It came in ballast water no question Kerfoot said. Like many aquatic invasive species it was transplanted by ships loading ballast in one part of the world and dumping it in another in this case the Great lakes.
Since Bythotrephes needs cool conditions it has gained not a footing in more southerly waters. But it is having a field day in a band of inland lakes stretching from eastern Ontario to northern Minnesota and in the cooler Great lakes.
The spine can poke right through the wall of the stomach. Right now there's no way to get Bythotrephes out of infested lakes.
Drain all water from bilge live wells ballast tanks etc. before leaving. Dry everything thoroughly before you put your gear in another lake.
The primary highway for invasive aquatic species the ballast tanks of oceangoing vessels entering the Great lakes is still open.
since the St lawrence Seaway opened in 1959 many freighters still release contaminated ballast water into the system.
or a house without any input from a human operator Lee next began to teach the robot to paint lines
Rus says. he current grasping formation may not allow room for a new robot or sensor to join the team.
Friction is all around us, working against the motion of tires on pavement, the scrawl of a pen across paper,
much like two complementary Lego bricks. The team observed that when atoms are spaced so that each occupies a trough in the optical lattice,
Vuletic says. here force building up, and then there suddenly a catastrophic release of energy. he group continued to stretch
and demonstrates building blocks for synchronous logic gates, feedback and cascadability hallmarks of scalable computation. A simple-state machine including 1-bit memory storage (known as lip-flop is demonstrated also using the above basic building blocks.
A new way to manipulate matter The current chips are about half the size of a postage stamp,
to enable everyone to design new circuits based on building blocks we describe in this paper or discover new blocks.
thanks to a moisture mill a turbine engine driven by water evaporating from wet paper strips lining its walls.
Building on last year findings, Sahin and his Columbia colleagues sought to build actual devices that could be powered by such energy.
is that factories using the method can be scaled up by simply adding identical units. With traditional lithium-ion production
For example, although both forms of amino acid molecules the building blocks of life itself can be made in the laboratory,
said Scott Kitchen, the study lead author and a member of the Broad Stem Cell Research center. e also think this approach could possibly be extended to other diseases.
Kitchen also is a member of the UCLA AIDS Institute and an associate professor of medicine in the division of hematology and oncology at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Kitchen and his colleagues were the first to report the use of an engineered molecule called a chimeric antigen receptor,
or CAR, in blood-forming stem cells. Blood-forming stem cells are capable of turning into any type of blood cell,
Previous studies by Kitchen and Zack demonstrated similar results with other T cell receptors, although it is known that HIV could mutate away from those receptors.
Kitchen said the CAR approach is more flexible and potentially more effective because it could theoretically be employed in anyone.
The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
To capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics
who was involved not in the research. f you take the normal conventional civil engineering or chemical engineering approach to treating it, it just won touch it.
Sometimes you can buy tickets at a kiosk other times you have to buy from a driver.
subway or train and another at a kiosk to pay for their pass or put more funds on the card.
their smartphone is the kiosk. So far, the partners have announced only their joint work in Athens. On its own,
pave roads with solar panels that could eventually provide power for street lights and traffic controls, and maybe even homes and electric vehicles.
What the engineers came up with was a system of prefabricated concrete covered by solar panels
and provide electricity for the grid or street lights. The netherlands is not a top producer of solar power,
and NBC News. And even after giving the housing away, the state still saves $8, 000 per year per formerly homeless person.
because they don have housing. This 2001 study inspired Utah efforts. The study tracked 4, 000 people in New york city for four years--two years living on streets,
two years in housing provided by the city. While homeless, they cost the city more than $40
000 for shelter, jail and hospital services. That same amount of money could provide them more permanent housing, comprehensive health care and employment services."
"A considerable amount of public dollars is spent essentially maintaining people in a state of homelessness,"Dennis Culhane,
the study lead author, wrote at the time. The idea is the homeless don end up in jail because theye bad people per se.
when the homeless have to prove theye gotten help before they get housing. Housing comes firstutah housed 17 people in the first year of its program.
The state program is called Housing First --and the fact that housing does come first appears to be a main reason why the initiative is so successful.
Other cities and states provide housing, but no area has come close to Utah success rate.
Today, there are so few chronically homeless people in Utah that the state knows the names and stories of each one.
and slept on the floor the first few weeks she was in her new house.
She had lived with so much disruption that it took that long for her to grasp that the house really was hers.
New york began giving housing to the mentally ill in 1990, but there was some concern the program,
This fourth phase, called NY/NY IV, will create 5, 000 new supportive housing units,
nearly doubling the housing available in the first 25 years of the program. Still, homeless advocates say that well short of the 30,000 units that are needed there.
Washington, D c.,meanwhile, began providing housing to the chronically homeless in 2008 and was on track to essentially end homelessness by next year.
