Las Positas College in Livermore will be the site of the flow batteries installation, where there is already a 2. 35 MW solar array that generates about 55%of the campus electricity.
since last June. he app is currently available for download on ios and Android. With the the new Bridj app
switching from a Web-based booking system with predetermined routes to a model that driven by the app
A new partnership between Google and Motiv Power works as follows: n Mountain view shuttle buses will be free for the public
The company has a goal of making materials for about 30 million cell phone batteries by 2016.
Cell phone batteries are notorious for having to be recharged frequently which inconveniences and irritates customers.
when people buy new cell phones. Solid Energy launched in 2012 and has raised $4. 5 million.
including Google, for its roject Ara. This is a very ambitious effort to bring modular, customizable smartphones to billions of people.
It sounds as if, potentially, the ARA phone could allow more than one battery, if that was preferred.
T he Ara platform is designed to permit hot-swapping of modules without requiring you to power down the phone
which means that you could slide out the camera and replace it with a battery
So, if the Ara phone is launched, could it be possible to have four times the battery life of a current, conventional cell phone?
That Google would choose Solid Energy as a potential partner for such a huge project seems to speak well of the startup new battery materials. he reason wee focusing on the materials side is that it where we can add the most value,
not in manufacturing, explained CEO Dr. Qichao Hu. An article in MIT Technology Review says Solid Energy battery technology is appropriate for smartphones,
but probably not for electric cars, because it can be recharged enough times. Some people drive the same car for ten years,
%According to GE, the Digital Wind farm makes use of the industrial internet o address a longstanding need for greater flexbility in renewable power. very business including our own at GE
added Bolze. y harnessing the full power of the Industrial Internet, we can create a world where wind farms learn,
A lakeside lifeguard station in The netherlands was used as the site for the first application of bioconcrete.
as shown in this nifty Youtube video (don miss the cartoon version, too): Hook up the floating engine to a generator,
to be precise source for hydrogen that the company has been messing around with (visit our sister site Gas2. org for more coverage).
That provides much more flexibility for site selection than offshore wind turbines which can easily run into aesthetic obstacles.
Think of energy like you think about an iphone The first and most important driver is the argument
Shell and Exxon don see Google and Apple as competitors, which is just why incumbents so often lose.
and Google who are both developing battery and car opportunities, with a close eye on the technology integration opportunity.
#Google street view Now Monitors Urban Air pollution Wee come to rely on Google street view for everything from roads to hiking paths to coral reefs,
Tech startup Aclima just announced a partnership with Google earth Outreach to equip Google street view cars with its mobile sensor platform.
Google, and EPA will empower people to eeurban air quality like never before, and could turn Google maps into platform for mapping environmental air quality against public health standards.
Google street view Maps Urban Air pollution Like Never Before Aclima equipped three Google street view vehicles for the Denver pilot program for a month-long system test during the DISCOVER-AQ study conducted by NASA and EPA.
The cars spent 750 hours of drive time gathering 150 million data points on nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), ozone (O3), carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, methane, black carbon
which were correlated then with data from EPA stationary measurement sites. So far, EPA has relied on an extensive network of these stationary devices in urban areas to measure harmful airborne pollutants
Google earth Outreach Program Manager. his partnership with Aclima enables us to take the next steps in our pilot project to utilize Street view existing infrastructure
and test Google maps as an environmental sensing platform for mapping the environment. Aclima Denver air quality The Denver pilot returned interesting results.
and breathe in an entirely new way by integrating Aclima mobile sensing platform with Google maps and Street view cars, said Davida Herzl,
While the Google street view partnership could change the way we live and breathe outside, Aclima is focused also acutely on how we live
and analyzing 500 million data points daily across a global network composed of 21 Google offices around the world.
and will be used by Google to evaluate environmental factors within their offices and inform future workplace design decisions to boost employee health
Google Real estate and Workplace Services. ur vision is to create buildings that seamlessly support the people who inhabit them.
