the EASTON Power Sensor utilizes Bluetooth wireless technology to capture and store a wide-range of 3d data,
No user editing or playback intervention is required to experience this groundbreaking functionality.""With the launch of the EASTON Power Sensor, we're excited to offer the marketplace an industry leading baseball
based on a natural phenomenon known in mathematics as fractals. These are irregular shapes which recur repeatedly to form objects such as snowflakes,
and their design was done traditionally by manufacturing but now, with 3d printing, computer manufacturing and more laser technology,
#Magnetic Signals Sent through the Human body for Wireless communication Electrical engineers at the University of California, San diego demonstrated a new wireless communication technique that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.
The new technology could offer a lower power and more secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems,
researchers said. They presented their findings Aug 26 at the 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Milan, Italy.
such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors. All of these devices will need to communicate information with each other.
Currently, these devices transmit information using Bluetooth radios, which use a lot of power to communicate. We're trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,
a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UC San diego who led the study.
Communicating magnetic signals through the human body The new study presents a solution to some of the main barriers of other wireless communication systems:
Bluetooth technology uses electromagnetic radiation to transmit data, however these radio signals do not easily pass through the human body
and therefore require a power boost to help overcome this signal obstruction, or"path loss."
Researchers showed that the path losses associated with magnetic field human body communication are upwards of 10 million times lower than those associated with Bluetooth radios."
"This technique, to our knowledge, achieves the lowest path losses out of any wireless human body communication system that's been demonstrated so far.
This technique will allow us to build much lower power wearable devices, "said Mercier. Lower power consumption also leads to longer battery life."
"A problem with wearable devices like smart watches is that they have short operating times because they are limited to using small batteries.
With this magnetic field human body communication system, we hope to significantly reduce power consumption as well as how frequently users need to recharge their devices,
Since this technique is intended for applications in ultra low power communication systems the transmitting power of the magnetic signals sent through the body is expected to be many times lower than that of MRI SCANNERS and wireless implant devices.
Another potential advantage of magnetic field human body communication is that it could offer more security than Bluetooth networks.
Because Bluetooth radio communicates data over the air, anyone standing within 30 feet can potentially eavesdrop on that communication link.
To put this in the context of a personal full-body wireless communication network, information would neither be radiated off the body nor be transmitted from one person to another."
when you're using your wearable devices to transmit information about your health, "said Park. Demonstrating magnetic communication with a proof-of-concept prototype The researchers built a prototype to demonstrate the magnetic field human body communication technique.
The technology was among the top award winners in the Texas instruments Innovation Challenge this past summer.
The technology, developed in collaboration with Texas instruments, represents a growing interest in the development of high-tech sign language recognition systems (SLRS) but unlike other recent initiatives,
and the videos or images captured may be considered invasive to the user privacy. What more, because these systems require a user to gesture in front of a camera,
they have limited wearability and wearability, for Jafari, is key.""Wearables provide a very interesting opportunity in the sense of their tight coupling with the human body,
This sensor plays a major role in discriminating different signs by capturing the user hand orientations and hand and arm movements during a gesture.
In Jafari system both inertial sensors and electromyographic sensors are placed on the right wrist of the user where they detect gestures
and send information via Bluetooth to an external laptop that performs complex algorithms to interpret the sign
and display the correct English word for the gesture. As Jafari continues to develop the technology,
he says his team will look to incorporate all of these functions into one wearable device by combining the hardware and reducing the overall size of the required electronics.
so that he or she can understand what is being signed simply by reading the screen of their own device.
Jafari is associate professor in Texas A&m Department of Biomedical engineering, associate professor in the Department of computer science and Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering,
His research focuses on wearable computer design and signal processing. He is director of the Embedded Signal processing Laboratory (http://jafari. tamu. edu/).About the Center for Remote Health Technologies
and overcome the unmet needs of patients and health care providers through the development of breakthrough remote health care devices, biosignal mapping algorithms,
remote health analytics and information systems that will improve access, enhance quality, and reduce the cost of health care.
and specific software for analysing the electrical response from each sensor. Today, the most common way to determine the corrosion speed of the rebars in a reinforced concrete structure is based on destructive techniques, for
A concept demonstrator for BAE Systems'bone conduction technology will be on display at DSEI (Defence and Security Equipment International), in London this year r
sight (video cameras) hearing (audio recorders) and touch (TABLET PCS. But there is not yet a device that successfully captures information for smell or taste.
geosmin (GSM) and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB. The new nose-like device can detect these smells at very low concentrations of just 10ng per liter of water.
