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Tech that you wear turns your body heat into energy for your devices.

by Jeremy Langford

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/technology/using-cash-and-pressure-china-builds-its-chip-industry.html?_r=0

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Group Topics:                                                 Austin Steven & Tucker-Retinal Scan at the airports.

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Group Topics:                                                 Austin Steven & Tucker-Retinal Scan at the airports.

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Rachel, Noah, & Jacob-Cockroach robots
Elizabeth, Jackson, & Jeremy-Life Enhanced something
Andrew, Caleb & Kip-Surgical Robot

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Cockroach Robots? Not Nightmare Fantasy but Science Lab Reality The Guardian (03/03/15) Ian Sample 

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Cockroach Robots? Not Nightmare Fantasy but Science Lab Reality The Guardian (03/03/15) Ian Sample 

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Twitter Grants Select Researchers Access to its Public Database

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Twitter Grants Select Researchers Access to its Public Database

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Universities Aren't Doing Enough to Train the Cyberdefenders America Desperately Needs

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Universities Aren't Doing Enough to Train the Cyberdefenders America Desperately Needs

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What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real

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What Happens When Virtual Reality Gets Too Real

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Using Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry

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Using Cash and Pressure, China Builds Its Chip Industry

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take that J

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New Research Center Aims to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots

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New Research Center Aims to Develop Second Generation of Surgical Robots

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South Korean Researchers Develop User-Friendly, 3D Printing Tech

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South Korean Researchers Develop User-Friendly, 3D Printing Tech

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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects

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Queen's University Professor to Unveil Self-Levitating Displays, Allowing Physical interactions With Mid-Air Virtual Objects

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The L-CSC supercomputer at the GSI Helmholtz Center in Germany is the greenest supercomputer in the world, according to the 16th edition of the twice-yearly Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers.

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The L-CSC supercomputer at the GSI Helmholtz Center in Germany is the greenest supercomputer in the world, according to the 16th edition of the twice-yearly Green500 list of the world's most energy-efficient supercomputers.

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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?

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Can Robots Come to Your Rescue in a Burning Building?

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Innovative New Supercomputers Increase Nation's Computational Capacity and Capability National Science Foundation 

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Innovative New Supercomputers Increase Nation's Computational Capacity and Capability National Science Foundation 

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Super computer

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Life, Enhanced: UW Professors Study Legal, Social Complexities of an Augmented Reality Future

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Life, Enhanced: UW Professors Study Legal, Social Complexities of an Augmented Reality Future

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Janusz Holyst—How Technology Can Influence People's Emotions Youris.com (05/07/14) Sorina Buzatu 

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Janusz Holyst—How Technology Can Influence People's Emotions Youris.com (05/07/14) Sorina Buzatu 

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hi I am imperious leader

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Can Robots Better Spot
Terrorists at Airports?
The Wall Street Journal (12/30/13) Jack Nicas 

Aviation and government authorities are beginning to use biometric technology
to automate immigration and ID checks at airport security checkpoints and
boarding gates. Biometric technology could "get rid of the boarding pass
completely," says London Gatwick Airport CIO Michael Ibbitson. "We're
only just starting to see what biometrics can do." This year Gatwick
conducted a pilot in which it processed 3,000 British Airways fliers using iris
scans upon check-in, which allowed cameras at security checkpoints and boarding
gates to automatically recognize passengers. About 28 percent of airports
worldwide currently use biometric technology, compared with 18 percent in 2008,
according to a SITA survey. The United States uses biometrics for airport
border control, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection trusted-traveler
programs allow almost 2 million frequent fliers to scan their fingerprints
instead of talking to an immigration officer to re-enter the country.
Facial-recognition scanners can correctly approve nearly 98 percent of
travelers, allowing an average of one in 1,000 impostors to pass, according to
a 2010 test at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Gatwick Airport also is using
facial-recognition software to estimate wait times at security and immigration
checkpoints by capturing passengers' faces as they approach and depart
checkpoints.

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Can Robots Better Spot
Terrorists at Airports?
The Wall Street Journal (12/30/13) Jack Nicas 

Aviation and government authorities are beginning to use biometric technology
to automate immigration and ID checks at airport security checkpoints and
boarding gates. Biometric technology could "get rid of the boarding pass
completely," says London Gatwick Airport CIO Michael Ibbitson. "We're
only just starting to see what biometrics can do." This year Gatwick
conducted a pilot in which it processed 3,000 British Airways fliers using iris
scans upon check-in, which allowed cameras at security checkpoints and boarding
gates to automatically recognize passengers. About 28 percent of airports
worldwide currently use biometric technology, compared with 18 percent in 2008,
according to a SITA survey. The United States uses biometrics for airport
border control, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection trusted-traveler
programs allow almost 2 million frequent fliers to scan their fingerprints
instead of talking to an immigration officer to re-enter the country.
Facial-recognition scanners can correctly approve nearly 98 percent of
travelers, allowing an average of one in 1,000 impostors to pass, according to
a 2010 test at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Gatwick Airport also is using
facial-recognition software to estimate wait times at security and immigration
checkpoints by capturing passengers' faces as they approach and depart
checkpoints.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/03/23/facebook-accessibility-people-with-disabilities/82026554/

