Sentences with phrase «recent issue of technology»

Other potential nightmares, reported in a recent issue of Technology Review, involve biologists creating customized viruses that can target critical cognitive circuitry, selectively inducing paranoia, engendering calm, or obliterating memory.

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Trump's recent trade tariffs will force China to address the issue of forced technology transfers, and are a strong signal that «the game of continual delay is over», according to former White House Steve Bannon.
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).
And with the recent Uber accident, the hot - button issue of road safety vis - à - vis autonomous technology has been pressed once more.
In recent months, the FCA has issued a warning about token offerings (ICOs), cautioned investors about cryptocurrency contracts for differences, and issued a report that details the denial of banking services to firms exploring distributed ledger technology.
The Korean central bank recently released a joint research report titled, «Present Status and Key Issues of Distributed Ledger Technology, which «comprehensively reviewed and introduced the recent development of distributed ledger technology and the utilization on financiTechnology, which «comprehensively reviewed and introduced the recent development of distributed ledger technology and the utilization on financitechnology and the utilization on financial sector.
Smith & Wesson's parent company said it was wary of adding «smart - gun» technology to its weapons, as investors push the industry to address safety issues in the wake of recent mass shootings.
In their responses, the panel of Ciphrex CEO and Bitcoin Core contributor Eric Lombrozo, Blockstream CEO Adam Back, JoinMarket developer Adam Gibson, applied cryptography consultant and sometimes Bitcoin Core contributor Peter Todd, SatoshiLabs CTO Pavol Rusnak, and Libbitcoin lead maintainer Eric Voskuil discussed the issues with the recent phenomenon of spinoff coins, a lack of understanding as to why Bitcoin is useful, and the fact that some of them sleep better today than they did in the early days of this new technology.
Such organizations as Friends of the Earth, The Permaculture Association, The Centre for Alternative Technology, The Soil Association, Garden Organic (previously the Henry Doubleday Research Association - HDRA), the many Wildlife Trusts and Conservation bodies and the recent Transition Towns Network try to address these issues.
Today the National Academy of Science and Technology Philippines issued a statement regarding the recent vandalism of the Golden Rice field trial in the Philippines.
As demonstrated by the recent Institute of Food Science and Technology Spring Conference on sustainability, which included presentations from the FDF - the Food and Drink Sector has always had an enormous variety of issues and impacts.
The April issue of Food & Drink Technology will also feature an article of mine, from my recent trip to France visiting private label food manufacturer Agromousquetaires.
To coincide with Scientific American's «Cities» special topic issue, we gathered recent lists ranking U.S. cities on aspects of green living, pollution, health and technology.
This special issue addresses modern developments in controlling and manipulating light: how light - based technologies are shrinking and becoming faster (Koenderink et al., p. 516); how recent theoretical developments in the manipulation of light are being implemented to provide materials with properties not available in nature (Pendry et al., p. 521); how the quantum properties of light are being exploited in new technologies (Walmsley, p. 525); and how new light sources are coming online that can probe the structure of matter on spatial and time scales that provide an exquisitely detailed picture of our microscopic world (Miao et al., p. 530).
Her recent research on this issue, as well as work carried out by Wolfgang Tress and colleagues at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, shows the way in which a current — voltage measurement is carried out will dictate the efficiency value you obtain.
Andrea Ruthes, postdoctoral researcher, and Francisco Vilaplana, associate professor in Glycoscience at KTH Royal Institute of Technology are the scientists behind this discovery, which was reported in the recent issue of the journal Green Chemistry.
This technology debuted in a recent issue of Nature Biotechnology.
On Monday, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) issued a sharp rebuttal that claims the editorial's assertions «are contrary to facts» and highlights a slew of recent Chinese - born S&T advances.
Nine articles in the recent issue of the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, from AIP Publishing, provide the first reviews of energy technologies and costs for microgrids in Alaska.
The researchers, from the University of California, San Diego, the University of Southern California and the California Institute of Technology, describe the material's fabrication and testing in a recent issue of Nature Scientific Reports.
