#Windows 10 Mobile preview 10512 goes to testers It's been a month since Microsoft rolled out a new Windows 10 Mobile test Build on August 12,
Microsoft pulled the trigger on Build 10512, which it made available to Windows Insiders on the Fast Ring."
"Our major focus on Windows 10 Mobile right now is on improvements to core quality, "said Gabe Aul, the head of the Windows Insider program,
in announcing availability of the new build. Among the list of what's new in today's new Windows 10 Mobile test build:
There are a number of known issues, as usual, which Aul itemizes in today's post. Also worth noting:
No new Windows phone devices beyond those already supported are able to run today's build.
Microsoft is expected to make Windows 10 Mobile available on new Windows phones and to and existing Windows phone users later this fall l
#Twitter lifts 140 character limit on direct messages, further enhancing DM functionality There are plenty of services available that allow you to carry out private conversations across platforms.
With today's announcement, Twitter makes it easier to serve as your messaging service. Previously, direct messages were limited to the same 140 character limit as a public Tweet.
You may recall back in January 2015 Twitter also added support for direct messages for up to 20 people.
when you know they are on Twitter, but may not be connected in another service. I use direct messaging a couple times a week,
Do you use Twitter for carrying out private conversations? If not, do you use text messaging or another service e
#inuxone: IBM's new Linux mainframes SEATTLE--At Linuxcon, IBM launched Linuxone, a new pair of IBM mainframes along with Linux and open-source software and services.
These new systems are the Linuxone Emperor, which built on the IBM z13 mainframe and its z13 CPU,
and its little brother, Rockhopper, which uses the older z12 processor. IBM's new Linuxone mainframes aren't only powerful,
they're very affordable. IBM claims that Linuxone Emperor is capable of scaling up to 8, 000 virtual machines or tens of thousands of containers and that's more than any other single Linux system.
Linuxone Rockhopper is an entry-level mainframe. It's designed for clients and emerging markets seeking mainframe speed
security and availability but for a smaller price-tag. The z13 mainframe series can hold up to 10 TBS of memory.
Its 8-core z13 CPU can run up to 5ghz. On IBM benchmarks, a loaded Linuxone could perform 30-billion Representational State Transfer (RESTFUL) transactions a day using Node. js and Mongodb in Docker containers.
In brief, these are spectacularly speedy systems. IBM also states that the Linuxone are the most secure Linux systems ever with advanced encryption features built into both the hardware and software to help keep customer data and transactions confidential and secure.
This is done with dedicated crypto processors and cards so your company can handle millions of transactions per second securely.
Linuxone isn't just a new use of hardware. IBM has enabled key open source and industry software for Linuxone and IBM z Systems.
This includes Apache Spark, Node. js, Mongodb, Mariadb, Postgresql and Chef. These technologies work seamlessly on the mainframe
just as they do with other platforms, requiring no special skills and with compelling performance advantages.
IBM, in partnership with Marist College and Syracuse University's School of Information Studies will host clouds that provide developers access to a virtual IBM Linuxone at no cost.
IBM will also create a special cloud for independent software providers (ISVS) hosted at IBM sites in Dallas, Beijing,
Ross Mauri, IBM's General manager of z Systems said in a Linuxcon keynote speech, that Linuxone comes with a new financing model.
With this you can have a Linuxone Emperor or Rockhopper on site but, like a public cloud, you'll only pay for the resources you use.
IBM will work with existing customers who want to move to the new elastic pricing model."
Building accurate computer reconstructions of historical global precipitation is tricky business. The statistical models are complicated very the historical data is often full of holes
Now a new software program developed by a research team including San diego State university Distinguished Professor of Mathematics
Now anybody can play with this user friendly software use it to inform their research and develop new models and hypotheses.
Shen and his SDSU graduate students Nancy Tafolla and Barbara Sperberg produced a user friendly technologically advanced piece of software that does the statistical heavy lifting for researchers.
SOGP 1. 0 which stands for a statistical technique known as spectral optimal gridding of precipitation is based on the MATLAB programming language commonly used in science and engineering.
