#A day without serious crime? Cities reap real benefits from predictive policing Can you imagine a day without serious crime?
Or a double-digit decline in crime rates without a double-digit increase in the size of your police force?
officers are increasingly able to stop them before they commit crimes. How it works Microsoft Domain Awareness System gets most of the attention for its work in preventing crimes.
Police departments can use it to analyze trends and other data so that they know where crimes are most likely to occur
and assign officers accordingly. But it also goes beyond that. It impossible to prevent every crime
so the system also helps officers be more effective when theye responding to calls. While officers are on the way,
they can receive information about other incidents in the area, the crime history there, and the criminal record of any suspects.
Investigators can map crime history both by location and time to reveal trends. And if a radiation alarm goes off,
A day without serious crime New york, which has been working for decades to reduce crime, continued to make dramatic progress after deploying the Domain Awareness System in 2012.
There were 35%fewer murders last year than in 2011. Car thefts are down 17%.%Robberies are down 16%.
%The Foothill area of Los angeles actually went an entire day without serious crime last year,
On an annual basis, the amount of serious crime was cut by nearly a quarter.
And they already collect crime data. It the analytics that truly make all that useful,
enough to keep the juice flowing in a single-person residence. How does it work?
#Utah nearly eliminates homelessness with solution that sounds too simple to work It sounds like a solution a child might offer:
How do you end homelessness? Give them homes. Most people would dismiss that answer as a crazy idea,
Utah cut homelessness by so much that it now tracks the remaining homeless by name--not number.
"A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,
One woman kept her belongings on the bed and slept on the floor the first few weeks she was in her new house.
and was on track to essentially end homelessness by next year. Instead, the city support stalled after a few years.
Also, as the Eco-Business article notes, cities in Asia and Africa will be responsible for 90%of the world's population growth until 2050.
Developed in the suburbs of Buenos aires by INTA's rural engineering division, the yellow and white robot resembles a child's Tonka truck (the chassis) with a lighthouse (the sprayer) strapped to the top.
"In this industry we have family producers who don invest a lot. If we were to develop something great at a very elevated price,
Some block cell death and protect damaged tissue exposed to radiation; others replace cells lost to exposure.
Ex-RAD from Onconova inhibits certain proteins involved in the regulation of cell death. The molecule has been tested safety in more than 50 people, with few adverse effects reported.
The task force turned to crowdsourcing to develop a design for the memorial to the passengers and crew of Flight 93.
richest companies abandoned this idea as a red flag. Not Feedly, Digg, AOL, Newsblur, and others,
retirees and even families are able to simply abolish their use of cars. Especially in the U s.
and even the National Basketball Association are leveraging APIS to open up new markets and advance product innovation.
but Hammond's personal goal is to create content for every little league player in the country so the team member's family can read about their performance.
Every child up until about adolescence is capable of learning a second or third or fourth language as long as they have an immersion experience.
If a child is immersed by a native speaker at least once a week for a significant period of time,
but from a child s perspective, they are in an exciting parents and tots program that happens to be in another language.
as long as your child learns a language young. The decision should be driven by two things: What language is most likely to have reinforcement outside the classroom?
Which language do you think will give your child the biggest advantage in the future? Some parents end up enrolling their children in more than one.
We have a child who has taken all five of our languages. He turned 10 and just recently graduated from the program.
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where the length of the mercury column in a capillary is controlled by the thermal expansion of the mercury in a reservoir connected to the capillary.
Tuning the voltage allowed them to control the length of the metal column in the capillary.
My family primarily uses ios devices, but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
a skeletal wraith on the left, a rosy-cheeked child on the right. But the promise of insulin has yet to be fulfilled.
whose child goes to a first sleepover, says Jorge A. Valdes, chief technical officer of Dexcom,
The source of college funding changed from family wealth to federal loans. Most importantly, the goal of attending college moved from holistic education and a future in academia and research to career development and jobs.
when they started families and millennials want to live closer to each other and where the action is.
which supports companies that solve social problems. Furthermore, the South korean government recently announced that it plans to reduce regulations on industries such as financial technology
but let them experience the hacker culture, and collaborate with really different thinkers of this world,
its employees (and their families) in unencrypted Excel and Word files and carelessly shared emails.
The Sony hack has displayed a lot about the failing of our modern, wired corporate culture. Like just how casual internal company HR employees treat email communication, for example.
But more importantly, employees dealing with sensitive information seem not to understand that email is not a place where an HR employee needs to be detailing a child medical treatment,
where that treatment is taking place, the child name, how the child was doing in treatment, and more.
