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This past Thursday, lawmakers, members of the media and members of USTAR (which stands for Utah Science, Technology and Research) paid a visit to the Innovation Campus at Utah State University 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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According to the Federal Railroad Administration, there were almost 11,000 train accidents and incidents last year alone, killing 805 people and injuring almost 4,000. And just days ago, a passenger train crashed in Spain, injuring dozens and sending 18 people to the hospital, including the driver.

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At a giant training and research facility in Pueblo, Colorado, cutting-edge technology to prevent such crashes and save lives is under development. The 52-square-mile Transportation Technology Center, which includes tracks on which train accidents are simulated, hadn't admitted cameras for 20 years before granting exclusive access to TODAY national investigative correspondent Jeff Rossen and the Rossen Reports team.

The potentially life-saving technology under development at the facility includes:

Cracked wheel detection: "Broken wheels are a major cause of derailments," explained Lisa Stabler, president of Transportation Technology Center, Inc. Now high-tech sensors can take ultrasound pictures of the wheels in a millisecond, capturing microscopic cracks that can cause a catastrophe.

Positive train control: Experts say that technology that stops trains automatically when they are out of control could have prevented accidents like the December 2013 derailment north of New York City that killed four people. In a demonstration of positive train control, Rossen rode a train that braked automatically as it approached a red light.

Sensor-dropping drones: Firefighters used to have to personally deploy chemical sensors to determine which homes to evacuate after accidents involving trains carrying hazardous materials. Now sensors can be dropped from drones, keeping firefighters out of harm's way and speeding the flow of information.

Experts say that when cracked wheel detection is rolled out soon, it will be a game-changer. Positive train control and sensor-dropping drones are already starting to be used.

To suggest a topic for an upcoming investigation, visit the Rossen Reports Facebook page.

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Mike Glennon and Kevin White high-fived as they jogged back to the Bears' huddle early on the first day of training camp, satisfied they had just taken a baby step forward in the offense's evolution.

Glennon had zipped a pass smoothly over the middle. White was open and caught it in stride, just as the coaches drew it up. It was the type of play the Bears need to make more often to pull the parachute cord on their NFL plummet.

And they now have a new tool in that quest.

Ten yards behind the line of scrimmage for that play and most others this summer, there's a 360-degree video camera perched atop a skinny, 8-foot pole.

That addition to Bears practices this year marks their entry into the realm of virtual reality. As the latest NFL team to invest in the burgeoning video technology, it could help thrust them upward as they start a chapter defined by their quarterback overhaul.

The Bears mainly hope it will help them overcome the shortage of practice repetitions for Glennon, second-overall pick Mitch Trubisky and veteran Mark Sanchez. There's also an evaluative component that's different from conventional overhead video.

Trubisky, for example, can strap on a VR headset in the comfort of a classroom and see and hear exactly what Glennon did as he dropped back on that crisp completion Thursday.

"I'm really surprised what that technology has allowed us to do," Trubisky said. "Especially calling plays in the huddle I call the play, go out and practice it, and Coach can see on the screen where my eyes are going. So it has helped me with progression and timing without actually going onto the field and having to do it."

General manager Ryan Pace began exploring the use of VR in 2016 as part of his priority to push the Bears into fledgling areas of sports science and technology. The clarity and processing time in VR technology has continued to improve, and the Bears' quarterback changes this offseason increased its value to the franchise.

After a tryout period in the spring with STRIVR Labs, a Silicon Valley-based company with roots in Stanford's football program, the Bears finalized their deal before training camp. They're the seventh NFL team to partner with STRIVR, joining the Cowboys, Cardinals, 49ers, Vikings, Bills and Jets.

"I'm excited about it," Glennon said. "It gives a unique perspective on how you see things. Sometimes you may see something on the field, and that's not exactly how it looks on the (All-22 overhead) film. But when you watch it on the virtual reality, you're like, 'OK, I was right.'"

Here's how it works:

The 360-degree cameras are placed around the field during practice. For the quarterbacks' sake, they're in the backfield.

