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SCIENTISTS MAKE ENZYME THAT COULD HELP EXPLAIN ORIGINS OF LIFE
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-scientists-enzyme-life.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
PLANET-FORMING LIFELINE DISCOVERED IN A BINARY STAR SYSTEM
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-planet-forming-lifeline-binary-star.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
A NEW SPIN ON VIRTUAL REALITY HELPS ENGINEERS READ ROBOTS' MINDS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-virtual-reality-robots-minds.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
FAIRY WREN EMBRYOS FOUND ABLE TO DISCERN BETWEEN ADULT CALLS
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-fairy-wren-embryos-discern-adult.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW SOLAR POWER MATERIAL CONVERTS 90 PERCENT OF CAPTURED LIGHT INTO HEAT
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-solar-power-material-percent-captured.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
DOZENS OF GENES ASSOCIATED WITH AUTISM IN NEW RESEARCH
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-dozens-genes-autism.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
HAPTOMIME OFFERS MID-AIR INTERACTION SYSTEM (W/ VIDEO)
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-haptomime-mid-air-interaction-video.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
GLOBAL INFECTION OUTBREAKS, UNIQUE DISEASES RISING SINCE 1980
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-global-infection-outbreaks-unique-diseases.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SCIENTISTS GENERATE FIRST HUMAN STOMACH TISSUE IN LAB WITH STEM CELLS
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-scientists-human-stomach-tissue-lab.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
IN AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES, RESEARCHERS PINPOINT GENETIC RISKS, CELLULAR CULPRITS
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NEW WAY OF GENOME EDITING CURES HEMOPHILIA IN MICE; MAY BE SAFER THAN OLDER METHOD
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-genome-hemophilia-mice-safer-older.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SUPPLY ROCKET HEADED TO SPACE STATION EXPLODES (UPDATE)
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-commercial-rocket-liftoff.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW MOLECULAR IMAGING TECHNOLOGY COULD IMPROVE BLADDER CANCER DETECTION
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-10-molecular-imaging-technology-bladder-cancer.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
CONTAMINATION LIKELY EXPLAINS 'FOOD GENES IN BLOOD' CLAIM
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-contamination-food-genes-blood.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW STUDY SHOWS THREE ABRUPT PULSE OF CARBON DIOXIDE DURING LAST DEGLACIATION
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-abrupt-pulse-carbon-dioxide-deglaciation.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=splt-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
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HAPTOMIME OFFERS MID-AIR INTERACTION SYSTEM (W/ VIDEO)
HaptoMime gives the word "touchscreen" a new meaning—one that will need to be carefully reworded, as HaptoMime involves a screen that you cannot touch. All the same, it enables interaction with floating images in the presence of ultrasonic tactile feedback. The proposed HaptoMime mid-air interaction system consists of four key components, the Aerial Imaging Plate, a liquid crystal display, an infrared touch sensor, and an ultrasonic phased array transducer.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-haptomime-mid-air-interaction-video.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
A NEW SPIN ON VIRTUAL REALITY HELPS ENGINEERS READ ROBOTS' MINDS
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT's Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-virtual-reality-robots-minds.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW SOLAR POWER MATERIAL CONVERTS 90 PERCENT OF CAPTURED LIGHT INTO HEAT
A multidisciplinary engineering team at the University of California, San Diego developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrating solar power plants designed to absorb and convert to heat more than 90 percent of the sunlight it captures. The new material can also withstand temperatures greater than 700 degrees Celsius and survive many years outdoors in spite of exposure to air and humidity. Their work, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot program, was published recently in two separate articles in the journal Nano Energy.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-solar-power-material-percent-captured.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
EXPERTS IDENTIFY EASY WAY TO IMPROVE SMARTPHONE SECURITY
What information is beaming from your mobile phone over various computer networks this very second without you being aware of it?
