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| Feb 19, 2016 | WA Uni launches custom Pople supercomputer | The University of Western Australia has taken the Pople supercomputer into service and will use it for computational chemistry, biology and physics, including the study of the recently verified gravitational waves.
The cluster is named afte... |
| Feb 6, 2016 | Kagoshima’s Sakurajima Erupts in Impressive Volcanic Display | On Friday evening just before 7 pm, Sakurajima, an active volcano located in Kagoshima Prefecture, erupted in a shower of lava and volcanic ash that triggered spectacular displays of lightning.
No injuries were reported in relation to the v... |
| Feb 2, 2016 | This Teddy Bear Could Have Exposed Your Child’s Identity | Are smart toys worth the risk? That’s a question parents are asking themselves these days as they weigh the usefulness and delight that comes from cloud-connected toys, with the potential for them to be turned into spying devices, as was th... |
| Jan 26, 2016 | France will play a role in India’s next mission to Mars | France will play a role in India’s next mission to Mars. The French space agency CNES signed a letter of intent with its Indian counterpart, ISRO, to participate in India’s next Mars mission, an orbiter tentatively planned for 2020, althoug... |
| Jan 14, 2016 | The curious tale of the ancient skeleton with the wooden foot | A medieval skeleton found in Austria has a unique appendage — an iron-and-wood prosthetic foot. Researchers say the 6th century remains are the oldest found in Europe with a prosthetic limb.
The skeleton, found in a Frankish Empire-era ceme... |
| Jan 7, 2016 | Black holes increasingly seen as a key to life, ‘burps’ and all | If you love black holes, this week’s annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society didn’t disappoint. Among the hot topics of discussion–a “burping” black hole in a nearby galaxy and the role these mysterious, massive gravity wells pl... |
| Nov 18, 2015 | Stratolaunch’s Plans Up in the Air | The future of Stratolaunch is unclear after the company has delayed decisions on rockets to use in that air-launch system.
The president of Vulcan Aerospace, Chuck Beames, said the project is being reassessed based on shifts in the market t... |
| Oct 27, 2015 | Russian ships may be preparing to attack the global internet | US government sources have revealed to the New York Times growing concerns that Russian naval vessels may be threatening the global internet infrastructure. Russian ships have been seen tracing out the routes of the trans-oceanic cables tha... |
| Oct 16, 2015 | Breaking The Barrier Of Humans And Machines | Sudha Jamthe Contributor
Sudha Jamthe is a mobile product leader, Author of IOT Disruptions and host of The IoT Show.
My kitchen opens up to my family room, where right smack in the middle sits Alexa, an Amazon Echo device. It feels strange... |
| Jul 28, 2015 | Yelp is scrubbing thousands of angry comments from the page of a lion-murdering dentist | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
You might have read about the tragic death of Cec... |
| Jun 24, 2015 | What is the Higgs Boson, and why is it so important? | The Higgs boson is, if nothing else, the most expensive particle of all time. It’s a bit of an unfair comparison; discovering the electron, for instance, required little more than a vacuum tube and some genuine genius, while finding the Hig... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read) | It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file for marketing approval for a gene therapy to combat adenosine deaminase severe combined immune deficiency when it submits its drug for ADA-SCID in Europe, according ... |
| Apr 17, 2015 | Space treaties are a challenge to launching small satellites in orbit | Until recently the idea of launching a satellite into space was an expensive business and the preserve of governments, international space organisations and multi-million dollar companies.
But now, thanks to advancements in microelectronics... |
| Jan 13, 2015 | Smaller is smarter at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show | An app that can unlock your front door with a digital key and the latest wearable sex tech OhMiBod are just some of the next generation of high-tech gadgets and devices on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CE... |
| Jan 12, 2015 | Smaller is smarter at the 2015 International CES | An app that can unlock your front door with a digital key and the latest wearable sex tech OhMiBod are just some of the next generation of high-tech gadgets and devices on display this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CE... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Nexus 9 tablet shows Google is thinking bigger — but not big enough (review) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Few parts of the Android ecosystem have improved more and gotten less credit for it than tablets. The gap between 2010’s crude Samsung ... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Google's Nexus Player is no Apple TV; it's not even a Chromecast | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
When Google announced last month that it would bring a $99 streaming-media Nexus Player to the market, it invited a one-word response: ... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Google's Nexus Player is no Apple TV; it's not even a Chromecast | When Google announced last month that it would bring a $99 streaming-media Nexus Player to the market, it invited a one-word response: Why?
