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while simultaneously making it easier for users to drag the pen across the surface of the paper.

because such a light-sensitivity would be ludicrous for most users. Well, that hasn't stopped the folks at Canon stepping things up in a big way with its full-frame ME20F-SH, a 4,

reality TV and whatever else your mind sees but your eyes do not. It shoots 1080p at 24,30

or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.

With a suggested retail price of US$30, 000, the ME20F-SH is geared certainly more towards professional users than hobbyists trying to get a crisp shot of the night sky.

#Acer's Cloudbooks offer Windows 10 from just $169 Acer has announced a pair of new laptops that are set to provide access to Windows 10 at a very reasonable price point.

Both the 11 and 14-inch versions of the Aspire One Cloudbooks are powered by Windows 10, with Intel Celeron processors, 2 GB RAM and 1, 366 x 768 LED

backlit displays. There's also built-in 802. 11ac wireless a full-sized HDMI port, a pair of USB ports and an SD card slot included.

The systems will ship with a choice of just 16,32 or 64 GB internal storage,

The highest tier internal storage option is reserved for the larger of the two notebooks. These machines are designed essentially to function in the same way as Chromebooks not offering much in the way of internal storage space,

Chromebooks have the benefit of running on Google's stripped-back CHROME OS platform though, meaning they don't need much horsepower to run smoothly.

Acer's Cloudbooks on the other hand, run the more power-hungry Windows 10. While that opens the door to much more local functionality,

The smaller laptop is set to arrive later this month, while the larger machine will hit shelves in September b

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#Google just became part of a new company called Alphabet Today Google, the company, is smaller

while the Google universe seems to be expanding with the announcement by CEO Larry page of a new umbrella company called Alphabet,

which will include a stripped down Google focused on search and Internet products and other companies like Calico operating as subsidiaries of the new company.

The announcement came in a post on the Google company blog by Page that is also cross-posted on the new,

otherwise barren Alphabet home page.""Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.

In essence, what yesterday was Google today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is owned a wholly subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products.

Alongside the new, smaller Google within Alphabet will be a number of other companies working on disparate projects like the aforementioned longevity company, Calico,

a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,

just for starters. Page will be CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be President. Sundar Pichai, who has been in charge of products at Google,

including Android, Chrome and Maps, will be the new CEO of the new, stripped-down Google. Although Page doesn't say so specifically,

it seems that some of the company's biggest properties like Android and Youtube will remain a part of the smaller Google.

Normally news of what is basically a corporate restructuring isn't so interesting except that it involves a company that is,

itself, involved in so many interesting and disparate pursuits. While Page is framing the structural change as a way for Google (erm

Alphabet) to stay on its toes and maintain its innovative spirit as it continues as a mega-corporation,

we have to wonder if there might be myriad and more esoteric legal and financial benefits to this move that aren't immediately apparent to the lay tech enthusiast.

According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,

For those who follow Google's moves with interest, the creation of Alphabet could hopefully give more of the company's many diverse projects a fighting chance of reaching fruition by having the support

Google has created a number of products that are shuttered later suddenly to the dismay of their user base (Google Reader, Glass, Buzz, Notebook, Wave, Health. just for starters), usually in the name of greater corporate focus.

Google shareholders will automatically convert to Alphabet shareholders, but the stock will continue to trade under the same GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols s

Now, the company is working on a printer that will work outside the station, in the cold vacuum of actual outer space.

The biggest problem facing the team at MIT's Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) was finding a way for robots to cope with the uncertainties of the human world,

which they say can actually be broken down into three different kinds of uncertainty. These include sensors that aren't as accurate in determining the location

"It forced us to work on more complex planning algorithms that allow the robots to engage in higher-level reasoning about their location, status, and behavior."

The researchers are now testing out the new planning algorithm on bigger search -and-rescue style problems

#Finnish tech could let smartphones"see"gas Smartphones are already able to monitor things such as light, sound, movement and geographical location.

That because VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a miniature phone-compatible sensor, that uses light to identify the type and amount of gases in air samples.

San diego are also all working on smartphone gas sensors s

#Aluminum"yolk"nanoparticles deliver high-capacity battery recipe Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,

The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.

#Breakthrough photonic processor promises quantum computing leap Optical quantum computers promise to deliver processing performance exponentially faster and more powerful than today's digital electronic microprocessors.

Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode

As a result, a range of different quantum processor operations can be performed at one time. Even better, the stable and quickly reprogrammable nature of the chip's architecture changeable by means of software code means that a vast range of existing

and yet-to-be devised quantum experiments may be conducted rapidly in succession, or simultaneously, to help realize what may well be myriad future protocols."

