'Zorgkosten door kolencentrales 386 miljoen' Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn “Verified Certificates” For A Fee. Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities — for free, online.
At launch, the startup offered courses from a mere three institutions, but today, things have changed, as Coursera’s platform now hosts over 200 courses from 33 top international and domestic schools and reaches over 2 million students around the globe. Nieuw snowboard? gewoon uit de printer! 3D-printen van vuurwapens nog dit jaar van start. Sahara Force India teams up with 3D Systems. Sahara Force India Formula One Team is pleased to announce the signing of a technical partnership with 3D Systems Corporation, a leading supplier of 3D content-to-print solutions.
Paul di Resta, Sahara Force India. Transparent Transistors, Printed On Paper. Microscale 3D printing of a spaceship. Full Printed. Open technology development platforms. Best of 2012: Raspberry Pi Projects. It’s been a big first year for Raspberry Pi, the $35 mini Linux computer.
As soon as they started shipping, makers were eager to get their hands on the board so that they could use it in their projects. In just a few months, we’ve seen a ton of great Raspberry Pi projects come our way. Google's Eric Schmidt applauds the $35 Raspberry Pi computer. Google's Eric Schmidt said he thinks that the $35 Raspberry Pi computer… (Raspberry Pi Foundation ) Google Chairman Eric Schmidt wants to help Britain get its computer science curriculum in order, and he thinks that the $35 Raspberry Pi computer can help.
Turn The Raspberry Pi Microcomputer Into A Low-Cost Laptop With This Atrix Dock Hack. The $35/$25 Raspberry Pi microcomputer is being used by hardware hackers to power all sorts of creative projects.
Including, in the above instance, a Raspberry Pi powered laptop, created by developer Eric Chou — principally by tying in the Motorola Atrix laptop dock. Which surely must be the coolest use of that piece of kit to date. The smartphone that the dock was intended to be hooked up to has since been discontinued but as Adafruit Industries points out in the below ‘how to’ video, the laptop dock can still be picked up via various online outlets. Top 10 Best Kinect Hacks. Better Than Human: Why Robots Will — And Must — Take Our Jobs. Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow.
What would they all do? It’s hard to believe you’d have an economy at all if you gave pink slips to more than half the labor force. But that—in slow motion—is what the industrial revolution did to the workforce of the early 19th century. Two hundred years ago, 70 percent of American workers lived on the farm. Infographic: Google's Flu Map Might Predict The Next Big Epidemic. You’re definitely going to get the flu this year.
Alright, sorry, maybe not definitely. But the CDC is reporting that flu season is off to an “early start,” and will likely be one of the worst in the past decade. Big Data Is The Steam Engine Of Our Time : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture. Hide captionBig Data: trying to make sense of the numbers Kazuhiro Nogi/AFP/Getty Images Big Data: trying to make sense of the numbers.
Healthcare & technology. Getting Your DNA Scanned Now Costs Less Than An iPhone 5. The price of unlocking the secrets of your DNA has dropped to stocking-stuffer range as Google-backed 23andMe said today that a major new investment was allowing them to offer their personal gene scans for $99.
The company co-founded and run by Anne Wojcicki, wife of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, announced Tuesday that it had raised $50 million in its latest round of venture capital funding. Wojcicki told WIRED the money was a “game-changer” because it allows the company to bring the scans down to $99 from the previous regular price of $299, effective today. The goal, she said, was to reach 1 million customers by the end of 2013, up from 180,000 now. ActivPrescription™ Bio-Hackers, Get Ready.
IMEC and UGent unveil breakthrough in augmented reality contact lens. The SpotBros do entrepreneurship, Spanish style. Tomorrow Starts Here (:60) Future Timeline. Technology - Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years. The IBM Next 5 in 5: Our 2012 Forecast of Inventions that Will Change the World Within Five Years. Bernard Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer, IBM. The year 2000 as envisioned in the year 1910.
Dr Mark Britnell: People are the Beating Heart of Healthcare Provision. The future shape of global healthcare provision is a major issue that we all need to grapple with. Its importance is highlighted by the depth of divisions when health care reform becomes the centre of political focus. Obama-care currently divides a nation and was one of the key differentiators between the presidential candidates in the USA.
The future of the Health and Social Care Act is a political minefield in the UK as successive governments have tried to reform the NHS and met with mixed success. Meanwhile China is facing the complexities of increasing healthcare provision, while tackling issues of access. For those of us involved in finding solutions to global health care challenges, it is all too easy to get bound up in the technocratic details of policy and implementation. Buurtzorg, an aged care provider in the Netherlands, is an interesting example of an organisation taking a strategic view of health provision.
Envisioning-the-future-of-health.png. Www.iftf.org/uploads/media/Nova_FutureForces_Map.pdf. - Diagnose 2025. MEGATRENDS: The 6 Gamechangers That Will Change The World In The Next Decades. Jefferies: Seven China Megatrends. - Sociaal Wonen 2030. The demographic deficit: Impact of aging on global wealth - McKinsey Quarterly - Economic Studies - Productivity & Performance. How social business is changing the way we work. The term social business is often surrounded by confusion.
While in the US it is a firmly established concept, in the UK it is often incorrectly attributed to terms such as social enterprise or CSR, or is used to describe a company that is active on social media. So what exactly is social business, and how does becoming one offer a competitive advantage? Defining social business Social business is an increasingly popular organisational strategy that embraces a flatter and more transparent company culture and more collaborative, mobile and social technology in the workplace.
Social business is a response to a variety of technology trends, including consumerisation of IT, social media, big data and cloud computing combined with the generational shifts taking place in the office. Social businesses utilise social tools to facilitate open communication, engage employees and share information to embrace a new age of problem solving and interaction. Www.maartjeduin.nl/wp-content/uploads/SocialCity.pdf. Crowdsourced legislation goes online in Finland — European technology news. Ricardo Semler - Leading by Omission. Johnson Controls opens energy-efficiency apps marketplace. Johnson Controls on Monday opened a new cloud-based apps marketplace intended to help commercial-building owners and operators save energy and money.
The marketplace offers 17 apps so far, five of which were developed by third parties on the Panoptix platform, the company said. Among others, these include apps that keep track of tenants' utilities, monitor buildings' energy performance and display the amount of carbon emissions each building, or group of buildings, is responsible for. The idea -- expressed as "See a bigger picture" by Panoptix -- is to help building owners and managers see energy trends across buildings, making it easier for them to find ways to reduce energy consumption, for example, or to see anomalies that could indicate fixable problems.
The apps are all based on Johnson Controls' Panoptix energy-management platform, introduced last year. Sizing up social business for 2012. Algae streetlights ‘eat’ CO2 from the air. Integrated Sustainability. We provide a full range of sustainability and innovation services for organizations, cities, and industry. Airpod concept car that runs on compressed air. Tata Motors has been showing off a new concept car that runs on compressed air and will give you 125 miles per full tank of…well, air. Primark: Subscribe to style. EasyJet: Hi-comfort, jet speed rail travel. EasyJet has pioneered the way we choose, use and experience European rail travel.