In what can be described as the Netscape moment for agriculture technology, the sector had a breakout year in 2014,
Founders Fund, Li-Kai Shing Horizons Ventures, Jerry Yang (Yahoo), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), and Eduardo Saverin (Facebook).
And even further out there, New york-based Modern Meadow is printing meat and leather products with 3d technology.
#Square Brings Accountability To Email Marketing Square is in the process of building up a series of products and services that use its payments platform as a foundation.
is an email marketing tool gives physical businesses the same advantages of online stores. Square Marketing is a set of tools that lets brick
Email marketing has grown more sophisticated over the years, and the space is crowded with companies like Mailchimp, Marketo,
They might bounce out to an email tool to craft a campaign and send it to a list of emails gathered via paper,
or by hand using clerks at the counter. A retail store I worked at used to gather them by requiring an email with every transaction
but that requirement can slow down transactions, and is really only practical if a user terminal was involved in the flow.
And half the time you end up with fake emails and unverifiable information. Square data is already easier to gather
the Square flow asks them for an email for a receipt and because youe talking about money here people are more likely to give accurate info.
All of that leads to a Square business having a core list of emails for customers that is ready to act on.
Already youe far ahead of a dumb list of emails, which contain no such contextual data.
You can also add your own lists of emails gathered via conventional means. You can choose groups based on trends that youe seeing
show you delivery data as well as eadnotifications for your emails. But Square takes the next step here by allowing you to actually see
if those customers take action on your email with a visit and a purchase. It hard to overstate the importance of being able to directly track the return on your investment in this email marketing by equating it with dollars spent in your establishment.
Unless youe been in small business retail or sales and have tried to craft a marketing campaign
The emails are affordable, if a bit pricier than similar levels in services like Mailchimp. You can pay $0. 10 per email on an s you gobasis or $15/mo for unlimited emails to 500 customers.
The cost isn quite analogous to any other service because of Square unique ability to track customer visits
It lets them cut down on the number of moving parts they have to keep track of to make their email marketing effective.
a CRM, an email service and tracking software to attempt to link those emails to return customers hey can just click a link in the insights dashboard of their Square account.
Square says that sellers using the service have seen open and redemption rates that are double the ndustry averageand that Square sellers generated almost $1m in sales tied to promo redemptions.
slick analytics tools and cleverly executed email marketing will lead to new business, not just retention and satisfaction.
and can be played either as a web app via the Code Kingdomssite, or as an ios app.
and dig sites using flight plans generated Airware Ground Control Station. Users simply draw out a geofence for the drone to stay within
It just added investment from Intel capital to the money from GE, A16z, Kleiner, First Round, Google Ventures,
It consists of a barebones web app that can be used as the nucleus of new game designs or alternative applications.
the site couldn keep up with the traffic due to an influx of users looking to help. hrough games,
As of today, you can pre-order the Naked Filter bottle on their website; it ships this summer.
#Google Launches Cloud Bigtable, A Highly Scalable And Performant Nosql Database With Cloud Bigtable, Google is launching a new Nosql database offering today that,
but with the added twist that it compatible with the Apache HBASE API which itself is based on Google Bigtable project.
Bigtable powers the likes of Gmail, Google search and Google analytics, so this is definitely a battle-tested service Google promises that Cloud Bigtable will offer single-digit millisecond latency
and 2x the performance per dollar when compared to the likes of HBASE and Cassandra. Because it supports the HBASE API
but it also supports Google Cloud Dataflow. Setting up a Cloud Bigtable cluster should only take a few seconds,
It worth noting that this is not Google first cloud-based Nosql database product. With Cloud Datastore, Google already offers a high-availability Nosql datastore for developers on its App Engine platform.