Google’s past ventures into TV-connected appliances have not fared well. It launched Google TV back ... |
| Nov 3, 2014 | Nexus 9 tablet shows Google is thinking bigger — but not big enough (review) | Few parts of the Android ecosystem have improved more and gotten less credit for it than tablets. The gap between 2010’s crude Samsung Galaxy Tab and polished products like last year’s Nexus 7 is immense. But because Apple set such a high m... |
| Sep 29, 2014 | The wackiest wearable selfie camera yet. Heads up, Kimye (Video) | Quinten Plummer, Tech Times 29 September 2014, 08:09 pm
Heads up, Kimye, your ultimate selfie camera is here. Well, it's actually a wearable drone that launches with a flick of the wrist and whizzes through the air on a mission to deliver i... |
| Apr 10, 2014 | Newest Japanese Island “Eats” Its Older Neighbor | Japan seems to have subtracted one island from its total count, as the newly formed island of Niijima has “eaten” its older neighboring.
The island, dubbed Niijima, or “new island,” in the Ogaswara island chain 1,000 kilometers south of Tok... |
| Mar 11, 2014 | PatientsLikeMe wants to convince patients to share health data through social media campaign | A critical part of its campaign rests on the findings of a PatientsLikeMe survey — that 94 percent of patients on social media are willing to share their healthcare data. That willingness comes with a proviso, their privacy has to be protec... |
| Dec 7, 2013 | This anti-aging brain trust is the most interesting startup in Silicon Valley | In September, Google chief executive Larry Page announced his latest “moonshot,” a mysterious new venture to extend the human life span.
We don’t know much yet about the initiative, dubbed Calico, but Page revealed in a blog post that it wi... |
| Nov 29, 2013 | Worldwide wrap | In this week's wrap, honey bees could soon be used in the early detection of cancer; and a survey has revealed that men take twice as many selfies as women. Get the details on these stories and more below.
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| Aug 21, 2013 | Google’s Street View Ups Its Panda Count, Adds 6 New Zoos | For quite a while now, Google has featured Street View imagery from zoos around the world. Today, the company decided to highlight some of these image collections on its new Views site and also added six new zoos to its lineup.
The new zoos... |
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| Mar 15, 2013 | To the stars: After a 25 year hiatus, NASA restarts plutonium production | After a quarter-century hiatus, the United States has begun producing plutonium-238 once more. The decision was made to ensure that future NASA projects would have access to the valuable fuel. As US stocks dwindled, NASA began buying pluton... |
| Feb 11, 2013 | Booting Up: Time to Beam the Racists Out of Reddit, Shatner Says | (Photo: Wikipedia)
There’s no room for bigotry on the bridge … or in online communities, new redditor William Shatner said in a series of comments in the “Star Trek” subreddit: “The fact that someone could come here, debase and degrade peop... |
| Dec 12, 2012 | Texture of shark’s skin inspires a unique approach to bacteria control for healthcare | In studies, the technology has inhibited the growth of E. coli by 80 percent over control surfaces and has also demonstrated effectiveness against Staphylococcus aureus, MRSA, VRE and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to Sharklet Technologi... |
| Nov 14, 2012 | DuckDuckGo gets featured in the Washington Post, and more news from Real Food Works, Cipher Prime and Cloudmine [Startup Roundup] | Technically Philly’s Startup Roundup parses out the small pieces that make our greater Startup ecosystem thrive. We want to keep you in touch with the innovations that we can’t quite get to covering, but that deserve highlight. Follow along... |
| Sep 25, 2012 | Swiss Researchers Build A Flying Robot That Can Right Itself When It Crashes | Just as man-hacks can repair their trajectories as they whiz towards Gordon Freeman’s head, these little robots from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems can now pick themselves back up when they crash. This little feature solves a problem... |
| Sep 19, 2012 | Majority of smartphone/tablet owners would vote online | Survey finds that 60% say that they would vote via text message or app
Every election cycle, campaigns become more and more savvy in terms of how to use technology to reach more voters, and how to make more money off of them.
