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State agency hopes to encourage commercial development of technology being developed at USU and other research places Bill Walter cachevalleydaily.com |

This past Thursday, lawmakers, members of the media and members of U-STAR (which stands for Utah Science, Technology and Research) paid a visit to the Innovation Campus at USU to see some of the ground-breaking technology as applied to batteries, autonomous vehicles and a 20-seat electric bus that charges itself wirelessly through tracks embedded in the roadway.

While not yet available commercially, many lawmakers are hoping that the state can move entrepreneurs to harness some of this new research and do something with it. On KVNUs For the People program on Friday, USTAR managing director Brian Somers said the bus was really amazing.

You could have a bus that could charge itself and do some continuous loops around a given area without having to stop and recharge. It also allows you to have smaller battery packs on the bus which reduces weight and other things. So its a really promising and interesting technology that we were able to witness, Somers said.

He said the bus has great acceleration and no emissions. Somers explained that USTAR has a very unique mission as a state economic development agency. Its purpose is to maintain a healthy technology eco-system within the state of Utah and to assist in developing commercially many of the technologies that are being tested and researched at institutions such as Utah State University.

You can find out more at http://www.ustar.org and innovation.usu.edu.

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The USS Gerald R. Ford, the Navys newest aircraft carrier, successfully launched and landed an aircraft with advanced digital, magnetic technology, which replaces the older steam-driven catapult system.

The successful missions Friday came less than a week after President Trump commissioned the nearly $13 billion ship in Virginia.

"Today, USS Gerald R. Ford made history," said Adm. Phil Davidson, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces. "Great work by the Ford team and all the engineers who have worked hard to get the ship ready for this milestone."

Trump suggested last spring that the Navy continue to use the steam-based catapult system to launch and snag aircraft on and off ships flight decks, amid the continued concerns about the cost to complete the USS Ford.

Prior to Fridays missions, the new technology had been successfully tested ashore at Lakehurst, N.J., according to the Navy.

This is the first shipboard recovery and launch of a fleet fixed wing aircraft, said Capt. Rick McCormack, Fords commanding officer.

The aircraft used were A-18F Superhornet fighter jets, based at the naval base at Patuxent River, Md.

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A paper set to be delivered at next weeks SIGGRAPH 2017 conference has garnered a lot of pre-confab attention because the technology could possibly be used to produce fake news videos. But the technology described in the paper, Synthesizing Obama: Learning Lip Sync From Audio, could have many more beneficial uses, especially in the entertainment and gaming industries.

Researchers from the University of Washington have developed the technology to photorealistically put different words into former President Barack Obamas mouth, based on several hours of video footage from his weekly addresses. They used a recurrent neural network to study how Obamas mouth moves, then they manipulated his mouth and head motions as to sync them to rearranged words and sentences, creating new sentences.

Its easy to see how this could potentially be used for nefarious purposes, but the technology is a long way away from becoming widely available and it would be fairly easy to detect in fake videos, according to Supasorn Suwajanakorn, the lead author of the study. It would be relatively easy to develop a software to detect fake video, he says. Producing a truly realistic, hard-to-verify video may take much longer than that due to technical limitations.

SIGGRAPHs conference chair Jerome Solomon, dean of Cogswell Polytechnical College, notes that any new technology can be used for good or bad. This is new technology in computer graphics, he explains. Were making things that might not be believable believable and worlds that dont exist exist. And I think people potentially using any technology out of our industry could use it for bad purposes or good.

Plus, Solomon says echoing Suwajanakorn, I think its a ways away from being available to everybody. Our conference is really a place where new technology comes in through our technical papers program, but it takes awhile for the technology to appear in the tools. Developers have to go and create the software to actually take this research and get it into the tools.

And there are a wide variety of uses for this particular technology.

Automatically editing video to allow accurate lip-sync to a new audio track is a novel advance on a very hot topic with many practical applications, says Marie-Paule Cani,SIGGRAPHs technical paper chair. It could be used, for instance, to seamlessly dub a movie in a foreign language, or to correct what people said in video footage and no cost.

A number of papers and exhibits of new technology will be on display at SIGGRAPH 2017, to be held July 30 through Aug. 3 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Among the many new technologies will be a presentation by brain-computer interface company Neurable. They make a cap that you put on your head and it reads your brainwaves so you can use it instead of a mouse or a keyboard to do different things, says Solomon. Theyre coming to SIGGRAPH with that technology to show how you can use it to play a game. Imagine playing a game without have a controller in your hand.

A new addition to SIGGRAPH this year is a VR theater with ongoing programming. Were going to show VR films, Solomon explains. Well have high-end VR headsets and can actually demonstrate VR storytelling. With the sound and the high-end digital, its a really different experience.

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Not only is the Home Healthcare market growing in standard services of providing medical staff at home, it is also now growing up the value chain of providing Critical Care in the home environment. The benefits of such services are numerous: from being able to set up ICU facilities inclusive of relevant medical equipment to services of competent nursing and other staff. Today, a number of ailments that fall under the category of Critical Care are being treated at home.

For Critical Care to be implemented, it is imperative that various elements of technology are leveraged to successfully achieve the following:-

Positive patient experiences

Creating an environment for better outcomes of the treatment

Building efficiency in operation-intensive business to provide significant scaling up of the endeavor

While Information Technology is pervasive and ubiquitous in various fields and industries, there have also been a lot of advances in technology related to healthcare. Today, there are a number of devices that allow monitoring of the patients functions and emergencies and also integrate with IT devices such as mobile devices. They help to create a system where information can be captured in near real-time, assimilated and collated for distribution to the stake holders for appropriate actions. A few of such modern technologies that are making way in the Healthcare domain are as follows:-

ECG embedded in the smartphone case that helps interpret test results via an App and facilitates secured sharing of data with clinicians (NICE Evidence Review)

Tremor spoon for Parkinsons incorporating sensors and data analytics on how Tremor characteristics and severity change over time

Smart Inhalers that sense the location and surrounding air providing insights into Asthma attacks

All of the above technologies help in monitoring various parameters as relevant to the patient so that timely intervention can be made for better outcomes.

In addition to the above, there are also various sensor-based devices in the market that detect situations in an ongoing treatment and emergencies, for e.g., detection of a fall along with the precise location. It was estimated in 2014 that remote patient monitoring technologies accounted for over $ 30 billion.

