#When KI isn't enough, biotechs race to develop acute radiation drugs Since the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power station,
Nearly a quarter-million KI doses (pictured) have been amassed by evacuation centers near the site. But while those guard against the long-term risks of thyroid cancer linked with chronic radiation exposure
GE's trailer-mounted gas turbine delivers on-site power using field gas at a well site in Alberta s
and what still needs to be done Can the social networking wave that is emerging help bring about more responsive government organizations?
Social networking provides governments with a new paradigm: knowledge release rather than knowledge control. This Government 2. 0 approach can harness government knowledge to improve results.#(PDF white paper available from Freebalance.
Government 2. 0 enabled through social networking tools provides benefits such as reduced cost of engagement through more productive tools and processes, simplified knowledge creation and retention though usable applications, easier knowledge sharing,
To help government better take advantage of social networking technologies, Grant Thornton suggests that government organizations better incorporate design thinking#(Government 2. 0 mindset) as a supplement to management thinking#(Government 1. 0 mindset).
#Change Management in the Web 2. 0 era is more peer-to-peer, viral#change is pulled by participating constituents, employees, customers.#
and now there's a website to find nearby 3d printers for quick turnaround on printing jobs. makexyz. com is a simple website that allows anyone with a 3d printer to rent out their services to anyone with printing needs.
The site shows all the 3d printing options nearby with the cheapest showing up first with all the details of the printer.
I would upload the design to the website where it gives me a price that
#Which city is getting Google's ultrafast Internet? Congratulations denizens of Austin, Texas, Google Fiber--the company's blazing fast gigabit broadband service--is coming to your city.
After some speculation, Google officially announced today that Austin would indeed become the second metropolitan area to get the service after the company first built up the infrastructure in Kansas city and surrounding communities,
where homes are already enjoying Internet speeds that are 100 times faster than the average broadband service.
Google will offer the same service to Austin as it does for Kansas city residents. They have the option for gigabit Internet
or a combination package that includes Google Fiber TV. Slower Internet service is also available with no monthly fees
only a onetime installation charge. Google plans to begin installing the service in Austin homes next year.
Public institutions will also get connected to the super-fast Internet free of charge. And while it is developed only fully in one city
and planned for another, the Wall street journal says cable companies have reason to be worried. By offering Google Fiber,
which costs $120 a month for high-speed Internet and TV and $70 a month for just Internet, the company may show cable operators it can work around them, if needed.
It could also get Google greater say in future industry regulation including issues of net neutrality,
or the idea Internet providers should treat all data equally. Also among Google Fiber's offerings is slower Internet access that is free after a $300 fee.
With an aspirational service, Google could be trying to demonstrate how the Internet would look in an ideal, consumer-focused, world.
At least one other company is up for Google's challenge. Not long after the Google announcement, AT&T also announced an investment in a gigabit network in Austin.
Why are drawn these companies to Austin? It s a mecca for creativity and entrepreneurialism, with thriving artistic and tech communities,
as well as the University of Texas and its new medical research hospital, Google said in a statement.
We re sure these folks will do amazing things with gigabit access. Google Prepares for Fiber Warfare Wall street journal Photo:
Flickr/atmtx Related on Smartplanet: Silicon Prairie: Google broadband spurs Kansas city startup village Silicon Prairie now prime startup territory Can Kansas city transform into#Silicon Prairie?
Google Fiber: the big gigabit reveal and what it means New theory on Google s fiber experiment-a utility revolutio t
#White house launches nationwide broadband testbed The White house made two big announcements yesterday in an effort to boost broadband development in the United states. The first was an executive order by President Barak Obama calling
on federal agencies to simplify the process for allowing private companies to lay new network infrastructure.
With a dig once approach, the executive order also aims to help carriers conduct broadband deployments in conjunction with other road construction projects.
This strategy will purportedly reduce deployment costs by up to 90 percent. The second White house announcement was the launch of U s. Ignite.
