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Access to safe drinking water is a step closer to being a reality for those in developing countries, thanks to new nanoscience research.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?tag=Nano
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Who says you need millions for a supercomputer? Not Adapteva, which has started shipping its $99 Parallella single-board parallel processing board.
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Linux is the top supercomputer operating system. But while you can build your own Linux supercomputer using commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products, even with just Raspberry Pi boards, these don't natively support massively parallel computing — the cornerstone of modern supercomputing. That's where Adapteva, with its $99 Parallella parallel processing single-board supercomputer, comes in.
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Short film produced by the European Graphene-Flagship initiative, introducing graphene, the 'wonder substance' set to revolutionise the electronics industry.
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Amy Radley's curator insight,
September 18, 2014 5:16 AM
Not just revolutionise the electronics industry, but many other industries, including: aviation, defence, energy, energy storage, automotive, printing and packaging; paints, coatings and barrier applications; and medicine.
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Brain-penetrating nanoparticle attacks deadly tumors
(Nanowerk News) Scientists have developed a new approach for treating a deadly brain cancer that strikes 15,000 in the United States annually and for which there is no effective long-term therapy. The researchers, from Yale and Johns Hopkins, have shown that the approach extends the lives of laboratory animals and are preparing to seek government approval for a human clinical trial.
“We wanted to make a system that would penetrate into the brain and deliver drugs to a greater volume of tissue,” said Mark Saltzman, a biomedical engineer at Yale and principal investigator of the research. “Drugs have to get to tumor cells in order to work, and they have to be the right drugs.
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(Phys.org) —NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called 'Cumberland.'
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http://sndrv.nl/ultimarker - augmenting your Ultimaker 3D printer. Both 3D printing and augmented reality are seen as the two most impactful and radical inno...
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A MUST watch...
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Robots able to reach through clutter with whole-arm tactile sensing (w/ video)
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Check it out, very interesting...
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Several 3D printers that debuted at the first Inside 3D Printing conference in NYC now cost less than your laptop.
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What you need to know about nanotechnology, check them and wonder...
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What you need to know about nanotechnology, check them and wonder...
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments?tag=Nano
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I love smart design, when you can just look at a product or service and be able to see the methodical, thorough, detail-oriented thinking process that went behind it, aimed at solving a problem, innovating, and disregarding convention.
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A MUST watch video, great idea!!!
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(Phys.org)—Writing in PNAS, University of Manchester graphene researchers found that sandwiching a layer of the wonder material between boron nitride could produce highly-accurate capacitors.
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WASHINGTON -- The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
Most of the infractions involve unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the United States, both of which are restricted by law and executive order. They range from significant violations of law to typographical errors that resulted in unintended interception of U.S. emails and telephone calls, the Post said, citing an internal audit and other top-secret documents provided it earlier this summer from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, a former systems analyst with the agency.
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===> In most cases, the NSA was involved in unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the U.S., despite these being restricted by law and executive order. <===
Learn more:
- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=PRISM
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August 15, 2013 10:21 PM
===> In most cases, the NSA was involved in unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets in the U.S., despite these being restricted by law and executive order. <===
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/securite-pc-et-internet/?tag=PRISM
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3-D-Drucker, CNC-Fräsen oder Lasercutter – mit solchen Maschinen sollen möglichst viele Menschen in Fab Labs experimentieren. Drei dieser Werkstätten gibt es in Berlin.
Fab Labs sind lokale Produktionsstätten, in denen jeder mitmachen kann. Denn Fab Labs wollen so vielen Menschen wie möglich Werkzeuge zugänglich machen, die sonst nur in Firmen stehen, vor allem computergesteuerten Maschinen wie 3-D-Drucker, CNC-Fräsen oder Lasercutter. So wie Bibliotheken jedem den Zugang zu Büchern ermöglichen wollen, bieten Fab Labs technischen Amateuren die Chance, industrielle Produktionsverfahren zu nutzen.
