#t bleak The universe is dying he Universe has plonked basically itself down on the sofa,
pulled up a blanket and is about to nod off for an eternal doze, the Research Professor Simon Driver said.
and having limited access to the internet. So what kind of person wants to spend a year of their life this way?
she wrote on her blog, Livefrommars. life. NASA current technology can send a robotic mission to the Red planet in eight months,
#Google reveals new look logo Google logo keeps its four-color scheme but shifts to a soft sans-serif font.
The 17-year-old internet company is keen to follow users of its online products onto new generations of internet-linked devices such as smartphones,
tablets and watches. ee introducing a new logo and identity family that reflects this reality
and shows you when the Google magic is working for you, even on the tiniest screens,
the California-based internet firm said in a blog post. ee taken the Google logo and branding,
which were built originally for a single desktop browser page, and updated them for a world of seamless computing across an endless number of devices
and different kinds of inputs such as tap, type and talk. he unveiling of the new logo came just weeks after a surprise reorganisation of Google under a newly formed parent company called Alphabet.
The plan calls for Alphabet to be the corporate parent, with an operating unit for Google and its related search operations
and a handful of other operating firms created for projects in health, internet delivery, investment and research.
While Google is known as the dominant player in internet search, it has launched a variety of projects in recent years that are related marginally at best to its core operation.
The projects include self-driving cars, Google glass, internet balloons, drones, health care, GOOGLE TV, mobile payments, home automation and its Google+social network, among others.
The Google unit, to be headed by current company vice president Sundar Pichai, will include search, ads, maps, Youtube, Android and related technology infrastructure.
The revised design unveiled on Tuesday features the same mix of blue red, yellow and green that Google has been using throughout its nearly 17-year history,
though the hues are slightly different. Google also invented a new typeface called roduct Sansthat is meant to resemble the simple printing in a grade-school book.
The overhaul also will change the appearance of the letter that Google uses as its shorthand logo on the smaller screens of smartphones and other mobile devices.
The will now be displayed capitalised and in colour instead of being kept lower case and white. Google last tweaked its logo in 2013 g
#The world first dog emotion tracker has been created to help humans understand their pets FINALLY! A tech company has decided to use the internet of things to give the people
what they really need. No longer will you be left to hopelessly wonder what your dog might be thinking this new gadget promises to translate the complex language your pooch is speaking.
New york-based firm Dogstar has created a device it describes as the orld first dog emotion sensor Known as Tailtalk,
the Tail Tracker delivers messages straight from the heart of your furry friend to your smartphone, Dogstar wrote.
he told Motherboard. ur biggest initial worry was about whether it would stay on the tail,
a selfie is taken a self photo, normally with a phone. Mastercard president of enterprise security solutions Ajay Bhalla called it the ext wave of technology that will change the consumer experience for shopping digitally t all part of our role in making commerce available anywhere
the customer mobile phone will receive a ush notification which will open the app and ask to take a selfie.
they will be required to linkto show the facial recognition scan software that they are a real person.
Instead, their steps were steered from a phone 10 paces behind them, which sent signals via bluetooth to electrodes attached to their legsmovie Camera.
These stimulated the students'muscles, guiding their steps without any conscious effort. Max Pfeiffer of the University of Hannover was the driver.
although it is possible that the rise of wearable computing might help. Pfeiffer says the electrode's current causes a tingling sensation that diminishes the more someone uses the system.
meaning they never have to look at their phone or think about where they are going.""When I use Google maps and
I navigate somewhere, I am always pulling my mobile out of my pocket to check,
"he says.""We want to remove this step out of the navigation process so you just say want to go there,
Evan Peck of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania says Pfeiffer's system will stop us being chained to our smartphones."
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors, which together keep track of numerous parameters including heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
Sometimes a second probe is placed near the original site of injury, to provide more information t
People in intensive care are hooked already up to a host of monitors which keep track of things such as heart rate and levels of glucose and oxygen in the blood.
or one day perhaps just with a smartphone. hat the fantasy, says Shea. Shea devised the approach along with Jacqueline Jeruss, a breast cancer surgeon.