Gimme shelter, please! The homeless challenge cities facehow technology is helping cities help their homelessdata sharing helps NYC improve health and human services deliver d
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.
This action-oriented site helps apartment owners and renters implement energy efficiency in their shared property with templates
to gain insight into community-style apartments, and the needs and expectations of owners and managers.
With a dig once approach, the executive order also aims to help carriers conduct broadband deployments in conjunction with other road construction projects.
Sue Spradley, the executive director of U s. Ignite confirmed in a conference call yesterday that the organization is working closely with the new Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program to engage additional high-speed communities.
Too many cooks in the kitchen: Lots of different states, municipalities, and companies have control and regulation over the way the electrical grid works across the U s,
there was a line of over 100 people waiting to get through security at the White house's Eisenhower Building.
and that means increased density, urbanism, walkability and everything else required to bring our way of life in line with planetary boundaries.
Gen Y housing preferences are the subject of at least two panels at this week s convention.
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
and wind farms to retailers turning to rooftop solar and biogas to power their big box stores and distribution centers,
when the first solar arrays went up on its store roofs in California, the installed costs of Wal-mart Stores Inc. s solar systems have dropped from $6
SWING BIG the same effort it takes to do something small is the same raw effort it take to do something revolutionary You ve done a wonderful building and helping a community
or seek out other established solar panel makers to establish factories there. Photo: Flickr user zigbphotography, CC 2. 0 Related:
An inventory of apartments and rooms that travelers can rent as an alternative to hotels s
#Why teaching toddlers Mandarin chinese is a smart investment Now that China is the world s second largest economy,
which is precisely after the natural window of opportunity to learn a language closes. Every human brain has the capacity to learn a language the same way we learn our native tongue.
they aren't just for big houses and cars anymore. Increasingly, Sarah Goodyear reports for The Atlantic cities, suburbs throughout the United states are investing in bicycle infrastructure.
and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
the technology might even help reduce production costs for large appliances like kitchen refrigerators, Fransen says.
and streets was-1. 4 percent in February 2013 compared to one year earlier. Meanwhile, in 2012, U s. GDP increased 2. 2 percent
The new plastic is made from mushrooms Poking around in my mom s attic recently, I was reminded that I still have the shipping box from my Macintosh SE,
We re also doing building materials as well--replacing foam insulation. It would mostly be commercial. The question is what s the best way to do it.
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Algae technology cleans up fracking Flushing toilets could heat future buildings The lost pets of Fukushima Radiation loving algae comes to Japan s rescu
and It'll Heal Your Wounds in 15 Seconds Flat Bloomberg News reports on an incredible new invention that astounding people across the world and across the web.
the solar panels on the smart highway cover about 75 yards of roadway which is slightly more than you can fit on a roof.
Dexcom own Windows software was pulling data in this way, and fortunately, Dexcom supplied an API (application programming interface) library as part of its software installation.
scientists have developed early warning-systems systems that give people precious seconds to run out of buildings or take cover.
Zizmos asks for volunteers to donate a tiny bit of interior wall space and a power outlet to host a sensor package,
calls sound as if everybody in the same room; you can even hear soft background sounds,
when individual molecules would serve as the basic building blocks for electronics. That day has moved a bit closer thanks to research out of the Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science.
or to govern the processing of crude oil in a refinery. Haidar group is one of a number of academic and corporate teams vying to create a closed-loop system for an artificial pancreas. ach patient is represented by a set of differential equations,
and ensure that most of the heat is emitted out into the room rather than simply heating up the wall behind the heater. hile graphene does offer some attractive properties for reducing wasted energy,
The researchers connected cables to the pedestals, bringing the neural signals to a computer that analyzed them and sent commands to the robot arm.
as if it hitting a flat surface instead of something three-dimensional. The cloak is very thinnly about a tenth the size of the wavelength of the photons it scatteringnd lossless
if it were bouncing off a flat surface. Despite the effect of those height differences, the thicknesses involved are so tiny that the researchers consider this a two-dimensional metasurface,
though the team is working on building a physical version, Kante says. It was designed for the microwave range
For instance, it could shield antennas in cell towers from each other, lowering crosstalk. Or it could make better solar concentrators,
. or the nanowires we needed ten thousand times less precious Gap material than in cells with a flat surface.
Edward Knightly, Rice university Sending wireless data through this 400 megahertz to 700 MHZ slice of spectrum is referred often to as uper Wi-Fibecause of its ability to penetrate through buildings and travel long distances.
TV towers occupy a whole channel no matter how many viewers are watching at a given time,
the researchers see an opportunity to push ahead the state-of-the-art in spintronics. ee just taken ferromagnetism off its pedestal,
On the other side of the fence, ALPS began as brick-and-mortar schools, but some are moving into a hybrid format.
just ask a few of the 20-somethings in your office about how much space they have in their apartments.