#Robots learn to cook by watching Youtube When it comes to teaching robots how to do things,
is Youtube. More specifically, cooking tutorials on Youtube. By watching these videos, robots are able to learn the complicated series of grasping
and manipulation motions required for cooking by observing what humans do on the Internet.""We chose cooking videos
because everyone has done it, "said UMD professor of computer science and director of the UMIACS Computer Vision Lab Yiannis Aloimonos."
"The robot uses several key systems in order to learn from Youtube videos. Computer vision, with two different recognition systems, allows the robot to visually process how the presenter grabs something,
While this operates in concert to circumvent the injured site on the spine allowing the patient--theoretically--to use their limbs it can also be used to monitor electrical impulses from the brain in real-time allowing the researchers to accurately gauge the patient's intention to move before the signal is translated into motion.
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called tarry Sky, in November of 2014 near Amsterdam,
where they lit up more than 300 LED streetlights at two different sites. Their plant power technology is also being used to power the company headquarters in Wageningen.
Their technology allows them to produce electricity from practically every site where plants can grow. ia photosynthesis a plant produces organic matter.
On the company website, they feature animated pictures of mini-forests growing on building rooftops supplying power to the entire building.
www. plantpower. eu or visit their website listed in the sources. More and more energy innovations seem to be emerging every single day,
Once swallowed, the high-tech tablet is controlled externally using a special mobile phone app. When it reaches the stomach a few minutes later
A powerful magnetic patch is applied then to the skin to draw the pill into position over the site where the vagus nerve runs through the abdomen-near the top of the stomach just under the breastbone.
which is played through earphones connected to a signal generator the size of a mobile phone. Clinical trial results suggest it can reduce tinnitus loudness by an average of about 40 per cent.
and historical sites. yber archaeologistsare busy making digital 3d models of items thought to have been destroyed,
The website invites people to submit photographs they have taken, which are sorted then and rebuilt in 3d by volunteers and experts alike.
and widespread looting of sites such as the Palace of Ashurnasipal II at Nimrud occurred, with fears that ISIS may destroy the ancient city of Palmyra.
Fove virtual reality headset lets players aim and interact with characters using just their EYES Gamers could soon be dropping their joysticks
chief executive of The Planetary Society Bill Nye said in a webcast after the launch. On this particular flight,
Google is also working on'smart lenses'that contain a control circuit, an image capture component and an image sensor.
The system can be linked wirelessly to a mobile phone for data access and to issue commands via audio,
000 A Japanese electronics firm is selling a 13ft (four metre) mechanical suit on Amazon that can be controlled by an iphone,
A company called Emotiv adapted a $499 (£324) gaming headset that lets wearers control on-screen and physical objects with their brain as part of a racing game.
A riveris wired up to the electroencephalography (EEG) headset and the device is trained to read their unique brain patterns.
They first clear their mind to train the headset to their neutral state and then think of a repetitive task that will be associated with driving the car.
Once the headset has been calibrated, the game begins and the driver can control the shoebox-sized vehicle by thinking about their repetitive task.
The Emotive headsets are embedded with sensors that record electrical activity along the wearer scalp, forehead and above the right ear.
and there are no immediate plans to release the game and headset. However, the EPOC Emotiv headset is available from $499 (£324)
and it will work with existing brain-computer interface games and software that work with EEG readings.
The Emotiv headset used for the demonstration is called Insight and is available to buy now. WOLVERINE-SUPER-HEALING POWERSIN the X men films, Wolverine has mutant powers
For example, implementing biometric identification in smart phones and other everyday objects such as computers or cars could make people see the technology as useful and easy to operate.
Another issue is how the data is kept secure, particularly in the case of iris-scanning by objects such as smart phones.
#Nasa joins US government project to create'Google for the deep web'that could uncover cyber criminals,
paedophiles and drug dealers in the online underworld The deep web is a hive of illegal activity,
'When you do a simple Web search on a topic, the results that pop up aren't the whole story,
The Internet contains a vast trove of information-sometimes called the'Deep Web'-that isn't indexed by search engines:
'We're augmenting Web crawlers to behave like browsers-in other words, executing scripts and reading ads in ways that you would
Additionally, a standard Web search doesn't get much information from images and videos, but Memex can recognize what's in this content
'Today's web searches use a centralised, one-size-fits-all approach that searches the internet with the same set of tools for all queries.'