That service, too, is based on Bigtable. Cory Oonnor, a Google Cloud platform product manager, tells me Cloud Datastore focuses on read-heavy workload for web apps
and mobile apps. loud Bigtable is much the opposite is designed for larger companies and enterprises where extensive data processing is required,
Imagine a world in which there is no need to remember a slew of passwords and PINS for various sites.
the team thinks there are long-term possibilities to build an Internet-of-Things model that could tell consumers how much water
and at Google and Apple campuses. Theye racked up some impressive investors including Tim cook and Eric Schmidt.
Facebook, Google and Microsoft are pouring billions into VR/AR research and acquisitions, and dominate headlines with each new build.
Late last week the agency trailed a ajor science findingfrom its ongoing exploration of the red planet showing continued savvy at NASA social media mission to sustain public interest in space exploration.
Investigating the RSL sites themselves to probe for life is challenging, according to NASA, because the streaks have so far only been observed on steep slopes.
In the study, the researchers studied liver function in mice following long-term exposure to carbon tetrachloride, a chemical commonly associated with Superfund sites.
The site, about 30 miles northwest of Johannesburg, has yielded some 1, 550 specimens since its discovery in 2013.
The researchers announced the discovery Thursday in the journal elife and at a news conference in the Cradle of Humankind, a site near the village of Magaliesburg.
They said they were unable to determine an age for the fossils because of unusual characteristics of the site,
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#Editing our genes In April this year, a team of Chinese researchers created a global uproar
She told TOI the technology is a"site-specific DNA`scissors, 'allowing researchers to cut
first, a piece of RNA is created for unzipping a DNA strand at the target site;
"The remarkable aspect is that the ability to target a new genomic site simply requires one to alter the sequence on the GUIDE-RNA-this makes the technique really democratic in its ease of use.
#Robot journalist introduced in China A Chinese internet company has developed a robot journalist, who has written its first news story.
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain o bypass the injured spinal cord
along with a Youtube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord
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When paired with an internet-connected smartphone camera, the Ultrascope will also be able to take high quality photographs
they now announce on their website. These tests took place in a vacuum chamber. The zero gravity 3d printer used in space.
Then again, what better way is there to reach the socially connected in-crowd than through social media-driven crowdfunding itself?
Until then, users can register to win a free OLO 3d printer through their social media contest by taking a picture and posting it to Instagram with the hashtag#olo3d p
With access to a satellite internet connection photovoltaic panels, and a 3d printer, any plastic and possibly ceramics or even metal (with binder jetting or future wire melting technologies) objects could be produced anywhere in the world.
Even complex parts could be assembled in a second phase with internet instructions. What is interesting about Dr Wong latest project is focused that she on a very basic,
which would allow the application of this stimulation to the scaffold once implanted on the damaged bone site.
which phosphates are added at key sites to influence the function of PER2. This hosphoswitchleads to two alternative fates for PER2:
respectively So placing two different populations of GEMS at the same site makes it possible to track changes in two different variables at the same time--a capability the researchers demonstrated by placing GEMS with two different dimensions in the same location and detecting
ZEISS is present in over 40 countries around the globe with about 40 production facilities, over 50 sales and service locations and service locations and approximately 20 research and development sites.
Application and service specialists support customers around the globe in demo centers and on site.
Additional production and development sites are in Oberkochen, Gottingen and Munich, as well as in Cambridge in the UK and Peabody, MA and Pleasanton, CA in the USA.
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and now sells Nanosave N1-Organic from their website and it is available directly from Amazon.
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as well as specific sites where Nano-85 and the P domain formed bonds. According to Hansman,"this is,
"Interestingly, the investigators found that the site where Nano-85 bound to the P domain was hidden actually under the viral particle's surface."
"From the virus's point of view, this could be a strategy to keep potentially vulnerable sites protected from attack,
while a first pulse excites the sample under study, a second pulse monitors the change in the sample.
#EPGL Challenges Google in Smart Contact lens Revolution EP Global Communications, Inc. announces a challenge to Google to confirm it is speed up to with EPGL in the smart contact lens revolution.
A year ago, Google announced with great fanfare that it had developed a smart contact lens for monitoring glucose levels.
