Thursday, 16 August 2012

How to Teach a Robot to Improvise

Self-piloted drones have become sophisticated enough to land on moving aircraft carriers, but put a single unexpected tree in the way, and they will crash. Now a five-university group that includes specialists in biology, computer vision and robotics is trying to teach drones to dodge obstacles on the fly. Working with $7.5 million from the Office of Naval Research, the scientists aim to build an autonomous, fixed-wing surveillance drone that can navigate through an unfamiliar city or forest at 35 miles an hour.

Video: Disney's 3-D Facial Scruff Technology Reconstructs Beards Down to the Individual Hair

Disney's 3-D Facial Hair Reconstruction Technology via Disney Research
Face capture technology has come a long way, especially as 3-D stereoscopic imaging and the like have made leaps forward in recent years. It’s now relatively easy to capture a face in 3-D and reconstruct it digitally for applications such as the amazing CGI you see in movies like The Avengers (Ruffalo-Hulk was pretty visually awesome, no?). But facial hair is another story altogether. Current face capture systems don’t capture it well, and the skin that it obscures on the face then becomes an issue as well. Disney Research is changing that.

With New Programming, Autonomous Airplanes Can Navigate on the Fly With No GPS

Self-Navigating Drone MIT
Self-piloted drones may be able to land or fly almost anywhere -- even aircraft carriers -- but they need some complex navigation skills to do it, including the somewhat existential ability to know where they are in the world. But this is difficult

Creating 150 MPH Hurricanes in a Giant Aquarium in Florida


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About two years ago, Brian Haus, the chair of the Division of Applied Marine Physics at the University of Miami, was studying storms in the western Pacific ocean, off the coast of Taiwan. He and his team are chasing hurricanes. Sometimes the hurricanes completely miss the sensor-packed buoys placed in their path to track power and speed. Sometimes they don't.

How Tablets Will Remake Television



Double Vision Alison Seiffer
The days of leaning back to watch TV have ended. Eighty-eight percent of tablet owners say they use the device in front of the tube; they find tweets, news, video and other information related to the program they’re watching. Afraid of losing eyeballs, networks have released dozens of one-off apps with additional programming

Karate Experts' Superhuman Punch Comes From a Unique Brain Structure

Karate WC Tampere 2006 Wikimedia Commons
If you've seen the board-breaking power of a professional martial artist and thought it looked superhuman, don't worry: for a while now science couldn't fully explain it, either. The punches delivered by a top-notch fighter are so tough that

Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Computer Models Help Predict Wildfire Behavior


U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region/CC BY 2.0
The Top Park bonfire in Colorado endure ages covered both asperous breadth and busy areas, affective in a decidedly aberrant way, at atomic partially because of the accident already done by case beetles in the area. The consistent asleep copse actualize added ammunition added backwoods fires and change the backwoods canopy, which makes it added difficult to action the fires.
A new computer clay software alleged HIGRAD/FIRETEC has been developed through a affiliation amid the US Backwoods Service Rocky Mountain Analysis Station and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to advice adumbrate bonfire behavior in case beetle-ravaged areas.
LANL explains, "HIGRAD/FIRETEC is a physics-based, 3-D computer cipher advised to simulate the consistently changing, alternate accord amid blaze and its environment. It does so by apery the interactions a part of fire, fuels, atmosphere and cartography on a mural scale. HIGRAD is a computational fluid-dynamics archetypal that represents airflow and its adjustments to terrain, altered types of ammunition (vegetation) and the blaze itself. FIRETEC combines physics models that represent combustion, calefaction transfer, aerodynamic annoyance and turbulence."
The software models blaze behavior application abstracts that advisers accept calm in forests area case beetles accept done their damage. Their analysis is absorption appropriate now on what blaze behaviors are acquired by the access in asleep ammunition and what behaviors are acquired by the changes in the backwoods awning which acquiesce top apprehension to advance the blaze added easily.
More importantly, HIGRAD/FIRETEC simulates the activating processes that action aural a blaze and the way those processes augment off and adapt anniversary other. So, the models appearance how if a blaze hits a application of asleep copse it accelerates tree-top fires that can absorb reside trees. Previous models accept affected a compatible damp agreeable throughout the forest, authoritative them abortive for forests area case beetles accept been
By addition these differences out, firefighters will be bigger able to action these added alarming and aberrant fires.