New tool for climate change modelsfor example Shen referenced a region in the middle of the Pacific ocean that sometimes glows bright red on the computer model indicating extreme dryness
Researchers interested in using SOGP 1. 0 can request the software package as well as the digital datasets used by the program by e-mailing sogp. precip@gmail. com with the subject line SOGP precipitation product request followed by your name
#Precision printing: Unique capabilities of 3-D printing revealed Researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated an additive manufacturing method to control the structure
and that can indeed improve resistance to pneumonia in our mouse model l
#Researchers turn to 3-D technology to examine the formation of cliffband landscapes A blend of photos
Ward is using a method called Structure-From-Motion Photogrammetry--computational photo image processing techniques--to study the formation of cliff landscapes in Colorado
From there we can build a 3-D computer model of that landscape. Months of fieldwork in comparison would only produce a fraction of the data that we produce in the computer model says Ward.
Ward says that ultimately examining this piece of the puzzle will give researchers an idea as to how the broader U s. landscape was formed.
and attaches to specific DNA sites to initiate the entire replication process. The second study revealed how the ORC recruits cracks open
which a computer then reconstructs into three-dimensional structure. This technique is ideal because we're imaging relatively massive proteins here Li said.
The software called Open Book provides synonyms images metaphors and definitions of complex verbs explains Paloma Moreda computer programmer at the University of Alicante.
It provides additional information to understand the main ideas of a document and therefore increases independence
and social inclusion of the users as they gain better access to education employment health care and social activities she adds.
An important feature of the software is that it is personalisable and adapts to the abilities of each person.
In other words the user can choose to just see definitions or images interpretation of metaphors or analyses of a feeling for example.
The project coordinator was Ruslan Mitkov Professor of Computational linguistics and Language Engineering at the University of Wolverhampton (UK).
#Electric vehicle technology packs more punch in smaller package Using 3-D printing and novel semiconductors researchers at the Department of energy's Oak ridge National Laboratory have created a power inverter that could make electric vehicles lighter more powerful and more efficient.
Research for this project was conducted at ORNL's National Transportation Research center and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility DOE user facilities with funding from DOE's Office of Energy efficiency and Renewable energy.
--and the 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West virginia showed the presence of lumps in the image of Sagittarius A*.Recent upgrades have increased greatly the sensitivity of these telescopes.
and optimization of the device which is based on a phosphor screen and single-walled carbon nanotubes as electrodes in a diode structure.
Our simple'diode'panel could obtain high brightness efficiency of 60 Lumen per Watt which holds excellent potential for a lighting device with low power consumption said Norihiro Shimoi the lead researcher and an associate professor of environmental studies at the Tohoku University.
The electrons then fly through the vacuum in the cavity and hit the phosphor screen into glowing.
Thus the new flat-panel device has compared smaller energy loss with other current lighting devices which can be used to make energy-efficient cathodes that with low power consumption.
When Illinois researchers set out to investigate a method to control how DNA moves through a tiny sequencing device they did not know they were about to witness a display of molecular gymnastics.
The researchers extensively used the Blue waters supercomputer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications housed at the University of Illinois. They mapped each individual atom in the complex DNA molecule
Scientists at the National institutes of health (NIH) report that newly formed brain cells in the mouse olfactory system--the area that processes smells--play a critical role in maintaining proper connections.
In the first set of mouse experiments Dr. Belluscio's team first disrupted the organization of olfactory bulb circuits by temporarily plugging a nostril in the animals to block olfactory sensory information from entering the brain.
New approaches that can improve the outlook for patients especially in the later stages of injury development would be of great benefit she says.
What is required is to pay attention during the subsequent data analysis. Greenwood's doctoral student Kyriakos Tsangaras discovered the additional value of hybridisation capture by chance.
#Unique catalysts for hydrogen fuel cells synthesized in ordinary kitchen microwave oven Swedish and Chinese researchers show how a unique nano-alloy composed of palladium nano-islands embedded in tungsten nanoparticles creates a new type of catalysts for highly efficient oxygen reduction the most important reaction in hydrogen fuel cells.
Their results are published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. The world's rapidly growing demand for energy and the requirement of sustainable energy production calls for an urgent change in today's fossil fuel based energy system.
however by the need of efficient catalysts to drive the chemical reactions involved in the fuel cell.
Historically platinum and its alloys have frequently been used as anodic and cathodic catalysts in fuel cells
but the high cost of platinum due to its low abundance motivates researchers to find efficient catalysts based on earth-abundant elements.
The new technology is designed for conventional lithium-ion batteries now used in billions of cellphones laptops and other electronic devices as well as a growing number of cars and airplanes.
In 2006 the Sony Corporation recalled millions of lithium-ion batteries after reports of more than a dozen consumer-laptop fires.