Other important aspects to note are that services being delivered at home for Critical Care are in remote places as compared to a centralized facility in a hospital. While Home Healthcare increases the focus on the patient, it has been recognized that monitoring of services at these remote locations can be achieved through implementation of technologies. Data can flow through a network connecting these remote locations to hubs of centralized facilities where patient specific dashboards can be created and shared with relevant stakeholders in the ecosystem. The most effective model for delivering Critical Care at home is an integrated approach that involves the hospital, physician/the treating doctor, nursing and care staff at home and the family members of the patient.

With the use of inter-operable technologies, only bytes of relevant information can be shared with the stakeholders. It is well known that physicians and treating doctors lead very busy lives and do not have sufficient time to browse through mounds of data in reports.This integrated approach also allows for instant communication between the treating doctor and the nursing staff at home, resulting in better outcomes for the patient. Therefore, a well-engineered system that combines Telehealth and Mobile-health will create a big impact in delivering streamlined Critical Care at home.

Home Healthcare is also very effective for treatment of chronic diseases like Diabetes, Hypertension, Congestive Heart failure, COPD and Fractures to name a few. Use of Telehealth can significantly reduce admissions and re-admissions to the hospital and at the same time at a much lower cost. For E.g. Monitoring weight of a patient with a condition of Congestive Health Failure can alert clinicians to eminent worsening of condition so that appropriate and effective action can be taken in time. Usage of technologies in an integrated manner allows for evidence based medical care that helps in aligning staff, standardization of core processes around clinical best practices and therefore, implementation of focused training for clinicians around those processes.

Technology will play a pivotal role in the implementation and growth of Critical Care at home. There are already technologies available that provide monitors that are internet enabled and when combined with mobile and telemedicine can provide an effective framework for Critical Care at home.

Social media is also playing an important role in Home Healthcare. According to Pew Research, 46% of seniors who go online also use social media. This has spurred growth of some private social networks such as efamily and Family Crossings that allow social interaction and information sharing over the internet.

With patients getting more involved and taking charge of their healthcare needs, the market for Critical Care at home is poised for rapid growth. This will positively allow care to be delivered at home, with grace and dignity, apart from the economic benefit and ripple effect on the family and caregivers.

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A new breakthrough in medical technology could enable prematurely born infants to survive outside of the womb, greatly improving their chances of survival and reducing risks for mothers unable to reach full term. Naturally, some feminists are upset by the prospects it offers and have tied its development to the end of abortion rights.

The technology, which was unveiled in April, allowed for eight premature lambs to spend four weeks of development in an artificial womb called the Biobag. The lambs survived and have been developing normally.

One would think that such a lifesaving technology, which can potentially save the lives of the 30,000 prematurely born babies each year, would be hailed as a net positive. Not so, argue feminists at Gizmodowho claim that the medical advancement could also complicateand even jeopardizethe right to an abortion.

Speaking to Gizmodo, Harvard Law School bioethicist Glenn Cohen said that the constitutional treatment of abortion was pegged to the viability of a fetus survival. This has the potential to really disrupt things, first by asking the question of whether a fetus could be considered viable at the time of abortion if you could place it in an artificial womb.

It could wind up being that you only have the right to an abortion up until you can put [a fetus] in the artificial womb, Cohen told Gizmodo. Its terrifying.

Gizmodos Kristen V. Brown takes issue with the possibilities offered by the technology, as a fetus can now be transplanted into an artificial womb instead of being aborted. The technology, if it works on humans, could improve the chances of survival for countless prematurely born infants and drastically reduce the risks to mothers with preexisting medical conditions that make it dangerous for them to give birth. In other words, the artificial womb will make medically necessary late term abortions unnecessary.

Developing technology also tests the rhetoric surrounding the right to choose, wrote Brown. A womans right to control her own body is a common legal and ethical argument made in favor of abortion. Under that logic, though, the law could simply compel a woman to put her fetus into an external womb, giving her back control of her own body but still forcing her into parenthood.

Instead, its now a question of whether its existence would deprive a woman of her rights to control her body. In reality, most late-term abortions happen due to medical reasons.

The scientists behind the artificial womb intend to create a version that will work for premature babies born as early as 23 weeks, and hope to test it on human babies within the next five years.

Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter.

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In April, scientists achieved a major breakthrough that could one day drastically improve the fate of babies born extremely prematurely. Eight premature baby lambs spent their last month of development in an external womb that resembled a high-tech ziplock bag. At the time, the oldest lamb was nearly a year old, and still seemed to be developing normally.

This technology, if it works in humans, could one day prove lifesaving for the 30,000 or so babies each year that are born earlier than 26 weeks into pregnancy.

It could also complicateand even jeopardizethe right to an abortion in an America in which that right is predicated on whether a fetus is viable.

The Supreme Court has pegged the constitutional treatment of abortion to the viability of a fetus, I. Glenn Cohen, a Harvard Law School bioethicist, told Gizmodo. This has the potential to really disrupt things, first by asking the question of whether a fetus could be considered viable at the time of abortion if you could place it in an artificial womb.

Cohen raised this issue in a report for the Hastings Center published on Friday.

A normal human pregnancy lasts about 40 weeks. In Roe v. Wade, the case that ultimately legalized abortion in 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that whether a fetus was capable of surviving outside the womb was an important test of whether an abortion was legal. The Court said that viability typically began at some point during the third trimester, which begins at 24 weeks, but could really only be determined on a case by case basis. In 1992, Planned Parenthood vs. Casey reaffirmed that viability is key in defining a states power to regulate abortion. The number of weeks at which you can legally procure an abortion varies between 22 and 24 weeks by state. (If a womans health is at risk, the state cannot enforce an abortion ban at any stage of development.)

The human version of the external lamb womb that researchers eventually envision creating would be designed for premature babies born as early as 23 weeks. Researchers hope to test it on premature human babies within five years. (Lambs have a shorter gestation period; the 105- to 115-day-old premature lamb fetuses were the equivalent of about 23 weeks in a human.)

In the future, Cohen said, it stands to reason that this technology could save the lives of fetuses born even earlier. Imagine then, that you had made the decision to terminate a pregnancy at 18 weeks, but that such a technology technically made it viable for the fetus to be born at that point in development, then finish developing outside the womb. Would an abortion still be legal?

It could wind up being that you only have the right to an abortion up until you can put [a fetus]in the artificial womb, said Cohen. Its terrifying.

The advent of such artificial womb technology highlights how fragileand datedmuch of the law surrounding the right to an abortion really is.

