#At SXSW, Retail's Data-Driven Future Is On Display Apart from expanding to sell merchandise online,
On Friday at SXSW Interactive, Hyman spoke on a panel along with Katrina Lake, founder and CEO of Stitch Fix, about the next-generation retail experience.
#Youtube Now Lets You View And Upload 360-Degree Videos Youtube has announced that it is now supporting 360-degree video uploads.
Some of the cameras that are compatible with Youtube 360-degree video uploads include Bublcam, 360cam by Giroptic, Allie by IC Real Tech, the SP360 by Kodak and the RICOH THETA.
This means that viewers can watch videos in any direction for a different perspective instead of just where the camera is facing.
said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,
When you upload a Youtube video with a 360-degree camera, the viewer is able to tap on the video
and drag the screen to look around at different angles. In the screenshot below, you will notice that there are navigational controls at the top left of the videos.
If you are using the Youtube app on an Android device then you can pan around the video simply by moving your smartphone and tablet around.
As of right now, the 360-degree Youtube videos are supported by just the Chrome browser on the desktop and the Youtube app on Android devices.
Youtube said that 360-degree videos will be supported on other platforms in the near future like the iphone and ipad.
Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.
The experience feels very similar to Google GOOGL-0. 94%Street view . If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles,
the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras and put together those types of videos with help from the staff between now through April.
When you are ready to upload 360-degree videos on Youtube, you can find technical information on Github with a Python script to insert the correct video metadata.
Youtube plans to make the process of uploading 360-degree videos automatic, but that script will be required in the meantime.
Keep in mind that the quality of the 360-degree videos are not as high as we see in the standard Youtube videos.
The 360-degree videos need to be at 24 25 or 30 frames per second.
And the 360-degree videos take up about four-to-five times the bandwidth of regular Youtube videos.
Youtube set up a playlist of some 360-degree videos so that you can see multiple examples.
Here are a few examples of the new 360-degree videos on Youtube (watch these using Google chrome on your desktop
or the Youtube app for Android to see the 360-degree controls) e
#In Historic Turn, CO2 EMISSIONS Flatline in 2014, Even as Global economy Grows A key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth.
and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
and outside a user vehicle to easily track and monitor a number of incidents. Lyfelens monitors trigger eventsxcessive speed, abrupt movements such as hard braking or collisions
location, movement and vandalismnd notifies users with alerts, live video and image playback that can be viewed with the Lyfelens app on a user smartphone.
Motion and sound detection sensors also monitor a user vehicle for unsafe or suspicious activity,
automatically capturing video and alerting the user. e designed Lyfelens with the goal of providing car owners with peace of mind, said cofounder
and CEO Allen Stone. yfelens keeps an eye on your car even when youe not there,
and is an invaluable resource for when the worst happens. Lyfelens is available for pre-order at a discounted price of $199 (plus $20 shipping.
Outside of the vehicle, Lyfelens users can access real-time data, footage and push notifications by participation in a monthly subscription plan.
With this subscription, Lyfelens also broadcasts a 4G LTE Wifi hotspot to keep driver and passengersdevices connected on the go.
however it does enable full functionality/user experience of the product. Without the subscription, the device still functions
and pairs with the phone via Bluetooth when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
the WIFI hotspot or automatic cloud storage of video/images (these would then only be stored on the device memory for the user to extract later).
The final cost of the subscription is still being determined. It will likely be a monthly cost of $19. 99-$29. 99 for a single unit (depending on data usage),
and subscribers with multiple cars/Lyfelens devices will be given discounted subscription rates for more than one device e
How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square, but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier
but instead she smiled at her phone, here Wi-fi here. My friend wasn alone. Before the first jubilant percussion beats could settle,
an ipad blocked my visibility like a solar eclipse. Turning for a better view revealed a conglomeration of glowing devices not only grabbing pics and vids,
Our smartphones, and the instant communication they lend tempt us to forget the real moment in which we are involved.
but nothing can overpower the frenetic pattern of fingers on lucent screens. Is this an essential part of the concert experience or a divergence from it?
nd the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage.
According to T-Mobile, 47%of audience members text during shows. There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene.
It is distracting for fellow fans and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists.
