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Mar 9, 2016
Stem Cell Breakthrough Could Let Us Grow New Human Eyes
Posted by Julius Garcia in categories: biotech/medical, materials
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rw1odkI0Nw8
Stem cell breakthrough grows new cornea material that restores some sight to blind rabbits in an experiment.
Modifying animals to improve food quality consumption.
Birds and bees are just the beginning for a burgeoning technology.
Mar 9, 2016
New York man sentenced to 16 years for trying to buy ricin on the ‘Dark Web’
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Unbelievable
Prosecutors wrote Cheng Le “appears to have been motivated principally by greed and to have been prepared to embrace the ‘risk free’ murder of countless unnamed victims.”
Mar 9, 2016
Bottlenose adds two major data sources to supercharge its smart data discovery platform
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, government
Smart data discovery company Bottlenose Inc has announced the addition of two major new sources to its ever-expanding data library: LexisNexis, which stores offline data from government, academic, and industry sources; and Flashpoint, which stores data from the deep web and the dark web.
Bottlenose co-founder and CEO Nova Spivack told me that these new integrations represent a huge boost in power for the platform, allowing businesses to better anticipate new threats and opportunities as they arise.
Spivack explained that by adding the data from LexisNexis and Flashpoint to Bottlenose’s existing sources, the platform can better detect new patterns as they form by comparing a variety of signals that might seem insignificant on their own.
Mar 9, 2016
‘Artificial pancreas’ is one of new tech devices aimed at diabetes
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, health, mobile phones, robotics/AI, wearables
Wearables and other connected devices have been available to help treat chronic conditions like asthma and heart disease for a while now. But thus far, the nation’s 30 million diabetics haven’t seen much to help them improve their health or reduce the daily grind of finger pricks and needle pokes.
The $2.5 billion connected-care industry may be off to a late start in diabetes, but it’s making up for lost time. A new breed of connected glucometers, insulin pumps and smartphone apps is hitting the market. They promise to make it easier for diabetics to manage the slow-progressing disease and keep them motivated with feedback and support. In as little as two years, the industry plans to take charge of the entire uncomfortable, time-consuming routine of checking and regulating blood-sugar levels with something called an artificial pancreas. Such systems mimic the functions of a healthy pancreas by blending continuous glucose monitoring, remote-controlled insulin pumps and artificial intelligence to maintain healthy blood-sugar levels automatically.
For Jeroen Tas, CEO of Philips’ Connected Care and Health Informatics unit, diabetes management is also personal: his daughter Kim is diabetic.
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Mar 9, 2016
The Defense Department Got Mad at DARPA For Creating Email
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: futurism
Ray Tomlinson, widely credited as the inventor of email, died this past weekend. He was 74.
By all accounts, Tomlinson was a brilliant man. And he’s being mourned around the world as the person who brought us the @ in our inboxes. The format novak@gizmodo didn’t just invent itself. Tomlinson did that. But the fascinating secret history of email was that the US Defense Department was initially angry that Tomlinson helped create it.
“It wasn’t an assignment at all, he was just fooling around; he was looking for something to do with ARPANET,” Raytheon spokeswoman Joyce Kuzman said in a statement about Tomlinson’s death.
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Mar 9, 2016
Pentagon unveils plans for ‘avatar’ fighter jets and swarms of microdrones
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military
Perdix drones were tested 150 times during the exercise in Alaska, including 72 from fighter jets.
Mar 9, 2016
Cool technology turns down the heat on high-tech equipment
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, military
Thousands of electrical components make up today’s most sophisticated systems – and without innovative cooling techniques, those systems get hot. Lockheed Martin is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) on its ICECool-Applications research program that could ultimately lead to a lighter, faster and cheaper way to cool high-powered microchips – by cooling the chips with microscopic drops of water.
This technology has applications in electronic warfare, radars, high-performance computers and data servers.
A core team of Lockheed Martin engineers is working on a solution to meet the goal of DARPA’s Inter/Intra Chip Enhanced Cooling (ICECool) program: to enhance the performance of RF MMIC power amplifiers and embedded high performance computing systems through chip-level heat removal techniques. Lockheed Martin experimentally demonstrated the effectiveness of its microfluidic cooling approach which resulted in a four-times reduction in thermal resistance and a corresponding six-times increase in RF output power when compared to conventional cooling techniques.
Mar 9, 2016
Hypersonic Arms Race Heats Up as U.S. Builds High-Speed Missiles
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: military
Defense Secretary Ash Carter disclosed last week that the Pentagon’s new high-technology weapons to deal with threats from China and Russia will include ultra-high speed missiles.
Carter revealed during a speech in California that part of the $71.8 billion for weapons research and development this year will fund “new hypersonic missiles that can fly over five times the speed of sound.”
Days earlier, the general in charge of Air Force weapons research, Maj. Gen. Thomas Masiello, revealed that two technology prototypes of hypersonic strike weapons, a scramjet powered cruise missile and a hypersonic glider, could be ready in four years.
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