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-experts-easy-smartphone.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
MEETING POWER NEEDS WITH WIRELESS RECHARGING
If you buy a 2016 Toyota Prius, you won't need to worry about keeping your hybrid car charged—just get the option for wireless power transfer that lets you drive into your garage and have your battery automatically topped up from a pad on the floor.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-power-wireless-recharging.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
WALK THROUGH BUILDINGS FROM YOUR OWN DEVICE
Would you like to visit The Frick Collection art museum in New York City but can't find the time? No problem. You can take a 3-D virtual tour that will make you feel like you are there, thanks to Yasutaka Furukawa, PhD, assistant professor of computer science & engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-device.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
HOW TO LEAK SENSITIVE DATA FROM AN ISOLATED COMPUTER (AIR-GAP) TO A NEAR BY MOBILE PHONE
Tomorrow at MALCON 2014, security researcher Mordechai Guri with guidance of Prof. Yuval Elovici from the cyber security labs at Ben Gurion University in Israel will present a breakthrough method ("AirHopper) for leaking data from an isolated computer to a mobile phone without the presence of a network.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-leak-sensitive-isolated-air-gap-mobile.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
HTML5 REACHES 'RECOMMENDATION' STATUS
W3C stands for World Wide Web Consortium, and the W3C HTML Working Group is responsible for this specification's progress. As the title suggests, they have a far-reaching job of watching out for the progress of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)—the core language of the Worldwide Web, also referred to as the cornerstone of the Open Web Platform. "Today we think nothing of watching video and audio natively in the browser, and nothing of running a browser on a phone," said Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director. "We expect to be able to share photos, shop, read the news, and look up information anywhere, on any device. Though they remain invisible to most users, HTML5 and the Open Web Platform are driving these growing user expectations." Earlier this month, W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe said that "Bringing HTML5 to the status of W3C Recommendation (in October 2014) is a defining moment in the development of the Open Web Platform (OWP), a set of technologies for developing distributed applica!
tions
with the greatest interoperability in history."
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-html5-status.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
FBI SAYS IT FAKED AP STORY TO CATCH BOMB SUSPECT
The FBI is confirming it faked an Associated Press story to catch a bomb threat suspect in 2007.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-fbi-faked-ap-story.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NEW WAVE OF ONLINE DELIVERY GAINS MOMENTUM
App in hand, Jack Plater-Zyberk has delivered caviar, condoms, chicken nuggets, cases of beer and even a little black dress.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-online-delivery-gains-momentum.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
UK CHARITY LAUNCHES APP TO SCAN FOR SUICIDAL TWEETS
A suicide prevention charity on Wednesday launched a Twitter-scanning app designed to tip people off when their friends post potentially worrying messages.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-uk-charity-app-scan-suicidal.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
FACEBOOK SHARES DIVE AS SOCIAL NETWORK EYES FUTURE
Facebook Tuesday reported its quarterly profit nearly doubled but saw its stock pounded after outlining a plan to invest heavily in the future instead of revelling in short-term riches.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-facebook-social-network-eyes-future.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SOUTH KOREA SPY AGENCY SAYS NORTH HACKING SMARTPHONES
North Korea attempted to hack tens of thousands of South Korean smartphones this year, using malware disguised in mobile gaming apps, the South's spy agency said in a report submitted to parliament this week.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-south-korea-spy-agency-north.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
HACKERS BREACH WHITE HOUSE COMPUTER SYSTEM
The White House's unclassified computer network was recently breached by intruders, a US official said Tuesday, with The Washington Post newspaper reporting that the Russian government was thought to be behind the act.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-suspicious-cyber-white-house.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
LG ELECTRONICS PROFIT SURGES ON SMARTPHONE SALES
South Korea's LG Electronics Inc. said Wednesday its third-quarter profit jumped 87 percent over a year earlier as smartphone sales set a record high.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-lg-electronics-profit-surges-smartphone.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SINGAPORE TO DEPLOY MASSIVE SURVEILLANCE BALLOON
Singapore will deploy a huge tethered surveillance balloon to boost its maritime and air security, the defence ministry has announced.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-singapore-deploy-massive-surveillance-balloon.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
