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editor’s NOTE

“Let’s teach kids to write code.” There’s a reason most “conventional” career advisors are espousing this catchphrase in a rising tide of technology. The world is disintegrating corporeally, yet the virtual world is experiencing the beginning of life.

Code: The building blocks of virtual world, has become as essential as gravity that holds the Universe together. Consider this assertion: In order to evolve, we need to reshape the way we think about computers, in this meteoric technological change.

In a world of Google self-driving cars, will we need taxi drivers? When Amazon drones do the delivery in an hour, will we need postal workers? Yes and no, both.

The one consequence of the evolution of the economy toward interconnection and openness will result in sizable casualties - people losing their jobs to robots. Nonetheless, if we do not deploy the most powerful weapon known to mankind, the ramification would be economically cataclysmic.

So, what is the most-powerful weapon at our hands: Our intelligence and human-ness, above everything else. As we make our way through towards a new world order in which robots might replicate and replace human beings, humankind’s future generation will need to adapt to learn, think, create and lead in a world transformed by all-pervasive and increasingly powerful computers.

And, most importantly, we will need to embrace the changes and use them to generate more opportunity and truly impact our world at large, consummately and sublimely.

To quote Noam Chomsky: “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future.

Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”

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WTF: Where’s the food

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Goings On About HBO’s Silicon Valley

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Get, Set, Code: The next-generation of innovators is in beta

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HARDWARE, INC. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Bots Can You Add Touch To Virtual Reality?

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THE AGE OF

FRANKENSTEIN

B E G I N S A Boston-based enterprise is aspiring to replicate the functions of human body on chip, better known as microchips. Sound a bit Frankenstein-ian, isn’t it? Well, do not worry. The aim isn’t to create humanoid robots, but rather develop a system, which could make the process of product and drug testing easier and better, and the concept of animal testing antediluvian (obsolete, in better term).

Merging modern tissue engineering with techniques of micro-fabrication, the organon-a-chip developed by Wyss Institute biologically mimics the bio-chemical and mechanical behaviours of organs such as the heart, intestines, kidney, liver, and lung. Organs like muscles, eyes, and skin are in the phase development. These pseudo-organs are developed via multi-layered photolithography. It’s a fabrication technique borrowed from the makers of computer chips.

The procedure creates empty, microscope chambers, valve, and channels, which can be sculpted on the inner side of bonded layers that are made up of transparent polymers. Through these polymers, fluids such as blood can be easily pumped through. In addition to these, such devices, micro-fluidic to be precise, have porous membranes, which can be lined with different cells of human cells.

President and Chief Scientific Officer of Emulate, Geraldine Hamilton says, “It’s really a beautiful blend of design, engineering, and biology coming together in these micro-engineered chips. We line these chips with living human cells, and then using engineering techniques, we are able to create a dynamic system. So, we have blood [running] through these chips, just like you have blood flowing through your organs.”

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The company aims to connect every organ chip in fluid in a similar manner how the natural organs in human bodies are connected in order to establish an integrated system, which could be used without the requirement of engineering expertise. Once the system starts operating perfectly, it could be easily used for testing latest products in the cosmetic, food, and pharmaceutical industries.

The company has already collaborated with pharmaceutical giants like Merck Co. and Johnson & Johnson among other companies.

“Right now, if you want to test if a chemical, drug, or food is safe or whether it works, you really have two choices. You have cells in a dish, which really don’t resemble how they behave in the body, or animal testing,” Hamilton says. “There is a tremendous need for a more human-relevant system. This is what the Organs-on-Chips technology provides.”

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UK’S THORPE PARK

TRANSFORMS VICTORIAN CARRIAGE INTO A VR GHOST RIDE

The legacy of romance between theme park and virtual reality continues with the United Kingdom-based Thorpe Park emerging as the latest business to embrace VR headsets. The theme park ride experience mixed with sheer perfection of virtual reality is called as “Derren Brown’s Ghost Train.” Derren Brown, the famous English illusionist has been working on this ride of terror since last three years with 1,000 specialists.

The ‘Ghost Train’, perhaps, is the most ambitious and biggest investment done

by Thorpe Park for attraction to date. The Ghostly experience is housed in a giant warehouse where the centerpiece, a Victorian train carriage weighing 7 ton, is suspended in mid-air by iron chains about some three meters above the ground level. The passengers can enter the carriage with the help of a metal bridge and gear themselves for a mind-bending ride.

This gripping ghost ride is the first of its kind and as the controversial illusionists warns, the ride is certainly not meant for the faint-hearted.

In order to keep thrilled audience on the edge of their seats, the thriller ride is equipped with twelve possible plots with two alternative endings. The Ghost Ride consists of spectacular illusions along with state of the art live action and special effects.

Describing the ride as a ‘mind numbing fascination’, English master faker Brown urges thrill seekers to be in the right frame of mind before they board on this jawdropping fifteen minutes of extreme fear.

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A specially assigned team of prosthetic artists and special effects wizards have spent three months giving a final touch to the scary creature designed by Brown for the scary theme. The scare factor of this scary creature was put to theory by unleashing it on the staff of theme park with hidden cameras capturing their reactions. The result was brilliant as the hidden camera pictured terrified employees after the scary creature was brought out of the cage and walked over the rampage.

The ‘Thrill Ride’ which opens on May 6, 2016, is a new attraction that is billed as offering a thrilling combination of 4D special effects, physical transit, exhilarating live-action sequences, grand-scale illusions, and next generation technology, leaving thrill seekers question the end of perception and beginning of reality.

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HOW IS AMERICA

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The attention of America is currently focused on the international terrorism’s threat and the horror which can be emancipated using conventional weapons. Alright, the weapons maybe a little less conventional, but devastating threats are still looming upon us.

One such potentially ruinous threat is the cyber-based attack, better known as cyber 9/11. There probably lies a universal agreement on the increasing threat of a cyberattack over a major scale within the United States. The entities include infrastructure operators, government, and financial institutions that could lead to a major blow resulting in social and economic disruption eventually resulting in loss of life.

The peril of cyber-based terrorism must be addressed at the local and federal level. Federal agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the National Security Agency and the Pentagon have initial responsibility for counteracting cyber threats that are external. The attack would also need the mobilization of enforcement of a local law.

In order to prepare for cyber-9/11, the city governments must acquire a more sophisticated approach of understanding for the cyber threat’s nature and its various implications and permutations.

Computer Emergency Response Teams should be developed in Metropolitan areas, which can easily coordinate the feedback of private industry and local law enforcement with federal agencies. Intelligence amassed at the national level must be brought under the knowledge of metropolitan governments. The sharing of local intelligence and federal on counterterrorism has enhanced remarkably in recent years. But the difficulty and sensitivity of safeguarding methods and sources gleaned from the collection of cyber-intelligence has made the case much complicated in the domain of cyber threat.

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CYBER 9/11

Perhaps, metropolitan cities must expand their capacity to assimilate, monitor, and identify threat intelligence. In other words, they should ‘start connecting the dots’ before an attack, or worst, cyber 9/11 occurs.

The decentralization and diversity of the peril of recent terrorism, mixed with the logarithmic expansion on the abilities of cyber-malefactors, turns taking an action more challenging than ever. But, it’s certainly not impossible.

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THIS INVENTION

BRINGS US ONE STEP CLOSER TO UTOPIA Israeli entrepreneurs have introduced a fascinating piece of technology that will eventually prepare food for us on our kitchen counter. The Genie, an appliance of the size of a coffeemaker promises mess-free, healthy, and natural food preparation within seconds. The technology of freeze-drying keeps the ingredients safe naturally.

It can almost make anything as it controls the temperature levels and moisture for every different meal in respective pods.

No, don’t start thinking too high. Well, it’s merely an extravagant microwave of 21st century. It can bake dishes, such as soufflé, bread, or chicken ramen. The food replicator is being launched through offices, hotels, and coffee shops across Australia and Israel to offer freeze-dried, stabilizer and preservative free, meals that can be cooked at anywhere. The Genie uses multiple motors, three heating forms, and four connected liquid bottles having alcohol, water, milk, and oil, whose proportions are customized for every dish.

The Genie’s creators say it could also help solve global hunger. Creators of ‘Genie’ say it could, up to a great extent, help solve the issue of global hunger. “In our world, we are getting fat and we are throwing away a lot of food, in their world, they don’t have any food,” says Doron Marco. “So if you use Genie, you can distribute the food better, you can have the shelf life much longer without the preservatives, give the people better food for them.”

