If you're trying to figure out how best to measure human performance under extreme conditions, the skies are a great place to start. Not much pushes the body harder than space travel or extreme flight. Successful missions depend on knowing precisely how astronauts and pilots respond to huge physical strain, and that requires a level of real-time biometric tracking way beyond your average heart-rate chest strap. That's where wearable innovator LifeBEAM comes in. Founded in 2011, the New York-based business has spent years developing cutting-edge solutions that give NASA and the US Air Force mission-critical insights.

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As a postdoc, plant biologist Christopher Topp was not satisfied with the usual way of studying root development: growing plants on agar dishes and placing them on flatbed scanners to measure root lengths and angles. Five years later, the idea of using detailed imaging to study plant form and function has caught on. The use of drones and robots is also on the rise as researchers pursue the'quantified plant'--one in which each trait has been carefully and precisely measured from nearly every angle, from the length of its root hairs to the volatile chemicals it emits under duress. Such traits are known as an organism's phenotype, and researchers are looking for faster and more comprehensive ways of characterizing it. From February 10 to 14, scientists will gather in Tucson, Arizona, to compare their methods.

Reading Data Science – Machine Learning vs Rules Based Systems by Karthik Guruswamy Data Scientist at Teradata got me thinking about how machine learning is replacing rule-based systems in how we manage and use enterprise content, knowledge, and ideas. These types of rules are extremely easy to understand and easy to code. But, Karthik points out, things quickly get out of hand: "When a system gets operationalized, one starts with 100 scenarios with 100 rules to handle it. As time goes by we encounter more and more exceptions and start making more rules to keep exceptions under control. Think US Tax Code – things get unwieldy and cumbersome over time."

RICHMOND, VIRGINIA – Robots about the size of a beer cooler could soon be rolling down Virginia sidewalks to deliver sandwiches, groceries or packages. Supporters say some pending legislation would make the state the first in the nation to regulate such devices. State lawmakers partnered with European company Starship Technologies on bills allowing Virginia cities to join two others in the U.S. and many across Europe where the company is testing its largely autonomous earthbound robots. Much like other tech companies' attempts at airborne drone deliveries, Starship aims to revolutionize the way people get their parcels. Representatives from the company visited Richmond on Wednesday for a demonstration.

The only thing that flies faster than time is the progress of technology. Once after lunch, a chip-designing friend excused himself quickly with the deft explanation that Moore's Law meant that he had to make his chip set 0.67 percent faster each week, even while on vacation. Now that 2017 is here, it's time to take stock of the technological changes ahead, if only to help you know where to place your bets in building programming skills for the future. From the increasing security headache of the internet of things to machine learning everywhere, the future of programming keeps getting harder to predict. There are naysayers who claim the chip companies have hit a wall.

It started as a seemingly sweet Twitter chatbot. Modeled after a millennial, it awakened on the internet from behind a pixelated image of a full-lipped young female with a wide and staring gaze. Microsoft, the multinational technology company that created the bot, named it Tay, assigned it a gender, and gave "her" account a tagline that promised, "The more you talk the smarter Tay gets!" She brimmed with enthusiasm: "can i just say that im stoked to meet u? humans are super cool." She asked innocent questions: "Why isn't #NationalPuppyDay everyday?" Tay's designers built her to be a creature of the web, reliant on artificial intelligence (AI) to learn and engage in human conversations and get better at it by interacting with people over social media. As the day went on, Tay gained followers. She also quickly fell prey to Twitter users targeting her vulnerabilities. For those internet antagonists looking to manipulate Tay, it didn't take much effort; they engaged the bot in ugly conversations, tricking the technology into mimicking their racist and sexist behavior.

These are the remembered phrases of George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four," about a futuristic totalitarian state run by "Big Brother." It surged to the top of Amazon's best-seller list Wednesday–President Donald Trump's sixth day in office. According to CNN, Penguin has begun printing more copies of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" to meet the demand. The increase in sales appears to have started after Trump senior advisor Kellyanne Conway used the term "alternative facts" in an interview Sunday, which British historian and Orwell biographer Peter Stansky said was a phrase that "is very Orwellian, very'Newspeak.'" In "Nineteen Eighty-Four," "Newspeak" is the language of the state used to suppress thought. Stansky believes that the increase in sales of the novel, which Orwell wrote in 1949 as a warning to the Western world about the totalitarianism of his era, is a direct response to President Trump's efforts to manipulate facts during his first week in office.

The regime in George Orwell's "1984" declared "War is Peace -- Freedom is Slavery -- Ignorance is Strength." The dystopian fiction drew flocks of book buyers after Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway's comment about "alternative facts." The publisher of George Orwell's novel "1984" has ordered a 75,000 copy reprint of the book after sales spiked earlier this week, CNN reports. "That is a substantial reprint," a spokesman for Penguin told CNN, "and larger than our typical reprint for '1984.'" The novel, which was the No. 1 bestselling book on Amazon as of Wednesday morning, was referenced by many in the press after comments made by Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway.

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