and many medical schools now use e-learning tools like webcasts and online study aids to broaden enrollment
when it opened two small program sites in Kenya and Haiti, it delivered classes to students in many of the world poorest places.
a web and mobile application that supports workforce skill building. The app delivers informational content to distributed teams,
In the Philippines, for example, a group of doctors founded an online community called Healthxph that uses social media to mobilize discussion about healthcare topics.
In neighboring Indonesia, more than three-quarters of doctors in major cities reported using the Internet regularly to build their knowledge and skills
Premera is stressing that the company will not email or call customers about the breach. To protect against phishing attacks,
and links or replying to emails about the breach. Based in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, Premera is one of the largest health insurance providers in the Pacific Northwest, with $7. 6 billion in revenue in 2013 and 1. 8 million members in Washington and Alaska n
#Youtube Now Lets You View And Upload 360-Degree Videos Youtube has announced that it is now supporting 360-degree video uploads.
Some of the cameras that are compatible with Youtube 360-degree video uploads include Bublcam, 360cam by Giroptic, Allie by IC Real Tech, the SP360 by Kodak and the RICOH THETA.
This means that viewers can watch videos in any direction for a different perspective instead of just where the camera is facing.
said Youtube staff in a blog post. ou could let viewers see the stage and the crowd of your concert, the sky and the ground as you wingsuit glide,
When you upload a Youtube video with a 360-degree camera, the viewer is able to tap on the video
If you are using the Youtube app on an Android device then you can pan around the video simply by moving your smartphone and tablet around.
As of right now, the 360-degree Youtube videos are supported by just the Chrome browser on the desktop and the Youtube app on Android devices.
Youtube said that 360-degree videos will be supported on other platforms in the near future like the iphone and ipad.
Youtube also has plans to make the 360-degree videos accessible through virtual reality platforms, which is the best way to view immersive content.
The experience feels very similar to Google GOOGL-0. 94%Street view . If you are near the Youtube Space L a. studio on Bluff Creek Drive in Los angeles,
the Creator Tech team is letting people try out the 360-degree cameras and put together those types of videos with help from the staff between now through April.
When you are ready to upload 360-degree videos on Youtube, you can find technical information on Github with a Python script to insert the correct video metadata.
Youtube plans to make the process of uploading 360-degree videos automatic, but that script will be required in the meantime.
Keep in mind that the quality of the 360-degree videos are not as high as we see in the standard Youtube videos.
The 360-degree videos need to be at 24 25 or 30 frames per second.
And the 360-degree videos take up about four-to-five times the bandwidth of regular Youtube videos.
Youtube set up a playlist of some 360-degree videos so that you can see multiple examples.
Here are a few examples of the new 360-degree videos on Youtube (watch these using Google chrome on your desktop
or the Youtube app for Android to see the 360-degree controls) e
#In Historic Turn, CO2 EMISSIONS Flatline in 2014, Even as Global economy Grows A key stumbling block in the effort to combat global warming has been the intimate link between greenhouse gas emissions and economic growth.
and smartphone to provide users with insight of actions happening in and around the vehicle via realtime data,
live video and image playback that can be viewed with the Lyfelens app on a user smartphone.
and pairs with the phone via Bluetooth when the user is in the vehicle, but the user will not have instant push notifications of vehicle activity,
How Social media Is Killing The Concert Experience I usually avoid Times square, but I had bought my ticket to see American Authors five months earlier
but instead she smiled at her phone, here Wi-fi here. My friend wasn alone. Before the first jubilant percussion beats could settle,
Our smartphones, and the instant communication they lend tempt us to forget the real moment in which we are involved.
nd the ubiquity of smartphones has resulted in a huge percentage of the audience at any given show barely paying attention to the action onstage.
According to T-Mobile, 47%of audience members text during shows. There are obvious downsides to introducing a smartphone into the concert mise-en-scene.
It is distracting for fellow fans and, depending on the type of concert and proximity to the stage, the artists.
it is not difficult to find concert recordings on Youtube. Most artists produce live session music videos,
There are redemptive qualities to inviting phones into concert spaces. Having a little recorded segment despite grainy quality and muffled sound is treasured a
My friend was sending emails while I played ninja to avoid flailing ipads the mini ones feel mega
and Twitter campaign#bestdayofmylife, after their biggest hit. Besides adding another incentive for all phones on deck,
they ran the tagged photos on a huge onstage screen for parts of the performance.
the lead singer triumphantly produced his iphone to capture the audience sing-along. I smiled, but felt weird.