Google also announced that they possess technology for an"Autofocus"contact lens. Various executives from Google were quoted as saying that smart contact lenses could help millions of people in the future
and other technology writers and industry executives have predicted a multi-billion dollar market is coming.
EPGL fully agrees with Google on this point. EPGL has several patents pending now in the smart contact lens arena
Today, EPGL is issuing a challenge to Google to update the world on their smart contact lens progress
EPGL is challenging Google to make an announcement by August 31, 2015 that it has solved for the critical Silicone Hydrogel mass market production challenges as EPGL has."
"Google is an incredible company with incredibly talented engineers and executives. We have nothing but respect for them,
#MRI SCANNERS can Non-Invasively Steer Cells with Nanoparticles to Tumour Sites Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI SCANNERS have been used since the 1980s to take detailed images inside the body-helping doctors to make a medical diagnosis
which have been injected with tiny super-paramagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIOS), to both primary and secondary tumour sites within the body.
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#Structured Illumination Microscopy and SPA Help Study SPB Duplication in Living Yeast Cells Cellular mitosis depends in part on small organelles that extend spindles to pull apart chromosome pairs.
In a study to be published on the elife website on September 15 2015, a team of researchers from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research and the University of Colorado Boulder combined two optical systems in a new way to get around the natural limits of optical microscopes.
#Platelet-Mimicking Nanoparticles Could Effectively Deliver Drugs to Targeted Sites Nanoparticles disguised as human platelets could greatly enhance the healing power of drug treatments for cardiovascular disease and systemic bacterial infections.
San diego, are capable of delivering drugs to targeted sites in the body--particularly injured blood vessels,
and release their drug payloads specifically to these sites in the body. Enclosed within the platelet membranes are made nanoparticle cores of a biodegradable polymer that can be metabolized safely by the body.
Researchers observed that the docetaxel-containing nanoparticles selectively collected onto the damaged sites of arteries
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
This will be the third power station at the site. Hinkley Point A was shut down in 2000,
News that the Talktalk website had been hit by a"significant and sustained cyberattack"broke last week.
#EU votes down net neutrality protection The European parliament has voted against a set of rules intended to safeguard"net neutrality"in the EU. A series of amendments to a regulation on how internet traffic is managed in Europe were rejected all by MEPS.
Proponents of net neutrality, who demand that web traffic be treated equally by networks, have criticised already the move.
Campaigners have said that provisions for protecting net neutrality in the existing text of the rules are too vague and many worry that it will be easy for internet firms to strike deals with content providers
in which customers can access certain sites and services for free outside their data plans, might become more widespread.
what we use the internet for in 2015 is vastly different from those early days when Tim Berners-Lee was inventing the web,
"commented Chris Green of business consultancy Lewis as he pointed out that the rise of video streaming had placed extra burdens on network companies."
"For them, a two-tier internet makes much more sense, "he told the BBC. What is net neutrality?
is how most people assume the internet works. That's the essence of net neutrality.
For big video streaming sites, the prospect is worrying. They could find themselves coughing up lots of money in fees simply to give their users the same experience as before.
no matter how popular the streaming sites become. How could the rules affect internet use? Part of the problem with the rules in their current form, argued Joe Mcnamee at the European Digital Rights campaign group,
is that they are ambiguous.""As the text currently stands there is no indication as to how much abuse of dominance would be permissible under this arrangement,
The sort of scenarios that could impact internet use include the creation of"fast lanes"and"slow lanes"or the creation of"zero ratings"in
which some services may be accessed without using up any of the internet user's data quota. In Belgium, for example, some mobile phone companies currently allow unlimited access to Twitter
and Facebook while all other data usage is part of a monthly plan. In a few countries such as The netherlands
such practices are allowed not. Who had argued that the amendments be adopted? Besides a host of net neutrality campaigners, inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee had added his voice to those supporting the amendments."
