#World thinnest lightbulb developed using graphene A postdoctoral research scientist, Young Duck Kim, has led a team of scientists from Columbia, Seoul National University (SNU),
is published in the Advance Online Publication on Nature Nanotechnology website on June 15. ee created what is essentially the world thinnest light bulb,
and transparent displays, and graphene-based on-chip optical communications. Creating light in small structures on the surface of a chip is crucial for developing fully integrated hotoniccircuits that do with light
#Spoken sentences can be reconstructed from brain activity patterns It is now possible to reconstruct spoken sentences from activity patterns of the human brain surface. rain to Textcombines knowledge from neuroscience, medicine and informatics.
our recent results indicate that both single units in terms of speech sounds as well as continuously spoken sentences can be recognized from brain activity. hese results were obtained by an interdisciplinary collaboration of researchers of informatics, neuroscience, and medicine.
In Karlsruhe, the methods for signal processing and automatic speech recognition have been developed and applied. n addition to the decoding of speech from brain activity
and machine learning algorithms to extract the most likely word sequence. Currently, Brain-to-Text is based on audible speech.
Potential sites include businesses near U s. Route 95 that are willing to host the charging stations
Host sites must agree to let consumers use the stations at no charge for at least five years
#Google Project Soli will put gesture controls everywhere Every motion controller currently on the market may have just become obsolete thanks to Google.
one of Google latest cutting-edge experiments from its secretive Advanced Technology and Projects group (ATAP), provides an enticing example of the type of powerful motion controller that could actually change how we interact with everything from smartwatches and tablets to appliances and other everyday objects.
At a basic level, motion controllers are premised on the idea that a user hands replace traditional input devices like touch screens or mouse and keyboards.
Rather than touching a physical object like a display or button to control a device, you use hand gestures.
Using hand gestures, proponents say, makes user interfaces much more intuitive and easy to use and opens up new ways for designers
and developers to create better user experiences. Radar to gesturesproject Soli gesture-tracking takes a particularly unique approach in that it depends on radar.
Radar, which detects objects in motion through high frequency radio waves, enables what Project Soli design lead Carste Schwesig calls a undamentally different approachto motion tracking. typical model of the way you think about radar is like a police radar
or baseball where you just have an object and you measure its speed, explains Schwesig. ut actually we are beaming out a continuos signal that gets reflected by an arm,
and machine learning techniques to detect gestures. f course, gesture-based controllers are not, in themselves, new.
Companies like Leap Motion and, more recently, Intel (via Realsense) have been experimenting with motion controllers for some time.
As displays shrink, he said, interacting with devices becomes increasingly difficult. Even the most responsive smartwatch displays can be difficult to navigate in some situations.
But Soli utility isn limited to wearables at all. In its current form, its radar tech lives in a single tiny chip that can be embedded in about any type of device,
even objects that don have a traditional display. t in chip form, since there are no moving parts involved it can be embedded inside devices,
Imagine dismissing smartphone notification with the wave of a hand or pressing your fingers together to play music from a bluetooth speaker.
With Ara, people submitted applications for a chance to get their hands on the project development hardware
Where the radar-based gesture tech eventually ends up will likely depend on developer response and the level of interest from hardware manufacturers.
One obvious example would be Android Wear watchmakers: It no secret that Android Wear sales have been lackluster
since the first devices went on sale last year. Soli new gesture-based interface could potentially revitalize sales.
In hands-on demos at Google I/O, ATAP focused more on displaying Soli gesture-recognizing capabilities rather than specific implementations.
and hardware manufacturers to help determine the future of Project Soli. ATAP has shown already, in just one day,
but doesn have the cash to make it happen. very single major invention like thishether they were cell phones
or personal computers or airplanes or carsere laughed at by their contemporaries in every case, says Mikosza y
Although similar, mouse brains don exactly follow the same developmental trajectory as human brains, so we don know how well the findings translate.
after all, how can one know for sure that a mouse is depressed autistic or hallucinating? Then there one more perk.
