#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.
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.
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
#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,
and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data
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,
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
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.
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.
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
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
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.
similar to zoomed-in perspectives on Google maps. magine we can project a bunch of apartments in Cambridge,
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The research was funded by grants from Xerox Google Facebook and the Office of Naval Research h
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
#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.
is better power electronics for data centers run by Google, Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud.
#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:
#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:
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In an age when you have Google street view covering the entirety of the inhabited world when virtually every house is mapped.
A recent update to Google+analyzes groups of pictures for blurriness aesthetics landmarks and exposure to pick out the most shareable ones.
If you do a Google search for pictures of Dolly the clone sheep you will find many.@
All they use google for is to search for porn. Taylorjusher That is because people are believing the lie that legal drugs are safe and illegal ones are dangerous.
@killert-Google can find Porn? WTF? How and since when?:Color gray often used to illustrate we cannot decide.
Capitalism is a failure Marxism is the outcome capitalism has lead to this democracy becoming a corptocracy. telegraph Mobile phones responsible for disappearance of honey bee and many others just google ithailey.
That awkward moment when some random joe badbot tells scientists to google it because apparently one's google Ph d means a lot more than a University Ph. dreally we could probably find a way to artificially pollinate plants.
But thats not the point the point is we shouldn't have to artificially pollinate plants we should stop damaging the natural system that does it.
The most high-profile is Google which last year acquired California-based Makani Power and folded it into the Google X family of moonshot projects.
Whereas Makani and others aim to develop utility-scale turbines capable of powering hundreds to thousands of homes Altaeros plans to sell modest units that fill an immediate niche.
but others are large entities like the Australian government Google and NASA. These days Petrone says NASA s purchasing department just calls my cell phone.#
#Google vs The DMV: How To Test A Self-Driving Car In May 2012 Google's self-driving car underwent a classic American teenage ritual.
It took a driving test at a DMV. The car passed but apparently not without a little lobbying from its parent.
As state officials have monitored the robot car's mileage on public roads Google has lobbied for the car to get different tests
Turning to the government let Harris sidestep Google's secretive PR machine as he told the Knight Science Journalism Tracker which recently collected his stories.
It's also a look at Google's lobbying the extent of which is maybe unsurprising for a private company but still interesting.
That's where you can see what situations the Google car is good at and in
For the Guardian Harris wrote about how Google has asked regulators to allow the results of computerized driving simulations#to stand in for tests on driving tracks
For Quartz Harris reported on Google's lobbying not to have to report#how often its cars turn over the controls to their human drivers
That's the kind of handover Google doesn't want to have to report. The company also doesn't want to report
#Google Already Testing Delivery Robots In Australia In rural Australia a drone delivers dog treats to a farmer.
The robot is a proof of concept part of#Project Wing by Google X. The program is designed to show that delivery drones are possible
#Next for Google: figuring out the path from proven#prototype to everyday utility. The drone is a tail-sitter taking off vertically with its body perpendicular to the ground.
Google s driverless car program is an obvious touchstone for this project but it s a limited one.
Still Google s development and prior experience with cars is a strong sign that this work will continue and ultimately yield fruit.
Michael Toscano CEO of#the Association for Unmanned Vehicle systems International said thatit s worth noting that Google tested this technology in Australia first.
##Free on any platformpros It allows you to query Google without accepting cookies or giving your IP ADDRESS and to use Google as a proxy clicking through to third-party sites.
Con Proxy surfing feature can be slow.#####Free Android; ios coming late summerpros Apps enable#end-to-end encrypted calling and messaging.#
#Google commits $1. 36 billion for NASA facility, to house their robotics, space and flight technologies Google subsidiary Planetary Ventures has committed to a 60-year $1. 16 billion lease of the 1000 acre Moffett Field Naval Air station.
The agreement includes an additional $200 million to refurbish the hangars and improve the site with a museum and educational facilities.
This news comes on the heals of Google investment in Magic Leap last month as well the announcement of Andy Rubin departure r
#Google news: Rubin leaves; Pichai promoted to#2; and Google invests in Magic Leap Andy Rubin leaves Google;
Sundar Pichai promoted to#2 man at Google; and Google invests in $542 million B funding for Magic Leap.
Andy Rubin the Google executive who was in charge of the company#s robotics group and spearheaded the Android operating system before that resigned fromâ Google
and will start a tech incubator focused on hardware. According to the NY Timesâ Mr. Rubin#s departure is part of a series of recent executive moves that seem to give Mr. Page more room to focus on the company#s longer-term bets#like robotics
#while handing almost allâ the responsibility for Google products to Sundar Pichai a rising star.