In a 1983 decision, Justice Sandra Day OConnor argued that Roevs. Wade was on a collision course with itself, because improvements in technology would make it possible for a fetus to continually be viable earlier in the course of a pregnancy. In some cases, today, a fetus can now survive outside the womb at 22 weeks, two whole weeks earlier than at the time of Roe vs. Wade.

In 1990 a woman maybe could have an abortion at 25 weeks, but in 2020 perhaps it will be 20 weeks, said Cohen. Theres a problem when an abortion that would be legal in one decade is not in another under the Constitution.

Developing technology also tests the rhetoric surrounding the right to choose. A womans right to control her own body is a common legal and ethical argument made in favor of abortion. Under that logic, though, the law could simply compel a woman to put her fetus into an external womb, giving her back control of her own body but still forcing her into parenthood.

The way the law has thus far defined it, Cohen said, is that a woman has a right to stop carrying a child. It doesnt consider whether she also has a right to control what happens to the child if she is no longer responsible for carrying it. It could come down to an interpretation of what qualifies as control.

If you think the reason we have abortion rights is that women have a right to control their own bodies, this is saying you can control your own body, just give the fetus to someone else and theyll put it in an artificial womb, he said.

How invasive the procedure to remove a fetus, Cohen said, could influence how that all shakes out. If removing a fetus from the womb still required surgery, for example, a woman might be able to legally refuse surgery instead.

All of this may seem too hypothetical to be worth consideringafter all, theres no telling whether the technology that worked in lambs will translate to human babies. And the number of women who have abortions that late into their pregnancy is small. Somewhere around 9,090 women in the US had abortions after their 21st week of pregnancy in 2012, accounting for just 1.3 percent of all abortions. (Many of that subset seek abortions for health reasons. And again, new technologies would be unlikely to impact late-stage abortions deemed necessary for the health of a mother.)

But Sandra Day OConnor was rightalready, states have been emboldened by improving neonatal care in making laws that restrict abortion earlier and earlier in a womans pregnancy. Physicians, legal experts and bioethicists have long taken issue with viability as a standard for legality. (There is a lot of inconclusive debate about what might make a better standard.)

There have always been problems with this standard, Cohen said. But now theres good reason to believe it could get even worse.

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GSI Technology Inc. (NASDAQ:GSIT)

Q1 2018 Earnings Conference Call

July 27, 2017 4:30 PM ET

Executives

Lee-Lean Shu Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Douglas Schirle Chief Financial Officer

Didier Lasserre Vice President-Sales

Analysts

Kurt Caramanidis Carl M. Hennig, Incorporated

Jeff Bernstein Cowen

Operator

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by. Welcome to the GSI Technology's First Quarter Fiscal 2018 Results Conference. [Operator Instructions]

Before we begin today's call, the company has requested that I read the following Safe Harbor statement. The matters discussed in this conference call may include forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of GSI Technology that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated. These risks and uncertainties are described in the company's Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Additionally, I have also been asked to advise you that this conference call is being recorded today, July 27, 2017, at the request of GSI Technology.

Hosting the call today is Lee-Lean Shu, the Company's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. With him are Douglas Schirle, Chief Financial Officer; and Didier Lasserre, Vice President of Sales.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Shu. Please go ahead, sir.

Lee-Lean Shu

Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us. Today, we reported first quarter net revenue of $10.7 million and a gross margin of 52.4%. Both were below the range of guidance that we provided earlier in the quarter, in part due to a mix of lower-margin product deliveries to one of our largest customers and additional inventory reserve for assets and obsolete products that were greater than our normal quarterly average. We expect a return to a higher-margin mix of sales to these customers in our second fiscal quarter.

Overall, during the first quarter we continued to see slowness in our primary telecommunication and networking markets along with continued weak sales in Asia.

However, beyond our traditional market of high-speed SRAM and low-latency DRAM, we are seeing high interest in our newest market segment, our extremely high-performance SigmaQuad radiation-hardened SRAM products targeted at aerospace and the defense applications. We are also receiving inquiries of our patent in-place associative computing technology and the intellectual property that is under development, which focuses on large emerging markets such as big data applications, computer vision and cybersecurity.

I would like to touch on our associative technology for a moment to provide some background for some of our newer stakeholders. We obtained this technology through our acquisition of MikaMonu in November 2015. This technology is for application in evolving new markets such as big data including machine learning and big combination of neural networks, computer vision and the cybersecurity. We currently hold 15 U.S. patents and a number of pending patents for our in-place associative computing technology. The technology changes the concept of computing from serial data processing where data is moved back and forth from the processor to the memory to parallel data processing, computation and the search directly in the main processing array.

While still in development, we are currently marketing new product sets based upon this technology to a variety of users and we believe we will have an effective base of potential customers once we bring this new product to market.

We remain on schedule to complete the design of our initial product by the end of calendar 2017. This technology will readily improve the computation and the response times they have currently and will have continue to be required in a variety of big data application. We are very excited about our business and the quarters ahead.

Douglas Schirle

We reported a net loss of $1.5 million or $0.07 per diluted share on net revenues of $10.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2018 compared to net income of $260,000 or $0.01 per diluted share on net revenues of $12.9 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 and a net loss of $1.3 million or $0.07 per diluted share on net revenues of $10.4 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017.

Gross margin was 52.4% compared to 51.9% in the prior year period and 56.4% from the preceding fourth quarter. First quarter fiscal 2018 operating loss was $1.5 million compared to operating loss of $1.5 million in the prior quarter and operating income of $389,000 a year ago.

Total operating expenses in the first quarter of fiscal 2018 were $7.1 million compared to $6.3 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2017 and $7.4 million in the preceding fourth quarter.

Research and development expenses were $4.3 million compared to $3.5 million in the prior year period and $4.2 million in the preceding quarter. The increase in R&D expenses was related to the development of our associated processing unit.

Selling, general and administrative expenses were unchanged at $2.8 million in both the quarter ended June 30, 2017, and the prior year quarter ended June 30, 2016, and down sequentially from $3.2 million in the preceding quarter. Total first quarter pretax stock-based compensation expense was $478,000 compared to $518,000 in the prior quarter and $443,000 in the comparable quarter a year ago.

First quarter fiscal 2018 net loss included interest and other income of $98,000 and a cash provision of $81,000 compared to $142,000 of interest and other income and a tax provision of $271,000 a year ago. In the preceding quarter, net loss included other included interest and other income of $183,000 and a cash provision of $2000.

