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#Baidu to launch self-drive car Chinese web giant Baidu will launch its first driverless car in the second half of 2015,

The news, reported by Chinese language website Techweb, will put it head to head with rival Google.

The firm will work with an unnamed car manufacturer, according to Baidu's senior vice president Jin Wang. He made the announcement at the China Cloud computing conference.

The firm has teamed previously up with BMW to develop semi-autonomous car technology. The head of Baidu's deep learning lab Yu Kai has told previously the press that the firm does not agree with Google's view of a completely autonomous car,

looking instead to develop a vehicle that will retain the traditional pedals but give the driver greater freedom.

Baidu's rise in the field of artificial intelligence suffered a setback last week when Stanford university

and sort images-banned Baidu from competing for the next year. The web giant was stripped of its 2015 title after it emerged that it broke the rules over how many tests it could run.

Google announced last month that its prototype self-driving cars would take to the public roads this summer around its headquarters in Mountain view, California a

#Paris Air Show: Can you print a plane? The new Airbus a350 XWB that is flying daily displays at the Paris Air Show can claim several engineering firsts.

when the computer was decrypting a specific email message sent to it by an attacker,

The flash storage in my smartphone and PC seems more than fast enough to view and record the photos and videos I want.

Critical sites on the molecules for bioactivity have been uncovered and both period-lengthening/-shortening molecules have been utilized to investigate the regulation of the clock protein in the body's timekeeping mechanism.

we found the critical sites on the molecule for rhythm-changing activities, and succeeded in discovering active molecules that lengthens

"We are pleased extremely that C-H activation chemistry has played an important role in finding bioactive sites in KL001 derivatives

and whether a tumour is likely to spread to other sites. The findings also open the possibility of new therapies aimed at measuring

1 and FGFR2 binding sites survived the same length of time. Professor Ladbury said:""From the patient's point of view, the key findings are that these proteins are biomarkers.

The professor told in-Pharmatechnologist. com the method can be used to help small and large molecule medicines hone in on their targets. ith all therapies that are used currently particularly cancer the major problem is very little of the drug makes it to the target site.

so they accumulate at the target site. The bubbles last less than ten minutes in the bloodstream before breaking down,

#New Technology Turns Smartphone into a DNA-Scanning Microscope Researchers at University of California, Los angeles (UCLA) have developed a new technology that turns a smartphone into a DNA-scanning fluorescent microscope.

that utilize consumer devices (especially mobile phones) as a platform for making these measurements in filed settings and resource-limited settings. ere how it works.

and Windows smart application running on the same smartphone. Information is sent then to a remote server in the researchersucla laboratory that measures the length of the DNA molecules.

How a Smartphone Camera Can Find Eye Cancertraditional microscopes can do the same thing but they are bulky, expensive and often unavailable in remote locations.

Variety of Usesin general, the smartphone technology being developed at Ozcan lab can be used to perform a number of lab functions,

The team has been able to convert the mobile phone into a sensitive E-coli or giardia detector,

The research, ield-Portable Smartphone Microscopy Platform for Wide-field Imaging and Sizing of Single DNA Molecules, was presented at the Optical Society Conference on Laser and Electro optics (CLEO) 2015 h

#British Smartphone Eye-exam App Hoping to Reach Millions of Blind Worldwide Thirty-nine million people are blind across the world.

Now, a British team of eye specialists are hoping to attach the diagnostic tools onto an iphone,

EEK, which stands for portable eye examination kit, is a 3-D-printed attachment that can be attached to an iphone,

Other diagnostic uses for smartphones have included using them as low-cost microscopes, in settings from the classroom to medically underserved areas r

and they decided to collect samples from groundwater at a remediation site in Rifle, Colorado..

probing not only the acidic pools in abandoned mines and the contaminated groundwater at the Superfund cleanup site in Colorado,

and looked at the longstanding theory that pain is transmitted from the site of injury or inflammation through the nervous system using an immune system cell called microglia.

#Software Turns Smartphones into Tools for Medical Research Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease.

