Could technology replace pills and prescriptions?

   

Bioelectronic medicine may one day let us tap into our own nervous systems.
Imagine a day when you go to the doctor and, instead of a prescription on paper, you come out with a tiny device attached to your nervous system and possibly a new app on your phone. No more worrying about what time you have to take a pill – all you need to do is let technology do its business. Believe it or not, this day may not be that far away.
The human nervous system is the bioelectrical infrastructure of your body. Now imagine you could hack it. Welcome to the field of bioelectronic medicine. It’s an area that asks: what if, instead of using drugs to treat a condition, implants could control and tweak our body’s functions? What if, somewhere down the line, you could combat a tumour by harnessing your neural signals?

The idea may sound far-flung, but the research around it has roots in one of the most common bodily responses – one that most of us have likely experienced at one point or another.

Robots in agricultural farms .

Spraying with chemicals, monitoring and harvesting of crops that are labor intensive farmers take time. Scientists are already developing a robot that can perform some of these functions using radio frequency identification. Such a robot that can perform several processes at the same time thought it would help reduce the cost of farmers.

A robot with cameras and radio frequency sensors moving along the vineyards. Is an experimental mission during which the vines are sprayed with chemicals that need to be addressed. The prototype called "IdaBot" was developed by an engineering team at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa Idaho State.
"You can program to set the trees that are defined here need chemicals. Each tree will have a tag, which is read by IdaBot to spray chemicals needed. "
Mr. Griffin said that the autonomous robot can be integrated with other technologies such as monitoring reverence. It sends drone camera view of trees, which are processed by a computer program. The red color of the light, the more chemicals will have tree.
The robot will help farmers save costs on working hours and allow spraying the trees only have needed.

Microsoft’s Quest , Quantum Computer .

The race is on build a ‘universal’ quantum computer. Such a device could be programmed to speedily solve problems that classical computers cannot crack, potentially revolutionizing fields from pharmaceuticals to cryptography. Many of the world's major technology firms are taking on the challenge, but Microsoft has opted for a more tortuous route than its rivals.
IBM, Google and a number of academic labs have chosen relatively mature hardware, such as loops of superconducting wire, to make quantum bits (qubits). These are the building blocks of a quantum computer: they power its speedy calculations thanks to their ability to be in a mixture (or superposition) of ‘on’ and ‘off’ states at the same time.

Microsoft, however, is hoping to encode its qubits in a kind of quasiparticle: a particle-like object that emerges from the interactions inside matter. Some physicists are not even sure that the particular quasiparticles Microsoft are working with—called non-abelian anyons—actually exist. But the firm hopes to exploit their topological properties, which make quantum states extremely robust to outside interference, to build what are called topological quantum computers. Early theoretical work on topological states of matter won three physicists the Nobel Prize in Physics on 4 October.

Microsoft and its powerful Project Scorpio .

Xbox's head executive also dreams of a Mario game on the system
Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft's Xbox division, has some grand visions for the future of both its upcoming hardware and the possibility of future crossovers.
The executive would love to see Project Scorpio - the upcoming, upgraded iteration on the Xbox One - keep a console-appropriate price point, as well as one day have Nintendo's famous platforming plumber, Mario, on Xbox, according to an interview by AusGamers.
While discussing the logistics of the souped-up architecture present in Project Scorpio, Spencer remarks that the console strives for "balance" - particularly the kind that allows the machine to handle true 4K and VR gaming without commanding prices more commonly attached to similarly capable PC rigs.

"I want Scorpio to be at a console price-point, I’m not trying to go and compete with a high-end rig," said Spencer, "and because we’re building one spec, we’re able to look at the balance between all the components and make sure that it’s something we really hit that matters to consumers and gamers.”

Microsoft Surface Studio teardown

On paper, Microsoft’s Surface Studio is the pinnacle of Windows 10 PCs. It’s an all-in-one computer with a touchscreen to make it function more like a giant tablet, and even packs a supplementary ARM processor typically found in mobile devices. Yet despite its modernity, Microsoft still managed to include a nod to the PC’s tradition of DIY upgrades .
Not everything can be swapped out—a sad new tradition in the world of PCs. In fact, almost nothing can. But when iFixit ripped apart the Surface Studio in its latest teardown the site discovered the Studio’s onboard storage drives—both the traditional hard drive and the m.2 SSD—were replaceable.
  

Published photos of Moto X 2017

Speculation about Moto X 2017 have made the rounds online last days and now another leak shows two images of a real Moto X 2017 that gives us a good idea about how it will look the fourth generation of the product from the company.
New images from Moto X4 / Leaks which show a device of metal and probably will have a 5.2-inch screen.

Nvidia GTX 1050 for laptops debut at CES 2017

Nvidia is ready to make his debut for laptop GeForce 1050 GTX, the 2017 CES. The exact performance of mobile 1050 GTX is still unknown, but reportedly make up to 10% slower than the desktop version.
Consumer Electronic Show will be held on January 5-8, 2017 in Las Vegas. A new report from DigiTimes suggests that Nvidia will introduce the beginner level for laptop 1050 GTX in this trade show. For now, Nvidia 1060 GTX notebook GP is in great demand in China and South East Asia. 1050 GTX mobile debut is expected to increase more number of sales.