'But common search practices miss information in the deep web-the parts of the web not indexed by standard commercial search engines
-and ignore shared content across pages.''Memex was designed to overcome these challenges by extending'the reach of current search capabilities
The software scours all aspects of the web-including those hidden in the dark net-to create data maps that might reveal clues about illegal activity.
or porn sites featuring the same email addresses or phone numbers. These patterns could reveal links that human investigators could miss,
Targeting the deep web is also an initiative being developed in the UK. In December the UK government said a specialist unit was being set up to hunt down paedophiles using the dark net to share child pornography.
Prime minister David cameron said the new unit is aimed at'shining a light on the web's darkest corners'as he announced a package of measures to tackle online child abuse.
The dark net consists of a network of encoded websites that sit behind the publicly available websites
when the FBI made a series of raids on Silk road-an online marketplace described as the'ebay for illegal drugs'.
Hidden capabilities that let users email and host file storage through encrypted and anonymous networks are provided by services the The Onion Router (Tor).
Tor users currently represent 0. 18 per cent of the total number of internet uses in the UK.
However, in a recent investigation, GCHQ and the NCA were able to track down a British man who had been maintaining chat rooms
and websites in the Far east and Eastern europe that were used to share child pornography around the world.
#NSA testing smartphones that can tell who you are by the way you write: Handwriting recongition system The NSA is set to begin using smartphone software that can recognise a person by the way they write.
The software, called Mandrake and developed by Lockheed martin, verifies a user's identity based on the swiftness and shape of the individual's finger strokes on a touch screen.
'We've done work with the NSA for secure gesture authentication as a technique for using smartphones,
and Android devices that keeps all corporate email, browsing, documents and applications encrypted, contained, and UNDER IT control no matter who owns the device.'
'It will enable smartphone and tablet users to authenticate into Fixmo Safezone with a simple, user-defined gesture,
The Carnegie mellon University Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, or CHIMP, is designed to primarily move like a tank using tracks to cover tough terrain.
#Google confirms Buy button is'imminent':'Search giant to take on Amazon and ebay with shopping from search results Google is set to allow people to buy directly from search results.
The search giant's chief business officer Omid Kordestani confirmed the move at the Code Conference today.'
'90%of commerce is still offline, mobile devices are perfect for guiding people, 'Kordestani described the product launch as a way to remove friction for users
and Google won't reportedly receive any commission, but it has been designed to streamline the process. According to the report, the buttons would appear alongside paid search results on mobile in the'Shop on Google'section.
When a potential shopper clicks the button they will be taken to a specially designed product page
within the Google search engine. The buttons will be rolled out on a'small number of searches, 'although details about which retailers-and what the partnerships will entail-have not been released.
whether payment details will be stored in Google Wallet, for example, or need to be entered each time. If it is the former,
when the user is signed into their Google account on the browser being used. The service may also take advantage of the site's same-day delivery service
Google Shopping Express. It is only currently available in Boston, Chicago, Manhattan, San francisco, WASHINGTON DC, West Los angeles. An overnight option is additionally available in Northern California.
Google is not commenting on the news, but it follows Facebook's plans to rival ebay with its latest secondhand selling tools.
Earlier this year Facebook made it easier to get rid of unwanted secondhand goods by adding official Sell buttons to its site.
And now the social network is helping buyers find these goods by expanding its search tool
and adding category filters. Similar to how categories appear on ebay Facebook now lets users sort
and find'For sale'posts across multiple groups based on the item being sold. These categories include Appliances, Event Tickets, Household Items, Mobile phones, Real estate and Rentals and more. e
#Chinese researchers at Tzekwan Technology unveil face-recognition ATM MACHINE By Edward Chow For Mailonline Published: 13:02 GMT, 1 june 2015 Updated:
13:48 GMT, 1 june 2015 Chinese engineers have developed a cash machine that uses facial features-instead of the traditional PIN number-to identify card owners.
