Latest From Science, Technology & Medicine [11.12.14]

AeroSpace 

• Rosetta mission: The European Space Agency has made history by sucessfully landing a robot on a comet in deep space (BBC) 
• Rosetta: Waiting game after comet lander glitch (BBC) 

Digital Sports (Physical Digital Computing)

• How will data analytics change sport by 2024? (Wired UK)

"Stacey Burr
Vice president, wearable sports electronics, adidas
"Physiology and activity sensors will enable volumes of data to be collected from athletes unobtrusively. Predictive analytics will be delivered through alerts, enabling coaches to respond in real time to performance shifts or injury risks. When injuries occur, sensors will inform rehabilitation strategies. These insights will enable coaches to be more precise in their training methods and athletes to sustain peak performance over time."

John Coulson
Head of professional football services, Opta
"The biggest advancement will be the acceptance and integration of qualified data scientists into a team's back-room staff. This Moneyball approach will continue to change football as it has changed many sports."

 

BioEngineering /
Translational Medicine

• Meet the UK firms at the forefront of drug creation (Wired UK) 

DIY / Education

• Lego gets geekier with Big Bang Theory sets (Wired UK) 
• Raspberry Pi launches $20 Model A+ (Wired UK) 
• Project Spark is Microsoft's free game-making tool (Wired UK) 

 

Artificial Intelligence

• How AI system Viv could conquer the world (Wire UK)
• AI at WIRED2014: The next big frontier is the mind and brain (Wired UK)

Robotics

• Meet Ian, Boston Dynamics' karate-kicking robot (Wired UK) 
• In pictures: the UK's best robots (Wired UK) 

 

Digital Manufacturing

• 3D-printed braces could transform quality of life for disabled kids (Wired UK)
• A closer look at BMW's production plant (Wired UK)  

Privacy In the Age Of Big Data

• Madhumita Venkataramanan: My identity for sale (Wired UK) 

 

Gaming

• New Player: UK game talent takes on global giants (Wired UK)

Graphics

• 'Noah' wins Aronofsky award for using CGI animals (Wired UK) 

Google

• Google signs 60-year lease of Navy dirigible hangar (USA Today) 
• The Google engineer teaching happiness in three steps (BBC) 
• Google X head on aiming moonshots at problems that matter (Wired UK) 

Microsoft

• Microsoft Band : In the ballpark (USA Today) 
• Microsoft fixes '19-year-old' bug with emergency patch (BBC) 

"Microsoft has patched a critical bug in its software that had existed for 19 years.
The bug had been present in every version of Windows since 95, IBM said.
Attackers could exploit the bug to remotely control a PC, and so users are being urged to download updates."

• Project Spark is Microsoft's free game-making tool (Wired UK)