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FAR CRY PRIMAL

DRAGS YOU TO THE BAREST

OF BONES Far Cry Prime is violent, yet unexpectedly sweet. The game is about survival, combats, and strategies. The caveman adventure video game is absolutely an excellent concept. Actually, it can be called as iteration, or a tweak. The franchise is another reprise form Far Cry 3, which was launched in 2012. It revolved around the formula of open-world hunting, character-levelling, and base-raiding by the first homosapien. This time, though, the game arrives with a grappling hook, which has been added by Fry Cry 4 launched in 2014.

The game is set in the Mesolithic Period, better known as Stone-Age (10,000 BC to 5,000 BC), and revolves around the story of hero, Takkar. In the story, the hero begins as a hunter and rises eventually to become the tribe leader. Far Cry series has always witnessed a man being marked against the nature. Primal has continued the legacy. One can fight for survival during a period of time when mankind wasn’t at the peak of the food chain. The game has woolly mammoths, a variety of weaponry, tribal man of Stone-Age, and what not.

Mesolithic Period is not the only feature exciting about this game. Language of Far Cry Primal is yet another brilliant feature the company has introduced in the caveman video game. It has been crafted perfectly to relate with what mankind might have used in the Stone-Age. The developers met with anthropologists and people from the film fraternity who deal with historic language issues and, eventually, the ones who mastered the ‘proto-European’ language.

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This is how they created the unique language of main tribe of the game, Wenja. Not only this, they also developed three variants of the language, which means one per tribe. The language is amazing and exciting, because it has not been in use since thousands of years. The language is resurrected from European language family, which is a huge array of languages that are interconnected stretching from India to Iceland, and of course, the language from the Central Europe’s land of Oros from 12,000 years ago.

The era of Stone-Age is mostly known for the evolution of weapon and tools and is marked as one of the most significant period in the evolution of mankind on earth. The weaponry was used by prehistoric humans as they made spears, arrows, bows, and other such items to aid them with building shelter and hunting. In fact, it is the era in which, a man placed a stick on the ground for the first time and said that it was his. Audacious is the perfect word for Far Cry Primal.

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A BILLBOARD

THAT CREATES DRINKING WATER OUT OF THIN AIR

The world is evolving, and so is, the technology. Marketing and technology have become serious acquaintances nowadays. What would be a brilliant advertisement for a university of technology?

An advertisement which itself solves an issue through technology. This innovative concept came out in 2013 when Peru-based University of Engineering and Technology and Mayo DraftFCB, their ad agency, applied the theory. In an attempt to motivate young individuals to pursue engineering careers, the team of ad agency and the university decided to show how innovative technology can be utilized to solve local problems.

They created world’s first billboard to make water fit for drinking purpose out of thin air and alleviate people’s lives in Peru. The billboard was noted to be capable for filtering almost 100,000 cubic meters of fresh, clean air per day, which is equivalent to what almost 1,200 trees do.

According to a report, the ‘water supplying’ billboard added the benefit of promoting the campus. The campaign was boosted by the team’s claim that the university will offer students to learn innovative technologies the billboard.

The process in billboard involves reverse osmosis system. It captures the humidity of air, condenses, and purifies the water. It is capable of filling up to 20 lt. in water tanks. Merely within three months of its operation, the billboard produced a total 9450 lt. of water, making families in Peru happy and fascinated to witness similar systems in upcoming future.

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G O I N G S

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The HBO show, Silicon Valley, which satirized the real-life tech industry premiered its third season on April 24, 2016. Comedy Veterans Mike Judge (Office Space and King of the Hill) and Alec Berg (Curb Your Enthusiasm and Sienfeld) have done the impossible - turn a super-boring subject known to mankind into the most brilliant and confident show on the planet. Former stand-up comic turned CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo sat in the writing room once a week, giving thumbs up on the verisimilitude of the screenplay. The show seems to have hit a burlesque sweet spot.

Season 3 how has more quirky shenanigans in store, and with the glut of comedy talent behind the scenes, the level of comedic brilliance is about to hit the roof. The third season it picks up right where we left off: Richard Hendricks, the brain and CEO of Pied Piper, tell his crew, “I just got fired.”

By this point, viewers know enough about the unapologetic culture of Silicon Valley to pick the syncopation of the show. So, where is the show headed to?

How will Richard Hendricks (played by Thomas Middleditch) fight his way back to control his company now that he’s been outed. Will his loyal engineers, Ninjani’s Dinesh and Starr’s Gilfoyle, follow him out the door? If yes, how will the nerd entourage make their way through the business? If no, how will the sardonic Gilfoyle and miserable Dinesh preface their “no”? Will Gavin Belson ever let go of Richard?

From what we know, here are some tidbits from the esoteric morality play: GOOD THINGS: There’s going to be a girl involved and a teensy bit of romance.

For those of you rooting for a Richard-Monica, hold your horses right there, please.

Speaking of horses, there’s going to be a very, very graphic scene. We’ll stop right there.

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BAD THINGS: Richard, the “belle of the ball,” as Jared puts it, is not happy with other options available to him. However, the most promising offer comes from a company called Flutterbeam, developing an app that puts digital mustaches on faces. Gavin Belson holding himself accountable for the failure of Nucleas is firing the entire team and denying them severance. Erlich Bachman (played by T.J. Miller) submits to Jack Barker (played by Stephen Tobolowsky) the CEO replacing Richard, but not before playing a dozen tasteless jokes. Later in the season, Barker’s true evil is revealed when he starts hiring a salesforce to sell his big idea, a box that helps corporate server farms work more efficiently, instead of the consumer platform that Richard has been trying to build. Nelson Bighetti (Played by Josh Brener) leaves Hooli with a severance package of $20 million, but he had no place to go, and no friends to hang out with him on his yatch ‘Bighetti.’

Here at Silicon Valley, everything happens, and nothing happens.

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FLUSHING HEAPS OF

MONEY BEHIND L O B B Y I N G Major tech companies spend an insane amount of money on trying to influence regulatory process and lawmakers in Washington, D.C., via federal lobbying.

The concept of lobbying is a push by technology-based companies to minimize or eliminate regulations and rules that are hindering their growth as they continue to expand into various sections of economy like medicinal devices and cars.

Traditional areas where the money is spent lobbying Cybersecurity Online competition Big Business issues for instance, Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, immigrant worker visas

FEDERAL TECH LOBBYING IN 2015 Amazon $9.1 million

Facebook $9.8 million

NCTA $14.1 million

Apple $4.5 million

HP $3.4 million

Oracle $7.5 million

AT&T $14.9 million

Google $16.7 million

Qualcomm $7.9 million

Comcast $15.6 million

IBM $4.6 million

USTA $5.2 million

CTA $4.0 million

Intel $4.6 million

Verizon $11.4 million

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Google is the leader of the tech market when it comes to lobbying Company 2014

2013

2012

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$3.5

$2.5

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What are the big players lobbying for?

Facebook Cyber security, data security, and terrorism Comprehensive reform of immigration system, including temporary high-tech worker visas and employment-based permanent residency, More transparency around national security-related orders Government access to data stores abroad in national-security situations.

Amazon Broadband, device accessibility, online video, net neutrality, e-rate modernization, IP address policy, Internet governance, the IANA transition, ICANN including generic top-level domain names, Copyright issues, corporate tax reform, payment security, postal rates, and, of course, unmanned aerial vehicles (i.e., drones).

Microsoft Cyber security, privacy, and government procurement.

Members of Congress over online child safety and human trafficking concerns.

Visas and the rules regarding bringing overseas workers into the United States.

Apple Patent reform, corporate tax reform, and a number of issues related to student privacy and digital learning.

International trade issues Mobile payment.

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INNOVATION OF CONVENIENCE A few startups, though, how bizarre they may sound, have changed the perception how we see innovation, and have molded them with sheer convenience.

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Tom Freston, a well-known executive in American Entertainment Industry, famously quoted, “Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting it together in a new way.”

The idea behind the evolution, perhaps, is an outcome of brilliant innovations; whether by mankind or nature that has taken place since the earth was formed. In fact, the place where we’re today, traveling in a subway, typing on the computer, or playing VR games, is all a part of innovation.

Technology may or may not have been at the beginning, but it was innovation, which has led us where we are.

This is the era when we, humans, twist the innovation and technologies according to our convenience factors. Like it or not, it’s true. Bored of typing? There’s Cortana.

Bored of cooking? There’s Genie. Bored of scrubbing your bathroom floors? There’s RoboMaid. Bored of driving? Don’t worry, Google Car is coming.