"The number of photon inputs and outputs also means the the new processor can be applied to new areas of research straight away,

which can be applied to sets of qubits to perform the equivalent of Boolean algebraic functions found in standard electronic logic processors also referred to as quantum gates.

then prove the technology for use in the realms of telecommunication through partnership with NTT

and other computer and networking companies. As part of this greater encouragement of quantum computing research and development the University of Bristol has pioneered the"Quantum in the Cloud"service,

which allows public access via the Internet to a working quantum processor, with plans to add even more chips in the near future."

and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry, "said Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University."

#Snake skin-inspired steel could lead to better hard drives and more When it comes to human phobias,

and researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT) have figured out how to potentially use that feature to enhance everything from hip prostheses to computer hard disks.

That's why researchers at Britain's Loughborough University have created a system that speaks words based on the user's breathing.

Known as the Augmentative and Alternate Communication (AAC) device, it consists of a nose/mouth mask linked by a hose to a computer.

custom software (via an analog-to-digital converter) recognizes that pattern as representing a certain word or phrase the user initially decides for themselves what patterns will equate to what words,

with the software learning from them as they go along. Once the pattern has been identified, the AAC uses a speech synthesizer to speak the words aloud.

So far, the researchers have had a 97.5 percent success rate at teaching the system to recognize words

#World's most powerful digital camera gets the go-ahead A smartphone with a 16-megapixel camera may seem cutting edge,

With a resolution of 3. 2-gigapixels (enough to need 1, 500 high-definition television screens to display one image),

#Ultra low-power wireless communication through the human body using magnetic fields Be it on the inside or the outside,

San diego (UCSD) have come up with a different type of wireless communication that sends ultra low-power magnetic fields through the human body.

and secure from prying eyes than comparable wireless communication technologies. Connecting and communicating with devices in and around the human body

such as smartwatches, implanted smart monitors, or even ingestible wireless sensors, generally requires that each of these transmit to a receiver using Bluetooth.

Since the electromagnetic radiation used by Bluetooth to transmit data does not easily pass through the human body,

these devices must use a lot of power and therefore also carry relatively bulky batteries to power their transmitters.

claiming path losses an incredible 10 million times lower than those associated with comparable Bluetooth device communication."

such as smart watches, fitness trackers and health monitors,"says Patrick Mercier, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer engineering at UCSD and lead author of the study."

"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."

"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.""Creating devices with lower power requirements will,

and monitors be made smaller with longer battery life, but it would also reduce the size of ingestible transmitters to something much easier to swallow."

"A problem with wearable devices like smart watches is that they have short operating times because they are limited to using small batteries,

said Jiwoong Park, a Ph d student in Mercier's lab. ith 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."

"According to the researchers, beyond the benefits of ultra-low-power energy consumption, magnetic field human body communication may offer greater security than current wireless communication technologies.

This is because Bluetooth radio communication links take place through open air and, potentially, someone could possibly intercept these signals and compromise a person's privacy.

the researchers measured a dramatic decrease in signals radiated from the body and almost no possibility of transmitting information from one person magnetic communication system to another,

when you're using your wearable devices to transmit information about your health, "said Jiwoong Park,

allowing two-way communication between a mechanical hand and its user. The feat was accomplished by running wires connected to electrodes on the patient's sensory cortex (the part of the brain responsible for identifying tactile sensations)

they are still often too large and cumbersome for the average wheelchair user. The Smart-Drive MX2 provides a versatile alternative it's an electric drive designed to attach to an ordinary wheelchair

if the user wishes to go slowly, they push the chair wheels slowly. To go fast,

the unit also has Bluetooth LE Drive Control to allow access from a smartphone for things like fitness tracking apps.

Perhaps not as lightweight when combined with a standard chair as super-lightweight chairs like the Zinger, the unit is still very manageable not much more than a heavy laptop and a couple of books

It was applied to the surface of mouse and pig hearts that had suffered from attacks and was found to drive tissue regeneration.

Following this, the researchers fed the information into the software used to control a custom-built 3d printer

and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function."

uses a touchscreen and helmet-mounted interface to visualize data collected from a host of sensors on the hull of the vehicle,

while the touchscreen provides a wider view of the unfolding tactical situation, allowing the user to switch perspectives to the viewpoint of other crew members.

The Battleview 360 system has the potential to significantly raise combat awareness allowing users to determine an enemy's predicted field of view,

and if direct line of sight is broken with an enemy, displaying the hostile's predicted field of movement.

A demo unit has been installed on a CV90 tracked vehicle, for display at the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) exhibition in London this week

You might think this would lead to much faster number-crunching over a regular computer and you'd be right, to a point.

