along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
Smart thermostat maker Nest uses its internet-connected thermostat to respond to demand response requests on peak demand days.
Building and maintaining offshore wind technology is compared expensive with onshore wind projects because of challenges such as transporting equipment and workers to the sites
Google patents a way for autonomous vehicles to understand hand signals A Google patent has revealed that the firm self-driving cars will be able to detect
Google announced its self-driving cars would be capable of doing this last year, but the latest patent reveals new details about how it would work.
Google algorithms can then decide whether a cyclist is present, and then identify parts of his or her body.
HOW DOES GOOGLE'S AUTONOMOUS CAR WORK? Google's prototype two-seater'bubble'cars have buttons to begin and end the drive,
but no other controls. An onboard computer uses data from sensors, including radar, a laser and cameras,
Under the vision unveiled by Google, passengers might set their destination by typing it into a map
and the ability to self-drive will depend on specifically designed Google road maps tested on the company's current fleet of vehicles.
and will be able to use Google's extended maps service, using GPS technology to locate the vehicle's exact position on an electronic map.
leaving open different possibilities for exactly how Google self-driving cars could work. Google says it begun discussions with most of the world's top automakers in a bid to get self-driving cars on the road by 2020.
In March, a separate patent revealed that Google's self driving car could have airbags both inside and out.
It shows an external airbag system in action that inflates if the car hits a pedestrian or other object.
The head of self-driving cars for Google expects real people to be using them on public roads in two to five years.
and Google would collect data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians. Google is working on sensors to detect road signs and other vehicles,
and software that analyzes all the data. The small, bulbous cars without steering wheels or pedals are being tested at a Google facility in California.
Urmson wouldn't give a date for putting driverless cars on roads en masse saying that the system has to be safe enough to work properly.
He told reporters at the Automotive News World Congress in Detroit that Google doesn't know yet how it will make money on the cars.
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.
Under legislation that Google persuaded California lawmakers to pass in 2012, self-driving cars must have a steering wheel and pedals.
As well as asking for money, the demand also features an email address containing one of the show's most famous lines,
'Computer users who see the message are directed then to a website that shows them how to buy Bitcoins to pay the hackers.
A Youtube video is opened in the background featuring a song used in a fictional radio station in the game Grand Theft Auto V.'We believe that the crypto ransomware uses social engineering techniques as a means of infecting victims'
writes Symantec on its blog.''The malware arrives through a malicious zip archive, which uses the name of a major courier firm in its file name.'
Trojan) which when executed, downloads the crypto ransomware onto the victim's computer.''The threat also downloads and opens a legitimate. pdf file to trick users into thinking that the initial zip archive was not a malicious file.'
'There is currently no estimate to how many people have been affected by this particular virus . But the FBI says ransomware such as this is a growing problem.
Ransomware infiltrates a computer after a user clicks on a link or attachment in an email.
when a user visits a website, including well-known ones with good security systems, according to technology consultant Greg Miller of CMIT Solutions of Goshen, New york. Once inside the computer,
#Audi, Mercedes and BMW hit back at Google and Appple: Firms buy Nokia's map business in bid to beat tech firms with self driving cars and navigation German carmakers BMW,
known as HERE, clubbing together to keep the assets away from Internet rivals such as Uber of Silicon valley and China's Baidu and Tencent.
their parts suppliers and software rivals like Uber, Google or Apple.''With the joint acquisition of HERE, we want to secure the independence of this central service for all vehicle manufacturers,
which many in the automotive, Internet and logistics industries see as key to their own strategies.'
'There is a risk that the other automakers will be pushed further into the arms of Google, 'said Richard Windsor an independent financial analyst who tracks major tech players.
'It comes just weeks after Google has admitted it's self driving cars are being hit'surprisingly often'by other drivers
'said Google's Chris Urmson. The three Google employees on board complained of minor whiplash, were checked out at a hospital
and cleared to go back to work following the July 1 collision, Google said. The driver of the other car also complained of neck and back pain.
The simulation shows Google's car being rear ended at 17mph at a junction in Mountain view after stopping at a red traffic lightin a blog post
he says the problem has been common.''Our self-driving cars are being hit surprisingly often by other drivers who are distracted and not paying attention to the road.'
'New data released by Google reveals other drivers have hit the firm's cars 14 times since the start of our project in 2009,
It comes as the latest version of Google's self-driving car-a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal
Google says. The technology giant's mission is to have driverless cars available to consumers in the next five years.'
