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Science Daily
April 29, 2018
Biomedical engineers at the University of California, Davis, have developed a new technique for measuring blood flow in the human brain, which could be used in patients with stroke or traumatic brain injury, for example. The new technique, based on conventional digital camera technology, could beÃâà...
TechCrunch
April 29, 2018
I was fortunate to start my venture career at a fund specializing in funding “Frontier” technology companies. Real-estate was white hot, banks were practically giving away money, and VCs were hungry to fund hot startups. I quickly found myself in the same room as mainstream software investors looking forÃâà...
Independent Online
April 29, 2018
DURBAN - Google is looking to improve the ways that people text on an Android phone to make it as good as other messaging apps. The new technology is going to be called Chat and it is based on a standard called the "Universal Profile for Rich Communication Services". Google is also pausing theirÃâà...
WCPO
April 29, 2018
BATAVIA, Ohio – Criticizing 911 technology as obsolete, John Kiskaden can explain why rescuers might not be able to find you or your car when you call 911 on a cell phone. While the tragic death of Kyle Plush has put the Cincinnati 911 call center and police officers under scrutiny, it has also raisedÃâà...
Science Daily
April 29, 2018
The Energy Materials and Surface Sciences Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), led by Prof. Yabing Qi, has developed devices using a new perovskite material that is stable, efficient and relatively cheap to produce, paving the way for their use in the solarÃâà...
WV News
April 29, 2018
“He still practices, but he focuses more on medical technology and innovations and what's coming out from the technology perspective.” ... “Aligning the technology with the incentives and how we pay for healthcare can really move the needle particularly when we start focusing more on prevention and theÃâà...
The Hill
April 29, 2018
“Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” Sun Tzu accurately described our national cyber warfare strategy over two thousand years ago. Finally, a plan has been sent to Congress to deter and respond to attacks in cyberspace. Now what's ourÃâà...
Hamilton Journal News
April 29, 2018
Every day, Maurice Maxwell, executive director of Family Service of Middletown, sees the faces of poverty. They walk into the food pantry by the hundreds each month, filling their cardboard boxes with groceries and clothing. The agency has between 600 to 700 in-takes a month, and each person is allowedÃâà...
KRQE News 13
April 29, 2018
Technology companies whose devices and constantly scrolling online services have driven us to distraction are beginning to acknowledge that their products can be a waste of time. Some of them now say they're trying to help. Microsoft is rolling out a free update to its Windows 10 computer operatingÃâà...
UQ News
April 27, 2018
A new research hub is set to transform Australia's medical technology sector by developing cost-competitive technologies for the rapid production of medical devices. Researchers from The University of Queensland's Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology have teamed up withÃâà...
Press Herald
April 27, 2018
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks climbed Thursday as Facebook led a rally by technology companies. Most of the market moved higher as interest rates declined from the four-year highs reached over the past few days. Facebook saw its stock price wither last month after its data privacy scandal, but sharesÃâà...
South China Morning Post
April 27, 2018
Casual watchers of the tech phenomenon could be forgiven for thinking that, for all the talk of intelligent robots, sentient algorithms and autonomous vehicles, technology's wheels have rather come off. But for all its recent travails, global technology remains the best performing sector of 2018, outperformingÃâà...
KTVA
April 27, 2018
Reality Check: Taxis versus technology. Thursday, April 26th 2018, 1:57 pm AKDT by John Tracy. Updated: Thursday, April 26th 2018, 5:57 pm AKDT. These are tough times to be a taxi driver in Anchorage-- and they have not been shy about letting the assembly and City Hall know, but their road is paved with someÃâà...
TheStreet.com
April 27, 2018
Did you miss "Mad Money" on CNBC? If so, here are some of Jim Cramer's top takeaways. For his "Executive Decision" segment, Cramer sat down with Patrick Doyle and Richard Allison, the outgoing and incoming CEOs of Domino's Pizza (DPZ) , which just posted a 23-cents-a-share earnings beat on aÃâà...
High Plains Journal (blog)
April 27, 2018
I am by no means an engineer but I'm always fascinated by what technology can do. When I worked in the daily newspapers I started with a typewriter and my copy was given to a typesetter who put my story into a form that could be trimmed and pasted on page that served as the blueprint for getting to theÃâà...
Government Technology
April 27, 2018
BALTIMORE — State CIOs name security and risk management as their No. 1 priorities, according to an annual survey from the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO) released at the end of last year. Their concern is not without merit, as cyberattacks and ransomware incidentsÃâà...
Windows Central
April 26, 2018
Patent trolls are common in the technology industry and it seems like "Terminal Reality and Infernal Technologies" is targeting Microsoft this time. You might remember the name from a complaint involving EA from 2015. While that case was settled around October 2017, it seems like the company has a newÃâà...
