Berkeley engineers join $24 million push for craniofacial repair therapies

Kevin Healy, professor of bioengineering and materials science and engineering, leads Berkeley’s role in a new craniofacial research center, C-DOCTOR. UC Berkeley is part of a California-based, six-university consortium that has been awarded $12 million by the National Institutes of Health to develop strategies for treating craniofacial defects, which affect millions of Americans.

Continue reading At new Dallas Love Field hotels, R2-D2’s cousin will deliver your extra towels

It’s not quite Rosie the robot from the Jetsons, but tandem hotels that opened recently near Dallas’ Love Field are using a hip-high robot to deliver to guest rooms a range of items including snacks, sodas and extra towels. The Botlr robot was on display Thursday as part of a ribbon cutting ceremony for the co-branded Aloft and Element hotels in the 37-acre West Love development on Mockingbird Lane.

Will blue-collar jobs get swept away by robotic cleaners?

One of Australia’s big shopping centre chains is considering introducing robotic cleaners, with trials underway at DFO Homebush in Sydney. The chunky robot, which is roughly 50 centimetres tall, is a hands-free system with 11 sensors, giving the robot a 360-degree view which allows it to “operate and clean autonomously”.

Bill Gates’ robot tax idea is flawed. Here’s why:

Recently, a spate of stories have appeared in the media speculating that advances in technology, specifically robotics and artificial intelligence, will inevitably lead to widespread job losses as workers are replaced by machines. Naturally, many commentators have suggested policy solutions to address this issue.

Nvidia, Microsoft take on cloud-based AI with HGX-1

The HGX-1 GPU accelerator chassis is made up of eight Tesla P100 GPUs, all of which utilise the new Pascal architecture, according to Nvidia. To accelerate the deployments of AI-oriented technologies, Nvidia has teamed up with Microsoft and Ingrasys to develop a “hyperscale” GPU accelerator chassis.

Cloud-compatible Wi-Fi module draws 40 A in standby

The SPWF04 Wi-Fi module features a hardware cryptographic accelerator and an SPI port for faster host communications, according to STMicroelectronics. STMicroelectronics has introduced a cloud-compatible Wi-Fi module, the SPWF04, which integrates an ARM Cortex-M4 STM32 microcontroller with a set of multi-functional GPIOs and with 2MB on-chip Flash and 256Kbyte RAM for generous code and data storage.

Why Yahoo’s iconic color is purple

Why Yahoo’s iconic color is purple Yahoo just posted an interesting video that would fit nicely in a Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/2m7DtkF SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo just posted an interesting video that would fit nicely in a time capsule: Company CEO Marissa Mayer interviewing co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo in a fireside chat, reminiscing on the Internet icon’s first 22 years. After a rocky start – Yang jokingly recalled that Filo, a teaching assistant in his computer architecture class at Stanford University, gave Yang his first-ever “B” for a midterm – they teamed up while in school to create a company whose products and services reach billions of people.

Workshop: How To Tackle The High Cost Of Prescription Drugs In The US

A recent workshop held on the doorstep of policymakers in the United States drew speakers from academic and activist circles to examine the mechanisms in US law which could help lead to lower prescription drug prices. American patients pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, often much more for the same drugs than patients in other high income areas like the European Union, numerous panellists argued.

J. Jill: Outperformer In A Challenged Market

A loyal customer base, strong e-commerce operations and data-driven organization have allowed Jill to outperform its peers in recent years. While the IPO price has been reduced in a substantial way, the valuation is still rather full, taking into account the substantial leverage position as well.

Da Vinci exhibit visits DCM until April 2

The last day to see the popular Dream with da Vinci traveling exhibit at DuPage Children’s Museum is Sunday, April 2. In the 2,000-square-foot exhibit, hands-on discovery has themes of science, technology, engineering, art and math — all linked by Leonardo da Vinci’s work and life. The Renaissance was a time of growth and learning and was the prelude to modern science.

WikiLeaks claims to reveal how CIA hacks TVs and phones all over the world

The CIA has become the preeminent hacking operation, sneaking into high-tech phones and televisions to spy on people worldwide, according to an explosive WikiLeaks publication of purported internal CIA documents on Tuesday. To hide its operations, the CIA routinely adopted hacking techniques that enabled them to appear as if they were hackers in Russia, WikiLeaks said.

Rise of Amazon leaves even more retailers in intensive care

The number of distressed U.S. retailers has tripled since the Great Recession and now stands at the highest level since the end of the downturn, according to a recent Moody’s Investors Service report. The 19 retail and clothing companies on the distressed list include Sears and Kmart owner Sears Holdings, J. Crew, Payless, Claire’s, Rue21 and True Religion.

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GNU Toolchain now accepting donations with the support of the Free Software Foundation

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA-Thursday, March 9th, 2017-The Free Software Foundation is now accepting donations to support the GNU Toolchain, a collection of foundational freely licensed software development tools. Many pieces of software depend upon the GNU Toolchain, including the GNU/Linux family of operating systems which runs the majority of Web servers, millions of personal devices and the most advanced supercomputers.

5 Synthetic Yeast Chromosomes Created

Scientists have created five synthetic yeast chromosomes and placed them inside yeast cells. The chromosomes are composed of the normal letters, or base pairs, that make up DNA, but the sequence is slightly different from those found naturally in yeast.

What Cassini’s Daring Ring-Dive Around Saturn Could Tell Us About Uranus

Artist’s impression of the Cassini spacecraft examining Saturn’s rings, which is part of the final phases of Cassini’s mission this year. Glowing in pale blue, Uranus looks like a ghostly planet in pictures taken from the only spacecraft to ever visit it: Voyager 2. Due to the planet’s great distance from Earth, follow-up studies of the planet began only in the late 1990s when telescope optics improved.

See Earth Fly Through Meteor Showers’ Wandering, Warped Paths

The dusty debris streams that cause meteor showers are much more complex than scientists had thought: They warp and change on their trips around the sun, rather than following one path, close observation has revealed. These dramatic shifts are clearly apparent in a new animation, which uses crowdsourced footage that tracks meteoroid trajectories through the sky to plot more than 45 meteor showers and their debris’ paths through the solar system.

WikiLeaks Offers to Shield Tech Firms from CIA Hacking Tools

WikiLeaks will work with technology companies to help defend them against the CIA’s hacking tools, founder Julian Assange said Thursday. The move sets up a potential conflict between Silicon Valley firms eager to protect their products and an intelligence agency stung by the radical transparency group’s disclosures.

At 35+% CAGR, Connected Car Market Potentially Worth 37.7 Million…

The connected car market is forecast to reach 37.7 million units by 2022 from 5.1 million units in 2015 at a CAGR of 35.54% during driven by rising demand for embedded infotainment system,… is the largest market for premium car, both in terms of production and sale. This factor is expected to drive the growth of the connected car market in .

Targeting cancer stem cells improves treatment effectiveness and prevents metastasis

At left, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma invasive growth, and at right, cancer stem cells in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Targeting cancer stem cells may be a more effective way to overcome cancer resistance and prevent the spread of squamous cell carcinoma – the most common head and neck cancer and the second-most common skin cancer, according to a new study by cancer researchers at the UCLA School of Dentistry.