and software to help them fly, detect obstacles and make sense of terabytes of data they collect.
Farmers are increasingly using drones to monitor crop health and gauge growth patterns. This is a job well-suited to drones,
Companies like Precision Hawk are developing software and hardware that automatically measures the height of crops
and detect weeds, and they can even count plants. These kinds of drones are using fixed wings,
and be driven by a computer, guiding your destination while avoiding all other air traffic. Youl leave roads, traffic lights, traffic jams and accidents behind.
and what kind of software and hardware will have to be developed to manage that growth. There are very few companies out there today creating software to make drones safer.
What about systems to manage where drones can and cannot legally go? How will we know who owns a drone when the next one crashes into a famous person lawn?
and software is going to have to be built to make all of these dreams a reality. There are so many great applications for drones,
today the company is launching new ios and Android apps called acebook At Workalong with a version of Facebook At work accessible via its main website
Facebook At work is now available for download on ios and wel update with a links to the Andriod version once it live though both are usable via a limited pilot to start with.
The product puts Facebook head-to-head with the likes of Microsoft Yammer Slack Convo Socialcast and a huge number of others who are trying to tackle the nterprise social networkspace.
because employees don want to use the software. It yet another new thing to learn and doesn feel essential.
A lot of messaging apps (Microsoft Yammer being one of the notably early movers) have tried to tap into onsumerizationor getting enterprise apps to look
The next version of Applink its system for connecting smartphone apps to its SYNC infotainment system will allow third-party navigation apps to project their maps from the phone onto the built-in screens in its cars.
The company is already working with Alibaba to bring its navigation and music services to its in-vehicle screens.
There no reason to believe the company will stop Google Microsoft Telenav or Here from offering its mapping services on its platform though.
The members in the Genivi alliance besides Ford include the likes of BMW Honda Nissan renault Volvo and John Deere as well as chip manufacturers like Intel Qualcomm and Nvidia and plenty of aftermarket manufacturers.
Earlier this month the Genivi Alliance also announced that it would offer open source middleware to support Android Auto integration into car infotainment products r
But now there the Sony Xperia M4 Aqua, an Android smartphone that waterproof without those annoying caps.
the USB port needs to be dry. The M4 Aqua will have a starting price of 299 EUR
Swipentap. com a POS ipad app. Integreight which develops novel products for the electronic hobbyist and education market.
Zex a mobile ad platform that serves offers to users smartphone via their lock-screens Eventus for creating and analysis social events.
And it can power all your mobile devices for weeks. kraftwerk which translates to ower stationin German is the product of ezelleron an engineering team that spun out of German research firm Fraunhofer Gesellschaft.
Touted as emergency preparedness for the outdoorsy type with an ipad it was a bit clunky looking.
It will charge anything that can be plugged into a USB cable such as your iphone tablet or even a Gopro.
#Hardware Battlefield 2015 The majority of home climate control systems in the world just won work with Nest,
With the company first product launching today at Techcrunch Hardware Battlefield 2015 drones become aware of their surroundings
While demoing in Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015 the drone swiftly moved out of the way of a person walking towards the blades.
#Square Cash Integrates Touch ID To Send Money Using Your Fingerprint Square Cash Square Venmo competitor that lets you use the app to transfer money to other people has added a new feature to its ios app that some might say is long overdue:
#Automatic Launches Its SDK, Turning The Car Into An App Platform Automatic, a startup whose sensor-and-software combo has been described as itbit for your car,
is today rolling out a software development kit and new hardware that turn your car into a platform for apps.
which has been updated to accommodate streaming real-time data from a car computer and sensors to apps running on your phone.
The apps draw relevant data from a car computer via the OBD port letting you do things like feed the exact mileage from a particular drive into Concur to expense a work trip
which points to corresponding apps on ios and Android respective app stores. The app is designed to help drivers determine their actual income taking fuel costs
so we should have a video review of the new hardware and apps shortly o
Interestingly, the system also allows you to give eye tests by showing increasingly smaller letters and figures on the screen.
