Category: Science

V3D Announces Major New Release: EQual One – V3D’s Flagship Software Solution

V3D , the standalone software editor, pioneer of quality of service and quality of experience measurements for mobile networks, has launched a major new release: EQual One , a flagship solution that brings added value to end-users with new-use cases. EQual One by V3D is a dynamic and real-time configurable solution: installed on commercial phones and controlled Over-The-Air , it allows a massive deployment of agents gathering large amounts of data.

Qwilt Reveals Vision for Edge Cloud to Advance Future of Content and…

Edge Cloud Essential for Success of New Applications and Experiences — Such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, 360 Video — that Require High Performance, Massive Scale and Low Latency Infrastructure / EINPresswire.com / — REDWOOD CITY, CA– – Research* by a broad group of institutions and companies including Oculus, Nokia Bell Labs and Valve has unanimously concluded that low network latency is essential for the performance of Augmented Reality , Virtual Reality , 360 Degree Video and compute intensive IoT applications like self-driving cars. These requirements are driving the need for evolution in cloud computing to deliver these applications at scale.

Qwilt launches new Open Edge Cloud Platform

Qwilt, a provider of content delivery solutions, announced today the launch of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform, a next generation content and application delivery platform for Service Providers that enables a high quality streaming experience for consumers at scale through a managed platform and an open API for commercial CDNs and publishers. Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform creates a massively distributed content delivery solution that supports applications such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, Self-Driving Cars and IoT.

Investor Ideas Adds to #AI Artificial Intelligence Websites on the…

February 6, 2017 Investorideas.com, a global news source and investor resource covering actively traded sectors announces it has expanded distribution for the Investor Ideas Newswire with the recent addition of AI Investor Ideas http://www.aiinvestorideas.com , featuring news on artificial intelligence, robotics and technology. Investor Ideas was one of the founding members and beta testers for the Grid https://thegrid.io/ AI web developer.

CropIn Technology on Road to Become the Backbone of Crop Insurances,…

CropIn Technology on Road to Become the Backbone of Crop Insurances, to Benefit Over 25 Million Farmers in India by 2018 A 6- Year – Young Startup is now Betting Big on its Data Algorithms Fuelled by ‘ Farm Insights and Artificial Intelligence ,’ to Create Holistic Solutions for Crop Loan and Farm Insurances, to the Root Level Farmers in CropIn Technology Solutions , a Bengaluru-based startup is now on an onslaught of initiatives to implement the benefit of Agriculture Technology to the last mile. After securing the Series B funding, CropIn Technology is now investing toward its AI by developing a new product called SmartRisk.

Scientists find crop-destroying caterpillar spreading rapidly in Africa

Scientists tracking a crop-destroying caterpillar known as armyworm say it is now spreading rapidly across mainland Africa and could reach tropical Asia and the Mediterranean in the next few years, threatening agricultural trade. In research released on Monday, scientists at the Britain-based Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International said the pest, which had not previously been established outside the Americas, is now expected to spread “to the limits of suitable African habitat” within a few years.

Google Ventures, BMW, Lowe’s Invest in Desktop Metal

Desktop Metal, an emerging startup with the mission to bring metal 3D printing to all design and manufacturing teams, announced today it has raised a total of $97 million in equity funding since its founding in October 2015. The announcement comes as the result of the latest Series C investment of $45 million, led by GV , as well as BMW i Ventures and Lowe’s Ventures.

Doctoral Students in Molecular Medicine

Aiming to combine complementary strengths in the Partnership, each institute brings a unique set of expertise, skills, and facilities encompassing the recognized research strengths of the is an international research institute focusing on human genomics and personalised medicine at the Helsinki Institute for Life Science of the University of Helsinki. integrates molecular medicine research and technology centre and biobanking infrastructure under one roof promoting translational research in grand challenge projects, specifically, the impact of genome information from the Finnish population in personalised health and medicine, individualised cancer medicine.

