Israeli hacking school that trains corporate cyber warriors Trainees work in front of their computers at the##Cyber Gym##center.
Mister launches simulated attacks against the computer systems of the trainees, who sit in an adjacent building.##
##he said while seated in the##attack room##a computer nerd s paradise, decorated with Star wars and Pac-Man murals and lines of code running off wall-mounted screens that show the hacking taking place live.
But the work is serious Cyber Gym s launch was attended by members of Israel s intelligence community
Now, computer software is using frame-by-frame video analysis to read subtle muscular changes that flash across our faces in milliseconds, signaling emotions like happiness, sadness and disgust.##
##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student
Or computer-based games with built-in cameras could register how people are reacting to each move in the game
Now computers can be programmed to make those distinctions, too. Companies in this field include#Affectiva, based in Waltham, Mass.,
and#Emotient, based in San diego. Affectiva used webcams over two and a half years to accumulate
These recordings served as a database to create the company s face-reading software, which it will offer to mobile software developers starting in Mid-january.
The company strongly believes that people should give their consent to be filmed, and it will approve
#such as software that analyzes people s voices, said#Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster. If computers reach the point where they can combine facial coding,
voice sensing, gesture tracking and gaze tracking, he said, a less stilted way of interacting with machines will ensue.
And Affectiva is aware that its face-reading software could stir privacy concerns. But Dr. Kaliouby said that none of the coming apps using its software could record video of people s faces.##
##The software uses its algorithms to read your expressions, ##she said, ##but it doesn t store the frames.##
##So far, the company s algorithms have been used mainly to monitor people s expressions as a way to test ads, movie trailers and television shows in advance.
Face-reading software is unlikely to infer precise emotions 100 percent of the time, said Tadas Baltrusaitis,
as long as people agreed in advance to have webcams watch and analyze the emotions reflected in their faces.##
The battery charges via mini USB and lasts for 10 minutes of continuous flight. The app itself gives you a pilot s view, complete with a range indicator, a thrust level indicator,
Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer Since the 1970##s, space-based solar power has been a futuristic fantasy
but the advent of 21st#century 3-D printing may bring it a step closer to reality.
Video)##The overall vision is to create a satellite chrysalis with compact, durable software DNA assembly instructions,
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,
Once#in space, TUI s Trusselator, the first step in the Spiderfab architecture, would use 3-D printing techniques
First, the 3-D printer would build a carbon fiber truss structure that would act as a frame for the system.
With the reductions in volume and mass promised by 3-D printing, those launch costs could be reduced significantly,
##and Lobbyists who protect#other energy sources subsidies#who would be##out of their jobs###The term 3-D printing has become a catch-all for a number of purposes
#Computer analyzes images to teach itself common sense At Carnegie mellon University computers are running a program that analyze images to learn common sense.
A computer program analyzes images 24 hours a day to try to learn common sense.##The aim is to see
if computers can learn, in the same way a human would, what links images, to help them better understand the visual world.##
Computer programs can already identify and label objects using computer vision, which models what humans can see using hardware and software,
but the researchers hope that NEIL can bring extra analysis to the data.####Images are the best way to learn visual properties,
##said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon s Robotics Institute.####They also include a lot of common sense information about the world.
we hope that computers will do so as well.####Examples of the links that NEIL has made include the facts that cars are found on roads
what to teach computers, ##he said.####But humans are good at telling computers when they are wrong.##
##Another reason for NEIL to run is to create the world s largest visual knowledge database where objects, scenes, actions,
##What we have learned in the last five to 10 years of computer vision research is that the more data you have,
the better computer vision becomes, ##Mr Gupta said. The program requires a vast amount of computer power to operate
and is being run on two clusters of computers that include 200 processing cores. The team plans to let NEIL run indefinitely.
Via BBC Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat
#Uber teams with GM and Toyota to help 100k drivers buy cars to get more Ubers on the road The expansion means hundreds of thousands more cars must come onto the Uber system.
