Bermuda-based telecommunications company ABS. Because ABS-3a is a communications satellite, it needs to remain in a geosynchronous orbit.
meaning that those hours of phone time don need to be wasted. Right now, the UCLA team has made only a four-element-by-four-element prototype.
Wee developing the hardware necessary to restore the relationship between the brain and the outside world and in the process developing the hardware necessary to completely change that relationship forever.
If your brain is wired up and youe thousands of miles away on business, why not let your partner run your spare hand over their face,
From a mathematics perspective it trivially easy to encrypt any message so that nobody can read it,
In particular, the wavelength of photons changes as they move down an optical fiber not good since creating photon with precise attributes is the whole source of quantum security.
across or even between continents in the networked way of regular digital internet traffic. These quantum dots basically achieve perfect single-photon emission by super-cooling the quantum dots so the emitting atoms do not fluctuate.
they only attach at certain putative sites. On the other hand, ubiquitins have a subtle trick up their sleeves they can tag other tags.
#Terahertz breakthrough allows for ultrafast wireless communications A collaboration between US and Japanese researchers, have developed a key component
in order to enable wireless communications which operate up to 100x faster than current generation routers. Current wireless communications operate at microwave frequencies,
however as the demand for faster speeds and larger bandwidths increases, scientists are looking for ways to alleviate the communication bottleneck.
Between the microwave and infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum lies an appealing candidate: Terahertz (THZ) radiation.
This technique permits the transfer of the masses of data around the internet, TV, etc. whereby a vast number of data channels are carried over a single optical fiber, wirelessly or copper cable.
However, multiplexing and demultiplexing of the much faster THZ signals remains an unaddressed challenge; despite the importance of such capabilities for broadband networks.
improve the effectiveness by increasing the number of stem cells that survive to enact their programming.
#Microfluidic cooling yields huge performance benefits in FPGA processors As microprocessors have grown in size and complexity,
Intel CPU clock speeds have remained mostly flat for years, while AMD FX-9590 and its R9 Nano GPU both illustrate dramatic power consumption differences as clock speeds change.
One of the principle barriers to increasing CPU clocks is that it extremely difficult to move heat out of the chip.
New research into microfluidic cooling could help solve this problem, at least in some cases. Microfluidic cooling has existed for years;
we covered IBM Aquasar cooling system back in 2012, which uses microfluidic channels tiny microchannels etched into a metal block to cool the Supermuc supercomputer.
Now, a new research paper on the topic has described a method of cooling modern FPGAS by etching cooling channels directly into the silicon itself.
Previous systems, like Aquasar, still relied on a metal transfer plate between the coolant flow and the CPU itself.
and CPUS aren very good at spreading that heat out across the entire surface area of the chip.
This is why Intel specifies lower turbo clocks if youe performing AVX2-heavy calculations. By etching channels directly on top of a 28nm Altera FPGA, the research team was able to bring cooling much closer to the CPU cores
and eliminate the intervening gap that makes water-cooling less effective then it would otherwise be.
an associate professor and ON Semiconductor Junior Professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering. e have eliminated the heat sink atop the silicon die by moving liquid cooling just a few hundred microns
but whether or not it could ever scale to consumer hardware is a very different question.
As the feature image shows, the connect points for the hardware look decidedly fragile and easily dislodged or broken.
The amount of effort required to etch a design like this into an Intel or AMD CPU would be non-trivial,
and the companies would have to completely change their approach to CPU heat shields and cooling technology.
Still, technologies like this could find application in HPC clusters or any market where computing power is at an absolute premium.
Removing that much additional heat from a CPU die would allow for substantially higher clocks even with modern power consumption scaling n
Paul Maritz, Pivotal Chief executive officer, EMC Federation-ompelling user experiences and new business models in the digital age are fueled by the dramatically increasing availability and usage of data.
not just FX,"said the head of Travelex's new digital team, former Google and e-Harmony executive Sean Cornwell."
Ola due to high encryption codes, say ISPS Dot had issued a letter to Internet service providers (ISPS) asking them to block websites of taxi operators Uber,
However, websites are still accessible to all. ISPS now say they are unable to block taxi aggregator websites Ola and Uber due to high encryption codes.
ISPS can only block http sites and not https as the latter have higher encryption. This means they can block Taxiforsure,
but not Ola and Uber. hese sites can not be blocked because of technical issues. We have given already representation to government earlier.
This was a general representation. We are giving compliance except in https sites, Internet Service Providers Association of India (ISPAI) President Rajesh Chharia said.