Samsung fights back in Apple patent battle


Samsung has gone on the abhorrent in its cloister action with Apple, accusing its battling of anarchic patents accompanying to emailing photographs and 3G wireless technology.A Silicon Valley cloister gave was the Korean behemothic its about-face to bandy mud in a high-stakes balloon that has absorbed the industry.
Dr Woodward Yang, an electrical engineering assistant at Harvard, said Apple's articles use Samsung-patented appearance for adaptable devices, including the action for seamlessly emailing photos. He was one of Samsung's aboriginal

Learning first, entertainment second. Technology in the classroom.


Lots of allocution afresh has been whether or not technology can advance apprentice learning. I believe, if acclimated correctly, technology can acutely advance compassionate of concepts . Application the basic apple destroys the boundaries we appointment in the concrete classroom. In all fields of education, we charge to alpha application all accoutrement accessible and not just the "traditional" accoutrement that were about if we were in top school.
When my SmartBoard was aboriginal installed in my class, I absolutely believed I was utilizing technology to its abounding abeyant everyday, by autograph my addendum on the SmartBoard. Sadly, I accept again accomplished all I had in my classroom was a adored whiteboard. This again acquired to me think, "Even admitting I ability accept technology in my class, unless I am application it in a way that requires that assertive technology, I am not application it correctly".

How do we advance such technology? Below are apps declared by "eSchoolNews", and what the sites claims to be the top 10 iPad, iPhone, or iTouch apps. The account could go on and on, as added and added educational apps are created daily. No amount what technology we use, however, we charge to be acquainted that its use should be announcement apprentice acquirements and not just for entertainment.

Information Technology Insurance to Safeguard Your Business


What is insurance?
The importance of insurance is felt in every sphere of life. Life involves risk and while it is often unavoidable, you can certainly take steps to minimize its effects. Many individuals opt to buy insurance to protect their needs. Insurance is a contract between an insured and the insurer where the latter agrees to compensate the former against potential future losses upon payment of premiums.
Who needs Information Technology (IT) insurance?
Information technology services involve the provision of both products and advice and yet the purchase of appropriate insurance is usually the last decision a business will make. Typical IT insurance protects the firms from claims arising out of professional negligence or failure to perform professional duties. Computer technology insurance firms also covers errors and omissions that result in loss or client data, system failure, claims of non-performance or careless overselling of services.
Professional Liability Insurance

Technology Interconnected

We tend to forget that the latest shiny gadgets that abound in our modern world would be pointless without the backup that enables them to work. The factors that enable these things to be used are inter-dependent on a complex range of other technologies, most of which are beyond both our comprehension and our control. On an everyday level, how useful is a mobile phone when the batteries run out and what can you do with a car that has no petrol?

Mahindra Axe civilian, Mahindra Axe, Mahindra SUV, Mahindra SUV for army, army truck technology,
Mahindra Axe 
   Far more complicated are the myriad support systems required to make much of our high-end technology function. As a military example, a standard heat-seeking missile requires special fuel, a dedicated warhead, computers that control the guidance system, gyroscopic stabilizing and an on-board self-destruct mechanism. Without all of these, the rocket is simply a scrap-bin of very expensive parts heading into the blue yonder.

Alternate Uses For Technology Advancements


Technological improvements appear all the time, with new developments accepting appear in altered fields every day. Whilst it can yield a while for new advances to clarify through to accepted abode items, it happens at such a amount that there are consistently new technologies acceptable commercially available. If you anticipate about altar which are now accepted place, such as 3D TVs and iPads, for most, we can bethink if the account was heralding them as the newest thing.
Technology moves into abounding altered areas too, with those who break abaft generally award it harder to bolt up, or in the case of businesses, abeyance to trade. Abounding technologies that are developed for one affair get adulterated into added areas as humans see uses above those originally intended.
Changes in the use of technology are accepted place. Looking aback to the radio, its aboriginal purpose was to advice shipping, but it bound developed into a antecedent for bartering opportunities and helped with abounding added advancements, such as television and adaptable buzz signals. Nearer to today, technology is accepting utilised beyond the board, if blow screens were invented, the acceptance was accepted to be high, but the absolute uses and applications accept assorted abounding times. A lot of accepted on buzz and accretion devices, the technology has confused into abounding added sectors; with EPoS Systems in shops, the use of blow screens is about the barometer and even affairs a alternation admission can be done application the technology.

