CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In today’s manufacturing plants, the division of labor between humans and robots is quite clear: Large, automated robots are typically cordoned off in metal cages, manipulating heavy machinery and performing repetitive tasks, while humans work in less hazardous areas on jobs requiring finer detail. But according to Julie Shah, the Boeing Career […]
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Sprint iDEN teardown advances with vendor picks
With just a year to go before it turns off its iDEN network, Sprint is working to keep the decommissioning on track with the hiring of four contractors who will handle the logistics of shutting down cell sites. Sprint plans to take 9,600 iDEN sites off the air before the end of the third quarter […]
Elemental, CTCSP partner in Japan
Elemental Technologies and Japan’s CTCSP have formed a strategic partnership to provide video encoding and transcoding solutions to streaming service providers in Japan. The partnership brings together Elemental’s high-performance video processing systems and CTCSP’s broad systems integration expertise. The deal formalizes an ongoing relationship. Together, the two companies have already secured as customers Fujitsu Limited, […]
TWC launches 1st cloud-based VOD search application in Syracuse
Time Warner Cable is out of the starting blocks with the first launch of its cloud-based video-on-demand application last month in Syracuse. As part of a larger refresh to its OCAP Digital Navigator (ODN) platform, Time Warner Cable digital subscribers in Syracuse now have access to the cable operator’s first-generation, cloud-based search and art functionalities […]
New energy source for future medical implants: Sugar
CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT engineers have developed a fuel cell that runs on the same sugar that powers human cells: glucose. This glucose fuel cell could be used to drive highly efficient brain implants of the future, which could help paralyzed patients move their arms and legs again. The fuel cell, described in the June […]
Experts warn of shortage of U.S. cyber pros
Symantec Corp Chief Executive Enrique Salem told the Reuters Media and Technology Summit in New York that his company was working with the U.S. military, other government agencies and universities to help develop new programs to train security professionals. “We don’t have enough security professionals and that’s a big issue. What I would tell you […]
British data regulator reopens investigation into Google over disputed Street View program
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s data regulator has reopened its investigation into Google’s Street View, saying that an inquiry by authorities in the United States raised new doubts about the disputed program. Steve Eckersley, enforcement chief of the British Information Commissioner’s Office, said Google Inc. had questions to answer about Street View, an attention-grabbing project which […]
Georgia Tech Startup Secures Department of Defense Funding for Development of Cell Delivery Technology
Cell-based therapies have yet to reach their full potential in repairing damaged tissue because of the hostile environment the cells face once injected into the body. A patient’s inflammatory response normally causes the majority of these therapeutic cells to die or migrate away from the area in need of repair. To address this problem, a […]
FCC effectively kills ‘viewability’ rule
In a parliamentary maneuver taken last night, the FCC essentially killed the so-called “viewability” rule, meaning that cable operators will no longer have to carry must-view channels in both analog and digital starting in December. The decision had been sought and was cheered by the cable industry, which has been effecting a long, gradual transition […]
Dish pays Qualcomm to design mobile broadband chip
Dish said it is paying Qualcomm in advance to develop a chip that will enable 3G mobile broadband in spectrum that Dish is still awaiting FCC permission to use. The move anticipates specialized mobile handsets that Dish can supply to potential subscribers of the wireless broadband service Dish intends to eventually roll out, pending that […]