The humanoid robots Google recently bought are neat but most machines being used or tested by national militaries are, for now, more like robotic weapons than robotic soldiers.
as a spokesman put it in an email interview with Singularity Hub. Sensing and artificial intelligence technologies are sure to improve,
the history of the web suggests that terrorists could find others. Of course, most technologies stumble at first
and three-quarters said they would be excited more in financial services provided by Google, Amazon, Apple, Paypal,
and even data-conditional transactions, in which a script uses a data input such as a regular Google search to monitor real-world events that would automatically trigger disbursements or other actions.
what Internet Protocol has been distributed to information. The blockchain is IP. And through manipulation of that we can build a whole other system.
In the same way that IP and the infrastructure of network nodes that make up the Internet now support functions from e-mail to video streaming
in the same way that second-layer services like Buffer or Hootsuite use the Twitter API to present
and interact with Twitter data in slightly modified or reorganized forms. Efforts to make complex financial functions a part of Bitcoin have been bubbling through 2013,
Google and various automakers have increased their activity and investment toward the goal of self-driving vehicles,
with Google now focusing on fully driverless vehicles for the future, according to a report by IHS Automotive.
Last year, Google adjusted its approach to focus on fully autonomous vehicles that have the ability to operate without a driver at all,
Web 2. 0, cloud, machine learning, storage and enterprise applications. Interconnect performance capabilities are critical to data
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According to the Monsanto website the variety has produced a five-bushel (or about 4 percent) yield advantage in field tests against competitor hybrids.
This article was adapted from Cover crops Dramatically Increase Corn Yields specially In Drought Conditionson the UCS blog The Equation.
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#'Roboclam'Digging Machine As Fast as Natural Burrowers A robot that can dig quickly and deeply into mud or wet sand could one day help lay underwater cables,
and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.
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#Hemopurifier FDA Approved to Filter Ebola Out of Blood in Clinical Study Aethlon Medical, a San diego, CA firm,
accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
Currently sodium cyanide is transported to and from a site, but the researchers developed a modular, self-contained,
particularly when there is no tool attendant on site to verify the checkout process, said Dean Perry, president of Toolhound.
Through an extensive R&d program, Imergy has developed a way to produce flow batteries with vanadium at a 98%purity level that can be harvested from environmental waste sites.
and a quantum internet are just around the corner. here is a big race going on between five
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#Honda Smart Home produces more energy than it uses Wouldn it be great if your house produced more energy than it consumed?
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#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.
As explained on her lab's web page All organisms possess instincts to survive exposures to external stresses by adapting to their environment and to some degree regenerating injured tissues or organs.
I always take the email option. I know I giving up a little privacy when I do that
because the store now has my email and can send me offers. The stores that have offered are clothing stores and
Yesterday one of my local grocery stores Shoprite sent me an email letting me know that it will be offering digital receipts.
According to Shoprite's website this is a new program that is being tested so Il still be receiving paper receipts for now.
#Robots learn to cook with a little help from Youtube When it comes to learning how to cook,
We both turn to Youtube for online tutorials on how to chop garlic or how to whisk mashed potatoes.
#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.
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.
and performance needed for light productivity, social networking, web browsing, and streaming media, such as Netflix, Hulu, or games.
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
Gates himself describes the waste-to-water process on his Gates Notes blog: I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyer belt and drop into a large bin.
These data will be combined with samples taken over the next four years at 60 randomly chosen sites across Sub-saharan africa,
The NPCIL has readied four sites one for each vendor each capable of accepting eight to ten imported reactors.
"says Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website on politics and technology.
Kundra also embraced'cloud computing'by moving all 38,000 employees for WASHINGTON DC onto the Google Apps office suite
and author of the blog CTOVISION. com."And Vivek has racked them up.""""There are three pillars to my agenda,
"We want to launch a data. gov site to make a vast array of government data public."
"Our study got enough interest to put together a series of sites for investigation to lead to potential FDA approval of this particular kit,
Its axle would have selective binding sites. Once the amino acids have been stripped off the axle, the axle would'reload,
'with new amino acids binding to those sites in the right order. Leigh s machine will probably never compete with automated methods of making peptides.