It is not just rock concerts that add phone screens to the light show. The San francisco Symphony orchestra actually set aside weet seatsin
Frampton is no social media scrooge, he one of the few artists who personally engages with his online fan base.
Pink floyd cofounder Roger Waters told his Facebook followers that he ould never turn on a cell phone at any musical event.
Prince posts his urple Ruleswhen touring that forbid phones in the concert hall. Outcries like these do not seem to be just about profit and image
These artists are not damning social media, but reminding fans that there is a spiritual and emotional connection between music and the listener,
then smartphones detract from that, and if the purpose of social media and mobile messaging is communication,
a concert distracts from that. To everything there is a season. The nearly limitless accessibility provided by smartphones fuels the idea that sharing things is more important than doing things.
While sharing might be caring, we must remember that obsessive documenting changes the artistic structure of a concert atmosphere. he need to ocumentone life in every detail is a mania that can subtract from one enjoyment of the moment,
but not necessarily including a pod of iphones. Placing a screen between eyes and stage alters the DNA of a piece.
Twitter has a unique place in the social media sphere in that it was created purposefully for live events.
Twitter mission statement iso give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers.
According to Twitter website, more than 80%of active users tweet from their phones, making the flutter of the little blue bird at concerts less surprising.
Where is the line between engaging in Twitter purpose and engaging in the concert purpose?
Smartphones invading musical experiences are inevitable, but so are creative solutions. Some artists request that pictures
giving fans the peace of keeping phones on their person while removing the temptation to use them.
but I did not feel present until my iphone was in my pocket. I told myself be here now.
#Facebook's first satellite will beam Internet to rural Africa starting in 2016 With the exception of a select few locations,
As result, only about 20 percent of the population is able to connect to the Internet.
Facebook hopes to change those statistics with a new project in its Internet. org initiative.
As part of this program, Facebook is partnering with French satellite communications provider Eutelsat to beam an Internet connection to remote parts of Africa."
"I'm excited to announce our first project to deliver Internet from space, "wrote Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting.
Facebook is working with Eutelsat to provide Internet access to sub-Saharan portions of Africa via Eutelsat's new AMOS-6 geostationary satellite,
which will cover West, East and Southern Africa. Amazingly, the satellite will deliver affordable broadband Internet using off-the-shelf consumer equipment for connectivity
--so it'll be easy and cheap to build more of these satellites in the future. Eutelsat is setting up a new company in London to oversee its African broadband business
while Facebook will work locally in Africa to deliver Internet service to rural communities. The satellite-based service is expected to go online in mid-2016.
The African satellite project is part of Facebook's broader Internet. org initiative which debuted in 2013.
Through Internet. org, Facebook wants to connect the world by providing internet access to developing countries worldwide.
Internet. org was criticized highly for providing access only to Facebook and a handful of other web sites and services instead of the full, open internet.
Internet. org responded to critics by recently expanding its service to include any sites that meet Facebook's development criteria a
if you are talking on the phone with someone you know very well, and they are crying,
It also could be incorporated readily into most smartphones. Depth cameras work by projecting a pattern of dots
and used directed evolution techniques to identify molecules that bound near the active site of ß-Gal,
affording the parasite time to grow out of site from the immune system. Some these parasite-derived red blood cell surface proteins have an affinity for carbohydrate residues found on the surface of cells lining blood vessels.
As if smartphones can't already do enough, soon they may be able to scan three-dimensional objects
When used in conjunction with a smartphone, the system offers the potential of diagnosing diseases in remote locations from anywhere in the world.
Patients can then snap a shot of the film with their smartphone camera and send it off to a medical professional for analysis,
#"Google maps for the Body"zooms in from whole organs down to individual cells The algorithms used for zooming in
and out on Google maps and Google street view have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body starting with a whole joint and drilling all the way down to the cellular level.
