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The UK Royal Society is a fellowship of the world's most brilliant scientists. Founded in 1660, its members have included Sir Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Distinguished thinkers Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee are current members of the society. It is arguably the most prestigious scientific community in the world. And so it is of note how strident it is about the importance of open data for the advancement of science.

Google is talking about a new world of search at the I/O developer conference. The biggest change is called Google Now. It's a new generation of semantic-style search. Google Now figures out where you commute to work and how. It gives you a faster route if there is a lot of traffic. When you're at a public transit stop, Google Now tells you when the next one arrives This is a developing story. Refresh for updates.

" Researchers from A*STAR's Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed the first compact high performance silicon-based cavity-backed slot (CBS) antenna that operates at 135 GHz. The antenna demonstrated 30 times stronger signal transmission over on-chip antennas at 135 GHz. At just 1.6mm x 1.2mm, approximately the size of a sesame seed, it is the smallest silicon-based CBS antenna reported to date for ready integration with active circuits. IME's innovation will help realize a wireless communication system with very small form factor and almost two-thirds cheaper than a conventional CBS antenna. The antenna, in combination with other millimetre-wave building blocks, can support wireless speed of 20 Gbps - more than 200 times faster than present day Wi-Fi, to allow ultra fast point-to-point access to rich media content, relevant to online learning and entertainment."

"La R&D se renforce de plus en plus dans les grandes entreprises continentales. La politique européenne et la corrélation avec des partenaires sont les principaux facteurs clés de réussite"

This paper analyses the role of "disruptive" innovative technologies in higher education. In this country and elsewhere, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have invested significant sums in learning technologies, with Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) being more or less universal, but these technologies have not been universally adopted and used by students and staff. Instead, other technologies not owned or controlled by HEIs are widely used to support learning and teaching. According to Christensen's theory of Disruptive Innovation, these disruptive technologies are not designed explicitly to support learning and teaching in higher education, but have educational potential. This study uses Activity Theory and Expansive Learning to analyse data regarding the impact of disruptive technologies. The data were obtained through a questionnaire survey about awareness and use of technologies, and through observation and interviews, exploring participants' actual practice. The survey answers tended to endorse Disruptive Innovation theory, with participants establishing meanings for technologies through their use of them, rather than in keeping with a designer's intentions. Observation revealed that learners use a narrow range of technologies to support learning, but with a tendency to use resources other than those supplied by their HEIs. Interviews showed that participants use simple and convenient technologies to support their learning and teaching. This study identifies a contradiction between learning technologies made available by HEIs, and technologies used in practice. There is no evidence to suggest that a wide range of technologies is being used to support learning and teaching. Instead, a small range of technologies is being used for a wide range of tasks. Students and lecturers are not dependent on their HEIs to support learning and teaching. Instead, they self-select technologies, with use weighted towards established brands. The use of technologies

he dramatic advancements in technology over the last 5 years have created an environment that could support learning that surpasses anything we would have seen, experienced or imagined before. While new technologies offer considerable opportunities for improved learning, their use however has remained as a plug-on to traditional teaching methods. In this article, we discuss the impact of reinvigorating two courses where the use of Mobile Web 2.0 (MW2.0) tools was embedded within the learning process with an aim of enabling learner-generated content and context. Students and staff in this collaborative project, from two different courses, were equipped with iPhone 4s and iPad 2s for the duration of the course (n= 36, 16-week semester). A participatory action research method was used to evaluate the project and to scaffold the staff into learning and teaching in the twenty-first century. The pedagogical approach underpinning this project and the design for use of MW2.0 tools are discussed. Examples of artefacts created by the students in the project are outlined and provide an overview of the different contexts students interacted in.

"Singapore is ranked as one of the most innovation-friendly countries in the world. But underneath the success lurks an identity crisis: Singapore has never had a blockbuster invention or technology it can call its own. That's a stain on what's otherwise a Cinderella story of how a small island-less than half the size of London-transformed itself from a colonial backwater into the one of the world's most affluent, most fully wired cities in a single generation. That rise is attributed to luck and smart planning by a government that has plowed billions into infrastructure, R&D subsidies, and tax breaks to lure multinational corporations."

