An added bonus to this method is that it allows the spinel to be pressed into shapes--for example, a dome for a new camera turret or a sloping panel that's flush with a wing.
It was recorded on seismic monitors as far away as Norway. Even two days after the quake, strong aftershocks are rattling the region,
when the user reaches out to grab something in the virtual game world, the device selectively inflates those bladders,
putting pressure on the user's fingertips and evoking the sensation of actually touching a physical object.
all you need is a computer and time. An organization called the Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team (HOT) is looking for volunteers from all over the world to look through satellite imagery of Nepal and label and map roads, buildings,
a lot of drones are cell phone parts disguised as flying machines. Advances in cellular technology, like miniaturized powerful batteries, cheaper smaller cameras,
While wearing an Oculus Rift headset, researchers can walk around inside a four-story tall theater on the Virginia Tech campus,
For the user, it's like walking into a giant weather map, with various rain clouds virtually scattered about the space and an immense funnel that darts about the room.
which New Scientist posted on Youtube is more akin to CNN holograms than Twister; there are no flying cows,
Nanotechnology could be used to build the embedded control system, sensors and computers for any liquid metal robot.
which then sends it out via cell networks to a remote server. From there, presumably civil engineers have access to the data
Since they have developed already the algorithms and design of the photosensor, the researchers plan to configure several artificial eyes on one drone to create a more sophisticated visual system,
#New Japanese Glasses Block Facial recognition Computers are really, really good at recognizing faces. Refined through work on millions of uploaded and tagged faces at sites like Facebook and elsewhere,
algorithms that identify faces can place people in locations based just on a photograph. Sometimes that helpful, like figuring out who that obscured groomsmen is in the back of a wedding picture.
For people who don want to be found, or just enjoy the previously unquestioned ability to travel without being tracked,
facial recognition poses a risk. As a solution, Japan National Institute of Informatics (NIII) created glasses that make faces unreadable to machines.
First question: will fashion accomodate the technology? It hard to conceal a face when it requires a style of glasses that no one else is wearing.
Tests with smartphone cameras showed that the glasses fooled facial recognition 90 percent of the time.
Previous attempts to hide faces from computers have resorted to eye-catching makeup or dangling lights from baseball caps.
#A Team Of MIT Bartender Robots Serves Beer More Efficiently Using robots, a team at MIT Computer science and Artificial intelligence Laboratory has solved an ancient problem:
needing another beer but not wanting to stand up and get it. Two small Turtlebots (which look like coolers on wheels) travel between a beer-providing PR2 robot bartender
#Google Restructures Itself To Form'Alphabet,'A New Supercompany Google, the company that owns Youtube,
Android and Chrome, is reorganizing. Instead of the massive supercompany called Google, it will be a massive supercompany called Alphabet,
with Google still being its largest subsidiary. According to a blog post by Google CEO Larry page, who will now be the CEO of Alphabet,
this restructuring allows the new conglomerate of companies to be more independent and better managed.
Sergey Brin, the current president of Google, will become the president of Alphabet, while Sundar Pichai, the current head of Google android and Chrome divisions,
will be the next CEO of Google. A screenshot of abc. xyz, the site for Alphabet, which now owns Google.
Google will be slimmed down, ostensibly to web services, while other pursuits like Calico (Google war on aging) and Life sciences (developing the glucose-sensing contact lens) are split into separate entities.
Alphabet will also include Google Wing drone delivery attempt and its X lab, as well as its Venture and Capital investment companies.
Also, if you click the period after mention of the self-driving car on Page's blog post,
you're taken to a fake Hooli. xyz site, featuring the Google-esque company from HBO's Silicon valley.)
Based on Google's SEC filing, the merger will happen later this year, and Alphabet will report the company's Q4 earnings.
Under the new operating structure, its main Google business will include search, ads, maps, apps, Youtube and Android and the related technical infrastructure (the oogle business.
Businesses such as Calico, Nest, and Fiber, as well as its investing arms, such as Google Ventures and Google Capital,
and incubator projects, such as Google X, will be managed separately from the Google business. Here's a pretty good summary, via tweet:
Alphabet will replace Google as the publicly-traded entity, according to the post. The change will happen automatically,
and all shareholders will have the same number of shares and the same rights. Google, which will be owned by Alphabet,
will be also continue to be traded as GOOG and GOOGL on the Nasdaq. The move seems to have been coming for a while.