Sony, and likely other organizations that are currently fortunate enough to not have their poor security policies exposed,
or which child medical claims were being denied. The media has reported, however, that is the kind of information these documents contain.
According to the China National Tourism Association (via China Travel Guide) the number of Chinese travellers visiting foreign countries have grown drastically over the last several years as China economy has expanded its number of moneyed citizens
This is in addition to The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation (LAAF), Saban Family Foundation, CUNY,
but also raise red flags, it makes more sense than ever for tech startups to adopt a policy of radical openness:
such as exclusive partnerships or extensive restrictions, in all likelihood means signing your own death sentence. Hold up Apple as a shining exception
A company that starts out with a closed paradigm and later chooses to open up will have a tough time rerouting company culture
Utah leads the nation in depression and suicide. Doctors prescribe antidepressants in the Beehive state at nearly twice the average rate in the U s. Speculation as to
Utah Smartcare is funded a grant project in association with Cambia Health Foundation. It aims to use technology to improve the quality and cost of healthcare for underserved populations in the state.
which follows the story of a family dealing with the late-in-life revelation that the family patriarch (Jeffrey Tambor) is transgender.
and director David Fincher and actress Robin Wright both brought home a statue for their work.
it also planting the flag for an entire ecosystem of startup companies engaged in overturning the ways in
Kinsa s Fluency program begins with a campaign that lets schools sign up to receive free Kinsa thermometer kits for each family.
An enthusiast gaming rig typically has one CPU and one to four graphics cards, each of which generate enough heat to warrant one of Coolchip fans.
#Users will then also be able to spec out additional Spaces on the device as they desire#such as for instance a child-friendly bucket with access to a sub-set of apps.
and contributes weekly to art & culture magazine Beautiful/Decay. With online sales up 17%and physical retail down 11%,it no wonder retailers large and small are increasingly living online.
and evolve with the child as he or she grows. Cognitoys, as the toy line is being called,
instead inside the device and the toy gets to know the child, engage the child,
and includes a variety of specific educational content that infused into the interaction. t provides educational benefit, beyond just the play, Coolidge notes.
And due to its connected nature, the toy becomes smarter the more it used both by the child him or herself,
the next child to ask the same question will now have an answer. Aimed at those ages four to seven
The team also points out that the toy doesn answer everything a child might ask,
For example, if a child asks where babies come from, the toy tells them to go ask a parent instead.
Meanwhile, parents can customize the system with some basic information like the child name and age
and they can then monitor their child learning progress in real-time, using a cloud-based connected dashboard.
the startup has a small amount of funding from friends and family, but will likely raise a seed round in the future.
or even a possible pregnancy. lot more healthcare is going to happen in the home in the future,
#Bittorrent Teams Up With Rapid Eye Studios To Make Young Adult Original Content Last November,
the content should be aimed at young adults between 14 and 25, and it needs to be new and fresh.
and a robust arts culture and one day we hope to be able to bring their work to our global audience of over 57 million members.
He says he was just building something he thought could have saved him some trouble one time on a trip home to Argentina. was trying to bring a bunch of electronics some ipads home to my family for Christmas.
but his family had to wait a week after Christmas for their gifts. What was a horrible experience for him
and his family sparked an idea. Make a trackable suitcase. Saez-Gil had previous experience in travel tech with another startup called Wehostels that hooked up travelers with hostels (sold to Studentuniverse.
More importantly, deep fragmentation between language and cultures meant humans from different backgrounds were unable to effectively communicate with each other.
Wide adoption of a set of unicode ideograms helped people of different cultures to communicate with one another
which is governed by the Cyberspace Administration of China as this would be consistent with previous man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks in China. iven the dangerous nature of this attack on Outlook we again strongly encourage organizations including Microsoft
and less diverse samples that might not be generalizable to the world population. With Researchkit, researchers can build out a medical testing app for ios that accessible to people far from their physical lab. Users can signup with a digital signature,
With a burgeoning family of hardware and smart home products including an air purifier blood test device smart TV
Nevertheless with a population of 144 million people and a strong tech culture the country represents a lot of emerging market opportunity for Apple (and others.
for Real estate. Now the company is launching a way for them to focus on investing in specific markets around the U s. Realtyshares works to crowdfund available real estate investments allowing investors to put in as little as $5000 into single-family homes multifamily homes and even commercial
If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death the drone will casually back out of the way.
especially when they are sending salaries they have earned in the hope of supporting their families back home. or its part,
When every family on the planet has access to a smartphone with fast Internet, the paradigm changes.
if a family was living in a school catchment area. So there a clear need for ripping up RIPA and starting again.
and when people do have snooped their data on it only used in a very serious process of tracking down organised crime and terrorism?
which you apply to your temple and neck. When you open Thync app, it quickly connects to the module
Instead, it uses tiny pulses of electricity to stimulate the skin at your temple, which then activates the instinctual fight-or-flight response in your brain to indirectly affect emotional response.
there will be moments when mere seconds can make the difference between life and death. A fire starts in a home
and I really wanted a simple way to send donations to our local church, which typically collected cash
Beyond the fact that Smart Vision is working to solve a problem that can improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world
#Technology and Inequality The signs of the gapeally, a chasmetween the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon valley.