But no amount of audio or visual stimulation can negate the distraction of an LED screen shoved in your face by an overeager fan.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
My friend was sending emails while I played ninja to avoid flailing ipads the mini ones feel mega
when they hit you in the nose and the band I had waited for was not helping the situation.
and Twitter campaign#bestdayofmylife, after their biggest hit. Besides adding another incentive for all phones on deck,
they ran the tagged photos on a huge onstage screen for parts of the performance.
the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along. I smiled, but felt weird.
almost like slides of paintings on a screen we could all talk about, instead of the paintings themselves in their grandeur on museum walls.
It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show. The San francisco Symphony orchestra actually set aside weet seatsin
Frampton is no social media scrooge, he one of the few artists who personally engages with his online fan base.
Pink floyd cofounder Roger Waters told his Facebook followers that he ould never turn on a cell phone at any musical event.
The Huffington Post reports that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs prohibit the tendency to atch the show through a screen.
Prince posts his urple Ruleswhen touring that forbid phones in the concert hall. Outcries like these do not seem to be just about profit and image
These artists are not damning social media, but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,
then smartphones detract from that, and if the purpose of social media and mobile messaging is communication,
a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
While sharing might be caring, we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,
but not necessarily including a pod of iphones. Placing a screen between eyes and stage alters the DNA of a piece.
Unless you can combine both experiences you must ask which expands your world more: eyes piercing a screen
or music piercing a soul. Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.
Twitter mission statement iso give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.
According to Twitter website, more than 80%of active users tweet from their phones, making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising.
The purpose of concert going is less definable than the purpose of tweeting. What seems to be unique about live music is presence,
Where is the line between engaging in Twitter purpose and engaging in the concert purpose?
Smartphones invading musical experiences are inevitable, but so are creative solutions. Some artists request that pictures
giving fans the peace of keeping phones on their person while removing the temptation to use them.
Bright screens attached to waving arms looked like some kind of extraterrestrial seabed or the luminescent Tree of Souls in Avatar.
I took a few videos, but did not feel the need to prove I was there.
but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.
Georgia Tech has the answer Researchers at Georgia Tech have built a tablet-based system that lets people control a fleet of robots with just the swipe of a finger.
when someone swipes the Apple ipad to drag the light across the floor, the robots follow.
If, however, the person puts two fingers in different locations on the tablet the machines split into teams
Georgia Tech says that its algorithm for controlling large teams of robots could be used in areas such as manufacturing, agriculture,
or a million robots by individually programming each one where to go, said Magnus Egerstedt, Schlumberger Professor in Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer engineering, in a statement. nstead,
the operator controls an area that needs to be explored. Then the robots work together to determine the best ways to accomplish the job. eorgia Tech says that its robotic algorithm is flexible enough to let robots hange their minds."
"In a demonstration of the system, each robot is constantly measuring how much light is in its local eighborhood. hen there too much light in a robot area,
the UCSD cloak works by manipulating electromagnetic waves, such as visible light or radio waves. Because it can scatter these waves,
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
As result, only about 20 percent of the population is able to connect to the Internet.
Facebook hopes to change those statistics with a new project in its Internet. org initiative.
As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."
"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.
Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,
which will cover West, East and Southern Africa. Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity
--so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future. Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business
while Facebook will work locally in Africa to deliver Internet service to rural communities. The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016.
The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative which debuted in 2013.
Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.
Internet. org was criticized highly for providing access only to Facebook and a handful of other web sites and services instead of the full, open internet.
Internet. org responded to critics by recently expanding its service to include any sites that meet Facebook's development criteria a
The MIT has developed a new programming approach that in enabling the robots to perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
The new programming approaches developed by MIT engineer enables robots perform high-level decision-making to figure out how to achieve these goals.
or reconfigure the hardware to get over a failure, on the fly. Principal developer Brian Williams stated that hese vehicles might arrange their own missions,
CHEAP CATALYST Another key advance is the use of active, inexpensive catalysts for fuel production. The photoanode requires a catalyst to drive the essential water-splitting reaction.
Rare and expensive metals such as platinum can serve as effective catalysts, but in its work the team discovered that it could create a much cheaper,
This catalyst is among the most active known catalysts for splitting water molecules into oxygen, protons,
#How to build millions of tiny microscopes all at once A new optical device made of silicon anopillarscould lead to advanced microscopes, displays, sensors,
and cameras that can be mass-produced using the same techniques used to manufacture computer microchips. urrently,
Manipulating the polarization of light is essential for the operation of advanced microscopes, cameras, and displays;
the control of polarization also enables simple gadgets such as 3-D glasses and polarized sunglasses. sing our metasurfaces,
and differentiates them from larger sound waves that are reflected in the ormalway. his type of measuring method delivers similar results to the edge detection filter in an image-processing software,
which allows the outline of prominent photo objects to be identified with the click of the mouse,
A new artificial intelligence system can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student.
