Of course, it wasn t an easy road for either company. Both had to survive significant regulatory scrutiny and approval by the SEC,
In addition to encryption in transit and between data centers, which was already in place.)Overall, the improvements are an important indication that Google has given not up on the enterprise.
The findings, reported in the journal Science, could lead to cheaper and greener cars, planes and electronics.
thermosets are used throughout modern cars and aircraft, often mixed with carbon fibers to form composites. Some 50%of the new Airbus a350 jet, for example, will be made from composites.
Yet until now, none of this thermoset plastic could be recycled. The potential impact here is said phenomenal
Nonlethal solution Mr Kieser said that he now planned to invite potential clients to see demonstration flights that would be held in Africa, Europe and The americas over the coming months.
including Personal Rapid transit Systems, costing literally trillions of dollars and employing hundreds of millions of people.
tiles and taps will look together. Step into the Holoroom, where they will be displayed in augmented reality.
as if you were piloting an Air force jet and then aim your weapon where it tells you to.
and zinc become the primary storage devices for transportation, for backing up renewable power sites, for electronic devices and for industry and defense.
In the next stage of the experiment, the research team demonstrated the ability to weaken this circuitry by stimulating the same nerves with a memory-erasing, low-frequency train of optical pulses.
scientists found they could reactivate the lost memory by re-stimulating the same nerves with a memory-forming, high-frequency train of optical pulses.
You could even tap into a large group of strangers to help you track down a stolen bike.
the suitcase is equipped also with a GPS navigator, a burglar alarm and a horn. Weighing about 15 pounds, Mr. He ulti-functional suitcaseis powered by a lithium battery
If wee moving down this road of increasing autonomy in robotics and that the same as Google cars as it is for military robots, we should begin now to do the research to how far can we get in ensuring the robot systems are safe
while they want to do some early pilot line production themselves, they know they need a large manufacturing partner
Later down the road, they could try to tackle electric cars. An electric car with a battery pack of dual-carbon batteries could charge much faster and last much longer on the road, giving it a higher resale value.
Currently the team is supplying batteries for a Go-cart in a transportation proof-of-concept partnership.
peering out over Tokyo Bay and seeing a man-made island in the harbor that is 2 miles across.
Wireless power transmission Space transportation Construction of large structures in orbit Satellite attitude and orbit control Space-based power generation Power management Of these six challenges,
William C Brown, the inventor of the cross-field amplifier, used a remote control helicopter to demonstrate his breakthroughs using wireless microwave power on the Walter Cronkite 6: 00 pm news. Citing Tesla same logic,
or delayed flights It can be hard to a book flight on an airline website,
canceled or overbooked flights. Meet Airhelp, the startup that will save you all the hassle and claim money for you.
we search for your flight itineraries and figure out how much you can claim. If youe been delayed on a flight for the last three years,
you can claim money for that. But how much exactly can you claim? For a delayed, canceled
or overbooked flight in Europe, you can get up to $800 per flight. In the U s.,you could end up with $1,
300 for an overbooked flight. That why airlines will fight you very hard not to give you your money back.
According to Airhelp, only 0. 1 percent of eligible passengers get their compensation. Not only Airhelp will do the hard work for you,
but it will also generate some substantial revenue at the same time. And this is Airhelp secret sauce every time the company goes through the compensation process
it takes a 25 percent cut. If there is nothing to claim, the startup doesn take anything.
It bets that passengers are willing to give up that much because they wouldn have gotten any compensation without Airhelp. f passengers try
and claim themselves, theyl have to send tons of documents, theyl experience dead links. And if you get through that hurdle,
youe likely to be rejected by the airline saying that it an extraordinary circumstance, Michaelsen said. e auto-generate the legal documents that you should send to the airline.
Digging through all your email could take a while. So after connecting to your Gmail account
including year-round crop production, protection from weather, support urban food autonomy and reduced transport costs. Scientifically viable in 2023;
#Volvo testing self-driving cars on public roads in Sweden Volvo Car Group rive Meproject featuring 100 self-driving Volvos on public roads in everyday driving conditions is moving forward rapidly,
legislators, transport authorities, a major city, a vehicle manufacturer, and real customers. The customers will drive the 100 cars in everyday driving conditions on approximately 50 kilometers of selected roads in and around Gothenburg.