In the first quarter of fiscal 2018, sales to Nokia were $4.5 million or 42.3% of net revenues compared to $4.2 million or 40% of net revenues in the prior quarter and $5.4 million or 41.9% of net revenues in the same period a year ago.

First quarter direct and indirect sales to Cisco Systems were $852,000 or 8% of net revenues compared to $745,000 or 7.2% of net revenues in the prior quarter and $1.5 million or 11.7% of net revenues in the same period a year ago.

Military/defense sales were 24.5% of shipments compared to 24.3% of shipments in the prior quarter and 12.5% of shipments in the comparable period a year ago.

SigmaQuad sales were 51.1% of shipments compared to 53% in the prior quarter and 55.7% in the first quarter of fiscal 2017.

At June 30, 2017, we had $49.1 million in cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments; $14.1 million in long-term investments, $57.6 million in working capital; no debt; and stockholders' equity of $86.6 million.

Looking forward to the second quarter of fiscal 2018, we currently expect net revenues to be in the range of $10 million to $11 million. We expect gross margin of approximately 53% to 55% in the second quarter.

Operator, at this point, we'll open the call to Q&A.

Question-and-Answer Session

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll go first to Kurt Caramanidis with Carl M. Hennig, Incorporated.

Kurt Caramanidis

We're about 20 months in, I think, now on the APU and amazingly you're right kind of on the original schedule you had. What, if anything, could delay a year-end, finishing the design by year-end?

Lee-Lean Shu

Right now, we, I think, we are still on schedule. Well, the designs are very complicated. Unless we have some hiccup in the final verification, but actually I don't really see that. But so actually I think we're going to stay on schedule.

Kurt Caramanidis

Okay, great. And then can you talk about there was a speed advantage back when you launched. Can you just update on where you think your speed advantage is today in that recommender systems, data mining search, that kind of thing?

Didier Lasserre

Kurt, this is Didier. It's a combination of performance in power, as we've talked about in the past [Audio Gap] I'm sorry, can you hear us?

Kurt Caramanidis

Yes, I can now.

Didier Lasserre

There's some feedback here. So it's a combination of performance and power where 500 times have that 500 times advantage over the current solution for those applications you're talking about, the recommender systems and SmartSearch as well.

Kurt Caramanidis

And then what do you think even if it's industry numbers or something, the market size for the APU is, if you have anything like that? I know it seems quite large but...

Didier Lasserre

Yes, we don't have anything at this point that we're ready to share. We're still putting it together. What we're finding in the more contact we have with the potential customers and the more type of application we're finding, I mean this whole AI machine learning market is a very young, growing, developing market.

And as you know, as we've talked about the past, when we originally looked at this market, we're looking at the training of the systems. And as we've gotten into it, we realize and we have much more an advantage and there's less of a good solution out there for the recommender systems, and for Search.

Recently, we've also found out that we think that we're going to be a very good fit for natural language processing. I mean, if you look at the dialogue that you plan on having with computers, the computers need to be able to look back at history of your current stations to understand what the context is they're having. And a lot of that done is done real-time memory, which is what we have.

As Lee-Lean mentioned earlier, we're not going off chip to do the memory, we're doing the processing in-memory. So we have an advantage there, which is a new market. And there's also areas where, if you look at existing markets for training, for example, if you train the machine, it takes an amazing amount of time especially with the amount of data that's given for the big data guys, and so what's happening is some of these folks, if there is extra pieces of data that come in, they don't want to have to retrain the system.

And so that's where we fit in as well. We can come in and do the additional training much, much faster or what we've also seen, is talking to some customers, is that they'll use some of their existing systems and solutions to train the system up to a certain percentage, maybe 60%, and then from then on out they use our solution going forward because it's much, much faster. So for us to talk about market size right now is just premature.

Kurt Caramanidis

So it seems to be expanding as you continue to talk to people. And then could you kind of lay out the process after design completion then it goes off to be made and kind of just a little track there?

Lee-Lean Shu

Okay, that is praise but once we get the silicon or we get packaged chip, coming back from that, firstly, we're going to print to what we call the controller module, okay, the controller module, which you can park into the PCI slot in the server. It's pretty much like the quad carrier model so you can, the customer can park into the existing system. So based on that, we're going to [indiscernible] and so the customer can just take it and then that's going to their application and the development of their software. Of course, we have to develop the library to go along with the module for customer to use. That's the current trend. Hopefully, we can quickly develop the design win based on that.

Douglas Schirle

I think Kurt also must know the timing. Once we finish the design, what are the steps, when do we get the first wafer stack and finished parts included.

Lee-Lean Shu

Yes, we expect to get the packed units along the March, April timeframe next year. And hopefully, by the second half of the year, we can have the module already fully tested and the module ready, so we can deliver to the customer.

Kurt Caramanidis

Okay, great. Finally, on the rad-hard, it sounds like you're getting more interest as time is going on there, too? Or am I reading that wrong on your commentary?

Didier Lasserre

No, that's correct. What we've done when we originally spoke about entering this rad-hard market, we were targeting one family, which was the 288-megabit SQ-II+. What we found is there's interest in other technologies as well, so we're quickly introducing also a 144-megabit and, I'm sorry, a 72-megabit NBT, which is No Bus Turnaround, and SyncBurst options as well. So they're in a different package, which should be a quicker turnaround.

And so we're going to be hopefully be able to expand that market just by adding quicker some additional families. We spoke in the past that we would bring on additional families over time, but with the interest we've seen, we've decided to accelerate the new product introduction for rad-hard.

Kurt Caramanidis

Okay, great thanks guys, very exciting timeframe here.

Didier Lasserre

Thanks Kurt.

Operator

We'll hear next from Jeff Bernstein with Cowen.

Jeff Bernstein

Hi guys, yeah, a couple of questions. Talk a little bit about Nokia. They have, I guess, a new 7750 router that's coming out in the second half of the year that, I guess, they're kind of talking about as sort of a new platform, a cloud, a giant cloud router. It looks like it's still based on the same course, but a lot more of them as the current product. So can we assume you guys are still in there as the SRAM content go up in that thing?