 The robotics group will now be led by James Kuffner who has been at the company since 2009 and has worked on self-driving cars a Google spokesman said.
Regarding James Kuffner who replaces Rubinâ The Wall street journal saidandy Rubin former leader of Google#s Android mobile businessâ oversaw a series of robotics acquisitions last year
so his departure comes at a poor time for the company. Â That puts pressure on Kuffner to bring together disparate Google properties like Boston Dynamics and Schaft.#
#Robotics is still a difficult technology to pull off well I think moreso than many or all tech fields#said Michael Wagner a senior commercialization specialist with the National Robotics Engineering Center at Carnegie mellon University.#
#James has the expertise to navigate traps others with less experience may not expect. So I don t think this is a setback at all.#
#Sundar Pichai becomes Google Product Chief. The NY Times said of the promotion: Sundar Pichai is to oversee every major Google product except Youtube.
The move arguably makes Mr. Pichai the second-most powerful person at the company and is intended to give Mr. Page more time to focus on more futuristic projects according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
and Chrome products along with Google Apps like Google docs and Gmail#will now include Research Search Maps the social media network Google Plus along with Commerce.
Much interest within the robotics community has been focused on Google acquisitions in the area of robotics
because Google hasn said anything about what they are doing. So many start-ups#Â So much talent#What their long-term goal?
Hence the interest in whereâ Google is focusing. Some of that focus has been on acquiring learning system companies (and talent.
Thus it was no surprise that Google participated in the recent $542 million B funding round for the start-up Magic Leap a Florida start-up thatâ claims to merge the physical and digital worlds with hardware
#Google adds to Deepmind, acquiring 2 UK startups and partnering with Oxford U In January 2014 Google acquired London-based Deepmind Technologies for $643 million.
Now it is adding to that purchase with two more companies ten new hires and a substantial contribution to Oxford university.
Google Deepmind was a British AI start-up with some high-profile investors and a whiz kid founder (Demis Hassabis) and theirâ forte was smart recommendations for online commerce.
According to the Financial times the two acquisitions are estimated to have cost Google Deepmind $50 million. The Google-Oxford partnership will cost more.
A substantial contribution to Oxford university is forthcoming to expand Google AI and deep learning capabilities.#
#Google Deepmind has hired all seven founders of these startups with the three professors holding joint appointments at Oxford university where they will continue to spend part of their time#Hassabis notes in his blog post.#
#These exciting partnerships underline how committed Google Deepmind is to supporting the development of UK academia
and the growth of strong scientific research labs.#f you liked this article you may also be interested in:
Google#s automotive patent portfolio is relatively small at 35 families. Most of Google#s patents were published very recently in 2013 with the earliest being only in 2010.
The rate of publishing for Google shows clear increase so further patents should be anticipated. Â The report also shows collaboration within industry groups.
For example Google and Honda are contained very self in contrast to other automotive companies. Most of the patents in the UK dataset are in the field of autonomous vehicles includingâ road vehicles unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles.
Roboticsâ companies in the UK dataset have very small portfolios with the largest being Notetry (5â families)
Google new purpose-built self driving car Google completed a major step in its long and extensive self-driving cars project by presenting its first purpose-built autonomous car
or brake pedals#and you can ride it strictly as a passenger which is probably a strange feeling but according to Google video not entirely unpleasant.
Google will make about a hundred prototypes and it looks like it a very serious effort. It is equipped with multiple sensors (a big LIDAR on its roof is probably doing most of the work)
Thanks to Google previous experience with self-driving cars one can expect very good performance in real environments;
other Google self-driving cars have completed hundreds of thousands miles with no major incidents. The car itself may look like a toy
This is a very clever move from Google that aspires to overcome the legal and ethical problems of who should be able to drive
Google will launch a small pilot program in California in the next couple of years. The prototypes released on public roads will have manual controls for obvious legal reasons
Read the full post in Google official blog here. It worth mentioning that similar concepts
but its main feature was the interior where similarly to Google car no manual controls were present
#Google getting more roboticists with Nest acquisition Is Google getting a robot company? Or just another source of roboticists with the Nest acquisition that was announced today?
The small sampling of roboticists Iâ##ve spoken to who are employed at Google have shed little light on future plans
Perhaps Google is collecting libraries and IP instead in the same way that Wolfram is talking about owning the database of the internet of things.
Google is to buy Nest Labs Inc. for $3. 2 billion in cash. Nest launched in 2011 with a smart thermostat
and maintain a distinct brand identity but as a part of the Google stable. Forâ more information from Nestâ as to the transition.