He added that Dot had accepted itself that there was a need to set up a committee to discuss modalities around blocking of https sites around 3-4 months back.
The Delhi government had written to the Department of Electronic & Information technology (Deity) in March that despite the ban, Uber,
Ola Cabs and Taxiforsure continue to book passengers through their apps. All app-based cab services were banned in the national capital last year after a driver of Uber,
the US-based online taxi-hailing company, was accused allegedly of raping a female passenger e
CEI is currently using its advanced transistors to develop laptop power adaptors that are approximately 1. 5 cubic inches in volume the smallest ever made.
Among the other feasible applications for the transistors is better power electronics for data centres run by Google
Amazon, Facebook, and other companies, to power the cloud. Currently, these data centres eat up about 2 per cent of electricity in the US.
lets your smartphone hear in noisy parties People trying to talk to Apple electronic personal assistant Siri in a crowded place may soon no longer have to look like they are about to eat their iphones,
said the paper lead author Abel Xie. his could improve the performance of voice-activated devices like smartphones and game consoles, Xie added.
said Steve Cummer, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Duke. When a sound wave gets to the device,
the sound is transmitted to a computer that is able to separate the jumble of noises based on these unique distortions.
#Blackberry introduces Porsche Design P983 Graphite at Rs 99,990 in India Blackberry has launched the Blackberry Porsche Design P983 Graphite smartphone in India at a price of Rs 99,990.
The company has listed also out a few exclusive Porsche Design accessories that will be included in the box such as a premium stereo headset,
an international charging kit, a polishing cloth and a USB cable for high-speed data transfer. In terms of specifications, the smartphone features a 3. 1-inch touch screen with a 720 x 720 pixel resolution and offers a pixel density of 330ppi.
It is powered by a 1. 5 GHZ dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor paired with 2gb RAM.
It includes an internal storage at 16gb and can be expanded further up to 128gb via microsd card.
It comes equipped with an 8mp rear camera along with a 2mp front facing camera. In terms of connectivity, the device includes Wi-fi 802.11 a b/g/n, Bluetooth 4. 0, LTE, FM radio, Micro-USB,
and Micro-HDMI. Running blackberry 10, it is packed by a 2100 mah battery. Commenting on the launch, Hitesh Shah, Director of Sales and Distribution, at Blackberry India stated, ith the launch of the new P983 Graphite from Blackberry,
we bring a unique stylish smartphone combined with the superior productivity and ultimate security experience of Blackberry 10 technology for our Indian consumers.
This new smartphone is custom-built for power professionals aiming to make a style statement while not willing to compromise on effective communication and collaboration. ags:
#Google Project Ara modular smartphone delayed to 2016 Google had announced earlier this year, that it will unveil the modular smartphone in Puerto rico as part of a pilot program that will allow people to choose their own hardware based on their needs and interests.
Looks like, amidst the all new structuring happening at Google, the modular device will have to wait until next year.
Now, the company has tweeted about the delay in the Project Ara with testing pushed to 2016.
The company disclosed that there are no plans to test the modular phone project in Puerto rico later this year.
on day 2 of the Google I/O developers conference, at the ATAP keynote, Google engineer Rafa Camargo assembled a Project Ara phone as part of a live demo,
and the phone came alive soon after. Google, known by its employees for frequent eorgs announced a major shake up with the holding company Alphabet.
Google, Google X and other products now become subsidiary of the parent company. Toshiba has teamed up with Gujarat-based Einfochips to provide chips for Google Project Ara.
The camera modules will be made available in both 5mp and 13mp versions, and a 2mp front-facing module is also in the works.
Last year the company had released a video showing the first prototype of the device. The techie for whom the project is named,
Project Ara comes with a structural frame that holds smartphone modules of the owner choice,
such as a display, keyboard or say the battery. The approach allows users to swap out malfunctioning modules
or upgrade as new innovations emerge. This also means that the handset can potentially last much longer than normal smartphones do.
Undoubtedly it is an interesting project that has the potential to revolutionise the mobile world e
#Competition and opportunity: What will ASEAN mean for EU industry? By the end of this year member states of the Association of Southeast Asian nations (ASEAN) will be harmonised under one legal framework after ten years of planning.
#Indeed, the nutrition and diet expert added that the very high intake values used in the mouse study mean that it bears no impact for humans,
"A mouse weighs about 20g and drinks about 5 ml water a day, so an intake of 1%of these additives corresponds to an intake of 50mg/d or 2500 mg/kg.""
