The 2014 DHL Global Connectedness Index that one of us (Ghemawat) prepares with Steven Altman, and that was released on November 3, indicates that global connectedness started to deepen again in 2013 after its recovery stalled in 2012. In other words, there’s now a higher volume of information, capital, people, and trade flows between countries.
“Don’t let anybody tell you that it’s corporations and businesses that create jobs,” Hillary Clinton said last week in Boston. “You know that old theory, trickle-down economics. That has been tried, that has failed. It has failed rather spectacularly. One of the things my husband says when people say, ‘What did you bring to Washington?’ He says, ‘I brought arithmetic.’ ”
The Longitude Prize is aiming to help battle the problem of antibiotic resistance among bacteria, but what exactly are we up against?
The global problem of antibiotic resistance is fast becoming one of the major scientific issues of modern times. The development of new antibiotics is slow and difficult work but bacterial resistance is decreasing our arsenal of existing drugs posing a catastrophic threat as ordinary infections become untreatable.
Le marché de l'impression 3D a connu une croissance exponentielle au cours des dernières années. De nombreuses entreprises entrent sur le marché des imprimantes 3D pour des usages domestiques avec des prix toujours plus compétitifs. Etant donné que même les meilleures imprimantes 3D produisent des objets sur lesquels les couches de matériau sont bien visibles, un travail de finition est toujours nécessaire. Après cette procédure, l'objet imprimé est complètement imperméable et est livré avec une surface lisse.
La Banque mondiale estime que la population mondiale atteindra à près 10 milliards de personnes en 2050. Cette hausse entraîne une augmentation de la demande de nourriture de 60-70% par rapport à celle d'aujourd'hui. La pénurie d'eau et de terres cultivables sont les principaux obstacles pour répondre à la demande mondiale aussi bien en termes qualitatifs que quantitatifs. La plupart des terres cultivables est concentrée sur quelques zones géographiques et reste extrêmement rare dans de nombreux pays à forte croissance démographique, tels que le Nord de l'Afrique et la péninsule arabique.
Now, you, too, can run complicated applications super-efficiently inside of Google data centers, thanks to a new tool in the company’s public cloud called Google Container Engine.
See, Google knows a good bit about scheduling a wide variety of applications to run simultaneously in its data centers, having run popular web services for so many years. This year, Google shared some of its knowledge with the world in the form of the open-source Kubernetes container-management software. Today, it’s going one step further by introducing the Container Engine, which amounts to a hosted version of Kubernetes running on the Google Cloud Platform.
An experimental working electrical wire made out of DNA, made by an Israeli-led team of scientists, could be a breakthrough toward building the next generation of computers.
Electrical circuits composed of molecules have long been the great hope for computer miniaturization. The main obstacle to their development has been finding the right wiring. DNA is a leading candidate, because it can self-assemble into complex shapes, which could make a tiny circuit. But nobody had been able to get DNA to actually conduct electricity — until now.
When we think of Google, we think of the company that powers the widely used search engine, and we think of computer programming, engineering, and electrical design. However, recently Google has expanded and moved towards research in medical technology. Just a few months ago, the tech giant partnered with Novartis to license a glucose measuring smart contact lens.
La Coordinadora de ONGD de Euskadi, representada por Jesús Ochoa, miembro de su Junta Directiva, ha confirmado su participación en la edición específica DREAMWORKS en el ámbito de la Cooperación internacional y la Ayuda Humanitaria que se desarrollará el día 27 de noviembre de 2014 en el Palacio de Otalora de Aretxabaleta.
Como consecuencia, el programa de esta nueva edición DREAMWORKS queda como sigue…:
1.- Ilustración de experiencias externas en el ámbito de la Cooperación internacional y la Ayuda Humanitaria, a cargo de las entidades siguientes:
Intel Capital, the venture arm of the world’s biggest chipmaker, is unveiling it has invested $62 million in 16 tech startups today. The investments show that Intel is still bullish about funding new tech companies that could one day spur lots of purchases of its microprocessors and other gear.
Intel has long seen itself as having a role in accelerating the adoption of new technology, all made possible by the electronics revolution that rests on its chips. The company said it expects to invest $355 million this year, compared to $333 million last year.