Didier Lasserre

So generically, I can't answer that question because if you look at the original design in the 7750, it has their FP3 processor. And with the FP3 processor, they used our 72-megabit SQ-III. Now what you're talking about it could be the midlife kicker or it could be the next-generation, it's unclear. The mid-life kicker will continue to use the FP3, which will use both 72-megabit and also 144-megabit SQ-IIIs, which, of course, we will be supporting those two.

Now the next-generation part they're talking about would use a completely different processor from them, which is an FP4 and it's not right now what the memory is for that. So it's hard for me to answer your question generically, but the answer is there is a mid-life kicker we know about we'll be in and in the next-generation it's not clear yet.

Jeff Bernstein

Got you, okay. And I'm sorry, you said on the mid-life kicker, you would be supplying 72-meg and then additionally what else?

Didier Lasserre

144 megabit so that's not additionally, it's one or the other. So depending on the option, they will either double the density of the current solution we support them with or they'll use the same density.

Jeff Bernstein

I see. Okay. And then on the APUs, I think you guys announced Taiwan Semi 28-nanometer process for that. Can you just talk about that's obviously not their most bleeding edge. Can you just talk about the puts and takes on that?

Lee-Lean Shu

Yes, we feel that performance-wise we don't need the state-of-the-art part of technology. I think just by the front gate, on either we could be just like what we already talked about, the 500 time of performance advantages. So we are not relying on the semiconductor processing technology to win. We are going to rely on the opportunities and the architecture to win, okay. Of course, instead of a 16-nanometer or 10-nanometer, you use 20-nanometer is a very mature processor and old IP is always available. So it's much quicker to bring to the market. That's our philosophy.

Operator

[Operator Instructions] We'll go next to George Gaspar, a private investor.

Unidentified Analyst

Thank you. Good afternoon. My question is related to government deliveries. If I recall, in the past quarter, you indicated that you were getting closer to some high-value premium delivery activity to the government installations or projects. Can you highlight how you're doing on that and what we can expect that to generate revenue going forward?

Didier Lasserre

Are you talking about the rad-hard product line, George?

Unidentified Analyst

Yes.

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Shares of Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ALGN), an orthodontic-device company, rose about 10% during Friday's session. Record results released after the bell on Thursday should keep investors smiling all through the weekend.

Just as the analysts who pick stocks for our premium services predicted long ago, Align Technology's Invisalign tooth-straightening system is becoming increasingly popular. In the second quarter, the company shipped a record-breaking 231,900 cases, 31% more than it shipped during the same period last year.

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The number of cases of the translucent braces shipped wasn't the only figure that rose during the three months ended June. Second-quarter revenue jumped 32.3% year on year to $356.5 million, which was 14.9% more than the company raked in during the first quarter of the year. All channels performed well, but investors were pleased to hear growth in the important teen segment was especially strong.

Align Technology's braces might be barely visible, but the company's success is getting noticed. Following today's spike, the stock is up 103.1% over the past year. At its new high price, the shares trade at about 53 times this year's earnings expectations.

Although the stock might be trading at a sky-high multiple, there's probably more than enough demand to keep sales rising by double digits each quarter for years to come. Around the world, about 2.6 million patients with mild to moderate malocclusion have their teeth realigned by some means. These are the people best suited to treatment with the Invisalign system, but the potential market could be much larger.

The Invisalign system isn't anything like the metal-mouth image that usually comes to mind when people hear the word "braces." There could be a billion adults who want straighter teeth but don't want to broadcast it to their peers; Align's system is extremely discreet. I wouldn't be surprised if sales continue bursting for years to come.

Cory Renauer has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Align Technology. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology are expanding solar cell technology using nanowires to capture more of the sun's energy and transform it into usable electricity. Comparable to ultra-thin blades of grass, nanowires added to today's conventional materials are capable of capturing more light and can be cost-effective solutions for adopting solar energy into the broader consumer market.

One of the larger global challenges today is meeting energy demands, and alternative energy solutions such as solar power are being sought. Using nanowires for solar cells has been an active field for nearly 10 years. Until now, few researchers have conclusively demonstrated how different materials beyond silicon and nanowire arrays can be used to achieve increased solar energy. An RIT research team is exploring an unconventional process to improve solar power conversion efficiencies to convert sunlight into useful electrical energy. Their work focuses on maximizing how much of the solar spectrum can be taken in using tandem junction solar cells based on III-V compoundsmetallic and non-metallic elements on the Periodic Table to supplement silicon, said Parsian Mohseni, assistant professor of microsystems engineering in RIT's Kate Gleason College of Engineering.

"III-V tandem devices are the best in the world, but because of the manufacturing and initial materials costs, they are very expensive to produce. Therefore, they are not used in consumer markets. They are used in niche applications such as space technologies. You are not going to see today's III-V devices on large solar panels on people's rooftops, because they are so expensive," said Mohseni, who has experience developing solar cells using III-V materials and researching these materials' capacity to absorb a wider range of the total solar spectrum. He was recently awarded nearly $300,000 for an Early Concepts Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) from the National Science Foundation for "Two Dissimilar Materials (TDM) solar cells: bifacial III-V nanowire array on silicon tandem junction solar cells." EAGER grants support high-risk but potentially high-reward transformative technologies. Mohseni's research into combining III-V compounds with siliconexpanding the means to collect energy from the sun for optical and electronic devicescould also open new paths toward next-generation integrated photonics and high speed transistors. These technologies are only two of the key research and development strategies in RIT's Future Photon Initiative.

Tandem junction solar cells are groupings of multiple sub-cells each of which can absorb a particular range of a wider solar spectrum band. Mohseni's team has been able to grow a variety of different III-V compounds for solar cells using the selective area epitaxy technique using a metal-organic chemical vapor deposition system, also referred to as MOVCD, located in the Semiconductor Manufacturing and Fabrication Lab, a high-tech clean room and teaching facility in RIT's engineering college. Installed at RIT in 2015, the MOVCD is operated by the NanoPower Research Lab (NPRL), led by Mohseni's co-principal investigator on the project, Seth Hubbard, NPRL director. The MOVCD is an important piece of equipment that produces crystalline III-V semiconductors. These III-V compounds refer to a set of elements from the Periodic Table that are being introduced into the development of higher capacity semiconductors. Crystals produced have conductive properties similar to or higher than silicon, which is currently the primary component of microelectronics, and RIT's research to solve structural, manufacturing and cost challenges is expected to advance the technology.

"There is a lot of science and engineering that goes behind making tandem junction solar cells and there are some real challenges in doing that," he explained. "How we can grow this in a single monolithic structure is very tricky from a technical stand point. The analogy I use in my class is trying to stack Lego blocks together."

