Using a sophisticated array of life - detection methods — the same methods being refined for the hunt for extraterrestrial life — Venkat has discovered a plethora of bizarre microbes thriving in the Spacecraft Assembly Facility, microbes that would have escaped detection
by older technologies.
Stop in Scranton to the east to visit the Pennsylvania Anthracite Heritage Museum and the Steamtown National Historic Site and be reminded at once of the wealth created
by these old technologies as well as their enormous scale and the poverty left in the wakes of their demise.
Not exact matches
The annual Energy Pioneers list, compiled
by IHS CERA for its IHS CERAWeek conference, is about where
old and new energy
technology meet.
In 2011, Mayor Michael Bloomberg hired the city's first - ever chief digital officer, Rachel Sterne, who was a 27 - year -
old entrepreneur and Columbia Business School prof, to help the city use
technology to better serve citizens and save taxpayer money
by making services more efficient and accessible online.
But in medicine, impressive
technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year -
old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed
by Sullivan a few months ago.
Walk into a store —
old - school hip - hop playing softly, like Muzak for millennials — and you'll find customers leafing through Oak Street, the company's in - house magazine (a recent issue features an editorial
by Ethan Song that quotes Steve Jobs's thoughts on the intersection of
technology and the liberal arts).
Trisha Prabhu got the idea for her ReThink
technology when she learned that an 11 - year -
old girl killed herself after being tormented
by cyber-bullies.
The startup competes with some of the software products sold
by older and bigger
technology companies like IBM (ibm), NetScout Systems (ntct), and CA Technologies (ca).
While FM radio is over a century
old and has been superseded
by other broadcasting
technologies — including satellite — it remains one of the most reliable forms of communication around.
This led me to the centuries -
old service of factoring which I also discovered has never been disrupted
by technology innovation.
Marques Brownlee is a 20 - year -
old college student who's been hailed «the best
technology reviewer on the planet right now»
by former Google VP Vic Gundotra.
Intel is bolstering its artificial intelligence efforts
by acquiring Nervana Systems, a two - year -
old startup considered among the leaders in developing machine learning
technology.
Iconology (Comixology)
By 2014, Amazon's one - year - old digital arm, Jet City Comics (part of its Amazon Publishing imprint), was reportedly floundering, so the company purchased the New York City - based e-publisher that had exclusive rights to titles including the Walking Dead series, which already had more than 200 million downloads, and a technology that could boost the Kindle by letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology account
By 2014, Amazon's one - year -
old digital arm, Jet City Comics (part of its Amazon Publishing imprint), was reportedly floundering, so the company purchased the New York City - based e-publisher that had exclusive rights to titles including the Walking Dead series, which already had more than 200 million downloads, and a
technology that could boost the Kindle
by letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology account
by letting users merge their Amazon and ComiXology accounts.
Technology tools aside, this quick and simple exercise that anyone can do to express gratitude and praise the
old - fashioned way will increase your optimism, and it's backed
by science.
«Crypto Valley was initiated
by Johann Gevers after identifying Switzerland with its decentralized, citizen - controlled political system, its centuries -
old culture of individual rights, innovation, and entrepreneurship, its neutrality, stability, and business - friendly environment... for building the new generation of decentralized
technologies.»
Businesses both new and
old can launch themselves to the next level
by taking advantage of blockchains, the versatile
technology behind cryptocurrency.
The $ 50,000 top prize was awarded to Timeless, an app developed
by 14 - year -
old Emma Yang to help people with Alzheimer's remember events, stay connected and engaged, and recognize people through artificial intelligence - based facial recognition
technology.
Pakistan's Rixi has tapped into the low - income market
by mixing
old technology with new ideas.
My
old friend Alistair Milne recently published a very interesting paper on Cryptocurrencies from an Austrian Perspective (SSRN, 12th April 2017) in which he explores the use of new
technology to reimplement money
by taking away money creation from commercial banks and proposes:
Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed
by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military
technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of
old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.
New communication
technologies, far I ran eroding the reach of the
old, sharpen the aim and deepen the penetration of telecommunications culture - power into new areas, including those now served (often less efficiently)
by print.
Last week, the 36 - year -
old technology salesman — micro-edited
by producers into a broken - hearted,...
Thus being the nature of
technology, scientific progress, and breakthroughs is the
old science being usurped
by new science.
But sometimes the issues raised
by novel
technologies are so fresh that they resist being herded into the
old corrals.
Our
old ways of explaining ourselves to ourselves are not large enough to accommodate a world made paradoxically small
by our
technologies, yet larger than we can grasp.