Shopify and ebay can use space to both warehouse their goods and then deliver them in urban areas.
the next busker you meet may be able to truly SHRED a little Stairway next to the Cold Stone using electronic effects and an old Fender e
Mobile phone sales overall were 456 million completely flat on Q3 2013. Within the smartphone space, China Xiaomi made its way into the top five for the first time with a sharp rise over a year ago,
while Windows, Blackberry and ther OS? s all continue their declines. In real terms, Windows sales were nearly flat over a year ago on 9 million units.
It very hard to think of how Microsoft will manage to turn this around, and you do have to wonder
but history shows that tech that doesn play well with others gets left behind as collaborative innovation happens outside its walls.
including Alpha House, Betas, Transparent, The After, Bosch, Mozart in the Jungle, Tumble Leaf, Annebots, Creative Galaxy, Hand of God (2015),
I moved to a new house this week and opted for streaming video only with Prime,
and sends the data back to your home office via Wi-fi. It is powered self and can be removed in minutes.
#Microsoft Begins Accepting Bitcoin For Windows Windows phone And Xbox Purchases If you want further proof that Microsoft is going through a transformative phase,
and other digital content on its Windows, Windows phone and Xbox platforms, as the folks at Coindesk noticed today.
And now Sidecar a perhaps lesser mentioned competitor in the taxis-that-aren-actuallyaxis arena that wee come to call idesharingfollows suit.
In short but not-so-simple terms, qualifying businesses are required to a) measure total energy consumption, accounting for 90 percent of usage across all buildings, transport and industrial activities;
allowing IT administrators to manage large groups of Windows-based computer systems, SCCM lacks the capability to provide the accuracy the ESOS audits will require.
and have reported substantial savings from implementing measures as simple as installing motion-sensor lights in hallways and stairwells.
which early in November announced plans to sink $1 billion in building online video content,
By leveraging low-power wireless bands and building a highly distributed network of ultra-affordable base stations (or Helium bridges), it could receive
who are limited often to a small window of financing. All loans are put on Insikt balance sheet for the first few months of their existence,
which means Didi Dache will have far greater resources in China to cement its already strong lead over the U s. firm.
Therefore you d be forgiven for thinking there s little room left for a new enterprise messaging entrant.
An alternative to simply shuttering the windows, though, is to experiment with new technologies to integrate the showroom, the storefront,
and bring the convenience and personalization of online shopping to the brick and mortar space.
and then walk away to enjoy a drink while a store associate curates their personalized fitting room.
she enters a fitting room, equipped with another interactive mirror that allows her to summon the associate for new sizes
A customer can also save her fitting room session. It another function translated from online shopping specifically the online shopping cart.
and it has become an important building block in extending the network into the operating system. Open source projects have performed also significant work on open protocols,
configuring and maintaining it themselves in-house. The goal of this new approach is to put the buying decision into the hands of business units,
Indeed, this is a big step ahead for Bittorrent and another significant step away from its older reputation as a den of unlicensed,
with Marco Weber (Igby goes Down, Unthinkable, The 13th Floor) and Jeff Stockwell (Bridge to Terabithea,
#Apple Will Spend $848 Million Building A Massive Solar Farm In Monterey Tim cook dropped a bit of news in a conversation at the Goldman sachs Technology and Internet conference today:
It easy to produce, easy to warehouse and inexpensive to ship. But if you want to produce large consumer goods
Henry ford led the second Industrial revolution in the 20th century with large assembly-line factories being built on a mass economy of scale.
and manufacture products faster than traditional factory processes. This means less space and materials are required to manufacture products, resulting in a significant reduction in capital costs.
Izak believes that there is plenty of room for educational technology startups to help improve education for children with learning
but the people in Crimea who have otherwise been trying to tap into the rush for engineering talent from Eastern europe by building their own fledgling tech ecosystem
and even then those images were stuck mostly on the walls within their homes. This new technology meant portraits displaying a person current emotion were immediate
to warn when perishables in warehouses might be going bad; that tell you when a piece of equipment is about to fail;
or cool our houses or office buildings; track school busses and use cases we probably haven even imagined.
or the other side of a wall) or being able to use existing lighting infrastructure think LED street lamps to double up as Lifi access points.
or potentially an entire building, while being connected u
#Xiaomi Buys 3%Of Chinese Games And Software Giant Kingsoft For $68m Xiaomi became the world third largest smartphone company based on sales last year
which have silos of data derive benefit from each other as well. m
#Signal Keeps Your iphone Calls And Texts Safe From Government Spies Don want someone else handing your text messages, pictures, video or phone conversations over to the government?