This means youl soon be able to get your hands on a range of products for the connected home that work with Siri on your ios device,
with a practical lineup to get your home connected to your ios ecosystem in an essential way.
The Elgato Eve is a set of connected wireless sensors that monitor key factors like indoor air quality, temperature, humidity as well as conditions outside, like temperature, humidity and air pressure.
ios device users with 8. 1 or above can check on all the stats gathered by the Eve from their devices,
when theye away from home using Apple TV (generation 3 or later with OS version 7. 0 or later),
Connected thermostat maker ecobee is adding Homekit to its ecobee3 hardware, which is designed for houses that have multiple rooms in need of climate control.
Remote sensors help it monitor temperature in multiple rooms at the same time, letting you save energy and maximize comfort in every area.
the company is also now offering up a brand new version of its Insteon+app for ios 8. 1 or later,
and are running ios 8. 1 or later. Set up and discovery is handled automatically just by tapping,
It can either be plugged into the Square Stand USB hub, or merchants can charge the reader battery
or plug it into the Square Stand USB hub. The partnership announcement came during Apple WWDC conference keynote,
Add in a text-to-pay service like Rhombus and youe got Williamsburg catnip. This new app allows people to pay you via a special contact number.
and customers. he system works with any phone and requires no hardware. The system can also text you a list of Rhombus-enabled businesses. ustomers don have to signup to chat with businesses, it like texting anyone on your contact list.
#Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team up To Launch Webassembly, A New Binary Format For The Web Google, Microsoft,
Some of these projects focus on adding new features to the language (like Microsoft Typescript) or speeding up Javascript (like Mozilla asm. js project.
The new format is meant to allow programmers to compile their code for the browser (currently the focus is on C/C++,
Javascript files are simple text files that are downloaded from the server and then parsed and compiled by the Javascript engine in the browser.
It a piece of hardware that attaches to an iphone to provide mobile vision exams.
the technology is impressive in that it opens up yet more avenues for mobile devices. Everyone talks about the phenomenal computing power available in mobile devices,
but Smart Vision tech is one of the few that harnesses mobile computing in a novel way that make the device a new technology platform for healthcare.
the readings it takes are more scientifically rigorous than those achieved by the current crop of Android Wear-powered devices,
and the dedicated medical wearable unveiled today also monitors and reports information continuously, for better delivery of real-time actionable info to researchers and medical professionals.
This isn Google first move in building medical hardware; Google X is also creating contact lenses that can monitor blood glucose level to help in managing conditions like diabetes.
The competition is also eager to contribute to the medical research community pple has introduced Researchkit,
which allows studies to use iphones and ipads to gather participant data from a wider potential user pool, for instance o
Compelation ios app beta is normally invite-only, but it opening signups for the next 24 hours to let Techcrunch readers give it a try.
All you need is a computer, smartphone, Wi-fi and 25 minutes to take its test about
Opternative Test Software Eats The Eye Exam After graduating optometry school, Dr. Steven Lee was sure that computers
and mobile phones had to offer an alternative to traditional autorefractor machines used for vision tests.
You calibrate your screen by measuring a credit card and sync your phone as a remote control for your computer over Wi-fi and an SMS confirmation.
The test takes about 25 minutes. You follow the dictated and written instructions to cover one eye at a time,
look at your computer screen, and answer corresponding visual acuity questions on your phone. How many lines are in a symbol?
and be told to walk a certain number of heel-to-toe steps away from your computer before answering.
Screen Shot 2015-07-27 at 2. 13.15 PM Vision For The Future Until now the only ways to get eye exams were the doctor office,
It also building out a touch screen kiosk that could fit inside physical eyewear stores. Seeing clearly can help people learn,
however though that will change later this year as Subway begins to advertise its mobile ordering and payments app for ios and Android.
it moving to integrate Paypal Onetouch mobile checkout into the Subway application as another checkout option, alongside the app support for Apple Pay and Android Pay.
including Apple Pay and Android Pay, that the businesses themselves will want to support. t the end of the day,
#Google s Brain-Inspired Software Describes What It Sees in Complex Images Experimental Google software that can describe a complex scene could lead to better image search
Researchers at Google have created software that can use complete sentences to accurately describe scenes shown in photos significant advance in the field of computer vision.
the software responded with the description group of young people playing a game of frisbee.
