“This is the best decision for the future of human powered search and discovery. Jelly plus Pinterest is an exceedingly powerful match. A new adventure begins!” Stone, Co-Founder and CEO, Jelly Industries Inc, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Financial terms of the deals are yet to be disclosed and whether Jelly would remain separate, or integrated was also not revealed.

“We’re still working out details, so there are unknowns,” Stone said.

Jelly offers a search engine service that answers user’s questions in details. To answer the user’s questions Jelly routes them to people who might know.

“Human powered search, a subjective search engine, and discovering things you didn’t know you need to know. These are all key to Jelly!” Stone said.

But for all the fame of the co-founders and hype when it first launched, Jelly’s business never, well, jelled, Techcrunch.com reported.

The app has only ranked in the top 1,500 for iOS sporadically since launching in 2014, so it is hard to get reliable download estimates, according to Sergey Bystritskiy, Director of Data Science, SensorTower.

It is currently ranked at No 1,293 for the Social Networking category on iPhone in the US. It is not currently ranking on Google Play in the US, the report said.

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“People with migraine are looking for non-drug treatments, and this new device is easy to use, has no side effects and can be conveniently used in work or social settings,” said David Yarnitsky, Professor at The Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.

The device uses electrical stimulation to block the pain signals from reaching the brain and the patch contains rubber electrodes and a chip on an armband.

In the past when stimulation has been tested for people with migraine, devices needed wires and were attached to the head. However, the new device can be controlled by a smartphone app, the researchers said.

For the study, published in the online journal Neurology, the team involved 71 people with episodic migraine. Participants were asked to apply the device to their upper arm soon after the start of a migraine and use it for 20 minutes and were not allowed to take any medications for two hours.

The devices were programmed to randomly give placebo, or sham, stimulation at a very low frequency or one of four levels of active stimulation.

According to the researchers, a total of 299 migraines were treated with the device during the study and 64 per cent of people showed reduction in their pain by at least 50 per cent two hours after the treatment.

Furthermore, starting the stimulation within 20 minutes of the start of a migraine was found more effective.

“These results are similar to those seen for the triptan medications for migraine,” Yarnitsky said.

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The suite of instruments developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is set to be sent on a SpaceX cargo delivery to the space station in August, the US space agency said on Monday.

The ice box called the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) is in the final stages of assembly at JPL.

“Its instruments are designed to freeze gas atoms to a mere billionth of a degree above absolute zero. That’s more than 100 million times colder than the depths of space,” NASA said in a statement.

“Studying these hyper-cold atoms could reshape our understanding of matter and the fundamental nature of gravity,” said CAL Project Scientist Robert Thompson of JPL.

“The experiments we’ll do with the Cold Atom Lab will give us insight into gravity and dark energy—some of the most pervasive forces in the universe,” Thompson said.

When atoms are cooled to extreme temperatures, as they will be inside of CAL, they can form a distinct state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate.

In this state, familiar rules of physics recede and quantum physics begins to take over.

Matter can be observed behaving less like particles and more like waves.

NASA has never before created or observed Bose-Einstein condensates in space. On Earth, the pull of gravity causes atoms to continually settle towards the ground, meaning they are typically only observable for fractions of a second.

But on the International Space Station, ultra-cold atoms can hold their wave-like forms longer while in freefall. That offers scientists a longer window to understand physics at its most basic level.

Thompson estimated that CAL will allow Bose-Einstein condensates to be observable for up to five to 10 seconds and future development of the technologies used on CAL could allow them to last for hundreds of seconds.

Five scientific teams plan to conduct experiments using the Cold Atom Lab.

The results of these experiments could potentially lead to a number of improved technologies, including sensors, quantum computers and atomic clocks used in spacecraft navigation, NASA said.

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In many instances, however, these failures may be caused by the impact of electrically charged particles generated by cosmic rays that originate outside the solar system, a study says.

“This is a really big problem, but it is mostly invisible to the public,” said Bharat Bhuva, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, US.

When cosmic rays travelling at fractions of the speed of light strike the Earth’s atmosphere they create cascades of secondary particles, including energetic neutrons, muons, pions and alpha particles. Millions of these particles strike your body each second.

Despite their numbers, this subatomic torrent is imperceptible and has no known harmful effects on living organisms.