This system, called Geos, uses a combination of computer vision to interpret diagrams, natural language processing to read
the computer roughly achieved an SAT score of 500 (out of 800), the average test score for 2015.
Researchers from Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2) and the University of Washington computer science and engineering department shared a paper on the findings at the 2015 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural language processing (EMNLP) in Lisbon
senior research manager for Vision at AI2 and UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. ur biggest challenge was converting the question to a computer-understandable language.
all data sets and software are available for other researchers to use
#Vaccine might replace surgery for cervical cancer A genetically engineered cervical cancer vaccine performed well in a clinical trial,
Printing multiple materials with different dynamic mechanical properties in prescribed patterns throughout the 3d object enables the ability to create objects that change shape in a controlled sequence over time.
and Design Centre. e are now extending this concept of digital SMPS to enable printing of SMPS with dynamic mechanical properties that vary continuously in 3d space.
if you are talking on the phone with someone you know very well, and they are crying,
The voice device is made up of a small computer connected to a camera that is attached to darkened glasses,
A computer algorithm scans each camera image from left to right and for every column of pixels, generates an associated sound with a frequency
The intuitively identified textures used in the experiments exploited the crossmodal mappings already within the voice encoding algorithm. hen we reverse the crossmodal mappings in the voice auditory-to-visual translation
the group is currently using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) data to analyze the crossmodal neural network. These preexisting neural connections provide an important starting point for training visually impaired people to use devices that will help them see.
generally requiring a user full concentration and attention to interpret information about the environment. The Shimojo lab new finding on the role of multimodal processing and crossmodal mappings starts to address this issue.
which is like a computer hard drive, is read, so that the cell switches from a lung cell to a serotonin neuron,
#Depth sensor could bring Kinect games outdoors A new imaging technology could address a major drawback of depth-sensing cameras, such as Microsoft Kinect controller:
associate professor of robotics at Carnegie mellon University. e don need new image-processing algorithms, and we don need extra processing to eliminate the noise,
It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones. Depth cameras work by projecting a pattern of dots
if only briefly, notes Kyros Kutulakos, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto. ven though wee not sending a huge amount of photons, at short time scales,
Alternatively, if other camera hardware is used, the mathematical framework developed by the team can compute energy-efficient codes that optimize the amount of energy that reaches the camera. e have a way of choosing the light rays we want to capture
and only those rays. n addition to enabling the use of Kinect-like devices to play videogames outdoors,
#Tantalum shows promise for high-density storage Scientists have created a solid-state memory technology that allows for high-density storage with a minimum incidence of computer errors.
making them simpler than present-day flash memories that use three. ut this is a new way to make ultradense, nonvolatile computer memory,
unlike volatile random-access computer memories that lose their contents when the machine is shut down. 100 times less energy Modern memory chips have many requirements:
This will be a real competitor for the growing memory demands in high-definition video storage and server arrays.
and easily repeatable test for pancreatic cancer, scientists at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University, have developed a three-protein biomarker panel that can screen urine samples to identify pancreatic cancer
The panel, the scientists say, has demonstrated already better than 90%accuracy. Moreover, it readily distinguishes between pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis,
the scientists discovered, yielded a robust panel. The panel performance was described August 3 in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, in an article entitled, dentification of a Three-Biomarker Panel in Urine for Early Detection of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. hen comparing
PDAC with healthy urine specimens, the resulting areas under the receiver-operating characteristic curves (AUC) of the panel were 0. 89 in the training (70%of the data)
and 0. 92 in the validation (30%of the data) datasets, wrote the authors. hen comparing PDAC stage II with healthy urine specimens,
the panel achieved AUCS of 0. 90 and 0. 93 in the training and validation datasets,
This is a biomarker panel with good specificity and sensitivity and we're hopeful that a simple,
Computer software then extracts the information from the moiré images and translates it into a three-dimensional, high-resolution reconstruction.