WHEN IT COMES TO ROBOTS, AUSTRALIANS ARE MORE TRUSTING THAN JAPANESE
Australians place more trust in robots than their Japanese counterparts do, new research conducted by UNSW Australia's Creative Robotics Lab (CRL) has found.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-robots-australians-japanese.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
VW RECALLS 270,000 CARS IN CHINA TO FIX AIRBAGS
Volkswagen and a Chinese partner are recalling 270,000 cars in China to repair a software problem that might prevent air bags from activating properly, the government said Wednesday.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-vw-recalls-cars-china-airbags.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
NESTLE JAPAN HIRING 1,000 ROBOTS TO SELL ESPRESSO MACHINES
Food giant Nestle said Wednesday that its Japan unit would hire 1,000 robots as sales clerks at stores across the country.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-nestle-japan-hiring-robots-espresso.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
CHRYSLER RECALLS OVER 566,000 TRUCKS, SUVS (UPDATE)
Fiat Chrysler is recalling more than 566,000 trucks and SUVs in two recalls for malfunctioning fuel heaters that can cause fires and a software glitch can disable the electronic stability control.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-chrysler-recalls-trucks-suvs.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
STUDY SAYS UPGRADING INFRASTRUCTURE COULD REDUCE FLOOD DAMAGE
The severe flooding that devastated a wide swath of Colorado last year might have been less destructive if the bridges, roads and other infrastructure had been upgraded or modernized, according to a new study from the University of Colorado Denver.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-infrastructure.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
STARTUP TRIES TO 'POYNT' STORES IN NEW DIRECTION
A Silicon Valley startup is hoping an upcoming transition to smarter credit and debit cards will persuade millions of U.S. merchants to buy savvier payment terminals for their stores, too.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-startup-poynt.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
GEORGIA TECH RELEASES 2015 EMERGING CYBER THREATS REPORT
In its latest Emerging Cyber Threats Report, Georgia Tech warns about loss of privacy; abuse of trust between users and machines; attacks against the mobile ecosystem; rogue insiders; and the increasing involvement of cyberspace in nation-state conflicts.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-georgia-tech-emerging-cyber-threats.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
ONLINE DATING SERVICE ADMITS TO FAKE PROFILES
A British-based online dating service admitted to US regulators Wednesday that it created fake, computer-generated profiles to lure users into upgraded memberships.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-online-dating-fake-profiles.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
CINEMA-LIKE ENVIRONMENT HELPS AUDIENCES BECOME IMMERSED IN MOVIES EVEN WHEN SHOWN ON SMALL SCREENS
If the surroundings are designed to be sufficiently stimulating, even a simple computer screen is enough to generate an intense cinematic experience. After observing some 300 study subjects, researchers at the Institute of Psychology of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in Germany concluded that the angle of viewing does not play a vital role in the cinematic experience, thus disproving various hypotheses. According to the results of their study, the presence of so-called contextual visual cues plays a greater role in actually drawing viewers into a movie. When the researchers gave a computer screen the attributes of a movie theater, the test subjects barely sensed a difference between it and a normal cinema with a large screen. Even a cell phone display performed relatively well in a cinematic environment.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-cinema-like-environment-audiences-immersed-movies.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
'MAJOR' HACKING ATTACK IN US LOOMS: EXPERT SURVEY
Cyber attacks might be taking a toll now, but just wait: a survey of experts says things are likely to get even worse in the US over the next decade.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-major-hacking-looms-expert-survey.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
COURT: UK SPIES GET BULK ACCESS TO NSA DATA
The British government's insistence that its spies don't use the vast espionage powers of the U.S. National Security Agency to sidestep U.K. restrictions on domestic eavesdropping was called into question by a court document published Wednesday.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-court-uk-spies-bulk-access.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
APPLE IN TALKS TO SELL IPHONE IN IRAN: REPORT
Apple is in preliminary talks to sell the iPhone in Iran, if sanctions are eased on the Middle East nation, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-apple-iphone-iran.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
APPLE PAY RIVAL DEFENDS SERVICE
A mobile payment service backed by Wal-Mart, Best Buy and other leading retailers is defending its practice of prohibiting its members from accepting alternatives such as Apple Pay.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-apple-rival-defends.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SCIENTISTS USE SUPERCOMPUTERS TO SEARCH FOR INNOVATIVE ANSWERS TO RARE-EARTH SUPPLY NEEDS