The software can even count, giving answers such as wo pizzas sitting on top of a stove top oven.
most efforts to create software that understands images have focused on the easier task of identifying single objects. t very exciting,
The new software is the latest product of Google research into using large collections of simulated neurons to process data (see 0 Breakthrough Technologies 2013:
No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes. Instead, its networks earnedby consuming data.
Google researchers created the software through a kind of digital brain surgery, plugging together two neural networks developed separately for different tasks.
The other had been trained to generate full English sentences as part of automated translation software. When the networks are combined,
After that training process, the software was set loose on several large data sets of images from Flickr
The accuracy of its descriptions was judged then with an automated test used to benchmark computer-vision software.
Google software posted scores in the 60s on a 100-point scale. Humans doing the test typically score in 70s,
That result suggests Google is far ahead of other researchers working to create scene-describing software.
and test this kind of software. When Google asked humans to rate its software descriptions of images on a scale of 1 to 4
it averaged only 2. 5, suggesting that it still has a long way to go.
though large databases of hand-labeled images have been created to train software to recognize individual objects,
Microsoft this year launched a database called COCO to try to fix that. Google used COCO in its new research,
and are moving towards using the smartphone/tablet hardware and software to perform more advanced functions.
An emerging example of this is Setpoint Medical s implantable neurostimulation device (currently in development) configured via an ipad app.
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
Addressing Two Critical Questionssagentia believes there are two critical questions for medical device companies entering this space:
It s not just a software tool he says. MMAS should be treated like any other medical device.
and are moving towards using the smartphone/tablet hardware and software to perform more advanced functions.
An emerging example of this is Setpoint Medical s implantable neurostimulation device (currently in development) configured via an ipad app.
This device is aimed at treating patients with debilitating inflammatory diseases. It consists of an implantable microregulator a wireless charger and the ipad prescription-pad application.
Addressing Two Critical Questionssagentia believes there are two critical questions for medical device companies entering this space:
It s not just a software tool he says. MMAS should be treated like any other medical device.
Paying search engines for stimulating clicks that led to purchases was fine but most consumers take a more circuitous route to their final decisions.
will use AOPTIX technology in New jersey to shave nanoseconds off the time it takes data to travel between the computers of Nasdaq Stock market and the New york stock exchange e
Yardarm plans to start selling the hardware and tracking service in mid-2015. The next goal is to capture the direction in
and imaging technologies assembled into a single workstation. It combines a touch screen camera, infrared depth sensors, projector, touch-sensitive whiteboard,
and a conventional printer and scanner. Youe encouraged to hook it up to a 3-D printer,
like the one HP launched alongside the Sprout. All that is supposed to make Sprout into a powerful new tool for designers and other creatives.
You might use the device to scan, say, a Buddha statuette in 3-D, and then use a stylus to modify the digital scan once it is projected onto the workstation touch-sensitive surface.
After you made your change, you could print the new design out in 3-D. Sprout shows signs of HP history of making PCS and printers,
with matte grey casing and the bulbous contours of a Ford taurus. But it is clearly the product of some very clever engineering and an ambitious product strategy.
While computer processers and memory have advanced over the decades, we have continued to interface with them via monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
More recently, tools for making things in the physical world have changed a lot too, with the advent of maker spaces and affordable, computer-controlled lathes, mills,
and 3-D printers. But in neither of these cases do you have the opportunity to take control of the world of physical outputs
and software-based design and computing together. Sprout is a clunky device to gaze upon,
but it dreaming in a big way about the very nature of work. You can do things with Sprout that had previously only had been possible by piecing together at least a half dozen different devices.