This year, bot... |
| Aug 30, 2012 | A Grand Tour of the Weirdest Wi-Fi | Jumping off a bus in the middle of the night, I walk down the side of a Vietnamese highway with my friend, Pascal. It’s extremely dark and full of crickets outside — beside the occasional blare of another bus whizzing past. The blinking blu... |
| Aug 27, 2012 | Brain Hacking: Scientists Extract Personal Secrets With Commercial Hardware | Chalk this up to super-creepy: scientists have discovered a way to mind-read personal secrets, such as bank PIN numbers and personal associations, using a cheap headset. Utilizing commercial brain-wave reading devices, often used for hands-... |
| Aug 14, 2012 | Google Earth Scout Thinks She’s Found Lost Egyptian Pyramids | People uncover weird stuff all the time using Google Earth satellite imagery – alien structures, crop circles, the lost city of Atlantis, and structures that resemble giant male members, just to name a few. But now, a satellite archaeology ... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | iPods for seniors: viral hit “Alive Inside” still needs your help on Kickstarter | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Remember the viral video about the old man in a nursing home who almost literally comes alive when hearing music? The video went viral ... |
| Jul 23, 2012 | iPods for seniors: viral hit “Alive Inside” still needs your help on Kickstarter | Remember the viral video about the old man in a nursing home who almost literally comes alive when hearing music? The video went viral in April this year, with more than six million views in four days.
That short clip is part of a documenta... |
| Jul 5, 2012 | Cold plasma startup gets $1 million for anti-infection wound healing device | Plasma, which is typically so hot that it would damage tissue, is a partially ionized gas used in various industrial and scientific applications. Only recently have scientists been able to create cold plasma that’s steady at room temperatur... |
| Jun 14, 2012 | Make my mobile app go viral NOW (please) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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| Jun 14, 2012 | Make my mobile app go viral NOW (please) | This story is brought to you by Sourcebits, a Global leader in Strategy, User Experience & Engineering for Mobile & Cloud. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.
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| May 22, 2012 | Car2Go could radically transform urban transportation | It’s incredibly rare that I run across a technology that could improve economic efficiency, better the environment, and improve quality of life for many. Car2Go hits that trifecta.
For urban areas, individual ownership of cars is wasteful. ... |
| May 17, 2012 | Read/Write Daily: Stars & Galaxies Eating Each Other | Today’s theme is star power. We Earthlings think we’re pretty powerful. Sometimes it’s healthy to look around the galaxy (or at other nearby galaxies) and remember that we’re just riding the waves of vastly more powerful forces.
Let’s hope ... |
| Mar 15, 2012 | 'Siri, who is Frank M Fazio?' | I'm appalled by the sudden feeding frenzy about the Siri lawsuit, which was filed last week but only big-time hit the mainstream news yesterday. Now the damn thing is everywhere, and I've been asked to jump on the meat wagon and write somet... |
| Feb 29, 2012 | Gamification: Green tech makes energy use a game—and we all win | For "hypermilers," just driving to the supermarket is a competition
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| Feb 16, 2012 | Scientists build cheap paper RFID | Scientists build cheap paper RFID
A team of researchers at the University of Montpellier, in France, have developed a way to embed a thin aluminium radio
RADIO The radio interoperability solution provided by Omnitronics has been proven in a... |
| Jan 17, 2012 | Cálmate: Put Down Your Smartphone To Feel Better | A study by the British Psychological Society found a link between stress levels and the number of times a person picks up their smartphone to check messages and mails. As an addict, I can completely agree with this finding. In short, the mo... |
| Oct 13, 2011 | Copyright Fight Brewing Over Who 'Owns' Steve Jobs Silhouette Inside The Apple Logo | After Steve Jobs passed away last week, an image quickly went viral showing his silhouette inside the Apple logo, where the traditional “bite” mark once was: But, of course, knowing the times we live in, is it any wonder that there may be a... |
| Oct 1, 2011 | From the Wires: NASA Finds Cause of Voyager 2 Glitch | Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4
What a difference a bit makes. NASA engineers believe they have traced the cause of Voyager 2’s gibberish to single flip of bit in the spacecraft’s memory.