However, a fraction of these particles carry enough energy to interfere with the operation of microelectronic circuitry.

When they interact with integrated circuits, they may alter individual bits of data stored in memory. This is called a single-event upset or SEU.

Since it is difficult to know when and where these particles will strike and they do not do any physical damage, the malfunctions they cause are very difficult to characterise.

As a result, determining the prevalence of SEUs is not easy or straightforward.

”When you have a single bit flip, it could have any number of causes. It could be a software bug or a hardware flaw, for example. The only way you can determine that it is a single-event upset is by eliminating all the other possible causes,” Bhuva, an alumnus of University of Baroda in India, explained.

“Our study confirms that this is a serious and growing problem,” said Bhuva in a presentation at the recently concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.

“This did not come as a surprise. Through our research on radiation effects on electronic circuits developed for military and space applications, we have been anticipating such effects on electronic systems operating in the terrestrial environment,” he added.

The good news, Bhuva said, is that the aviation, medical equipment, IT, transportation, communications, financial and power industries are all aware of the problem and are taking steps to address it.

“It is only the consumer electronics sector that has been lagging behind in addressing this problem,” he said.

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Book and Bed Tokyo, a variation of Japan’s famous capsule hotels, offers guests a closet-sized bunk embedded in rows of bookshelves.

The walls, ceiling and most of the decor of the hotel are packed with 3,200 books in different languages.

A common room serves as a lounge for day visitors who can also come to share the experience of reading books together.

“There are many visitors staying in one big space, so we can communicate and feel relaxed,” said student Natsuki Suno, who was taking a break from her studies.

The hotel, which opened 18 months ago, has 60 cube rooms equipped with a mattress and reading lamp.

Depending on the room, overnight rates range from 3,800 yen to 4,800 yen. Daytime visitors can lounge in cushioned corners of the hotel for 500 yen an hour.

Kei Asai, chief executive of Book and Bed, said he wanted to offer something beyond the traditional capsule hotel.

“The reason why I came up with this concept was that I wanted to stay in this kind of hotel where you can fall asleep while enjoying something fun,” he said.

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The smartphone, called Alo, will be designed in a way that is appropriate for the palm of a hand, said Philippe Starck and Jerome Olivet.

Controlled by voice commands, every time the user wants to open a text message or watch a movie on the device, it will pop up in a 3D hologram.

“Alo provides a fully vocalised interface in all phone functions, reads SMS and emails, and even allows them to dictate their messages rather than typing them,” design magazine dezeen.com quoted Olivet as saying.

The translucent skin emits vibrations by producing heat depending on its activity and its skin repairs automatically as soon as it is damaged.

The holographic images will be projected by a so-called “eye” which will allow the reader to read the texts he detects or to identify the faces.

Moulded aluminium alloy core at the centre of the device will function as haptic interface giving feedback through heat as well as vibration.

“While it is currently only a concept, Olivet plans to develop Alo, or a version of it, into a prototype. It is attached to French electronics brand Thomson,” the report added.

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As the US gears up to mark the 400th anniversary of its roots as a nation, leading scholars from around the globe are teaming up to dispel myths and challenge long-held assumptions about how the country was settled.

Their group, New England Beginnings, is using phone apps and searchable online archives to help set the record straight about the early 1600s — and fill in some important knowledge gaps.

“All many people know is that the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, Boston was started in 1630, and then in 1776 we had a revolution,” said Rose Doherty, president of the Partnership of Historic Bostons, a group devoted to the 17th-century history of the city and the much-older Boston in Lincolnshire on the east coast of England.

Doherty’s organization is among 19 prominent groups that comprise New England Beginnings. Others include the American Antiquarian Society, the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Rhode Island’s Tomaquag Museum, Britain’s History of Independence Project and the Leiden American Pilgrim Museum in the Netherlands.

Together, they see an opening as the US prepares in 2020 to mark the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ arrival in 1620.

“There’s a lot of attention being paid right now to how you distinguish between real news and fake news. But this is something historians grapple with all the time,” said Francis Bremer, a professor emeritus of history at Pennsylvania’s Millersville University and the coordinator of New England Beginnings.

A key focus, Bremer said, is presenting a much more complete and accurate picture of how the early settlers interacted with Native Americans.