Various firms are developing devices that would let OCT be done with a smartphone. In mice, the implants cut the number of tumour cells that migrated to secondary sites like the lungs.
They probably wouldn trap enough cells to work as an anticancer therapy says Shea, but the implant could boost people chances of survival by identifying early on that cancer cells are on the move allowing the patient to begin chemotherapy right away.
#Clumps of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing Move over, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this strategy limits how efficient they can be. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second
The computations happened when they applied just the right voltages to the cluster at six specific locations.
which were the most useful using a genetic algorithm, a procedure that borrows ideas from Darwinian evolution to home in on the ittestones.
the algorithm found the voltages that transformed the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of conventional computer chips.
Van der Wiel hopes the research will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems such as pattern recognition
which are difficult for computers that do calculations one after the other. If a whole clump of grains is doing the calculation,
using an algorithm on a tablet computer or a phone to monitor a person blood glucose. When levels rise
for example after a meal, the algorithm automatically sends instructions to the insulin pump. t tells the pump how much insulin to deliver
and it does it day and night, says Roman Hovorka of the University of Cambridge.
Compared with a sensor and pump without an algorithm, children using the bionic device spent half as much time with seriously low sugar levels,
#Clump of gold nanoparticles can evolve to carry out computing MOVE OVER, microchip. A random assembly of gold nanoparticles can perform calculations normally reserved for neatly arranged patterns of silicon.
Traditional computers rely on ordered circuits that follow preprogrammed rules, but this limits their efficiency. he best microprocessors you can buy in a store now can do 1011 operations per second,
which were the most useful using a genetic algorithm, a procedure that borrows ideas from Darwinian evolution to home in on the ittestones.
The team was able to find voltages to transform the system into any one of the six ogic gatesthat are the building blocks of computer chips.
The algorithm even arrived at the combination for a higher-order logic unit, which can add two bits of information. his shows that you can get to calculating ability by a completely different route,
Van der Wiel hopes the work will lead to specialised processors that can solve problems that are difficult for computers, such as pattern recognition.
It works like a scaffold, allowing the printing of intricate patterns that would collapse without its support such as nested Russian-doll-like structures and thin
Printing into supportive gel gets around that challenge preventing the creations from sagging or buckling before they solidify.
#Earthquake algorithm picks up the brain vibrations Your brain is buzzing. Analysing those natural vibrations might help spot tumours and other abnormalities,
and now an algorithm normally used to study earthquakes has been adapted to do just that. The elasticity of different parts of the body is a useful way to tell
He borrowed the algorithm his colleagues used to analyse the Earth vibrations, and incorporated it into his modified MRI SCANNER.
and diagnosis. Catheline hopes his technique will eventually help doctors diagnose diseases and monitor the success of their treatment.
#EU ruling means Facebook and Google can send data to the US If you live in Europe,
which personal data can be moved from the EU to the US for processing. The ruling against the 15-year-old law, known as Safe Harbour, threatens the business models of more than 3000 companies that use it to ship data to the US,
including Google, Apple, Microsoft and Facebook. The decision is the culmination of a case that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems brought against Facebook in 2013 for participation in US mass surveillance.
It means that The irish Data protection Commission which presides over Facebook data-export operations, is unable to use Safe Harbour as a reason not to investigate Facebook data protection practices in the US.
In a statement, The irish Data protection Commissioner confirmed that Schrems case would be brought back before The irish High court s soon as practicable The ruling also removes the legal blanket that allowed companies to send data gathered in the EU to the US for processing.
It not yet clear whether this will disrupt the day-to-day operation of major technology firms, but their ability to pool data from both sides of the Atlantic for analysis will be affected.
Apple new privacy policy explicitly states that personal data collected for its icloud service in the European Economic Area is shipped to Apple Inc in the US for processing via Cork in Ireland. t quite a huge thing to say that one region set of laws
is superior to that of the US, says Carly Nyst, a lawyer and privacy consultant based in London. hat the bigger implication of this the EU exerting its might over the US.