Yet since she enrolled in a clinical study that uses her iphone to gather information about her condition,

She taps the phone's screen in a certain pattern, records a spoken phrase and walks a short distance while the phone's motion sensors measure her gait."

'"Smartphone apps are the latest tools to emerge from the intersection of health care and Silicon valley,

More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health studies that use specialized iphone apps, built with software Apple Inc. developed to help turn the popular smartphone into a research tool.

Once enrolled, iphone owners use the apps to submit data on a daily basis, by answering a few survey questions

or using the iphone's built-in sensors to measure their symptoms. Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,

than they're able to reach with traditional health studies. A smartphone"is a great platform for research,

"said Dr. Michael Mcconnell, a Stanford university cardiologist, who's using an app to study heart disease."

researchers also say a smartphone's microphone, motion sensors and touchscreen can take precise readings that,

These can be correlated with other health or fitness data and even environmental conditions, such as smog levels, based on the phone's GPS locater.

Google Inc. says it's developing a health-tracking wristband specifically designed for medical studies.

Researchers also have tried limited studies that gather data from apps on Android phones. But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research

experts say there are issues to consider when turning vast numbers of people into walking test subjects.

Study organizers also acknowledge that iphone owners tend to be more affluent and not necessarily an accurate mirror of the world's population.

Apple had created previously software called Healthkit for apps that track iphone owners'health statistics and exercise habits.

using the iphone's capabilities and vast user base-estimated at 70 million or more in North america alone."

For scientists, a smartphone app is a relatively inexpensive way to reach thousands of people living in different settings and geographic areas.

"Smartphones also offer the ability to collect precise readings, Dorsey added. One test in the Parkinson's study measures the speed at

which participants tap their fingers in a particular sequence on the iphone's touchscreen. Dorsey said that's more objective than a process still used in clinics,

who said she already used her iphone"constantly"for things like banking and email.""I figured that participating would help my family and friends,

But by reaching more people and gathering more data, advocates say smartphone apps can help doctors answer more subtle questions about a disease."

a genomics professor who's using an iphone app to study asthma at New york's Icahn School of medicine at Mount sinai."

transmitting their instructions in real time via internet from their home country. By virtue of its video camera, screen and wheels, the robot, located in an EPFL laboratory, was able to film itself as it moved

The varied approaches were effective in"recruiting"protective monocytes to"lesion sites"in the brain,

Koronyo added that the study gives unprecedented details about monocyte numbers migrating into brain lesion sites

#Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Created, University of California,

Los angeles (UCLA) Reveals UCLA Researchers Create Smartphone-Based Device That Reads Medical Diagnostic Tests Quickly And Accurately Enzyme-linked immunosorbant assay,

A team of researchers from the California Nanosystems Institute at UCLA has developed a new mobile phone-based device that can read ELISA plates in the field with the same level of accuracy as the large machines normally found in clinical laboratories.

and attaches to a smartphone, illuminates the ELISA plate with an array of light-emitting diodes. The light projects through each well and is collected by 96 individual plastic optical fibers in the attachment.

The smartphone transmits the resulting images to UCLA servers through a custom-designed app. The images are analyzed then by a machine-learning algorithm that the researchers wrote for this purpose,

and the diagnostic results are sent back to the phone within about one minute for the entire 96-well plate.

and are looking to adapt the basic design of this ELISA cellphone reader to create smartphone-based quantified readers for other important medical tests,

#Detecting potent tumors using a smartphone! Ms Maryam Sadeghi shows off an early version of Molescope (Picture courtesy:

an innovative hand-held tool that uses a smartphone to monitor skin for signs of cancer.

Molescope comprises a mini-microscope that attaches to a smartphone, an app (ios, Android, or web compatible) and a cloud-based analytical platform called Dermengine.