As of now, the organoids most certainly can hink without external output and mature neural networks to support information processing,
All of that data is fed into he central driver assistance control unit (zfas), a compact central computer
which could soon produce self-healing nail polish and a cure for cracked mobile phone screens. A team at the University of Bristol has been quietly developing the technology for the past three years.
or 10 years wee going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves if they crack,
letting people take back their embarrassing emails Gmail newest addition is an ndo sendfeature, which lets people recall emails that have been sent,
up to 30 seconds after theye been despatched. It works by holding back the email for a predefined time,
and then letting it go if users don say that theye sent it in error.
Users must enable the feature through the settings page in Gmail, by clicking in the cog at the top right hand screen
and scrolling through the general tab. It also gives the option to choose how long the undo send feature shows for offering settings between 5 and 30 seconds.
Google's special mobile app that organises emails and aims to make them easier to read.
which gives Gmail users special features that can usually be accessed, before moving them to the main product if theye successful.
Other features currently being experimented with are options to use canned responses to emails so that they don have to be typed out every time,
#High school student from Canada invents revolutionary iaid gadget for blind people Alex Deans, from Ontario in Canada, began creating the device after becoming curious
while helping a blind woman cross the street one day. he told me that all existing devices only let users see in one direction
The belt-like gadget comes with a joy stick and works by releasing sound waves that bounce-off objects in the user path to show how close things are to them.
The iaid workings have been compared to the combination of a whale sonar and the technology used in cars to alert drivers
and guide dogs Whereas canes tell users what directly in front of them, they don help them figure out where they are in relation their destination
me two to three years just to get the programming and coding knowledge. he teen invention has been attracting attention
scientists could make an internet of human brains Scientists have attached successfully together the brains of monkeys
scientists suggest that they could create Brainets a system of brains attached together to make an rganic computer The experiments found that the successfully connected animals brains were at least as good as one single one,
The three of them successfully learnt to control a virtual avatar on a screen, working together to move its arm.
Last year, a supercomputer became the first AI to pass the Turing Test, successfully (and worryingly for cybercrime) convincing humans it was a 13-year-old boy
#It is illegal to rip music off a CD or put DVDS onto hard drives, UK High court says The ruling had previously been in place,
or films off discs so that they can be watched on portably entertainment gadgets like ipods or ipads.
and Tissue Engineering (3d printing Industry) A research team at Northwestern University has begun printing three-dimensional structures with graphene nanoflakes.
and all of them could potentially be used as ground zero for printing more complex organs. Shah believes these inks could one day play a significant role in regenerative medicine and tissue engineering.
Micron3dp has succeeded in printing oftglass at a temperature of 850 degrees Celsius, as well as borosilicate glass at a melting temperature of 1640 degrees Celsius.
Smartphone-Based 3d printed Diagnostic Device for Viruses (3ders. org) A team of researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA has created a low-cost,
smartphone-based device and app that is made with a 3d printer and can read enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay (ELISA) diagnostic plates on the spot, with up to 99.6 percent accuracy for certain viruses. With the UCLA researcher new invention,
a small and low-cost 3d printed device is attached to a smartphone and illuminates a 96-well plate with an LED array.
A custom-designed smartphone app then reads the resulting images and analyzes them using a machine-learning algorithm.
The diagnostic results can be sent back to the phone within one minute. The ELISA is a common diagnostic tool that requires large and expensive readout instruments that can only be found in well-equipped hospital labs. ELISA is not typically available in remote or developing countries in
which the ability to track and diagnose contagious and life-threatening viruses such as HIV, West Nile and Hepatitis b could save thousands, if not millions of lives every year
#Photonics Moves Forward for Future Computing Technology The development of photonic technologies to speed up computing has taken two steps forward,
IBM has announced that it has produced an integrated wavelength multiplexed silicon photonics chip, which will allow the bulk manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers.
Research into ways of boosting the speeds of both processors and interconnects is looking at many different technologies.
Some use conventional silicon-based electronic technologies, such as FPGS as discussed in Robert Roe article,
while other avenues being explored include server on a chip and IBM Openpower initiative as discussed in Robert Roe second article on Future processing technologies.
More exotic and much longer term techniques such as quantum computing are also being explored as discussed in Quantum computing takes a step closer.
Optalysys hopes optical processing will accelerate computation by performing processor-intensive tasks at much faster rates and with a significant reduction in energy consumption.