A quantum computer can perform any operation a classical computer can, but its exponential speedups only take effect

when a quantum algorithm can process data in a massively parallel fashion, such as searching through a very large database,

the results returned by a quantum algorithm are not deterministic. That is, even in the best of cases, a quantum computer is guaranteed never to return the correct result.

This usually means that a quantum algorithm must be run several times in succession to confirm that the solution is correct.

So, in practice, classical computers will probably be faster and more practical than quantum computers for day-to-day operations

and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."

'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."

You might think this would lead to much faster number-crunching over a regular computer and you'd be right, to a point.

A quantum computer can perform any operation a classical computer can, but its exponential speedups only take effect

when a quantum algorithm can process data in a massively parallel fashion, such as searching through a very large database,

the results returned by a quantum algorithm are not deterministic. That is, even in the best of cases, a quantum computer is guaranteed never to return the correct result.

This usually means that a quantum algorithm must be run several times in succession to confirm that the solution is correct.

So, in practice, classical computers will probably be faster and more practical than quantum computers for day-to-day operations

and which uses the silicon-CMOS technology used today for most computer processor chips, "lead researcher Andrew Dzurak told us."

'and make a full-scale quantum processor. That final stage is likely to take 10-20 years."

without having to add any permanent hardware like metal or plastic implants that are used often to support

because internal hardware can pose a challenge with respect to being a potential site for infection, and can complicate MRI

#A Smartphone Case That Recharges Your Battery from Thin Air How many times a day do you scramble around looking for a power cord

and outlet to recharge your mobile phone? A new smartphone case promises to top off your battery lifeut of thin air.

The Harvest phone case grabs the power your phone wastes and puts it back into the battery.

About 90%of your phone power is spent pumping out radio waves just trying to keep its wireless connection even

when youe not using it. The case arveststhose stray radio waves and converts them into electric power.

The Harvest case is able to stretch your battery life by nearly a third. Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.

Ohio State university came up with the technology and licensed it to Nikola Labs to build and sell.

available only for the iphone initially, is expected to launch later this month on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.

Roosegaarde switched the machine on for the first time in Rotterdam on September 4. solar tulip Aora Solar website As onlookers breathed in bubbles of the fresh,

trackers can be used to allow the panels to follow the sun throughout daylight hours. The advantages of trackers are dramatic,

The software predicts the power produced from a PV system under various configurations. If a sunny location like Albuquerque, New mexico is selected,

the software indicates a single-axis tracker would produce about 20 percent more energy compared to the same size (Wdc) optimally oriented/tilted fixed PV system.

before paying for new wires, poles and transformers upgrades. It would also put existing DERS in front of utility contracts and procurements for distributed energy,

Of course, because utilities earn a regulated rate of return on capital expenditures like distribution system upgrades, that not necessarily something theye happy about.

In either case, it much cheaper than a transformer upgrade. In other words, Hanley said, e think we can run a business off of that.

or if youe a hardware provider, you can supply the technology to adapt to these prices.

because if a laboratory animal such as a mouse carries the mutation, it is highly likely to exhibit the functional problem

an optical fiber is implanted surgically. Sonogenetics is less invasive as low-frequency sound waves can pass through tissue and bone with ease.

of which is engineering personalized tissue in this case, printing a personalized nerve scaffold for your post-injury healing.

This printing technology takes a slightly different approach: After 3d scanning a rat sciatic nerve, the researchers used a custom-built 3d printer to make silicone guides for nerve regeneration.

and printer right at the hospital to create custom nerve guides right on site to restore nerve function. n

#Light-Based Data Breakthrough Could Lead To Much Faster Computers Researchers say they have developed a method to store data permanently in a memory chip using light.

The breakthrough, published in the journal Nature Photonics, could lead to significantly faster computers in the future.

when power is both on and off think of a CD, DVD or hard drive. But computers are limited in their speed by the transmission of electric data between a processor

and the memory stored in these devices called the Von neumann bottleneck. This means that faster processors don't necessarily mean better computing power

when it is speed the transmission of the data that is the limiting factor. Using light, or photons, to transfer data could

But until now, scientists had struggled to find a way to create a light-based device that can store data for a significant period of time. here no point using faster processors

which is used also in rewritable CDS and DVDS, to store data. Pulses of light can change the material's state from an ordered to a random state,

This is the kind of ultra-fast data storage that modern computing needs. The team will now work to develop the technology,

The same mouse model is used to study Alzheimer's and FTD, with researchers believing that a single gene in mice triggers the two conditions that have related differing,

-D printing of various materials has been a common trend in tissue engineering in the last decade,

After the printing had concluded, the support gel could then be melted away by heating it to body temperature (37°C,

in this growing field of science, most of these printers cost over $100, 000 (roughly £65, 000) and require a specialist team of operators to use.

and ackingit with open-source software and hardware, this research team have managed to replicate human organ structures for less than $1, 000 (£650) n

The wearable gadget detects differences in heat patterns caused by the blood flow beneath the skin.