They found that it contains about 70 binding sites for a microrna called mir-7. Micrornas are short fragments of RNA that can block gene expression by binding to
Some have possible binding sites for viral micrornas, which can subvert immune responses. Rajewsky hypothesizes that circular RNA could even interact with RNA BINDING-PROTEINS proteins.
But Dylla suggests that the full text of papers could reside on publishers websites, with agencies just providing links.
which they see as deflecting attention from their own web pages. The embargo time before papers are free could vary by discipline and journal
#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,
had overestimated drastically peak flu levels. The glitch is no more than a temporary setback for a promising strategy,
and Google is sure to refine its algorithms. But as flu-tracking techniques based on mining of web data
and on social media proliferate, the episode is a reminder that they will complement, but not substitute for, traditional epidemiological surveillance networks."
"It is hard to think today that one can provide disease surveillance without existing systems, says Alain-Jacques Valleron, an epidemiologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris,
But the near-global coverage of the Internet and burgeoning social media platforms such as Twitter have raised hopes that these technologies could open the way to easier
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,
Brownstein is one of many researchers trying to harness the power of the web to establish sentinel networks made up not of physicians,
#Europe bets on drug discovery Two sites shuttered by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, one in Scotland and one in The netherlands, will soon be humming again with the work of drug discovery.
#Scientists use 3-D printer to speed human embryonic stem cell research A blog by Scientific American.
And the cloud-based interfaces let him collaborate with doctors in Israel without worrying about repeatedly transferring data on slow Internet connections."
or enter their nesting sites, or take off from the pavement, Brown explains. And that in turn would enable them to survive
Lever now plans to analyse fragments of crust collected from other sites in the Pacific ocean and the North atlantic."
#Wireless brain-computer interface streams thought commands with the speed of an Internet connection Following more than a decade of engineering work,
The researchers say that the wireless BCI is able to stream thought commands via its radio at a rate of 48 megabits per second, about the speed of a home Internet connection.
This is the first time throughout the world that the spinal-cord activation patterns for walking have been decoded Paraplegics still have neural connections (so-called locomotion centers) below the site of the injury
Bear and others discovered that the loss of this gene results in exaggerated protein synthesis at synapses, the specialized sites of communication between neurons.
it binds itself to catalytic sites on its surface. This essentially forms a coating that prevents the fibrils from assisting other proteins in misfolding
The country Center for Research in Legitimacy and Political Protest claims that it has developed a computer program that will sift through social media websites every five minutes looking for signs of organized political opposition.
The Russian site, Izvestia (via Google translate) says that illegal activity and unauthorized actions, according to Russian law, includes:
The software dubbed Laplace Demon after Pierre-Simon Laplace theoretical all-seeing intellect that could calculate the future based on the state of all matter pays particular attention to social media groups known to organize such rallies
Yevgeny Venediktov, Twitter is the main focus for the software. He wrote, e conducted a survey
and found out that it is precisely this social network is not only the leader among social media on the number of hosted links to extremist content,
"Duru wrote in a description of a Youtube video of the hoverboard's record-breaking flight.
did that someone racist post on Facebook really stick in your craw and leave you peeved all morning,
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
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? Users are asked then to participate in a three-minute guided exercise that aims to reduce stress, calm anxiety and increase focus and concentration.
Stress Slows Metabolismthe product website explains the benefits of focused attention training: esearch has shown using an app
Then they compared the daily temperature at sites with contrails above them with similar data from places where there weren any of the man-made clouds in the sky.
Otherwise, the sites were basically similar in terms of land use, cover, soil moisture and air-mass conditions. The researchers found that contrails somehow depress the difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
Is The Internet Really Ruining Your Attention span? e developed a modulation algorithm that increases the throughput of data in visible light communications, Maite Brandt-Pearce,
developed this new way to connect to the Internet. The technology would require no more energy than is used currently to emit light.
a desk lamp that provides an Internet connection when the light is on. Bring The nternet Of Thingsinto Your Homeesearchers have called it i-Fi?
the concept could provide a big boost to connectivity speeds with the potential to use every light in a building as an Internet transmitter. via Phys. or a
Late last year, hi-tech waste management company Bigbelly upgraded two of its waste recycling stations in downtown Manhattan with Wireless internet hubs.
The Wireless internet option essentially turns the trash cans into free public Wi-fi hotspots, providing throughput of 50 to 75 MB per second.