The power unit is a rectangular slab about the size of a movie theater screen. It mounted on a thick steel post,
At the same time computer scientists would dearly love to reproduce the same kind of memory in silico. Today Google s secretive Deepmind startup which it bought for $400 million earlier this year unveils a prototype computer that attempts to mimic some of the properties of the human brain s short-term working memory.
The new computer is a type of neural network that has been adapted to work with an external memory.
The result is a computer that learns as it stores memories and can later retrieve them to perform logical tasks beyond those it has been trained to do.
Deepmind s breakthrough follows a long history of work on short-term memory. In the 1950s the American cognitive psychologist George Miller carried out one of the more famous experiments in the history of brain science.
During the 1990s and 2000s computer scientists repeatedly attempted to design algorithms circuits and neural networks that could perform this trick.
Such a computer should be able to parse a simple sentence like Mary spoke to John by dividing it into its component parts of actor action and the receiver of the action.
In Turing s famous description of a computer the memory is the tickertape that passes back and forth through the computer and which stores symbols of various kinds for later processing.
This is similar to the way an ordinary computer might put the number 3 and the number 4 inside registers and later add them to make 7. The difference is that the neural network might store more complex patterns of variables representing for example the word Mary
He believed that until a computer could reproduce this ability it could never match the performance of the human brain.
Poynt s terminal is dominated by two touch screens that meet at an angle a seven-inch display that a store employee will use to ring up sales
and there s a built-in receipt printer that will spit out paper from an opening below the customer touch screen.
me how it works during an interview conducted via Skype video. The Poynt terminal he used said Welcome to Main St. Bakery on the customer screen
Merchants could use the screen for ads or store specials when not taking payments Bedier says.
and Kabbage and releasing a software development kit in hopes of attracting other developers too o
Right now Roost has a working prototype in a plastic box about the size of an external hard drive;
#How Magic Leap s Augmented reality Works A Florida startup called Magic Leap announced Tuesday that it had received $542 million in funding from major Silicon valley investors led by Google to develop hardware
for a new kind of augmented reality hardware. The secretive startup has yet to publicly describe or demonstrate its technology,
The filings describe sophisticated display technology that can trick the human visual system better than existing virtual reality displays (such as the Oculus Rift) into perceiving virtual objects as real.
The display technology used in most devices can show only flat, 2-D images. Headsets like the Oculus Rift trick your brain into perceiving depth by showing different images to each eye,
but your eyes are focused always on the flat screen right in front of them. When you look at a real 3-D scene,
They describe displays that can create the same kind of 3-D patterns of light rays, known as ight fields,
Earlier this year, Wetzstein and colleagues used that technique to create a display that allows text to be read clearly by people not wearing their usual corrective lenses (see rototype Display Lets You Say Goodbye to Reading Glasses.
He previously worked on glasses-free 3-D displays based on similar methods. And last year, researchers at chip company Nvidia demonstrated a basic wearable display based on light fields.
A trademark filing from July describes Magic Leap technology as earable computer hardware, namely, an optical display system incorporating a dynamic light-field display.
One of Magic Leap patents describes how such a device, dubbed a WRAP, for aveguide reflector array projector, would operate.
The display would be made up of an array of many small curved mirrors; light would be delivered to that array via optical fiber,
Multiple layers of such tiny mirrors would allow the display to produce the illusion of virtual objects at different distances.
That would allow the mirrors to be reprogrammed using a magnetic field to rapidly display points at different depths fast enough to fool the eye
Magic Leap greatest challenge may be to find a way to seamlessly integrate virtual 3-D objects created by that display with
and eye-tracking cameras on a wearable display to figure out at what depth a person eyes are focused.
Depth-sensing cameras are now relatively cheap and compact (see ntel Says Tablets and Laptops with 3-D Vision Are Coming Soon.