Last but not least, computer algorithms help interpret the heat pattern differences as blood flow rate. Testing with the wearable device placed above the wrist veins of human volunteers showed how it could work in practice.

and components that would let it wirelessly transmit data to a laptop or other device, says Webb.

The drug is manufactured using a three-dimensional printer which creates a porous formulation that helps bioavailability and patient uptake,

This produced a therapeutic response in mouse models of sepsis, in human lung cells and an ex vivo human lung model.

or run A new drone camera has been released that allows users to simply throw it in the air

users simply turn it on and throw it up into the air. From there it will follow a special transmitter

users can choose where to send the drone either following or leading ahead of people,

while BMW is said to be cautious about sharing its manufacturing know-how as it wants to avoid becoming a mere supplier to a software or internet giant.

The computer game was based on scientific principles that are known to rainthe brain in episodic memory, which helps people to remember events such as where they parked a car

We have formulated an ipad game that could drive the neural circuitry behind episodic memory by stimulating the ability to remember where things were on the screen,

which has led scientists to find ways of training the brain through computer-based games. e need a way of treating the cognitive symptoms of schizophrenia, such as problems with episodic memory,

which plays on the idea of having to remember different locations of characters on the screen of an ipad.

or safety in the workplace but the new gadgets could allow firms to link their staff behaviour and physiological data to their business performance for the first time,

If the technology works, a wearable gadget could potentially warn a stock market trader to slow down

#Yahoo Livetext: company makes app to stop video chats being awkward Livetext, quietly launched weeks ago

The app works by showing a video of the person that youe chatting with, in the same way as with a Facetime or Skype call.

But instead of talking to them which wouldn be heard the app pops up a chat box where users can send messages or emoji.

Yahoo found that the audio was often he biggest inhibitor of video chat according to Adam Cahan, SVP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo.

That matched the feedback from the young people that Yahoo hopes will use the app,

Group who stole information from website for cheating spouses make good on promise to post data online A group calling itself the Impact Team compromised the site

which encourages married users to cheat on their spouses and advertises 37 million members last month.

At least two other dating sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, also owned by the same parent group, Avid Life Media (ALM),

which promises to connect beautiful young women with rich sugar daddies o fulfill their lifestyle needs take down the two sites.

a sister site run by ALM that promises to connect older women with younger men was targeted not by the group

including every single members user records. While the hackers took issue with the questionable morals of the sites,

their main point of contention was the fact that Ashley Madison charges users a £15 fee to carry out a full delete of their information should they decide to leave it.

They claimed that ALM actually retained that date on their company servers. vid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms

or we will release all customer records, including profiles with all the customerssecret sexual fantasies and matching credit card transactions, real names and addresses,

and employee documents and emails, the hackers wrote in a statement following the breach. Their warnings were ignored by ALM who said they had beefed up security following the attack.

However, a data dump of 9. 7 gigabytes was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser,

and logins for the social networking site. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,

and stupidity of ALM and their members Chances are signed your man up on the world biggest affair site,

and videos The site has forced always users to crop their pictures into perfect squares, however they were taken originally.

But now users can share photos in portrait or landscape, the site has said, giving people a ormaticon that lets them adjust

what size they need. The pictures and videos then show up as normal in the feed,

Instagram has been pushing its video offering hard, especially alongside the growth of Twitter competitor Vine

which also forces its users to push their videos into square boxes. Instagram stressed in its announcement that quare format has been

and you can capture the Golden gate bridge from end to end. he update is available in the new version of Instagram on Android and ios,

#Apple iphone 6s release date: new phone and Apple TV SET to be launched on September 9 The company will hold the event on September 9,

as had previously been rumoured, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San francisco a much bigger venue than previous launches have been held in.

Apple is expected to launch the next iphone the iphone 6s and iphone 6s plus at the event.

But it could also reveal the next Apple TV and new ipads, according to leaks. The back of an Apple iphone 6 Plus gold, is shown here at a Verizon store on September 18

2014 in Orem, Utah But Apple didn mention any new products in the invitation, only suggesting that curious people ask Siri.

A range of details have already been revealed about the new iphone, however all collected in our round up of rumours for the iphone 6s and 6s Plus s

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