U s. Ignite is a new nonprofit public/private partnership convened to help bring together network providers
software developers, and Internet users to create next-generation broadband applications. The partnership includes 25 cities around the country,
and major companies such as Verizon, Comcast, Juniper Networks, and Cisco. While the executive order is fairly simple to parse,
Not surprisingly, among the regions hoping to pilot U s. Ignite efforts are some of our favorite gigabit sites,
However, long-time broadband reporter and analyst Om Malik says he's feeling a little blase about the news. He notes out that many of the best inventions (Youtube
Facebook, Twitter) come from turning resources over to everyday users, rather than directing them toward big, possibly unwieldy partnerships.
he would likely be dazzled by the smartphone, high definition video, and digital storage for music and movies--all#decedents#of technologies that he pioneered
#Who will control the Internet?(Who will pay for it? And you thought SOPA and PIPA were bad.
Representatives of more than 190 governments, telecommunications companies and Internet groups will gather in Dubai next week for the 12-day World Conference on International Telecommunications,
the future of the largely free and open Internet we enjoy today. The last time this group assembled was 1988,
when the consumer Internet was nascent at best. Today, the Internet is the backbone for economies, connected technologies of all kinds and free speech.
The many stakeholders that will be in attendance are scheduled to discuss the future of Internet services, specifically around how they are paid for.
Who will pay to maintain the Internet as traffic continues to surge? What about razor-thin margins in Europe?
And what of network neutrality, when many U s. companies enjoy monopolies in their markets?)But the elephant in the room is the potential for one major player--Russia,
some suggest--to insist on changing the fundamental oversight of the Internet, thus possibly threatening its unfettered, decentralized, apolitical growth with censorship and regulation.
Member states,#Russia proposed, shall have equal rights to manage the Internet, including in regard to the allotment, assignment and reclamation of Internet numbering, naming, addressing and identification resources.#
#It's no different than China or Iran, both of whom limit Internet access in their countries.
Fundamentally, the Internet is the world's first global infrastructure problem, no different than a city's public transit system or a nation's network of highways:
The global Internet, 2012. Telegeography r
#Who will fill the Google Reader vacuum? Google Reader retires next week, and the Great RSS Gold rush of 2013 is reaching fever pitch.
Bloomberg Businessweek reports. An RSS reader pulls in feeds of articles from various websites. Created six years ago,
Google Reader had taken over the market. When the company announced the decision to power down Reader,
they gave two reasons: usage has declined, and they want to pour all their energy into fewer products.
For Google, RSS was small beans. Reader had several million followers, but the company is focused on obvious markets that serve hundreds of millions of people,#according to Reader creator Chris Wetherell.
This is a perfect way to avoid the risk of creating entirely new markets which often go through a painful not yet-serving-hundreds-of-millions period and
#Some might interpret the fact that one of the Internet s largest, richest companies abandoned this idea as a red flag.
which are quickly developing their own readers to fill the Google Reader vacuum. It s not that they believe everyone wants to immerse themselves in an endless sea of headlines.
and distilling down any pile of Internet content, big or small, into the things that are most interesting or important to you.#
Social sites like Linkedin and Facebook are building news products. And for an increasingly large portion of internet users, Twitter is personalized a news wire.
With Google out of the way, RSS might finally develop to its full potential. Via Businessweek Image:
Matt Galligan via Wikimedi i
#Who wins in the battle of genome sequencers? Desktop sequencers promise to democratize genomics, but it s difficult for researchers who aren t experts in sequencing technology to sort through the overheated marketing claims made in this fiercely competitive industry.
people looking for comparisons have had to depend on blog posts, which can be useful but hard to find,
#Why (and how) retailers should embrace'showrooming'More evidence emerged this week suggesting the power of smartphones to reshape how retailers stock,
New research from Deloitte suggests that more than 5 percent of store sales during 2012 will be influenced by smartphones.
price comparisons and other mobile application usage. By 2016, that influence will grow to 19 percent of sales,
and some retailers have banned actually Wi-fi in their stores in an effort to prevent the activity
and our research indicates that smartphone shoppers are 14 percent more likely to convert and make a purchase in the store than non-smartphone users.
This means that mobile is an important tool for retailers to incrementally drive traditional in store sales,
strengthening the relationship between retailer and consumer to increase engagement and loyalty. Smartphone Users Are More Frequent Shoppers Deloitte's research suggests that smartphone users aren't only becoming more common,
they are more likely to make a purchase than those who aren't using them.