The device, which is developed jointly by Tsinghua University and Hangzhou-based Tzekwan Technology, is able to scan the users'faces to ensure they are the genuine holders of the bank account.
and their audio features can be controlled using a smartphone app. Using innovative technologies they block out certain sounds,
and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth. They can also be recharged twice fully in a charging case.
'Here is meant not to replace your headphones, headsets, or earbuds,'the company said.''The Here Active Listening System is designed for live listening environments,
they don lose quality or efficiency for 37 years, according to his website. Speaking in a video, Dyson said his greatest innovation to date is the ability to cool LEDS
vertically and rotationally with the touch of a fingertip, the website says. While conventional lights usually rely on springs
The compound could also be used to make mobile phone screens that fix themselves and hardy nail polish where chips are repaired automatically.
or 10 years we're going to see things like mobile phone screens that can heal themselves
#Samsung's smart MIRROR shows weather, traffic information and even Facebook notifications as you brush your teeth You could soon see traffic delays as you take your morning shower,
or catch up with what's been happening on Twitter as you get dressed thanks to Samsung's latest display technology.
The team at makers H+claim Holus can convert any digital content from a computer, tablet or phone into a 3d image,
Holus comes in two versions-a Home edition with two smartphone charging docks, and a Pro version with an HDMI port and SDK tool so developers to use other devices with the Holus and come up with new uses for it.
Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
who intends to beam the internet to Earth from space. Airbus will make 900 spacecraft-building up to four a day-with 300 to be kept as spares for after the proposed launches,
enabling rapid iteration and development of space related technologies. neweb plan involves 20 groups of low-orbiting satellites being connected to small terminals on the ground that would act as hubs to link to phones and computers.
whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups. r Musk has said previously that he expects his service to handle 10 per cent of all Internet traffic
However, it not clear how the Internet will be eamedto smartphones and other devices On earth. Each satellite will be placed at a height of 750 miles (1
200km) in a variety of orbits, to ensure that the whole Earth constantly has access to their Internet.
Google and Facebook also have plans to get remote parts of the world online, by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
These new phyla were found from just one site using samples of groundwater in Colorado
10:54 GMT, 24 june 2015 Google and Blocks may be leading the way when it comes to modular phones and watches,
but Ford is hoping to bring the concept to your morning commute. At a conference in California, the car maker unveiled its latest prototype folding electric bike called Mode:
Link, currently only compatible with the iphone 6. This app acts as a sat-nav
Traditional displays like those on a mobile phone require a light source, filters and a glass plates.
Oblivion software could help Google remove hundreds of people from the web in seconds By Victoria Woollaston for Mailonline Published:
15:10 GMT, 26 june 2015 In the year since the European Court of Justice ruled that anyone can ask Google to remove personal information about them,
the site has evaluated more than one million links. Each request has to be verified and processed by a dedicated team of people,
And they hope to offer it to Google, and other search engines, to help them manage future demands.
and tag their personal information on the web, using both text-or natural language processing (NLP)- and image recognition.
and tagged pages to Google who confirms the details match with those in the article,
and both are submitted to Google's takedown team. The researchers, led by Milivoj Simeonovski from Saarland University in Germany,
At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed 41%of those it has processed fully (interactive module above).
these technical means consist of a web form that requires a user to manually identify all relevant links herself upfront
and to insert them into the web form, followed by a manual evaluation by employees of the indexing system to assess
'At the time of writing, Google has evaluated 1, 002,790 URLS submitted since 29 may 2014 and removed more than 41 per cent of those it has processed fully.
Last week France's data watchdog gave Google just two weeks to extend the'right to be forgotten'ruling to all of its domains.
because Google only deletes the information from searches made through European domains, such as google. fr or google. es.
By switching to a non-European Google domain, such as Google. com, internet users can still access the deleted links relatively easily.