Construction companies are not always first movers when it comes to new technology, but when it comes to drones,
which recently made a deal with Japan Komatsu to enable driverless bulldozers to take instructions from unmanned drones.
The promise of personal drones is one where youl jump into some kind of craft from your rooftop,
Among them, perhaps Flat 6 Labs is known the best. It gave birth to the startup Instabug a platform for in-app feedback for mobile apps,
and instead consist of individual window or wall-mounted units that use an IR-based remote control to vary air temperature and fan speed.
Sensibo is a startup that wants to make the approximately 1 billion climate control devices that aren smart to smart with a little more Nest-like.
and additional units are $80 apiece to let you expand your system to cover multiple rooms.
At the same time, sharing your car can take 10 cars off the streets, which counteracts the increasingly crowded roads, traffic and pollution.
or stated publicly, was that to get this balance there would be a joint committee set up between both houses to consider how to redo RIPA.
a bill already passed in the House that would reform National security agency (NSA), in a rare Sunday session.
It will likely take until the middle of the week for the Senate to pass the House bill,
Passage of the bill would mark the first time lawmakers have reined in the surveillance powers of the intelligence community in the two years since Snowden first revealed the controversial intelligence gathering programs.
but when it passed the House, it said significant changes should be made to strengthen privacy rights. he Senate should not make the same mistake
including Room for indoor monitoring, Weather for outdoor stats, Door & Window for checking open/closed status of those entry points,
and Energy for checking what drawing power and switching them on and off remotely. Using Homekit, ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
Sensors are sold individually at $79. 99 for Eve Room, $49. 95 for Eve Weather, $49. 95 for Eve Energy and $39. 95 for Eve Door & Window,
which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control. Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time,
letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area. With Homekit ecobee3 owners can group actions together for control via Siri,
The Caséta Smart Bridge is a wireless lighting hub that makes up a core part of the Caséta Wireless Lighting Starter Kit from the company.
or off in specific areas of the house you might not be able to see at any given moment.
you can control specific rooms or groups of lights separately, or turn everything off with voice commands.
Lutron Homekit-enabled Caséta Smart Bridge is part of the Lighting Starter Kit that also includes two dimmers
two remotes and two pedestals to hold them. It available at Apple Stores starting today, with a retail price of $229. 95.
including LED bulbs, plug-in lamps, thermostats, wall outlets, cameras, door locks and more. And in addition to its full range of first-party products,
and to allow for two to work in a standard wall outlet at the same time, or to keep one outlet free.
During a recent visit to Thync beautiful offices (theye renovated an old opera hall), I got to strap the startup mood-altering wave generator to the olnoggin.
A kidnapper grabs a person on the street and begins to drive away. A diner at a restaurant starts choking on their food and enters cardiac arrest.
since physical location can no longer be derived from the network topology of the landline PSTN network.
If their warehouse is overflowing with product or they need to meet a sales count quota,
or a meatspace brick-and-mortar glasses shop. Opternative is now the only approved online eye exam.
A $2 million bridge led by Pritzker Group, Jump Capital, and previous investors pushed it through clinical trials.
Opternative Results Ie been finding distant street signs and airport gate numbers a bit blurry, so I took Opternative test myself.
It also building out a touch screen kiosk that could fit inside physical eyewear stores. Seeing clearly can help people learn,
so they and their local governments can see pollution on their own streets. Independent scientific analysis confirmed that the mobile sensor system worked for collecting street-by-street data
and could improve upon the regional network of sensors operated by the Environmental protection agency. Herzl says e hope that one day this information is as accessible as the weather.
He says a faster way to install new capacity is to use his company wireless transmission towers to move data at two gigabits per second.
Many U s. providers are currently scrambling to install fiber to replace the copper cables that still link up around half of all cellular towers,
AOPTIX technology takes the form of a box roughly the size of a coffee table with an infrared laser peering out of a small window on the front,
The Mexican telecommunications company Car-sa recently switched on the first of several links it plans to use to link up cellular towers
and got another half billion from the U s. government in the form of a loan to build a large factory to prove its technology.
At Semprius pilot factory in Henderson, North carolina, that technology can be found inside two glass-enclosed devices, each not much bigger than an office copier.
conventional silicon solar panels still have room to become significantly cheaper and more efficient. New ways of manufacturing silicon wafers, the most expensive part of a solar cell, could cut wafer costs in half
The apex of the device houses a slot for dipping a credit card and there s a built-in receipt printer that will spit out paper from an opening below the customer touch screen.
but##What information do you have in the house that s useful to you that you d like access to when you re not home?
Using the app you can give a battery a name (like living room or kids bedroom) and connect it to your home Wi-fi
and then insert it in the battery compartment of the alarm. Right now Roost has a working prototype in a plastic box about the size of an external hard drive;
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