48 percent of smartphone users said what they saw on a mobile application affected an in store purchase decision.
The other thing to consider is that smartphones aren't just influential in store. More than half of the smartphone users surveyed by Deloitte said they started doing research on the way to the store.
I'm hoping they weren't driving while they were doing that, but that's a whole other story.)
Retailers that do not engage shoppers through specialized mobile applications or targeted smartphone-based promotions leave the door open for competitors to reach a customer who is standing in the retailer's store and at the point of purchase.
To make the connection with consumers, retailers need to understand how mobile shoppers are willing to interact with their specific store category, format and merchandise, both inside and outside the store,
No Shortage of Emerging Technologies Last week, Motorola announced a major mobile technology push intended to help retailers become more savvy about showrooming
Mirror image Internet is using geolocation to help retailers get smarter with mobile advertising, allowing them to serve up coupons for items that customers might be near in an aisle,
if someone decides to price shop with their smartphone while shopping in a store. The company allows retailers to attach technical support and service offerings, like installation,
and use other technology instead, such as smartphones and tablet computers. It's not merely that the two trade off economically;
A recent survey of college students in Colorado (where sending messages from smartphones while driving is not illegal) found that
while 75 per cent of users said they often used their phones while travelling by bus, train or as a passenger in a car,
they like Facebook more than having a big back yard! --it's worth recognizing that the ability to maintain our always-on connectivity,
How might this kind of technology relate to ipad and iphone maker Apple? The patent application is not a huge indicator,
880m euros'worth of wind power orders since July Google invests $75 million in U s. wind far r
#Why more U s. companies are generating their own power From technology companies like Google and Apple powering their data centers with solar panels
Ross Mason, founder and vice president of Mulesoft, outlined in a recent webcast how the rise of the API economy can be considered to be second digital revolution.
#Why people need robot journalism in the Google era Kristian Hammond quit artificial intelligence 10 years ago,
who has built a computer that can create movie reviews by curating text online found on blogs and on Twitter.
it enriches their websites without taking people away from more traditional tasks. People are hungry for genuine content.
and launched, Docstoc. com. Docstoc has quickly become the web s largest destination for sharing
I love this site. In fact when setting up my own LLC I followed the post on Jason s blog entitled 10 Incredibly Awesome Docs to help you Start a Company.
So with some success under his belt and new innovations in the world of Docstoc,
and is likely one of the fastest growing sites on the web. Over 11mm unique visitors a month use the site
and we recently launched our Docstore, the premier marketplace to buy and sell documents online. How can we participate?
In addition we work with partners like Legalzoom who sell their content through our site. What has taught Docstoc you about consumers and their needs?
On the publishing side, there are so many potential contributors that need a platform to share their documents both on our site
and to embed on their own websites and blogs. On the other hand, we get hundreds of thousands of downloads each month,
so obviously there is a very compelling need to find valuable professional documents fast and easy.
The huge advantage of launching businesses on the web is that you can get instant feedback
and spend way too much money before they get their web product online. As a rule of thumb, don t spend more than 3-6 months building your web product before you put some version of it online,
even if it s just a beta of a private demo. Let your users guide where the product development needs to come from.
Click Here To visit Jason's blog, Click Here To Check out The 10 Totally Awesome Docs to Start a Company, Click Her r
Inventors and designers bring their ideas to the site, but they aren't actually brought to life until there is enough interest,
Technically more of microfinance organization than a sharing model, this site supports the creation of artistic projects.
A site where people can rent designer dresses, gowns and clothing for events, rather than buy them outright.
says Mandarin is the most popular first-learned language in the world and the second most popular language on the Internet.
And it s the second most popular language used on the Internet. So it s no surprise that parents will want their children to learn This is Mandarin harder for children to learn than other languages?
#Why wireless charging is bigger than you think The idea of powering up mobile gadgets with no cords is tantalizing,
The idea of wireless charging is tantalizing--a vision of electronic devices that stay powered up without wall sockets,
however, is that wireless charging options today are still relatively expensive and support few of the real-world devices that consumers actually own.