Flying machines modeled on insects typically require a computer on board or fins of some kind to maintain their stability,
They plan on doing that with 3-D printing.####The company has inked a deal#with 3d Systems, a global 3-D printing manufacturing company,
to help produce parts of the phone. Assuming the projectstill officially in developmenttakes off, 3d Systems would be#a##multi-year###production partner, making smartphone##enclosures and modules##for the Google-owned phone company.
as if it was ink in ordinary, everyday desktop printers, and will adhere to surfaces as diverse and supple as rubber, paper, cotton T-shirts,
or printing detailed jewelry or metal ornaments. The Mini Metal Maker is built around the concept of using the minimum number of parts
so that it can be printed easily on low cost printers such as the Makerbot and Reprap.**Refine custom firmware for the printer to further optimize printing for clay.*
*Create the Mini Metal Forge software environment in order to foster a good user experience, particularly for the nontechnical craftsperson.*
*Work with industrial partners to tool up for production of the machine with injection molding.
always, server: www. vimeo. com, clip id: 78961565, show portrait: 0, show title: 1, show byline: 1, fullscreen: 1}, vvqparams, vvqattributes) a
The software teaches everything from basic logic to Java and C++ for older students. Finland is emerging as one of the hottest new startup hubs in the world,
as well as#newcomer Supercell###which has two of the most popular ios games:##Clash of Clans#and#Hay Day###Finland has attracted tech talent from all over Europe looking to set up shop in its capital city.
long before#Nokia sold its mobile division to Microsoft#in September, and is encouraging venture capitalists from around the world to invest in the local talent.##
along with Nokia and Microsoft, and is set up to spur app development for Windows phones. Startups from various countries around the globe,
as well as founders of all ages, are now working with Appcampus to secure funding and become successful in the Windows phone app store.##
##Everyone knows that gaming is actually good for neurology and the brain, ##Stubb says.####Long gone are the days where parents tell you to stop.
A small display and a fancy magnetic strip let you choose from a range of your cards and memberships before paying.
and the small display shows you what you have selected with a nickname, the last four digits of the card,
seven of the top 10 are#technology positions that necessitate specific#technical skills#for developing software, at places like Davinci Coders,
Devops engineer ios developer Data scientist UX designer Staff accountant Paralegal UI developer Administrative assistant Android developer Business intelligence developer Indicating
a trend beyond employment, four of the seven fastest-growing technology jobs##Devops engineer, ios developer, data scientist and Android developer##did not even exist on Theladders five years ago.##
and IBM Corp are facing unprecedented difficulties selling their goods and services in#China.####Cisco said on Wednesday that its revenue would drop 10 percent this quarter,
and added urgency to#Beijing s efforts to use its market power to create indigenous software and hardware capabilities,
One of those peers, IBM, reported in October a 22 percent drop in#China#revenue, leading to a decline of 4 percent in third-quarter profit for the world s biggest technology services company.
IBM Chief Financial officer Mark Loughridge attributed the company s problems to the##process surrounding#China s development of a broad-based economic reform plan##
IBM declined to comment for this story. FOREIGN COMPANIES MISTRUSTED Beijing#has mistrusted long foreign technology companies,
##The government s signal is pretty clear they want to rely less on U s. products, such as IOE (IBM,
Four domestic software and hardware makers, including#China National Software & Service Co.,announced this month they have received a##top-tier##rating from the#Ministry of Industry and Information technology.
China National Software s share price has gained nearly 250 percent since Snowden first revealed the existence of the NSA s clandestine#data mining#program in June.
Huawei, too, is making rapid progress in its server business, with shipments jumping 258 percent in the second quarter.
IBM saw its market share shrink to 13 percent from 18 percent, during the same period, according to Jefferies LLC.