10.1038/nature14232#Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome#Authors: Benoit Chassaing, et a e
The company's Modesto Carnation Evaporated milk plant, for example, sits in an area currently in the midst of an'Extreme Drought',according to the US Drought Monitor."
Nestlé unveiled its first'zero water'manufacturing site in the"water-stressed"Mexican state of Jalisco in October 2014.
Nestlé immediately started to look for other sites where we would apply the technology, "the Nestlé spokesperson said."
And Bluetooth Good news for blind people wanting to travel on the London Tube. While at the moment they still have to rely on station staff to assist them on to their train,
a new smartphone app created by the Royal London Society for Blind People (RLSB) Youth Forum
The app, called Wayfindr, uses Bluetooth and beacon technology to trace the user location in the subway
each time a beacon signal is picked up by the smartphone. At the same time, the headphones do not prevent wearers from hearing the sounds around them,
as Kevin, one the first users said, there is still a long road ahead to Wayfindr being rolled out to the masses,
These techs include things like 3d printing, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, infinite computing, networks, sensors, nanotechnology, and virtual realitynd is essentially a list of the most disruptive technologies ever invented.
because of the development of user friendly interfaces (a topic covered in this earlier blog) for these accelerating technologies,
For starters, there are more than 700 different crowdfunding sites online, providing platform-level support for whatever kind of campaign you might have in mind.
#Stanford Researchers Created A Smartphone Battery That Charges In Only One Minute Last year, emarketer reported that the global smartphone audience passed 1. 75 billion people.
As smartphones become ubiquitous, the demand for longer-lasting batteries will continue to increase. Fortunately, researchers at Stanford university are building an aluminum-ion battery prototype that speeds up the charging times.
And the aluminum-ion battery could eventually replace many of the lithium-ion and alkaline batteries used in many smartphones today. e have developed a rechargeable aluminum battery that may replace existing storage devices, such as alkaline batteries,
which are bad for the environment, and lithium-ion batteries, which occasionally burst into flames, said Stanford university chemistry professor Hongjie Dai, the lead researcher of the project,
The voltage of the aluminum battery made by the Stanford researchers is about half the average smartphone lithium battery.
And the other authors are Di-Yan Wang (Stanford), Mingyun Guan (Stanford), Michael Angell (Stanford), Changxin Chen (Stanford), Jiang Yang (Stanford) and Bing-Joe
Videogame maker Sega developed a mass-market head-tracking VR system and showed it to reporters and industry representatives with great fanfare at the 1993 winter Consumer electronics Show.
Unfortunately, among other issues, testers reportedly developed headaches and motion sickness using the headset and the system was shelved quietly.
watching movies or television, texting and working while on autopilot should suffer the most motion sickness,
and orienting seats and displays so that riders are facing forward. Mercedes-benz recently showed a prototype driverless car that featured deeply tinted windows
Those who run electricity systems can now apply algorithms to tell operators which units to run
and Midwest regions says that it has approved hundreds of upgrades and additions that will entail $24 billion of new capital in the coming years.
which is joint venture among NRG ENERGY, Google and Brightsource energy. That project takes 173,000 mirrors and focuses the sunlight to the plant solar receiver steam generator,
Traditional software implementations are just not capable of pushing seamless updates in near real-time like cloud-based EHRS can.
Further, some cloud-based EHR providers also wrap ancillary business-and information-services around the software,
and attention to ongoing quantifiable personal data, such as fitness, diet, and sleep-quality. Imagine a diabetics biochip detecting blood glucose levels within personalized parameters,
Patient-centric devices beyond just smartphones or even watches will help not only awarenes, but more importantly personal control of health.
whereby algorithms and other powerful digital technologies become an essential tool in the doctor's toolkit.
#Nokia Buys Alcatel-lucent For $16. 6 Billion Nokia has pushed boldly ahead with its ambition to become one of the world leading network equipment makers after buying French peer Alcatel-lucent for $16. 6 billion (15.6 billion euros),
The combined company will be called Nokia Corporation and be headquartered in Finland, maintaining research and development centers in the U s.,France, Germany and China.