Market research firm IHS predicts that almost 100 million devices that support wireless charging could be on the market by 2015
Some mobile phone manufacturers are even distinguishing certain high-end models with wireless charging options. A few examples include the Lumia smartphone from Nokia, the Nexus 4 from LG Electronics,
and the Droid DNA from Verizon Wireless and HTC. And in the future, wireless charging technology won't be limited just to powering more mobile devices.
It could have applications for large-scale appliances and could be embedded in surfaces ranging from car dashboards to household floors to kitchen countertops.
The Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) is the largest technology alliance in the wireless charging industry dedicated to advancing that vision
WPC has nearly 150 member companies including major mobile phone manufacturers and semiconductor companies. The consortium introduced the Qi inductive power standard in late 2010,
more than 30 companies have shipped mobile phones using its embedded wireless charging capabilities. Those phones are designed to power up on compatible charging mats and cradles, alarm clocks and music players,
and the inside surfaces of some new car models. Toyota announced in December that the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first car to offer wireless charging with a Qi-powered console included under the dashboard.
Bas Fransen, chief marketing officer and head of business development for Convenientpower, a wireless power technology company,
But an upcoming revision in the second quarter of 2013 will see Qi extended to support wireless charging up to a level of 15 watts, enough power to charge consumer tablets.
wireless charging will become an evermore common device feature for mobile gadgets, like Bluetooth, or embedded cameras.
some engineers are focused on the longer-term potential for wireless power. Inductive charging, which is used the technology in the Qi standard,
A marble countertop, for example, could be rigged to charge a wireless coffeemaker and a blender along with a variety of phones, tablets and computers as needed.
As wireless charging develops, the technology might even help reduce production costs for large appliances like kitchen refrigerators,
but also Google, AT&T and others. It's still early to consider this a platform war,
and its open platform theoretically offers the easiest path for companies planning new product development that supports wireless charging options.
and the promise of wireless charging for the future e
#Why young Americans still aren't driving Since 2005, driving in the United states has been steadily declining.
#Wi-fi network breaks speed record A new Wi-fi network is making even the fastest commercial Wi-fi networks seem sluggish by comparison.
that's like downloading an HD movie in less than one second or 2400 times faster than a DSL internet connection.
In the future, such radio links will be able to close gaps in providing broadband internet by supplementing the network in rural areas and places
Get more details on this incredible Wi-fi network. Via Discovery y
#Wikileaks: U s. fears unsafe nuclear reactors in China Diplomatic cables from Beijing say old designs lack passive cooling and pose a big risk.
or her field using a mobile phone, personal digital assistant or PC. Information that is collected includes temperature, humidity, and soil nutrients.
#Google maps goes underground"in Japan's radioactive zone"This is not a place you'd want to hang around for too long Google is producing underground street maps of Japan's nuclear exclusion zone.
The radiation levels near the Fukushima site are spiking to record levels, but that hasn't stopped Google's Streetview from entering one area of the forbidden'zone.
The images are from 17 cities within Japan's Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, which were damaged heavily by the 2011 tsunami,
Google has catalogued also the interiors of over 70 flood-damaged buildings in the region. The panoramic images are an update to ones taken shortly after the disaster.
Google says that it has a higher social purpose. Our digital archiving project aims not only to make a record of the disaster's wreckage,
and Miyagi Prefectures for the first time since we#published the first panoramas back in 2011, Google's group product manager,
Kei Kawai, wrote on the team's#blog. By releasing this new imagery on Google maps
we hope people in Japan and from all around the world can virtually explore what these towns currently look like
Google is not the first nongovernmental entity to enter the exclusion zone. Organizations including#Animal Friends Niigata
Google maps, David Worthington) Related on Smartplanet: What the NRC really knew about Fukushima Fukushima ocean radiation could pose sleeper threat Nuclear meltdowns nearly made northern Japan uninhabitable do need we to worry about radiation in our milk?
#Google unveils deforestation monitor to combat climate change The philanthropic arm of Google, Google. org, introduced on Thursday a deforestation monitor that could be a useful tool to combat climate change.