The principle is similar in some ways to how a GPU is used to accelerate compute intensive tasks
but the Optalyssys prototype is sized a desktop system rather than a single card connected through PCIE.
The prototype achieves a processing speed equivalent to 320 Gigaflops and, because it uses light rather than electricity as the processing medium,
and he expects them to achieve HPC-levels of performance up to an equivalent processing rate of 9 petaflops. He said that this was omparable to the 5th fastest computer in the world today.
which will soon enable manufacturing of 100 Gbps optical transceivers. This will allow datacenters to offer greater data rates and bandwidth for cloud computing and Big data applications.
IBM silicon photonics chips uses four distinct colours of light travelling within an optical fibre to transmit data in and around a computing system.
The critical point is that IBM has integrated the optical components side-by-side with electrical circuits on a single silicon chip using sub-100nm semiconductor technology.
where the optical signals are transported via multimode optical fibre. Demands for increased distance and data rate between ports, due to cloud services for example, are driving the development of cost-effective single-mode optical interconnect technologies,
IBM CMOS integrated nanophotonics technology combines the essential parts of an optical transceiver, both electrical and optical, on one silicon chip.
IBM engineers have demonstrated a reference design, targeting datacenter interconnects with a range up to two kilometers.
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developing a processor about double the size of D-Wave previous generation. According to D-Wave, this is a major technological and scientific achievement that will allow significantly more complex computational problems to be solved than was possible on any previous quantum computer.
D-Wave quantum computer runs a quantum annealing algorithm to find the lowest points, corresponding to optimal or near optimal solutions, in a virtual nergy landscape.
Every additional qubit doubles the search space of the processor. At 1000 qubits the new processor considers 21000 possibilities simultaneously,
a search space which dwarfs the 2512 possibilities available to the 512-qubit D-Wave Two. n fact,
As the only manufacturer of scalable quantum processors, D-Wave breaks new ground with every succeeding generation it develops.
The new processors, comprising over 128,000 Josephson tunnel junctions, are believed to be the most complex superconductor integrated circuits ever successfully yielded.
A 1000 qubit processor will also be on display at the upcoming GEOINT conference in D-Wave booth,#10076.
Yes, says Massimiliano Di Ventra, a physicist and computer scientist at the University of California, San diego. His team has built a memcomputing prototype with standard electronics that operate at room temperature.
Memcomputing is a novel non-Turing paradigm of computation that uses interacting memory cells (memprocessors for short) to store
#IBM Improves Solar Forecasts with Machine learning Today IBM Research announced that solar and wind forecasts produced using machine learning
and other cognitive computing technologies are proving to be as much as 30 percent more accurate than ones created using conventional approaches.
Part of a research program funded the by the U s. Department of energy Sunshot Initiative, the breakthrough results suggest new ways to optimize solar resources as they are integrated increasingly into the nation energy systems.
IBM system combines predictions from a number of weather models with geographic information and other data to produce the most accurate forecasts from minutes to weeks ahead,
explained Dr. Siyuan Lu, Physical Analytics Researcher at IBM. IBM also announced that for a limited time it will provide foundational solar forecasts at five-kilometer spatial resolution to help government agencies
and other organizations in the lower 48 states best evaluate their impact on supply and demand as well as operations.
Entering the third year, IBM researchers worked with academic, government and industry collaborators to develop a Self learning weather Model and renewable forecasting Technology, known as SMT.
The SMT system uses machine learning, Big data and analytics to continuously analyze, learn from and improve solar forecasts derived from a large number of weather models.
IBM approach provides a general platform for renewable energy forecasting, including wind and hydro. It advances the state-of-the-art by using deep machine learning techniques to blend domain data,
information from sensor networks and local weather stations, cloud motion physics derived from sky cameras and satellite observations,
The team of scientists from IBM and NREL are presenting a paper on their preliminary findings this week at the European Control Conference (ECC 2015) in Linz
Aerial Burton Japanese company engaged in the development and manufacture of displays and has introduced new technology for tactile 3d-image.