However, he went on to note that"most of the magic is in the software, not the hardware. t
and used directed evolution techniques to identify molecules that bound near the active site of ß-Gal,
a member of the Cerberus gene family, is expressed in the developing and adult mouse retina. pon exposure to recombinant COCO,
affording the parasite time to grow out of site from the immune system. Some these parasite-derived red blood cell surface proteins have an affinity for carbohydrate residues found on the surface of cells lining blood vessels.
As if smartphones can't already do enough, soon they may be able to scan three-dimensional objects
When used in conjunction with a smartphone, the system offers the potential of diagnosing diseases in remote locations from anywhere in the world.
Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera and send it off to a medical professional for analysis,
especially in developing countries with limited resources,"says Waseem Asghar, Ph d.,assistant professor of electrical engineering in the College of Engineering and Computer science at FAU,
#Inkjet printers could produce paper sensors that identify dangerous food and water contaminants Sensors that identify infectious disease
and food contaminants may soon be printed on paper using ordinary office inkjet printers. Researchers at Mcmaster University have developed a prototype that could lead to a commercial product in the next few years which helps doctors
and scientists in the field quickly detect certain types of cancer or bacterial and respiratory infections or monitor toxin levels in water.
In 2012 they used specialized inkjet printers to produce paper strips that change color in the presence of E coli.
"Our original E coli sensor required a very sophisticated ink jet-printer printer and very specialized inks in order to be produced,
and a basic office printer to produce the test strips, meaning that it should be much easier to scale up and manufacture."
and alkaline batteries powering our gadgets today. The prototype aluminum-ion battery is also safer,
A working prototype of the technology will be on display from Apr 13 to 17, at the Hannover Messe industrial trade show d
there's still a long way to go before quadcopters are dropping parcels in your front yard.
#IBM sets new tape storage record For many people, tape memory is a dead technology found only on reel-to-reel computers in old 1960s movies.
and a new breakthrough by IBM Research and Fuji Film has produced a low-cost particulate magnetic tape with a record density of 123 billion bits of uncompressed data per square inch,
When the first half-inch-wide computer tape was invented in 1952, it had about 2 megabytes per reel of storage.
Over the years, hard drives, CDS, DVDS, and solid state memory came along, but tape is still very much a mainstream technology used in backups, disaster replicas,
The new IBM tape has an areal density 110,000, 000 times greater than IBM s first tape drive,
IBM compares this to 220 million books that would need 2, 200 km (1, 367 mi) of bookshelf.
IBM sees the new tape technology as having applications in big data and cloud computing at a cost of pennies per gigabyte.
which lets users inexpensively migrate cold data to a highly durable cloud based storage tier.
A research prototype of the new tape drive is on display at the 2015 National Association Broadcasters Show.
The video below discusses the new IBM storage tape. Source: IB B
#Modified Salmonella eats away at cancer, without a side order of food poisoning Though generally a bacteria we'd associate with a severe bout of food poisoning,
#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in
and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.
Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,
and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.
Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,
this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."
Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
Detection and Distance Measurement The detection and distance measurement is performed by the sensor's processor,
and filter false detections in the application software. Another setting available on Leddar sensors IS LED the intensity.
the multi-element sensor software generates a combined graphical representation of all segments, as shown in Figure 4 below.
The modules were designed to facilitate both mechanical and software integration. Namely, the included software development kit provides sample code for developers to quickly integrate sensor data into their application software.
There is also a choice of popular communication interface options (e g.,, USB, RS-485 and UART),
and additional headers are also available for custom expansion. As for the receiver, one can choose from several beam options,
#Graphene device makes ultrafast light to energy conversion possible Converting light to electricity is one of the pillars of modern electronics, with the process essential for the operation of everything from solar cells and TV remote control receivers through to laser communications
pulse-shaped laser to provide the ultrafast flashes of light, along with an ultra-sensitive pulse detector to capture the speed of conversion to electrical energy.
#IBM's Watson does some culinary computing for its first cookbook These days, it seems like every celebrity comes out with a cookbook at some point,
and IBM's Watson supercomputer is no exception. The newly released Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson includes 65 recipes, developed with the help of
"is the result of a three-year collaboration between IBM Research and chefs at the Institute of culinary education (ICE).
"IBM says that Cognitive Cooking is not only a compendium of recipes, but also discusses the evolution of Chef Watson.
According to IBM, what works with food also works with other things, like creating new pharmaceuticals and cancer-fighting proteins.
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