Individual Legos have different separations between the protruding cylindrical knobs on top and the openings on the bottom of the block where the two parts come together. Legos interlock accurately because all the blocks have the same diameter and equal separations between the cylinders and the openings.

"The problem is, nature does not cut us that break," Mohseni said, referring to the new III-V materials being developed and the challenges to find ways to combine them as precisely as the Lego blocks.

His team is developing the engineering processes on the crystal growth side to make these dissimilar materials fit together to decrease defects and gaps. By changing the architecture entirely, and using nanowires instead of thin films, this process could alleviate defects that form along conventional hetero-epitaxial bulk materials and thin films, and allow for saving nearly 90 percent of the material used to make the devices. Mohseni and his research team will utilize vertical nanowire structures having a diameter of approximately 100 nanometers, and lengths up to several microns, a replacement for the thin films that are currently being used for semiconductor development.

"If you are trying to absorb material in a film, you want that film to be thick enough to capture more light. If light is not absorbed, it can bounce or reflect off the film surface," Mohseni explained. "With nanowires, if light comes in, it can still be absorbed, but if it bounces off one wire in the array, instead of going off into infinity, it can be captured by the nearby wire and be re-absorbed. This effect of multiple scattering interactions increases the light-trapping capabilities of the nanowire array. Even though we are using 90 percent less material, we can absorb light better than a thin film structure."

The project, which will be conducted over two years, aims to expand the scope of III-V solar cells beyond niche markets, eventually incorporating the technology into homes, electrical grids or transportation systems, for example.

"It is sort of giving power back to the people - taking real energy and power-conversion technologies and putting that in the hands of the people. That's the big picture, the long-term goal. This is one potential step toward that," Mohseni said.

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SEATAC, Wash. - Travelers can expect shorter lines through security at Sea-Tac Airport within a couple of years following the installation of a new technology to inspect carry-on luggage faster.

The new procedure will allow faster passengers to get around slower ones, thus speeding up the security lines for everyone.

The technology already is used at airports in Chicago, Atlanta and London. Instead of one passenger at a time, the new automated screening lanes will allow up to five people to unload their belongings into bins simultanesouly. And here's the best part - the person who is ready first can push their bin forward to move ahead in line.

Port of Seattle commissioners approved the $30 million upgrade earlier this week.

But some travelers remain skeptical that the change will actually benefit them.

"It seems like things will be more streamlined for the faster people to go," said Danielle Castagna, who was flying out of Sea-Tac on Thursday. "But then, I have a 3-year-old, and it takes me a while, so I feel like I'm going to be jumped. And then still going to lose my spot in line."

Sea-Tac is taking bids for the installation of the new system - and it will then be phased in at security checkpoints between now and 2019.

In the meantime, Transportation Security Administration agents soon will be taking a closer look into carry-on bags - focusing on electronics as they look to tighten preboarding security.

Passengers now will have to remove any electronics over the size of a phone from their carry-on and place it in a separate bin. That includes tablets, e-readers and game consoles. They will be run through security separately just like you already have to do with laptops.

According to TSA officials, having these items in separate bins allows for a clearer X-ray image and greater scrutiny. The Department of Homeland Security says terrorists were becoming better at hiding explosive devisces inside electronics, and thus these changes will help to combat that threat.

One exception - the process will not affect TSA precheck lanes. Those passengers can keep their electronics inside their carry-ons.

TSA officials are adamant that these changes will not make the preboarding process take any longer, and passengers may see extra personnel at the front of X-ray machines to help speed up this process.

TSA officials say the changes will be phased in over the coming months to allow for proper training.

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Seven advanced transportation technology projects have secured a share of $600,000 in grants that intend to help developers and researchers commercialize their product.

The grant is funded in part by Michigan Translational Research and Commercialization's advanced transportation innovation hub at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Economic Development Corp.'s Entrepreneur and Innovation initiative.

Five projects will get a $100,000 grant and two others will receive $50,000 each with the chance to receive additional funding, which are being led by faculty at UM and Michigan State University.

The following projects received funding, according to the news release:

"These teams have made the connection between their research and future transportation systems, and are working hard to get their technology to market," UM MTRAC Program Director Eric Petersen said in a statement. "Investing in projects and people will help the state retain leadership in the transportation industry as vehicles become electrified and as autonomous systems are proposed for moving people and goods."

The advanced technologies innovation hub, which is jointly run by the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Office of Technology Transfer, is one of five hubs situated at a university. Michigan State University, Michigan Technical University and Wayne State University also run MTRAC programs that focus on the agriculture biology, advanced applied materials, life sciences, advanced transportation and biomedical industries, the news release said.

MTRAC is a statewide initiative that funds translational research to take new technologies from higher education, hospital and nonprofit research institutions to market, the release said.

"Having this many projects qualify for funding is an incredible sign that the program is working and an excellent representation of the type of intellectual talent we have in our universities across the state," MEDC University Relations Director Denise Graves said in a statement. "Being able to move transportation technologies from research to market is essential in growing Michigan's economy. Combining our state's brainpower with resources like MTRAC is a great example of providing commercial focus to research projects that can be translated into real world products."

Graves said an eight-person oversight committee, made up of industry and venture capital executives, makes the advanced technologies program successful. They are responsible for reviewing proposals, selecting finalists and scoring the proposals at a presentation or funding. The seven projects will receive funding Aug. 1, which will be available to them until July 31, 2018. The advanced transportation innovation hub will begin accepting new proposals in January.

For more information about the advanced transportation program, visit cfe.umich.edu/mtrac-transportation.

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We went a bit overboard testing the best cheap coffee maker. We brought in seven of the most popular and best-reviewed sub-$100 coffee machines and compared them with what our blind-tasting panel of coffee nerds liked: the $200 Oxo On 9-cup coffee maker.

We started by tasting a single-origin coffee to determine which cheap machine was most acceptable to discerning coffee drinkers, then ran the panel a second time with preground Dunkin Donuts house blend from the corner store. The Hamilton Beach 12-Cup Coffee Maker (46201) swept both rounds of testing. It placed second to the Oxo in Round 1 and actually beat the Oxo during the Dunkin round.

I havent seen a Wirecutter or Sweethome evaluation of coffee machines that use pods. Is there a reason for that?