That's still a big problem considering that hundreds of millions of computers and cellphones are sold each year.
We want to lower the odds of a battery fire to one in a billion or even to zero.
You might get a message on your phone telling you that the voltage has dropped to zero so the battery needs to be replaced Zhuo said.
In a new study in EPJ Plus French scientists have come up with an open source simulation method to calculate the actual cost of relying on a combination of electricity sources.
Users take a small water sample and mix it with an enzyme substrate a nutrient that activates certain enterobacteria
and computer modeling by an international team that included researchers in China Japan and Pittsburgh as well as at MIT.
and making an important step toward realizing superfast light emitting diodes (LEDS) and quantum cryptography.
This year's Nobel prize in physics was awarded for the discovery of how to make blue LEDS allowing everything from more efficient light bulbs to video screens.
While the discovery has had an enormous impact on lighting and displays the slow speed with
and off has limited their use as a light source in light-based telecommunications. In an LED atoms can be forced to emit roughly 10 million photons in the blink of an eye.
Modern telecommunications systems however operate nearly a thousand times faster. To make future light-based communications using LEDS practical researchers must get photon-emitting materials up to speed.
One of the applications we're targeting with this research is said ultrafast LEDS Maiken Mikkelsen an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and physics at Duke.
and Chair of Electrical and Computer engineering at Duke they used computer simulations to determine the exact size of the gap needed between the nanocubes
We could also make fast sources of single photons that could be used for quantum cryptography.
or equivalently the intensity of the light at various places at the measuring screen, ensures that the set of correlations between the two detectors does result in an interference-like pattern in those correlations.
#Computerized surveillance system quickly detects disease outbreaks among preschoolers A web-based system that allows preschools
#Sensor invented that uses radio waves to detect subtle changes in pressure Stanford engineers have invented a wireless pressure sensor that has already been used to measure brain pressure in lab mice with brain injuries.
The copper strips act like radio antennas. The rubber serves as an insulator. The technology involves beaming radio waves through this simple antenna-and-rubber sandwich.
When the device comes under pressure the copper antennas squeeze the rubber insulator and move infinitesimally closer together.
Radio waves passing through the two antennas slow down in terms of frequency. When pressure is relaxed the copper antennas move apart
The engineers proved that this effect was measurable giving them a way to gauge the pressure exerted on the device by tracking the frequency of radio waves passing through the device.
and are linked to an external monitor via a cable. In addition to the possibility of the cable being pulled out
In experiments on laboratory mice Tse used radio waves to probe Bao's wireless sensor allowing him to monitor changes in intracranial pressure continuously.
By putting this pyramid-shaped rubber layer between the copper antennas this team of engineers was able to exploit the subtle interactions of radio waves
To assess the durability of this intervention the researchers followed antibiotic prescribing across intervention and control sites after termination of audit and feedback.
We've already learned that the histone proteins found at the sites of genes can be modified chemically with a variety of small chemical tags that either promote
Surprisingly the loss of STAT3 in NK cells of the mouse led not to a decrease but to an increase in killing activity against melanoma cells and leukemia cells.
and Bruce Maryanoff, formerly at Johnson & johnson and currently a visiting scholar at TSRI, the researchers tested this synthetic peptide in a mouse model prone to atherosclerosis.
The group Kinch helped found the Institute for Life sciences Collaboration recently convened an expert panel at the United nations to discuss the need for innovative partnerships
"Using a device that can be placed on the forearm of the older person and a webcam that records movement patterns,
which are plotted then by software. In case of any anomaly in the activities course of the person,
"The sensor is connected to a modem using radio frequency systems. The processed information from the elder's movement pattern may include factors such as temperature, heart rate and deviations in the usual activity path,
geriatricians and system engineers in order to optimize and streamline the system for detection of a depression state.
The research team carefully selected 30 different grassland sites--three of which are used already for small-scale bioenergy production--and 11 cornfields in southern Wisconsin.
The team found that the presence of grasslands within one kilometer of the study sites also helped boost bird species diversity and bird density in the area.
For the very first time a general strategy to manufacture inorganic nanoparticles with user-specified 3d shapes has been achieved to produce particles as small as 25 nanometers or less with remarkable precision (less than 5 nanometers.
and meticulously planned using computer design software. Using the software the researchers design three-dimensional frameworks of the desired size
and shape built from linear DNA sequences which attract and bind to one another in a predictable manner.