Yet an estimated 31 percent of jobs pay $16 per hour or less, below what is needed to support a family in an area with notoriously expensive housing.
It hard not to wonder whether Silicon valley, rather than just exemplifying this growing inequality, is actually contributing to it,
The desire to understand why inequality seems to be reaching such troubling levels no doubt accounts for the remarkable success this year of The french academic economist Thomas Piketty Capital in the Twenty-first Century,
And the inequality has gotten only worse since the last recession ended: the top 1 percent captured 95 percent of income growth from 2009 to 2012,
Wage inequality in the United states is robably higher than in any other society at any time in the past,
by his calculations. he standard explanation for rising inequality is the race between the demand and the supply for high skills,
But this is not All in order to explain why rising inequality has been so strong at the very top in the U s.,one needs more than a skill-based explanation.
In Britain and France the overall rise of inequality is less dramatic, but in those countries something else is happening that could be even more worrisome:
a Harvard economist and Nobel laureatehat inequality diminishes as countries become more technologically developed and more people are able to take advantage of the resulting opportunities.
so at a time of increasing soul-searching about the role technology plays in exacerbating inequality. t just seems so obvious to
the explanation for the rise in inequality is not a simple one. Specifically, the role technology is playing is contested complexnd.
Racing Ahead y reading of the data is that technology is the main driver of the recent increases in inequality.
But beyond an agreement that growing inequality is a problem, their thinking could hardly be more different.
Brynjolfsson lists several ways that technological changes can contribute to inequality: robots and automation, for example, are eliminating some routine jobs
Stay in School The exploding wealth of the very rich is only one part of the story of inequality.
And that drives income inequality: demand for highly skilled workers rises, while workers with less education and expertise fall behind.
Hence wages for these jobs dropped throughout much of the 2000s, further worsening income inequality.
The implications for inequality are significant: it could mean that the market for middle-skill jobs may be stabilizing
It an unusual spot of optimism in the inequality discussion. But the underlying problem for much of the population remains. e have a very skill-driven economy without a very skilled workforce,
when asked about inequality in the region. have more questions than answers. I can explain it.
There no longer a middle class. The economy is bifurcated and there nothing in the middle. He blames globalization for wiping out the semiconductor industry
and other support services. here used to be a ladder to get into the middle class, and some sense of mobility, Hancock says.
It a simple formula for income inequality and poverty. But the nature of technology itself seems to have made it worse.
digital technologies inevitably mean you can generate billions of dollars from a low employment base. here used to be a ladder to get into the middle class,
If economists are right that income inequality is fueled by disparities in skills and education, then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
Sprawling across some of Silicon valley most prized real estate in Los Altos Hills, the community college draws students from all over the region.
but no one else in her family had gone to college, and she couldn imagine leaving home to do so.
Now, at Foothill, she works with families and local communities to expand the ambitions of students from backgrounds like hers. iketty says the best predictor of access to universities is parentsincome,
actually have nets. ne of the largest and most prominent debates in social sciences is the role of technology in inequality,
director of Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. But ne fact that everyone agrees on, he says,
is that the income gaps between those with different levels of education ccount for a good share of the inequality.
Dirty Words Understanding what causes income inequality is important because different answers suggest very different policy solutions.
and Ronald Reagan in the late 1970s and early 1980s jump-started the growth of income inequality seen today in Britain and the United states. Indeed,
As Sean Reardon, a sociologist at Stanford, points out, differences in educational achievement are associated now more closely with family income than they are with factors that have been more important in the past,
Inequality in education is not only hurting the chances of poor children to get ahead, says David Grusky.
But if differences in educational achievement based on family incomes are really what driving inequality, Grusky worries,
That why asking whether technology causes inequality is the wrong question. Instead, we should be asking how advancing technologies have changed the relative demand for high-skill and low-skill workers,
many will surely be left wondering whether the future looks more like Silicon valley high-tech dynamo driving economic prosperity and wealth inequality at oncer,
one man who was trying to rescue them died. Herr's frostbitten legs were amputated below the knees.