Google registered abc. xyz, Alphabet new domain, in March 2014, according to Yoni Appelbaum, editor at The Atlantic.
Why the name Alphabet? Page says that the alphabet integral to Google's search function,
the basis of all the company's success."Alpha"is also an investment return above benchmark
(which business-types like). rom the start, wee always strived to do more, and to do important and meaningful things with the resources we have wrote,
Page. He then talks about being crazy. But only time will tell on this one o
#Home-brewed Synthetic Opioids Are Finally A Reality Pain-relieving opioids, like morphine or codeine, are important for medical purposes.
The drugs have been around for millennia however even today they are made still from poppy flowers,
making the production of the drugs dependent on poppy farming. Now, for the first time, researchers from Stanford university have been able to synthesize opioids from yeast cultures grown in the lab,
Recently, researchers have looked to DNA as a method to store large amounts of digital information that are saved currently on hard drives.
Our hard drives may seem pretty stable for now, but because of what they're made of,
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf warned that, e are nonchalantly throwing all of our data into what could become an information black hole without realizing it.
our hard drives can store up to five terabytes of data, encoded with the zeros and ones of binary code.
But if data were stored in DNA, the four chemical nucleotides (A c, G, and T) could theoretically hold up to 300,000 terabytes.
if the DNA would be able to retain information longer than a hard drive does now
It not likely that your next computer will store your data in DNA. It still prohibitively expensive,
geosmin (GSM) and 2-methylisoborneol (MIB. And while these molecules aren harmful in water, they smell earthy and musty, respectively,
the researchers found human olfactory receptors that react to GSM and MIB, and bound them in carbon nanotubes.
In tests, the researchers found that their device could detect GSM and MIB concentrations as low as 10 nanograms per liter of water,
which can detect GSM at just 5 parts per trillion, but it's a good start.
A device like this one would help water quality technicians detect contaminants quickly and on site
The project, called Restoring Active Memory (RAM), could help people suffering from traumatic brain injury. The Defense department research wing shared both milestones last week at a conference called ait, What?
#The Future Of The DNA Hard drive Back in August at a chemistry conference, the worlds of science fiction and fact merged with the announcement of a technological advancement in data storage.
After all, imagine being able to store the entirety of the world data on one hard drive.
However, for one group of computer experts, better known as IBM, venturing into this foray is par fort the course.
The company has been part of computer history and known for developing such famous names as Mark 1, PC, ig Blue, and Watson.
I reached out to Dr. Spike Narayan. He the Director of Science and Technology at IBM Research and has a passion for taking the computerized world to new heights.
For him the DNA technology isn as new as we might think but hasn gained momentum for one particular reason:
This stability can provide far more than just a hard drive to last the ages. Because DNA is always present in a variety of biological environments
the idea of a personal DNA hard drive within the body may also be possible. According to Dr. Narayan, it already happening at the microbial level. everal years ago researchers built the first self-replicating bacterial cell
what we currently do today with computers. But while this may be possible, Dr. Narayan wonders if this might be the best approach.
There also another reason why this personalized biological hard drive may not be the best option. We do not yet have the technology to read it.
There is little doubt the future of the DNA hard drive is bright. Yet while the biological aspects may be suited perfectly for a variety of applications
For Dr. Narayan, the answer to the future of the DNA hard drive is clear. NA as a medium for archival storage may have place in digital storage.
When the drug was injected into the cancerous sites over the course of six months, more than 16 percent of patients saw their lesions shrink.
So far, virology treatments haven worked as well in cancers in tissues deeper in the bodyhe drug has to be injected directly into the tumor site
For now, the devices need to be attached to a computer using a thin cable, but could someday connect wirelessly via Bluetooth,
as do other flexible electronics from the same lab. Those devices, which have been tested in the lab,
and creating software that will be able to read and interpret the data and feed it back to the irrigation valves closing the loop on fully automated watering.
van der Lee explains at the project Github page. he open source Arduino platform, together with low cost gypsum soil moisture sensors, provides all that
#Plug Your Toaster Into the Sun Sunport lets you use solar power at homeithout the panels.