Theye saying our standards are higher than yours, and you need to step up your game:
Surveillance concerns Although the court decision is ostensibly about data protection, it inevitably addresses surveillance. The ruling backs up the claim by Schrems that he law and practice of the United states do not offer sufficient protection against surveillance by the public authorities of the data transferred to that country This claim must now be heard
it sets a great precedent for the legal challenges to mass surveillance happening in Europe For all the internet power to connect people globally,
the ruling is a step towards an internet that takes local rights and laws into account.
Nyst says that data protection standards are emerging around the world, providing a crucial component of an internet that is not only hugely useful,
but also preserves the privacy of its users. aw and technology are misfits, she says. aw is all about jurisdiction
A global internet with standards for protecting our data may help bridge that gap. Paul Bernal of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, says the judgement makes it hard to see how it is legal for any personal data gathered in the EU to now be sent to the US for processing. he ruling basically says US surveillance cannot be allowed to override our fundamental rights,
but US law says surveillance must override fundamental rights, says Bernal. he EU court is largely saying that indiscriminate gathering of data is enough to interfere with fundamental rights,
when data protection authorities of 28 member states review their cooperation with US spy agencies He added that he average consumer will not see any restrictions in daily use,
An invisibility cloak built for a mouse could hide warm bodies from predators with thermal vision
using it to hunt down their prey. e want to simulate the scene of catching a mouse,
leaving a 2. 7-centimetre-wide cavity in the middle for the toy mouse. The camera was placed on one side.
The germanium sent infrared rays from behind the mouse on a curved path around the cavity, then bent them back into straight lines for the camera,
who pioneered the mathematics behind invisibility cloaks. ith the basic theory done and dusted, cloaking is moving on to practical considerations
and fix any fractures. hey home to any site of injury, says Anna David of University college London,
A new way of creating waves that don echo promises to improve everything from your Wi-fi signal to medical imaging.
This is a problem in telecommunications: if you send digital signals down a very long optical fibre,
the pulses stretch out and 1s start to blend into 0s. Now Joel Carpenter at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia,
#AI tool scours all the science on the web to find new knowledge It the proverbial needle in a haystack.
which launches today from the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial intelligence (AI2), can automatically read, digest
'The system works by crawling the web for publicly available scientific papers, then scanning the text and images within them.
Last year, a system using IBM Watson AI technology, called The Knowledge Integration Toolkit (Knit),
IBM says Knit is automated now fully to work without human oversight. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the US is also working on technology
Semantic Scholar is focusing on computer science papers. It will then gradually expand its scope to include biology,
physics and the remaining hard sciences, learning from how users interact with software as it goes. e have very specific goals along the way for semantic intensity how deep into a paper our system can get to see what it about,
#Your Pill Is Printing: FDA Approves First 3-D-Printed Drug In a first, the Food and Drug Administration has given approval to a drug that is produced on a 3-D printer.
The pill, produced by Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, treats seizures. It's expected to hit the market in the first quarter of 2016.
"The new tablets are manufactured using 3-D printing, which creates objects by very precisely spewing out one layer of a substance on top of another. 3-D printing is being used to make all sorts of things these days."
"The FDA had approved previously medical devices made with 3-D printing. The company that makes Spritam says the 3-D-printed version of the drug allows it to dissolve more quickly,
which makes it easier to swallow.""Another benefit of the process, says Aprecia, the drug's maker, is that it allows a high drug load up to 1,
Aprecia says it based its printing platform on technology that originated at the Massachusetts institute of technology o
Or maybe the latest cooking gadget for zesting lemons. Or, perhaps, it's a secret weapon for X-men superhero Wolverine.
They manufactured the implant with a $1. 3 million metal printer at a government-run lab. The printer uses an electron beam to melt titanium powder,
The printer then paints each layer of the device one on top of another.""As each layer is fused,
a spokesperson for CSIROS wrote in an email to Shots. As metallic printers become more common,
she wrote, so will printed 3-D implants. Surgeons typically use a combination of flat plates,
The 3-D printing technology allowed the surgeons to create an implant that"fitted like glove"in the man's chest, Dr. Jose Aranda
from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient In 2010, Michael Escuti received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study
with applications from studying alien worlds to making cellphones more energy efficient.""Not long after we received the NSF funding,
We can use them to make more efficient displays for mobile devices, sensors with greater resolution,
When the DWLS is done printing, a much thicker layer of liquid crystal is applied, amplifying the pattern on the underlying thin film.
just like a regular printer. And it can also vary the intensity of the light.