"he wrote in a blog. And a string of tech companies signed a letter to the president of the European parliament, Martin Schulz,
what deals could be sought by internet firms with content providers. But in other countries, such as India,"zero rating"is allowed."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
The amendments would ban the agency's mass collection of telephone data-phone numbers, time and duration of calls-as well as emails and web addresses."
#Ashley Madison passwords cracked More than 11 million passwords stolen from the Ashley Madison infidelity dating website have been decoded,
When stolen data from the site was dumped first, the encrypted passwords were said to be almost uncrackable because of the way they were scrambled.
But programming changes by the site's developers meant more than a third of the passwords were protected poorly.
The Ashley Madison website was breached by a group of hackers called The Impact Team which stole gigabytes of data including login names and passwords of more than 30 million users.
However, an amateur password cracking group called Cynosure Prime looking through code also stolen from Ashley Madison realised that at some point the site changed the way passwords were stored.
In a blogpost, the group said it had found two insecure functions in the site code that meant it was"able to gain enormous speed boosts in cracking the bcrypt hashed passwords".
and changes the site made to passwords when they were entered by users. By focussing on these vulnerable steps the group has managed already to decipher 11.2 million passwords
The remaining passwords from the site are not susceptible to this attack because they were hashed by code lacking the insecure functions.
It speculated to news site Ars Technica that the insecure hashing system was introduced to ensure that users could log in to the site quickly y
And more recently, Sundar Pichai took over as chief executive of Google-a role many said had been years coming.
Mr Modi's plans to get a billion more Indians on the internet, they say that's a front to mass surveillance.
"by which he meant fibre internet, connecting each and every Indian town and village. Earlier on Sunday, Mr Modi spent time with someone who could help,
taking part in a Q&a with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. It was decidedly more A than Q,
The meeting at Facebook was mutually beneficial. Mr Zuckerberg, keen as ever to expand Facebook's user base and global influence,
talked up the prospect of connecting a billion more Indians to the internet. In one of the most pointed exchanges in the entire session, Mr Modi said he hoped Mr Zuckerberg's motivations weren't purely about Facebook's bank balance.
For Mr Modi, this entire Silicon valley visit is a chance to put a little pressure on the tech giants.
He wants India to graduate from being home to the low-end of the tech trade-call centres
which are preparing for the next phase of the internet, where billions of small cheap sensors are online providing data about their operations.
"We decided to systematically test why it was that truncating guides too much caused Cas9 to no longer cut the intended genomic site,
We envision future uses for the technology that can help decipher the tangled web of interactions underlying for example cancer drug resistance and stem cell differentiation,
Kleiner and their colleagues zeroed in on the sites in chromosomes where DNA repair happens. Specifically
This process, called phosphorylation, occurs at sites of broken DNA as a way to mediate interactions between key proteins.
This interaction helps bring 53bp1 to the site of DNA damage, where it mediates the repair of double-stranded breaks in DNA by encouraging the repair machinery to glue the two ends back together."
since to phase II trials at multiple test sites. Results have not yet been released. The published findings come from AD patients who participated in safety trials from March 2001 to October 2012 at UC San diego Medical center.
and then attacks a previously unknown binding site on STAT3, disrupting its disease-promoting effects.
and modifies an inhibitor-binding site on the protein coiled coil literally protein coils coiled around each other
to the modified site. his is the confluence of two ideas wee been working on around
The human proteome (the entire set of expressed proteins) is estimated to be phosphorylated at more than 100,000 unique sites,
The reagents are fluorescent detection analytes that competitively bind to a key cofactor binding site of enzymes that catalyze methylation of histones, DNA, and RNA.