Consulting or business services, fast-moving consumer goods companies and information and telecommunications companies were the next highest, with median starting salaries of £28, 500.
with internal video screens linked to external cameras instead of windows. And Lockheed martin has a commercial plane, the N+2,
Ceramic panels will have to be used. During tests the heat that accumulated at Mach 8 was up to 30%less than at Mach 5. This hermal paradoxwas a nice surprise for Steelant team,
This will be the third power station at the site. Hinkley Point A was shut down in 2000,
and more-efficient gadgets, could also lower usage in the future. This is all very well, but why are we building new nuclear power plants?
The boy was arrested on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences. He has been taken into custody at Antrim police station
News that the Talktalk website had been hit by a"significant and sustained cyberattack"broke last week.
The phone and broadband provider, which has over four million UK customers, said banking details
Shares in the telecoms company fell more than 12%in Monday trading, extending its losses from 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.
Some argue however, that such fees are fair since it costs internet service providers a lot of money to keep providing such content,
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."
#US House rejects NSA phone data trawl The US House of representatives has voted to end the National security agency's bulk collection of Americans'phone records.
The bill would empower the agency to search data held by telephone companies on a case-by-case basis. Bulk collection was revealed in 2013 by ex-security contractor Edward Snowden.
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."
Printing the drug meant it could package up to 1, 000 milligrams into individual tablets. The 3d printed pill dissolves in the same manner as other oral medicines.
Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
"For the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals
and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient, "said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
It would mean that medical institutions could adjust the dose for individual patients with just a simple tweak to the software before printing.
printers are adapted to produce pharmaceutical compounds rather than polymers which are used more usually. Such methods are already proving very useful in healthcare with doctors using the system to create customised implants for patients with injuries or other conditions.
mimics a single-storey flat and contains a network of Wi-fi cameras and sensors. Scientists believe it is the first time helper robots have been developed in a"real-life"environment.
Wi-fi cameras and sensors have also been installed on furniture, doors, medicine bottles, fridges, plugs and kettles inside the flat, dubbed the Personalised Assisted living facility.
just as important as the high tech sensors, computers, and voice synthesisers. Older people, have been recruited to help the lab scientists assess their work.
#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.
Initial analysis of the data dump showed that the passwords were stored on a database after they had been protected using a process known as hashing that employs the bcrypt algorithm.
The way this scrambles passwords makes it hard to carry out so-called"brute force"attacks that try lots of different word
and letter combinations because hashing with bcrypt takes a lot of computer power. As a result a brute force attack on the passwords would take years.
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
and is hopeful it can crack a total of more than 15 million which were scrambled with the insecure functions.
The remaining passwords from the site are not susceptible to this attack because they were hashed by code lacking the insecure functions.
The group said it would not be releasing the passwords it had recovered to"protect end users".
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
There's the charismatic Satya Nadella in charge at Microsoft. There's the 10-year-strong reign of Shantanu Narayen at the top of Adobe.
And more recently, Sundar Pichai took over as chief executive of Google-a role many said had been years coming.
Indians in California say it's the blend of temperament and competitive spirit that brings success their way."
Outside the stadium, that enthusiasm was on full display-though not without the accompaniment of a strong protest against his government.
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,
a staged display designed to build his reputation as a man of the people. 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
The technology involves harvesting radio frequency energy from existing wireless and broadcast networks, from 4g to digital television.
Lord Drayson first showed how much radio frequency energy was in the room, and then used his Freevolt system to power a loudspeaker.
which are preparing for the next phase of the internet, where billions of small cheap sensors are online providing data about their operations.
"He says there are also questions to answer about the possible impact on the mobile networks, which own the spectrum that Freevolt would be harvesting,
"Through a combination of high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy (CRYO EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules
With CRYO EM and their image analysis methodology, they achieved a resolution of 3. 5 Angstroms, a record for microtubules.
and Weiss is Professor of Biological engineering and also Professor of Electrical engineering and Computer science at MIT.
"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."
Here, they showed that SAP-1 ablation in a mouse model of inflammatory bowel disease resulted in a marked increase in the incidence and severity of bowel inflammation
so that the signal of the nanoswitch may be read using a mobile phone. This will make our approach really available to anyone!
#An Important Step in Artificial intelligence In what marks a significant step forward for artificial intelligence, researchers at UC Santa barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit.
but important step,"said Dmitri Strukov, a professor of electrical and computer engineering. With time and further progress, the circuitry may eventually be expanded
what computers would require far more time and energy to perform. What are these functions? Well, you're performing some of them right now.
