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First editing of human embryos carried out in United States
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-gene-editing-idUSKBN1AC0CM

Technology that allows alteration of genes in a human embryo has been used for the first time in the United States, according to Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland, which carried out the research.

The OHSU research is believed to have broken new ground both in the number of embryos experimented upon and by demonstrating it is possible to safely and efficiently correct defective genes that cause inherited diseases, according to Technology Review, which first reported the news.

None of the embryos were allowed to develop for more than a few days, according to the report.

Some countries have signed a convention prohibiting the practice on concerns it could be used to create so-called designer babies.

#embryo_editing #édition_d'embryon #CRISPR

Une application pour écouter le danger - Technology Review
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/news/524971/app-listens-for-danger-when-youre-not-paying-attention

One Llama - ▻http://www.onellama.com - est une application pour smartphone qui écoute votre #environnement pour vous et vous signale les dangers auxquels vous pouvez être confronté. Tags : internetactu fing internetactu2net #son environnement #quantifiedself #bodyware #corps

Il hésite pas le responsable de l’#innovation chez BMW

Car Factories Turn Robots And Humans Into Co-Workers : The Two-Way : NPR
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/09/17/223490915/car-factories-turn-robots-and-humans-into-co-workers

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BMW says the plan isn’t to replace people on the assembly line, but instead to help them work at an older age.

“Our workers are getting older,” BMW’s head of innovation, Stefan Bartscher, tells Technology Review. "The retirement age in Germany just rose from 65 to 67, and I’m pretty sure when I retire it’ll be 72 or something. We actually need something to compensate and keep our workforce healthy, and keep them in labor for a long time. We want to get the robots to support the humans."

#travail #robotisation #retraites #cdp

Les 10 sujets les plus controversés de Wikipédia - Technology Review
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517101/edit-wars-reveal-the-10-most-controversial-topics-on-wikipedia

Taha Yasseri de l’université d’Oxford a exploré les sujets les plus controversé de chaque édition de la Wikipédia. Tags : internetactu2net internetactu #wikipedia fing #culture

50 Disruptive Companies 2013 - Technology Review
▻http://www2.technologyreview.com/tr50/2013

La Technology Review dresse la liste des 50 entreprises perturbatrices...  Tags : internetactu internetactu2net fing #innovation

Facebook: The Real Presidential Swing State - Technology Review
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428530/facebook-the-real-presidential-swing-state

What Technologies Will Crowdfunding Create? - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428986/what-technologies-will-crowdfunding-create

Makers are a breed of super-hobbyists who have been coalescing into a social movement around technologies like 3-D printing. Because of the availability of crowdfunding, their projects are becoming more ambitious, and some are turning into companies. One project called Ninja Blocks—the invention is a rubbery block of sensors that uploads reports to the Internet—raised $102,000 on Kickstarter, generating attention that allowed its creators pull in another $1 million from investors.

bars, bakeries, and technologies that are fun or solve social problems are likely to be popular categories.

Much of the money may flow to what are known as “user innovators”—people who invent products they need or want, initially for their own use. (...) A study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation released in February estimated that 47 percent of startups pursuing innovative products had been created by people who fit this profile
"A lot of breakthroughs are created by product users, not in centralized R&D labs. And #crowdfunding will be a new way to pay for that

#Stuxnet Tricks Copied by Computer Criminals - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/news/429173/stuxnet-tricks-copied-by-computer-criminals

Techniques used by government-backed malware are surfacing in the code used by ordinary cyber criminals.

(...) the techniques used in sophisticated, state-backed malware are trickling down to less-skilled programmers who target regular Web users and their online accounts or credit card details.

“Cybercriminals read the news as well,” says Roel Schouwenberg, a security researcher with Russian computer security company Kaspersky. Schouwenberg adds that sophisticated, state-sponsored “cyberweapons and targeted attacks now give us some insight into what will be coming into the mainstream.”

#cyberguerre #sécurité #informatique

Facebook Considers Mobile Ads That Know What You’re Doing - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428450/facebook-considers-mobile-ads-that-know-what/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2012-07-11

“Maybe you’re walking past somewhere we know you’ll like and it tells you there’s a deal you can get,” says Bosworth. “Ads don’t have to be a distraction.” To illustrate the potential of using smartphones’ sensors, he suggests it would be plausible for a phone’s microphone to identify nearby sounds. If it recognized music playing or even a person humming a tune, for example, it could suggest relevant online content or media purchases, he says.

J’aime de plus en plus le monde qui se prépare...

The Curious Case of Internet Privacy - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428045/the-curious-case-of-internet-privacy

Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever.

The Library of Utopia - Technology Review
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/featured-story/427628/the-library-of-utopia #utopie

Space over Time - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38339

Human exploration is the most visible use of spaceflight, but ­business and defense satellites fill the sky. By Mike Orcutt

The retirement of the space shuttles marks the end of NASA’s human spaceflight program, at least for now. But human missions funded by the U.S. government have represented only a small part of the action in space.

Of the 7,000 spacecraft that have been launched into orbit or beyond, more than half were defense satellites used for such purposes as communication, ­navigation, and imaging. (The Soviet Union sent up a huge number, partly because its satellites tended to be much shorter-lived than those from the United States.) In the 1970s, private companies began increasingly adding to the mix, ­launching satellites for telecommunications and broadcasting.

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What It Takes to Power Google - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38556

Google uses 260 million watts continuously across the globe, the company reported on Wednesday. This is equivalent to the power used by all the homes in Richmond, Virginia, or Irvine, California (around 200,000 homes), and roughly a quarter of the output of a standard nuclear power plant.

On est quand même loin de faire bouillir une tasse de thé à chaque requête, comme annoncé par des Cassandres il y a quelques années.

J’ai commis un article sur l’énergie et l’internet dans le dernier numéro de Ecorev’ (►http://ecorev.org)

Lessons From the #Gutenberg Bible for #Publishers Going #Digital - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26907

You’d think that the inventor of the printing press, which revolutionized all media after it, forever, would have reaped great riches from his invention, but that wasn’t the case. It turned out that everything else that went into creating a book — the paper, binding, transportation to book sellers, etc. — was so expensive that you might as well copy them by hand.

Gutenberg had solved the wrong problem.

What kept the early publishing industry afloat was something quite unexpected, from a modern perspective: the printing of Papal indulgences. That’s right: the birth of movable type was sheets of paper telling sinners they were absolved of their transgressions.

#ebook via @hlc

A Cloud over Ownership - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38391/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-08-24

When those belongings reside in Netflix’s video service, Amazon’s Kindle bookstore, or Apple’s coming iCloud service, they become impossible to misplace, and easier to organize and access than before. They also gain new powers over us, and slip free of powers we once held over them—powers that have shaped our thinking and behavior for centuries. One consequence is to give the companies that provide cloud services tremendous amounts of unchecked control over these possessions. In some cases, that control has already been abused.

The Cause Of Riots And The Price of Food - Technology Review
►http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27083/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-08-15

But what’s interesting about this analysis is that Lagi and co say that high food prices don’t necessarily trigger riots themselves, they simply create the conditions in which social unrest can flourish. “These observations are consistent with a hypothesis that high global food prices are a precipitating condition for social unrest,” say Lagi and co.

In other words, high food prices lead to a kind of tipping point when almost anything can trigger a riot, like a lighted match in a dry forest.

Technology Review: Why Privacy Is Not Dead
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/web/26000

Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Why Twitter Is the Future of News
▻http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/guest/25128/?a=f