ComputerWeekly.com
April 26, 2018
The CEO of of the UK's National Cyber Security Centre – a branch of GCHQ – Ciaran Martin, has held bilateral meetings with Eviatar Matania, head of the National Cyber Bureau in the Prime Minister's office of Israel, to discuss technological collaboration, policy and managing responses to cyber securityÃâà...
Civilrights.org
April 26, 2018
WASHINGTON – The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Upturn, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law, and 39 leading civil rights, racial justice, and community organizations today shared a series of recommendations with the “artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board”Ãâà...
Independent Online
April 26, 2018
Imagine the type of product innovation we would be enjoying today if more girls and women were encouraged to follow careers in technology decades ago. Imagine the types of global problems we could be addressing. Problems relating to fertility, childcare, sexual harassment - all problems that affectÃâà...
Harvard Business Review
April 26, 2018
In 1997, health information technology and digitial health pioneer Warner Slack wrote his bold and prophetic book, Cybermedicine: How Computing Empowers Doctors and Patients for Better Care. Slack argued that “the electronic digital computer, with its capacity to hold large amounts of data and toÃâà...
The Economist
April 26, 2018
TECHNOLOGY has transformed finance. Consumers bank and buy their insurance policies online. They use technology to manage their pensions and other investment portfolios. But can tech improve returns? Only if it is used wisely. If it is cheaper to trade, then costs will take a smaller chunk out ofÃâà...
CNET
April 25, 2018
If you watch videos on Facebook, good news: They'll soon be showing up on your phone or PC faster. The world's largest social network has begun using new video compression technology called AV1, it announced at the Video @Scale conference Wednesday and in a blog post. AV1 is developed by aÃâà...
Inside Higher Ed
April 25, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO -- The hundreds of college trustees and presidents in the audience here Sunday might have been forgiven if they flinched a bit when Jaime Casap started speaking about his background as Google's primary advocate for "trying to bring technology into the education space." NormallyÃâà...
CryptoSlate
April 25, 2018
With “blockchain technology” grabbing most of the headlines when it comes to crypto-innovation, IOTA is offering users with an all-new digital framework that promises to introduce a similar level of innovation but within a much larger, industrial scale. IOTA's key market driver is its native technologicalÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 25, 2018
The newest Steven Soderbergh movie, “Unsane,” was shot entirely on an iPhone 7 Plus using technology from two Seattle startups: Moment, which makes mobile-phone camera lenses, and FiLMiC, which has developed an app to bring high-end video capability to smartphones.
eMarketer
April 25, 2018
Marketers want to personalize their messaging, but they struggle to find the right technology to do so. In a February survey of 504 UK and US marketers by OnBrand and Bynder, 90% of respondents said they have trouble finding the right technology to extend their branding. Subsequently, they indicatedÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
April 25, 2018
... also marks a new direction for MIT Technology Review. From now on, each of our bimonthly print issues will cover a single topic. Our aim will be to leave you with a better grasp of a complex technological issue and all its ramifications for the world. Please write to gideon.lichfield@technologyreview.comÃâà...
Economic Times
April 25, 2018
In my view, India's momentum is building tremendously — and it is technology that's making it happen, opening up even bigger opportunities for growth, inclusion, and further investment. Consider the example of Reliance Jio, which provides broadband services to customers across India. Thanks toÃâà...
KPRC Click2Houston
April 25, 2018
HOUSTON - Whether you live in Katy, the Woodlands, Friendswood or Baytown, the morning commute can be painfully long as you sit in traffic waiting for lights to turn green. What if you got a heads up, hundreds of feet from the intersection, letting you know when the red light will change? It's alreadyÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 24, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Steep drops in technology, industrial stocks pull Dow Jones industrial average down 600 points. The Associated Press. Next Story. Ex-Yahoo paying $35M to settle SEC charges over 2014 hack Ãâ÷ Previous Story. MPAA head says theaters will survive rise of streaming sites Ãâ÷ Contact.
ITProPortal
April 24, 2018
It's almost 40 years since Bill Gates stated his aim of a computer on every desk and in every home and much has changed since then. Today we all carry more powerful computers in our pockets than used for the first moon landing – and they are certainly more connected. The internet has becomeÃâà...
Entrepreneur
April 24, 2018
During the second half of 2015, when the Reserve Bank of India issued small finance bank license to 10 institutions of around 70 applicants, the regulator had to edge up in its goal to achieve financial inclusion. While upgrading to small finance banks, these financial companies, largely microfinanceÃâà...