"Classical computers will always find an ineluctable limit to efficient brain-like computation in their very architecture,
"This memristor-based technology relies on a completely different way inspired by biological brain to carry on computation."
however, many more memristors would be required to build more complex neural networks to do the same kinds of things we can do with barely any effort and energy,
The energy-efficient compact circuitry the researchers are striving to create would also go a long way toward creating the kind of high-performance computers
and memory storage devices users will continue to seek long after the proliferation of digital transistors predicted by Moore's Law becomes too unwieldy for conventional electronics."
and giving a serious boost to future computers,"said Prezioso. In the meantime, the researchers will continue to improve the performance of the memristors,
The very next step would be to integrate a memristor neural network with conventional semiconductor technology,
said Purvesh Khatri, Ph d.,assistant professor of biomedical informatics research. Sepsis or sterile inflammation? In practice, distinguishing sepsis from sterile inflammation is a toss-up.
While the advanced prosthetic arm allows users to perform six different grips, such as picking up small objects,
it does not provide users with the sense of touch and orientation of a natural hand. DARPA is already funding the uke Arm,
While the advanced prosthetic arm allows users to perform six different grips such as picking up small objects, it does not provide users with the sense of touch and orientation of a natural hand.
Moran, whose expertise is in motor neurophysiology and brain-computer interfaces, and his team have developed an electrode designed to stimulate sensory nerve cells in the ulnar and median nerves in the arms.
The ulnar nerve, one of three main nerves in the forearm, is the largest nerve in the body unprotected by muscle
users will have more control over the prosthesis. Moran team includes Harold Burton, Ph d.,professor of neurobiology and Wilson (Zach) Ray, M d.,assistant professor of neurological surgery, both at the School of medicine;
Once implanted, Moran and the team will train the nonhuman primates to play a joystick-controlled videogame, in
which the team will give them cues as to where to move the joystick by stimulating specific sectors in the ulnar and median nerves
M d.,Ph d.,a postdoctoral fellow, Crispino generated a mouse model that lacks DYRK1A in blood cells.
Cancer drugs or other therapeutics can then be added to better monitor how cells respond in a patient.
AIM Biotech will begin deploying the commercial devices to 47 research groups in 13 countries for user feedback.
AIM Biotech may offer to more accurately screen cancer drugs for pharmaceutical companies. In fact, he said, AIM Biotech recently discovered that its devices revealed discrepancies in some clinically tested therapeutics.
MIT researchers used Kamm's microfluidics technology to screen several drugs that aim to prevent tumors from breaking up
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.
The computations were performed on resources provided by SNIC through Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX) X
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
from a medicinal perspective, is that this compound also works in a mouse model, he said. ll the other compounds worked in cells,
#New Protein Manufacturing Process Unveiled Researchers from Northwestern University and Yale university have developed a user friendly technology to help scientists understand how proteins work
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.
This probe will enable the screening of chemical libraries against a broader panel of target methyltransferase enzymes e
During the manufacturing process, each individual tablet would be imprinted with tiny pinpricks, reports The Guardian.
said Polina Golland, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, who led the project. he phrase I heard is that urgeons see with their hands,
Golland and her colleagues will describe their new system at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention in October.
Danielle Pace, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, is first author on the paper
and spearheaded the development of the software that analyzes the MRI scans. Medhi Moghari, a physicist at Boston Children Hospital, developed new procedures that increase the precision of MRI scans tenfold
Determining the boundaries between distinct objects in an image is one of the central problems in computer vision
But general-purpose image-segmentation algorithms aren reliable enough to produce the very precise models that surgical planning requires.
Human factors Typically, the way to make an image-segmentation algorithm more precise is to augment it with a generic model of the object to be segmented.
That anatomical consistency could give a segmentation algorithm a way to weed out improbable conclusions about object boundaries.
and allow algorithms to take over from there. Their strongest results came when they asked the expert to segment only a small patch ne-ninth of the total area of each cross section.
and letting the algorithm infer the rest yielded 90 percent agreement with expert segmentation of the entire collection of 200 cross sections.
Prognosis Currently, the algorithm examines patches of unsegmented cross sections and looks for similar features in the nearest segmented cross sections.
This and other variations on the algorithm are the subject of ongoing research. The clinical study in the fall will involve MRIS from 10 patients who have received already treatment at Boston Children Hospital.
For example, researchers had previously been puzzled as to how org cells could maintain their generative vitality so far away from the nurturing VZ. n the mouse,
In contrast to mouse vrgs, which produce 10 to 100 daughter cells during brain development,
which are thought to affect cell types not found in the mouse models that are used often to study such diseases.
But independent monitors recommended the results on the low-risk group be released, because it was clear that adding chemo would not improve their fate.
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,
She compared them to retail 3-D printers which have proliferated in recent years, bringing that once-rare technology to more of a mass market. e could allow all kinds of labs to do this research.
and have formed complex 3-D neural networks within two to three weeks, the paper shows. 25-cent mini-brains There are fixed costs, of course,
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