The truth is, K-Cup brewers are mostly the same. None of them make good coffee and the plastic pods arent easily recyclable. Something like our pick for cheap coffee maker will produce much better coffee and be way less expensive in the long run. Besides, its not hard to run a regular coffee maker.

Now making espresso at home takes a lot of practice to get right. We wouldnt fault anyone for getting a Nespresso machine. It can match a drive-through barista for about $1 a pod. Thats still a lot more expensive than grinding your own coffee, but it beats paying $3 for a similar drink at Starbucks. And unlike Keurig, Nespresso has been running a free pod recycling program for years.

Do coffee drinkers have anything to gain from the smart kitchen trend?

Not really. Adding Wi-Fi and an app just moves the buttons off the machine and onto your phone screen. Most coffee makers can already be programmed on a timer. You just need to remember to add preground coffee the night before, which a smart machine still cant do for you. In any case, the biggest problem when it comes to programmable coffee makers is that the coffee you put in the night before gets stale by the time its brewed. An app cant fix that.

You drank more than 100 cups of coffee to test pour-over coffee gear, 300 cups of coffee for cold-brew equipment. Did anyone get to sleep?

Slurp and spit, just like wine tasting. Though just like wine tasting, we did end up drinking a fair amount. Its hard not to when it tastes this good.

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday he thinks rapidly advancing technology poses one of the biggest challenges for the high court.

Speaking at an event at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, Roberts also repeated his concern that the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices has become too politicized. And he advised that having a written constitution, which some in New Zealand favor for their country, imposed constraints on judges.

Roberts answered questions posed by the university's law dean, Mark Hickford, for about an hour.

Hickford did not ask any questions about U.S. President Donald Trump, who has criticized judges including Roberts and imposed a travel ban on people from six mostly Muslim countries that has been challenged in the courts.

The Supreme Court said last week the Trump administration can enforce a ban on refugees but also left in place a weakened travel ban that allows more relatives of Americans to visit.

At the New Zealand event, Roberts said technology was a real concern.

"There are devices now that can allow law enforcement to see through walls. Heat imaging and all this kind of thing," he said. "Well, what does that do to a body of law that's developed from common law days in England about when you can search a house?"

He said the court had correctly determined that accessing an iPhone was problematic under the constitution's Fourth Amendment.

"I'll say it here: would you rather have law enforcement rummaging through your desk drawer at home, or rummaging through your iPhone?" Roberts said. "I mean, there's much more private information on the iPhone than in most desk drawers."

He said none of the Supreme Court justices are experts in the area and it is going to be a particular challenge for them to make sure they understand the issues and for lawyers to explain them.

Asked about the benefits of a written constitution, Roberts said he didn't want to offer advice to New Zealand but that the U.S. Constitution had a constraining purpose and affect.

"The framers of the constitution hoped they were drafting a document that would withstand the test of time, and they used, in many instances, very broad and capacious terms," he said. "But on the other hand, they can be specific guides as to what we are supposed to look at, and in some cases quite narrowly confining."

New Zealand's constitution is not contained in any one document but is derived from laws, legal documents, court decisions and conventions.

Roberts said the U.S. judicial process has become overly politicized, particularly when it comes to the confirmation of Supreme Court justices.

"Judges are not politicians, and they shouldn't be scrutinized as if they were," he said. "You're not electing a representative, so you're not entitled to know what their views on political issues are."

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MANHATTAN Every day in New York, commuters cram onto city buses for what often is a slow, gridlocked, frustrating trip. But thats slowly been improving with technology being used along a handful of routes, and its being promised a greater deployment to speed things up. The technology has already sped up travel times from five to 30 percent.

Now, the Department of Transportation is announcing 10 more bus routes are getting GPS technology, known as Transit Signal Priority or TSP, to make red lights shorter and green lights longer as busses approach intersections.It's being promised for lines in Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island.

The MTA is promising that the average improvement of 18 percent faster commute times will roll out on the routes, including theM60 from Manhattan to LaGuardia and the Q44 from Flushing to Jamaica.

This is not exactly new, though. It's already been used very successfully elsewhere. London has a dozen times as many buses using the technology; Los Angeles three times as many. New York, though, dwarfs those transit systems.

It all started with a pilot program along Hylan Boulevard on Staten Island more than ten years ago. Then, it started rolling out across the city in 2012.

Transit Signal Priority is a GPS-type interface between buses and lights at intersections, where buses signal to the lights as they approach; it then speeds up the red light or extends a green to keep a bus moving along its route.

The MTA claims car commuters see very little impact, but bus riders are enjoying commutes that have been sped up by a third.

We talked to commuters along the B44 route in Brooklyn, which already uses the technology.

"Its just too slow most of the time, Annilyah Esprit said. I just take the train!"

Commuters who want to give the bus another chance can check out the technology in action by riding the lines that already have it, including:

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters Health) - When an endurance runner with a history of heart failure felt under the weather, he brought his activity tracker data from a workout to his cardiologist.

Dr. Michael Blum examined the runners heart rate readings. The cardiologist could see when his patient was pushing to climb a hill or to increase his speed, and when he was slowing down.

I could tell how hard he was working, said Blum, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. I had this amazing data.

Ultimately, though, he had to inform his worried patient: This is all really interesting, but I cant tell you what it means.

Blum joined three other doctors who spoke last week on the promise and the reality of technology in a San Francisco paneldiscussion sponsored by Medscape and titled Technology, Patients and the Art of Medicine.

Technology in the form of diagnostic software helped one of the panelists, Dr. Abraham Verghese, conclude that a patient was suffering from neurosarcoidosis a diagnosis the Stanford University professor didnt initially consider but one a software program immediately recognized given the patients symptoms.

Technology offers doctors a view inside patients hearts, brains and bowels. And technology may speed the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of blindness, said panelist Dr. Jessica Mega, who leads the healthcare team at Verily, formerly Google Life.

Nonetheless, 69 percent of the 100 doctors in the audience said increased reliance on technology and electronic health records only served to separate them from their patients.

As evidence of the problem, the panelists cited apps that claim to do things they dont really do, like accurately measure blood pressure.

But the biggest problem stemming from technology for the doctors, and the bane of many doctors existence, is the electronic health record, also known as an EHR.

The U.S. government has touted electronic records, initially designed for billing, as a way to dramatically improve patient care and has used financial incentives to speed their adoption. The hope was that the widespread use of EHRs would reduce medical errors, inefficiencies and inappropriate care.