Possibility to work with such displays provide lasers, that transmit airborne gases enough energy to heat the electrons
Citing a soon to be released report from computer security company Kaspersky Lab the newspaper said the attack involved malicious software that gave hackers long-term access to banking systems.
check your email, count your sperm: Taiwanese start-up Aidmics is hoping to cash in on the $40 billion global human fertility market with an ipad compatible gadget it calls isperm.
Aidmics initially developed the product to help livestock farmers, but founder Agean Lin now plans to seek U s. Food
The light beams the moving image to the ipad camera, and algorithms then analyze the sample for total sperm count and motility,
or how fast sperm can swim. Sam Wang, manager of a livestock farm in central Taiwan, is a convert. ur pregnancy success rate increased by 20 percent after we started using this gadget
said Wang, who uses the device to measure the fertility of his boars. n the past,
As a first step, auto parts makers will standardise software for self-control navigation and for sensors that detect obstacles
with global behemoths including Daimler and Google in play. Japan is concerned that if U s. and European rivals lead in developing the industry standards,
#Google releases work tools designed for Android phones Google is releasing a set of tools designed for businesses
and employees who want to get work done on Android-powered smartphones setting up a skirmish on another key front of mobile computing.
The technology unveiled Wednesday launches Google's attempt to turn Android phones into the digital hub of people's personal and professional lives.
The expansion will pit Google Inc. against Microsoft corp. and Blackberry Inc . which have been focusing on the corporate market for years.
Google will also be dueling its biggest rival in mobile computing Apple which forged a partnership with IBM last year to build more iphone
and ipad applications tailored for businesses and government agencies. Google and Apple have become so dominant that 96 percent of the smartphones sold last year run on the companies'software according to the research firm IDC.
But most people use those phones to take pictures message their friends check Facebook and Twitter and engage in other personal endeavors.
In many cases people also may check their work email on their phones. But Google and Apple are trying to make it more enticing and convenient for people to transplant their more of their professional lives on to their phones.
As part of that process the companies are rolling out more business-oriented applications and tougher security to make employers feel more comfortable about their workers using their phones for their jobs."
"Our vision is that every employee out there should have enabled a work device in their hands"said Rajen Sheth director of product management for Android's push into the office.
Far more people already own Android phones than iphones a lead that Google hopes works to its advantage in the corporate mobility market.
IDC estimates more than 1 billion Android phones were sold last year compared to 193 million iphones.
The huge disparity has largely been driven by Google's decision to give away its Android phones helping to make the devices running on the software more affordable than iphones.
By design Apple has focused on more affluent consumers. The corporate and government market is appealing because employers are willing to spend more people on applications and security than most consumers.
Google announced its Android for Work program at a conference eight months ago but needed more time to test the technology before its release.
The tools include the ability to create separate personal and professional profiles on the same phone in an effort to reassure workers worried about their bosses snooping on their private lives.
Even though the data is kept in separate silos Google has created a way for work programs and personal apps such as Facebook to appear on the same home screen for convenience.
Android for Work will be automatically available on phones running on the most recent release of the operating system'Lollipop
'or version 5. 0. An Android for Work app can be downloaded to make the package work on phones running older versions of the software.
Google's Play store is also opening a section devoted to work applications s
#Toyota Nissan Honda to jointly support hydrogen station infrastructure development Toyota motor Corp Nissan motor co and Honda motor Co have agreed to work together to help accelerate the development of hydrogen station infrastructure for fuel cell vehicles (FCVS.
Specific measures to be undertaken by the three manufacturers will be determined at a later date. For hydrogen-fueled FCVS to gain popularity it is not only important that attractive products be launched-hydrogen station infrastructure must also be developed.
At present infrastructure companies are making every effort to build such an infrastructure but they face difficulties in installing
and operating hydrogen stations while FCVS are not common on the road. Following the formulation of its Strategic Road Map for Hydrogen
and Fuel cells in June 2014 the Japanese government has highlighted the importance of developing hydrogen station infrastructure as quickly as possible
(2) cloud server using Sony analysis algorithm,(3) Skin Analyzer application software, which runs on a dedicated tablet computer and (4) Skin Viewer smartphone application.
The first, second and third elements are used for customer services at beauty-treatment clinics, cosmetics makers and beauty product stores.