'Google said.''They're ultimately designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals, but during this phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
And the pod can only drive in areas that have been mapped thoroughly by Google. At first it will likely even have a steering wheel
But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods,
mostly in neighborhoods surrounding its Mountain view headquarters. It will eventually build between 50 and 100,
and will broaden testing to sites that are hillier and rainier. The ultimate goal, says Google cofounder Sergey Brin,
is controlled computer cars that can eliminate human error, which is a factor in an estimated 90 percent of the 1. 2 million road deaths that occur worldwide each year.
Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car.
Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers.'
Chris Urmson, who directs Google's self-driving car project, says the slow-moving, friendly looking prototype-his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front-is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfitted Lexus SUVS
Earlier this week, in response to questions from The Associated press, Google acknowledged 11 minor accidents in the six years it has been testing autonomous cars.
and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1. 7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the accidents were caused by drivers in other cars;
in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode.
Urmson says Google needs to do a better job of educating people about self-driving technology and updating them on Google's progress.
and the site will feature a monthly report that will include details of any accidents involving Google cars.
The site will also have a section where people can send feedback when they interact with the cars.
The prototype cars-assembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries-have the same array of radars, lasers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVS,
the head of software for the self-driving car project, says Google's software has gotten much better over the last year at classifying objects, like trees and mailboxes,
For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them.
And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light.
one of Google's Lexus SUVS seemed momentarily confused when a mail truck partially blocked its path.
Later, during a demonstration drive in Google's parking lot, the prototype-without a wheel or pedal-braked
like the time a Google SUV stopped and waited while a woman in a wheelchair chased a duck with a broom.
Google isn't alone in developing self-driving cars. Mercedes-benz Infiniti and other brands already have advanced driver assistance systems, like lane keeping and adaptive cruise control,
Unlike Google, automakers think self-driving cars will arrive feature-by-feature instead of all at once, giving people plenty of time to adapt to autonomous driving.
says Google's'moon shot'strategy is difficult and riskier than just adding features to existing cars.
Google could make self-driving urban pods for universities or urban centers, for example, or sell its technology to automakers.
can be ordered pre on Neuroon's website for $299 (£195) and will be shipped internationally after the initial run is processed.
'The Neuroon website also lets users calculate when they should seek and avoid light during their stay by using their origin location,
magnetic coils and the internet to send brain signals between two people. It begun with the first person,
Their opponent sent them a series of questions over the internet in an attempt to guess what they were thinking of.
to a wireless headset linked to the internet, and another person to a similar device in Paris. When the first person merely thought of a greeting such as iao Italian for ello the recipient in France was aware of the thought occurring,
Both Google and Nasa have been developing a quantum computer as part of their artificial intelligence work. However their D-Wave quantum computer needs to be kept at temperatures of around-273°C(-459°F). The latest research by Professor Dzurak and his colleagues,
They have applied their new technique to two super-eruption sites and a pair of very large eruptions and found that it took them no more than 500 years to move from formation to eruption.
wrote in a blog for International Business times:''Experts agree that an all out cyber attack,
We found the toothbrush for as low as $35 on ebay and for only $14 on Amazon.
the goal is to have control over the entire charging experience for the entire Internet of things,
Researchers at Switzerland Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne are also testing a low-carbon cement that could reduce the carbon footprint of construction sites by 40 percent, Forbes reported last year s
and designed to meet stringent groundwater standards at contaminated sites. Regenesis says the substrate reduces harmful chemicals and toxins,
This includes reducing chlorinated solvents at industrial dry cleaning sites as well as petroleum cleanup projects. Plumestop is composed of very fine particles of activated carbon (1-2 m) suspended in water through the use of unique organic polymer dispersion chemistry.
to identify the sites in the alpha-B-crystallin that attach to the beta-amyloid. It is the first direct structure analysis of a complete heat shock protein during interaction with a bonding partner,
which binds to an amino acid sequence of the prion protein, known as'fifth copper binding site,
opening the way for the development of new drugs targeting this copper binding site, and thus for new potential treatments".
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."
In the early 2000s, Maria's group had pioneered the single-atom approach for metals anchored on oxide supports as the exclusive active sites for the water-gas shift reaction to upgrade hydrogen streams for fuel cell use.
While an Apple patent for wireless earbuds with bone conduction popped up recently on the USPTO website
across or even between continents in the networked way of regular digital internet traffic. These quantum dots basically achieve perfect single-photon emission by super-cooling the quantum dots so the emitting atoms do not fluctuate.
they only attach at certain putative sites. On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags.
which operate up to 100x faster than current generation routers. Current wireless communications operate at microwave frequencies,
This technique permits the transfer of the masses of data around the internet, TV, etc. whereby a vast number of data channels are carried over a single optical fiber, wirelessly or copper cable.
not just FX,"said the head of Travelex's new digital team, former Google and e-Harmony executive Sean Cornwell."