«The present study is a continuation of Yamanaka's recent work that contributes to our understanding of the basic science of cellular reprogramming, while also addressing one of the important issues to be tackled for this technology to be useful for medical research.»
Two subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee held a hearing on December 3, 2009 to look at issues arising from NASA's most recent audit by its outside independent auditor, Ernst & Young.
«The institute is not about focusing on the intricacies of the latest technology or most recent hot button issue for librarians,» says Joseph Zolner, PPE's director of higher education programs.
As reflected by the recent controversy of child pornography involving under - aged students in at least 70 public and private schools throughout Australia, the increased rate at which the use, and misuse, of technology in schools has generated a multitude of new legal issues surrounding the use of social and other digital media that most could not have anticipated a few short years ago.
This paper surveys recent trends and issues related to the integration of newer technologies in K - 16 English language arts / literacy learning classrooms.
We prefer guest columns and commentary articles from current or recent school administrators, technology specialists or thought leaders familiar with the issues facing educators surrounding the use of technology in schools and universities.
Residents provided opinions on a host of issues, including curriculum, instructional technology and facilities use in a recent telephone survey in Burnsville - Eagan - Savage School District 191...
That notion has been buttressed in recent SEMA - member commentaries such as those contained in this issue's «Truck, SUV & Off - Road Gear» (see p. 24) listings, and this issue contains an extensive look at the topic featuring many insights from SEMA Vice President of Vehicle Technology John Waraniak (see p. 84).
Chapter 3 Market Dynamics 3.1 Product Insights and Market Overview 3.1.1 Global E-Paper Display Market Revenue and Growth, 2013 — 2022, (US$ Mn)(Y - o - Y %) 3.2 Key Market Trends and Future Outlook 3.2.1 Evolution of E-Paper Display Technology 3.2.2 Recent Trends 3.2.3 Future Outlook 3.3 Market Drivers 3.3.1 Improved Features and Functionalities over other Competing Technologies 3.3.2 Growing Application Domains 3.3.2.1 Consumer Applications 3.3.2.2 Non-Consumer (Commercial and Industrial) Applications 3.3.3 Regulated demand for E-book Reader Devices 3.4 Market Growth Inhibitors 3.4.1 Poor Colour Display Quality and High Cost 3.4.2 Low Refresh / Response Rate and Imprint Issues 3.5 Opportunities 3.5.1 Bendable and Foldable Displays 3.5.2 Paperless Office 3.6 See - Saw Analysis 3.6.1 Impact Analysis of Drivers and Restraints 3.7 Value Chain Analysis 3.8 Market Penetration Scenario, 2015 3.9 Competitive Analysis 3.9.1 Market Positioning of Key Vendors
Featuring four artists from the exhibition and moderated by MAM director Lora Urbanelli, the panel examines the insights achieved by, and challenges inherent in, creating a history of a relatively recent era, many of whose key issues — surrounding identities, digital technologies, and globalization — remain urgent today.
They have worked together since 1992, addressing a variety of social and political issues such as the post-human and how recent developments in technology have impacted our lives.
Using recent technology, Rachel Maclean constructs fantasy narratives set in computer - generated landscapes that play on thorny issues of identity, social life and politics.
The panel will explore the timeliness of this recent iteration of digital abstraction, with three artists who variously work through issues such as: how gesture, expression, and authenticity might continue to be possible in a contemporary image - based culture; whether our digital era truly produces an ahistorical condition in which images and marks have no specific reference and no relevant point of origin; how structures of and interfaces with digital technologies have necessitated new models for thinking about memory, distribution, and reproduction, as well as degradation, rupture, breakdown, and the void; and how the ubiquity of the screen in all aspects of life has given rise to a renewed interest in the relationship between two - dimensional and three - dimensional space, with a refreshed focus on tromp l'oeil and «topographical» painting.
While it's tempting for us TreeHuggers to give all the credit to recent innovations in green technology, victories on the environmental policy front and a growing divestment movement — all of which are no doubt contributing to the industry's woes — Stevens says the issues that BP, Exxon and the like face are more fundamental, and a lot more deeply seated than these relatively new challenges.
