the NEC team installed a series of 33 sensors at two main sites in the Arlington water system.
On this website, doctors can, together with the patient, easily calculate the odds of recurrence of the disease.
Using non-wetting surfaces as fabrication sites might also lead to improvements in other technology, the study reported,
and thus to the reduction in blood pressure. fter we had found clues in cell culture experiments that a certain docking site for ATP,
and materials to repair such damage lipids are sent to the site of the damage. However
That could help Internet shoppers by showing them how an item of clothing looks and hangs more realistically than is possible with still photos
A startup called Magic Leap, backed by Google, is developing its own wearable augmented reality device based on display technology that similar to Microsoft (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2015:
so you can keep using your phone for battery-intensive things like looking at websites,
though, since an hour of exercise yields about an hour of ormalsmartphone usage, according to Ampy website.
#Google App Puts Neural networks on Your Phone to Translate Signs Offline In recent years Google has used networks of crudely simulated neurons running in its data centers to improve its speech recognition,
build software that learned to spot cats from Youtube videos, and power a photo storage service that knows what in your snaps.
Built into an updated version of Google translation app released today, the technology expands its ability to translate printed text such as menus in a live view through your phone camera.
and translate between them without an Internet connection. That possible because Google engineers created slimmed-down versions of the artificial neural networks it uses in a technique called deep learning (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
Deep Learning. They live inside the translation app and recognize the characters used by the different languages,
Google engineers first trained much larger and more powerful neural networks to find and recognize different letters.
This blog post has more details on how. It the first time Google has used that trick,
but it likely won be the last. Embedding the intelligence that artificial neural networks can provide into gadgets
so they don have to link to the Internet for tasks has clear benefits. Google is not the only company exploring that idea.
Coming changes to the design of the chips and software on mobile devices will make it easier and more powerful.
#Why the Time Seems Right for a Space-Based Internet Service providing Internet access from orbiting satellites concept that seemed to have died with the excesses of the dot-com boomas returned thanks to Spacex founder
000 microsatellites to provide broadband Internet services around the globe. Spacex is partnering with Google and Fidelity Investments,
which are investing $1 billion for a 10 percent stake in the endeavor. Richard Branson Virgin galactic and Qualcomm
Spacex and Virgin galactic also hope to ride a different boom by targeting parts of the world where there is little infrastructure and a huge opportunity for Internet growth.
but Musk has stated that his Internet service would be aimed primarily at providing service to remote areas of the globe. oue got large swaths of land where there is a relatively low density of users,
Besides investing in Musk project, Google is working on a high-altitude balloon-based Internet delivery system called Loon.
And Facebook is developing high-altitude, high-endurance drones to deliver Internet capability to remote areas.
The Google and Facebook projects would be similar in concept to the space-based systems,
while operating within the Earth atmosphere. Whether, as Musk has suggested, Spacex service could also be a viable alternative for customers in the developed world is less certain.
#Google#s Modular Smartphone to Debut in Puerto rico Google vision of cheap modular smartphones made up of interchangeable pieces is getting closer to reality.
Google Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) group revealed the Spiral 2 on Wednesday during a crowded event for software developers at a Google office in Mountain view, California.
Google says that this modular approach, which it calls Project Ara, will lead to inexpensive smartphones that can be customized
But the Spiral 2 prototype also shows how tricky it will be for Google to make a modular gadget successful.
Google prototypes have yet to catch up to existing smartphones on features such as cellular data speeds, for example.
Google says that device will be able to wirelessly transfer data between the modules and endoskeleton, eliminating the need for the spring-pin connectors used currently.
Google plans to start selling Ara phones to customers in Puerto rico as a test market at some point this year, in collaboration with two wireless carriers.
as well as over the Internet. Just as third party apps were crucial to the popularity of smartphones, getting people interested in modular phones will hinge on companies other than Google offering a diverse selection of modules.
Google has started already courting hardware companies to become module developers. On Wednesday the company showed a preview of the online ra Marketplacethat will let developers sell Google-approved modules to consumers.
Google is aiming to have a minimum of 20 modules available when it starts selling phones in Puerto rico. Google has also come up with 11 different reference designs for modules for developers to use.
Electronics giant Toshiba and chip makers Marvell and Nvidia are among those already showing interest;
Toshiba showed off some early camera modules at the conference. But the individual hardware developers I spoke with in the audience were still in the earliest stages of working on modules.
How much Project Ara modules might cost is unclear, but it must be low if Google is to attract people looking for their first smartphone.