“A value in a single memory lo... |
| Oct 1, 2011 | NASA Takes Over after Japan Evacuates ISS Control Center [Discovery News] | The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency evacuated its international space station (ISS) control center in Tsukuba after the 8.9-magnitude earthquake March 11, and NASA stepped in to oversee the Japanese cargo ship and laboratory docked at th... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | ARKive to Document Every Species on Earth | I am a fan of archives and have covered their digital avatars here often enough. I am especially keen on any archive, whether physical or digital, that takes access as an important elements of its mission. And I don’t just like archives of ... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Watch Out! International Space Station To Crash Into The Pacific After 2020 Retirement | Better lay your millions on the table now and reserve your spot on the ISS now. Russia, NASA, and the rest of the ISS’ partners announced today that they are going to allow the ISS to crash into the atmosphere after it’s decommissioned in 2... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Live From the Launch Pad: Lessons Learned From the Shuttle Tweetup | Spend your own money to travel to Florida during its least pleasant season, bum a ride to a rented house split with strangers, and wake up on a couch before dawn multiple days in a row. That’s no vacation – unless NASA requests your company... |
| May 30, 2011 | A history of Memorial Day and medicine: Healthcare on the battlefield | Medicine has much to be grateful for to war, but I wish we’d find a peaceful way to make these advances.
Here are just a few
In 1718, Jean Louis Petit, a French surgeon, invented a screw tourniquet to control bleeding. The screw tourniquet ... |
| Apr 29, 2011 | James Cameron and Richard Branson Have Competition For Underwater Dominance | Written by Michael d'Estries |
| Mar 31, 2011 | End Of The Road For Spirit Mars Rover? | Although the Mars rovers have gone way, way beyond the call of duty (the original mission was for 90 days; Opportunity is still active after more than six years), the dream has to end sometime — and evidence is mounting that for Spirit, the... |
| Mar 15, 2011 | Platform Tracks Dangers to World’s Historic Sites | The Global Heritage Fund has launched a web-based global tracking platform that identifies, monitors and communicates threatened sites in developing countries to scientists, governments and local activists.
The Global Heritage Network bring... |
| Feb 13, 2011 | The End Of History, Part II | The world is quaking. Egypt and Tunisia are overthrown; Algeria, Gabon, Jordan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are rocking. Some say this is thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Others, notably Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov, say that social media ... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | A Rose By Any Other Name Would Appear Somewhere in this Database of 1.25 Million Plants | The Plant List is the largest, most exhaustive listing of plants in the world’s history. In fact, it is a list of every single known plant on earth, over a million. And it’s all available in one place online to anyone, not just academics.
T... |
| Dec 13, 2010 | Media watch: Tuna warning gains traction | Two of the more prominent news outlets in the United States took seafood to task recently. In late November, NBC’s popular morning show “Today” called out imported seafood for containing trace amounts of banned substances, while in early De... |
| Dec 4, 2010 | Here Comes The Wetware | Throw out your touchscreens, kibosh your Kinects: thought-controlled computing is the new new thing. Brain-computer interface technology has been simmering for years, and seems finally ready to bubble out of research labs and into the real ... |
| Nov 22, 2010 | Acoustic Archaeology? Meet the Web | Acoustic archaeology is a burgeoning field of inquiry into the past. The discipline seeks to understand how sound played a role in a given culture, using the artifacts of that culture and to abstract and reproduce sound from their artifacts... |
| Sep 30, 2010 | Orange Alert: Potentially Habitable Planet Found | Just as the rumors of a UN-appointed alien ambassador are settling down, astrophysicists have reported the discovery of the first potentially life-sustaining planet outside of our solar system. This conclusion is based on 11 years of observ... |
| Sep 15, 2010 | Media watch: Spotlight’s on GM salmon | Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s preliminary determination early this month that genetically modified salmon is safe to eat, mainstream media outlets across the globe are eating up the controversy.
