In the paper, lead investigator Mcnally summarizes her research in fruit flies and mouse models. Her team,
#Mini DNA Sequencer Data Belies its Size A miniature DNA sequencing device that plugs into a laptop
the device can be plugged into any computer using a USB port, weighs just 90 grams and measures 10 centimeters in length.
though, that there is work still to be done, to improve the reproducible delivery of molecules into the device and the clarity of the software it uses.
built the machine to assemble complex small molecules at the click of a mouse, like a 3-D printer at the molecular level.
The automated process has the potential to greatly speed up and enable new drug development and other technologies that rely on small molecules.
whose members watched DVDS while the other group slept, performed significantly worse than the nap group
When combined, the three proteins formed a robust panel that can detect patients with stages I-II pancreatic cancer with over 90 per cent accuracy.
This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we're hopeful that a simple,
who for nearly 40 years has conducted research on how the neural networks in the spinal cord regain control of standing,
The variation in this return signal over time is interpreted by a computer to which the reader is wired,
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.
The particles work by releasing carbon dioxide gas, like antacid tablets to propel them toward the source of bleeding.
#Computer system Being developed to Predict Change In The Alzheimer's Brain, MIT Study MIT researchers are developing a computer system that uses genetic, demographic,
and clinical data to help predict the effects of disease on brain anatomy. In experiments, they trained a machine-learning system on MRI data from patients with neurodegenerative diseases
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT and the senior author on the new paper. ur goal is not to prove that our model is the best model to do this kind of thing;
First author on the paper is Adrian Dalca, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and a member of Golland group at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory.
The researchers are presenting the paper at the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention this week.
They then characterize each scan in the training set for their machine-learning algorithm as a deformation of the template.
Then, using a computer-controlled light projector, the team was able to control the speed of the cardiac waves,
In the short term, the ability to provide fine control means that researchers are able to carry out experiments at a level of detail previously only available using computer models.
what one can do in a computer model, except here it was done in real heart cells, in real time.'
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."
Future work for Tkaczyk and his colleagues includes developing an automated algorithm for white blood cell identification,
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced
Music streaming is finally bigger than downloads We've just hit a massive milestone in the evolution of the music industry:
a record label is reporting higher revenues from music streaming than paid downloads. Warner Music group has announced that its streaming revenues have passed those from digital downloads.
CEO Stephen Cooper said"the rate of this growth has made it abundantly clear that in years to come,
"Paid downloads have long been the primary way listeners consume music, with downloads overtaking physical sales in the US (by volume) back in 2012.
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,
financially supported by ads. This shift toward free music has left a sour taste in some artists'mouths,
"and offers high-quality music to users who pay for the most expensive tier. This shift also underscores why Apple's expected launch of its own streaming service is important to the company.
Through itunes, Apple has dominated long the digital music business. But as digital downloads decline it risks losing its industry-leading position to challengers like Spotify, Tidal, and others.
Though Apple is yet to make an official announcement, it is expected later this year to relaunch the Beats Music streaming service it acquired.
or more than three for every person on the planet, will be connected to the internet by the end of 2020.
and Israel that Tehran successfully reverse-engineered before turning it into their own cyber weapon to destroy the servers of Saudi arabia's national oil and natural gas company.
outlined to Business Insider four major ways that advancements in internet technology could threaten national security.
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REUTERS/Dado Ruvicpeople pose in front of a display showing the word'cyber'in binary code, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica December 27, 2014.
When it comes to finding security holes in a company's information system, people hired to hack into a company's systems start with
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.
SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) is a type of industrial control system that monitors and controls key infrastructure in the US and around the world.
And some cybersecurity experts fear that hackers aboard an aircraft could bring down the plane using the onboard Wi-fi many commercial jets now offer to passengers."
"Modern aircraft are connected increasingly to the internet. This interconnectedness can potentially provide unauthorized remote access to aircraft avionics systems,
and dialed the phone numbers of some of the users of his new music-streaming service, Tidal.
It had grown up in the years before the iphone providing services for Nokia and Ericsson feature phones.
It was a tiny player in the music-streaming world, and nobody paid much attention to it.
By the end of March, Aspiro had become one of the most talked-about technology companies in the world.
Fans remain largely confused as to why Tidal even exists it offers streaming music at twice the price of Google, Apple, and Spotify.
