Computer And Technology News: July 2015

Friday, July 31, 2015

Heisenberg XF1: Premium eBike with new BMW i-Unit swing – Mobilegeeks

If by BMW i is the speech, a first come the BMW i3 Concept and BMW i8 to mind. From the BMW sub-brand but come not only lightweight and environmentally friendly electric cars, one also sees itself in the role of an incubator for innovation, who penned for example a patent for a system Unit Swing dates, which were approved for external use. In addition now you are looking forward to Berlin at the HNF GmbH that wants XF1 establish a new premium eBike with the HNF Heisenberg and the first time now the BMW i-technology is used in the form of said Unit swing. Together with the BMW Group Research and Technology HNF has this patent can now bring to series production.

It is in this Unit swing to a completely new frame technology for full suspension eBikes with central engine. The previously obligatory chain tensioner thereby falls away completely and the combination of rear suspension and the carbon belt drive according to BMW promises exceptional driving and handling characteristics. The following benefits called the company:

Advantages of 4-joint-Unit swing for the HNF Heisenberg XF1

mid-engine and balanced weight distribution
Maintenance-free belt drive with gear hub gears
High frame stiffness
no pedal kickback
Grip and traction in every situation, since no stiffening of the rear triangle
possibility for realizing a modular drive system
Design freedom for mainframe

I still will appreciate that a resonating engine in the middle of eBikes advantages over a totally rigid engine has, however, since leaving me then even my technical knowledge to half eBikes. Therefore, I refer you at this point in the press release of HNF-Heisenberg.com ( here the PDF file ), in their operation of the new technology gets explained clearly well-founded, as I could play it here .

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Alternatively, you can you, of course, the HNF Heisenberg XF1 directly on the Product Page View and then decide whether the bike maybe is just right for you. There, you then also that you can purchase the eBike from the autumn, initially in a special Launch Edition:

To Launch Edition of another set of very stylish bike gloves with HNF Heisenberg Logo and Launch XF1 belongs Edition T-shirt, which is signed at the request of Kalle Nicolai and Michael Hedges. The edition number is attached with a discreet, engraved plaque on the bike. Not yet on the market that is a collector’s item, which is achieving increasing values in later years in the Launch Edition.

Who so pull XF1 with its innovative propulsion unit rotating equipment today is a part of the country want, which has the classic bike no longer care much about, of course, must also intervene little deeper into their pockets: At 8,345 euros the fun begins, but you get the wheel but then also ready to drive directly to the front door comes after it is assembled only after your job – you have to wait so so or including so. However, this waiting period is likely to be worthwhile, because with the HNF Heisenberg XF1 urges an absolute premium eBike on the market -. Not only, but also thanks to the BMW i-Technology

Thursday, July 30, 2015

Furnace technology of the future: Baking with ultrasound – German Turkish News

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bakeries could bake their bread in the future by using ultrasound. A signal generated by sound waves aerosol of water should lead to significantly higher product quality. The technology could save energy, time and money when cooling and fermentation process.

Baking is energy-intensive. That affects not only the environment but also your wallet Baker. The research project NanoBAK2 developed about a climate chamber that reduces the energy demand, which is produced by the fermentation, cooling and moistening of pastry. . They also state that the new method, the product quality significantly improved, so the manufacturer

The technology behind it is based on ultrasound: water is made to oscillate, thereby smallest droplets in relation to the introduction into the fermentation or cooling chamber and spread evenly. This moisture distribution in the room allows the production of baked goods with a constant product quality. The new method extends the freshness of the product and also promotes the shine, the volume, the windowing and the crunchiness and crispness.

"The use of NanoBAK2 technology, the energy requirements for the entire fermentation process by 30 percent are reduced as compared with conventional technologies. The baking time can be shortened so that, or the introduced thermal energy can be reduced. Thus, for the bakery, an economic and an ecological benefit, "says Markus von Bargen, Technical Director at the Institute of Food Technology and Biotechnology Department at ttz Bremerhaven. The technology is already used in practice by project partners and can also be integrated into existing plants in operation

The land of worriers ?: Study: This technology is not a nation … – ABC Online

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An international study with respondents in 22 countries showed once again that the Germans are looking at technological developments that affect their data with great skepticism. When it comes to cloud storage, they are even the most skeptical people of all.

External HDD, DVD or USB flash drive no longer is needed for storage of information absolutely. Photos, music and other data can also be stored on the Internet on the computers of companies. But many German are hesitant with such cloud services. The Germans are a new study, by international standards the most skeptical when it comes to data storage on the Internet.

While Mexicans, Brazilians, Turks and Chinese could no longer do without the data storage on the network, half of the respondents in this country believes that they do not need such services. This according to a survey of consumer researchers Nuremberg Gfk. The researchers had it interviewed more than 26,000 Internet users in 22 countries

Expert:. German consumers very sensitive when data
are data storage services by the technical term “cloud” refers to the Internet, where music , photos or videos will not be stored on your own computer, but in large data centers. Users can through the Internet from different devices and mobile access to their data. In addition, computer programs and apps that are provided from the Internet, known as cloud services.