These roads are typical commuter arteries, including motorway conditions and frequent queues. rive Me self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park and the City
of Gothenburg. The Swedish Government is endorsing the project. Volvo Cars will play a leading role in the world first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project in
which 100 self-driving Volvo cars will use public roads in everyday driving conditions around the Swedish city of Gothenburg.
The ground-breaking project rive Me Self-driving cars for sustainable mobilityis a joint initiative between Volvo Car Group, the Swedish Transport Administration, the Swedish Transport Agency, Lindholmen Science Park
and the City of Gothenburg. The rive Meproject is endorsed by the Swedish Government. The aim is to pinpoint the societal benefits of autonomous driving and position Sweden and Volvo Cars as leaders in the development of future mobility e
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
while fossil fuel-or battery-powered unmanned aircraft are expensive to run and possess a shorter range.
while also developing advanced algorithms to help the aircraft better traverse wind patterns and flight routes.
and onboard battery storage that allows the planes to fly at night. The drones are huge aircraft the smaller model,
the Solara 50, is actually larger than a Boeing 767 jetliner, boasting a 164-foot wingspan.
The problem with solar planes is that they are limited to smaller payloads, said drone expert Patrick Egan.
which has flown already a model aircraft on it. The Navy 289 vessels all rely on oil-based fuel,
with the exception of some aircraft carriers and 72 submarines that rely on nuclear propulsion. Moving away from that reliance would free the military from fuel shortages
whereby service providers could potentially prioritize certain types of traffic as long as it doesn degrade access to other rival services.
Monetizing over-the-top (OTT) traffic via so-called pecialized servicesthat get special treatment has received a little clarification with today vote,
and manufacturing costs by designing a critical aircraft part that was 83 percent lighter and yet still met the safety and design criteria, according to GE general manager for technology Christine Furstoss.
And in 2012, GE Aviation was formed from the acquisition of Morris Technologies as the company wanted to learn more about additive manufacturing.
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
Furstoss said by 2020, the company aims to print more than 100,000 parts for aviation. In the meantime, the company continues to focus on transforming its repair processes for industrial components.
He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
If the captain happens to be on the bow or the stern rather than up on the bridge when there an emergency,
The captain just signs in to the nearest console and enters a password, as if he doing some online banking.
It incumbent on the captain not to share it with anybody. Everyone got to protect their password,
Even if an impostor did succeed in tricking the ship into thinking he was the captain, it unlikely a hacker could fire the weaponshat process involves more than one person.
Such initiatives must impact numerous areas, from the provision of transport, energy, and healthcare services, to the state of public safety and government services.
Smart sensors installed across the city will also provide real-time information and services on weather, traffic, entertainment, tourism, emergency services and flights.
Here in the UK, the government has announced over £150m of funding into smart city research and this runs alongside investment in intelligent transport systems
Glasgow aims to open up data to demonstrate how providing integrated health, transport, energy and public safety services can improve both the local economy and the quality of life for the city citizens.
saying cities will move quickly from research and evaluation to investment in pilots. What are thoughts your on how we can develop intelligent infrastructure and the smart cities of the future s
In January, the Army successfully tested a robotic self-driving convoy that would reduce the number of personnel exposed to roadside explosives in war zones like Iraq and Afghanistan.
unmanned aircraft operated by Israel, the U k. and the U s. are capable of tracking and firing on aircraft and missiles.
On some of its Navy cruisers, the U s. also operates Phalanx, a stationary system that can track
and engage anti-ship missiles and aircraft. The Army is testing a gun-mounted ground vehicle, MAARS, that can fire on targets autonomously.
in a key emotional hub in the brain involved in regulating anxiety and the flight-or-fight response.