Our culture is trained to think about a person with an unusual body or mind as weak Herr says.
Promethease was created by a tiny, two-man company run as a side project by Greg Lennon
The mood was one of civil disobedience. on let the man stop you from getting genotyped,
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
Now Viney Dixit and buddies at the Hydrogen energy Center of Banaras Hindu University in India say they have discovered that carbonized coconut flesh is particularly good at this task.
A sequencer this small might one day let police read off a genome from a spot of blood at a crime scene or permit doctors to pinpoint viruses in the midst of an epidemic.
Partners already working with Intel include Microsoft s Skype unit the movie and gaming studio Dreamworks and the 3-D design company Autodesk according to Achin Bhowmik general manager for Intel s
Recording fingerprints from infancy into early childhood and adulthood would also allow countries to link civil registries such as birth
and death certificates to health care records school enrollments and voter registration. The Michigan State university researchers needed to process images taken from fingerprint sensors using software to compensate for the small size of the children s fingerprints as well as their sometimes wet and oily skin.
The huge amount of training data allows the machine to build enough associations with the data points in the pictures that it can then use additional properties of the image to estimate the depth.
The effect could be applied in navigation and gaming applications, and it suggests possibilities in mobile and wearable technology as well.
Families affected by Phelan-Mcdermid syndrome, a rare condition in which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
and more. The goal is to create a central repository where researchers can examine multiple sources of data simultaneously.
#Mathematicians Explain Why Social Epidemics Spread Faster in Some Countries Than Others Psychologists have puzzled always over why people in Sweden were slower to start smoking and slower to stop.
In January 1964, the U s. Surgeon general Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health published a landmark report warning of the serious health effects of tobacco.
because it kick-started a global campaign to reduce the levels of smoking and the deaths it causes.
the patterns of smoking all over the world have changed dramatically. In the U s.,the numbers of smokers peaked in 1965
While the general pattern of smoking has been similarn increase in numbers followed by a decreasehe rate of change has been dramatically different from one country to another.
In other words, some countries adopted smoking more quickly and stopped smoking more quickly than others. That raises an important question.
These guys have gathered the largest historical data set on smoking ever compiled and study how its prevalence is correlated with the types of societies involved.
Treating smoking like an epidemic in this way finally reveals what going on. They say their results can explain the rate of change of smoking in various industrialized countries.
And they say the crucial difference is the level of individualism in each society. Perhaps the most extreme difference in smoking patterns come from the U s
So the Swedes adopted smoking more slowly, peaked later, and then stopped smoking at a slower rate than people in America.
And yet the Swedes had access to the same data about the dangers of smoking at more or less the same time.
a Dutch social psychologist who developed ways to measure a set of cultural dimensions for comparing cultures.
Sweden was much slower to adopt smoking and much slower to stop. Now Lang and co think they know why.
The model reveals why Sweden stopped smoking more slowly. ur model suggests that social inertia will inhibit decisions to stop smoking more strongly in collectivistic societies than in individualistic societies,
the social freedoms in individualistic societies allow anybody to make a decision to stop smoking more easily.
It shows that differences in culture affect the dynamics of social spreading processes in a measurable way.
That will be crucial for the way that governments design strategies to help people stop smoking. nterventions designed to discourage smoking should be tailored diferently in societies or social groups
whose cultures differ in how they value individualism versus collectivism, say Lang and co. What more,
scientists from Harvard university, led by George Church, say theye created big advances to the method which people need to start worrying about.
#Amazon s Zocalo Cloud Service Casts a Shadow over Startups In the 1990s Microsoft became identified with the Death Star partly by enticing developers to build applications (such as Wordperfect
as well as adults and children with rare diseases. Because all Britons are members of the National Health service,
if it does not transmit to a substantial number of people outside of a family and its social circle.
In an analysis of nearly half a million women published in the June 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association,
Kopans says the cost of the equipmenthich works out to around $15 per patient screenedhould be weighed against the cost of treating a woman who develops advanced breast cancer,
In museums it could pull up Wikipedia articles when focused on a piece of art (Amazon says that it will add image-recognition for artwork to Firefly later in the year).
including suicide rates three or four times that of the general public. But drugs and talk therapy are limited of use
because the risk of death from infectious disease is extremely likely). Children with this genetic condition have been treated with the additive gene therapy method in the past,
By Susan Young Rojahn on May 23, 2014 WHY IT MATTERS The World health organization predicts that diabetes will be the seventh-leading cause of death by 2030.
The researchers tested their implant in five adult rats and found that a certain stimulation pattern could reduce the rodents blood pressure by 40 percent without any major side effects.
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