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.
Why would they need space detectives? But it is not so simple. Finding the right pictures means trawling through huge databases of historical satellite data
#Water-splitter could make hydrogen fuel on Mars Making fuel on site for a return trip to Mars may be a step closer.
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.
It wants to hire satellites already in orbit to prospect landfill sites for potentially valuable materials.
If the satellite gives us 1000 potential sites from the 25000 in the UK we would then use drone reconnaissance to get a richer picture of say the wood cover
and was due to be shipped to the launch site in Baikonur Kazakhstan. Recognising the current events in Ukraine we had been engaged in discussions with the government of Canada with respect to a potential delay of the launch of M3m
The memo stated that the suspension includes NASA travel to Russia and visits by Russian government representatives to NASA facilities bilateral meetings email and teleconferences or videoconferences.
and missions further afield (see a map of planned landing sites). The crew of the final Apollo mission lifted off from the moon's Sea of Serenity on 14 december 1972.
It could reveal different episodes of volcanism at the site which is covered with solidified lava.
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
Longmier's team began their first crowdfunding campaign on the Kickstarter website in July. Although they failed to raise their $200
For this mission there is a better than 90 per cent chance of any one of those sites being open Cornwell says.
#Multibillion-dollar race to put internet into orbit The next-generation internet could come from above, with fleets of satellites delivering broadband to under-served areas of the world THE race is on to build a new kind of internet.
A host of companies and billions of dollars are in play, with the ultimate goal of ringing the planet with satellites that will allow anyone, anywhere,
Presently, satellite internet relies on spacecraft that are travelling in geosynchronous orbit at the same speed as Earth rotates.
Added to the time for the other trips your data must take across the rest of the internet,
based In virginia, has provided satellite telephone services and low-bandwidth internet since the late 1990s. Its existing network of 66 satellites is set to be replaced by a new one called Iridium NEXT.
the new satellites will be capable of delivering high-speed internet on a par with what Oneweb and Spacex envisage.
Even internet giant Google has got in on the rush to space investing $1 billion in Spacex's venture.
If the internet service providers that rule the physical infrastructure of the internet start charging web services to deliver content to users,
"Companies like O3b and Spacex are planning to launch internet satellites with masses of hundreds of kilograms,
Cutler says satellite internet will really take off if companies make their equipment small enough to fit in Cubesats small,
it's being fuelled by an internet perspective i
#Running the color gamut If LCD TVS start getting much more colorful and energy-efficient in the next few years,
Choices we are making today about Internet governance and security have profound implications for the future.
And UC Berkeley s Center for Internet Security and Policy will be organized around assessing the possible range of future paths cybersecurity might take.
CSAIL is home to much of the technology that is at the core of cybersecurity such as the RSA cryptography algorithm that protects most online financial transactions and the development of web standards via the MIT-based World wide web Consortium.
That gives us the ability to have our hands on the evolution of these technologies to learn about how to make them more trustworthy says Weitzner who was the United states deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy in the White house from 2011 to 2012 while on leave from his longtime position at MIT.
and obtain real-time biochemical information about disease sites and also healthy tissues which is not always straightforward.
Individuals have access to their personal data via a Web dashboard or smartphone but companies are given only anonymous aggregated results of patterns and trends in behavior.)
They also found evidence of communication overload where high volumes of email due to lack of face-to-face interaction were causing some employees difficulty in concentrating
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.
or a specific sequence of single stranded-dna DNA into a targeted site. However this DNA is produced only when activated by the presence of a predetermined molecule or another type of input such as light.
After the DNA is produced the recombinase inserts the DNA into the cell s genome at a preprogrammed site.
compared with today more common 260-foot towers. hat site-dependent, Smith adds. f you go somewhere in the Midwest where there open plains,
but to do so with considerable mobility, enabling immediate transport to a construction site, streamlining delivery and increasing construction efficiency.
similar to zoomed-in perspectives on Google maps. magine we can project a bunch of apartments in Cambridge,
and Twitter to name a few. In the mobile marketeta Devices commercial success is in part a product of engineering ingenuity intersecting with business acumen at MIT.
White blood cells can find their way to the site of an infection while scar-forming cells migrate to the site of a wound.