Eremenko said in April last year that the bill of materials for a basic Ara handset complete with display, Wi-fi, battery,
Yann Lecun, a data scientist at New york University who leads deep-learning efforts at Facebook (see acebook Launches Advanced AI Effort to Find Meaning in Your Posts,
#Google maps can make sure you never see a"Closed"sign again Google maps has got another incredibly useful feature thanks to a recent update that will warn you
Instead, when you set off Google maps will now show a message that reads"Your destination may be closed
At the moment the update is only available for the Android version of Google maps, but we've reached out to Google to find out
when it will be coming to ios. Via The Telegrap p
#Scientists are turning your gut cells into computers A team of biological engineers at the Massachusetts institute of technology are turning the cells in our guts into computers.
French President, Francois Hollande, said on Tuesday in Paris the government will present a draft law next month that makes Internet operators ccomplicesof hate-speech offenses
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he will travel to the U s. to seek help from the heads of Twitter, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.
This is not just leading to the oppression of every internet user but also makes little sense as potential terrorists will move away from public domains controlled by such large companies to darker areas of the web where they are monitored less-easily.
Moving away from terrorism, surveillance is a controversial subject on a global scale thanks to whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden
and experiences to consumers and business users as the Internet of Everything (Ioe) continues to take shape.
#Human Genes Can Save Yeast WIKIPEDIA, LILLY MA large number of human genes can substitute for their defective counterparts in yeast
about the size of a hand-held torch, houses an electrode that the doctor holds close to the wound site.
the surgeon can move the tip of the needle to the site of surgery with great accuracy.
anonymous accounts will no longer be permitted on many Chinese web services. The Cyberspace Administration of China set the policy today in a statement on the China Communication Network,
and stamping out the casual anonymity that defines US social networks like Twitter and Tumblr. Enforcement of the policy has been left to companies
Sina Weibo, a Chinese micro-blogging service similar to Twitter, has adopted already real-name registration at the urging of the central government,
which could be a prime site for infections. Sorto hasn't had any infections there yet,
a developing technology that uses multiple colors of light to enable high-speed wireless internet access. Currently, LEDS are being used to develop Li-Fi technology,
#Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive post-password certification This morning, the plot to kill the password got a little stronger. 18 different companies received an official FIDO certification for 31 different products,
Google announced support for Yubico keys in October, allowing users to opt for the physical keys rather than the standard four-digit authentication code.
#Facebook is testing a new tool to lock down user logins As services go mobile,
Login alerts will send you an email any time there's a new login, while device management can show you every device that's accessed your account.
You can find versions of those tools from Google Facebook, Paypal, or half a dozen other services,
but most users skip past them, if they even know they're there. Today, Facebook is releasing a new feature that will give those tools a higher profile.
It's called Security Checkup, and should be popping up into select users'News Feeds starting today.
The Checkup will pop-up over top of the site, prompting users to explore"a couple options you have to increase your security."
"From there, Facebook will walk users through password security options and show the computers logged into different Facebook services.
If anything's fishy, it should be obvious from there. Those tools were already available to Facebook users,
but thanks to Security Checkup, they'll be a lot harder to miss. It's a minor update,
Beyond Facebook it's a sign that after a year full of bad security news, a more conspicuous approach to security may be coming back into style e
and a dedicated website to help owners of Shield Tablets purchased between July of last year
A video posted on Youtube last Thursday displayed the technology via a test vehicle equipped with mock-up DADSS,
#Researchers make breakthrough advance towards potentially super-fast Internet A team of researchers from the University of California,
which can result in super-fast and cheap Internet. Highlighting the feat achieved by the researchers,
#Google: Youtube has overtaken cable TV in terms of popularity During Google's 2015 second-quarter earnings call last week,
Google's chief business officer Omid Kordestani revealed that the company's video-sharing service Youtube has witnessed a tremendous growth in popularity over the last one year.
Asserting that Youtube's popularity has surpassed cable TV's popularity for a whole generation of consumers,
Kordestani said that Youtube has seen a threefold increase in the number of homepage visits year-on-year.
According to the details shared by Kordestani, the Youtube video-sharing platform -which was launched by Google back in 2006-now reaches a much higher number of 18-to 49-year-olds in the US than any other cable network in the country.
Kordestani also said that the average length of homepage visits on Youtube has increased 60 percent since last year.
In addition, there has also been a 50 percent year-on-year increase in average visit times on the mobile,
which have reached now 40 minutes per session. Highlighting the fact that"once users are in Youtube,
they are spending more time per session watching videos, "Kordestani said that the increasing popularity of Youtube among the younger demographics can be described as a revolution of"the television experience for the digital age
#HPV Vaccine Is Effective Against Multiple Cancer-Causing Strains The human papillomavirus vaccine, Cervarix, not only has the potential to prevent cervical cancer,
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#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
users will be able to access Google maps, send text messages, query their phones for information, play music storeed in the phone and other functions.