Google, Brown and Stanford universities, Cleveland Clinic, and optics and medical device manufacturer Zeiss. It uses imaging technology originally developed to scan for defects in silicon wafers,
and with help from Google's Maps algorithms the researchers can zoom and pan through a whole organ or tissue joint all the way down to individual cells.
Unlike Google's Body Browser, which visualizes the layers of the body in three-dimensional rendered graphics,
this so-called"Google maps for the Body"uses real images that get seamlessly stitched together and layered on top of each other."
Through the Internet of things (Iot) and the Internet of Everything (Ioe), smart sensors have the potential to significantly help our societies resolve countless global challenges.
or 60 fps and features 3g/HD-SDI and HDMI outputs for hooking up to peripherals like recorders and monitors.
Chromebooks have the benefit of running on Google's stripped-back CHROME OS platform though, meaning they don't need much horsepower to run smoothly.
But when it reaches the clot site, the thrombin bursts open the capsule's coating
#Google just became part of a new company called Alphabet Today Google, the company, is smaller
while the Google universe seems to be expanding with the announcement by CEO Larry page of a new umbrella company called Alphabet,
which will include a stripped down Google focused on search and Internet products and other companies like Calico operating as subsidiaries of the new company.
The announcement came in a post on the Google company blog by Page that is also cross-posted on the new,
otherwise barren Alphabet home page.""Our company is operating well today, but we think we can make it cleaner and more accountable.
In essence, what yesterday was Google today is called Alphabet, but under the umbrella of the new name is owned a wholly subsidiary that will still be named Google focusing on Internet products.
Alongside the new, smaller Google within Alphabet will be a number of other companies working on disparate projects like the aforementioned longevity company, Calico,
a life sciences company working on a glucose-sensing contact lens, the lab formerly known as Google X and investment arms Google Ventures and Google Capital,
just for starters. Page will be CEO of Alphabet and Sergey Brin will be President. Sundar Pichai, who has been in charge of products at Google,
including Android, Chrome and Maps, will be the new CEO of the new, stripped-down Google. Although Page doesn't say so specifically,
it seems that some of the company's biggest properties like Android and Youtube will remain a part of the smaller Google.
Normally news of what is basically a corporate restructuring isn't so interesting except that it involves a company that is,
While Page is framing the structural change as a way for Google (erm Alphabet) to stay on its toes
According to one filing, Google and the other new subsidiaries of Alphabet will report separately to investors,
For those who follow Google's moves with interest, the creation of Alphabet could hopefully give more of the company's many diverse projects a fighting chance of reaching fruition by having the support
Google has created a number of products that are shuttered later suddenly to the dismay of their user base (Google Reader, Glass, Buzz, Notebook, Wave, Health. just for starters), usually in the name of greater corporate focus.
Google shareholders will automatically convert to Alphabet shareholders, but the stock will continue to trade under the same GOOG and GOOGL ticker symbols s
#Finnish tech could let smartphones"see"gas Smartphones are already able to monitor things such as light, sound, movement and geographical location.
That because VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has developed a miniature phone-compatible sensor, that uses light to identify the type and amount of gases in air samples.
San diego are also all working on smartphone gas sensors s
#Aluminum"yolk"nanoparticles deliver high-capacity battery recipe Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in China have found a way to more than triple the capacity of the anodes,
The lithium-ion batteries in our phones, tablets and laptops store their energy-carrying ions inside negative electrodes made of graphite.
Towards this end, researchers from the University of Bristol and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) claim to have developed a fully-reprogrammable quantum optical chip able to encode
then prove the technology for use in the realms of telecommunication through partnership with NTT
which allows public access via the Internet to a working quantum processor, with plans to add even more chips in the near future."
and engineering expertise in the telecommunications industry, "said Professor Jeremy O'brien, Director of the Centre for Quantum Photonics at Bristol University."
#World's most powerful digital camera gets the go-ahead A smartphone with a 16-megapixel camera may seem cutting edge,
the unit also has Bluetooth LE Drive Control to allow access from a smartphone for things like fitness tracking apps.
because internal hardware can pose a challenge with respect to being a potential site for infection, and can complicate MRI
#A Smartphone Case That Recharges Your Battery from Thin Air How many times a day do you scramble around looking for a power cord
and outlet to recharge your mobile phone? A new smartphone case promises to top off your battery lifeut of thin air.