The colorful little widget monitors the amount of electricity that comes through it, then reports that use to your phone.
The accompanying app upgrades your usage to solar using Solar Renewable energy Credits (S-RECS). In effect,
it certifies that you have asked the energy grid to power your device with solar power. You see,
which also includes a year of unlimited solar upgrades. After the first year, Droege expects upgrades will cost $1-$2 per month
#The Long-Fought Battle Between TV and Phone for Outlet Space is No more Samsung has released a monitor with a charging station at the base where users can wirelessly charge their phones.
The wireless charging station won take away from the monitor ability to display content, or even change the lines of the design,
and is compatible with any phone that uses Qi wireless charging. This design solves two problems at once,
first tackling the issue location for charging a phone. The TV ROOM and work desk are two places where outlets tend to be at a premium.
Further those places are often the worst culprits for able tanglebecause of all the electronics already there.
Instead of dealing with either issue, users just set their phones at the base of the monitor
and confirm that the green harginglight has come on. Samsung TV isn the only, or even the first, entry in the evices that do their job and charge your phonecategory.
Here at PSFK we recently covered a lamp that wirelessly charges phones. It probably not the breakthrough technology of the year, like 3d printing in 2014 or wearables,
but expect to see more and better from the trend as the months go by. The SE370 comes in two sizes
The monitor has multiple features catering to movie lovers and gamers. For workers, there a blue screen option where it will lower the amount of blue light emitted from the screen to help protect a user lens.
The monitor will also prevent flicking to occur that would strain user eyes. The screen has a smooth tracking system for all the action of today movies and games.
This prevents motion blur and ghost images to linger on screen. A user will automatically make these changes to the screen when switching to a game or movie.
The monitor will also auto-detect these changes to improve visuals based on the activity of the user.
For further information and updates about where to get the charging monitor and how much you can expect to pay,
check in at the Samsung blog. Samsung s
#This Museum Offers Special Glasses to Colorblind Visitors The museum experience relies on visuals. You step into the space expecting to see something new to lose yourself in stunning compositions anderhaps most importantlyivid colors.
But not all museum visitors can perceive color the same way. Visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago can now pick up a pair of Enchroma glasses
and see artworks in their full color spectrum for the first time. By adjusting the separation within red and green coneshe colorblind condition occurs
when the sensing of light overlaps within these conesnchroma glasses allow wearers with red-green color blindness to see color again.
as the Enchroma website explains. Though the glasses only create a simulation of sorts, wearers still experience a significant change in their perception of objects.
users wear the glasses to look at art pieces but also everyday sights like paint strokes on the wall and drawings by kids.
Among the many users of these glasses is Matthew Renton, the Director of Communications at the museum.
#iphone Case Self-heals, Contends With Life Unexpected Close calls After dealing with the abuse from a 3000g bronze brush,
Innerexile's Hydra iphone 6 case healed in 30 secondscan this be true? Can this be real?
A self-repair iphone 6 case is in our midst and this could solve every iphone case problem you have.
Innerexile has developed Hydra, an instant self-repair case for the latest smartphone from Apple. Innerexile is a company that operates all the way from Taipei, Taiwan.
A company focused on designing and creating products to improve the mobile lifestyle, Innerexile offers
what seems to be a game changer for all iphone 6 users. With busy and hectic lifestyles, it is easy to neglect your phone well-being.
In a hurry, you just put your iphone in your pocket while commuting not realizing that it rubbing side by side your coins and keys.
Later, youl be disappointed to see your iphone decorated with irreversible scratches here and there. There nothing else left to do but to bear this sight every day.
Here comes the Hydra instant self-repair case, a case built to be durable and scratch-free.
Not only will this case serve as a protective barrier for your iphone, it also has Wolverine-like self-healing abilities
leaving you with a flawless and scratchless iphone case. Hydra can take handle a load of 10kg based on a resilience test.
The case is available in transparent colors as to not hinder the iphone 6 natural aesthetics.