“German consumers are very sensitive when it comes to their personal data and their security”, says the GfK expert Robert usury. However, this does not mean that really deny German consumers this way.

Every other Mexican place the cloud important

For the study, Internet users were asked to indicate how important it is for them , store their data virtually and access to. 31 percent of respondents said that the cloud is important for them. Contrast, about 18 percent were not of this opinion.

Especially popular are cloud services in Latin America, China and Turkey. In Mexico such deals are absolutely necessary even for the half of the respondents. Even Brazilians, Turks and Chinese were 44, 43 and 40 percent support more open than people in Germany.

German particularly skeptical

As a rather unimportant, however consider the issue especially Canadians, Australians and Sweden. In the online data storage 39, 37 and 34 percent of consumers could do without here.

The Germans stand here particularly pointed out. Half of the respondents in this country does not believe that cloud services for personal data storage are necessary

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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Autonomous weapon systems “Science has the technology for long in … – Germany Kultur

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Moderation >: Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Terminator 2″: self-combat robots could soon be in reality. (Dpa / picture alliance / dpa-film)

In an open letter Scientists warn of the dangers of independent combat robots. One of the signatories is Wolfgang Bible – one of the founders of Artificial Intelligence in Germany. We talked with him

It sounds like in the “Terminator” films. In the near future could be used which decide independently whether they kill a human being or not in the war fighting robots. Before such scenarios now warn renowned scientists from around the world in an open letter. The signatories also include the computer scientist Wolfgang Bible from the Technical University of Darmstadt, he is considered a pioneer in the research field of Artificial Intelligence in Germany.

Bible urges convention to outlaw fighting robots

“Our concern is to inform the society on: Fits as might come a little, let’s apply this technology rather for something better, “the researchers said in an interview with Germany Kultur. The science has the technology for autonomous weapons systems “already in the bag,” says the Bible. Now it is about the question of the application. The military is very interested in such systems. In addition, the risk that such weapons falling into the hands of terrorist organizations such as the IS there. Thus Bible calls for an international convention to outlaw these weapons systems

Find out more:

Fighting robots – death-bringing. Machines
(Germany Kultur, time issues, 04/09/2015)

United Nations – discussion about autonomous fighting robots
(Germany radio, research to date, 14/05/2014)

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Compact, optical data transmission – scinexx | Knowledge Magazine

In order to exchange data faster and more energy efficient between electronic chips, are compact optical transmission possibilities of great interest. A component of this is the Mach-Zehnder modulator (MZM) adapted to convert electronic signals into optical signals. Researchers at the KIT and ETH now have a plasmonic MZM with only 12.5 micrometers in length developed the digital electrical converted to optical signals at a rate of up to 108 gigabits per second, and this presented in the journal Nature Photonics.

“Especially when transferring data between computer chips offer optical technologies enormous potential,” explains Manfred Kohl from KIT. In the run by him EU project NAVOLCHI, Nanoscale Disruptive silicone Plasmonic Platform for chip-to-chip interconnection, the plasmonic modulator (an electro-optical converter) has been developed which is based on the actual MZM. “Compact, optical transmitter and receiver units could break the speed limits of today’s electronics and help the bottlenecks in the data centers to abolish.”

tenth the thickness of a hair

In the current publication, an MZM is presented, the is only 12.5 microns long, or about one-tenth the thickness of a hair. It consists of two arms in which a respective electro-optical modulator is located. Each modulator consists of a metal-insulator-metal waveguide having an approximately 80 nanometer wide filled with electro-optical plastic gap and gold-side walls, the function at the same time as electrodes. To the electrodes, a voltage that is modulated in time with the digital data. The electro-optical plastic changes its refractive index in response to the voltage. Waveguides and coupler made of silicon cause the two portions of a split light beam path to the column or it.

The light beams of the waveguide rain in each gap to electromagnetic surface waves, so-called surface plasmons. By fitting the plastic stress, the surface waves are modulated. The modulation is carried out in two different columns but coherent, since the same voltage is applied with different polarity. After passing through the column, the surface waves occur first as a modulated light beams into the output optical waveguides and are superimposed afterwards. The result is a beam of light in the strength of the digital information has been encoded.

Data traffic is growing exponentially

In the experiment, the MZM is reliable for the full spectrum of broadband fiber-optic networks by 1500 – 1600 nanometers in an electrical bandwidth of 70 GHz with data streams of up to 108 gigabits per second. The high modulation depth results from the high manufacturing precision silicon technology. The MZM can be produced with widespread CMOS process from microelectronics and thus easily integrated into current chip architectures.

At present in Germany are around 10 per cent of the current consumed by information and communication technologies, such as computers and smartphones with the user, but also through the servers in large data centers. Because traffic is growing exponentially, we need new approaches that increase the throughput and simultaneously attenuate the energy consumption. Plasmonic components could make a significant contribution here. (Nature Photonics, 2015; doi: 10.1038 / nphoton.2015.127)

New technology in vascular surgery – Frankfurter Neue Presse

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The heart and vascular specialists of urban clinic maximum working with a new technology: the so-called stents, which previously degrade unlike in the body itself. Narrowed or blocked coronary arteries can often cause chest pain or cause a heart attack. To repair them, stents are most often used. That were previously made of metal. Meanwhile, the doctors are stents made of a lactic acid-frame available, which dissolves within two years in the body.