Once people take high-quality, high-resolution images of suspicious moles or skin abnormalities, they can archive images

a sensor comprising multiple tiny test sites. The chip, known as proteo, functions by attracting a faintly luminous substance found in cancer patients,

and this has been flat for nearly 20 years (See this blog post)..Other challenges I see include low commercial investment in pediatric medicine and devices, development of effective therapeutics for neurodevelopmental disorders,

Bayer developed an entire website page dedicated to bee care. It holds general information on bees and

and allow them to access information quickly through their smartphones. Nanette Byrnes, writer for the MIT Technology Review, calls this the ew food economy. y combining this information with data generated by soil sensors and weather reports,

and is popular among Google Ventures, Silicon valley, and Monsanto investors. Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones

Larrabee uses his smartphone or tablet to log on to see that data, which is available almost instantaneously.

The research was conducted by a team comprised of experts from the Chinese Internet search company Baidu and a student at the University of California at Los angeles,

"says Wei Xu, a distinguished scientist in Baidu's research group.""This is important for solving the problem of common sense reasoning."

"Bloomberg put the Baidu and UCLA system to its own test. I took a picture of a small citrus fruit in the palm of my hand,

and sent it to Baidu with the question, "What is in the centre of the hand?"

when we may be able to ask a search engine like Google or Baidu to ferret through millions of images,

The development from Baidu and UCLA, while important, is far from perfect. The system can't handle multiple questions in a row

Baidu is interested in other aspects, too.""In the future, potential applications are education and mobile image search,

#Soon, a Mastercard phone app to verify online payments via selfies Mastercard is experimenting with a smartphone app

Users will have to download the Mastercard phone app and at checkout they will be asked to hold up their phone to stare

and blink at it.""The new generation, which is into selfies...I think they'll find it cool.

Mastercard said it has partnered with every smartphone maker to make this method of verification possible.

Users who choose facial recognition have to stare at the phone and blink once. Mastercard's security researchers believe blinking is the best way to prevent a thief from just holding up a picture of a person

and 0s and transmit that over the Internet to Mastercard. Bhalla said Mastercard is also experimenting with voice recognition,

so people may be able to simply approve an online transaction by speaking to their phone.

#Google wants you to buy things straight through Youtube videos (GOOG) Youtube is rolling out a new feature that will let advertisers easily lists goods that they are selling alongside or within their video ads.

and links to their websites on their videos. Now, Youtube is linking videos ads into the same dashboard it uses for Google Shopping,

so instead of manually connecting individual products and ads, advertisers can have added product links automatically. Essentially, Google its taking the technology and infrastructure it built for Shopping

and letting advertisers use it in on Youtube.;With Trueview ads, which the company launched five years ago,

Google only charges advertisers if a viewer doesn't skip their ad and watches for at least 30-seconds or to the end of the video (whichever is less.)

When it rolled out cards, it started charging either for a click or a full-view,

The key is that Youtube bets the greater emphasis on this shopping element will make its ads more effective.

and then the more that Youtube can charge per view. Trueview for shopping is optimized for both desktop and mobile."

"Advertisers had used annotations in the past to make their videos interactive, but these didn't work on all screens

"Youtube product Manager Avi Fein told Business Insider via email.""So with cards and Trueview for shopping we created a very consistent experience that creates a much more engaging and interactive format for viewers."

"Along with the feature announcement, Google also stressed that people are using Youtube to help them make shopping decisions more than ever.

There are now more than 1 million channels on Youtube focused on product reviews, and views of those videos have grown 50%year-over-year.

For example, Wayfair said it saw a 3x revenue increase per ad impression served over its previous Youtube campaigns.

This rollout comes not long after the Wall street journal reported that Google plans to roll out a new"buy"button in its Google Shopping search results that will let users make a purchase without being shuttled to a brands website e

the bulk collection of American phone records by the National security agency will no longer be permitted legally, Spencer Ackerman of the Guardian reports.

since October 2001 that US phone calls weren't collected en masse from America's three largest telecommunications providers.

for another 90-day extension of the order needed to continue the collection of domestic phone records. e did not file an application for reauthorization,

Mcconnell, whose bill would continue all phone-records collection by the FBI and NSA, and the rest of the Senate will meet again on May 31.