Underscoring the gulf between how natives and white Americans see history, on every Thanksgiving since 1970, members of New England tribes have gathered in downtown Plymouth for a solemn National Day of Mourning observance that recalls the disease, racism and oppression the settlers brought.

“It’s an important part of the story that’s really taken a back seat for a long time. You just can’t bury history,” said Paula Peters, a writer and activist and a member of Massachusetts’ Wampanoag tribe. “People don’t know how quickly it became repressive for the Wampanoags. Ship after ship after ship arrived, and they came with laws and deeds. You really have to put yourself in the moccasins of the people who were enduring that.”

New England Beginnings is turning to technology to remedy such misapprehensions — and highlight the crucial role the 1600s played in shaping what would become the US.

One member, the Boston-based Congregational Library and Archives, has launched a new app — “Puritan Boston Tests Democracy” — that sheds light on colonial hypocrisy. (Example: The settlers’ first legal guarantee of individual liberty adopted in 1641 also condoned slavery).

Another member, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, is preparing an online edition of Plymouth Gov. William Bradford’s history, “Of Plymouth Plantation,” with notes reflecting Native American perspectives. A third, the Massachusetts Historical Society, soon will release a searchable online version of “The Winthrop Papers,” a trove of material on early New England.

“There’s a very human record in church documents of people getting in fights, abandonment, sexual abuse,” said Peggy Bendroth, director of the Congregational Library and Archives.

“They were very complicated people full of paradoxes and subtleties,” she said. “It was just as much of a struggle for them as for us.”

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The Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat, in a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has also said that various customer surveys findings also suggest that travellers expect to stay connected via their smart devices and laptops even while flying.

The copies of the letter have also been marked to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapati Raju and Communication Minister Manoj Sinha.

Globally, many airlines are already offering Wi-Fi for passengers, but they currently have to switch off the facility when they enter the Indian airspace as such services and phone calls are not allowed on flights under the present regulations.

“In Flight Connectivity (IFC) promises to substantially improve safety of airlines as it enables flight tracking in respect of aircraft in near real time reporting latitude, longitude, altitude, true heading and ground speed; streaming of flight data recorder off the aircraft in real time; and facilitating real time intervention for safety and security based on flight data monitoring,” the Assocham said in the letter.

A large number of countries and airlines have already operationalised the in-flight connectivity, the Assocham said in the letter adding, even Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal have permitted IFC in planes over-flying their territory while India is yet to take any decision.

“As a result, each time an aircraft equipped with IFC enters Indian air space, it is forced to switch off the service to the passengers till it passes the Indian skies, causing hardship to the passengers,” Rawat said.

Significantly, Raju had early this month told Parliament that “the department of telecommunications has already moved a proposal for providing in-flight connectivity for voice, data and video services for consideration of the committee of Secretaries.”

However, Raju also said providing on board Wi-Fi services in Indian airspace involves amendment of provisions of Indian Telegraph Act, 1885 as well as Indian Telegraphy Rules made thereunder.

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The goat will be raised in a base for animal husbandry research conducted by experts from agricultural universities and academies in Inner Mongolia and southwest China’s Yunnan Province, the Bayannur city government said.

The Cashmere fibre from the goat is less than 13.8 micrometers thick, much finer than the average of 15.8 micrometers grown by the famous Erlang Mountain goats in Inner Mongolia, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

Cashmere wool is obtained from Cashmere goats and other types of goat.

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It has announced cash rewards for best innovative ideas on various aspects, including new design of wagons for efficient loading and transportation of new commodities.

A campaign has been launched by the railways seeking innovative ideas from all citizens/sections of the country to improve working of the public transporter, said a senior Railway Ministry official.

Almost every citizen of the country has personal experience with the railways, thus it is hoped that they will participate in this campaign with full zeal and zest.

In order to encourage people’s participation in the contest, the railways has offered total six prizes worth Rs 12 lakh. The railways has categorised five challenges that are aimed at promoting innovation in the country by focusing on specific problems being faced by the public transporter.

Railways Minister Suresh Prabhu had announced in his budget that a campaign would be launched in this regard.

The official said that today’s generation is very innovative and technology savvy and the coming time will be completely digital. Thus, the railways can benefit a lot if innovative ideas are sought from all citizens and the chosen ones are implemented.

The campaign will be a kind of brainstorming for all.

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