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<title><![CDATA[Study to test human ability to control robotics with the mind]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Researchers are ready to advance their tests of a novel brain-computer interface (BCI) from animals to human subjects, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency just granted them more than $6 million over the next three years to get those human clinical trials under way.Using its mind alone, this monkey controls a seven-degrees-of-freedom robotic arm and is rewarded with a drink (hence the straw).(Credit:University of Pittsburgh)Ongoing research out of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh has already demonstrated that the team's tiny 10x10 array of electrodes implanted on the surface of a monkey's brain can process activity from individual neurons to guide a robotic arm through such simple tasks as turning doorknobs and eating marshmallows.&quot;Our animal studies have shown that we can interpret the messages the brain sends to make a simple robotic arm reach for an object and turn a mechanical wrist,&quot; says Andrew Schwartz, a professor of neurobiology at the Pitt School of Medicine and a senior investigator on the project. &quot;The next step is to see not only if we can make these techniques work for people, but also if we can make the movements more complex.&quot;Expected to launch later this year, the study will test two separate electrodes on human participants, and the team is already brainstorming more sophisticated approaches to the technology, including a telemetry system that would enable wireless control of prosthetic arms with sensory components.Schwartz has worked on algorithms to translate the brain's electrical activity into physical movements for several years' initially he showed that monkeys can use thought alone to move cursors on computer screens, and in 2008 demonstrated that they could also control a simple robotic arm.&quot;We are now ready to begin testing BCI technology in the patients who might benefit from it the most, namely those who have lost the ability to move their upper limbs due to a spinal cord injury,&quot; says Michael Boninger, director of the UPMC Rehabilitation Institute and a senior scientist on the project. &quot;Our ultimate aim is to develop technologies that can give patients with physical disabilities control of assistive devices that will help restore their independence.&quot;This will not be the first human clinical trial of a BCI. In 2004, quadriplegic Matthew Nagle (who was paralyzed from the neck down after being stabbed) became the first person to use BCI to control a computer mouse cursor. His BrainGate Neural Interface System was eventually removed, and in 2008 Nagle died, but before his death he told PBS: &quot;I can't put it into words. It's just--I use my brain. I just thought it. I said, &quot;Cursor go up to the top right.&quot; And it did, and now I can control it all over the screen.&quot;<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[eBay building niche, mobile apps to grow user base]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[eBay is continuing to press into markets beyond its original model of running an auction house and global garage sale. And I don't mean it's buying more companies with inexplicable connections to commerce, like Skype. Instead, the company is working on highly targeted apps designed to hook new users into the eBay ecosystem.  The first of these is already out: The iPhone app for eBay Fashion. It's a little subset of eBay, focusing on apparel. It has some special sauce, like a &quot;closet&quot; feature that lets you drop images of clothes you're interested in on a mannequin so you can see how items look together. It also has a cute little augmented reality feature that will put a pair of fake sunglasses on a live cameraphone picture of you' then you can find more-or-less matching, real sunglasses to buy.  Mobile apps are key to eBay since they appeal more to the impulse buyer, and the impulse buyer is more drawn to auctions. Ryan Melcher, eBay's director of mobile products, told me that 60 percent of eBay mobile purchases are auctions, compared with 40 percent on the main Web site. &quot;With mobile,&quot; Melcher says, &quot;we are able to extend and to capture new users.&quot; Trying out a pair of virtual glasses.(Credit:Rafe Needleman/CNET) Melcher also points out that mobile apps improve engagement with auctions and thus drive up auction prices, since without mobile alerts, people can miss out on bids they might otherwise make. The fact that &quot;people were missing out on deals&quot; is the main reason eBay launched in mainstream mobile app.  There are more vertical mobile apps coming. Next up is an eBay Motors app. It will have its own special tricks, like a vehicle identification number (VIN) lookup that will help you learn more about acar you may be interested in buying, or help you find parts for it if you already have. The latter feature possibly gives eBay a little taste of the money you pay on car maintenance even if you don't buy the car via eBay itself. eBay Motors is coming this quarter.  Some time after that, eBay is looking at a special app for electronics purchases. This one will give you access to accessories (like cables) for your purchases, warranty info, and possibly manuals. Melcher says eBay wants to make for users it easy to tell the app what electronics you have and is considering a Tripit-like feature: you mail it your purchase receipts, and it will build your inventory of gear for you.  Outside of segment-specific apps, eBay is also looking to expand its user base, or at least its utility, by making it easier to transact with your immediate social circle instead of the entire world (see also: Oodle goes after Craigslist). Likewise, there are experiments to bring Craigslist-like &quot;hyper-local&quot; commerce to more regions. eBay Classifieds (formerly Kijiji) is still not integrated in the main U.S. eBay site or its mobile app, but this may change.  Recent eBay acquisitions--the local shopping service Milo and the scanner app RedLaser--make perfect sense in light of this new, clear, mission: to bring users to eBay by making the company relevant even for purchases that don't take place in eBay's core marketplace. Paypal, of course, was eBay's most significant example of this direction. But the focus on non-auction utility in vertical markets is especially interesting, and especially so for start-ups looking for a sugar-daddy exit. I don't think eBay is going to be able to build, or even conceive of, all the features it wants to put into its vertical apps. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Zoom! StumbleUpon traffic doubles in 6 months]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mawiningrokettubeee</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Website discovery engine StumbleUpon had 500 million hits last month and its traffic has doubled in 6 months, the company announced today.StumbleUpon lets users jump through websites by adding a navigation toolbar to the top of every website visited. Users can vote up the site and comment on it, and then immediately &amp;''stumble&amp;'' to the next website without too much trouble. Registered users can pick a number of topics they are interested in and StumbleUpon delivers content that fits those themes whenever they jump to the next website.Like news aggregators, StumbleUpon it an attempt to solve discovery problems. There is quite a bit of content on the Internet a4&quot; so much so that the number of available web addresses has officially run out ahead of a revamp that will increase the number of available web addresses. Since there is so much noise, users flock to sites like news aggregator Reddit and StumbleUpon to curate their news and content and help users find just what they are looking for.StumbleUpon&amp;'s announcement comes fresh on the heels of Reddit&amp;'s recent traffic announcement that the news aggregator had more than 1 billion hits in January. A number of other startups, like app discovery tool Appitalism, have popped up to try to tackle the problem of content and application discovery as well.StumbleUpon also recently launched an Android application designed to solve the same discovery problems that applications have. There are alreadymore than 300,000 apps on the iPhone App Store, and more than 1,000 more appear daily. There are also more than 115,000 apps on the Android Marketplace, according toAndroLib.com. So even on application stores there is a lot of noise a4&quot; and users need some tools to curate their content and help point out new applications.The company waslaunched out of Canada in 2002 and didna4a4t move to the San Francisco Bay Area until 2006. It wasacquired by eBay a year later for $75 million a4&quot; though it has since been taken private. The San Francisco, Calif.-based company raised $1.5 million from Googlea4a4s founding investor, Ram Shriram, Lotus founder Mitch Kapor, Topic founder Ariel Poler, and angel investor Ron Conway.Next Story: Memo to the government: Nissan will not sell 25,000 Leafs this year Previous Story: After winning Game of the Year, BioWare founders tease the upcoming Mass Effect 3 (video)PrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: content discovery, curation, Discovery, news aggregation, stumbleCompanies: Appitalism, Curated.by, Reddit, Stumbleupon          Tags: content discovery, curation, Discovery, news aggregation, stumbleCompanies: Appitalism, Curated.by, Reddit, StumbleuponMatthew Lynley is VentureBeat's enterprise writer. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, where he studied math and physics, in May 2010. He has reported for Reuters. He currently lives in San Francisco, California. You can reach him at mattl@venturebeat.com (all story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com), and on Twitter at @logicalmoron. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Beluga one of Facebooka4a4s first real product acquisitions]]></title>
<link>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=is-beluga-one-of-facebookâÂ€Â™s-first-real-product-acquisitions</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>mawiningrokettubeee</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=is-beluga-one-of-facebookâÂ€Â™s-first-real-product-acquisitions</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Facebook has acquired Beluga, the mobile group-chat startup founded by three former Googlers. And in contrast to most of Facebook&amp;'s other deals, it looks like the company may actually use Belugaa4a4s technology.Beluga allows users to create a4Apodsa4 of friends with whom they want to share text messages, images, and emoticons. The service launched in December, and there seems to be increasing interest among both consumers and investors in group-chat products from companies like GroupMe and Ning.Herea4a4s the statement from Facebook:Wea4a4re psyched to confirm that wea4a4ve just acquired the talent and assets of Beluga, whose simple and elegant mobile apps blew us away as a solution to help groups of friends stay in touch on the move. Wea4a4re looking forward to welcoming co-founders Ben Davenport, Lucy Zhang and Jonathan Perlow, and wea4a4re excited that the team will continue their vision for groups and mobile communication as part of Facebook.Facebook has been a big acquirer of early-stage startups, but those deals have usually involved hiring the team and then shutting down the service. Last year, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said, a4AWe have never once bought a company for the company. We buy companies for excellent people.a4 (This practice is definitely not limited to Facebook, but it seems like Facebook has gone the furthest in this direction.)On one level, the Beluga deal seems to follow this pattern, since this brings three former Googlers into Facebook, and therea4a4s been a lot of press between the talent war between the two companies.But there are also signs that this deal could be a little different, as TechCrunch&amp;'s MG Siegler argues. The Beluga team says that the service will continue to operate for now, and there will be a4Amore details on future plans for Beluga.a4 A Facebook spokesperson told me, a4AAs we say above, we bought both the talent and assets, so I think that characterization of talent and technology is right.a4To be clear, Facebook hasna4a4t shut down every service that it acquired. FriendFeed is still running, but Facebook hasna4a4t really developed the service in any meaningful way, and it seems the main thing the company got out of that deal was the hire of Bret Taylor, who&amp;'s now Facebook&amp;'s chief technology officer.Next Story: Greylock: $1 billion more and new fund for &amp;''winner&amp;'s circle&amp;'' Previous Story: Evernote latest update adds audio notes, multiple attachmentsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: acqhires, acquisitions, group chat, mobile chatCompanies: Beluga, Facebook          Tags: acqhires, acquisitions, group chat, mobile chatCompanies: Beluga, FacebookAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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