“A possible disadvantage of the previous metal stents could be that one rigid from the vessel a kind pipe makes that no longer expand or may contract, “says Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Hink, head of the Department of Internal Medicine 1 Cardiology, Angiology and conservative intensive care. However, this support function for the vascular wall is often after a healing process not permanently required. The new stents from lactic acid scaffolds are – as well as certain metal stents – coated with drugs that prevent restenosis

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Technology – The new super chip – Süddeutsche.de

The technology manufacturers Intel and Micron have developed a chip, which is 1000 times as fast as the fastest currently available storage disks.
The new technology is the result of ten years of research. The chips will hit the market next year.
The precise functioning and the material of the chips, the developers have not provided information.

The race lasted for years, and the goal is: Who will be first to develop computer chips that help the whole industry finally progresses a big step. The problem: The amount of data is growing so fast that conventional memory are simply too slow to shovel data to the main processor, where they are processed

The chipmaker Intel and Micron appear in this contest where. it also comes to billions of dollars to outsell. The two companies presented on Tuesday a new technology for memory chips in front, grows with impressive capabilities: 3D X Point, spoken Crosspoint, is a factor of 1000 faster than the fastest memory disks that you can put in computers today. And not only that, he also holds 1000 times from more traffic and can build ten times smaller while still finished at a reasonable cost. More than ten years have Intel and Micron research on the subject that was most difficult to find the right materials, said Rob Crooke, vice president of Intel.

The chips are already being produced

Because with 3D X Point, the two companies developed an entirely new class of computer memories. The difference: While trapped or released electrons in conventional technology and transistors as their state between two states one of the buttons, 0 or 1, the characteristics of all the material change in the new technology

To what material they are about to betray the two Companies just as many other details. One thing is certain: “The chips are already being produced in our factory in Utah,” said Ken Furnanz, who worked from Germany on 3D X Point development team. “The chips are real, towards the end of the year, we will deliver the first pattern, 2016, the first products to end customers.”

And what can be do with it? Had Apple held the presentation, visitors would have been emotionally packed and enthusiastic about inspiring videos. With Intel and Micron, the technology-heavy manufacturers, everything took very sober from – but the potential of new technology should not be underestimated. The first chips are able to store 16 gigabytes of data, a common size for smartphones. A smartphone with a thousand times faster memory – it would be a high-performance computer

The provider of Big Data solutions will be particularly interested in any case.. It is precisely here it all depends on large amounts of data as quickly as possible to the processor and to provide back again. Only in this way can be made of the data mountains that grow with almost frightening speed, are obtained almost in real-time information. Who’s good increases his chances considerably, in the data-driven world of the future to survive as a company.

To the material make the manufacturers a secret

As the new technology works exactly, to Intel and Micron have betrayed not too much – too offer to the competition no targets. This much at least is clear: The individual memory cells consist of a single piece of the mysterious material, they are connected via metal bridges. The special thing about it: While in the prior art memory cell can be addressed only in blocks, here can be individual cells Select

Other companies are researching storage technologies that can keep up with the frantic growth of data.. Hewlett Packard about pursuing a technique called memristor, which would be even faster than 3D X Point is, so far, however, not gone beyond the laboratory stage. Even the best technology must be even eventually be ready for the market, otherwise the moment of competition.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Market updates on the Technology Sector – Exclusive reports about sweet … – Finanzen.net

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Today published Market Update its research reports over the. SUSS MicroTec AG (ISIN: DE000A1K0235, WKN: A1K023, SMHN), Manz AG (ISIN: DE000A0JQ5U3, WKN: A0JQ5U, M5Z), GFT Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0005800601, WKN: 580060, GFT), Cancom SE (ISIN: DE0005419105 , WKN: 541910, COK), and Nemetschek AG (ISIN: DE0006452907, WKN: 645290, NEM). On Tuesday 21 July 2015, the Dax closed 1.12% in the red at 11,604.8, the HDAX fell by 1.09% to 6113.96 and the MDAX closed at minus 0.89% at 20,928. For the full reports, please register at the specified address below.

– SUSS MicroTec AG – The stock of SUSS MicroTec AG fell by 2.29% and closed on Tuesday 5.93 EUR and swayed on the trading day between 5.93 EUR and 6.18 EUR. The stock reached a trading volume of 0.10 million shares was so under the 50-day and 52-week average volume of 0.12 million and 0.14 million shares. Over the last 3 to 5 days, the stock of SUSS MicroTec AG increased by 3.28% and 6.99%. Over the last 3 months, however, the stock lost 5.35%. The price-to-book ratio (P / B) of the share is 1,18x and so well above the historical brand of 0,77x. The price to cash flow ratio (P / CF) and the price to sales ratio (P / S) currently achieved 6,09x 0,81x or. Register and read the report on SMHN at: http://www.market-update.de/reports?keyword=SMHN