Ola due to high encryption codes, say ISPS Dot had issued a letter to Internet service providers (ISPS) asking them to block websites of taxi operators Uber,
However, websites are still accessible to all. ISPS now say they are unable to block taxi aggregator websites Ola and Uber due to high encryption codes.
ISPS can only block http sites and not https as the latter have higher encryption. This means they can block Taxiforsure,
but not Ola and Uber. hese sites can not be blocked because of technical issues. We have given already representation to government earlier.
This was a general representation. We are giving compliance except in https sites, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said.
He added that Dot had accepted itself that there was a need to set up a committee to discuss modalities around blocking of https sites around 3-4 months back.
The Delhi government had written to the Department of Electronic & Information technology (Deity) in March that despite the ban, Uber,
Ola Cabs and Taxiforsure continue to book passengers through their apps. All app-based cab services were banned in the national capital last year after a driver of Uber,
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud. Currently, these data centres eat up about 2 per cent of electricity in the US.
#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Looks like, amidst the all new structuring happening at Google, the modular device will have to wait until next year.
on day 2 of the Google I/O developers conference, at the ATAP keynote, Google engineer Rafa Camargo assembled a Project Ara phone as part of a live demo,
Google, known by its employees for frequent eorgs announced a major shake up with the holding company Alphabet.
Google, Google X and other products now become subsidiary of the parent company. Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara.
The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions, and a 2mp front-facing module is also in the works.
Nestlé unveiled its first'zero water'manufacturing site in the"water-stressed"Mexican state of Jalisco in October 2014.
Nestlé immediately started to look for other sites where we would apply the technology, "the Nestlé spokesperson said."
because of the development of user friendly interfaces (a topic covered in this earlier blog) for these accelerating technologies,
For starters, there are more than 700 different crowdfunding sites online, providing platform-level support for whatever kind of campaign you might have in mind.
And the other authors are Di-Yan Wang (Stanford), Mingyun Guan (Stanford), Michael Angell (Stanford), Changxin Chen (Stanford), Jiang Yang (Stanford) and Bing-Joe
which is joint venture among NRG ENERGY, Google and Brightsource energy. That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
#EU Formally Accuses Google Of Market Abuse, Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
accusing it of market dominance in web searches, particularly around online shopping. It also opened a formal investigation into
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
said Margarethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. he Statement of Objection is not the end.
Wel take in the response of Google and decide how to proceed. Wee not here to take the side of rivals.
Google wrangle with the EU over search results has been going on for five years, but the formal Statement of Objections is a landmark step.
who was criticized by some for not taking a stronger stance with Google. Almunia was replaced by Vestager late last year.
The next step is for Google to formally answer the EU Statement of Objection, which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
who filed their complaints with the EU back in 2010. If Google and the Commission cannot reach a settlement
and the case reaches the European High court, it could not only drag on for several more years
but see Google fined 10%of its annual revenues. At 2014 levels that would be $6. 6 billion.
Some might argue that Google as a private company should have the freedom to organize search results how it wants
who added that she considered Google to be lose to a monopoly. Google sent a memo to its employees yesterday showing charts from Comscore and its own internet analytics
saying the Statement of Objections was isappointing news. But, it added, e have a very strong case. t
#EU v. Google: What Each Side Is Saying The European union on Wednesday formally accused Google of abusing its dominant power in web search in violation of antitrust laws.
The action is potentially the most significant antitrust case in the tech industry since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
It could force Google to pay billions in fines or to alter the way it presents search results.
Specifically, the European commission said that Google's GOOGL+0. 35%promotion of its own comparison shopping search function may rtificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services
which has been investigating Google search practices for about 5 years, detailed its concerns, known as a Statement of Objections,
on Google comparison shopping service here. The accusations did not extend to other areas of search,
like reviews and travel that Google rivals like Yelp YELP+3. 14 %and Tripadvisor TRIP+0. 57%had complained about.
whether Google has violated European antitrust laws with its Android operating system and related mobile services. The commission said it is concerned that Google may have hindered market access to rival mobile apps by pushing Android phone makers to pre-install its suite of mobile services
which include search, maps, Google Drive and the Play store. It also said it is concerned Google may have hindered market access to makers of modified versions of Android.
The commission full concerns on Android are detailed here. Google put out a vigorous defense. In a blog post, Google search chief Amit Singhal said that people have more search choices today than ever before,
and that competition among shopping search engines is thriving. ndeed if you look at shoppingn area where we have seen a lot of complaints
and where the European commission has focused in its Statement of Objectionst clear that (a) there a ton of competition (including from Amazon and ebay EBAY+0. 58%,
%two of the biggest shopping sites in the world) and (b) Google shopping results have not the harmed the competition,
Singhal wrote. In a separate blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, an engineering vice president for Android, rebutted the commission concerns regarding Google mobile operating system. ndroid has been a key player in spurring this competition and choice, lowering
prices and increasing choice for everyone, Lockheimer wrote. Google will now has 10 weeks to respond to the commissions charges.