That print shop got tapped to print the emails for the landmark 2001 Microsoft antitrust case. Wilson recalls printing out piles and piles of Bill gates'and Steve Ballmer's emails

boxing them up, putting them on trucks, and delivering them to the courthouse, where as many as 300 attorneys would be searching them for anything relevant to the case."

you could only access the database from a Windows computer running an outdated version of Internet explorer,

Even without outside investment, Logikcull was able to hire the experts it needed to develop a browser-based, computer-plus-smartphone software solution,

what it will be like to use the iphone as a remote control for your entire home (AAPL) The first home appliances that will work with Homekit, Apple's platform for connecting all of the devices in your home,

and door locks that you can control with your iphone, Apple has added a new support page with a few new details about

As long as you're signed into the same Apple ID account on your iphone and Apple TV,

#This US military-funded security company can tell who you are just from the way you touch your phone Passwords could soon be going the way of the dodo as digital security gets more sophisticated.

move your mouse or touch your phone screen. Behaviosec tracks these movements and maps them against past interactions to see

or pressing a phone screen harder the company will let the bank know it thinks someone else is trying to get into your bank account.

"Behaviosec's tech plugs directly into banks apps and websites, so even if you've never downloaded it you may have used it.

#All of Germany just signed up to this micropayment app that people think is the future of news on the web Blendle,

the app or website takes a small payment, with revenue split roughly 30/70 between Blendle and the publisher.

"In May, Facebook partnered with nine major news publishers to launch Facebook Instant, a feature that allows the publishers to publish directly to Facebook's mobile app.

And in April Google created a#150 million fund for journalism in Europe, partnering with eight European publishers to invest in training

and research n

#Intel is spending $125 million to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley (INTC) Intel is opening its wallet to solve one of the biggest problems in Silicon valley:

#It's no longer all about ads ere's how publishers, streaming sites, and apps are using subscriptions to boost revenues

While ads account for the bulk of revenue at most publishers, music streaming sites, and on apps, the subscription model is gaining traction.

Internet companies are exploiting the opportunity to boost ARPU (average revenue per user), helped along by recurring payments from a subscriber base.

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%and Linkedin (2%).The report is full of charts, data, and case studies that can easily be downloaded

#Dropbox found a brilliant way to add a lot of new users by killing email attachments On Wednesday,

and possibly replace email attachments. But the service is designed cleverly in a way that also introduce Dropbox to a ton of new users.

users send out file requests by email, and the recipient can upload files up to 2gb in size to a designated Dropbox folder,

from both existing and non-Dropbox users, forgoing the need to go through multiple email attachments or physical copies.

This could potentially replace email attachments, as it offers bigger file limits and a more convenient way to upload files.

"One day, people may simply download 3d printing files from the Internet with customized shapes and colors and print out useful devices at home."

and unlock doors and log into his computer and password-secured websites. He even rigged his motorcycle

If you have enabled a NFC phone like most major Android phones, you can also unlock it with an implanted device just by holding it.

Dangerous Thingsbiohacking kits range in price from about $40 to $100. This RFID kit comes with everything needed to perform an implant.

#Google has a brilliant new tool for avoiding long lines at stores and restaurants Google has added a new tool to its search bar that helps people avoid long lines at stores and restaurants.

The feature reveals peak traffic hours for millions of businesses on every day of the week,

the company said in a blog post. The tool is accessed by searching for a retailer,

"Google's post reads.""Now, you can avoid the wait and see the busiest times of the week at millions of places and businesses around the world directly from Google search.

For example, just search for"Blue Bottle Williamsburg,"tap on the title and see how busy it gets throughout the day

#Smartphone skin cancer app developed by Vancouver dermatologist A new smartphone app for monitoring skin cancer made its debut at the World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver on Tuesday.

I don't have to wait 12 months to use a doctor's phone or...camera to look at my mole.

"The app works by attaching a mini-microscope to a smartphone camera, which takes images of skin moles

Maryam Sadeghi shows off an early version of Molescope, an app for smartphones and ipads that people can use to monitor for signs of skin cancer.