Down to earth applications In addition to astronomy, the DWLS has found use in creating geometric phase holograms for use in mobile displays, holographic imaging,
For example, Escuti's university startup company, Imagineoptix Corporation, has created technologies ranging from an ultra-efficient pocket projector the size of a few quarters to components for active photonic hardware supporting internet traffic."
The Fraunhofer FIT will make the first public demonstration of the system alongside its ZETA imaging software that is used in drug research at the forthcoming BIOTECHNICA expo in Hanover, Germany, between October 6 8, 2015.
ZETA imaging software has been developed specifically for the High Content Analysis of live cell imaging data, in
and to turn it into an algorithm. The resulting process now lets us generate the information we need about the molecule faster
Harald Mathis, head of the Biomos group at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information technology FIT
While optical fibers have long been used for the transmission of data with light, inside a computer
But electronic exchange of data between processors and the memory limits the speed of modern computers.
it is not sufficient to optically connect memory and processor, as the optical signals have to be converted into electric signals again.
Professor Harish Bhaskaran of Oxford university added, he memory we have developed is compatible not only with conventional optical fiber data transmission,
but also with the latest optical processors. The new memory can store data for decades even
The scientists conclude that permanent all-optical on-chip memories could onsiderably increase future performance of computers while reducing their energy consumption.
and portend a new paradigm in all-photonic memory and nonconventional computing. e
#New metamaterial enables refractive index of zero Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of engineering and Applied sciences (SEAS) say they have made it easier to manipulate light at the nanoscale.
That approach would allow deposition of the compound semiconductor materials needed to red-shift the lasing wavelength into the telecoms realm at 1300 nm.
together with the WDM technology, may finally pave the way to terascale computing. Photonic integrated circuits (PICS) based on the technology could dramatically change the architecture of fiber-optic transceivers used in data center optical interconnects, by pushing down the cost of chip-level data transfer between logic and memory devices.
and with the potential collaboration of key chip-making partners like Intel, Sony, Samsung and TSMC.
Being able to 3d print a tablet offers the potential to create bespoke drugs based on the specific needs of patients,
according to experts. or the last 50 years we have manufactured tablets in factories and shipped them to hospitals
and for the first time this process means we can produce tablets much closer to the patient, said Dr Mohamed Albed Alhnan, a lecturer in pharmaceutics at the University of Central Lancashire.
3g facilities and foam arms to hug and shake hand that made it more attractive
000 Twitter followers and 48,000 Facebook ikes (Now more than 87,000) The tough town of Philadelphia did not treat the hitchhiking friendly robot so well.
and perform otherwise intractable mathematics calculations that aren't possible for supercomputers. Developed by a team from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. NTT) in Japan, the fully reprogrammable chip brings together a multitude of existing quantum experiments
and is said to be capable of implementing all possible linear optical protocols up to the size of the circuit.
much like they operate any other piece of software on a computer. They no longer need to convince a physicist to devote many months of their life to painstakingly build
"The team demonstrated the chip's capabilities by programming it to rapidly perform a number of different experiments, each
Observing a mouse spinal cord through a microscope the researchers could watch in real time which cells were activated
"You don't need to do any kind of post-image processing to interpret this, "said Samuel Pfaff, a professor in Salk's Gene expression Laboratory."
Integrated into an injection molding system, the device is capable of generating more than 1. 7 million bar code configurations on anything from cellphones to pills.
and wirelessly transmit the result to mobile devices. The patented technology is already generating interest from the electronics, automotive and pharmaceutical sectors,
Many pharmaceutical companies are now developing tablets, produced using an injection molding process, into which 3d bar codes could be incorporated e
which detect strain by measuring shifts in the wavelength of light propagating through optical fiber. Conventional pressure or force sensors are problematic
Optical fiber, on the other hand, is immune to this interference, and one strand can contain several sensors. All of the sensors in each of the fingers of the robotic hand are connected with four fibers,
#Camera Offers Hyperspectral Imaging for Consumers A consumer-grade multispectral camera could help users find the best avocado at the grocery store
or allow video games to distinguish between players by the features of their hands. Under development by the University of Washington and Microsoft Research, the Hypercam uses both visible and near-infrared light to peer beneath the surface
and reveal unseen details. Multispectral and hyperspectral cameras used in industrial applications typically cost several thousands to tens of thousands of dollars,
As an add-on to a smartphone camera the cost could go as low as $50,
and Microsoft Research that reveals details that are difficult or impossible to see with the naked eye.