Our lives depend on our electronics – our cellphones and computers. In turn, our electronics depend on a special class of elements known as rare-earths. Computers, cellphones, electric vehicles, televisions, and more are built using these materials. Their value lies in their unique properties; some are strongly magnetic; others create vivid colors for optical uses.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-scientists-supercomputers-rare-earth.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
IBM UNVEILS COGNITIVE EXPLORATION TO DRIVE BETTER BUSINESS OUTCOMES
IBM today announced the availability of a cognitive-infused Watson Explorer, a powerful combination of data exploration and content analytics capabilities. Typical organizations only use 12 percent of their dataˡ, leaving a wealth of untapped information across the enterprise that could be leveraged to make smarter decisions. Watson Explorer equips users with the information and analytics capabilities which can help them to deliver better performance and real-time results. Watson Explorer has enabled hundreds of customers to connect with their data, build information-centric applications and helped them to improve the quality and speed of their decision making. With today's announcement, Watson Explorer advances core cognitive components by providing organizations the ability to quickly use natural language processing capabilities and data exploration to discover valuable business information in both structured and unstructured data.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-ibm-unveils-cognitive-exploration-business.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
LEARNING FROM ROBOTS
In a Bavarian village, Mathias Hubrich is building remotely controlled robots designed to perform tasks too dangerous for human beings. Robots are now also being used as teaching aids because their Siemens control systems make them ideal for learning about automation technology.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-robots.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
TOWARD A NETWORKED ENERGY FUTURE
February 1, 2050, is a good day for German electricity consumers. The breeze off the north coast is blowing so strongly that offshore wind farms and the wind turbines on land are running non-stop. Since it's a sunny day, photovoltaic modules, which are mostly located in the south, are also working at peak capacity. On monitors in a central control room, engineers can see from a diagram that, in total, an average of 80 gigawatts (GW) of renewable electricity is being generated, with a midday peak that is as high as 120 GW.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-networked-energy-future.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
MODEL-BASED HIGHLY EFFICIENT AND HIGHLY RELIABLE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS FOR DIGITAL CONTROLLED POWER SUPPLY UNITS
Fujitsu Laboratories today announced that it has built the world's first development environment that enhances the efficiency and reliability of the development process for digital controlled power supply units in servers and other ICT equipment.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-model-based-highly-efficient-reliable-digital.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
SAVING LOTS OF COMPUTING CAPACITY WITH A NEW ALGORITHM
The control of modern infrastructure such as intelligent power grids needs lots of computing capacity. Scientists of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg have developed an algorithm that might revolutionise these processes. With their new software the SnT researchers are able to forego the use of considerable amounts of computing capacity, enabling what they call micro mining. Their achievements, which the team headed by Prof. Yves Le Traon published in the International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, earned the scientists a Best Paper Award during this event.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-lots-capacity-algorithm.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
FREE URBAN DATA—WHAT'S IT GOOD FOR?
Cities around the world are increasingly making urban data freely available to the public. But is the content or structure of these vast data sets easy to access and of value? A new study of more than 9,000 data sets from 20 cities presents encouraging results on the quality and volume of the available data and describes the challenges and benefits of analyzing and integrating these expanding data sets, as described in an article in Big Data.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-free-urban-datawhat-good.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
AMAZON OPENS THREE LOGISTICS CENTERS IN POLAND
Ahead of Christmas, popular U.S. online retailer Amazon has opened three logistics centers in western Poland, completing a network that covers the European market.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-amazon-logistics-centers-poland.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES IMPROVED ACCESS FOR DISABLED VOTERS
A University of Florida researcher's desire to provide citizens with disabilities the same opportunity to vote as everyone else could serve as the catalyst for revolutionizing voter access nationwide.
Full story at http://phys.org/news/2014-10-technology-access-disabled-voters.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=ctgr-item&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter
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