Cayman is poised to expand on the technology with a patent pending second-generation SAM mimic-based probe designed to competitively bind to SAM-binding sites of a different set of methyltransferases.
including new cancers at other sites or in the opposite breast.""These patients who had low risk scores by Oncotype did extraordinarily well at five years,
not only attack the main tumor site, but are more likely to find and attach themselves to tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream essentially attacking new tumors before they start,
which the platelet membrane could help us target relevant sites in the body. i
#An Accessible Approach to Making a Mini-brain If you need a working miniature brain say for drug testing, to test neural tissue transplants,
you could use these to measure dissolved oxygen or ph from a lot of different sites all over a pond or a lake,
leading viruses to binding sites that allow infections to spread at the molecular level. They serve as a key of sorts that gives viruses entry into the host to begin spreading.
which cells are transplanted into the injury site, "says research supervisor Dr James St john, from Griffith's Eskitis Institute for Drug Discovery.
and better integrate into the injury site. In turn, this will help the spinal cord to regenerate more effectively."
But downloads have gone into decline as faster internet connections have allowed the rise of streaming services, often offering users free access to libraries of millions of tracks,
or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.
outlined to Business Insider four major ways that advancements in internet technology could threaten national security.
At Infiltrate, a professional penetration tester for a major company in Silicon valley told Business Insider that the easiest way to infiltrate a client's system is to bait an employee into clicking on an infected link in a seemingly innocuous email.
"Modern aircraft are connected increasingly to the internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems,
Fans remain largely confused as to why Tidal even exists it offers streaming music at twice the price of Google, Apple, and Spotify.
If you used a mobile phone to browse the internet back in 2003, then you probably did
Aspirothe Aspiro website in 2001. Aspiro grew quickly thanks to partnerships with European phone manufacturers such as Ericsson and Nokia.
Flickr/sigurdgaaspiro partnered with a Norwegian music store to launch its streaming site. Aspiro focused on WAP for years,
"a company he had set up with the sole purpose of buying a music-streaming site.
Entertainment news site Showbiz 411 heard about the secret meeting and published a list of names that were in attendance.
when musicians began turning their social media profiles light blue in anticipation of the relaunch of Aspiro's streaming service.
and Jay z's streaming site would be called Tidal. The March 30 press conference was meant to be the opportunity for Tidal to reboot its public image and present itself as a major player in the world of music streaming. ew York
The relaunched streaming site would be based around exclusive music and video content, as well as special live events for subscribers.
the site encompasses high quality sound, video, exclusive editorial but there are more features on the way. In time, TIDAL will be not just a streaming service but a platform with enhanced experiences.
"Journalists and amused fans took to Twitter to mock Jay z's ignorance of the fact that people pay taxes
and his music is now available to stream on the site. The backlash against Tidal began in earnest after the New york press conference.
and Swedish news site Breakit claimed that 25 employees in Aspiro's Norway office had also been forced to leave."
Jay z took to Twitter on April 26 to air his views on Tidal.""Stream of consciousness coming in 5, 4, 3, 2,
Another view that Jay z made clear in his Twitter"stream of consciousness"was that he felt that other music-streaming services were out to get him.
"Tidal employees suggested via email at the time that Jay z was referring to rivals like Apple and Spotify.
I take my respectpharrell even told me go with the safest betjimmy Iovine on for the safety netgoogle dig around a crazy checki feel like Youtube is the biggest culpritthem n---pay you a 10th of what you supposed to getyou know I came in this game independent right?
they ain say s---Jay z suggested that Google offered him money to partner with its own streaming service,
but hinted that he was upset with music appearing on Youtube (and the diminished revenue he receives from it).
The Tidal Twitter account publicly shut down the rumour. Right now there are two big reasons why someone would sign up to Tidal:
and it just raised $40 million Massdrop is a new kind of Internet retailer. Actually, it's technically not a retailer at all.
The site doesn't have any kind of item on hand to sell you. Instead, it acts as a middleman between manufacturers, enthusiasts, and would-be customers."
the site now has over one million monthly users. To keep up with that demand, Massdrop's employees have ballooned from 14 just over a year ago to 70 today.
El-Hage says that the company's unique relationship with vendors sets it apart from other failed flash sale websites.
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