This is the full story of how Jay z took over an obscure Scandinavian telecoms company in the hopes of staging a revolution on behalf of artists who feel they aren't being paid properly in a world where no one buys CDS anymore.
If you used a mobile phone to browse the internet back in 2003, then you probably did
so using a technology called wireless application protocol (WAP). It let older mobile phones download data using their cellular service.
It was a precursor to the much faster networks that we use today. Jörgen Adolfsson, Christer Månsson,
while they were working at Europolitan, one of the biggest telephone networks in Sweden. Aspiroaspiro founders Klas Hallqvist, Christer Månsson,
where they became aware of WAP and the companies that were starting to build businesses using the technology.
They left Europolitan and convinced Hallqvist to join them. Aspiro offered a range of different services using WAP and text messages.
It didn't sell its services direct to consumers but instead sold them onto mobile networks that could include it as part of their bundles.
Aspiro developed interactive games, ringtones, horoscopes, even a system to send fax messages from your phone.
Aspirothe Aspiro website in 2001. Aspiro grew quickly thanks to partnerships with European phone manufacturers such as Ericsson and Nokia.
Those companies were selling vast amounts of old-fashioned feature phones in Europe, so Aspiro's products reached millions of customers.
Aspiroa brochure produced by Aspiro in 2001. Adolfsson and Månsson wanted to live and work in Malmö in Sweden,
so Aspiro's first office was set up there. But Hallqvist wasn't so keen and preferred Karlskrona
Flickr/sigurdgaaspiro partnered with a Norwegian music store to launch its streaming site. Aspiro focused on WAP for years,
and it developed new services for the mobile network that was quickly becoming antiquated. But it also branched out into other online services,
including music news and search engines. The most important decision in Aspiro's history was the development of a music-streaming service built in conjunction with Platekompaniet,
a Norwegian retail chain that sells CDS and DVDS. Wimp, as Aspiro's music-streaming service was called,
did something different from its competitors. It emphasised high-quality audio streaming at higher bit rates than Rdio and Spotify.
It used the same strategy that it used for its WAP business to rapidly scale up the business:
Aspiro struck deals with telecoms companies and hardware manufacturers to pick up customers who wouldn't have
Aspiro didn't feel like an old-school telecoms company anymore; this time, it was a tech startup out to disrupt the music industry.
and Tidal curated music using actual people, rather than algorithms: The legacy really comes from Wimp,
The 2014 year-end financial report gave a gloomy outlook:""The company is funded not fully for the coming twelve months."
"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
and a giant screen above the stage that displayed tweets from fans of the musicians who had been promoting the event.
Schlogel also announced that Tidal would support offline playing of music, just like Spotify. The relaunched streaming site would be based around exclusive music and video content,
as well as special live events for subscribers. Tidaltidal became Jay z's music-streaming service. But the most important part of the press conference wasn Schlogel speech;
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.
"pointing out that its ios app had plummeted down the App store chart from the top 20 to a point where it wasn't even in the top 700 most popular apps.
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,
Tidal itself had just 17,000 users as of January 31. The bigger service, Wimp, had 486,000 users, with 391,000 of them coming through partnerships with companies such as carriers.
That means just 91,000 users had sought actually out Wimp and subscribed to it. 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.
He accused"big companies"of"spending millions on a smear campaign.""Tidal employees suggested via email at the time that Jay z was referring to rivals like Apple and Spotify.
However, both companies deny the accusation. Tidal employees weren't aware that Jay z was going to make a public statement about the company.
It seems that it really was a stream of consciousness. There's a long and complicated history surrounding the hyphen in Jay z's name.
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?
when it their own s---You bought nine iphones, and Steve jobs is richphil Knight is worth millions.
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).
so that all of his users could hear it. Spotify wasn't worried about the threat from Tidal, however.
The Tidal Twitter account publicly shut down the rumour. Right now there are two big reasons why someone would sign up to Tidal:
it has an entire online-radio station with shows by stars like Josh Homme and Elton john. Getty Images Europeapple hired BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe to present its own online-radio station.
Spotify has also been moving forward and developing new ways to bring in customers. It has launched playlists designed to surface up-and-coming music,
although The Daily mirror (one of the newspapers that partnered with Prince) compared it to his greatest hits. There's no denying that Tidal has come a long way from Aspiro's innovative WAP services in 1998.
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."
Massdrop users vote for what product they would like to see on a"drop.""Coats, backpacks, boots, shoes, wallets,
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.
