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Imaging tool unravels secrets of child's sock from ancient Egypt

Non-invasive technique devised by British Museum sheds light on dyeing and weaving process

The ancient Egyptians famously gave us paper and the pyramids, but were also early adopters of the stripy sock.

Scientists at the British Museum have developed pioneering imaging to discover how enterprising Egyptians used dyes on a child’s sock, recovered from a rubbish dump in ancient Antinoupolis in Roman Egypt, and dating from 300AD.

New multispectral imaging can establish which dyes were used – madder (red), woad (blue) and weld (yellow) – but also how people of the late antiquity period used double and sequential dying and weaving, and twisting fibres to create myriad colours from their scarce resources.

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'Bionic mushrooms' fuse nanotech, bacteria and fungi

In their latest feat of engineering, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have taken an ordinary white button mushroom from a grocery store and made it bionic, supercharging it with 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria that generate electricity and swirls of graphene nanoribbons that can collect the current.

The work, reported in the Nov. 7 issue of Nano Letters, may sound like something straight out of Alice in Wonderland, but the hybrids are part of a broader effort to better improve our understanding of cells biological machinery and how to use those intricate molecular gears and levers to fabricate new technologies and useful systems for defense, healthcare and the environment.

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The amount of data generated by the devices that people transport has increased exponentially and has had a knock-on effect in several professions. For criminal lawyers, the potential evidence available has increased, and this increase in data has reflected in all branches of law. The data generated by the legal process are already digitized and combined with other technologies. It has the potential to make lawyers’ jobs easier.

The Future of Manufacturing Automation

With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and remote communication, automation is gaining stature in the manufacturing space. The usage of both AI and remote communication is slated to rise dramatically in the forthcoming years. 

In general, automation can be defined as taking rote tasks and designing a system that entirely performs the tasks automatically.

For example, the automation process is efficiently used in pharmaceutical manufacturing units where an automated system is used to dispense a given amount of powdered chemical. This enables numerous benefits that include mechanical precision and consistency, provides better safety, and decreased operating expenses. 

Full article: Manufacturing Automation Future

The top 9 strategic technologies for government CIOs were selected based on the public policy needs and business requirements of government enterprises in jurisdictions across the globe.

Smart cities are considered as the future of urban living, using digital technologies, data, and design thinking. As the urban population grows in diverse conditions, many cities turn to technology and smart city solutions to build a more livable environment and thereby improving the delivery of public services. 

Smart cities create a new model by improving existing transportation systems, that use the data applications and technology to improve the quality of life for citizens and visitors. Technology serves citizens and can enhance many aspects of public life, including quality of life, mobility, security, education, economy, and the environment. Here are some key points that enable the smart government of smart enterprises movement globally.

Trending AI Technologies That Will Dominate in 2019

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has shown a tremendous transformation in healthcare, education, manufacturing, and almost all other sectors. AI products are gradually infiltrating homes and workplaces. This is raising concerns regarding the effects of AI on the job market; ArtificiaI Intelligence is transforming the lives and is only scaling the human mind and not replacing it.

Let’s have a look at Top Technologies To Watch Out In 2019

How DevOps provides 360 Degree Support for a project Lifecycle

DevOps platform provides flexibility to implement any new combination of tools according to a business requirement.

Full read here:  https://goo.gl/mE3Hi4

Adopt These Five Effective Solutions to Overcome IoT Security Challenges

Internet of Things (IoT) is the trending technology nowadays, and it is gearing up fast to connect any hardware devices to the smart devices.  The increasing threat to Internet of Things has led to an urge to find practical solutions which may address this issue and reduce the rate at which cyber actors are attacking IoT devices.

Here are Five solutions that can be adapted to increase the security of IoT devices: https://goo.gl/X8tZDy

I survived by telling myself ‘I’ll kill myself tomorrow but not today.’ I kept putting it off for days and days and days with the hope that the darkness will leave my body one of these days. and some days, it leaves and some days, it stays. I’m still surviving and that’s the sad truth and maybe I’ll kill myself tomorrow but not today.

Juansen Dizon, Magic Mantra (via juansendizon)