Huawei now is the second-biggest server vendor in#China s double-digit growing market, behind Dell Inc,
however, was that companies like IBM don t have competitors for their high-end equipment, the expert added.##
##If they don t buy from IBM they can t buy from anyone else.####Photo credit: Reuters Via Business Insider Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat a
Thanks to the power and versatility of 3d textile#printing, the Tamicare company has created a biodegradable
He cofounded Meetup. com, tried his hand at a hardware company, and spent time at online ad agency i-traffic in the late 90s.
that itself is going to be a lot of hardware, software and thousands of tech jobs. Country vs Citizens The NSA collectes metadata on all phone calls in the country who called whom,
when and from where. It is easy to see how this data could be very useful in tracking the networks involved in illegal activity.
since the folks at Solid Concepts have fired already successfully their handgun 50 times without it failing. 3d printers capable of printing metal are#on the rise,
###Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.##
000 for anyone who could help them hire a software developer. And now the newest trend reactive programming is rocking the developer community
Spreadsheet cell formulas are hands-down the best example of reactive programming. Cells#react#to changes in the data they reference automatically.
Whether you re a software developer, a manager, or an architect, you need to get savvy about how reactive programming concepts are going to radically transform the industry.
and creates a spec for the programmer. The programmer figures out how to best create a system to produce the desired result
and then constantly updates it as things change. Whereas a declarative system (reactive) asks the business user to simply describe what they want.
Then using that description the system delivers the desired end result, of course with the help of the programmer.
reactive programming lets computers take care of dependency management rather than leaving that work to the programmers.
Just like the simplest spreadsheet, reactive programming means logic is ordered automatically based on dependencies 4. Improve code quality Traditional code is error prone.
Reactive logic is applied automatically to all changes it s the next level up in reuse beyond object-oriented programming. 5. The big kids are into it Microsoft#led the effort#by releasing Rx extensions to its.
It s not just for the front end While Microsoft laid the foundation with the release of reactive extensions to.
One of the most anticipated digital products, after smartphones and tablets is wearable devices, even though manufacturers still have a long way to go to commercialize them.#
but lacks a common platform, like Androidand ios for smartphones, which enables all related wearable devices to operate and store data on it.
always, server: www. vimeo. com, clip id: 76662317, show portrait: 0, show title: 1, show byline: 1, fullscreen: 1}, vvqparams, vvqattributes
Via Motherboard Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat o
#Since monitoring emails and phone calls wasn t enough, NSA now plans to watch you with super tiny drones Black Hornet Flying insects have one huge advantage over humans:
Images and camera feed are sent to a seven-inch wide mobile device supplied in the PD 100 kit,
substituting a super capacitor made from advanced carbon fiber-based nanomaterials that can be integrated into the body panels of the vehicle.
and roof panels are made of nanomaterial (see image below) that replaces the electric batteries used by conventional EVS.
The vehicle plugs in to initially charge and then recharges the supercapacitor panels during braking.
Additional panels can power the drive train. Volvo has yet to get beyond building a few of the panels
but it is encouraged by early tests which show that the material stores energy much faster than conventional batteries.
Integrating power storage into body panels is not a new idea. The#Lola B12 69/E, an electric racing car that recently set a land speed record for EVS of 328 kilometers (204 miles per hour,
In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. 3d models are designed on a computer
and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3d printers. The design is manufactured into a physical object automatically, with instruction from 3d computer model to physical object without human interface.
Automated construction basically scales up this process. The size of the 3d printer is large enough to construct walls by depositing concrete based material layer upon layer to build a Wall in this video,
More than one hundred companies including startups such as Witricity and Proxybypower and giants such as Toyota (TM), Intel (INTC), Samsung,
In recent weeks, Intel and Hon hai/Foxconn, seeing wireless charging as a possible killer app for electronic devices such as laptops
And the embassy is following up with a business plan competition for local students, with an#ipad#Mini as the prize.
Included in the package were hundreds of pages of detailed development instructions, two years of emails with Lockheed and some hardware##but no rock.##
A small Photo Voltaic solar panel provides power for the micro controller, sensors, various valves, etc.
nozzles, and computer-controlled irrigation covering thousands of acres that conserve millions of gallons of water each day. s a brewer, we know that the area we can have the biggest impact in reducing water usage is within the agricultural supply chain,
Mobile devices have become radically smaller and more powerful in the past 10 year. The list of#tech-related tasks that the mobile devices we all carry around has grown longer by the#year.