Google added that Facebook accounted for the largest number of deleted URLS. But not all requests are granted,
only those deemed by Google to be valid. Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, president of CNIL, said the order to remove search results globally'is only telling international companies that operate in Europe that they must conform to European law'.
'Google said that it is working to comply with the EU decision, but did not say
'If Google does not meet the deadline, it faces a relatively insignificant maximum fine of#150,000 (£110, 000).
if Google fails to meet the deadline, it would begin compiling a report about the company that would be used to decide
Computer learns to create computer games by watching videos of Super Mario Brothers Researchers have created a system that can automatically design new levels of a computer game by simply watching other people play on Youtube or Twitch.
The computer software was able to create its own levels for Nintendo's Super Mario Brothers after analysing Youtube footage of the game.
and a broken heart'A high-intensity laser excites a physical matter to emit light at an arbitrary 3d position.'
when patients were shown the famous sites. This means the researchers were able to watch in real-time as the patients'neurons recorded a new memory of the person at a particular place.'
vibrating motors similar to the technology that makes a cell phone buzz, and a wireless USB adapter, among other technologies.
said spokesman Luca Gamberini. e also have a sensor panel with live data feed from the lab biosphere so all data is live on the internet and accessible to anyone. c
The website Hacked obtained a copy of Tajmar's Propulsion and Energy Forum paper.''Our measurements reveal thrusts as expected from previous claims after carefully studying thermal and electromagnetic interferences,
'wrote Tajmar in the paper, according to the website.''If true, this could certainly revolutionise space travel.'
'announced Nasaspaceflight. com in April The site has become an unofficial source of EMDRIVE news,
'However, Nasa's official site says that:''There are many'absurd'theories that have become reality over the years of scientific research.'
access to devices and social media tagging, for example. At the moment, facial recognition systems tend to rely on matching clear and well-lit photos
and CEO michael schmidt, the HYVE caroshome gym works with a virtual reality headset, that can imitate flying, roller coasters,
when a VR boom started with oculus rift a few months later. we could then work on making our concept become reality. he icaros works along with virtual reality headsets the design
and roll axis are detected by smartphone accelerometers, that send user data into the virtual world, which was created by HYVE companion animation studio, lumacode. the combination movement and visual cues,
and smartphones. ola fingerprint smart lock wants to bring it to the forefront with faster operation, longer battery life,
and phone-less independence. made of zinc aluminum alloy, the lock incorporates the most advanced fingerprint sensor from sweden. it utilizes a radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin to guarantee its authenticity. the body is has no keyholes to deny any idea of lock picking,
#droprinter exclusively developed for smartphones for truly mobile printing droprinter exclusively developed for smartphones for truly mobile printing all images courtesy droprinter the droprinter is designed solely for printing from a smartphone with a basic geometry that is made to fit in small bags
photos, doodles and websites and doesn need ink because it uses thermal paper to print anything displayed on the screen. the thermal paper is coated with a solid state mixture,
but they always bring their smartphone everywhere. that idea spawn the printer for moments when paper feels the most natural and organic way to communicate. checkout their kickstarter campaign that is looking for funding. the portable printer doesn need ink n
On a video posted to Youtube, Yvonne wrote: Kathy and I have been legally blind since we were children. esight glasses, an amazing new technology that
, cytoskeletal webs, neural circuits, and vasculature networks) form naturally to provide essential functions in even the most basic forms of life.
after a 10.1%decline in 2013, said Norwood. he smartphone market continued to perform well, with production growth of around 34%,down slightly from 39.5%in 2013,
although there was a distinct shift to utility and basic smartphones away from premium handsets. Tablet production,
and minerals and has secured substantial financial backing on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website. The pen-like device is called Vitastiq and uses a smartphone as an interface.
The device uses a method called electro-acupuncture (EAV), a traditional technique for measuring vitamin and mineral levels.
The smartphone app saves and evaluates previous reading from the device. The Croatia-based company has been working on the device and ios app development for two years.
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