Video)##The aircraft, called quadcopters because they have four rotors, navigate using signals from Global positioning system (GPS RECEIVERS,
and compute their own flight plans. They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
But his machines were fixed-wing fliers that could move only at constant speeds and had to fly at different heights to avoid collisions.
but real fliers face other problems. The big enemies are noise and delay, says Vicsek.
The fliers also need time to receive and process those signals, and these lags mean the drones often get too close to one another
The cameras capture light reflected off small infrared reflective markers (like the material used in reflectors on bikes.
lightweight enough to permit flight. Hexagonal micro-truss structure about 30 millionths of a meter wide.
and show how and when to deploy delivery trucks to ensure immediate shipment an especially important factor in farmlands where the lack of paved roads can paralyze distribution.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
and predicting of weather effects on transportation networks can help farmers make better decisions about which routes and methods will be fastest to transport harvested food.
That is especially critical in countries like Brazil where many of the roads are unpaved and heavy rain can cause trucks to get stuck in mud.
Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial
and the impact of removing cyanide from transport networks. Sodium cyanide is highly toxic but vital for extracting metals such as gold from its ore.
This technology eliminates the need to transport, store or handle both solid and liquid sodium cyanide.
proven techniques already widely used in the likes of smart phones, cars and airplanes. It has been estimated there are already 50 MEMS sensors in a modern car.
Equipment is driven manually to a transition zone, where the operator leaves the vehicle cab. The equipment operator then goes into the Integrated Remote Operations center (IROC) that contains two operator stations and a spotter.
The operator control station is designed to exactly mirror the control center in the cab, allowing seamless transitions for the workers between manual and remote control.
when it senses obstacles A new smart bicycle has been unveiled in The netherlands and its high-tech gadgetry might be the closest thing to a Pee-wee Herman bike on the market but far less accident prone.
In fact the bike is loaded with safety features and was designed specifically for the purpose of reducing the high accident rate in the bicycle-loving country particularly among elderly cyclists reports Discovery News. The bicycle
which is slated to officially go on sale within the next two years sports a radar system mounted below the handlebars that can detect approaching obstacles.
A small camera in the rear mudguard keeps a watchful eye on your backside. When an obstacle approaches from the front
and talk to the bicycle through a dedicated application. The full medley of devices will be particularly useful for cyclists propelled along by the bicycle's electrical motor
which can reach a top speed of 16 miles per hour h
#What's a Twike? It's half-bike half-electric car Meet the Twike. It a made-in-Germany combination of an electric bicycle with an EV.
It may be that wel see more of these hybrids popping up as our cities get less friendly to gas guzzlers.
Driving 60 miles is going to cost you $2 the company says. The Twike youe looking at is one of the few in the U s
One drives with a central tiller (as in the earliest days of motoring) and the passenger in this two-seater can pedal too.
There are about 1000 Twikes on European roads that have covered 37 million miles but very few in the U s. It can be registered as a motorcycle
The ELF built by Organic Transit isn quite as luxurious as the Twike but it a lot cheaper $5495 for the standard model.
It's also possible to extend the range by adding extra e-bike type li-ion battery packs.
Organic Transit's ELF on its way to Boston. Photo: Jim Motavalli) Rob Cotter CEO and founder of Organic Transit describes the Twike and ELF as the same but different.
The weight of a Twike is almost 4x an ELF so the gains from pedaling
It was sponsored by Lufthansa and looked basically identical to today's Twike. I'm sure it has a lot more power than the ELF.
Highway friendly they're not but OK on lightly trafficked local roads. The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting.
According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade (and charge) at different rates and that throws off the efficiency and longevity.
Another use for the Smart Battery Watchdog Agent Dr. Lee said is to plot the optimal route to where youe going based on your past driving behavior the availability of charging stations along the way and other factors.
The computer had to detect people, bicyclists, cars and other vehicles in a photo, and identify each object correctly.
If an enemy boat or aircraft gets too close to a Navy ship, the laser can deter the threat with an effect known as optical"dazzling."