The next step in technology s great disappearing act? Absorption into our clothes, body, and environment.####The question of how best to power that next step,
and connects them to laptops or smartphones over#Wifi networks. Previous research had shown it possible to run low-power devices off radio, TV,
The team made a tag that listens for Wifi signals being sent from a local router to a laptop or smartphone and vice versa.
Using this method, more powerful central devices#like smartphones, tablets, or laptops can communicate with a range of low-power devices and sensors within about two meters and at a rate of one kilobit per second.
A pair of smart socks could for example, relay data about your jog to a jogging app on your phone.
#a senior researcher in mobile computing at Microsoft Research,#told the#MIT Technology Review. Via Singularity Hub Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati swfobject. embedswf (http://www. youtube. com/v/snzwgazqo2c&
author Micheal Gurnow wrote about a momentary exodus from public browsing software, especially when it came to the threat of government intrusion.
Google was replaced by search engines which allow users to surf the Internet anonymously. Likewise Google chrome and Microsoft Internet explorer were traded for proxy browsers Some found smartphone camera apps
which do not log a picture s GPS. Many reluctantly gave up Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram and Pinterest.
The truly worried encrypted their home computers. Understanding what it means tobe private So now that we re ready to pay for privacy,
what isn t in the hands of search engine giants such as Google. Per their report they feel,
that it is wrong in principle to leave search engines themselves the task of deciding whether to delete information or not,
using their iphone or Android handset as a room key. The feature won t start arriving until 2015,
#Vision-correcting electronic display could free users from eyeglasses The idea is to anticipate how your eyes will naturally distort whatever's on screen.
or laptop screen clearly could ditch the eyeglasses. The technology uses algorithms to alter an image based on a person's glasses prescription together with a light filter set in front of the display.
The algorithm alters the light from each individual pixel so that, when fed through a tiny hole in the plastic filter,
The technology is being developed in collaboration with researchers at MIT and Microsoft. In addition to making it easier for people with simple vision problems to use all kinds of displays without glasses
the technique may help those with more serious vision problems caused by physical defects that can't be corrected with glasses or contacts,
whose display they had affixed an acrylic slab topped with a plastic screen pierced with thousands of tiny, evenly spaced holes.
Gordon Wetzstein, who coauthored the paper while a research scientist at MIT s Media Lab, says the screen allows a regular two-dimensional display to work as
what's known as alight field display. This means the screen controls the way individual light rays emanate from the display, leading to a sharper image without degrading contrast.
The researchers tested out their device by using a Canon DSLR camera with the focus set to simulate vision problems like farsightedness.
Wetzstein says the next step is to build prototype displays that people can use in the real world something he expects could take a few years.
or that software tracks head movement and adjusts the image accordingly. Barsky expects this won t be much of a problem,
when we look at a display that doesn t look right, we tend to naturally move around to improve the focus.
says that if researchers used a display with a high enough resolution about double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paper the technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once.
or one like Chinese search engine Baidu s semi-autonomous car?##Instead of cars that have#no steering wheels, gas pedals,
the search engine giant in the land of self-reliant independence is building a car that takes over completely.
it s hard to see how the next generation of Apple-,Android, -and Windows-enhanced cars will not start tapping into the next generation of Siri s, Google Now s and Cortana s intelligence.
we expect a similar ecosystem of software vendors to develop. Despite the limited public pure-play Iot options, firms are exhibiting their bullishness towards publicly available layers.
invest in the publicly available hardware layers, wait for public investable options, or venture into the private markets.
Former IBM engineer and noted futurist#Thomas Frey#addressed a gathering of business leaders, entrepreneurs and community members on an issue he says is increasingly impacting the labor force:
Touchscreen interfaces are common. Dashboard designers take UI tips from iphones, and#automakers want to build apps for cars.
Video)# The Makerbot printers, which range from a compact $1, 375 model to a high-end $2,
It s really about bringing about new innovation to customers. 3-D printers can whip up everything from#vagina selfies#to#handguns,
said Pettis of the current fleet of Makerbot printers, You can t use it as a hammer.