This capability should open up entirely new strategies for fields ranging from computer miniaturization to energy and pathogen detection.
But the rash persisted and a few years later a rare form of skin cancer known as Marjolin's ulcer developed at the surgical site.
The researchers showed in mouse models that chronic skin inflammation caused by continuous skin contact with allergens contributes to tumor development.
To investigate whether inflammation from the implant contributed to the tumor the researchers studied mouse models of contact allergy.
The researchers showed that contact allergy brings inflammatory cells and molecules to the site of the allergic reaction.
and molecules become active at the site of the reaction. The new mix of cells and molecules promotes the development of skin tumors.
#Computer science: Data smashing could unshackle automated discovery A little known secret in data mining is that simply feeding raw data into a data analysis algorithm is unlikely to produce meaningful results,
say the authors of a new Cornell University study. From recognizing speech to identifying unusual stars,
But most data comparison algorithms today have one major weakness--somewhere, they rely on a human expert to specify what aspects of the data are relevant for comparison,
Cornell computing researchers have come up with a new principle they call"data smashing"for estimating the similarities between streams of arbitrary data without human intervention,
Hod Lipson, associate professor of mechanical engineering and computing and information science, and Ishanu Chattopadhyay, a former postdoctoral associate with Lipson and now at the University of Chicago, have described their method in Royal Society Interface, Oct 1.
In all cases and without access to original domain knowledge, the researchers demonstrated performance on par with the accuracy of specialized algorithms and heuristics devised by experts s
and may provide a resource for discovery of beta cell therapies that promote survival or regeneration of beta cells and development of screening biomarkers to monitor beta cell health and survival to guide therapeutic
This could affect how they incorporate into cellular networks for example leading to the clinical symptoms that we see in kids with these diseases s
#Gene that drives aggressive brain cancer found by new computational approach Using an innovative algorithm that analyzes gene regulatory and signaling networks,
suggesting that the algorithm, combined with the researchers'sophisticated computer models of cellular regulation, is a powerful method for identifying genetic drivers of a wide range of diseases."
"This algorithm adds a new dimension to our ability to identify the genetic causes of complex disease.
When combined with other tools that our lab has developed, it will help identify many more genes that hold potential as genetic biomarkers of disease progression
the Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical Biology (in Biomedical Informatics and the Institute for Cancer Genetics), chair of the Department of Systems Biology,
Dr. Califano and his colleagues used high-power computer models to demonstrate that certain types of cancer have conserved highly"master regulators"--genes
In the current study, the team combined its existing computational tools with a new algorithm called DIGGIT (for Driver-Gene Inference by Genetical-Genomic Information theory),
The DIGGIT algorithm, combined with what we know about regulatory events in the cell, can help us sort through this mass of data
In further studies by the Califano team, the algorithm identified 35 genes as drivers of breast cancer.
confirming that the algorithm is capable of capturing driver mutations in other types of cancer.
the algorithm identified the key molecular regulators and pathways through which these mutations likely work to drive disease,
Working in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCS) the Young lab examined the scaffolding landscape found within topologically associated domains.
Using a technique known as Chia-PET the researchers focused on how these proteins interact. y knowing which of the Cohesin/CTCF bound sites are coming together in physical proximity we started to go from a linear view of the genome to sets of looping interactions
But goldsmiths are not the only users of these instruments the tools are more frequently found in steel foundries
The little gadget can be built into the vehicle without taking up space. The way it works is particularly reliable thanks to its special encapsulation.
since it is equipped with an integrated processor for image processing. After the integrated image sensor has recorded the images,
the processor evaluates the frames.""The video itself no longer has to--as previously the case--be sorted
A total of 72 passive and 13 active components (such as LEDS, DC-to-DC converters, memory chip, image sensor and image processor) had to be positioned within the module in an especially space-saving manner.
If one programs the software accordingly, it is also possible to detect road markings. In this case, the camera is combined with a lane departure assistant.
For this purpose, only the image processing algorithms would have to be adjusted accordingly y
#Mining big data yields Alzheimers discovery Scientists at The University of Manchester have used a new way of working to identify a new gene linked to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
Using brain scans from the ENIGMA Consortium and genetic information from The Mouse Brain Library he was able to identify a novel gene,
MGST3 that regulates the size of the hippocampus in both mouse and human, which is linked to a group of neurodegenerative diseases.
and the corresponding genes and then matching those with genes in mice from the BXD system held in the Mouse Brain Library database we could identify this specific gene that influences neurological diseases."