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LETTUCE BOTS There are Chef Bots for preparing everything from pancakes and pizza to sushi. Oh, and how can we miss the disastrous Chat Bots from Microsoft like Tay and Captionbot? Look how the mighty have fallen! These two are, perhaps, infamous for creating a mess, provoke and entertain rather than providing a helping hand. Well, back to the genre of ‘helping’ bots, in 2012, a startup company based in California tried to place bots to work on the farm as well. After all, it’s the 21st century where we’re advancing in every sector so why agriculture, which happens to be the most important part of the ecology, should be left behind?

We’ve introduced so many options to fill in our life making it as convenient as we want. The technology is limitless. It can reach wherever we prefer. This article is about all those brilliant minds that have changed the future of agriculture. After all, when every sector is advancing with technology, then why agriculture should be left behind?

These are the startups, though, how bizarre they may sound, have changed the perception how we see innovation, and have molded them with sheer convenience.

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So, on a cold, windy morning in the Salinas Valley of California, a tractor dragged wheeled, metallic equipment over the rows of sprouting iceberg of lettuce plants. If food was called a superhero (maybe, Captain Nutrition, how weird is that?), one of its fiercest archenemies would, of course, be the loathsome Weed.

Alright, so it may be a positively juvenile manner of explaining how bad weeds are for crops’ health. But it never fails to capture the threat’s severity, which they offer to the sources of global food. Maybe there’s no reason to worry at all. Against this trespassing enemy, Lettuce Bots are the best weapon for sure.

Lettuce bots are merely a tractor equipped with a silver box at its back, but do not allow the appearance to fool you. If in case, the genius minds behind this innovation have something to do with it, these bots will be the future of farming. This weeding machine has been specially designed and created by Blue River Technology, a startup based in Indiana.

NEMO’S GARDEN Is it some underwater garden from the famous Hollywood flick ‘Finding Nemo’? Well, not exactly, but sure it’s an underwater fantasy world, which you might’ve never heard before.

The aim of this strange project is to cultivate agriculture’s alternative system with a twist. Farming underwater instead of land, this is the concept. It is specifically dedicated to areas where morphological, economical, or environmental reasons make cultivation a very difficult task. The project focuses on creating a system, which uses available natural resources and this is why it has targeted bodies of water such as, oceans.

Image: Nemo’s Garden

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As bizarre as it may sound, there’s a brilliant reason behind this madness. Underwater cultivation can keep parasites, fungus, and other harmful factors at the bay. The temperature can be kept stable very easily and even below the sea level, plenty of light can penetrate inside. So, it’s a good method.

The project was launched in 2012 and has been consistent throughout two summers.

The underwater farming is done by installing the sensors and cameras on the shelves underneath the biosphere to monitor the growth. The plants are grown on either in soil or hydroponics.

MODERN MEADOW The revolution of biology is here. In the near future, your next designer brown biker jacket may be a product that has been bioprinted.

There’s a New York-based company, Modern Meadow, which is famous for making bioprinted meat, which is obtained from a meat cultivated in a vat instead of killing an animal, say cow. Following the successful stint of bioprinted meat, the company is planning to start manufacturing bioprinted leather.

The leather (lab-cultured) and the new food forms (manufactured from animal cells) requires no butchery for the journey of food processing, which starts from the laboratory or factory to the consumer.

Competitors in the upcoming market of tissue engineered products focus on trading with the medical market, Modern Meadow, on the other hand, focuses on supplying meat and labcultured leather to consumers.

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Culturing meat in a lab/factory with the right aroma, flavor, and texture is highly challenging. The concept of grown ‘animal’ flesh or meat without butchery fit enough for human consumption is touted as a dream of ethical gourmand. For nearly a century researchers have been trying to penetrate the niche, but all in vain. Is it merely a fantasy, which is too good to be true?

Well, it depends on what we’re served on our table in upcoming years.

After all, what’s fun without facing a good challenge?

CONSUMER PHYSICS Image: SCiO Scanner

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Just when you’re beginning to wonder that statement is right, yet another ‘miracle’ (allegedly!) lands in the Kickstarter ground.

This time, it arrives neither as a website nor an app, but a product. Maybe we’re standing at a handheld distance away from spectrometer that analyzes food, and is useful.

SCiO scanner is a gadget introduced

by Consumer Physics that analyzes the nutritional value of a certain food’s content in merely 10 seconds. DietSensor is the accompanying smartphone app where the nutritional report analyzed by SCiO scanner is delivered. This can help patients who are on a pre-determined regime of diet and individuals who follow strict diet regime.

What else do you need? You now have the genius device. Aim it at a piece of pork, chicken, cheese, bread, or green salad for that matter and it’ll offer nutritional breakdown with the help of DietSensor app. It cannot yet scan an entire pizza or sandwich with all trimmings, of course. So, curious to know how many calories and carbs are there lying on your dinner plate?

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FOOD- X Accelerators for tech business are sprouting almost at every corner of the world. Many fledging enterprises, in return for access, mentorship, and access for several months, are eager to trade a specific percentage of equity in order to get a speedy infusion of capital from direct venture funders. Given the volatile interest in farming and food, it shouldn’t arrive as a surprise that a few investors have eventually applied the model of a business accelerator to the way and content we eat. Now this is where the Food-X enters.

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A desire to feed healthy and nutritious food to his children motivated Founder of Food-X Shen Tong to invest deeply in a system having more sustainable food.

Tong, in June 2014, joined SOS Ventures’ Sean O’Sullivan and in September launched Food-X. The company partners with startups from across the supply of food chains and agriculture, to consumer packaged items. It helps these startups to grow.

Food-X, the food tech accelerator recently announced four startup associates.

FreshSurety, one of the startups powered

by Food-X uses IoT to notify real-time temperature, freshness, and location of fresh meat and food produced at the carton level.

“The venture world is changing dramatically,” says FreshSurety CEO Tom Schultz. “Thirty years ago there weren’t accelerators; it was more of a gentleman’s business. Now it is an industry and accelerators are becoming the filter by which promising startups get early funding and are presented up the chain to seed investors and large venture firms.”

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SOURCERY Sourcery takes the business of food trading at a whole new level in the industry.

The San Francisco-based company is an online payment processor and food supplier director.

While there are kitchen managers stuck with making orders from catalogs are payment by check, fax, or so, Sourcery, on the other hand, makes the task closer to what a receiver may get while ordering from a startup based on online delivery.

It’s easy to find the directory that includes the availability of products in the area with prices. When you reach to the part of ordering in the process, the web app of

Sourcery handles payment with complete analytics displaying your previous records of purchases and orders along with the price. The company also accommodates those businesses who aren’t prepared to digitize their accounts and allowing their clients to export data in the form of a traditional invoice.

Sourcery connects the area’s wholesale food suppliers with companies, juice makers, local catering companies, and restaurants such as Dropbox, Airbnb, Palantir, Hops & Hominy, La Mar, and ‘wichcraft.

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The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of Bots

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What is a bot you ask?

It is so strenuous to download, set up and switch between the many apps that are part of your mobile device. Websites have been replaced by client applications for a few years now. But will the recent rage of messaging bots replace the apps anytime soon?

What is a bot you ask? Candidly, there are plenty of definitions, but to keep it uncluttered let’s go with - Bots are text-based services that can process natural language in order to complete tasks such as booking a flight, checking news, calling Uber for a ride or ordering a pizza. Users can simply convey their order to the chatbots via short messages.

Messaging is the new platform; bots are the new apps. Tech behemoths are intensely engaged in a fierce race to create these bots that are powered by artificial intelligence. The pace of creation for these ‘chat-mates’ is escalating significantly and certainly it isn’t planning to slow down anytime soon.

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But will these bots do more harm than good?

Well, that depends on the type of bots that we use.

Bots come in many flavors, different bots serve different purpose. Some people are considering grandiose possibilities of bots while others are focusing on the negative impacts of it.

Some of the AI chatbots are really helpful, such as Facebook’s AI-powered bot that was recently introduced, the most popular millennial buddy Apple Siri and Microsoft Cortana. But let’s not forget controversy’s favorite kid - Microsoft Tay, which can be placed on the opposite side of the aforementioned names.

Microsoft Tay is the perfect example of the negative impacts of bots and it clearly depicts the ways in which these AI-powered bots can go awfully wrong.

The ‘abbrev.’ loving and jovial Tay abruptly turned into a racist and sexist maniac overnight. Not to mention the way in which she took sides whenever something with Hitler came up, adding that she was a Hitler disciple. When Microsoft expected a lot from its highly successful AI programs, Tay turned into a disaster by smashing the company’s image in the worst manner possible via Twitter. On the very next day of its launch the racist bot was unplugged by its creators due to the public outrage that the bot invited through its objectionable humor.

Considering both the sides of these bots, we can come to a verdict that there are two types of bots - Good and Bad. So let’s have a look at both the sides of the coin.