IBM said the materials could even potentially be used in airplanes, where their strength, light weight,
resistance to stress and self-healing abilities could allow them to be used on airplane wings.
and allows us to address the complex needs of advanced materials for applications in transportation, microelectronic or advanced manufacturing."
"In addition to the hard material that IBM says could be used for airplane wings, they also developed an elastic gel that is mostly liquid
and turns it into purified air Billboards often line busy roads and highways where there's lots of traffic and by association lots of air pollution.
But what if those billboards could be transformed into giant air purifiers scrubbing the air and turning polluted areas into fresh ones?
According to the World Meteorological Association Lima has the highest air pollution levels in all of South america most of it related to transportation and factories.
Large cities in the U s. with poor air quality and high traffic such as Los angeles and Houston would be good places to implement the technology.
but the researchers were able to do it by way of a transporter, a protein that moves materials across cell membranes.
#Cargo bikes: The new way to move kids stuff and pizza Order a Domino pizza in Portland, Ore.
and chances are it will arrive by bicycle. The Portland Mercury newspaper is delivered that way, too,
and the local Splendid Cycles which specializes in cargo bikes is expanding. Now, admittedly, Portland is ground zero for cargo bikes parodied on"Portlandia"and everything.
But moving kids, pizzas and even entire households with pedal power is catching on big time in the U s. Cargo bikes are he new station wagon,
says the Wall street journal. It not just Amsterdam and Copenhagen anymore biking is having a renaissance,
Jim Motavalli on a carbo bike The author investigates a Belgian Ecopostale van at the International Transport Forum.
000. always loved riding my bike, Canning said, ut it got so I couldn pull my twins in our double trailerhe hill to our house was too steep.
even though I was already a fit cyclist who commuted into San francisco, it changed my life.
Now there was no reason not to take the bike everywhere. Bike with a wheelbarrow in front You can watch the trailer for"Less Car More Go"here:
In part because most of her o-directorssent in footage of them ferrying their kids around,
but Canning agrees that cargo bikes can work for a living. She said the finished film will have pedicabs, bicycle messengers, food delivery and, yes,
pizza guys. t would be great if a big company, like Whole Foods, launched a large fleet of electric cargo bikes,
Canning said. e need something on that scale. Less Car More Go DHL's courier services are mounted often bike in Europe.
Photo courtesy of"Less Car More Go")Cargo bikes have reached scale in Europe. For instance, DHL Netherlands,
which does parcel delivery, replaced 33 trucks with cargo bikes, saving 152 metric tons of carbon dioxide annually.
Arne Melse of DHL says that 10 percent of the company vehicles are bikes. rom our pilots in four EU countries,
we see that it is indeed possible to deliver by cycle. There are already 2, 000 to 3, 000 cargo bikes in London,
and importer Andrea Casalotti estimates that sales will be up 20 percent this year. Ecopostale is using bike vans to deliver the mail in Belgium (see photo above.
UPS is testing pedal-power delivery vans in Germany. According to Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, a transplanted Bostonian who now works for Europe-based Cyclelogistics,
t is boom time for cargo bikes. Up to 70 percent of delivery costs are in the last mile,
and these bikes can save money and increase efficiency. It a credible solution for young businesses.
but you have to watch this local cyclists band together to move an entire apartment. And it looks like theye having loads of fun doing it t
usually incorporating transportation as part of the mix. Panasonic Eco Ideas House, with solar, a fuel cell, battery backup and a plug-in Toyota prius, has stood long next to a company headquarters in Tokyo,
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
Try a poop-powered airport shuttle bus. The first of its kind in the United kingdom Bio-Bus is a 40-seat transit vehicle that runs entirely on fuel generated through anaerobic digestion.
That is the conversion of waste n this case both locally sourced food waste and human sewage nto a methane-rich biogas.
if Bio-Bus serviced the number 2 route it runs along the 20-mile-long A4 route
which ferries commuters between Bristol Airport in North Somerset and the historic tourist-inundated city of Bath with several local stops in between.
The Bath Bus company-operated shuttle carrying about 10000 passengers monthly embarked on its maiden journey last Thursday.