"Usually what I try to do is get good images with my iphone hovering over the dermatoscope,

cellphones with EU plans pay same price everywhere The European union has agreed to end mobile roaming charges within two years

and allow travellers with European phone plans to pay the same price for calls, text messages and data anywhere in the 28 EU nations.

also means Internet users will be able to access content without being slowed unfairly down or blocked, a concept known as net neutrality.

and the full parliament, would allow Internet providers to use"reasonable"measures to manage online traffic,

"With the prevalence of TV content on the internet and Netflix, Canadians are seeing less need to have a TV subscription,

what they need on the internet.""Allen said cord-cutters are finding other ways to watch their favourite shows

"The report is based on phone and online surveys conducted in the fall of 2014 with more than 8, 000 people across Canada a

cell service A new Wi-fi technology will soon let smartphones and other Wi-fi enabled devices easily find each other

and communicate without a cellular or internet connection or GPS. Wi-fi Aware is a way for devices

which allows some devices to connect directly without an internet connection. Regular Wi-fi has sometimes been blamed as a battery drain in smartphones

but the Wi-fi Alliance says Wi-fi Aware operates in a very power efficient way"through a unique process of discovery

This week, Google announced its own competitor to ibeacon, known as Eddystone, which can be compatible with any Bluetooth Smart device, regardless of whether its Apple, Android,

"he said in an email.""Wi-fi Aware enables a two-way conversation that doesn't rely on the cloud."

for example through social media and online shopping, are big parts of the explanation for this decline among the Millennial generation.

Jeff Wood monitors developments in urban transport technology at The Direct Transfer website. While he says"transit agencies are pretty far behind the times

#Smartphones tested as tools for medical research Jody Kearns doesn't like to spend time obsessing about her Parkinson's disease.

Yet since she enrolled in a clinical study that uses her iphone to gather information about her condition,

She taps the phone's screen in a certain pattern, records a spoken phrase and walks a short distance while the phone's motion sensors measure her gait."

"'Smartphone apps are the latest tools to emerge from the intersection of health care and Silicon valley,

Smartphone Medicine Dr. Michael Mcconnell, a cardiologist who's using an app to study heart disease,

calls a smartphone a great platform for research because it's one thing that people have with them every day.

Eric Risberg/Associated press) More than 75,000 people have enrolled in health studies that use specialized iphone apps, built with software Apple Inc. developed to help turn the popular smartphone into a research tool.

Once enrolled, iphone owners use the apps to submit data on a daily basis, by answering a few survey questions

or using the iphone's built-in sensors to measure their symptoms. Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,

than they're able to reach with traditional health studies. A smartphone"is a great platform for research"

said Dr. Michael Mcconnell, a Stanford university cardiologist, who's using an app to study heart disease."

researchers also say a smartphone's microphone, motion sensors and touchscreen can take precise readings that,

These can be correlated with other health or fitness data and even environmental conditions, such as smog levels, based on the phone's GPS locater.

Google Inc. says it's developing a health-tracking wristband specifically designed for medical studies.

Researchers also have tried limited studies that gather data from apps on Android phones. But if smartphones hold great promise for medical research

experts say there are issues to consider when turning vast numbers of people into walking test subjects.

Study organizers also acknowledge that iphone owners tend to be more affluent and not necessarily an accurate mirror of the world's population.

Democratizes medicine Apple had created previously software called Healthkit for apps that track iphone owners'health statistics and exercise habits.

using the iphone's capabilities and vast user base estimated at 70 million or more in North america alone."

For scientists, a smartphone app is a relatively inexpensive way to reach thousands of people living in different settings and geographic areas.

"Smartphones also offer the ability to collect precise readings, Dorsey added. One test in the Parkinson's study measures the speed at

which participants tap their fingers in a particular sequence on the iphone's touchscreen. Dorsey said that's more objective than a process still used in clinics,

who said she already used her iphone"constantly"for things like banking and email.""I figured that participating would help my family and friends,

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