Skin View Camera is a measurement device equipped with a CMOS image sensor, optical lens, LED device and Wifi module. oing forward,
Measurement data is sent to a cloud server via Wifi. One of the distinguishing features of the new system is that its measurement results are analyzed by a cloud server using SKEP,
an algorithm that Sony developed in 2012. The state of skin is analyzed by applying LED LIGHTS with different wavelengths (such as visible light
which is reflected on skin surface, and near-infrared light, which comes back after passing through the inside of the skin) to skin
blotch and pore. e make use of technologies developed for improving the image qualities of TVS and cameras (for the image analysis),
and redness contained in the skin. easurement items can be added (because of the use of the cloud server),
Skin Analyzer shows analysis results on a tablet computer by using five-grade evaluation and indexes such as skin age so that they can be understood easily.
For example, it displays such words as exture: 4. 8, Blotch: 2. 4, Pore: 4. 2, kin age-10 years oldand ily dry.
With Skin Viewer, customers can check data stored on the cloud server with their smartphones and use the data as, for example,
#Tech identifies users vulnerable to cyberattack based on ways they use their computers Fujitsu Ltd and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd have announced the development of the industry first technology for identifying users vulnerable to cyberattacks based on the ways they use their computers,
such as their e-mail and web activities. This will make it possible to implement security measures tailored to individuals and organizations.
While there are numerous security measures already in existence, the weakness that most cyberattacks and data breaches take advantage of is human error,
when a user carelessly clicks on a malicious link in a faked e-mail message. Because this depends on individual traits
such as, for example, by displaying individualized warning messages to users who often click on URLS in suspicious e-mail messages without checking them carefully,
or escalating the threat level of suspicious e-mails sent between departments with virus-prone users e
#Technology IBM unveils'breakthrough'computer chip NEW YORK IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip
which the company says could boost computing power of verything from smartphones to spacecraft. he company unveiled the industry first seven-nanometer chip that could hold more than 20 billion tiny switches or transistors for improved computing power.
The new chips could help meet demands of future cloud computing and Big data systems, cognitive computing, mobile products and other emerging technologies, according to IBM,
#Technology Google adding'buy'buttons to mobile search ads SAN FRANCISCO Google is looking to make it easier for people to shop
while using its website, launching a trial run of a feature allowing smartphone users to make online purchases from their search results.
The introduction of urchases on Googlecomes as Facebook, and Pinterest also try to make it easier for people to shop
while using their sites, putting themselves in position to profit from transactions or related advertising. lthough wee still in early experiments with a limited number of retailers,
we see urchases on Googleas a big step towards helping retailers drive more mobile conversions and win more customers,
Google shopping product management vice president Jonathan Alferness said in a blog post. Mobile devices, typically smartphones, are consulted increasingly before
or during shopping trips in the United states, influencing nearly a trillion dollars in in store sales last year, according to Alferness.
When people make shopping-related searches using Google, results may include ads featuring uy on Googlebuttons that can be clicked to jump to pages where they can checkout using payment credentials stored in Google accounts. urchases on Google will simplify our customersability to search for items on Google and then buy with Staples,
Staples executive vice president of global e-commerce Faisal Masud said in the blog post. Google also rolled out enhancements to shopping ads on mobile devices,
including expanded information regarding topics such as product ratings and whether items are available at nearby stores. s the consumer continues to rapidly adopt mobile as their primary device,
we have to more at a similar pace in how we reduce purchase friction and enhance the user experience with our brand,
Under Armour chief revenue officer of digital Jason Larose said in the blog post. oogle technology solutions help us innovate. interest last month dove into e-commerce with insthat let iphone
or ipad users in the United states buy items they like at the popular online bulletin board interest is designed already to work like a catalogue,
so we wanted to find a way to weave buyable pins into the pages people already know,
cofounder and chief executive Ben Silbermann said during a launch event at the company headquarters in San francisco. uyable pins are a simple and secure way to buy the products you love right from inside Pinterest,
Pinterest has become one of the Internet hottest new websites, particularly among women, by giving people virtual bulletin boards that they can decorate with pictures showcasing interests in anything from food to sports,
Last month, Facebook expanded tests of a uy buttondesigned to let shoppers easily purchases items advertised at the social network. 2015 AF s
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