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Driverless Cars Are Colliding With the Creepy Trolley Problem

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Driverless Cars Are Colliding With the Creepy Trolley Problem

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System Automatically Converts 2D Video to 3D

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System Automatically Converts 2D Video to 3D

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Researchers Develop a Fast, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

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Researchers Develop a Fast, Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface

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We Could've Stopped Ebola If We Listened to the Data

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We Could've Stopped Ebola If We Listened to the Data

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Robots Can Now Teach Each Other New Tricks

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Robots Can Now Teach Each Other New Tricks

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How Wireless 'X-ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood

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How Wireless 'X-ray Vision' Could Power Virtual Reality, Smart Homes, and Hollywood

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Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of biological circuits - systems that, like electronic circuits, can take a number of different inputs and deliver a particular kind of output. But while individual components of such biological circuits can have precise and predictable responses, those outcomes become less predictable as more such elements are combined.

A team of researchers at MIT has now come up with a way of greatly reducing that unpredictability, introducing a device that could ultimately allow such circuits to behave nearly as predictably as their electronic counterparts. The findings are published this week in the journal Nature Biotechnology, in a paper by associate professor of mechanical engineering Domitilla Del Vecchio and professor of biological engineering Ron Weiss.

The lead author of the paper is Deepak Mishra, an MIT graduate student in biological engineering. Other authors include recent master's students Phillip Rivera in mechanical engineering and Allen Lin in electrical engineering and computer science.

There are many potential uses for such synthetic biological circuits, Del Vecchio and Weiss explain. "One specific one we're working on is biosensing - cells that can detect specific molecules in the environment and produce a specific output in response," Del Vecchio says. One example: cells that could detect markers that indicate the presence of cancer cells, and then trigger the release of molecules targeted to kill those cells.

It is important for such circuits to be able to discriminate accurately between cancerous and noncancerous cells, so they don't unleash their killing power in the wrong places, Weiss says. To do that, robust information-processing circuits created from biological elements within a cell become "highly critical," Weiss says.

To date, that kind of robust predictability has not been feasible, in part because of feedback effects when multiple stages of biological circuitry are introduced. The problem arises because unlike in electronic circuits, where one component is physically connected to the next by wires that ensure information is always flowing in a particular direction, biological circuits are made up of components that are all floating around together in the complex fluid environment of a cell's interior.

Information flow is driven by the chemical interactions of the individual components, which ideally should affect only other specific components. But in practice, attempts to create such biological linkages have often produced results that differed from expectations.

"If you put the circuit together and you expect answer 'X,' and instead you get answer 'Y,' that could be highly problematical," Del Vecchio says.

The device the team produced to address that problem is called a load driver, and its effect is similar to that of load drivers used in electronic circuits: It provides a kind of buffer between the signal and the output, preventing the effects of the signaling from backing up through the system and causing delays in outputs.

While this is relatively early-stage research that could take years to reach commercial application, the concept could have a wide variety of applications, the researchers say. For example, it could lead to synthetic biological circuits that constantly measure glucose levels in the blood of diabetic patients, automatically triggering the release of insulin when it is needed.

The addition of this load driver to the arsenal of components available to those designing biological circuits, Del Vecchio says, "could escalate the complexity of circuits you could design," opening up new possible applications while ensuring that their operation is "robust and predictable."

James Collins, a professor of biomedical engineering at Boston University who was not associated with this research, says, "Efforts in synthetic biology to create complex gene circuits are often hindered by unanticipated or uncharacterized interactions between submodules of the circuits. These interactions alter the input-output characteristics of the submodules, leading to undesirable circuit behavior."

But now, Collins says, "Del Vecchio and Weiss have made a major advance for the field by creating a genetic device that can account for and correct for such interactions, leading to more predictable circuit behavior."

The research was supported by an Eni-MIT Energy Research Fellowship, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Army Research Office, the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the National Institutes of Health.

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New device could make large biological circuits practical

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Researchers have made great progress in recent years in the design and creation of biological circuits - systems that, like electronic circuits, can take a number of different inputs and deliver a particular kind of output. But while individual components of such biological circuits can have precise and predictable responses, those outcomes become less predictable as more such elements are combined.

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HELLO? Sweat and a Smartphone Could Become the Hot New Health Screening

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HELLO? Sweat and a Smartphone Could Become the Hot New Health Screening

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(MIT) researchers have developed a new kind of load driver, a device that could enable biological circuits to behave almost as predictably as electronic circuits.

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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot

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Cars That Look and Listen to Find Themselves a Parking Spot

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Communicative Robots vs. Effective ones?

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Communicative Robots vs. Effective ones?