The commission will then evaluate those responses and potentially recommend remedies e
#Tencent Scores#1 On China Brand Ranking, Next Global? Chinese tech companies are becoming more adept at marketing
and brand image, and will become better known in the West as their products and services go global.
This year, three of this year top five are oriented consumer Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. The brand rankings are compiled by analysis of financial data of publicly traded companies and interviews with consumers.
#Long term Investors Should Prefer Facebook to Google Last week saw another slew of quarterly earnings releases.
which support owning Google or Facebook. Google prices keep dropping, even as growth slows in oremarket Google once again reported higher sales and profits.
And that is a good thing. But, once again, the price of Google primary product declined. Revenues increased because volume gains exceeded the price decline
which indicates that the market for internet ads keeps growing. But this makes 15 straight quarters of price declines for Google.
Due to this long series of small declines, the average price of Google ads (cost per click) has declined 70%*since Q3 2011!
While this is a miraculous example of what economists call demand elasticity, one has to wonder how long growth will continue to outpace price degradation.
At some point the marginal growth in demand may not equal the marginal decline in pricing. Should that happen, revenues will start going down rather than up.
which allows Google to place more ads in more specific locations for advertisers via such automated products as Admob, Adexchange and Doubleclick Bid Manager.
But such computerized ad buying relies on ever more content going onto the web as well as ever more consumption by internet users.
Further, Google revenues are almost entirely search-based advertising, a category Google dominates. But this is largely a PC-related sale.
Today 67.5%of Google ad revenue is from PC searches, while only 32.5%is from mobile searches.
Due to this revenue skew, and the fact that people do more mobile interaction via apps, messaging apps and social media than browser,
search ad growth has fallen considerably. What was a 24%year over year growth rate in Q1 2012 has dropped to more like 15%for the last 8 quarters.
So while the market today is growing and Google is making more money, it is possible to see that growth is slowing.
And Google efforts to create mobile ad sales outside of search have failed largely, as witnessed by the recent death of Google+as competition for Twitter or Facebook.
It is the market shift to mobile which creates the greatest threat to Google ability to grow;
certainly at historical rates. Simultaneously, Facebook announcements showed just how strongly it is continuing to dominate both social media and mobile,
and thus generate higher revenues and profits with outstanding growth. The#1 site for social media and messenger apps is Facebook, by quite a large margin.
But, Facebook 2014 acquisition of Whatapp is now#2. Whatsapp has doubled its monthly active users (MAUS) just since the acquisition,
and now reaches 800million. Growth is clearly accelerating, as this is from a standing start in 2011.
Facebook Messenger is#3, just behind Whatsapp. And#5 is Instagram another Facebook acquisition. Altogether 4 of the top 5 sites,
and the ones with greatest growth on mobile, are Facebook. And they total over 3billion MAUS,
growing at over 300million new MAUS/month. Thus Facebook has emerged already as the dominant force, with the most users, in the fast-growing, accelerating, mobile and app sectors.
Just as Google did in internet search a decade ago, beating out companies like Yahoo, Ask jeeves, etc.
Facebook is monetizing its market leadership position Google is moving rapidly to monetize this user base.
From nothing in early 2012, Facebook mobile revenue is now $2. 5b/quarter and represents 67%of global revenue (the inverse of Google revenues.)
Further, Facebook is now taking its own programmatic ad buying tool, Atlas, to advertisers in direct competition with Google.
Only Atlas places ads on both social media and internet browser pages a one-two marketing punch Google has cracked not yet.
Google $17. 3b Q1 2015 revenue is 30 times the revenue of Facebook. There is no doubt Google is growing,
and generating enormous profits. But, for long-term investors, growth is slowing and there is reason to be concerned about the long term growth prospects of Google as the market shifts toward both social and mobile.
Google has failed to build any substantial revenues outside of search and has had some notable failures recently outside its core markets (Google+and Google glass.
Just how long Google will continue growing, and just how fast the market will shift is unclear.
Technology markets have shown the ability to shift a lot faster than many people expected, leaving some painful losers in their wake (Dell, HP, Sun microsystems, Yahoo, etc.
Meanwhile, Facebook is positioned squarely as the leader, without much competition, in the next wave of market growth.
Facebook is monetizing all things social and mobile at a rapid clip, and wisely using acquisitions to increase its strength.
As these markets continue on their well established trends it is hard to be anything other than significantly optimistic for Facebook long-term.*
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