After practice, memory cards are plugged into a computer, and the footage is uploaded in about 45 minutes. STRIVR software then divides the video into individual plays and classifies it per team specifications.

Then it's ready for the Bears' quarterback meetings with offensive coordinator Dowell Loggains and position coach Dave Ragone. One quarterback puts on the VR headset over his head and eyes and holds a small controller, actually an Apple TV remote, Glennon said. He runs through plays that either he or one of the other quarterbacks actually ran in practice.

What the player sees inside the helmet is displayed simultaneously on a laptop or big screen for the others in the room. From there, collaborative evaluations begin.

Said Sanchez: "If I'm looking left and I'm supposed to look right, Dowell can pause it and say, 'Whoa, whoa, whoa. That's not what we want. Remember, on this concept versus this specific look, see the corner, see the leverage boom we want to look right.'

Sanchez finds VR particularly helpful for throws over the middle or throws affected by something flashing directly in front of him, like a cornerback's angle defending it. Factors that the overhead video doesn't show clearly. And it helps for quarterback coaches to see through the passer's eyes.

"When you're (watching) the big eye in the sky, All-22 film, it's easy to say, 'Throw it to that guy,'" Sanchez said. "Well, in the pocket you can see a little more if a guy is breathing down your neck. That's why I dumped it down to the back or that's why I threw it away."

STRIVR has evolved quickly since CEO Derek Belch was a graduate assistant on Stanford's coaching staff in 2014. The former Stanford kicker developed the technology as part of his master's thesis, then left coaching to build the company full-time on the advice of head coach David Shaw. In addition to expanding in the NFL, they have branched out to help companies such as Wal-Mart train employees.

"The Bears are very, very much on the leading edge, even though we're in Year 3 as a company," Belch said. "This is still something that scares people. It's still something that's going to take time to permeate every part of the NFL. Chicago is one of the teams diving in. It's a perfect storm with the quarterback situation, but it's going to be so much bigger there."

Indeed, the Bears are starting out slowly with the technology. Although VR can serve other decision-making positions like safety and linebacker, the Bears are applying it only to their quarterbacks for now. If all goes well, they eventually will expand it and apply the data analysis component Belch's company continues to advance.

In the meantime, the quarterbacks are using it daily in training camp. It doesn't replace conventional film study, but it augments it in a way that has quelled any skepticism among them and energized the entire group.

"Experience is worth its weight in gold, right?" Sanchez said. "That's the ultimate idea, and this is trying to get you close to that."

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Computers, smartphones, and other gadgets have become a necessity in our work and personal lives. But they dont have to be used so seriously! Technology can also bring us some fun, laughter, and enjoyment.

Im reminded of this often from my kids. I have to spend most days typing, talking on the phone and fixing computers and networks, while they have time to have fun with technology. So like me, consider spending more time just enjoying technology.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Be goofy with Snapchat: This is one of the most popular smartphone apps with the younger generations. You can send photos or videos to your friends and family members who have the app and the photo or video disappears from their device after so many seconds of viewing it. So you can be goofy! The best part: the app has photo filters and effects that you can apply. Maybe swap faces with someone, give yourself or someone else bunny ears and a nose, change your voice into a mouse squeak, or picture yourself as a dancing hot dog. Some are totally weird, but they are funny. My 13-year-old daughter is always on Snapchat.

Talk to your devices: Most devices these days you can talk to and they respond with some sort of action, like displaying search results, answering your question, or performing a task. Windows 10 computers now have the talking assistant Cortana, Android phones and tablets have Google Assistant, and Apple iPhones and iPads have Siri. These can be useful, but they can also be fun to play with. Siri on Apple devices seems to be the best and most intelligent digital assistant. Whatever device you have, maybe ask it some real questions, and also some silly ones. My 6-year-old son can talk to Siri for hours and be giggling the whole time.

Video chat with others: Though talking on the phone lets you communicate with family and friends, video chatting is on another level. You can see and hear them, and they feel more present. Its great for talking with people you cant physically meet often. If you have a computer with a webcam or an Android phone or tablet, maybe use Skype. Or if you have an Apple iPhone or iPad, use the FaceTime app. When my daughter is home and has nothing to do, shes usually on video chat with a friend.