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#These smart glasses know when you need a nap From heart sensors to concussion trackers,
#Apple, Google and 140 others ask Obama to reject ackdooraccess to encrypted data Apple and Google are adding their names to an open letter to President Obama asking him to quash any moves to create ackdooraccess to encrypted data on smartphones and other communication devices.
More than 140 tech firms, civil society organizations, and cryptologists have signed a letter to be sent on Tuesday,
Last year, both Apple and Google revealed they were now encrypting their phonesdata by default,
#Google and Twitter sitting in a tree, putting tweets in search results for you and me In February,
Twitter signed a firehose deal with Google to bring tweets right into Google search results. This week, that integration started rolling out on mobile,
Google is hoping to boost its real-time search chops while Twitter is aiming for more users and engagement.
Yet at the end of the day, this is one of those rare partnerships that benefit the user first
and the companies later (Twitter is getting an undisclosed amount of money from Google, and Google can potentially monetize tweets with its own ads,
but right now it unclear if either will be significant). First and foremost, this partnership means Google users finally have access to Twitter stream.
Because tweets are often full of timely information, this means searching for anything relatively recent on Google will start bringing up messages sent out on Twitter.
Many events often happen on Twitter first, and that data that can be incredibly useful to have indexed for users to quickly find.
Twitter search engine works, but it nothing special. Google is the king of search, and with Twitter data, it suddenly about to get even more useful.
Assuming that Google users find the tweets theye looking for they will only think more highly of the search engine,
and presumably use it more. In this way, Google is next in line as the one to benefit from this new partnership.
You think Twitter would be next, but there actually one more entity to acknowledge: Twitter users.
Yes, we realize there is a big overlap between Google users and Twitter users. Still, if we examine them separately,
it clear they both win. Twitter users start to benefit once incoming Google users act on the tweets they find.
That can be a favorite, a retweet, or even a reply. If that starts to happen at scale,
and Google has plenty of that, Twitter users should see more content on the social network,
especially in relation to tweets that Google deems important and relevant. Last on the list is Twitter itself,
if the company can convert all this new traffic into users who keep coming back. Signing up to engage is one thing
but actually choosing to become an active Twitter user is what the company really needs.
That no easy feat, and so Twitter opportunity to benefit from this partnership requires the most work.
To recap, here the order of winners: Google users, Google, Twitter users, and Twitter. The biggest loser?
#This was a big week for driverless, anti-alcohol, and parking space-sensing cars For fans of automated autos that don need drivers, don like alcohol,
and sniff out empty parking spaces, this was a big week. On Thursday, the federal government National Highway Traffic safety Administration showed a prototype vehicle with alcohol-detection technology.
Called Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety, or a parental-sounding DADSS for short, it features two methods for preventing drunk drivers from driving.
One is a breathalyzer on the steering wheel that reads the driver breath and determines if the blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) level is over 0. 08 percent,
Google has agreed to acknowledge accidents involving the testing of its driverless cars. The new transparency was announced at the end of the week
after Google cofounder Sergey Brin initially said on Wednesday his company would not release such accident reports,
#China Blocks Google's Gmail According to Google, their Gmail service is virtually inaccessible in Mainland china.
After months of disruptions to its service, Google Gmail seems to have finally been blocked by the country reat firewall Large number of Chinese Gmail users said that they haven been able to access their emails for the past four days.
According to Greatfire. org, a China-based freedom of speech advocacy group, e think the government is just trying to further eliminate Google presence in China
Google Transparency Report, which shows real-time traffic to Google services, displayed a sharp decline in the traffic to Gmail from China.
The company stated that there is nothing wrong on their end. The communist government of China maintains a tight control over the nation internet.
It is always quick to act against any signs of dissent or criticism of its party leadership.
The country also has the world most sophisticated internet censorship mechanism. Tech experts call it reat Firewall of China.
Google has been facing problems in the country, since June this year. However, its users could still access email downloads via protocols like Imap, SMTP and Pop3,
which let people communicate using Gmail on apps like the Apple iphone Mail and Microsoft Outlook.
e do not know anything about Google being blocked. China has had consistently a welcoming and supportive attitude towards foreign investors doing legitimate business here.
Tech experts have said that using VPN (Virtual Private Network) seems to be the only answer against Chinese internet censorship.