But Wetzstein says Magic Leap will need likely to make major breakthroughs in computer vision software for a wearable device to make sense of the world enough for very rich augmented reality. hey will require very powerful 3-D image recognition,
running on your head-mounted display, he says. The company is recruiting experts in chip design and fabrication
apparently with a view to creating custom chips to process image data. Dedicated chips could make that work more energy-efficient, something important for a wearable device.
Magic Leap already employs Gary Bradski, a pioneer of computer vision research and software, notes Wetzstein.
and video game development. Altogether, many of the underlying techniques Magic Leap needs to realize highly realistic augmented reality have been demonstrated,
Twenty minutes away in San jose, the largest city in the Valley, a camp of homeless people known as the Jungleeputed to be the largest in the countryas taken root along a creek within walking distance of Adobe
The coauthor, with fellow MIT academic Andrew Mcafee, of The Second Machine Age, Brynjolfsson, like Piketty, has gained recently unlikely prominence for an academic economist.
and thanks to software and other digital technologies. Why hire a local tax consultant when you can use a cheap,
The ability to copy software and distribute digital products anywhere means customers will buy the top one.
Why use a search engine that is almost as good as Google? Such economic logic now rules a growing share of the marketplace;
and building a business becomes less capital-intensiveou don need a printing plant to produce an online news site,
In an article called ew World Order, published this summer in Foreign affairs, Brynjolfsson, Mcafee, and Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate and professor at New york University, argued that uperstar-based technical change is upending the global economy.
and Mcafee argument that the transformation of work is speeding up as technological change accelerates.
nor is concentrated such growth in computer-intensive sectors. According to Autor, the changes wrought by digital technologies are transforming the economy,
Herr worked with Pratt to develop a computer-controlled knee joint that uses a magnetorheological fluid a fluid
and postdocs working on projects is strewn with computer parts coffee cups wires rolls of tape random tools
This science he says is critical for designing the hardware and software control systems of bionic devices.
and Mike Cariaso, a computer programmer. It works by comparing a person DNA data with entries in SNPEDIA,
the FDA said it has authority to regulate software that interprets genomes, even if such services are given away free.
After all, they named their software after Prometheus, the titan who defied the gods by stealing fire from Mt olympus and giving it to mankind.
If you happened to pore over the details added to Apple website yesterday about its new ipads,
You will be able to use a setting in ios to quickly switch from carrier to carrier right on the ipad
I asked Apple why the company didn mention the feature during its ipad news event Thursday in Cupertino.
For now, it more of an intriguing footnote to Apple refresh of its ipad line
and the prospect of far worse floods the nation is sophisticated developing computer models of climate precipitation hydrology sea level
Its strategies guided by sophisticated computer models include building some inland water barriers as a second line of defense;
But one shopper tries it by taking out his Android phone and clicking on Google alletapp intended to allow instant payment and taps the terminal.
Behind the scenes, a payment processor such as Visa recognizes an encrypted version of your credit card such as the one in an itunes account,
because card numbers aren stored directly on the phone or on Apple servers. Instead, digital tokens, encrypted numbers that look like card numbers,
says David Brudnicki, chief technology officer for Sequent Software, which provides mobile wallet services to banks, retailers,
AT&T, and Verizon is touting its support of more than 80 Android phones and the ability to pay at retailers including Mcdonald, Subway, and Walgreens.
Payments experts think the company will allow outside software developers to create apps that can add such features to Apple Pay.
Tibbits then uses a 3-D printer to apply materials that are known to shrink or grow under certain conditions.
or twist in various ways depending on the pattern produced by the printer. He and his colleagues are developing design software that simulates the way different patterns of these materials printed onto different kinds of composite materials will behave under different conditions.
So far Tibbits has demonstrated materials that respond to light water and heat. But he says it should be possible to make ones that respond to air pressure and other stimuli.#
because manufacturers typically use equipment developed for making high-resolution displays, says Michael Boroson, the chief technology officer of OLED Works.
The factory will be able to produce a million 15-centimeter-wide panels per month. Even with such advances, it will take years to bring costs low enough to make OLED lighting widely used.
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