Watch YouTube Videos: The TV can be boring. Youre pretty limited to what type of content and shows you can watch. But video sharing sites like YouTube.com allow you to search for and watch videos on pretty much any topic imaginable. Maybe search for videos on gardening, classic cars, cooking, or even funny topics like jokes, pranks or standup comedy. This is another technology my kids, and many others these days, use on a daily basis.

Play games on your phone or computer: Windows comes with some card games installed and ready to play, but there are many more games you can download. And smartphones and tablets dont usually come with any games installed. So, consider installing some. Maybe try cross-word puzzles, trivia games, or even the popular Pokemon Go game if youre really adventurous.

Play active games on a TV: You dont have to be a couch-potato to play games. There are some active video game systems, like the Nintendo Wii, Xbox Kinect, and the PlayStation Move. These all have a special sensor controller or camera that tracks your movements, so you can physically interact with the games. Perhaps play some table tennis, try boxing, dancing, Zumba, and much more. These allow you to utilize technology while moving and being active.

If you need help get started with any of these, grab someone who has used them before, usually someone from the younger generation. Or call a computer and IT services company like mine for assistance.

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SF Express, one of Chinas largest logistics service providers, wants to transform into a technology-driven courier and adopt home grown Chinese technology to boost its business internationally.

One of our primary objectives is to understand how we use technology to differentiate ourselves [from our rivals], David Adams, chief executive officer of the international business unit of SF Express, told the South China Morning Post. China already has tremendous technologies and we will primarily use Chinese technology as a foundation to expand our business.

For example, the Shenzhen-based SF Express has already started commercial drone deliveries after receiving Chinas first drone airspace license. Drones are really useful in special delivery situations such as emergencies and remote areas, Adams said. But right now, from my understanding, there are no plans to use drones outside China.

SF Express chief Wang Wei unseats Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing as third-richest Chinese

To expand the international business, SF Express will adopt two different models depending on the region.

In some Asian countries such as Singapore and Korea, which are closer to China, we will invest directly in infrastructure and service development, Adams said. In Singapore, SF Express offers domestic delivery services and will introduce the same in Malaysia later this year.

For countries further away, such as the United States and in Europe, SF Express will use an asset light model.

[In these countries], we will find partners to help us with our service, he said.

We do not generally offer domestic service outside China. Within Europe, we do not offer delivery service from one country to anotherbut only connect Europe and China or Asian countries.

Adams said the company will primarily invest in technology, expertise, human resources and equipment when it comes to markets further away from China.

Consequently, SF Express isnt worried that its international business expansion will be caught up in Chinas tightening rules on outbound capital as the asset light investment model doesnt involve large capital outflows.

Cross-border business between the US and China, the largest two economies in the world, is a priority for the companys international business expansion, but initially the courier will focus on US exports to China.

We primarily focus on B2C cross-border business, [mainly helping] US e-commerce merchants enter the Chinese market and sell their products in China, Adams said.

In Hong Kong, where SF Express founder Wang Wei originally started his business, Adams said the company is already quite large and ubiquitous but wont shy away from expanding its presence even more in the city.

Cainiao and SF Express to resume data sharing after Chinas State Post Bureau intervenes

In March this year SF Express officially completed its so-called backdoor listing on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with the resulting surge in share price temporarily making Wang Wei the countrys third-richest man. But the stock price has since slipped on a disagreement with Cainiao, the logistics affiliate of Alibaba Group, over the sharing of data. However, the two firms have since resumed data sharing. Alibaba is the owner of the Post.

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Pilot Dan Hesselius holds a fixed-wing SuperSwift drone. (University of Colorado / Courtesy photo)

University of Colorado Boulder students and faculty make the claim that they have likely flown more research drones in more places in the world than any university in the country.

Their next destination is the skies over Yuma farm country.

CU announced Friday that in coming weeks, its scientists, engineers and students are teaming up with Boulder's Black Swift Technologies to use unmanned aircraft to measure water moisture at a Yuma test irrigation farm.

