Netflix on Thursday released its list of highest-performing ISPs in terms of streaming video performance. The company posted a chart (below) that mapped out Netflix’s streaming performance on U.S. ISPs between October 1 and November 15…
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We are at an extraordinary crossroads of human history. Our actions, or failure to act, during the next 20 years will determine the fate of the Earth and human civilization for centuries to come. This is a make-or-break century…
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I just finished watching the 1 hour documentary. Here’s my reaction. If you watch one movie/video in the next year. Make it this one! If you’d like to increase your understanding of what’s happpening in the World. Watch this documentary! If you’ve got an hour to spare, watch this documentary! Better yet, make an hour available and watch this documentary. Then encourage your friends and family to do the same.
Professor Zhipeng Wu at the University of Manchester has developed a novel radiofrequency scanner to be used for real-time breast tumor detection. Unlike traditional mammography, which relies on the varying X-ray attenuation properties of tissues to produce image contrast, the portable scanner uses radiofrequency waves to perform complex permittivity mapping of tissue. Benign and malignant breast tumors have (complex) permittivity characteristics that differ from surrounding tissue, and although the scanner is not able to differentiate between benign and malignant structures, it could prove to be a sensitive and inexpensive screening tool. Such a device could potentially improve breast cancer detection in women under 50 and would be very welcome in the developing world.
SCHEMA is a conversational humanoid robot at Waseda University in Japan with some pretty serious skills. As you’ll see in the new video they have posted (which is embedded below), SCHEMA is able to participate in a three person conversation without losing the plot, and is perfectly capable of understanding which speaker is which and what has been said by whom. It’s an impressive performance, to say the very least.
Life Technologies, having recently acquired Ion Torrent, unveiled a new sequencer at TEDMED using Ions semiconductor technology. Backstage after the talk we asked Greg Lucier, CEO of the company to give us an overview of the new device.
It revolutionized the way we watch movies, and now, it’s revolutionizing the way doctors treat illnesses. Three-dimension is the new frontier of medicine, according to physicians at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
The new technology called CAVE, which is short for ‘Cave Automatic Virtual Environment’, is essentially a three-dimensional virtual reality room. It projects images on four walls to allow researchers to voyage inside the molecular structure of cells and parts of the human body.
This way, physicians can interact with the data and actually see the cells in their true, 3-D state, which was not possible before.
Using breath-analysis software and mouth-movement observations, engineers in Japan have taught a robot how to sing. The divabot, an HRP-4 with a creepily realistic tilting head, blinks and opens her mouth as she croons, even mimicking the facial expressions of the human singer.Researchers used a real singer as a model, recording her every move as she sang.
This video begins with a one-meter square. Every ten seconds we zoom out by one power of ten. 101, 102…all the way to 1024 meters—the size of the observable universe. Then we get closer again. A lot closer.
By the end of the video we’re not only be back to that one-meter square from the beginning, but we’ll have gone all the way to 10-16 meter—down to the quarks inside a proton of a carbon atom.
Awe-inspiring, isn’t it?
The film was made in 1968 by Charles and Ray Eames and it’s being celebrated on a fitting day: 10/10/10. On that day there’ll be events worldwide to mark how inspiring and dreamy this film is.
Anyone trying to get onto the grounds of the Nevada National Security Site – the installation housing tens of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste and site of many nuclear weapons tests back when they were militarily fashionable – will now face a new smart layer of security beyond the usual fences, sentry towers, and security cameras. Intruders will first have to get past the Army’s new robotic sentries that now roam the sprawling facilities vigilantly seeking out security threats.
If you think you can’t motivate the kids to put down the Sega or whatever it is they’re playing with these days, Japanese robotics manufacturer Sakakibara-Kikai would beg to differ. The company that created the Landwalker bi-pedal exoskeleton has created a five-and-a-quarter-foot exoskeleton just for the kiddies that is sure to captivate even the most technophobic youngster, assuming such a thing exists.
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