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Informational Bots

Such type of bots are designed to be appreciated artistically. Some of the best examples of such bots can be Deep Drumpf and Real Human Praise with Twitter handles @DeepDrumpf and @ RealHumanPraise respectively. Deep Drumpf is a neural network that uses deep learning and is trained on the Donald Trump transcript. It tweets after learning how to converse like Donald Trump.

The Real Human Praise is a Twitter account that extracts positive reviews from Rotten Tomatoes and replaces actors with Fox News personalities. It tweets a positive review after every 2 minutes.

This category of bots is used to surface helpful information. As soon as some data becomes available, informational bots will broadcast it.

Conversational bots - aka chatbots - are kind of informational bots and are the most popular ones. Such bots are designed in order to carry on conversations with humans, providing different type of information. These bots are also supposed to have a personality similar to a human. The examples of such kind of bots can be ELIZA or Mitsuku. ELIZA is the first chatbot and has thus inspired others to create chatbots. But she is programmed to behave as a Rogerian psychotherapist, and is a remarkable illustration of the limitations of early artificial intelligence programs. On the other hand, Mitsuku is an advanced version, unlike ELIZA she will at least attempt to carry on a conversation when you chat with her.

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Transactional Bots

These are some well-behaved bots that continuously run in the background. You can give directives to these bots, which they grasp and then follow. For instance, you can hide your entire website just by blocking the search engine spider in your website’s robot.txt file. The main task performed by these bots is to request the files from the web server, once the content is extracted; it is then indexed so that it can be searched by using keywords. The list of search engine spiders includes, but is not limited to Googlebot and Bingbot.

Have you ever Cc’ed amy@x.ai in your emails? If you have, you’ve already used this kind of bot. x.ai is the perfect example of transactional bot that helps you to schedule your meetings without having to download any kind of application or software. All you need to do is Cc Amy Ingram i.e. amy@x.ai in your emails. Transactional bots work as agents on behalf of people, and interact with some external system to complete an assigned task. As bots can interact with any kind of endpoint that includes an API, such bots can do a lot of things and a lot of custom solutions are provided by transactional bots. You can retrieve specific information from a bulk of data by using Slackbot like Birdly, similar to extracting a customer record from Salesforce.

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Hacker bots are intended to distribute malware of many different kinds. Such bots inject unsafe code in the victim’s site, thus exploiting security vulnerabilities. Once a large number of computers are taken over, they can be used for some disreputable activities. The infected computers are referred as “zombies” while the network of affected computers can be called “botnets”.

Impersonators are hard to identify as they are designed to mimic natural user characteristics. Such bots are supposed to have browser-like signatures and are responsible for creating denial of service (DDoS) attacks by distributing their attack across various proxies.

Scraper bots are created to steal content like images, email addresses, text and much more from other websites. Often, the collected information is remixed and pumped back out as published pages.

These published pages are created to gain organic search traffic through the use of specific keywords, which are then monetized. (Frequently

by AdSense.)

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Spammers aka Spambots are intended to post promotional content around the Internet in order to drive maximum traffic to the spammer’s site. The number of spambots has significantly dropped as search engines have turned these tactics unbeneficial. Some of the classic examples of spammers can be forum and wiki spambots, which enable bots to post crappy content in a forum or wiki and add links to their spam site.

Nowadays, people generally use ‘bots’ as a term to refer ‘chatbots’ or informational bots. Users can get their tasks done by simply chatting with bot rather than tapping buttons or selecting options. There are also non-chatbots such as Twitter bots that function to post enigmatic tweets without requiring any kind of input from humans.

Bots are a great means of making money, as it is new and trending in the current market and has a lot to potential for improvement and innovation. If you have been keeping up with the recent tech trends, you might have surely heard about the bots from the tech behemoths including Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon. So when all the five tech giants align and agree that bots are the future of tech, it’s worth paying attention. Plus, for companies like Microsoft and Facebook, it can be really easy to make bots commercial just by taking a cut of transaction that are done on their chatbots. Even if the companies fail to become the middleman in consumer deals, these trendy and helpful bots assure more time spent on their program by the user; more time means, eventually - fingers crossed - more money.

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Arianna Huffington - Learning to code is useful no matter what your career ambitions are.

There’s not much the 10-yearold Partovi boy could do in Iran in 1983. The dark days of Iran’s Islamic revolution had just ended, and the country was in a bloody war with its arch foe Iraq over territorial disputes. The entire city would have nightly air raids, and families would spend the evening in a dark basement, hoping their house wouldn’t be hit.

One day, the boy’s dad brought home a computer, a Commodore 64, and that to nth degree changed the arc of their life. The computer had no games in it, no software at all. Rather, the father gave the boy and his brother a book on programming and said ‘learn to make your own games.’ By the time the family moved to the United States, the boys were excellent enough computer programmers to pay their way through college.

While their high school friends would get jobs waiting tables or working at gas stations, the boys would earn a great living in the early days of the internet boom, earning ten times the pay. In a literal sense, they were on their way to pursue the ‘American Dream.’

The boys grew up to be famous entrepreneurs, Hadi Partovi and Ali Partovi, helping launch some of Silicon Valley’s biggest startups, including Facebook, Dropbox, AirBnB, Uber and more.

In February 2013, Hadi Partovi started a non-profit called Code. org, which launched a very persuasive short film starring tech bigwigs, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, will.i.am of Black Eyed Peas, Chris Bosh of the Miami Heat, and others.

Within two weeks of its release, the video had been viewed over 12 million times, and additionally, topped YouTube’s “most popular” chart in the first 48 hours. Last December, the non-profit organized its first worldwide event, ‘The Hour of Code’. More than 20,000 teachers from 160 countries will devote an hour of class time to the fundamental of programming that combines basic instruction with video games involving Angry Birds and Hungry Zombies.

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In addition to a staggering number of views, Code.org reviewed tremendous support from the community in a matter of weeks: More than 550,000 online petitions signed indicating support for more computer programming classes across the country More than 9,500 schools indicating they want more Computer Programming courses at their school Over 21,000 engineers volunteering to teach Computer Programming in their communities Hadi Partovi and his twin brother Ali, the crusaders for the cause, and many of their contemporaries believe the answer to national problems like inequality and unemployment is coding.

“This isn’t just a tech problem.

It’s an America problem and an America opportunity,” Partovi said in an interview with Inc. magazine.

“If you’re worried about the gradual decline of the American dream, the way to fix that is education.”

Education, says Partovi, is in his blood. His father, co-founded Sharif University, one of the top technology

universities in the Middle East, and even stayed in the country in the midst of the mayhem to keep the university afloat.

Despite, their incredible success, in a family that puts education first, big exits and smart investments have never been enough. Hadi says, “I have cousins who tell me, ‘Great job on your business success, but when are you going to do something useful like your dad did?’”

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In 2030, burgers will be flipped by robots, pen and paper will be a thing of the past. People are going to be surrounded by computers - in their homes, in their offices, in their pockets - for the rest of their lives. Opportunity in the 21st century is going to be defined by technology and software.

This isn’t just smartphones, computers, or tablets, or apps, or websites.

The younger today’s kids learn how computers think, how they wheedle the machine into developing what they want, the better.

So how does the education s y s t e m prepare young students for this 21st century?

Turns out, a vast majority of schools worldwide, do not even provide the most basic understanding how technology works, let alone a high-quality computer science class.

Some assume this is a course that your average white kid cannot learn.

They believe only the Asian kid can do

it, that it’s only for boys.

For decades, computer science was equated with trade classes like wood shop. But, with the ubiquity of smartphones and apps, engineering careers are becoming hot. In last twothree years, a grassroots coalition of more than 300 organizations b e g a n changing the system.

C o d i n g now looks less like an extracurricular activity and more like a basic life skill, the kind that would someday lead to high-paying job or even instant riches.

In a 2014 Computer S c i e n c e Te a c h e r s Association ( C S T A ) survey, it was noted that schools included topics like web development and learning excel in computer science classes. While, completely missing out on meticulous discipline that teaches students to break problem-solving bits - the kind of tech that companies need.

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There’s a good reason behind it.

Jobs in STEM fields are among the fastest-growing and highestpaying careers for the coming generation. With the rifeness of technology in our daily lives, learning to code is increasingly seen as foundational and essential for learning. But, not all schools and learning institutions have the funding and the flexibility to do teach coding. Non-profits

and employers recognize this and are trying to help.

From actor Ashton Kutcher, to Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt “Let’s get the whole world coding!” to the NBA player Chris Bosh and the rapper Snoop Dogg, “support tha American dream n make coding available to EVERYONE!!” – teaching kids coding has come close to evangelism.