L'impact scientifique des journaux scientifiques libres d'accès s'approche de plus en plus des traditionnelles revues à abonnement. Notamment en fonction du pays et du domaine d'étude.

Technology and the many advances it creates are here to stay. As a teacher you will not be able to get away from teaching with and about technology. In addition, your students need you to do this because they will not be able to avoid the many technological advances surrounding them. The use of new kinds of technology will improve your teaching methods. It will serve to simplify the lesson planning process because you will have access to many new resources. Below are five ways you can include technological advances in your classroom:

Get an under the hood look at the next frontier in Search, from the team at Google behind the technology. The Knowledge Graph is a huge collection of the people, places and things in the world and how they're connected to one another. With this technology, Google can get you the best possible answers and help jump start your discovery.

BM Research - Africa will have its first location in Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration between the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) through the Kenya ICT Board. It will conduct basic and applied research focused on solving problems relevant to Africa and contribute to the building of a science and technology base for the continent.   "IBM's commitment to undertake the proposed research agenda will contribute greatly to our national priorities as part of Kenya's Vision 2030," said His Excellency Honorable Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya. "We look forward to delivering world-class research and innovation as part of IBM's Smarter Planet initiative and playing an important role as an IT leader on the African continent." 

Intel announced plans to partner with two leading universities in London to launch the Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Sustainable Connected Cities. Announced at No. 10 Downing St., the Institute will explore how technology can help support and sustain social and economic development in cities around the world. This will include research into how technology can help solve problems like drought, long commute times and wasteful uses of energy.

Un nouveau système de logistique de transport de marchandises, développé à Québec par Benoît Montreuil, chercheur de l'Université Laval, sera expérimenté en Europe par le géant des produits d'hygiène Procter&Gamble. Internet physique est un système de transport et d'approvisionnement qui se veut plus efficace que celui que l'on connaît actuellement. L'idée est d'optimiser le transport de marchandises pour cesser d'avoir sur nos routes des camions à moitié vides (voire totalement vides), d'éviter la multiplication des trajets entre le point de production d'un produit et son lieu de vente, et de faire disparaître le fonctionnement en vase clos de la grande distribution pour miser sur un système de partage du réseau.

Analyse des conversions sur Twitter liées à la grève étudiante. Plus de 700 000 twits ont été analysés.

Traditional models of research are evolving in an increasingly collaborative world. Crowdsourcing, which taps into the skills of the crowd, is becoming popular as a means of solving problems and creating innovations. Could having access to the collective mind revolutionize the practice of science?

A store of information dubbed the "Knowledge Graph" now adds useful context and detail to the list of links that Google serves up. Searching for certain people, places, or things produces a box of facts alongside the regular results. The Knowledge Graph is already starting to appear in a few other Google products, and could be used to add intelligence to all of the company's software. "Search was mostly based on matching words and phrases, and not what they actually mean," says Shashidar Thakur, the tech lead for the Knowledge Graph in Google's search team. Thakur says the project was invented to change that. The Knowledge Graph can be thought of as a vast database that allows Google's software to connect facts on people, places, and things to one another. Google got the Knowledge Graph project started when it bought a startup called Metaweb in 2010; at that time, the resource contained only 12 million entries. Today it has more than 500 million entries, with more than 3.5 billion links between them.

usband-wife team Drs. Jerome Groopman and Pamela Hartzband evaluate today's level of access to medical information online. "While previous technologies have been fully under doctors' control, the Internet is equally in the hands of patients," they write. "Such access is redefining the roles of physician and patient." When it comes to patients researching health advice on the web, Hartzband and Groopman have been exposed to consequences both positive and negative. They applaud that physicians, like patients, can now access the wealth of medical information on the Internet. "Journal articles can be obtained within seconds, and experts' evidence-based analyses are readily available…" they write. "Primary care physicians now have easy access to many guidelines whose reach was previously limited to specialists."