At stake is the approval ... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Apple Introduces us to the Smart Bike
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Many bicyclists desire accessing different information as they ride, such as speed, position, heart rate, power or other information related to components of the bicycle. To provide such information to the cyclist during t... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Technologies old and new played roles in cracking Russian spy ring | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Anna Chapman, the alleged femme fatale who was pa... |
| Jun 30, 2010 | Technologies old and new played roles in cracking Russian spy ring | Anna Chapman, the alleged femme fatale who was part of a Russian spy ring, never communicated face-to-face with one of her Russian government contacts. Rather, she went to coffee shops in Manhattan, hopped on a Wi-Fi network, and chatted wi... |
| Jun 1, 2010 | Apple's Vision of a Solar Cell iPhone Supports Prototype in the Wild
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In Apple's patent FIG. 8 we see a depiction of a block diagram illustrating various functional modules associated with this patent including one or m... |
| May 19, 2010 | Voyager 2 likely suffering from "flipped bit syndrome" | The Voyager 2 transmission hiccup appears to have been identified. The problem? “A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1,” said JPL’s Veronia McGregor. As I’ve said countless times to end users complaining about “com... |
| Mar 18, 2010 | Media watch: Earthquake’s impact | Perhaps the biggest news story worldwide over the past month was that of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake that rocked Chile, leaving more than 700 dead. Despite Chile being the world’s second-largest salmon producer, finding stories in the main... |
| Feb 23, 2010 | As Cars Get More Complicated, Maybe Open Source Is The Way | Back in 1999, a well-circulated false press release made the rounds, supposedly written in response to Bill Gates’ jab at the auto industry at COMDEX that year. The memo joked: |
| Dec 28, 2009 | Avatar: The Making of the Bootleg | A (four day old now) spoof of all the “making of Avatar” videos is out there. It makes fun of James Cameron’s 15 year journey to create Avatar. And yes, telesync versions of Avatar are available on BitTorrent now. And watching it that way i... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Discovery Communications Launches Science and Tech News Site | Discovery Communications is deepening its investment in online content with the launch of science and technology new site DiscoveryNews. Discovery is also launching a companion iPhone app, which costs $0.99 on the App Store.
Discovery News ... |
| Texture of shark’s skin inspires a unique approach to bacteria control for healthcare | The insides of these fearsome fish may be harboring drug-resistant bacteria, but apparently, the outsides are doing just the opposite. And now a synthetic surface designed to mimic the bacterial-resistant properties of shark skin is making ... |
| GSK gene therapy close to EU submission, CRISPR closes new cash, Takeda settles Actos (Morning Read) | TOP STORIES
Takeda has agreed to pay $2.4 billion to settle the Actos cancer lawsuits.
NEA, Celgene and SROne have lead a $60 million+ round for CRISPR Therapeutics.
It looks like GlaxoSmithKline will be the first big pharma company to file... |
| Cold plasma startup gets $1 million for anti-infection wound healing device | Over the past few years, cold plasma has gotten the attention of a few medical device companies looking to use the technology to prevent infection and promote healing of difficult-to-treat wounds, burns, diabetic and venous ulcers, and surg... |
| PatientsLikeMe wants to convince patients to share health data through social media campaign | If consumers knew the impact their health data could have on advancing scientific research, would they be willing to donate it? That’s the goal of a healthcare marketing campaign by PatientsLikeMe. It’s launched a series of public service a... |
| A history of Memorial Day and medicine: Healthcare on the battlefield | Medicine has much to be grateful for to war, but I wish we’d find a peaceful way to make these advances.
Here are just a few
In 1718, Jean Louis Petit, a French surgeon, invented a screw tourniquet to control bleeding. The screw tourniquet ... |