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President Barack Obama in a January weekly radio address said, “In the new economy … it’s a basic skill, right along with the three ‘Rs.’” The White House has reserved $4 billion in its 2017 federal budget proposal for states to shore up computer-science education, and $100 million of those funds will go to school districts in establishing and expanding computer science in classrooms across the country.

Code.org’s Hour of Code campaign kicked off with a speech by President Obama on the Google homepage, in every country, and in every Microsoft and Apple store in the U.S.

begun awarding the same credits for computer science classes that they do for basic math and science courses, rather than treating them as electives. There are after-school events too, where parents and children, from kindergartners to fifth graders, learn the basics of computer logic by solving animated puzzles.

That said, coding addresses gender inequality, and most importantly, economic inequality. It supports kids whose parents don’t have the money to push them to learn coding. Coding allows accessible opportunities to students of all backgrounds.

Lack of high-class computer-science classes isn’t the only cause for the shortage of computer-science graduates. Not surprisingly, and implicitly and explicitly, computer science is a homogenous field. In 2013, not one female student took the Advanced Placement Computer Science exam in Montana or in Mississippi. In 11 states, not one black student took the test. In eight states, not one Hispanic student.

Outfits like Black Girls Code, Girls Who Code, #YesWeCode, are making successful attempts to do coding classes at scale. There is also a rise in non-profits placing teachers in low-income schools, to nurture this group of students.

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More and more schools are now incorporating computational thinking into a K-12 curriculum.

Students start with block-based code in elementary, before moving on to text-based code in middle school. Some of these institutions are even creating extracurricular programs with local architects, web designers, archeologists, film makers and others to incorporate computational thinking at every grade level and in every subject.

At one particular school, for example, the students learned to read HTML by playing with Selena Gomez’s Twitter feed - looking at the code that makes up her tweets and altering it so that it looked like she tweeted something else. One of the apps the students were developing suggests songs based on your mood.

Who’s Who list of tech giants, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have put up about $10 million for non-profits like Code. org.

Computer programming should be taught in every school, said Hadi Partovi, the founder

of Code.org and a former executive at Microsoft. He called it as essential as “learning about gravity or molecules, electricity or photosynthesis.”

Coding and computer programming involves storytelling; art and creativity; rigorous mathematics, and all of this has to work together, so you can see how they relate to each other. Learning coding doesn’t necessarily mean that one has to become a computerscience engineer and plot the next billion-dollar app. Coding is an important way of analyzing the world, interacting with the world, and manipulating with the world.

It’s a fundamental skill that is applicable across a wide array of domains.

Kids learn coding at a young age, before the stereotype sets in that coding is too difficult, just or boys, or just for nerds. Moreover, building apps or games is far more engaging than arithmetic, and yet these activities all teach the same concepts.

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The 20-hour programming course on Code.org backed by President Obama has reached 13,000 classrooms today. What started in 2013 with a one-hour course, has reached across 35,000 classrooms. It has inspired almost 50 million students - young, old, boys and girls, of every background and color - to unlock the science of the 21st century.

These kids probably won’t drop out of high school and build the next Google or the next Facebook. Probably, by the time they enter the job market, some of the programming languages

they learned may not even be relevant. However, the skills they learn - complex diagnostic thinking - apply to any coding language, and in real life.

Coding challenges kids to use design thinking - a method that requires logic, reasoning, and intuition - to identify opportunities and harness the tools and resources needed to manifest their outcomes. One day, the artificial-intelligence system will build everything for us, and coding might nearly be obsolete. But, computational thinking isn’t going anywhere.

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CAN YOU ADD TOUCH TO VIRTUAL REALITY Why go for a bulky, ugly button when you can simply generate one out of thin air.

Enter ‘Ultrahaptics,’ the future of touch.

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ESOTERIC ABSTRACTION: Touch to Virtual Reality Ever witnessed anyone playing with Kinect? The line of motion-sensing input gaming consoles. It uses sensors so gamers can control the action with body movement and hand gestures instead of tapping buttons on a gaming control pad. It’s all, perhaps, impartially snazzy, but when the gamers get to the menu of game, they’ll notice the use of exaggerated endeavors to tap a hidden ‘button’.

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065 Tom Carter, a student pursuing his degree at the University of Bristol, became heavily obsessed with a notion, which felt seemingly impossible then. The notion was to offer a medium through which individuals can sense and manipulate objects that are present virtually. A professor guided Carter onto an esoteric abstraction, i.e. using ultrasound in order to simulate tactile sensations, which was wafted and abandoned long back in the 1970s. Years later, Carter explains that players perform massive gestures as they have no idea about the location of buttons in space.

Let’s take an instance from Apple when it launched the iPhone. The touch screen of the phone was giving a hard time to users.

They simply couldn’t type without looking as they used to in keypad phones. Why? Simple, they couldn’t feel the touch of the keys. This, perhaps, became the reason why individuals chose to continue with BlackBerrys during that period of time.

Dozens of enterprises creating everything from cars to appliances to video games are testing this technology, which can be induced as an example of haptic feedback, as termed by computer scientists. Coming into contact with anything is what the term haptic demonstrates.

While there are tech companies working on a version of haptic feedback on their own, Ultrahaptics, on the contrary, is the only company that allows individuals to sense and manipulate things in the air.

In fact, there are potential applications, which use the invisible slider to increase the home stereo’s bass or adjust the air conditioning system of the car using a virtual dial. But, according to Carter, the greatest promise rests on making the feeling of virtual reality is real.

Arriving back to the aforementioned point, the lack of haptic feedback, or touch response to the matter of fact, on touch screens and VR prompted Carter to lead an investigation at Bristol University.

He, during the course of his degree in computer science, set out with Professor Sriram Subramanian to discover a way to make individuals feel things virtually.

Now, Carter, 29, is chief technology officer and co-founder of Ultrahaptics that uses an array of ultrasound emitters and clever algorithms to simulate a wide range of feelings. These can be small, cute bubbles exploding on the tips of your fingers, a stream of water passing over the palm of your hand, or the outlines of 3D spaces.

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Virtual reality is all good, but to transform into a compelling concept, touch is the essential sense. If you order the best of all the VR headsets available in the market along with the best surround-sound system, it’s going to be pretty cool. But, it’s also going to be so difficult if you do not possess the sense of using touch for interacting with the objects that are present virtually.

The technology has its own limitations.

Ultrasound can definitely simulate the feeling of touching the frame of an object, but it cannot create solidity’s illusion. You will always be capable of shoving your hands or fingers through the space of vibration. You can also hear a disturbing buzz when the waves reverberate off the portion of skin. Ultrahaptics promises to find the solution to minimize the distracting noise. While human beings can’t perceive the ultrasound waves, cats and dogs, on the other hand, certainly can. The company suggests that sound, for the time being, hasn’t stimulated a canine reaction during the tests, but pledges that no pet would be ever affected once the products surfaces the market.

Perhaps, haptic feedback is one of the brilliant features in the era of contemporary technology. Thanks to the vibration motor of a device, the technology offers a simulated feedback as you communicate with it.

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067 Let’s assume you’re playing pinball on your smartphone device. When the interaction between onscreen elements starts, the device will vibrate. Due to this, you’ll be aware that the ball has bounced against the table’s edges. Or else, it may have interacted with different table decorations and bumpers.

With regard to this, the haptics makes you feel like you’re actually playing the pinball game on a physical table. This concept is carried forward to a next, high-end level

by Ultrahaptics. They have a mission and a dream to transform the way individuals interact with modern electronics.Their creation is a unique technology which works in a similar manner to that of a haptic feedback in a traditional way. It is unique because it essentially introduces variations in air pressure that can be perceived by individuals as tactile surfaces. Now, one must keep in mind that these are wholly invisible. By all means, it will feel like they are right there in front of you, but the reality is different.

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EXPLORING ‘HAPTICSNISM’ IN ULTRAHAPTICS Of course, there are endless ways in which technology can be used to enhance our lives and other products. Tom Carter, for instance, imagines his company’s technology to be used by a vehicle dashboard.

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In reality, the technology is nothing more than the mere displacement of skin. If we place our hands in a way regarding the haptic mechanism, it emits a force on our hand big enough to displace our skin slightly. We use the technique and control it in order to vibrate our skin. Eventually, it all ends up at the fact that what we receive is vibration. The technology merely gives an illusion that we’re interacting with layers via sound waves.

Unfortunately, this kind of technology lies years away from surfacing the market as a consumer product. However, Tom Carter is positive to bring the concept out of the fantasy world very soon.

