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British Gas Buys UK Smart Home Pioneer AlertMe For $100M

The connected home may still be a distant idea for most average consumers, but in the meantime the technology is becoming big business. Today, British Gas announced it will buy AlertMe, a developer of platforms for running various domestic “smart” devices, in a deal worth £65 million ($100 million), lining up the energy company to provide smart electric services covering heating, lighting and more.

Le Filtre V-EcoTech, une technologie écologique de traitement des eaux souterraines.

Une équipe de scientifiques du Centre Helmholtz pour la recherche environnementale (UFZ) de Leipzig (Saxe) travaille depuis plusieurs années au développement d'un procédé de remédiation des nappes phréatiques de contaminants pétrochimiques tels que le MTBE [1] et la famille des BTEX [2].

Les nanoparticules d'or identifient et tuent les cellules cancéreuses.

Un groupe de chercheurs de l'Institut de physique appliquée du Conseil national de recherches (Ifac-Cnr) et de l'Université de Florence a utilisé la capacité des cellules tumorales à survivre dans des conditions de mauvaise oxygénation pour les rendre reconnaissables par des nanoparticules d'or en mesure de les localiser et les détruire. La nouvelle technologie, illustrée sur Advanced Functional Materials, est brevetée.

Ebola Epidemic Should End in May, Say Disease Modelers

A new mathematical model of the way the disease spreads in West Africa predicts that the Ebola epidemic should be over by the middle of the spring.

On March 17, 2014, doctors diagnosed a single case of Ebola in the county of Lofa in Liberia, West Africa. This was the first, patient zero, in an epidemic that has so far infected more than 20,000 people and killed almost 8000.

EKITEN 2015 topaketa ospatu da MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEAn

Gaur goizean, EKITEN 2015 topaketa ospatu da MONDRAGON UNIBERTSITATEAn, zehazki, Goi Eskola Politeknikoan.

Topaketan, Errektoreorde Adakemikoak eman die ongietorria bertaratu diren 150 ikasleei.

Ondoren, hiru ekintzailetasun esperientzien berri izan dute ikasleek. Batetik, Batis Otaegi izan dugu gure artean, Artzai Eskolaren esperientzia azalduz, bestetik, Nerea Makazaga eta Unai Bordes Zerbeer (Garagardo euskalduna) proiektuaren berri emanez eta azkenik, Jon Elorza, Pottokaleku esperientziaren berri ematen. Guztiek hitz egin dute beraien esperientziari buruz ekintzaile ikuspegitik.

Ikasleek ere, beraien lana egin dute negozio ideiak proposatzen eta bost idea, sarituak izan dira.

Facebook launches 6-pack, an open-source switch for moving your data around its network.

Facebook is announcing today that it’s constructed another key hardware component to run the networks in its data centers exactly the way it wants to.

Dubbed 6-pack, Facebook’s new homebrewed modular switch brings together connections to lots of Facebook-built Wedge switches, which in turn connect to servers sitting in racks inside Facebook’s server farms.

NetVibes evolves to become your dashboard and connector for the Internet of Things.

NetVibes has come a long way. In a world where business leaders, entrepreneurs, and developers shout the word “pivot” at a moment’s notice, NetVibes has stuck to its original plan throughout its (relatively, in Internet terms) long history.

And today, NetVibes has announced that its web tool is going to push that original intention further by becoming your dashboard for the Internet of Things (IoT).

Health Analytics Firm Bivarus Raises $1.9M for Patient Software.

Hospitals often try to improve their services by getting direct feedback from customers—their patients. But even when patient surveys are electronic, many patients decline to respond to all of the questions, if they bother to respond at all.

Align Snags $2M to Grow Senior Care Software Business in Central WI.

Align, a healthcare software company based in Wausau, WI, has raised $2 million from investors, a new SEC filing shows.

The news is significant because it’s a relatively large sum for a Wisconsin tech company to raise in its first major equity funding round, particularly one located in central Wisconsin, where there aren’t many software startups.

Fannin Spinout Acelerox Aims to Halt Immune Attacks With Nanotech.

Houston’s Fannin Innovation Studio has spun out its latest company, a biotech called Acelerox that aims to use nanoparticle technology to treat a variety of autoimmune and other disorders.

Acelerox has been formed out of a licensing deal with Rice University. It’s based on novel nanoparticles developed by James Tour, a synthetic chemist and a Rice professor.

Atul Varadhachary, Fannin’s managing partner and the president of Acelerox, told me that the nanoparticles—known as PEG-HCC, or pegylated-hydrophilic carbon clusters—may have broad potential. They might help fight a number of autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis, and even injuries from strokes or traumatic brain injury.