The effort has failed, according to Dr. Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape and the panel moderator.

American doctors continue to make 12 million diagnosis errors a year; one in four patients in U.S. hospitals continue to be harmed; and healthcare costs continue to soar, he said.

Topol called electronic health records a complete mess.

Why do we just put up with pathetic technology? he asked.

The panelists, as well as the doctors in attendance, bemoaned the time it took them to complete electronic records, time they longed to spend with patients.

Verghese credited electronic records with billing well, with reducing medical errors and with keeping him out of dusty basements in search of patient files. At the same time, he blamed EHRs for tying doctors to their computers and at least partially for his colleagues unprecedented suicide rates, depression, burnout and disillusionment.

I find it pretty incredible, he said, that with all the wonderful, sophisticated imaging technology, we still have this dinosaur of an electronic medical record.

Verghese, a best-selling author, is vice chair for the theory and practice of medicine at Stanford University and has championed the return of what he considers the lost art of the physical exam. He questioned how physicians allowed EHRs to take over medical practices without physician input on how to make them work.

We allowed this to happen on our watch, he said. How did we let this happen?

My sense is that the current dysphoria in medicine revolves to a great degree around the electronic medical record but not solely. I think the other piece of it is everything moving much faster, so many more patients, so much more information per patient, he said.

Blum had nothing good to say about electronic health records. But he refused to blame them for all medicines ills.

High rates of physician burnout, depression and suicide predate the governments relatively recent push for electronic records, he said. He traced the problem back at least 10 years to increased government regulations that turned doctors notes into billing documents.

Then you throw the electronic health record on top of that, Blum said. That just took a bad situation and made it horribly worse.

Blum, who leads the Center for Digital Health Innovation at the University of California, San Francisco, considers electronic health records separate from technology.

He believes technology has transformed medicine in a positive way and will continue to do so.

The office visit and the experience of the bonding has clearly been disrupted by doctors having to type into electronic records, Blum said. On the other hand, he said, patients can send me a note whenever they want, and within a day, Ill get back to them.

As further evidence of technologys benefits, he cited a study showing that patients expressed more satisfaction following a video visit with their doctors than visits to the office.

Its going to explode, he said, when we see the next generation of technology.

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If you talk to the engineers and dreamers in Silicon Valley, especially anyone over 35, they'll probably admit to being into science fiction. This genre of movies, comic books and novels was huge in the first half of the last century and remained strong through its second half, when most of today's engineers were born. That's not to say science fiction's allure has faded if anything, the popularity of shows like Westworld and Stranger Things suggests we're as fascinated as ever but to point out that it had a great influence on those creating todays technology.

I was born in the latter part of the last century, and like many of my geek friends, was into science fiction at all levels. We loved its heady futuristic ideas and reveled in its high-minded prophesies. But there is one theme in science fiction that always troubled me: when technology runs amok and subverts its creators. Usually when this happens, the story becomes a dramatic puzzle, whose solution involves the protagonists expending tons of creative energy in an effort to either destroy their mutinous creation or contain it. I had nightmares for months after I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein .

I've been involved in dozens of technology projects, but I have to admit that seldom in our design or business discussions do we spend much time on the potential negative impact of our work on the world. Instead, we abide by an engineering mantra often embodied in the concept "We create it because we can." Indeed, in most cases we create technology because we see a need, or to solve a problem. But sometimes in hindsight it seems we wind up creating new ones.

I recently spent time with key execs in the security and cybersecurity space. Perhaps no other area in our digital world underlines the flip side of technological progress. IT execs tell me that security is now about 25% of their IT budget spend. Each day we hear of hackers targeting user identities, financial networks and power grids, and malware routinely targets PCs, laptops and smartphones, holding them hostage till users pay a ransom fee to recover their data.

When the folks at DARPA and other agencies blueprinted the Internet in the 1960s, the idea was to have a medium in which to share scientific data and other information quickly and on a global scale. But as the Internet has evolved, it's become the de facto medium for just about any type of communication, commercial transactions, and yes, hacking that impacts us for better and worse.

It's also been responsible for an unprecedented age of distraction. I was recently in New York and had to drive from northern New York City to the Elmira area on the state's freeways. For the first time, I saw signs that said "Next texting stop is 3 miles ahead. Dont text and drive." Most states have already outlawed texting while driving, and yet we hear almost weekly of traffic accidents cased by oblivious drivers tapping blithely on smartphones.

The level of distraction caused by technology (driving or no) is at an all-time high. While on vacation in Maui, Hawaii last month, I was stunned to see people pulling out their smartphones and checking them while walking around beautiful Lahaina and other areas of the island. The gravitational pull of these devices is ubiquitous. During a dinner with my wife, my son and his wife and our two granddaughters at a beachside restaurant, I caught all of us looking at our phones as we waited for our food, paying no heed to the gorgeous scenery right in front of us.

I dont believe Steve Jobs and Apple dreamed the iPhone or smartphones in general would engender this level of diversion. I dont think Mark Zuckerberg, when he created Facebook , foresaw how distracting and addictive Facebook would become. And I dont think Niantic, the creators of Pokmon Go , fully thought through the tectonic fantasy-reality collisions of their augmented reality app (shortly after its launch in early July 2016, two people playing the game walked off a cliff ). My wife has had close encounters with trees and light posts herself while chasing down some of the game's secretive critters.

In a recent Harvard Business Review piece titled "Liberal Arts in the Data Age," author JM Olejarz writes about the importance of reconnecting a lateral, liberal arts mindset with the sort of rote engineering approach that can lead to myopic creativity. Today's engineers have been so focused on creating new technologies that their short term goals risk obscuring unintended longterm outcomes. While a few companies, say Intel , are forward-thinking enough to include ethics professionals on staff, they remain exceptions. At this point all tech companies serious about ethical grounding need to be hiring folks with backgrounds in areas like anthropology, psychology and philosophy.

I have no illusions about the cat being out of the bag (it's hence shacked up with YouTube), and as a parent and grandparent, admit I need to be more proactive about self-policing. My hope is that we can all move a little more in that direction, creating technology that is both impactful and thoughtful in its engagement with our lives and the world.

Tim Bajarin is recognized as one of the leading industry consultants, analysts and futurists, covering the field of personal computers and consumer technology. Mr. Bajarin is the President of Creative Strategies, Inc and has been with the company since 1981 where he has served as a consultant providing analysis to most of the leading hardware and software vendors in the industry.

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