Larry page CEO of Google said: â##Nestâ#founders Tony Fadell and Matt Rogers have built a tremendous team that we are excited to welcome into the Google family.
Theyâ##re already delivering amazing products you can buy right nowâ##thermostats that save energy
â##Weâ##re thrilled to join Google. With their support Nest will be placed even better to build simple thoughtful devices that make life easier at home
and that have a positive impact on the world. â#Colin Angle CEO of irobot described Google recent acquisitions as a logistics play around self driving vehicles
and that when Google solved the first mile/last mile problem irobot was planning on meeting them at the house door.
There are plenty more robotics companies left for Google to acquire but if I were looking it would be interesting to consider Unbounded and Otherlab.*
#Google buys up robotics companies from DRC If youe recently wondered where all the roboticists were going the answer is to an unassuming complex in Palo alto. Google has backed Android developer Andy Rubin to acquire at least 7 major robotics
Weâ##re building systems so one team will be able to understand the whole stack. â#Google hasn announced yet
The vision is clearly to capitalize on the DARPA Grand Challenges as Google has done so thoroughly with the automobile/self driving challenge.
Google has purchased a number of teams and people involved in the upcoming DARPA Robotics Challenge
#Play-i want to bring a robot to every child After receiving a $1million seed fund round from investors like Google Ventures many of us have been waiting for Play
Play-i are based a Silicon valley startup with a founding team from Amazon Google frog design and Apple;
and at Google annual flagship conference Google IO in San francisco. Still it takes a lot of time
and recovers easily thanks to new algorithm In August 2014 Google x announced that they had been secretly developing a drone delivery program to rival Amazon Prime Air.
however, Google scrapped the design, saying that it was difficult to control and didn perform well in high winds.
perhaps Google should not dismiss the tailsitter design too quickly for its next design iteration.
Google earlier this year debuted a feature for its Translate app that allows people to pair any two of 38 language options for translation,
#Google Self-Driving Cars Ready for Public roads Google announced Friday its self-driving prototype cars were ready to leave the test track
The move comes after Google's internal testing of the bubble-shaped vehicle over the past year
"The Google car uses the same technology as its fleet of Lexus SUVS which has logged some 1. 6 million kilometers (one million miles)."
In Google's home town of Mountain view, speeds will be limited to 40 kilometers (25 miles per hour "and during this next phase of our project we'll have safety drivers aboard with a removable steering wheel, accelerator pedal,
"Google said earlier this week its adapted vehicles on the road had been involved in 11 minor accidents, but that none were the fault of the technology.
but this produced a Google and an ebay and a number of other standouts.""Peter Barris at the venture firm New Enterprise Associates said investment is flowing
$12 billion The private space exploration firm founded by tech entrepreneur Elon musk announced in January that it raised $1 billion in a round led by Google and Fidelity Investments.
What the EU says Google is doing wrong The European union slapped Google Inc. with antitrust charges Wednesday,
The EU says Google is unfairly favoring its own comparison-shopping service in general search results.
a coffee mug would find Google Shopping results for mugs displayed at the top of the search page,
The EU says part of the reason for competing sites'low rankings is applied that Google different parameters to comparison-shopping services,
The EU pointed out that a previous Google shopping site called Froogle did not use a favorable system
The current Google Shopping product which allegedly uses the favorable system, is experiencing higher growth.
Also under investigation is Google's smartphone operating system, Android. The EU is looking in whether the company is giving smartphone makers unfair incentives for preinstalling Google's applications,
such as the Chrome Web browser and Youtube. The EU is also continuing a formal investigation into concerns that Google copies rivals Web content and places undue restrictions on advertisers a
#Using composite material samples, NRL scientists predict aspects of F/A-18 performance The U s. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has built a robot to pull, bend,
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
#Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant Nosql Database With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new Nosql database offering today that,
but with the added twist that it compatible with the Apache HBASE API which itself is based on Google Bigtable project.
Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google search and Google analytics, so this is definitely a battle-tested service Google promises that Cloud Bigtable will offer single-digit millisecond latency
and 2x the performance per dollar when compared to the likes of HBASE and Cassandra. Because it supports the HBASE API
but it also supports Google Cloud Dataflow. Setting up a Cloud Bigtable cluster should only take a few seconds,
It worth noting that this is not Google first cloud-based Nosql database product. With Cloud Datastore, Google already offers a high-availability Nosql datastore for developers on its App Engine platform.
That service, too, is based on Bigtable. Cory Oonnor, a Google Cloud platform product manager, tells me Cloud Datastore focuses on read-heavy workload for web apps
and mobile apps. loud Bigtable is much the opposite is designed for larger companies and enterprises where extensive data processing is required,
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
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#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,
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