The Mouse Brain Library, established by Professor Robert Williams based at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center,
For rivers like the Colorado, already much altered and bearing heavy demands from many different user groups, a"designer"approach is more practical than attempting to return the river closer to its natural,
But patterns of electric signals are sent by a computer into nerves in his arm and to his brain,
"They change things on the computer to change the sensation.""One time,"he said, "it felt like water running across the back of my hand."
the research team has developed algorithms that convert the input from sensors taped to a patient's hand into varying patterns and intensities of electrical signals.
#Smartphone understands hand gestures Professor Otmar Hilliges and his staff at ETH Zurich have developed a new app enabling users to operate their smartphone with gestures.
This development expands the range of potential interactions with such devices. It does seem slightly odd at first:
they are for controlling your smartphone. By mimicking the firing of a pistol for example a user can switch to another browser tab change the map's view from satellite to standard
or shoot down enemy planes in a game. Spreading out your fingers magnifies a section of a map or scrolls the page of a book forwards.
All this gesturing wizardry is made possible by a new type of algorithm developed by Jie Song a Master's student in the working group headed by by Otmar Hilliges Professor of Computer science.
Intelligent programming uses computer memorythe program uses the smartphone's built-in camera to register its environment.
and warns the user when the hand is either too close or too far away. Many movement-recognition programs need plenty of processor
and memory power explains Hilliges adding that their new algorithm uses a far smaller portion of computer memory
and is thus ideal for smartphones. He believes the application is the first of its kind that can run on a smartphone.
The app's minimal processing footprint means it could also run on smart watches or in augmented reality glasses.
More controlthe program currently recognises six different gestures and executes their corresponding commands. Although the researchers have tested 16 outlines this is not the app's theoretical limit.
He is convinced that this new way of operating smartphones greatly increases the range of interactivity.
so that users can operate their smartphone effortlessly. But will smartphone users want to adapt to this new style of interaction?
Otmar Hilliges is confident they will. Gesture control will not replace touchscreen control but supplement it.
People got used to operating computer games with their movements. Touchscreens Hilliges reminds us also required a very long adjustment period before making a big impact in consumers'lives.
He is therefore certain that this application --or at least parts of it--will find its way onto the market.
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Guan notes that the site-specific analytical capabilities of this technique should give researchers finer control over selective surface vaporization of alloying elements for enhanced, high-tech applications."
that displays a functionally critical region of the virus that is universally conserved in all known species of Ebola.
Importantly, the researchers were able to demonstrate this peptide target is suitable for use in high-throughput drug screens.
These kinds of screens allow rapid identification of potential new drugs from billions of possible candidates.
and colleagues have shown that a lentivirus encoding let-7 injected into mouse neurons promotes the autophagic turnover of toxic misfolded proteins associated with neurodegenerative disease. e also demonstrate that treatment with anti-let-7 can block autophagy
Together with telecommunications businessman Kaj Juul-Pedersen, he established the company Dencrypt, which sells dynamic encryption to businesses
so they can safely exchange confidential information over the telephone.""Today, all telephone conversations are encrypted --i e. converted into gibberish
--but they are encrypted not all the way from phone to phone, and if a third party has access to one of the telephone masts through which the call passes,
they can listen in, "explains Lars Ramkilde Knudsen.""And even if the conversation is encrypted--in principle--it is still possible to decrypt it provided you have sufficient computer power,
"he says. This is in no small part due to the fact that the vast majority of telecommunications operators use the same encryption algorithm--the so-called AES,
the outcome of a competition launched by the US government in 1997.""This is where my invention comes in,
It expands the AES algorithm with several layers which are never the same. Dynamic encryption"When my phone calls you up, it selects a system on
Technically speaking, it adds more components to the known algorithm. The next time I call you,
The clever thing about it is that your phone can decrypt the information without knowing which system you have chosen.
and encryption method--and both are thrown away by the phone after each call and replaced by a new combination--the conversation is extremely difficult to decrypt
budgets and secret plans using phone tapping, for example. In the USA alone, the phenomenon costs businesses around USD 100 billion every year according to a 2014 report on the subject by security firm Mcafee.
Dencrypt currently has six employees in addition to co-owner and founder Lars Ramkilde Knudsen who still works for DTU Compute.
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