Using a new platform, its"high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine, "the company can crunch the massive amounts of data stored on Google's servers to instantly produce,
using satellite images, detailed maps showing changes in forests over time. The platform, unveiled at the International Climate change Conference in Copenhagen, could be used as a tool for nations to comply with the United nations-proposed REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest degradation in Developing Countries) program
"Google. org wrote in a blog post.""Emissions from tropical deforestation are comparable to the emissions of all of the European union,
but Google. org plans to make it available within the year, perhaps as a"not-for-profit service"for only scientists, governments,
#Huge spike in bus riders because of Wi-fi? Everyone is taking the curbside bus . Or at least 30%more of us are.
Some say that it new Wi-fi enabled busses that is luring people to leave cars behind
so that they can surf the Web while traveling. Others say it just that with cheaper busses
Bolt Bus and Limoliner have jumped into the market offering cheap routes, Wi-fi, higher safety standards,
have nothing to do with Wi-fi at all. From the article: In other words, the Depaul data is consistent with total bus ridership actually staying constant, with the recognized curbside buses simply taking ridership share from unrecognized Chinatown operators.
Even this article in Bloomberg that angled the Wi-fi theory ended the article with this quote from the director of Megabus:
As Salmon notes in his piece the travel industry has to improve current Wi-fi access in hotels, planes,
And tablets function with Wi-fi. From Salmon post: So far, no one really cracked the problem of the mobile web wee still in a world where connecting to the internet
when on the move is far too difficult, and needs to be configured (and often paid for) on a device-by-device basis
that the mobile web is actually changing the way we travel from city to city. via Reuters t
#Leaked EU documents rank biofuel emissions higher than crude oil European union politics website Euractive has gotten its hands on official EU data reporting that many biofuel crops release more carbon dioxide than crude oil,
and It'll Heal Your Wounds in 15 Seconds Flat Bloomberg News reports on an incredible new invention that astounding people across the world and across the web.
The Youtube description for Bloomberg video states: A small lab in Brooklyn is working on a gel that can stop bleeding in 20 seconds.
The award winning director caused Twitter mayhem last week when he sent out a cryptic tweet about some amn good coffee.
The two countriesleaders are reported to have talked via telephone on Tuesday. This is first time a presidential level discussion has happened since the Cuban revolution.
Held captive for five years, Gross was convicted for dissident after being caught smuggling cell phones to Cuba small Jewish population.
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Reuters correspondent on the scene in Eastern Ukraine sees burning wreckage of air plane bodies on groundreuters World(@Reutersworld) July 17 2014photos of the wreckage have started also showing up on Twitter.
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#Donetsk#Ukraine by Nadezhda Chernetskaya pic. twitter. com/2o0sgvnjbe legionar(@Matevznovak) July 17 2014a video was posted also to Youtube that reportedly shows smoke from the wreckage rising over the hill.
Cell phones are need already to link to GPS and Wi-fi services on top of 4g and other cellular networks.
These report blood glucose levels every 5 minutes, thanks to a small radio transmitter attached to a fine sensor wire that runs under the skin (the wire is replaced weekly, the transmitter every six months.
and uploaded the data to a Google spreadsheet. We sent Evan to day care with a small laptop equipped with the receiver.
we could see his blood glucose via either a simple website or an ios app I threw together.
Thus began my work on a truly ambulatory solution, based on a smartphone rather than a laptop.
but power limitations and closed frameworks made hooking up the receiver to an iphone far more difficult than to an Android phone.
I got a Motorola Droid Razr M phone and once I had the basic USB enumeration downo my phone could eethe receiver
when it was plugged in started decoding the G4 communication protocol. Using the same C# program as before,
I ran commands and captured the USB traffic as it flowed between my computer and the receiver.
and upload it to our Google spreadsheet via the cellular network. In my excitement, I tweeted my discovery.
Lane created Nightscout, a Web app with predictive alerts. These alerts are based on glucose levels uploaded to a database built using the open-source Mongodb platform.
By having reverse engineered the G4 communication protocol and created an open online database system, we can access the data on a wider range of equipment.
a Facebook group for Nightscout, set up by Jason Adams, now has nearly 12,000 members, and our code made the semifinal round for the 2014 Hackaday Prize.
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