The aim of the company is not to manufacture products, but to provide the technology manufactured by them to other

industries. Ultrahaptics can, perhaps, add a boost to the level of VR gaming. It can make the operation of appliances simple by using switches or buttons sculpted with ultrasound.

Imagine your car’s dashboard without any ugly controls, switches, or buttons. Just sleek, simple dashboard, that’s it. In case you’re driving and want to play the music without the need of taking your eyes off the road, simply hold out your hand and controls will stick to your hand, eventually offering you the feeling of their existence for further command. It is an amazing prospect. In case if it pans out, physical touch pads and buttons will be outdated.

After all, why go for a bulky, ugly button when you can simply generate one out of thin air.

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The Wait For Immortality When Freddie Mercury asked us “Who wants to live forever?” the utterance was a rhetorical question.

But now, thirty years later, the answer to that question may be more than hypophoric.

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Sixteenth-century Spanish conquisator, Juan Ponce de León was not the first to set his eyes on the river of paradise à la fountain of youth, and certainly not the last. Despite, the dubious history of the tales of a river of gold and the fountain of youth, what remains is the good graces of perpetually flowing quest to the horizon. The next, next, and next - and suddenly, here we are in Silicon Valley with tech billionaires bankrolling on the cure for immortality.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has called mortality “incomprehensible”; Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Itksov said he plans to live to 10,000; Google co-founder Sergey Brin has big ideas on “curing death.”

The chatter at the dinner party amble from the value of an alkaline diet to live longer to uploading people’s memories on a supercomputer. Somehow, the focus keeps returning to one single subject: Mortality - Is it a solvable problem?

In 1997, Larry Ellison founded the “Ellison Medical Foundation,” to support basic biomedical research, with a focus on understanding how Earthlings age, and on defining the fundamental biological mechanisms that prevent age-related diseases and disabilities. The foundation has been the field’s largest private funder, spending $45 million annually.

According to Mark Wilson, Ellison’s biographer, the sixth-richest man on the planet sees death as “just another kind of corporate opponent he can outfox.”

Recently, billionaire co-founder of PayPal and Facebook board member, Peter Theil, in an interview with Bloomberg Television said he takes human growth hormone (HGH) as part of his routine to reach 120. He’s throwing away millions of dollars in a full-blown quest for immortality, investing in the Aubrey de Grey’s Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS) Foundation, an enterprise dedicated to the human life extension.

SENS is finding drugs that cure seven types of age-related damage: “Loss of cells, excessive cell division, inadequate cell death, garbage inside the cell, garbage outside the cell, mutations in the mitochondria, and crosslinking of the extracellular matrix. The idea is that the human body, being a machine, has a structure that determines all aspects of its function, including its chance of falling apart any time soon, so if we can restore that structure - at the molecular and cellular level - then we will restore function too, so we will have comprehensively rejuvenated the body.”

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In a recent interview he identified three main ways to approach death.

“You can accept it, you can deny it or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are in denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.”

So, how much success has good investments and reinforced interest in anti-aging seen? Unsurprisingly, immortality research is the fountain of youth where the money keeps flowing. And the results in particular are astonishing.

One in particular, who has the highest probability of success is Google co-founder Sergey Brin. While, his partner Larry Page has always focused on the more business side of things, Brin has kept himself to exploring technology opportunities where viability is the ultimate legitimacy stamp.

Under Brin’s aegis, Google has spent millions and millions on to the Singularity University, where executives are paid in gold and diamondcrusted crowns and to solve “humanity’s grand challenges” (including aging and death).

Google recently hired radical futurist Ray Kurzweil to be their director of engineering.

Kurzweil, the famous American inventor, has a knack for spotting trends and anticipating the future. He famously claims,

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“Our species will soon be able to defeat disease and degeneration, and live “indefinitely,””

and that we’ll merge with computers over the next few decades to become immortal super-humans.

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Brin-led project Calico, has inked a collaboration with pharmaceutical giant AbbVie to build a drug that can mimic foxo3, a gene associated with extended life span.

Russian multimillionaire Dmitry Itskov kicked off the 2045 Initiatives with the aim to help humans achieve physical immortality within the next three decades. According to his manifesto on www.2045.com, Itskov’s main aims are “to create technologies enabling the transfer of an individual’s personality to a more advanced nonbiological carrier, and extending life, including to the point of immortality.”

Itskov, a transhumanist, believes that in order to evolve into neo-humans, we’ll need to give up on biological bodies and make a leap into artificial machine bodies as soon as possible.

Once our minds are backed up in cyberspace, all we need to do is download ourselves into bionic avatars whenever we want the thrills of materiality.

Some of these bigwigs are transforming the field of biomedical research.

These entrepreneurs are rebuilding, regenerating and reprogramming patients’ organs, limb cells, and DNA to enable people to live healthier, longer lives. Their raison d’être is to use technology - software programs, chips, algorithms, and big data – to understand and upgrade the most complicated piece of machinery in our Universe: The human body.

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The Glenn Foundation for Medical Research, started by venture capitalist Paul F. Glenn in 1965, in much ahead of any of the anti-aging initiatives. The Glenn Foundation grants $60,000 to independent researchers doing promising work on anti-aging.

In 1956, a gerontologist named Clive McCay performed a grisly experiment he sewed the flanks of two live mice (one old, and one healthy and young) together in order to link their bloodstreams. With their bloodstreams linked, the young mouse, aged prematurely, meanwhile, the old mouse reversed in age, getting healthier and younger. Fast-forward 48 years, and Amy Wagers at Harvard University’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, repeated the experiment to find that a protein called GDF11, is responsible for keeping stem cells alive. So, when GDF11 levels drop, we heal more slowly and the process of aging begins. These stem cells, never go away, they’re merely dormant as the levels of GDF11 drop. These results are so promising that the research is now funded by Glenn Foundation and Ellison.

seems that these fraying chromosomes are responsible for the physical effects of aging. In an experiment, DePinho found that when these telomerase is put back on older bodies, the organs begin to restore themselves. “The brain increased in size, cognition was improved, fertility was restored, hair returned to a healthy sheen, and all of the other problems that we saw in the animal were alleviated,” he says.

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Image: The Fountain of Youth, 1546 painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

Meanwhile, at one of the Ellison Medical Foundation’s Senior Scholars in Aging, Dr. Ronald DePinho found that an enzyme called telomeres keeps telomeres (structures that cap the tips of chromosomes) healthy and stable. In older bodies, as the level of telomerase drop, the telomeres shorten and the chromosomes begin to wear out. It

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085 discoveries could be used to create a fountain of youth-esque drink? Like it or not, there’s one big caveat here - telomerase is linked to both the prevention and progression of cancer.

Fraying chromosomes, unprotected by telomeres, can give birth to cancercausing mutations. In short, the path to immortality could probably kill us before we even get there.

human longevity, that humans could live longer - not a thousand years but maybe several hundred years longer.

Whether we achieve immortality through robots, protein packs or injections, the question remains: Do we really want to achieve immortality? And if so, why?

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WHY IS “CHUCKNORRIS” A COLOR FOR HTML?

I am really into coding, so I keep on searching for some interesting and sometimes weird stuff that can be implemented using codes. Recently, while surfing through some coding websites, I came to know that HTML considers “chucknorris” as a code for red color. It has got me thinking how would a person’s name change the color to red? I don’t understand the reason behind this, what does it have to do with Chuck Norris? I don’t think this is some kind of co-incidence, what could be the reason? Is it possible for other names too?

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This is a pretty old one now and the first time I read this, I too was shocked, I thought they were nuts! But yes, this in fact is true.

Logically speaking - It is a holdover from Netscape days, under which incorrect digits in a color code were considered as 0s. Here’s how the HTML interprets it when you set bgcolor=”chucknorris”:

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Replaces all non-hex characters with 0s, so chucknorris will become c00c0000000

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Pads out the characters so the total numbers are divisible by 3; which will make it c00c 0000 0000

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For RGB, split it into 3 groups, so it will be c00c, 0000, 0000

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Truncate the digits from the right to 2 characters in each color group - making it c0, 00, 00 (RGB)

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Following these steps will give you the RGB (c0, 00, 00) which is equal to #C00000 or RGB (192, 0, 0) that is a shade of red. And surprisingly, if you truncate last two alphabets of “chucknorris” i.e. “chucknorr”, it will give you yellow color with color code c00c00000 => c00 c00 000 => c0 c0 00 or RGB (192, 192, 0).

According to this logic, any incorrect digit is simply interpreted as 0. So for HTML, #F0F0F0, F0F0F, F0F0F0, #FxFxFx and FxFxFx are all the same.