The Harvest phone case grabs the power your phone wastes and puts it back into the battery.
About 90%of your phone power is spent pumping out radio waves just trying to keep its wireless connection even
when youe not using it. The case arveststhose stray radio waves and converts them into electric power.
Nikola Labswill Zell explains in the video below how the phone case is able to turn radio waves into electricity.
available only for the iphone initially, is expected to launch later this month on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Roosegaarde switched the machine on for the first time in Rotterdam on September 4. solar tulip Aora Solar website As onlookers breathed in bubbles of the fresh,
while BMW is said to be cautious about sharing its manufacturing know-how as it wants to avoid becoming a mere supplier to a software or internet giant.
#Yahoo Livetext: company makes app to stop video chats being awkward Livetext, quietly launched weeks ago
Yahoo found that the audio was often he biggest inhibitor of video chat according to Adam Cahan, SVP of mobile and emerging products at Yahoo.
That matched the feedback from the young people that Yahoo hopes will use the app,
Group who stole information from website for cheating spouses make good on promise to post data online A group calling itself the Impact Team compromised the site
At least two other dating sites, Cougar Life and Established Men, also owned by the same parent group, Avid Life Media (ALM),
which promises to connect beautiful young women with rich sugar daddies o fulfill their lifestyle needs take down the two sites.
a sister site run by ALM that promises to connect older women with younger men was targeted not by the group
While the hackers took issue with the questionable morals of the sites, their main point of contention was the fact that Ashley Madison charges users a £15 fee to carry out a full delete of their information should they decide to leave it.
They claimed that ALM actually retained that date on their company servers. vid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms
and employee documents and emails, the hackers wrote in a statement following the breach. Their warnings were ignored by ALM who said they had beefed up security following the attack.
However, a data dump of 9. 7 gigabytes was posted on Tuesday to the dark web using an Onion address accessible only through the Tor browser,
and logins for the social networking site. vid Life Media has failed to take down Ashley Madison and Established Men,
and stupidity of ALM and their members Chances are signed your man up on the world biggest affair site,
and videos The site has forced always users to crop their pictures into perfect squares, however they were taken originally.
the site has said, giving people a ormaticon that lets them adjust what size they need.
Instagram has been pushing its video offering hard, especially alongside the growth of Twitter competitor Vine
#Apple iphone 6s release date: new phone and Apple TV SET to be launched on September 9 The company will hold the event on September 9,
as had previously been rumoured, at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San francisco a much bigger venue than previous launches have been held in.
Apple is expected to launch the next iphone the iphone 6s and iphone 6s plus at the event.
The back of an Apple iphone 6 Plus gold, is shown here at a Verizon store on September 18
A range of details have already been revealed about the new iphone, however all collected in our round up of rumours for the iphone 6s and 6s Plus s
#Google logo history: A trip through search engine's gradually smoothening logo Google just launched a new logo the first major redesign in years,
and a reflection of the changing nature of the search engine in all of our lives. But the site has been on a gradual evolution
since it began in 1998, slow shedding the design of years past and becoming more smooth and less objectionable.
At its beginning, Google wasn called even by that name t launched as ackrub That site had a rather obvious picture at the top:
a photo of a hairy hand on top of what appears to be skin, with large letter saying ackrubplaced on top of it.
It became Google in late 1997. The look was a little reminiscent of Word Art of old:
At that time, the site was just as youthful. It was still functioning largely as a search engine for Stanford university,
as well as the web, and offered an explanation of what it was at the top with a little text box underneath.
Google also briefly got an exclamation mark in 1999. It disappeared a year later. That shouting logo would be the last very different one that the site would have.
Until today redesign the site stuck by its formula: two blue letters, two red and one yellow and one green, all in an entirely unobjectionable serif font.
The company would gradually change that look, moving letters around, softening the colours and getting rid of shadow,
but harder to read on the tiny screens of mobiles. In doing so, it recognised one of the most important changes during its 17 years like Google itself,
the logo had been designed to be looked at on screens, but now a huge proportion of web browsing is done from phones and other mobile devices n
#iphone 6s Plus photos: leaks show Force Touch display, subtly altered size The pictures are one of the first glimpses of the iphone 6s Plus,
the bigger of the two new phones that Apple is expected to release at its event next week.