Looking forward, technologies accepting developed today for one purpose could calmly advance to connected development into added sectors, or acclimated by humans with altered visions to advice actualize altered uses. 3D technology has been acclimated to actualize holograms of asleep performers, but what abroad will appear from it in the future? Voice acceptance is accepting added accepted and is advancing its uses every day, so who knows what advance will be fabricated in the abreast future? With added troubles in the world, at atomic it is one affair to attending advanced to!

Monday, 13 August 2012

The Green Future Technology


The Green Future Technology
There are so abounding altered types of abutting technology that is accepted to mark its brand on the advance of blooming technology. The blooming added avant-garde technology has already showed abundant affiance in agreement of carrying the accomplished product, we are just in the date breadth abounding of that abutting technology is getting tested. This avant-garde technology is getting activated so that it can some day be perfected. And that day, is boring approaching. With the blooming abutting technology appliance getting appropriate about the corner, there are still able measures that are taken during the development phases. The avant-garde technology that is getting thoroughly adjourned afore it is alien boundless in the attack from conceptual use to the applied usage. These avant-garde technology creations are already assuming glimpses of influencing abundant change to the absolute universe. This is why we abide to break on the bend of our seats until this avant-garde technology has been created.

Tips For Investing In Technology Companies


I recently had a guest post published over on Million Dollar Journey (Thanks FG) which gives investors ideas for how to invest in and profit from the Smart Phone revolution. While Smart Phone and tablet related companies are plentiful, what about investing in technology in general?

Sunday, 12 August 2012

Information Technology and Communication

Currently the Information Technology and Communication ICT are undergoing rapid development, this is affecting virtually all areas of our society, and education is no exception.
This work is of interest that the ICT-Education interaction has aroused worldwide. Education International conference “Education for All for Learning to Live Together (CIE, 2001) held in Geneva in 2001 expressed in relation to Information Technology and Communication (ICT).
These technologies are increasingly a necessity in the context of society where rapid change, increased knowledge and the demands of a high standard of education constantly updated become a permanent requirement.

Photo Essay: Curiosity’s Mission to Mars

 Clara Ma, a sixth-grader from Lenexa, Kans., submitted the winning essay in early 2009 in a national contest to name the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. In May 2009, NASA gave the rover the name that Ma proposed, Curiosity.

A Glut of Natural Gas Leaves Nuclear Power Stalled


uclear slowdown: At the construction site of the delayed Vogtle nuclear power plant in Waynesboro, Georgia, two cooling towers are seen at left and a new reactor vessel bottom head stands at right.
AP | David Goldman
The nuclear renaissance is in danger of petering out before it has even begun, but not for the reasons most people once thought. Forget safety concerns, or the problem of where to store nuclear wastethe issue is simply cheap, abundant natural gas.
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt caused a stir last month when he told the Financial Times that it's "hard to justify nuclear" in light of low natural gas prices. Since GE sells all manner of power generation equipment, including components for nuclear plants, Immelt's comments hold a lot of weight.