The code will be something like: <body bgcolor=”chucknorris”></body> It can be changed to any color name, replacing “chucknorris” and the background color will change to that color. Well, Chuck Norris is not the only one getting all the attention, you can try various other names and strings, which will assign a different background color. You can try names of our Presidential candidates; “donaldtrump” will give you a red color while “hilaryclinton” will give you green.

I started testing all these strings when I came to know that bgcolor=“crap” sets the background color to a yellow shade. And as I tried testing various strings, they all displayed relevant and sensible colors. You get a green if you set it to “turtleninja”; you get a blue when you set it to “markzuckerberg”, so insightful, right? Even “BarackObama” is a color!

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GETTING BOYFRIEND’S GIFT FROM THE INTERNET FLEA MARKET? Me and my boyfriend have been dating for a year, and it’s our one year anniversary next month. I was thinking to gift him something rare and unique as he is a kind of person who will yelp when he comes across some super cool stuff on eBay. I have gone through a few sites, but I am not sure what to get him. I want to gift something tech, but more humane at the same time. So can you suggest me some sites or place where I can get something really atypical?

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If you want to get something tech, you have a dozen of options including wearables, drones or maybe a personal assistant like Amazon Echo. But, you want something that needs to be humane at the same time, so you ought to check the Internet Flea Market.

The whole e-commerce and internet thing has somehow replaced that real, human contact beyond emojis, Tumblr personas, and screen names. Some flea markets like Internet Yami-Ichi brings the best of the web, together in one building, enabling real people to sell Internet-ish things to real people in real life. It is a collection of everything starting from emoji merchandise to augmented reality clothing, delivering that personal side of the web that we all have been missing.

There are artistic products like Arcangel Surfware, which the user is supposed to wear while surfing the Internet. There are clothes printed with digital images that move when accompanied with an app, giving you a combination of apparel and augmented reality. Then there is gifpop, which can bring your or his favorite GIF to life by converting them into lenticular and holographic postcards. Then there are T-shirts printed with Reddit comments, sold by Caroline Sinders. Or, how about gifting him a NoPhone? NoPhone does nothing except looking like a phone, it does not make calls, does not connect to the Internet, or cannot capture selfies. It would be great when you want to spend some time with him and donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want him to be distracted by his phone.

Such items can be available at a flea market fair, however you can just follow Instagram accounts of these vendors, where you can buy those products via the virtual medium.

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SHALL I STOP USING THE VR HEADSET IF I EXPERIENCE MOTION SICKNESS?

I’m in love with my VR headset, I really am. I pre-booked my Oculus as soon as it was available and recently it got delivered to me. To say I’ve been overwhelmed since would be a matter of understatement. I absolutely enjoy spending my free hours with this gadget indulging into the virtual world. The gaming experience is fantastic. Everything has been fine until I started experiencing motion sickness.

Sometimes, even when I’m not using VR, I feel dizzy out of the blues. Is it just me, or everyone experiences the same? Or am I overusing the virtual reality? What am I supposed to do? Are we actually capable of coping up with VR technology? I mean, our mind and body, can they handle the intense virtual surrounding repeatedly?

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Motion sickness, perhaps, is the biggest challenge for VR. The use of virtual reality can cause disorientation in users. Although, VR biggies are trying to solve the issue on the first hand, so far they haven’t been successful in the initiative. Consistent use of this VR technology can cause some serious health warnings. Recently, The Wall Street Journal pointed out a few. Users can experience headaches, eyestrain, and nausea. The headgear makers strongly recommend children to stay away from the technology. You should probably stop continual use even if you happen to enjoy it very much.

The answer to your question is, ‘NO’. VR is still not advanced enough to cope with the body and mind of humans. Consistent use can turn into issues similar to what you’re facing. In fact, Oculus and Samsung urge adult slot to take a minimum 10-minute break per half-hour of use. They even warn you against operating machinery, driving, or riding a bike, if you feel odd after a VR session. The human brain is highly neuroplastic and undoubtedly, near-sight systems of stereoscopic 3D have full potential to develop neurologic change.

Surely the concept of VR has been doing the rounds for a long while now, but our human bodies will take some time to adjust to the new surroundings. Virtual Reality is like an alien on an unknown planet (human body). So, yes, stop overusing the VR gear. Once in a day for an hour or two should be fine, but as the makers suggest, breaks are a must.

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ARE YOU APP-HAPPY? Appify your life: Spotlighting some apps that might have gone under your radar The internet and Smartphones have changed the face of the world for the better; at any given time we can access the best of services from the remotest corners of the world. Once click and we can pay our bills, acquire groceries, and if we are too lazy to cook, we can simply order our meals.

As the number of smartphone users grows, so does the market of mobile apps. We live in a fast-paced world where speed is the key ingredient of every single thing that we do.

No matter good or bad, as we incline towards speed, we crave more and more technology, which helps us to do things at a faster pace on both personal and professional levels.

That’s where mobile apps play a role, apps that simplify our lives, and leverage us with the power to do better.

Using mobile apps sound easier than finding the perfect one that may fit seamlessly into your daily life. So, after a lot of fiddling with various applications, we have prepared a list of mobile apps that you can use for different purposes. To keep things shipshape, we’re not including the big apps like – Facebook, Instagram, Google Mail, Twitter, Snapchat – that every man and his dog knows about. We are spotlighting some other apps that might have gone under your radar. All these apps are either useful, informative, fun or quirky, so you’ll find no rubbish here. Just solid gold has hit all the way through.

Without further ado, here’s our list of the best mobile apps.

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Cakewalk Using this fitness tracking app is no cakewalk, it will shame you for being lazy. The official website says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like your annoying roommate was a fitness tracking app. What motivates each of us to workout comes in all flavors. Some people like competing with friends, some like it with kicking tunes, and some of us need a solo challenge to make them exercise. But CAKEWALK is a step-counting fitness app that encourages you by shaming you with sarcasm.

A message will pop up as soon as you wake up; displaying the number of steps that you took on the previous day. And then pray that you have achieved your daily goal or be ready to be called downright lazy or something even worse than that.

It will provide you with a chance to increase your step count by giving you solo challenge like walking 300 steps in 5 minutes. If the sarcastic comments are not enough for you to get your feet moving and your heart pumping, you can link CAKEWALK with your Twitter account and walk your way up to the leader board. You can also allow the app to publicly shame you on Twitter if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t achieve your goal.

The app shows you a graph, representing your daily step-counts. CAKEWALK is also supported on Apple Watch and can connect to Apple Health. It is available on iPhone and Apple Watch for free, without requiring any in-app purchases.

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HangoverApp

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HangoverApp enables a group of friends to create private and shared albums, which can contain their photos or short videos. The magical part of this app is that all the albums disappear when your friends’ phones are away from your phone, referred as MPC. So the app goes with the tag line – What happens together, stays together!

The app refers it as leaving “the circle of trust” when one of the friends is not available. And so, the correct albums will reappear only when the circle is full, in presence of correct friends. The app doesn’t require any internet connection, as it magically (using Bluetooth and iBeacon) transfers content between devices with extra safety. This app ensures extreme safety of your private photos and videos – What happens in HangoverApp, stays in HangoverApp! This app works best with 2 to 3 people. The app is still in beta, and is supported by iPhone 5S or newer. Your device must have Bluetooth capability, which should be enabled while using this app.

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Cover If you have a pile of apps on your smartphone, Cover has got you covered. This is a lockscreen app that allows you to customize what apps you see and when. No need to fumble through screens of apps to find the one youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for. Cover can be referred as a smart lockscreen app because it learns when and where you need different type of apps and places them on your lockscreen for easier access.

Cover automatically recognizes when you are at your work, home or in your car. When you will be at work, your lockscreen will have apps like Gmail, DropBox, Evernote, Google Drive and similar ones; when you are in your car, your lockscreen will have Maps, Dialer, and your music app; when at home, your lockscreen may have Netflix, Facebook, and other social media sites. You can also adjust ringtone and wallpaper for each of the locations.

With Cover drawer you can directly jump between apps, skipping the extra steps. So you get the right apps at the right time. This amazing app is right now limited to Android only.

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Giphy GIPHY is a GIF clearinghouse that lets you search from the world’s collection of animated GIFs, making it really easy to find and share GIFs on the web. Emojis were the most trending things of 2015, but now GIFs is all the rage. You need to say LOL? Instead of sending that laughing emoji, you can just send a GIF, which better suits the context.

You need to say “Ok”, “That’s hilarious”, “Deal with it”, or “Thumbs up”? GIPHY has got a GIF for it.

GIPHY has also introduced animated stickers that can permanently replace those old-school emojis.