This will be done in the context of recent advances in conventional and alternative energy, sensor and monitoring technologies, microbiology and system ecology, rock mechanics, slope stability and climate issues.
Recent issues have focused on a range of topics, including high - efficiency, low - emissions coal technology, synergies between coal and renewables, water and the energy industry, urbanisation, and energy poverty.
Special Issue Call for Papers Environmental Debates Over Nuclear Energy: Media, Communication, and the Public In recent decades, nuclear energy has evolved into a global controversy in which supporters and critics of the technology employ a variety of communication strategies to shape public opinion and influence societal decisions.
As a trend the sit / stand issue has obviously picked up momentum in recent years, but in some ways it's ironic as the primary concern (sedentary work styles) has also been shifting, with the miniaturization and mobility of technology, coupled with flatter organizations and more emphasis on collaboration, increasingly leading knowledge workers to spend less time at a personal workstation....
Scarcity of the metal is a sustainability and a political issue, according to a recent article in the TimesOnline, Crunch looms for green technology as China tightens grip on rare - earth metals.
Pulling from a recent issue of Legal Technology Insider, London writes,
November 17, 2011 — Brooks Kushman shareholder and patent attorney, Dave Syrowik discusses The Leahy - Smith America Invents Act in the article, «The Most Sweeping Overhaul of the Patent Act Since 1952» and provides «Recent Developments in Information Technology Law» for the State Bar of Michigan in the November 2011 issue of Michigan IT Lawyer.
In a recent issue of Canadian Lawyer 4Students, e-discovery lawyer Dera Nevin pointed out it's an area that could be of great interest to budding lawyers because they've grown up understanding the complexity of technology but «a lot of people perhaps mistakenly misunderstand e-discovery as an administrative [area] and not a legal area.»
Specific topics which have been covered in recent conferences include judicial ethics; interpreters; delivering reasons for judgment; assessing credibility; social media; technology and search warrants; managing a provincial offence trial; effectively communicating an oral judgment; risk assessment and indicators of lethality at bail hearings; the Youth Criminal Justice Act; eye - witness identification; conducting pre-trials; specific issues at trials of regulatory offences; fly - in - courts, residential schools; application of Gladue principles; mistrials and bias; accident reconstruction; search warrant issues; domestic violence issues; orders for examination under the Mental Health Act; child apprehension warrants under the Child and Family Services Act; evidentiary issues; discrimination and harassment in the workplace; stress management; and pre-retirement planning.
The recent Ryerson incident is interesting and raises the issue that technology makes it both easier to potentially «cheat» but also to be «caught» (and to be clear, I express no opinion on the Ryerson incident since I do not have all of the facts).
In a recent post, Simon Chester drew attention to an article entitled «Electronically Manufactured Law — Why the shift to electronic research merits attention» that was published in the Fall Issue of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.
Two recent cases in two different courts dealt with the issue of technology assisted review («TAR») and its use in discovery.
For a longer review of the legal and practical issues, see my recent technology law column from February.
That has changed over recent years to the extent that the more forward - thinking firms have the technology team working right alongside the other professionals, often from day one of a matter, advising them on their approach in order to get to the heart of the issue as quickly as possible.
A bipartisan Congressional committee's recent report showcases troubling details about police abuse of cell - site simulators, and calls on Congress to pass laws ensuring that this powerful technology is only deployed with a court - issued probable cause warrant.
In recent years, the USPTO has come under increasing scrutiny over the quality of its patent examinations.1 The growing push for reform of the patent system is fueled by the rapid rise of technology, financial services, telecommunications, and other innovations driving the information economy, all straining the USPTO's ability to evaluate and issue quality patents.2 Problems with patent quality occur when the Patent Office grants patents on claims that are broader than what is merited by the invention and the prior art. 3 In fact, a number of these problematic patents have been issued and publicized to much fanfare, including the infamous Smuckers» peanut butter and jelly patent where the company asserted a patent on their method of making the UncrustiblesTM crust-less peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, among others.4 These «bad» or improvidently granted patents impact the USPTO's ability to promote overall patent quality which, I will show, has serious implications for the public domain.
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