The Hill
April 24, 2018
But while technology has created these new challenges, it may also hold out some potential solutions. In a recent paper, we explore how new tools in machine learning, text analysis, and artificial intelligence can improve how the government interacts with the public. These new technological advances canÃâà...
Ars Technica
April 24, 2018
Last, month we asked representatives from a whole range of generational cohorts what they liked about the time into which they were born. As a member of the tail end of Generation X (sometimes referred to as a "xennial," or by my preferred nomenclature, "the Oregon Trail generation"), my 40-year-old selfÃâà...
Kokomo Tribune
April 23, 2018
KOKOMO - Green Cubes Technology, globally headquartered in Kokomo, today announced plans to dramatically expand its full-time workforce by 2021 and construct a 20,000-square-foot facility on the city's south side. The company, which develops and manufactures advanced battery power systems forÃâà...
Voice of America
April 23, 2018
"We take the DNA out of spiders, put it in yeast, grow it in a big tank like brewing beer or wine and then purify the material, the polymer and spin it into fibers so it's a very deep technology that's required many years to develop," Dan Widmaier, chief executive officer and co-founder of Bolt Threads.
ConsumerReports.org
April 23, 2018
Automakers worldwide increasingly talk about electrifying their fleets, but it doesn't mean every future car or truck will need to be plugged in. Instead, the first wave of this advance is 48-volt technology. The new onboard battery systems can provide extra juice to run infotainment and advanced safetyÃâà...
Onrec
April 23, 2018
There are some technologies which are affordable when it comes to incorporate them in recruitment. It enables the business to recruit many valuable people. The technology works very fast in selecting people. There is an application tracking system that can manage all the applications of candidates.
South China Morning Post
April 23, 2018
“It is the compelling obligation for big companies to compete in core technology,” Ma said during the first Digital China Summit in Fuzhou. “A real company is not determined by its market value or market share, but how much responsibility it takes and whether it has mastered core and key technologies.”.
SpaceNews
April 23, 2018
But he decided to step on the stage and address the nation's largest gathering of geospatial intelligence professionals to relay a message that the military is in the market for cutting-edge technology. “The reason I agreed to speak is that a lot of capacity and technology remains untapped,” Kernan said in aÃâà...
Stuff.co.nz
April 23, 2018
... it into a wild west for new technology. You can listen to the podcast on iTunes or Android. New Zealand is often touted as an innovation hub at the bottom of the world, but in recent times those charged with keeping consumers safe in an ever-changing technological world seem to be dragging their feet.
The Straits Times
April 23, 2018
In February, 10 vegetable farming land parcels in Lim Chu Kang were awarded to eight companies based on their concept proposals rather than the amount of the bid they submitted. They were judged on ideas based on greater productivity, technological innovation and efficient use of scarce resources.
NPR
April 23, 2018
Former Drug Enforcement Administration official Mike Vigil tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro why adding more tech to the battle against Mexican heroin production is unlikely to do much. Facebook; Twitter; Flipboard; Email. Get The Stories That Grabbed Us This Week. Delivered to your inbox, these are theÃâà...
Harvard Crimson
April 23, 2018
Scientists even claimed that technology reshaped our brains, which reshaped technology in a continuous feedback loop. As students, we bought into this vision of technological fortitude excessively—counselors, parents, and peers told us to major in technology-related fields precisely because we had noÃâà...
wtkr.com
April 23, 2018
CIA officers working overseas used to expect to be followed after hours by adversarial spies hoping to find their sources. But now, foreign spies often don't need to bother because technology can do it for them, said Dawn Meyerriecks, deputy director of the CIA's science and technology division.
South China Morning Post
April 23, 2018
Chinese internet giants Alibaba Group Holding and Tencent Holdings are calling for the country's enterprises to own “core technology” amid a debate over its dependence on foreign know-how after the US government banned American firms from doing business with telecommunications equipment makerÃâà...
Bustle
April 23, 2018
For all the behind-the-scenes looks viewers got at the construction of their synthetic bodies last season, the actual technology that made them tick wasn't unveiled until now. Season 2 is playing out across multiple timelines once again, with dual narratives playing out shortly after Dolores' revolution beganÃâà...
Motley Fool
April 23, 2018
As Netflix ventures further into producing and owning original content, it's also looking to apply its technological prowess to the process of delivering that content, to see if it can be done more efficiently. Netflix also pointed out that some of the increase in general and administrative expenses in the currentÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
April 23, 2018
This article is introducing a quantitative system based on quality and value to pick stocks in the technology sector. The main idea is not that investors should build a complete investment thesis on a stock based solely on the numbers, you still need to analyze the business behind the numbers in order toÃâà...