Nokia offer price represents a fully-diluted premium of 34%on Alcatel share price. The two companies expect the deal to close in the first half of 2016
Having sold its mobile handset division to Microsoft last year for $7. 2 billion, Nokia has focused since primarily itself on network equipment manufacturing,
mapping-and-location services and patent licensing. By picking up Alcatel-lucent, with its 52,000-strong workforce, Nokia said its new addressable market was 50%larger,
increasing to 130 billion euros from 84 billion euros. ith more than 40 000 R&d employees and spend of 4. 7 billion euros in R&d in 2014,
the combined company will be in a position to accelerate development of future technologies including 5g,
IP and software-defined networking, cloud, analytics as well as sensors and imaging, Nokia said in a press release Wednesday. lcatel-Lucent
and Nokia have highly complementary portfolios and geographies, with particular strength in the United states, China, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
In addition to using some of the proceeds from its mobile-handset business sale for the deal,
Nokia confirmed today that it was reviewing strategic options including the divestment of its HERE business, worth 2 billion euros according to Bloomberg B
#EU Formally Accuses Google Of Market Abuse, Opens Probe Into Android The European union competition chief formally laid down the gauntlet to Google on Wednesday,
accusing it of market dominance in web searches, particularly around online shopping. It also opened a formal investigation into
whether its Android operating system unfairly favored its own apps. would like to hear what Google has to say for itself,
said Margarethe Vestager, the EU competition commissioner at a press conference in Brussels on Wednesday. he Statement of Objection is not the end.
Wel take in the response of Google and decide how to proceed. Wee not here to take the side of rivals.
Google wrangle with the EU over search results has been going on for five years, but the formal Statement of Objections is a landmark step.
who was criticized by some for not taking a stronger stance with Google. Almunia was replaced by Vestager late last year.
The design of the screen that meets you is an innovative process. I think it would be better to find something based on principle.
The next step is for Google to formally answer the EU Statement of Objection, which at its core accuses Google of favoring its own shopping services over those of third parties like Tripadvisor, Microsoft and Streetmap,
who filed their complaints with the EU back in 2010. If Google and the Commission cannot reach a settlement
and the case reaches the European High court, it could not only drag on for several more years
but see Google fined 10%of its annual revenues. At 2014 levels that would be $6. 6 billion.
Some might argue that Google as a private company should have the freedom to organize search results how it wants
to favor it in your algorithm by not giving it the same treatment as other services,
who added that she considered Google to be lose to a monopoly. Google sent a memo to its employees yesterday showing charts from Comscore and its own internet analytics
saying the Statement of Objections was isappointing news. But, it added, e have a very strong case. t
#EU v. Google: What Each Side Is Saying The European union on Wednesday formally accused Google of abusing its dominant power in web search in violation of antitrust laws.
The action is potentially the most significant antitrust case in the tech industry since regulators on both sides of the Atlantic tangled with Microsoft beginning in the late 1990s
and could lead to years of legal wrangling. It could force Google to pay billions in fines
or to alter the way it presents search results. Specifically, the European commission said that Google's GOOGL+0. 35%promotion of its own comparison shopping search function may rtificially divert traffic from rival comparison shopping services
and hinder their ability to compete on the market. The commission which has been investigating Google search practices for about 5 years, detailed its concerns, known as a Statement of Objections,
on Google comparison shopping service here. The accusations did not extend to other areas of search,
like reviews and travel that Google rivals like Yelp YELP+3. 14 %and Tripadvisor TRIP+0. 57%had complained about.
But the EU antitrust chief, Margrethe Vestager, also opened a formal investigation into whether Google has violated European antitrust laws with its Android operating system and related mobile services.
The commission said it is concerned that Google may have hindered market access to rival mobile apps by pushing Android phone makers to pre-install its suite of mobile services
which include search, maps, Google Drive and the Play store. It also said it is concerned Google may have hindered market access to makers of modified versions of Android.
The commission full concerns on Android are detailed here. Google put out a vigorous defense. In a blog post, Google search chief Amit Singhal said that people have more search choices today than ever before,
and that competition among shopping search engines is thriving. ndeed if you look at shoppingn area where we have seen a lot of complaints
and where the European commission has focused in its Statement of Objectionst clear that (a) there a ton of competition (including from Amazon and ebay EBAY+0. 58%,
%two of the biggest shopping sites in the world) and (b) Google shopping results have not the harmed the competition,
Singhal wrote. In a separate blog post, Hiroshi Lockheimer, an engineering vice president for Android, rebutted the commission concerns regarding Google mobile operating system. ndroid has been a key player in spurring this competition and choice, lowering
prices and increasing choice for everyone, Lockheimer wrote. Google will now has 10 weeks to respond to the commissions charges.