Software analyzes the resulting images to present the user with the most useful information.""It mines all the different possible images,
"said Mayank Goel, a University of Washington doctoral student and Microsoft Research graduate fellow. Compared to an image taken with a normal camera (top),
This could aid in everything from gesture recognition to biometrics to distinguishing between two different people playing the same video game.
To test Hypercam's usefulness as a biometric tool, the developers imaged the hands of 25 different users,
but the way this hardware was built you can probably imagine putting it in a mobile phone,
Next research steps will include addressing that problem and making the camera small enough to be incorporated into mobile devices,
Developed at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus, the microscope also captures images quickly enough to watch the movement of developing embyronic cells or the flashes of neuronal circuits.
The team developed new software capable of processing 10 terabytes of data from one hour of imaging in about two days.
like the one in your smartphone, to the brains of blind rats. The rats learned to use the compass to find treats in a maze nearly as well as rats who could see.
#A Typing Test To Diagnose Parkinson's Whether it on a keyboard, a smartphone, or even a credit card reader, you spend a lot of your day typing.
they've developed software that can gauge the speed at which a typist is tapping the keyboard to help diagnose Parkinson disease.
Right now, the algorithm they've developed is refined not enough to distinguish Parkinson's patients from people who are sleep deprived,
They are currently developing a smartphone app that can test participants even more easily y
#Aluminum-Ion Batteries Are Flexible, Fast-Charging, And Won't Catch on Fire Almost all of the electronic devices that we carry around with us all day now rely on one key,
--and that mostly has to do with the complexity of the engines hardware. If you look at a launch vehicle
requiring extra hardware and additional fuel. But with Rutherford, the engines turbopumps get a much more condensed energy source.
a Marine signals intelligence (SIGINT) specialist monitors web traffic while he lies on the ground, his assault rifle trained on a nearby building.
Amid the cacophony of cyber-noise in the city--the thousands of simultaneous, harmless Skype sessions, movie streams,
and Internet searches--the Marine has zeroed in on a possible insurgent, who is currently flipping through financial data on a spreadsheet.
Perhaps the suspect will make a mistake, and open up a mapping application that will show where he's planning to meet an arms dealer to buy plastique.
The Marine glances at the vital statistics on the heads-up display. The heart rate of his point man has spiked suddenly up to 110.
Using a mouse mounted on the handguard of his M-16, the SIGINT specialist silently clicks open the video feed from the point man's head-mounted camera.
The Marine pushes out an alert to the rest of the platoon and then switches from dual-display mode to left-only as he raises his weapon to his eye.
instead of having his face in a phone or glued to a laptop, the Marine will be able to keep his gaze on the battlefield, increasing what the military calls"situational awareness."
the ONR glasses allow SIGINT soldiers to monitor a variety of enemy waveforms, indicating Internet traffic, 2g/SMS, VHF/push-to-talk radio systems,
found he couldn't monitor his Android device and hold a weapon at the same time.""He was patrolling with an infantry unit,
"He had the Android device, plus different antenna systems coming out of his backpack. So we talked about it,
and if he had a heads-up display, he could hold a weapons system, keep his head about him,
"Having eyes glued to a screen can cause a SIGINT Marine not to see real-world objects that might be relevant.
An MIT computer program called Lincoln Adaptable Real-time Information Assurance Testbed (LARIAT simulated the electronic activity of thousands of innocent civilians as well as a criminal network working to buy a large weapons system to use on the ships.
Do they use their phones to send a textdo they use Twitter? says Fitzpatrick. ee trying to build scenarios so
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