The Orée Stylograph is an elegant ballpoint pen that pairs with a refillable notebook to record digital notes,
The pen recorded contents can be transferred to a connected smartphone app using Bluetooth. The app features various editing, archiving
It can be sent directly via email or sync with services like Google Drive or Evernote.
The Stylograph has embedded an an memory and battery that should last up to two days, and recharges using a micro USB cable.
The Stylograph comes with a leather covered notebook with specially patterned paper that will help record the digital notes.
The notebook holds 192 pages of refillable paper. Orée calls the Stylograph he first writing instrument suited for the digital age.
The pen meets the company design philosophy: legant, simple and lasting functionality crafted with the finest natural materials.
typing frantically on a smartphone. Now wee just waiting with bated breath for the beautiful pen that can not only capture a digital image,
and indicates the direction a user should go to reach a set destination, and rotates in real time to indicate turns ahead
or that the user has drifted off course. The current iteration isn sensitive enough to keep somebody on the sidewalk instead of a nearby street
and directions normally provided by a smartphone or in-console GPS. No single technology used by the cube is new.
indicating only where the user should go. It provides no other visual cues or any audio component
allowing users to turn almost anything into a contactless way to pay, Barclay Digital Consumer Payments Managing director Mike Saunders explained.
Take for example the Nymi Band that allows users to pay with their heartbeat. One can only pay
#The Blind Are Seeing the World Through Artificial intelligence Aipoly uses machine vision and text-to-speech technology to identify
and describe photos of everyday objects to visually impaired users. There no doubt that smartphones make our lives easier.
As smartphone technology becomes more sophisticated with each passing year, however, it worthwhile to ask:
are these helping devices truly serving the needs of every person who requires assistance in their daily lives?
Aipoly is a smartphone app that acts as an intelligent assistant to the non-sighted user Students at Singularity University Silicon valley-based benefit corporation, educational program,
When a user snaps a picture in Aipoly, the image is uploaded automatically to Aipoly servers,
where it is analyzed and tagged. This allows a description to be sent back to the user
which is then read aloud using text-to-speech. From reading street signs to allowing blind parents to be able to answer their children questions about their surroundings,
Aipoly can offer convenience and an improved quality of life to its users. Some early testers of the app, including Rob Turner,
Singularity University estimates that two-thirds of the visually impaired people in the world will become smartphone users in the next five years, making technology like Aipoly essential for this growing market.
Those who are interested in contributing can sign up for the beta on the Aipoly website. The team welcomes both the sighted and non-sighted to participate
The website reveals the ring will have a built-in retractable needle. Using electricity, it will block pain receptors
The Hoope website mentions ntibody detectionas the method for testing. In these type of tests, reagents bond to specific proteins formed by the body under attack from an infection.
At the end of the entire Hoope process is a smartphone app that connects to the ring display the results,
Now equipped with a personal IP ADDRESS, very view window is controllable through the internet. The windows can now talk to the lighting and HVAC system,
and on a more global level it could connect to the future smart city and smart grid, says CEO Rao Mulpuri.
Their website reads: Farmedhere produce is grown indoors in urban facilities, away from the bugs, diseases, pesticides,
the Internet giant introduces a new, disruptive element to watching video There no doubt as to the potential for augmented reality to change how we interact with our future world.
Just ask Facebook, Google and Microsoft. With its promising application to video games and other in-real-time experiences, its no wonder the biggest tech players in the field are eager to explore AR possibilities.
And, as revealed by its new patent for augmented reality glasses it looks like Amazon wants to take a crack at it as well,
like tablet devices, is the lack of ability for consumers to immerse themselves in a tablet experience,
They also o not allow a user to immerse in the experience implying that if youe watching video with them on,
when youe watching the screen in front of you. On top of this, Amazon also purports a more comfortable version of augmented reality as well,
citing the headsets of other augmented reality devices as sually heavy, expensive and uncomfortable to use for long periods of time.
versus large headsets lend themselves to a more casual and pleasurable wearing experience, one which would be ideal
and more expensive than the photovoltaic panels that are now familiar on roofs the world over,
#Research method identifies stealth attacks on complicated computer systems Imagine millions of lines of instructions. Then try and picture how one extremely tiny anomaly could be found in almost real-time
"a trio of Virginia Tech computer scientists has tested their innovation against many real-world attacks. One type of attack is
when an adversary is able to remotely access a computer, bypassing authentication such as a login screen.