(i) Unable to restore the power in a few states for more than 10 + days, since a tornado passed
by it (ii) Unable to restore power for 7 + days in a snowy North Eastern state, since a hurricane passed
by it (iii) Having no quality in science, math and
technology; depending on «imports» to uplift them (or depending on Jesus to save them)(iv) Horrible crime in downtown, ghettos of any major city (v) Unemployment of 23 % (vi) Having a president who believes that the earth is 6000 years
old (vii) Having a presidential candidate which believes in subjugating women (viii) Having more than 50 % of its 2012 graduates un / under - employed (ix) No public transport, resulting in hell on earth even for a small rise in crude - oil prices (x) A crappy health care system (xi) A debt of 14Trillion, which corresponds to 50K per US resident.
Thus the almost - insane popularity of Youversion, a digital Bible available for free on iTunes and developed
by a 34 - year -
old technology buff and Christian pastor from Oklahoma named Bobby Gruenewald.
We got a quick lesson
by Jason on the ins and outs of the irrigation system, and were amazed
by the link between decades -
old practices and modern
technology.
The National Academy of Science and
Technology Philippines deplores the disruption of the multilocational field experiment
by anti-GMO elements who uprooted the month -
old transplanted golden rice plants in Pili, Camarines Sur on 08 August 2013.
What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a
technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from
old technology that has passed its use -
by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.
i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too
old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against
technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive
by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??
My three
older kids are
technology inclined but rather than sit behind the computer all day, they like to build inventions with Legos, experiment with electricity
by using their Snap Circuits, and draw pictures of things they want to build.
The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices,
by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an
older helmet employing 20 - year -
old design
technology.
By replacing hundreds of
older less efficient snow guns, the resort's entire fleet of snowmaking equipment will now be comprised of 100 % low energy
technology.
A 1995 facility evaluation
by Water
Technology, Inc. determined that Camelot, Frontier, and Heritage Park swimming pools were in fair to good condition for their age, however, Pioneer Park pool, 38 years
old and corroding both inside and out, needed to be replaced.
The Portable Swing in Cozy Kingdom will surround your baby in a plush kingdom of luxurious fabrics and adorable jungle characters It is designed to fold in a snap to make travel or storage easier TrueSpeed
technology maintains 6 consistent speeds even as baby gets
older WhisperQuiet
technology ensures that baby won t be disturbed
by noise while swinging and listening to 6 melodies
I believe that with today's
technology you can get the word out about these elections online and
by old fashioned door - to - door campaigning and talking to voters.
Of course, the tapes could just be read and the results be transmitted
by phone, but this would necessarily combine
old technology with new
technology, and thus not satisfy the hardcore computer wonks such as what you seem to be out there, and would not reflect an official result from what is considered the more reliable source, ie, the memory card.
The plant generates 25 percent of the power used
by New York City, but opponents say there are serious safety concerns associated with Indian Point and its 40 - year -
old technology.
Age - related variations in DNA methylation were analyzed
by deep sequencing
technology, which revealed distinct patterns, with gains in methylation in
older individuals occurring at genomic sites that were unmethylated in young individuals, and vice versa.
But the agency plans to allow drones, civilian or otherwise, to share airspace with
old - fashioned piloted aircraft
by 2015 — provided the drones incorporate collision - avoidance
technology.
The agency wants more flexible charging so that those who waste spectrum
by using
old - fashioned radio systems will have to pay more than those who use the more efficient new
technologies.
On return to Earth, the astronauts will be protected
by a heat shield that chars and burns — an
older, more reliable
technology than the shuttle's tiles.
By combining the new blue LEDs with
older green and red ones or coating blue LEDs with chemicals that reemit other wavelengths,
technology manufacturers could generate full - spectrum white LED light for the first time.
At many places, the
old, conventional, and power - consuming illumination is being replaced
by LED
technology at the moment.
A new study
by Michigan State University researcher William Chopik finds that social
technology use among
older adults is linked to better self - rated health and fewer chronic illnesses and depressive symptoms.
As supercritical
technology becomes more mainstream and power generators normally improve on the efficiency of even their
oldest plants over the course of operations, the loophole allows plants requesting CDM credits to exaggerate the calculated emissions avoided
by millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent gases, the panel warns.
In January, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and
Technology found a more precise value for Planck's constant — one that differs from the
old one
by just 22 parts in a billion.
The panel argues that the current rules as written let supercritical coal plant developers claim avoided emissions
by comparing their projects to power plant
technology that's now a decade
old.
«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded
by microfluidic
technology — which is only about 15 years
old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»