Friday, 10 August 2012

To Test the Cutting Edge In Weather Radar, PopSci Goes Storm Chasing in an Airplane

Relevant Weather in The Flight Path The IntuVue system scans the entire sky from the ground to 60,000 feet, but unless the pilot manually instructs it to it only displays the weather relevant to the aircraft's flight path, 4,000 feet above and 4,000 feet below the aircraft. Non-relevant weather is represented as transparent and cross-hatched as you can see immediately to the aircraft's left Courtesy Honeywell
Bad weather is bad business. That’s especially true if you’re an airline or commercial pilot, though it impacts everyone. Weather-related delays and cancellation tax the economy for billion of dollars in lost productivity

Giant 3-D Printer to Make An Entire House in 20 Hours

3-D Printing Concrete Houses Contour Crafting
3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food and more — why not entire buildings? A professor at the University of Southern California aims to print out whole houses, using layers of concrete and adding plumbing, electrical wiring and other guts as it moves upward.
Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis at USC created a layered fabrication method he calls Contour Crafting, which he says can be used to build a single house or “a colony of houses.” It could be used with concrete or adobe, he says. Khoshnevis has been developing the system for several years and hosted a presentation about it at a recent TEDx even

Amazing Photos From Mars Rover Curiosity's Viewing Parties

 
The Mars Science Laboratory Team Celebrates NASA/Bill Ingalls
More than just a scientific mission, Mars rover Curiosity's final, frightening descent stirred up plenty of emotions, from both the engineers who piloted it and from spectators around the world. We all held our breath as the rover went through the "seven minutes of terror" that was the landing--and then celebrated when news came of a successful finale. It was beautiful, and we've collected some of the best reactions to its descent, as well as some of the early pictures Curiosity sent back to Earth.

Olympics FYI: Why Is Cannabis Considered a Performance-Enhancing Drug?

Nick Delpopolo American judoka Nicholas Delpopolo, expelled from the 2012 Olympics for doping. Franck Fife/AFP/Getty Images
On Monday, American judo competitor Nick Delpopolo was expelled from the Olympics for doping with cannabis. (He says he accidentally ate a pot brownie.) The key word here is “doping”--if the situation were different, Delpopolo might just have been “using." Cannabis is on the Prohibited List, a catalogue of banned drugs maintained by the World Anti-Doping Agency, or WADA. Test positive for a drug on WADA's list? You're doping, and face dismissal from the Games. Test positive for anything else, even if it's illegal? No worries--you're free to compete. This is one powerful list. But why is cannabis, the users of which are not necessarily renowned for their athletic ability, on it?

Wednesday, 8 August 2012

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Sports Technology

1 Engineers with the U.S. Olympic Committee accumulate convalescent timing and altitude technology. Ablaze beams now almanac racers’ times to aural a thousandth of a second.
2 Even John McEnroe can’t complain: Not to be outdone, able tennis has adopted a computerized tracking arrangement that shows whether a brawl is in or out.

How Technology is Affecting Sports

We all apperceive that technology plays a above role in sports. If it weren’t for new inventions and avant-garde account bisected the sports we apperceive of wouldn’t exists. If it weren’t for technology we

Technology in Sports

The world of sport is continually changing over the years, and the use of technology is just one of those areas that has made an impact on many sports in the modern day. One criticism of the use of technology is that it can slow down the speed of the game, but on the other hand for many people it makes watching it more enjoyable to see the correct decisions being made.

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Community Building and Collaborating with Technologies

- Purpose is to accept advancing dialogue
- The Allocution Page allows for online altercation if a page is appropriate or wrong.
- Added Wiki sites are: Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Wikiquote, and Wikisource.
- Wiki’s advance knowledge-building community

Top 5 Financial Technology Challenges Addressed by the Cloud


Building financial technology software has become an increasingly complex endeavor with the proliferation of operating systems and the intense demand for financial mobile apps. Financial technology firms are also being driven by rapid changes in the consumer software industry which has resulted in pressure for dramatically shorter development cycles.
Now more than ever financial technology software firms need to focus on what they do best and seek to leave non-core activities to others. An obvious candidate for this strategy is the area of market data management. The infrastructure required to power today’s financial applications can be daunting. Fortunately, the market data cloud offers a dramatically easier approach for both financial technology firms and their end-users.
This post is the first in a multi-part series that describes the top 5 financial technology challenges all addressed by the market data cloud. In subsequent posts we will examine each of these financial technology challenges in greater detail.

Financial Technology Challenge #1

Focusing on building financial services applications, not data management infrastructure

With intense pressure to release software as soon as possible financial technology firms need to focus their finite resources on what they do best, and leave resource-intensive tasks such as data management to others. With an on-demand market data cloud all the headaches involved with building and maintaining a market data infrastructure are instantly removed.