Project Drought, as it's known, is one of five different research initiatives under CU's Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing project, under the direction of Professor Brian Argrow at CU's Ann and H.J. Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences department.

CU considers IRISS to be a pillar of the university's Grand Challenge initiative efforts to harness science, technology and innovation to solve important national or global problems.

Argrow said Friday that work starting soon at the Irrigation Research Foundation research and demonstration farm in northeast Colorado is a continuation of a project that is ongoing.

"This project has been going on for a couple of years and one of the issues for this iteration of the sensor and the aircraft is to make sure the sensor and aircraft work together as a system, and that the flight system in the aircraft doesn't interfere with making those precision measurements," he said. "Those are the types of issues being worked on right now."

Black Swift Technologies, which was spun out of CU by aerospace doctoral graduates Jack Elston, Maciej Stachura and Cory Dixon aided by a NASA Small Business Innovative Research Grant developed the fixed-wing SuperSwift drone equipped with a removable nose cone that will fly over the test farm.

The drone's sensor was developed by a team led by CU Electrical, Computer & Energy Engineering Professor Al Gasiewski.

The research team will pair high-precision drone readings of soil moisture with measurements from NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive Satellite, launched in 2015. The satellite's primary radar instrument has failed, but scientists can still use its passive radiometer instrument to produce surface maps. Each pixel represents an area about 225 miles across, according to Argrow.

The IRF facility in Yuma is equipped with sensors in the soil to chart moisture, and that data will be compared with data gathered from the air by the SuperSwift drone. According to Dixon, each team will include a pilot on the ground, a staff member and two students.

"This is part of a project with Black Swift Technologies, so we are talking about a potential for commercialization of this capability," Argrow said. "You can envision that ultimately, this soil moisture mapping can be provided as a service.

"The emphasis is not on county scale drought measurement, like you get from NASA mapping, but farm scale. You can imagine farmers wanting to use this service to improve their water management, by informing them on the soil moisture distributions."

Dixon, in a news release, said, "While some farmers don't have the ability to adequately assess their soil moisture, we can fly over an entire crop field with high enough resolution to give them data that will eventually allow for more efficient water use in particular areas."

Argrow hedged only slightly on CU's claim to drone supremacy at the university level in the U.S.

"That's quite a claim," he conceded. "We're throwing down the gauntlet, so I guess I'll let somebody tell us we're wrong."

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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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Technology, be it the driver-less cars or the ubiquitous smartphone, is impacting every sphere of our life.

Technology-driven automation is omnipresent and pervading our lives like never before.

From robots and chatbots to virtual/augmented reality, machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and beyond, the physical space is littered with digital influence.

The impact of increased automation is already upon us and influencing our lives in all possible ways. Up till now technology adoption has never been so rapid, versatile and secular but the presence of connectivity has enabled this growth.

The focus of this narrative will be to explore how exactly human life gets affected because of these inevitable technology trends. There are six such changes that look imminent.

The newer technologies are enabling embryonic assessments in early stages, hence alleviating the need for morphological assessments where high degree of human skills was required. The issue is that morphological grading by humans leads to wide inter- and intra-operator variation. These long-standing difficulties may now be improved by using advances in AI. Thus, mathematical variables derived from time-lapse images of embryo development may now be used such that an algorithm can classify images of an embryos development automatically, and so remove the human variable from the crucial task of morphological assessment.

This was also highlighted in study presented on July 4, 2017 at the 33rd Annual Meeting of ESHRE in Geneva. Start-up Deep Genomics is leveragingAI to helpdecode the meaning of the genome and their learning software is developing the ability to try and predict the effects of a mutation based on its analyses ofhundreds of thousands of examples of other mutations even if theres not already a record of what those mutations do. Another example is the case of actress Angelina Jolie where she had a one recessive gene in her genome that was predicted using deep learning algorithms on her DNA sequence using the data from past studies, which predicted that she is susceptible to breast cancer. She underwent pre-emptive mastectomy to prevent herself from cancer. The confluence of medicine and technology will bring unprecedented transformations in human life.