#The Apple Pay effect is real n-store mobile payments volume will top $800 billion in 2019 Mobile payments the use of phones to complete transactions in stores instead of cash
Considering that the feature can only be used on the new iphones we think that's indicative of exceptional momentum.
Android mobile wallets are benefiting from Apple Pay: Multiple sources confirm that Google Wallet saw a jump in payment volume following the launch of Apple Pay.
Softcard (formerly Isis), a mobile wallet backed by big wireless carriers including Verizon, also struck a number of new deals that were likely a result of retailers attempting to give their customers an Android-based alternative to Apple Pay.
In full, the report: Forecasts US mobile payment volume from 2014-2019 and provides an in depth explanation of the assumptions and data behind the forecast.
Analyzes the latest adoption statistics on Apple Pay and why the fledgling mobile payments feature is sure to be a success. Provides a quarterly update on the mobile payments industry including analysis of Softcard, Google Wallet, Currentc, Paypal, and Looppay.
To access the full report from BI Intelligence, sign up for a 14-day trial here.
a popular social coding site for programmers, is fighting a days-long cyberattack that reportedly originates in China.
The U s. coding site Github said on Sunday it was deflecting most of the traffic from the cyberattack that had caused intermittent outages.
The attackers paralyzed the site at times by using distributed denial of service, or DDOS, attacks, a technique commonly used to disrupt websites and computer networks,
according to the Wall street journal. They pushed massive amounts of traffic to Github by redirecting overseas users of the popular Chinese search engine Baidu Inc,
according to the Wall street journal. The newspaper said they targeted two Github pages that link to copies of websites banned in China-a Mandarin-language site from the New york times Co and Greatfire. org,
which helps Chinese users circumvent government censorship. A Beijing-based Baidu spokesman said a thorough investigation had determined it was neither a security problem on Baidu's side nor a hacking attack."
"We have notified other security organizations and are working to get to the bottom of this, "the spokesman said.
On its blog, Github said the attack began early on Thursday and involved"every vector we've seen in previous attacks as well as some sophisticated new techniques that use the web browsers of unsuspecting, uninvolved people to flood github. com with high levels of traffic.
Github said it believed the intent of the attack was to convince the company to remove a specific class of content.
The Chinese government has denied repeatedly it has anything to do with hacking. Asked about the report
#Facebook says drones could help extend internet access around the world A fleet of solar-powered drones could help provide high-speed internet to people around the world who currently live without it,
Facebook says of a project in development. The company's chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer unveiled the plans during a keynote speech on Thursday at the F8 conference in San francisco. The drones,
000 metres, the drones are designed to beam down internet connectivity to regions of the world where wireless internet access is unavailable,
."Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post on Thursday, paired with a photo of an early prototype drone soaring over Palo alto,
a U k.-based company that Facebook acquired in 2014. Despite Facebook's obvious enthusiasm for the project, it's still in the early stages of development.
The social media giant told the New york times it hopes to have a fleet of 1 000 drones,
but it will probably be years before it becomes a reality. And that's to say nothing of the red tape Facebook would have to manoeuvre to get a fleet of remotely controlled aircraft in the skies around the world.
The Aquila project is part of Facebook's Internet. org initiative, which it says aims to extend internet access to people around the world who live outside of mobile networks."
"Aircraft like these will help connect the whole world, because they can affordably serve the 10 per cent of the world's population that live in remote communities without existing internet infrastructure,
"wrote Zuckerberg g
#India's top court upholds free speech online or via cellphone India's top court affirmed people's right to free speech in cyberspace Tuesday by striking down a provision that had called for imprisoning people who send"offensive"messages by computer or cellphone.
The provision, known as Section 66a of the 2008 Information technology Act, had made sending such messages a crime punishable by up to three years in prison.
In its ruling, the Supreme court said the provision was"clearly vague"in not clarifying what should be construed as offensive.
It also said the provision violates people's freedom of speech and their right to share information."
Police arrested a man last year for saying on Facebook that Prime minister Narendra Modi, then still a candidate, would start a holocaust in India
And last week, police in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh arrested a teenage student for posting comments on Facebook he attributed to a top state minister.
although his son had filed a police complaint in 2012 against a businessman for allegedly disparaging him in Twitter messages."