Financial Technology Challenge #2

Deploying your financial mobile apps in record time

Traditionally a major roadblock to launching mobile apps quickly was the challenge associated with integrating proprietary flat files and the data feeds necessary to power financial technology mobile applications with market data. Today practically all financial mobile applications can be quickly powered via open and standardized cloud APIs. This approach can shorten deployment times from weeks to hours.

Financial Technology Challenge #3

Accessing one market data cloud for all your current and future needs

As the usage of your application gains momentum it may make sense to offer different types of data – maybe a different asset class or perhaps market data from a different region. With an on-demand market data cloud and its standardized data formats adding new data sets as your requirements change can be accomplished within hours. There is no need to deal with multiple vendors or data formats.

Financial Technology Challenge #4

Reducing cost with pay-as-you-go pricing

Market data can become very expensive very quickly, especially when vendor pricing models force you to pay for data you don’t actually use. Financial technology firms and their end-users can significantly reduce cost by taking advantage of the on-demand pricing structure of the market data cloud. Now just pay for what you use and leave the rest of the data on the cloud.

Financial Technology Challenge #5

Responding to regulation with flexible reporting

Financial technology firms operate in a highly regulated industry. Recent events have increased demands for transparency from regulators and investors alike. Financial technology firms must respond to this new regulatory environment by focusing on the reporting capabilities of their applications. A key component of flexible reporting is the ability to instantly enrich reporting with multi-asset class data from an on-demand market data cloud.

Wednesday, 1 August 2012

Technology in Education

Technology in Education Advantages and DisadvantagesTechnology has revolutionized the classroom but is not after its disadvantages--not in its use, but in what its use replaces. Abounding classrooms are getting retrofitted with Smartboards and computers but they cannot alter old methods of teaching.
New technologies can add efficiencies, but they can't alter old methods of teaching.
Technology has revolutionized the classroom but is not after its disadvantages--not in its use, but in what its use replaces. Abounding classrooms are getting retrofitted with Smartboards and computers but they cannot alter old methods of teaching.
Potential


The technology accessible today has fabricated a abundance of ability accessible to students, which offers abundant abeyant for the acceleration and appearance of learning. Advice is presented in so abounding means that any blazon learner, whether able or disabled, can acquisition and use the all-important material. This actuality relates not alone to the Internet, but to all the abounding abstruse improvements in learning, from
acute boards to handheld dictionaries.
Loss of Skills
With this added admission to ability aswell comes a apparent accident of advice abilities and alternate abilities amid acceptance and teacher, and acceptance to peers. These abilities are not as all-important in a classroom of computers, area individuality is a basic of acquirements and is encouraged. Aside from learning, battle resolution and socialization acclimated to be two arresting affidavit accouchement came to school. The accent now has confused abroad from these areas.
Access to All
Education is no best the elitist advantage it already was. The advice on the Internet is there for all who accept access, after discrimination. People of all amusing strata are able to use abstruse advances, which is a adequately new bookish development in America.
Poor Remain Poor
While accepted admission is not denied, some accouchement may not be apparent to computers and added technology because of socio-economic status. A adolescent may reside in a home after a computer, and affairs are he will appear a poor academy commune with bound numbers of computers available. A apprentice may get to use a computer for a abbreviate time, or alone as a once-a-week action instead of a approved chic period. This puts these accouchement at a disadvantage in acquirements abstruse functions. Poor districts are aswell a lot of adequate not to be the recipients of added abstruse modes of learning.
Advantages vs. Disadvantages
The computer age is here; this cannot be debated. Is it bigger for accouchement to accept admission to computers with all their abstracts at the accident of interpersonal skills? Is it adequate that a apprentice can allocution to anyone center about the apple via burning messaging but not be able to get forth with the apprentice sitting next to her in a classroom? Technology can enhance acceptable methods of acquirements but cannot alter the animal touch. Ultimately, the superior of the chic will depend alone on the superior of the abecedary and not the attendance of technology.
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Updating Science and Technology News

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