky we could stretch it to early 2016,
"Over time, you'll realize you wont be able to reach half the internet. You won't be able to watch the video you want to watch.
At issue is one of the weirdest quirks of the internet's history. In 1981, as the internet was being built,
volunteers created a system to direct traffic and make sure people landed on the page they were looking for.
They called it IPV4 (though they didn't build versions 1 2 or 3). They made 4. 3 billion IP ADDRESSES to handle all that traffic.
But in 1981, the internet was a mere shadow of what it is today. Now, everything on the internet has an IP ADDRESS:
laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, even coffee makers and thermostats. By 2020, there will be an estimated 50 billion devices online.
The sheer size of IPV6 is staggering. It has more than 340 undecillion IP ADDRESSES. That's 340 trillion trillion trillion or 340 followed by 36 zeros.
The Wall street journal claims that's enough to assign an IP ADDRESS to every atom On earth. But not everyone is rushing to adapt to the new technology.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) says the transition to IPV6 has been slow at least in part because the changes are all happening behind the scenes"Nobody really knows about it.
me IPV6 today,'"says Byron Holland, CIRA's president and CEO.""Therefore they're not in any rush to do it.
But really IPV4 as a resource in any meaningful way is exhausted. And you can see that in that there is a secondary market that has sprung up,
the price per IP ADDRESS will only grow. In 2011, Microsoft bought up more than 660,000 IP ADDRESSES from Nortel for $7. 5 million US ($11. 36 each.
At this point, just about everybody is working toward getting their systems IPV6 capable. Rogers said in a statement that it is"in the process of upgrading to be IPV6 capable
and will have more details to share later.""Bell says it can't comment at this time as its transition plans have not yet been announced.
and Telus remains committed to Canada's part in the global transition to IPV6.""You can test your own connection to see
if it's IPV6 enabled or not here u
#India orders clampdown on internet porn websites India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in
what the government has described as a way to protect social decency. N. N. Kaul, a spokesman for India's department of telecom, said Monday that the government was trying to control easy access to pornography following a directive from the country's top court.
users may still view the sites through virtual private networks and proxy servers. He said the move would protect children.
dated last Friday, orders Internet service providers to block access to the 857 sites on grounds of morality and decency.
The Supreme court said earlier in July that ordering a ban on adult websites was not its job
Not sex,"popular Indian author Chetan Bhagat said on Twitter.""Porn ban is anti-freedom, impractical, not enforceable.
In the past, India has tried to control social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and ask them to take down offensive material.
It had blocked briefly several Twitter accounts in 2012 citing security and law and order fears.
It also blocked access to a homegrown soft-porn website in 2009. Kaul said more websites may be added to the list of those to be blocke e
#Airbus patents plane that could fly from New york to London in 1 hour A rocket-plane that could fly from Vancouver to Tokyo in three hours instead of 10 has been patented by Airbus. The U s. patent for an"ultra-rapid air vehicle
and related method for aerial locomotion"was awarded to Airbus, also known as the European aeronautic defence and space company, in July. Airbus said the plane would be targeted mainly at business travel
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