The commission will then evaluate those responses and potentially recommend remedies e
#Tencent Scores#1 On China Brand Ranking, Next Global? Chinese tech companies are becoming more adept at marketing
and brand image, and will become better known in the West as their products and services go global.
An annual survey of brand value has Chinese companies outpacing global counterparts when it comes to improvements in getting their messages out into the marketplace
and creating a positive buzz. Social messaging company Tencent takes the lead in this year survey of top 100 most valuable Chinese brands by ad agency WPP
What interesting is to see Tencent and Alibaba overtaking long-time leader and state-owned China Mobile.
This year, three of this year top five are oriented consumer Tencent, Alibaba and Baidu. The brand rankings are compiled by analysis of financial data of publicly traded companies and interviews with consumers.
How long will it be before Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi makes this list? As Chinese companies improve their marketing strategies,
#IKEA Releases New Furniture Collection, Promises Better Living Through Wireless Power It tempting to dismiss IKEA new embrace of furniture that will charge your phone as a gimmick.
In fact, thousands of hours of observational research argues that it will. e know that people are attached at the hip to their smartphones,
The hallmark of the Wireless Charging Collection is built-in wireless charging. The line includes a bed-loft combo
IKEA transmitters will work with the Samsung galaxy S6, and are compatible with any phone that includes Qi wireless charging technology.
You may need to activate it in the settings. iphones can be used with a special case that IKEA sells.
And if IKEA furniture doesn appeal to you, but the idea of embedded wireless charging does,
IKEA sells both an embeddable charger ($29. 99) and a special circular saw ($4. 99) you need to install it yourself.
while her smartphone lies cradled on a small shelf attached to a reading lamp in easy reach.
IKEA may be wrong about the benefits of wireless charging, and its new furniture line could be a flop.
the retailer is positioned uniquely to bring wireless charging to as many people as possible at the lowest possible price.
#Can Apple And IBM Change Health care? Five Big Questions Today, at a glitzy press conference at IBM new Watson headquarters in Manhattan swank Silicon Alley, IBM IBM and Apple Apple announced that they are partnering with Japan Post,
which is among other things the largest health-and life-insurance company in Japan, to start a project that will provide ipads to millions of senior citizens with the aim of improving their health and their lives.
The project will help Japan Post, which already has a massive Big data-style collection of health care information,
and convenience that come with iphone and ipad. It my vision to enrich their lives. Apple and IBM chief executives Tim cook and Ginni Rometty were both present at the press conference,
emphasizing its importance to both firms. ombined with Japan post we are going to build a service that not only can all be proud of
said Cook, looking down occasionally at an ipad on his lap. Added Rometty: oday is about re-imagining life for what is the largest generation that has been in human history.
These workers will bring the senior citizen an ipad, and sit with them and teach them how to use a suite of IBM-designed applications focused around the areas of health, family, and community.
The app will remind patients to take their medicines (the fictional anecdote used by IBM executives to explain that used a woman who kept forgetting her blood pressure medicine
which would put her at risk for a stroke), but also allow them to Facetime with family
but the Japan Post effort differs in its scale Nishimuro said that the plan was to roll this out to millions and in its reliance on Apple and IBM technology.
The customers won pay for the ipad, although there may be a nominal fee for the service,
an IBM spokesman said. There will be a limited roll out, and testing for functionality, before the project can move full tilt.
Can you prove that ipads actually help people stay healthy? The idea behind this project is that it will help senior citizens remain independent and healthy for longer,
In the fictional case study IBM used to explain this effort to the press, the patient high blood pressure would mean that getting her to take her medicine more often would improve her life.
Obviously, Japan Post will be collecting huge amounts of data that, with IBM analytics, it will use to try to learn about how to keep people healthy.
But will these companies be able to prove that giving a grandmother an ipad can save her life?
It wasn clear what kind of data collection IBM, Apple, and Japan Post will be doing to prove that this works.
Hopefully, Japan Post will be able to compare people who got ipads at different times to see
Apple and IBM say they are trying out a huge number of pilot studies, including one related to home health care that is being done by Express Scripts Express Scripts.
IBM and Apple deserve huge congratulations for the way they are taking on the problem of improving health care for seniors especially
a tendency to talk a lot about how great the gadgets and apps they were developing are without much data about
It very possible, maybe even likely, that an ipad giveaway program, paired with the right apps, could make senior citizens with chronic health problems healthier and more independent.
Apple and IBM are moving into new territory here, and theye going to have to do something that is always hard for anyone,
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