Category: Advanced Cyber/IO

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Sepp Hasslberger: LED LiFi Doubles Data Transmit Speed

Advanced Cyber/IO
Sepp Hasslberger
Sepp Hasslberger

I think it would be a definite step forward for such a technology to get into wide use.  The signal, transmitted through LED lightbulbs, is imperceptible to human eyes. Better than microwave…

LED LiFi Doubles Transmit Speed

pureLiFi, the light communications technology company, that transmits data using light waves from ‘off-the-shelf’ LED bulbs, says they have doubled the previous levels of data rates. Li-Fi enables energy-efficient data transmission using LEDs in light fixtures.

pureLiFi demoed the world’s first commercial Li-Fi product, Li-1st, during March at MWC 2014 and CeBIT 2014.

“At the Li-Fi centre in Edinburgh, we’ve established that we can still transmit data wirelessly at data rates close to 100 per cent when lights are dimmed to levels where they appear to be switched off altogether.”

“This latest development furthers the case for Li-Fi revolutionising wireless communications, helps keep pureLiFi at the forefront of research and commercialisation and shows that Li-Fi really could be the enabler of the Internet of Everything.”

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Danielle Villegas: The Future of Mobile Learning

04 Education, Advanced Cyber/IO, Cultural Intelligence, IO Sense-Making
Danielle Villegas
Danielle Villegas

29 Slides Online: The Future of Mobile Learning – Empowering Human Memory and Literacy

Highlights: “Mobile First” when designing any curriculum; e-learning (electronic) differs from s-learning (speech) and p-learning (paper); knowledge needs to be meta-datad into mobile-usable chunks; m-learning (mobile) is a far advance and distinct from e-learning; applicability and ease of access rule; important reference The Mobile Proposition for Education Report 2012; m-learning is a design challenge, a mind-set challenge.

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Facebook: New Initiative, Connectivity Lab, to Bring Internet to Remote Areas

Advanced Cyber/IO, Drones & UAVs

facebookFacebook Initiative to Bring Internet to Remote Areas

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky.

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, including beaming it down from the sky.

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Google: Positive Impact on Elections in India and Indonesia?

Advanced Cyber/IO

google cleanGoogle’s new online tools will keep voters in India and Indonesia informed ahead of upcoming polls

Google has launched a series of tools as it seeks to make itself useful to 1 billion Indian and Indonesian voters, who are heading to the polls next month. These tools listed on the respective Elections Hub pages provide easier access to the latest news, videos, and practical details about the coming elections.

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Google Revamps Election Portal to Encourage Indians to Vote

NEW DELHI — Google India introduced a revamped Google Elections hub on Wednesday in an attempt to encourage first-time voters and the growing number of Internet users in the country to engage more deeply with the political process.

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The profile of Internet users in India is a small piece of the electorate. In a country of 1.2 billion with nearly 814 million registered voters, slightly more than 200 million use the Internet, according to an October report released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India.

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SchwartzReport: DNA = Mugshot

Advanced Cyber/IO, Earth Intelligence, Law Enforcement
Stephan A. Schwartz
Stephan A. Schwartz

This, wedded to the surveillance state is going to have a huge effect on society. It will become very difficult to evade arrest as the two technologies develop, and that will have an impact on people's behavior. This is a game changer. Click through to see the reconstructions and photos of the actual people. Amazing.

Genetic Mugshot Recreates Faces From Nothing But DNA
PETER ALDHOUS – Slate/New Scientist (U.K.)

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Patrick Meier: Grassroots UAVs for Disaster Response — Actionable Timely Locally-Controlled, Locally-Exploitable

Advanced Cyber/IO, Civil Society, Drones & UAVs, Ethics, Government
Patrick Meier
Patrick Meier

Grassroots UAVs for Disaster Response

 

I was recently introduced to a new initiative that seeks to empower grassroots communities to deploy their own low-cost xUAVs. The purpose of this initiative? To support locally-led disaster response efforts and in so doing transfer math, science and engineering skills to local communities. The “x” in xUAV refers to expendable. The initiative is a partnership between California State University (Long Beach), University of Hawaii, Embry Riddle, The Philippine Council for Industry, Energy & Emerging Technology Research & Development, Skyeye, Aklan State University and Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. The team is heading back to the Philippines next week for their second field mission. This blog post provides a short overview of the project’s approach and the results from their first mission, which took place during December 2013-February 2014.

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