They show a slightly bigger phone that contains a sensor for Apple Force Touch technology
which allows the phone screen to be pressure sensitive to allow extra input options. The pictures, reported to have leaked from the Taiwanese supply chain,
show the front of the new phone. As well as the slightly larger size and changed display
they appear to feature a bigger front camera. It has already been suggested that the new iphone will feature an improved front-facing,
or selfie, camera. As well as better hardware for more clear photos, the software will be improved ncluding a feature that will use the screen to create a flash for taking pictures in the dark.
Apple has previously been rumoured to be strengthening the body of the iphone 6, in order to avoid a repeat of the endgateproblems that led some to complain their phone had been curving in their pocket.
Apple will use a more reinforced metal for the phone body the reports have indicated. That slightly larger body will have a smaller battery than the iphone 6, according to previous leaks.
It isn't clear whether that will mean that the phone will have less battery life, however, since Apple has been rumoured to be adding new, more efficient components.
The company doesn't usually make any external changes to the"s"phones, instead using the same external design
but improving the internal hardware. Apple Force Touch powered by the small sensor that can be seen in the centre of the display allows the phone to tell how hard its screen is being pressed
and trigger extra events on screen. Some details of how exactly it will work have already been revealed
indicating that the hard press will trigger further menu options. Force Touch was launched with the Apple Watch in April,
helping users interact with its small screen. It was added then to Apple Macbooks, giving extra options for how quickly to fast forward, for instance d
Neural networks like the one found in Giraffe are already outperforming humans in many areas of pattern recognition, with Google Deepmind matching game testers in classic Atari 2600 games.
As a potential step towards powerful artificial intelligence Facebook Microsoft and Google have invested all in Deep Learning technologies in the past five years p
#Biomedical 3d printing Company Signs Agreement with Xilloc for Licensing, Sale of 3d printed Bones in Europe (3ders. org) NEXT 21 K. K,
with a very sharp focus on increasing capability to win the Internet while managing tight constraints on cost and power.
such as big data analytics and complex Web applications. The average Memory1 use case enables a four-to-one server reduction,
#Concept E-Kaia charge your mobile phone from cactus It sounds funny, but soon mobile gadgets can be recharged from any flower.
Rothman said in a blog post. Rothman said this new sector is likely to be worth some $10 billion in the United states this year,
Reich said on his blog about the hare the scraps economy.?In effect, on-demand work is a reversion to the piece work of the 19th century
Last December, his firm displayed Christmas tree posters with LEDS at NTT Docomo flagship store in Tokyo.
Another hurdle Shimizu sees is that consumers may not know the creative potential of the markers or the limits to their use. n our website
#Technology No phone signal in a disaster? Solar network'in a box'to the rescue Pakistani researchers have developed a portable,
solar-powered mobile phone network for use in disasters like floods and earthquakes when regular communications are disrupted often.
Researchers at the Information technology University (ITU) in Lahore, together with a team from the University of California, have developed a prototype escue Base Station (RBS) for Pakistan-the country first emergency telecoms system
that would work on normal cell phones. hen the RBS is installed in a disaster-struck area,
people automatically start receiving its signals on their mobile phones. They can manually choose it and then call
send messages and even browse (internet) data free of charge, said Umar Saif, ITU vice chancellor and an adviser to the project.
but the ITU expects it to be used in the next six to eight months in partnership with the National Disaster Management Authority and a local telecoms company.
Potential users of the RBS system can get the information they need in just a few seconds by sending a text message to specific numbers appearing on their mobile phone.
offers all the features provided by regular cellphone companies, he added. Ghaznavi said it costs around $6,
and the Pakistan prototype has been funded by a Google Faculty Research Award. The RBS team is now working with Endaga,
and a local telecoms firm to commercialise the project, he added. The aim of the collaboration is to help phone companies keep their communications systems functioning in a disaster until their regular networks are restored.
Pakistan is a disaster-prone country which needs $6 billion to $14 billion to help it adapt to climate change impacts,
But that system could only send text messages to its subscribers on their mobile phones, unlike the RBS which allows users to call,
send texts and even browse the web for free. Cutting-edge technologies like the RBS could help save more lives by delivering timely advice to disaster-hit people,
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