"Cyber analysts said the ruling marked a positive step in ensuring that the Internet would be governed by the same norms and laws as newspapers, TV commentary and other forms of communication as India's Internet users increase from today's 100 million online."
however, that there was still more work to be done in guaranteeing the Internet was governed fairly, including a provision that allows the government to block websites without announcing
or explaining its decision to do so. The Supreme court on Tuesday upheld that part of the law."
prepared by a panel chaired by Norbert Morgenstern and released in January. The investigation started weeks after the mine's tailings pond dam collapsed.
#Ubisoft offers new video game it says can treat lazy eye The Montreal-based gaming company Ubisoft has developed a video game it says could be used to treat amblyopia, also known as lazy eye.
The company says it's the first video game based on a patented method for the treatment of amblyopia.
Game meant to be said engaging Ferland the game involves controlling moles on the tablet screen.
#The internet is almost out of IP ADDRESSES It turns out even the internet operates within finite dimensions.
The web is about to exhaust its supply of Internet Protocol (IP ADDRESSES. Now, technology companies are scrambling to get onto a new system to route internet traffic to the right place.
IP ADDRESSES are like the internet's phone numbers. Under the web's current system, there are billions of them. 3 billion to be exact.
But as more of us do more and more online, those addresses are being gobbled up. And soon, very soon, that supply will run out."
"The second half of 2015, maybe if we're lucky we could stretch it to early 2016,
"Over time, you'll realize you wont be able to reach half the internet. You won't be able to watch the video you want to watch.
At issue is one of the weirdest quirks of the internet's history. In 1981, as the internet was being built,
volunteers created a system to direct traffic and make sure people landed on the page they were looking for.
They called it IPV4 (though they didn't build versions 1 2 or 3). They made 4. 3 billion IP ADDRESSES to handle all that traffic.
But in 1981, the internet was a mere shadow of what it is today. Now, everything on the internet has an IP ADDRESS:
laptops, mobile phones, tablets, cameras, even coffee makers and thermostats. By 2020, there will be an estimated 50 billion devices online.
And that old system is running out of room. So, a new system was built. The sheer size of IPV6 is staggering.
It has more than 340 undecillion IP ADDRESSES. That's 340 trillion trillion trillion or 340 followed by 36 zeros.
The Wall street journal claims that's enough to assign an IP ADDRESS to every atom On earth. But not everyone is rushing to adapt to the new technology.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) says the transition to IPV6 has been slow at least in part because the changes are all happening behind the scenes"Nobody really knows about it.
me IPV6 today,'"says Byron Holland, CIRA's president and CEO.""Therefore they're not in any rush to do it.
But really IPV4 as a resource in any meaningful way is exhausted. And you can see that in that there is a secondary market that has sprung up,
the price per IP ADDRESS will only grow. In 2011, Microsoft bought up more than 660,000 IP ADDRESSES from Nortel for $7. 5 million US ($11. 36 each.
Today, each address sells for as much as $14. At this point, just about everybody is working toward getting their systems IPV6 capable.
Rogers said in a statement that it is"in the process of upgrading to be IPV6 capable and will have more details to share later."
"Bell says it can't comment at this time as its transition plans have not yet been announced. For its part, Telus says"our work in transitioning is well underway
and Telus remains committed to Canada's part in the global transition to IPV6.""You can test your own connection to see
if it's IPV6 enabled or not here u
#India orders clampdown on internet porn websites India has ordered Internet service providers to block access to more than 850 adult websites in
what the government has described as a way to protect social decency. N. N. Kaul, a spokesman for India's department of telecom, said Monday that the government was trying to control easy access to pornography following a directive from the country's top court.
Kaul said that while Internet service providers in India will have to bar access, users may still view the sites through virtual private networks and proxy servers.
He said the move would protect children. The leaked government order dated last Friday, orders Internet service providers to block access to the 857 sites on grounds of morality and decency.
The Supreme court said earlier in July that ordering a ban on adult websites was not its job
but was an issue for the government. That followed an order from the court last year that suggested the government needed to monitor access to pornography.
Not sex,"popular Indian author Chetan Bhagat said on Twitter.""Porn ban is anti-freedom, impractical, not enforceable.
In the past, India has tried to control social media sites like Facebook and Twitter and ask them to take down offensive material.
It had blocked briefly several Twitter accounts in 2012 citing security and law and order fears.
It also blocked access to a homegrown soft-porn website in 2009. Kaul said more websites may be added to the list of those to be blocke e
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