Doctoral Students in Molecular Medicine

Aiming to combine complementary strengths in the Partnership, each institute brings a unique set of expertise, skills, and facilities encompassing the recognized research strengths of the is an international research institute focusing on human genomics and personalised medicine at the Helsinki Institute for Life Science of the University of Helsinki. integrates molecular medicine research and technology centre and biobanking infrastructure under one roof promoting translational research in grand challenge projects, specifically, the impact of genome information from the Finnish population in personalised health and medicine, individualised cancer medicine.

Hyperrealistic humanoid sculptures invade ARKEN museum in Copenhagen

From 4 February hair-raising, hyperrealistic humanoid sculptures invade ARKEN in a major exhibition under the title GOSH! Is it Alive? With technical perfection, disturbances of scale, presence and humour the works raise highly topical issues about what it means to be human right now as robot technology and artificial intelligence gain ground in radical ways. Hyperrealism is one of the really big tendencies in contemporary art at the moment.

Stargazing: All eyes are on the sun this month

February feels like the dead of winter with its dreary, cold days and long, colder nights. Most everyone yearns for more sunlight and warmth during this part of winter, when the sun’s altitude in the sky is still relatively low after December’s winter solstice.

Swiss Dating App Blinq Acquired By Outdoor Ad Firm APG|SGA

Feb 3 – The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed, but given Blinq’s limited traction, it probably wasn’t very high. The dating app, that was incorporating beacon proximity technology, and the algorithm to judge physical attractiveness, also develped by the startup, will be both shut down within two weeks.

Supercomputing, experiment combine for first look at magnetism of real nanoparticle

Barely wider than a strand of human DNA, magnetic nanoparticles — such as those made from iron and platinum atoms — are promising materials for next-generation recording and storage devices like hard drives. Building these devices from nanoparticles should increase storage capacity and density, but understanding how magnetism works at the level of individual atoms is critical to getting the best performance.

January Week 5

If you need to know what’s important for the developer, you can rely on I Programmer to sift through the news and uncover the most relevant stories. Our weekly digest gives a handy summary.

Lunar eclipse

Prod the kids outside, give them hot chocolate and gaze toward the moon in the east. Enjoy the evening penumbral lunar eclipse on Friday.

Robots are changing the global manufacturing market

Inside Machines: Robots will need to become more flexible and agile on the manufacturing floor as production becomes more specialized and as robotics start being used in the agricultural, medical, and automotive industries. Industries such as personal electronics, where there is a need for customization and a high expectation for quality, are driving major changes in the manufacturing industry, and integrated robotic applications are helping.

Hubble Captures Brilliant Star Death in “Rotten Egg” Nebula

The Calabash Nebula, pictured here – which has the technical name OH 231.8+04.2 – is a spectacular example of the death of a low-mass star like the sun. This image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula, during which it blows its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.

Hubble Space Telescope captures brilliant star death

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare event-a star going through a rapid transformation from a red giant to a planetary nebula.It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space. It sheds its outer layers of gas and dust out into the surrounding space.

buddysuite 1.2.5

The BuddySuite modules are ‘one-stop-shop’ command-line tools for common biological data file manipulations. Formats are detected automatically, conversions are seamless, and you can pipe into or out of the modules to build custom bioinformatics workflows, allowing you to spend more time analyzing your sequences, alignments, and phylogenetic trees, instead of wrangling them.

Snap Pays $2B for Google Cloud Services

When Snap Inc. , the parent company of social media app Snapchat, filed its IPO paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 2, the company unveiled a number of new details about its inner workings, including how it uses cloud computing to support its business. Specifically, Snap is paying Google and its Google Cloud Platform $2 billion over the course of the next five years for a variety of services, including storage, compute power and bandwidth.

Could Engineers be Accused of Killing Jobs? | EE Times

Will robotics, automation, artificial intelligence, and self-driving cars make us more productive, put us out of work, or create jobs that require new skills? Every so often, an article comes along that discusses technology replacing people. Usually, these articles are doomsday stories about how we’ll all lose our jobs to robots and apps.