The annual waste generated by an entire busload of passengers would provide enough fuel for a return trip across Great britain from Land's End in the extreme southwest of England to John O'Groats in the extreme northeast of Scotland.
There always the chance that regular riders on the route hat nice old lady from South Bristol who travels to Keynsham every Sunday to visit her sister re being propelled in part by their own poo.
Bio-Bus which boasts CO2 EMISSIONS that are 30 percent less than buses with conventional diesel engines couldn hit the road at a better time.
Stay for the human excrement-powered airport shuttle. In addition to the Bath-to-Bristol airport service Bath Bus company operates open-top sightseeing coaches in England and Wales with routes in Windsor Cardiff Eastbourne and of course Bath.
The company has remarked not as to if any vehicles in its sightseeing fleet will join the airport shuttle
and be converted to run on Bristolian sewage and food scraps o
#Quantum'entangled'light sharpens microscopes'images The first microscope that uses the eerie trick of quantum entanglement to increase its sensitivity has been developed by Japanese researchers.
"The quantum entanglement idea gives a road to get X-ray resolution using only visible light. In the future, this could lead to inexpensive microscopes that use ordinary lasers to get this resolution,
#High-tech Exosuit gives divers access to unexplored ocean canyons Michael Lombardi the dive safety officer for the American Museum of Natural history trains in the Exosuit.
submersible that can take passengers on undersea joyrides. The custom-built underwater vehicles are designed to dive below the surface, swim amongst marine animals,
"It is like an airplane with wings upside down,"Graham Hawkes, founder and chief technical officer of Hawkes Ocean Technologies, told the Chronicle."
or three passengers, depending on the configuration of the vehicle, and can dive to a depth of about 394 feet (120 m). See Photos of the Deepflight Super Falcon Submersible Traditionally,
and drag the principles of regular flight to"soar"underwater. This means the Super Falcon is always positively buoyant
and includes on-site pilot and operations training. The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich,
and keep it in ear continuous transit on trucks until a customer makes a purchase. trying to think of what item I might need so quickly that
I would want it to be in continuous transit so that a nearby delivery person could have it to my house within minutes or a few hours of ordering.
Also airplanes etched in these nanostructures could potentially avoid the dangers of water freezing on the wings.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
and the huge infrastructure investments in them are made on a whim for political reasons for pork a highway here and a bridge to nowhere there.
If your senator wants to cancel a high-speed rail line and expand a highway instead there are hard data on how much it will cost to treat the asthma cases that are caused by the extra pollution.
If you put in a bike lane instead of a car lane there are data that show how it increases the health of the population.
You can put a dollar value on happiness and people have been doing it for years.
As Stewart noted in her Economist articlethey are following up with modules for transit roads highways and buildings.
So when those politicians want to ram another highway down our throats or rip out another bike lane there are real data that people can show on the true costs both economic and social.
This a difficult concept to write about for a nonprofessional readership. However as an architect who was an early adopter of Computer aided design (CAD) over 30 years agowhen all it did was draw
the transport of tree species to colder climes further north and more controlled burns to prepare the forests for more frequent wild fires.
train researchers, refurbish labs and set up mechanisms to make sure research results are used in policymaking. In Kenya
But longer, microwave wavelengths#for applications such as airport scanners#require a different approach, because there are no materials that can serve as micromirrors in that part of the spectrum.
Today s millimetre-wave airport scanners physically move an array of multiple sensors around a person.
and swerved off to the side of the road, says Cirtain. We knew immediately that we had discovered something fantastic.
Janila Shulu s team are out in the dirt roads and alleyways of Ungwan Rimi, a poor neighbourhood in a predominantly Muslim section of Kaduna city in northern Nigeria.
He and his collaborators took a different route, by deleting two genes##one for PKM?
or a train of them representing the other. These pulses were delivered to the motor cortex of a second rat in the same lab#the decoder
batteries will be key to energy transport and to small-scale storage of electricity from solar panels. Long-term, large-scale storage of wind energy could best be achieved by simply storing compressed hydrogen underground.
since it could be transported easily by road, he says r
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