A second example of attack is called heap feng shui where attackers hijack the control of a browser by manipulating its memory layout.
Another example of attack is called directory harvesting where spammers interact with vulnerable mail servers to steal valid email addresses.
%Their findings are reported in an invited presentation at the 22nd Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on Computer and Communications security, Denver."
said Danfeng (Daphne) Yao, associate professor of computer science at Virginia Tech. Xiaokui Shu, a computer science doctoral student of Anqing, China, advised by Yao,
was the first author.""Stealthy attacks buried in long execution paths of a software program cannot be revealed by examining fragments of the path,"Yao,
who holds the title of the L-3 Communications Cyber Faculty Fellow of Computer science, said.
Yao explained, "Modern exploits have manipulation tactics that hide them from existing detection tools. An example is an attacker who overwrites one of the variables before the actual authentication procedure.
"Over time, these stealthy attacks on computer systems have just become more and more sophisticated. The Virginia Tech computer scientists'secret formula in finding a stealth attack is in their algorithms.
With specific matrix-based pattern recognition, the three were able to analyze the execution path of a software program
and discover correlations among events.""The idea is to profile the program's behavior, determine how often some events are supposed to occur,
"Because the approach works by analyzing the behavior of computer code, it can be used to study a variety of different attacks,"Yao added.
Their anomaly detection algorithms were able to detect erratic program behaviors with very low false alarms even
as they do in computer chips. As a semimetal, graphene naturally has no bandgaps, making it a challenge for widespread industry adoption.
a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Argonne.""We have some very unique capabilities here at the Center for Nanoscale Materials,
said senior author Erez Lieberman Aiden, a geneticist and computer scientist with joint appointments at Baylor and Rice. hen one day,
Aiden, assistant professor of genetics at Baylor and of computer science and computational and applied mathematics at Rice, said Sanborn
and study co-first author Suhas Rao showed that they could combine the tri-glide model with mathematics
and high-performance computation to predict how a genome will fold. The team confirmed their predictions by making tiny modifications in a cell genome
Future work for Tkaczyk and his colleagues includes developing an automated algorithm for white blood cell identification,
reflectors, and USB detectors, combined with the all-plastic housing and lenses will allow for future versions of the prototype to be mass-produced.
not only a cheaper and more user friendly solution, but a solution that comes with no compromise regarding noise resolution,
Catalysts can split water into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, a process required for fuel cells.
detailed in Nature Communications, is a significant step toward lower-cost catalysts for energy production, according to the researchers. hat unique about this paper is that we show not the use of metal particles, not the use of metal nanoparticles,
Wee getting away with very little cobalt to make a catalyst that nearly matches the best platinum catalysts.
Tour said single-atom catalysts have been realized in liquids, but rarely on a surface. his way we can build electrodes out of it,
He noted platinum-carbon catalysts still boast the lowest onset voltage. o question, theye the best.
including computer chips and other optoelectronic components.""Our results demonstrate relatively fast modulation from fundamentally slow phosphorescent light emitters,
an important phosphor that is widely used in fiber-optic telecommunication networks. He combined that with a material called vanadium dioxide (VO2.
One example could be optical communications networks on computer chips. Prototype on-chip networks have used semiconductor lasers as light emitters.
and quickly turns into a gel that conforms to the site of a wound, keeping it closed,
and injected at the site of a wound, where they reassemble themselves into a gel.
Linbo3 is used in many electronic devices dealing with high-frequency signals such as cell phones or radar installations.
Cell phones, for example, use resonances of these surface waves to filter electric signals in a manner similar to a wine glass resonating when a voice hits it at exactly the right pitch.
and the liquid crystalline phases that are used to create an image on certain electronic displays,
Manfra also is a professor of both materials engineering and electrical and computer engineering. The gallium arsenide crystals grown using the molecular beam epitaxy technique serve as a model platform to explore the many phases that arise among strongly interacting electrons,
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