Downey said customers typically use the printers for personalization projects, like a Chicago father who Downey said purchased a Makerbot to print custom furniture for his daughter s dollhouse.
The current generation of 3-D printers are still relatively slow#printing an item the size of a Lego brick can take roughly half an hour
Ten years from now, it will be quite common for people to have 3-D printers in their homes
In addition to Home depot, companies like#Amazon, Staples and Dell have joined the ranks of 3-D printer retailers.
but it has been held back by the difficulties in printing materials that are strong, flexible and can encourage the regrowth of healthy bone in the same way as current methods,
Now, researchers in the U s. have developed a new way of printing in calcium phosphate that can be done at relatively low temperatures which results in a scaffold that is mechanically strong
Inkjet printing of collagen solutions with high resolution has not been utilized previously in 3d printing of calcium phosphates
Ellie is an early iteration computer simulated psychologist, a bit of complicated software designed to identify signals of depression
and other mental health problems through an assortment of real-time sensors (she was developed to help treat PTSD in soldiers
a Microsoft Kinect movement sensor to track gestures and jerks, and a microphone to capture inflection and tone.
"And we know that the body displays things that sometimes people try to keep contained.
"The mere belief that participants were interacting with only a computer made them more open and honest, researchers found,
rechargeable batteries that can be printed cheaply on commonly used industrial screen printers. The California startup has been testing its ultrathin zinc-polymer batteries in wrist-worn devices
where she collaborated with a researcher in Japan to produce microscopic zinc batteries using a 3-D printer.
The batteries that power most laptops and smartphones contain lithium which is highly reactive and has to be protected in ways that add size and bulk.
and one is displays, says Steven Holmes, vice president of the New Devices Group and general manager of the Smart Device Innovation team at Intel.
Despite demand for flexible batteries, Ho says no standard has been developed for measuring their flexibility, frustrating customers who want to compare chemistries.
but these printers costs range from $75, 000 up to over $1 million. Most individuals, and even a lot of businesses end up having to sit on the sidelines only dreaming that one day these prices will fall.
I saw some 3d printed objects that were unlike those on display by other companies. When I picked them up,
I found that this 3d printer did not fit into the same category as those other machines on the display floor.
That printer was the#Mcor IRIS, created by a company called Mcor Technologies. Mcor is a relative newcomer on the 3d printing scene.
a water-based adhesive, inkjet printer ink, and your standard A4 business paper. That s right, no expensive polymers, resins,
and the full-color IRIS printer which was released in 2012. Both printers utilize a technology called Selective Deposition Lamination (SDL.
In SDL, standard sheets of paper, like you currently use with your desktop printer, are fed into the machine.
The initial sheet is bonded to the build plate, then the printer deposits an adhesive and follows by stacking another sheet of paper on top.
This occurs until the printer is ready to begin the actual cutting and printing of the object.
It begins to stack the paper using a process that selectively deposits a water-based adhesive to each individual sheet of paper,
based on instructions received by computer CAD and slicing software. This occurs until a completed object has been printed.
there is an additional step involved where each piece of paper is colored using a modified 2-dimensional inkjet printer,
This allows for the printing of objects that can look extremely realistic. As you can imagine,
and then 3d print their faces in full color with the Mcor IRIS. The resulting facial 3d prints were on display in a gallery in Europe.
a price that is pennies in comparison to some of the other industrial level printers on the market today.
due to the fact that many of them are only obtainable through the manufacturer themselves, Mcor printers use simple A4 business paper.
once the printing of an object is complete. If you don t like how an object turns out,
allowing their printers to print objects that look extremely realistic. This means that photographers, engineers and designers can all take photographs
and create CAD files, and then print 3d objects with enhanced color precision. Typically when 3d printers are fed color data,
Likewise, a company s logo will be the same colour on the computer screen as on a model 3d printed by the Mcor IRIS because of our ICC profile.
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011