Latest From Science, Technology And Medicine [11.05.14]

Digital Manufacturing

• IoT and Big Data Analytics Pilot Bring Big Cost Savings to Intel Manufacturing
• 3D printing's future is the high street, not the home (New Scientist) 
• How BMW and Mini vehicles are made (Manufacturing Global)
• How the world's first 3D printed car, the Strati, is made (Manufacturing Global)

Materials

• Wonder stuff: Glass that will store your info for ever (New Scientist) 
• Wonder stuff: Electron freeway for cool gadgets (NewScientist) 

Bioengineering and Translational Medicine

• Will ultrasound-on-a-chip make medical imaging so cheap that anyone can do it? (MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)

Smartphone and Tablet

• Android design boss: Artificial Intelligence could help apps talk to each other (Venturebeat)
• Apple replaces Samsung as top mobile brand in China (CNET)
• Mobile Internet exits explode 700% to $94B (here are the 9 hottest sectors)

Smart Retail / 
Financial Technology

• Business Report : Beyond the Checkout Cart. Here’s why mobile phones, social networks, and in-store tracking are blurring the difference between online and offline retail. (MIT Technology Review):
• It’s All E-Commerce Now E-commerce is an idea whose time has come and gone. Here’s why. (MIT Technology Review) 
• Google Wallet use grows after Apple Pay launch (Arstechnica)
• Can Google Express deliver on same-day shopping? (New Scientist) 

Artificial Intelligence

• Google's Secretive DeepMind Startup Unveils a "Neural Turing Machine" (MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)
• Computer with human-like learning will program itself (NewScientist) 
• Watson supercomputer looks for genetic heart danger (NewScientist) 
• IBM is betting that research on more human-like artificial intelligence will help it turn things around. (MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW)

Smart City

• Chicago uses big data to save itself from urban ills (New Scientist) 

Smart Home

• Google and Apple battle for the key to your smart home (NewScientist) 

Wearables

• Jawbone announces two new fitness trackers: The Up3 and Up Move (Venturebeat)
• Google Glass, now in tune with your emotions (NewScientist) 

Digital Publishing

• Reading on screens is different – does it matter? (NewScientist) 
• Goodbye, paper: What we miss when we read on screen (NewScientist) 

Transportation / Vehicles

• Personal helicopter will be as easy to drive as a car (NewScientist) 

Education

• Want to help your kids code? Here's how (NewScientist) 
• Code generation: Kids who program before they can read (NewScientist) 
• Digital textbooks adapt to your level as you learn
• Life in Lego: how mini-figure academics went viral  

 

Energy

• Race to electrify rural Africa could help the West too 

Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality

• Real Holodeck turns your living room into a game (NewScientist)
• How Magic Leap’s Augmented Reality Works (MIT Technology Review)

Microsoft

• Another Important Microsoft App Is About To Launch: Skype Translator (BusinessInsider) 
• Skype wants people to test its ambitious real-time universal translator tool (PCWorld) 
• Dropbox integration coming to Office; Office integration coming to Dropbox (Arstechnica)