Another biological victim of the digital automation will be ubiquitous handwriting skills. Already most of the content thats getting produced and published is digital. Handwriting skills have already suffered as most of the content gets digitally typed and then printed if at all needed in the physical format. Dematerialisation has already inflicted the damage on the physical copy. It is now rare to write something on paper except when its your own signature, which is also digitally available now. Handwriting is almost nostalgic now. More and more people are digitally publishing the content online with handwritten notes becoming virtually non-existent. When was the last time you wrote a handwritten letter or note to your friends? The growth of virtual assistants like Apple Siri, Google Assistant or Cortana that can translate the verbal instructions into written word will further deteriorate the physical handwriting practice whatever is left so far. This may impact the anatomy of hand including the fingers, which may become less flexible, and thinner to aid typing. Maybe in the future the meta-carpel and carpel joints undergo significant changes as they are no longer used for writing purposes.

The third biological influence will be on the eyes. The sheer amount of information flow thats happening is coming from social media apps, devices, digital displays or the web, which is exerting enormous strain on the eyes. Reading has exponentially multiplied, as is typical of information age where status quo is consistently challenged. The knowledge bust thats happening is fuelling the information fire. With faster and better technology, development and evolution is becoming possible in every sphere of our life, be it medicine, law, science, engineering, education, hence necessitating the constant need to upgrade and update. The concomitant impact of it will be largely borne by eyes. With so much to read and ingest, the shape of our eyes may get adapted over a period; they may become enlarged or may be more bulged. In fact, the underlying neuron system powering the vision may undergo subtle changes as well because of the way the things will be perceived and seen in the VR, AR-infected world.

Another impact is going to be on the neck and the backbone. With the advent of smartphone the average time we are spending on the device is about 180 minutes. Yes, thats correct: three hours per day. We are continuously stretching our necks for longer periods of time, which is therefore bent most of the time. Now most of things can be actioned, can be monitored or searched on phone, which is reducing physical movements all the time. For example, you can monitor your employees working remotely on your phone using the GPS and camera, thereby obviating the need for physically moving yourself. This is not only forcing your neck to constantly gobble up the data thats being ejected on your smartphone screens but also increasing your seating time, making you more sedentary than ever. Seating continuously for longer periods of time puts pressure on the spinal cord and the vertebrae. Hence all these lifestyle changes will have an anatomical impact on our spinal cord and neck in the time to come. As a result, the spine may become more rounded and short. It may be so that in future humans have few extra movements in neck due to some extra cervical spine joints.

With the problem of plenty, memory will be worst affected. As more and more information is produced collaboratively and co-operatively on social platforms lesser and lesser will be retained. Also, with advanced search algorithms by our side, who needs to worry about remembering something? Learning by rote will be extinct in future. This will impact the memorability of human beings as lesser effort will be given to remember anything. The incentives that existed in the past to learn mathematical tables or capitals of the countries have ceased to exist. Society is now rewarding people who have application skills, who can combine expertise in multiple subjects to yield insights and solve layered business problems. The demand for people who can blurt out facts has completely evaporated. The processing thats required to memorise things will weaken during time, leading to complete adaptation of the neurons and brain functions that govern memory.

With so much data floating around us and machine learning algorithms parsing them, AI is getting adaptive by the day. The rich data thats getting ingested is only leading to more informed choices and better decisions. The role of luck, or the unknown is getting subsumed by intelligent analytics or processed data that was earlier not available. The traditional belief structures rooted in religion of God are getting displaced by more data-centric approach or Dataism, as Yuval Harari calls it. So much structured and unstructured data is getting generatedbe it location data, emails, OCR processed reports, Facebook posts or likes, WhatsApp messages, tweets etc.which enables algorithms to do the data analysis and decipher the subterranean trends, patterns and phenomena underlying these data sets, paving the way for better understanding of society and things around us. As more and more evidentiary proofs are available for our actions, the needle of our belief will keep swerving away from the universality of God.

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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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