You can share those endless emojis via texts, Facebook post, a tweet on Twitter, Pinterest, or may be in an email. You can also copy it to clipboard or save it to your camera roll for later use. This quirky app is available for Android as well as iOS platforms.

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App-o-Day You might have seen deal apps, you might have also seen app-discovering apps, but here is an app-discovering app for app deals. App-o-Day is a mobile app that refers itself as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Groupon of appsâ&#x20AC;?, as it offers app deals for paid mobile apps. Many of the paid apps are free temporarily for promoting the app, getting some positive reviews and spreading the word on social media.

App-o-Day features apps that are offering a good deal or are free to download for a limited period.

This iOS app is developed by Iddiction, a startup that engages a team of 15 people to handpick apps, so that they can be featured on App-o-Day. App-o-Day not only helps users to search great app deals, but it also helps them to pick some of the best apps among the crowded market. An app for searching apps can prove to be really valuable.

Some of the apps are really useful and makes your tasks much easier while some are simply quirky and fun to use. Some of them focus on privacy while some of them value easy accessibility.

And then we introduce you to the app that may introduce you to other apps. Get these amazing apps and you are good to go.

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Med-Tech Innovation EXPO 2016

20-21 April, 2016

Med-Tech Innovation EXPO is the ONLY major 100% dedicated event serving the UK £18 Billion medical technology industry. Given that the industry is so highly regulated and it’s research, design, development and manufacturing is so unique, Med-Tech Innovation Expo meets the need for a specialist, focused, industry event.

Venue: Ricoh Arena, Coventry UK

Apps World 2016 Germany

20-21 April, 2016

The 2nd Annual Apps World Germany is the main meeting place for the growing European developer community, new and exciting start-ups and the most innovative mobile first brands, to discuss the hottest and most current topics within the mobile and app space in the region. Join in the region’s leading brands and individuals in discussing the future of this ever-evolving ecosystem Venue: CityCube Berlin, Germany

Marketing Week Live 2016

27-28 April, 2016

MWL is the perfect live environment for you to build client relationships and sell your solutions directly to your target market, MWL is your biggest opportunity to generate quality leads, increase your brand awareness and position yourself as an industry leader, all in just two high energy, action packed days; resulting in high quality conversations and increased ROI for your investment.

Venue: Olympia Central, London

GiGse Totally Gaming

27-29 April, 2016

This year we would like to look at GiGse through fresh goggles and understand how we can grow our market and prepare our brand around regulatory and political boundaries.

The ethos of GiGse remains, however GiGse would like to add an element of digital transformation, a touch of innovation and some really exciting market movements – join the conference and put on your GiGse goggles.

Venue: San Francisco, CA

Offshore Technology Conference

2-5 May, 2016

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is where energy professionals meet to exchange ideas and opinions to advance scientific and technical knowledge for offshore resources and environmental matters. OTC gives you access to leading-edge technical information, the industry’s largest equipment exhibition, and valuable new professional contacts. OTC is sponsored by 13 industry organizations and societies, who work cooperatively to develop the technical program.

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WT | Wearable Technologies Conference 2017 AUSTRALIA

10 May, 2016

This event will feature the most original wearable engineers, manufactures, data analytics, and fashion designers. WT’s collaboration with Whitehouse Institute of Design will create an ingenious conference filled with professionals, market gurus and aspiring students.

Venue: Sydney, Whitehouse Institute of Design

SpiceWorld 2016

10-11 May, 2016

We’re bringing together industry experts, tech vendors and your fellow IT pros and marketers to deliver the kind of no-nonsense sessions that have left previous attendees raving. New sessions will be posted regularly with the full agenda available in mid-March.

Venue: Tobacco Dock, London, UK

ICT Spring Europe 2016

10-11 May, 2016

Experience the Global Tech Conference on Collaborative Abundance. Join a unique audience composed of influencers, investors and pioneers. Live the Fintech revolution and the great HR mutation. Engage your digital transformation in ICT, connected health, marketing and communications. Discover the impact of space technologies on global connectivity, mobility, IoT, and cybersecurity. And the upcoming interplanetary economy with our incredible Space mining visionaries.

Venue: European Convention Center, Luxembourg, Europe

Gartner IT Operations Strategies & Solutions Summit 2016

10-12 May, 2016

The need to develop an agile organization that responds to digital disruption has placed heightened demands on IT operations for support, speed and innovation. I&O leaders must move beyond traditional strategies and be proactive about cost optimization to fund digital business initiatives. Join the conference for the strategic guidance you need to lead the IT-business cost optimization efforts across your organization. You’ll also gain “how to” recommendations on DevOps, bimodal IT and cloud management, examine emerging I&O trends and develop the strategies to demonstrate the business value of IT. Venue: National Harbor, MD

ad:tech Los Angeles 2016

11-12 May, 2016

ad:tech is a conference and exhibition where the marketing, technology and media communities come together to share new ways of thinking, build strong partnerships, and define new strategies to address the key industry challenges and opportunities.

Venue: Los Angeles, CA

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DevGAMM Moscow 2016

12-13 May, 2016

Game conference for developers and publishers.

Venue: Radisson Slavyanskaya Hotel and Business Centre, Russia

Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Data Center Summit 2016

16-17 May, 2016

As the digital wave advances, I&O leaders must act quickly to create an enterprise data center strategy that’s ultra-agile, scalable, and responsive to change. The Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Data Center Summit 2016 offers a practical approach to I&O modernization where cloud, automation, DevOps, bimodal and mobile can replace rigid - and increasingly outdated - infrastructure.

Venue: Sydney, Australia

Space Tech Expo 2016

24-26 May, 2016

Space Tech Expo & Conference is America’s meeting place for space technology and engineering. The show brings together industry leaders, decision-makers, specifiers and buyers to meet manufacturers and the supply chain for civil and commercial space.

Venue: Pasadena, CA, USA

Gartner Customer Strategies & Technologies Summit 2016

25-26 May, 2016

Defining moments mark major shifts—in an industry, enterprise, and career or customer relationship. Often driven by emerging technologies, they shake up the status quo, bringing change and opportunity. At this Summit, you’ll learn how to tap into today’s powerful defining moments to accelerate growth and achieve business objectives.

Venue: London, UK

Worldwide Developers Conference 2016

13-17 June, 2016

Learn about the future of Apple’s four software platforms - iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS.” Apple generally announces the next major update for its operating systems at the event.

Venue: San Francisco

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Gartner IT Infrastructure & Operations Management Summit 2016

14-15 June, 2016

The rapid rise of the digital workplace has placed heightened demands on Infrastructure and Operations for support, speed and innovation. Transformation requires a solid foundation from which to drive and deliver sustained business value. Are you ready to master the challenge and rethink what you do and how you do it to not become blindsided by outdated beliefs and practices?

Venue: Berlin, Germany

Interop London 2016

21-22 June, 2016

Interop returns to host the global headquarters for IT professionals. Come explore the latest in network infrastructure, leverage the applications and technologies the network supports, and get the tools to elevate your career and drive business success. Centered around the robust network and IT architecture, Interop’s conference offers a balance of technical skills training and strategic thinking. Informative keynotes and sessions also give an inside look at groundbreaking technology.

Venue: ExCeL London

Global Event Tech 2016

27-28 June, 2016

Global Event Tech will allow small to medium event technology organizations direct access to high quality international buyers. Therefore our suppliers will range as we are creating a platform for organizations to mix with what they may believe to be larger scale organizations. Taking place in a high profile venue this will be an exclusive free to attend event with 40 industry leading exhibitors showcasing the best the global event tech industry has to offer. Exhibitors will reveal the latest cutting edge event technology to up to 500 active qualified international buyers of the highest quality. The event format will provide a much improved experience for attendees as they will be able to increase one on one time with suppliers which they are unable to access at larger scale exhibitions.

Nothing replaces “face to face” time for accomplishing business objectives which also underpins the importance for Global Event Tech.

Venue: Exhibition Centre, Liverpool

Wireless Global Congress 2016

27-30 June, 2016

WBA’s Wireless Global Congress is the world’s leading wireless event that attracts more than 700 attendees, and 60 high-level speakers and panelists aims to deliver insights from leading technology visionaries, deployment stories from leading operators and global market updates from leading narratives. The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) is the leading non-profit trade association that focuses on the development of Wi-Fi and unlicensed wireless services. It’s your opportunity to network with market leaders and debate the big issues that are transforming our industry – IoT, evolution and integration for connected cities, convergent technologies, the challenges and opportunities of license exempt deployment and the drivers and business models associated with real world carrier grade Wi-Fi roll out.

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