But finding ways of guiding artificial materials within the body has proven more difficult. Now a team of researchers at MIT led by Alfredo Alexander-Katz the Walter Henry Gale Associate professor of Materials science and engineering has demonstrated a new target-finding mechanism.
#Untangling how cables coil The world fiber-optic network spans more than 550,000 miles of undersea cable that transmits e-mail, websites,
#MIT launches Laboratory for Social Machines with major Twitter investment The MIT Media Lab today announced the creation of the Laboratory for Social Machines (LSM), funded by a five-year, $10 million
commitment from Twitter. As part of the new program, Twitter will also provide full access to its real-time, public stream of tweets,
as well as the archive of every tweet dating back to the first. The new initiative, based at the Media Lab, will focus on the development of new technologies to make sense of semantic and social patterns across the broad span of public mass media
social media, data streams, and digital content. Pattern discovery and data visualization will be explored to reveal interaction patterns and shared interests in relevant social systems,
Though funded by Twitter, the LSM will have complete operational and academic independence. In keeping with the academic mission of LSM, students and staff will work across many social media
and mass media platforms including, but not limited to, Twitter. he Laboratory for Social Machines will experiment in areas of public communication
and social organization where humans and machines collaborate on problems that can be solved manually or through automation alone, says Deb Roy,
and who also serves as Twitter chief media scientist.""Social feedback loops based on analysis of public media
""With this investment, Twitter is seizing the opportunity to go deeper into research to understand the role Twitter
"says Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter.""As social media leads us into the emergence of a new era of communication and engagement, the LSM,
in collaboration with Twitter, will create analytical tools to help turn the vision of a new public sphere into reality,
"adds Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab T
#High-speed biologics screen MIT engineers have devised a way to rapidly test hundreds of different drug-delivery vehicles in living animals making it easier to discover promising new ways to deliver a class of drugs called biologics
or check email surreptitiously under the table that can be electrifying force for the enterprise,
whether the primary cancer has moved to a new site to generate metastatic tumors, Dao says. his method is a step forward for detection of circulating tumor cells in the body.
sales, opening a Web platform to users, and hiring. e needed a sounding board, Knezevic says. e go into meetings
which has amassed a vast facial-expression database is also setting its sights on a mood-aware Internet that reads a user s emotions to shape content.
The broad goal is to become the emotion layer of the Internet says Affectiva cofounder Rana el Kaliouby a former MIT postdoc who invented the technology.
Still in their early stages some of the apps are designed for entertainment such as people submitting selfies to analyze their moods and sharing them across social media.
One of Affectiva s long-term goals is to usher in a mood-aware Internet to improve users experiences.
Imagine an Internet that s like walking into a large outlet store with sales representatives el Kaliouby says.
Websites and connected devices of the future should be like this very mood-aware. Sometime in the future this could mean computer games that adapt in difficulty and other game variables based on user reaction.
this didn t change#until companies began bringing Wireless internet access into hotel lobbies libraries airports and other public places.
or other apps and of course websites like Amazon or Netflix track your browsing history in the interest of making personalized recommendations.
For years, Li-Shiuan Peh, the Singapore Research Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT, has argued that the massively multicore chips of the future will need to resemble little Internets,
pulling it slightly toward the leak site. That distortion can be detected by force-resistive sensors via a carefully designed mechanical system (similar to the sensors used in computer trackpads),
By now most people feel comfortable conducting financial transactions on the Web. The cryptographic schemes that protect online banking
you may want your family to be able to share the pictures you post on a social-networking site.
DIG is directed by Tim Berners-Lee the inventor of the Web and the 3com Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT and it shares office space with the World wide web Consortium (W3c) the organization also led by Berners-Lee that oversees the development of Web protocols like HTTP XML and CSS.
DIG s role is to develop new technologies that exploit those protocols. With HTTPA each item of private data would be assigned its own uniform resource identifier (URI) a key component of the Semantic web a new set of technologies championed by W3c that would convert the Web from essentially a collection of searchable
text files into a giant database. Remote access to a Web server would be controlled much the way it is now through passwords and encryption.
But every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data it would also send a description of the restrictions on the data s use.
It s not that difficult to transform an existing website into an HTTPA-aware website Seneviratne says.
But using standard Semantic web techniques it would mark that record as derived from the PCP s record
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