The VPN allows unhindered access to blocked sites and services
#Google's Algorithm Masters Video games Google has stated that they have developed the first computer program capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in
what has been hailed as a significant step towards true artificial intelligence. According to the engineers at Google, the program (or agent as its developers call it) learnt to play 49 different retro computer games,
and came up with its own strategies for winning. They added that in the future, the same approach could be used to power self-driving cars, personal assistants in smartphones or conduct scientific research in fields from climate change to cosmology.
which is a British company that was bought by Google last year for $500 million, whose stated aim is to build mart machines The team of engineers stated that a total of 49 classic Atari arcade games from the 1980 were utilized as part of the experiment.
#Google Presents Steady Spoon for Shaky Hands Using advanced technology, Google has engineering a spoon that promises to make the daily lives of people suffering from tremors easier.
The spoon uses a number of algorithms and helps in steadying the tremors so that the patients can eat without spilling the food.
However, according to the experts, Google has utilized the technology in a unique way. Dr. Jill Ostrem, a neurologist at the University of California San francisco Medical center, commented t totally novel.
when Google indulged into no-shake utensil business and acquired a small startup called Lift Labs funded by National of Institutes of Health.
Over 10 million people across the globe, including Google cofounder Sergey Brin mother, suffer from tremors and Parkinson disease.
Anupam Pathak, the founder of Lift Lab, appreciated the shift of a four-person startup in San francisco to the colossal Google campus in Mountain view which has encouraged them to enhance their creativity.
Google (x) Life sciences is the department where his team works. It is involved also in developing a contact lens for measuring glucose levels in tears for diabetics
For the Internet backbone which is built largely on fiber optic cables, this has significant ramifications. Before this breakthrough fiber optic signals ran into a limit.
For the Internet this means an infrastructure of supercomputers strategically located at network nodes regenerating
The implications on Internet infrastructure will be significant. Eliminating repeaters will make the Internet cheaper to operate
while increasing the amount of information transmitted through the pipe. So what did these University of California engineers discover to achieve their success?
and THE FUTURIST magazine blog portion of this site are the intellectual property of the authors,
2015-In his latest email blast Peter Diamandis talks about four revolutions in transportation that he expects will take place within this decade.
and can be bought from the Scratch Wireless website as of today. Users won have to pay Scratch anything more for service
and Google is testing out Wi-fi-based mobile wireless services with its Project Fi. Wireless provider T-Mobile also is selling handsets that can make calls
and ability to run apps from the Google Play Store. Scratch also says Wi-fi call quality, multimedia messaging,
managing and navigating the web, emails, and documents; opening a new document; and saving, editing,
For example, to conduct a web search, Hawking previously had to take arduous routes, such as exiting from his communication window,
#Apple, Google urge Obama to reject smartphone backdoor proposals Symantec Apple, Google and other technology companies are petitioning US President Obama to stop new regulations
which may threaten the personal security of mobile devices and communication. As reported by The Washington post,
and Google have taken a different view. In order to restore public trust in mobile devices shown to be vulnerable to the NSA's spying activities,
Google reversed its original decision to enable encryption by default due to legacy issues with older Android operating systems,
#AWS plans 80 MW solar farm In virginia to power eastern US datacenters Amazon web services (AWS) has announced plans for an 80-megawatt solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia.
Once operational in October 2016, AWS says the Amazon Solar Farm US East will be the largest solar farm In virginia,
generating 170,000-megawatt hours of solar power annually that will be pumped into the electrical grids that power AWS cloud datacenters in the eastern and central US.
The Virginia solar farm is part of AWS'larger goal to power its global infrastructure footprint with 100 percent renewable energy.
AWS also claims to operate three carbon-neutral regions--US WEST in Oregon, the US Govcloud,
But even with its grand energy commitments, AWS is criticized still highly--mostly by the environmental organization Greenpeace--for its lack of transparency surrounding energy consumption and the way it sources renewable energy.
For one, Amazon's energy timeline is a lot blurrier than those outlined by Apple, Google and IBM.
AWS does say it expects to run its infrastructure on 40 percent renewable power for by the end of 2016.
So far approximately 25 percent of the power consumed within its global datacenters comes from renewable energy sources, according to a recent blog post by AWS cloud chief Jeff Barr.
In the lengthy post, Barr acknowledged a recent Greenpeace energy report that blasts AWS for being stuck in the"dirty energy past
"On average, AWS customers use 77 percent fewer servers, 84 percent less power, and utilize a 28 percent cleaner power mix,
for a total reduction in carbon emissions of 88 percent from using the AWS Cloud instead of operating their own data centers
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