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Fab Labs sind lokale Produktionsstätten, in denen jeder mitmachen kann. Denn Fab Labs wollen so vielen Menschen wie möglich Werkzeuge zugänglich machen, die sonst nur in Firmen stehen, vor allem computergesteuerten Maschinen wie 3-D-Drucker, CNC-Fräsen oder Lasercutter. So wie Bibliotheken jedem den Zugang zu Büchern ermöglichen wollen, bieten Fab Labs technischen Amateuren die Chance, industrielle Produktionsverfahren zu nutzen.
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Systems that can convert written specifications into working code in a few narrow cases could be generalized to other tasks.
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A new algorithm can automatically convert natural-language specifications into "regular expressions" — special-purpose combinations of symbols that allow very flexible searches of digital files.
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The T8 Spiderbot doesn't just look real, it crawls about like a flesh, blood and carapace spider.
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Some people are afraid of spiders. Others are afraid of robots. Heaven help the person afraid of both who stumbles upon this creepy-crawly 3D-printed robotic spider from Robugtix.
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- http://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?tag=Robotics
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Though universities are rushing to embrace online courses, true education requires one mind engaging with another.
Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness. The value we add to the media extravaganza is like the value the trainer adds to the gym or the coach adds to the equipment. We provide individualized instruction in how to evaluate and make use of information and ideas, teaching people how to think for themselves.
Just as coaching requires individual attention, education, at its core, requires one mind engaging with another, in real time: listening, understanding, correcting, modeling, suggesting, prodding, denying, affirming, and critiquing thoughts and their expression.
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Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness. The value we add to the media extravaganza is like the value the trainer adds to the gym or the coach adds to the equipment. We provide individualized instruction in how to evaluate and make use of information and ideas, teaching people how to think for themselves.
Just as coaching requires individual attention, education, at its core, requires one mind engaging with another, in real time: listening, understanding, correcting, modeling, suggesting, prodding, denying, affirming, and critiquing thoughts and their expression.
Check also:
- http://gustmees.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/so-whats-the-change-for-teachers-in-21st-century-education/
Akilade Ayotunde's comment,
June 24, 2013 6:27 AM
The material and spiritual go hand-in-hand, but the material has proven origins(the "big bang") and as such may have an inescapable end(annihilation), but will the spiritual survive its boon companion, the material?
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June 28, 2013 2:33 AM
Educators are coaches, personal trainers in intellectual fitness. Πάλι Καλά...! 
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July 7, 2013 9:30 PM
All the new-fangled gadgets need a teacher's or a parent's input.
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Supercomputing for everyone
Great news, the Parallella is now a real computer!! The gigabit ethernet port is working and the full Ubuntu desktop version is up and running! We had some scary moments this week, but in the end everything worked out. Sometimes it’s really worth considering the old advice “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. Amazing how the most innocent of design changes can cause such major headaches at times…
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Let's give DARPA a hand for helping create a new robotic grasper.
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WOW, a MUST watch!!!
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NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than 100 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars. Via Guillaume Decugis, Sakis Koukouvis, John Purificati
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Nice interactive infographic, check it out an learn more...
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April 25, 2013 4:10 PM
Watch them orbit on scale and sort them by size: great job by the nytimes!
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There's a new low-cost single-board computer on the block designed to give the million-selling Raspberry Pi a run for its money. It's called the BeagleBoard Black.
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![Activision Shows Off Animated Human That Looks So Real, It's Uncanny [VIDEO] | 21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)... | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/PDITVqAbAHl6KuomYdD69jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Activision showed off the state of the art in real-time graphics on Wednesday, releasing this mind-boggling character demo.
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A MUST watch video, unbelievable...
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Thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed.
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Thanks to new observation technologies, powerful software, and statistical methods, the mechanics of collectives are being revealed.
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Researchers have developed a nanoparticle paste which can be injected into the defect and results in improved healing. The trick: the researchers have combined synthetic calcium phosphate with DNA.
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Chemists develop a nanopaste to repair bone defects
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February 20, 2013 9:43 AM
The UDE researchers expect that the paste will have a long-lasting effect since the nanoparticles are released successively and thus continuously stimulate the surrounding cells. They have demonstrated that the paste works in three different cell types. Further tests now have to be conducted. Epple and his co-researchers hope that “our development will be used several years from now in the field of traumatology and in the treatment of osteoporosis.” |
Very interesting...