Design trends to watch out for

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MANILA, Philippines - Autodesk is changing the way the world is designed and made. We track and drive significant design technology trends, to make sure that our customers have the best design tools and are equipped for the future. Here are some of trends that are keeping Autodesk and our customers busy and intrigued about the future of making things.

Humans and robots working together:

Today robots are being fed big data, analytics and machine learning. Robotics will evolve into collaborative robotics, with humans playing a proactive role and working alongside robots. For example, Bloomberg reported that Toyota is becoming more efficient by replacing some robots with craftspeople: Humans are taking the place of machines in plants across Japan so workers can develop new skills and figure out ways to improve production lines and the car-building process. At Autodesk, we feel optimistic about a future where humans and robots collaborate and learn from each other. You can find out more from Autodesk Tech Futurist Jordan Brandt in his PechaKucha talk Teaching our Machines to Design.

Generative design:

This is one of the most exciting times to be a designer. What if a computer-aided design (CAD) system could automatically generate tens, hundreds, or even thousands of design options that all meet your specific design criteria? Its no longer what if: its Autodesks Project Dreamcatcher, the next generation of computational design. Dreamcatcher is a generative design system that lets designers input design objectives, including functional requirements, material type, manufacturability, performance criteria, and cost parameters. The power of the cloud then takes over. This doesnt replace the designerfar from it. It does the grunt work, processing and evaluating design tradeoffs at a speed impossible for humans. D

Dreamcatcher can free up the designer to innovate and createto move away from repetitive design tasks and calculations and instead focus on creative design. This is cloud computing in its purest form; true computing rather than simple file storage. The required computing power was previously available only to institutional and government agencies with supercomputers its now on the verge of being available to everyone.

Living buildings and bespoke materials:

New materials and building typologies are being made possible through computer-aided design. In the future, most buildings and products will be made of bespoke materials, requiring todays global standards like ISO to evolve. For example, David Benjamin, founding principal of the design and research studio The Living, is collaborating with plant biologists at the University of Cambridge in England to grow new composite materials from bacteria. The Living is also harnessing live mussels to detect water quality in the East River and relay environmental conditions to the public. In 2014, The Living delivered Hy-Fi, Benjamins winning installation for the Museum of Modern Arts (MoMAs) Young Architects Program competition, to build a project in its PS1 courtyard in Queens, N.Y. The temporary installation involved a 40-foot-tall tower with 10,000 bricks made entirely of compostable materialscorn stalks and mushroomsdeveloped in collaboration with innovative materials company Ecovative.

Biotech is the next info tech:

Biotech is the use of living systems and organisms to develop products. Its one of the fastest-growing sectors of the global economy. The pharma industry is suffering because product development takes longer and has rising costs. Synthetic biology based on digital design tools could help by making biotechnology more accessible to more innovators. There are implications for engineering new medications, materials and food faster. There is an emerging community of young, entrepreneurial biological designers who are making incredible breakthroughs, including: RevBios color-changing flowers Petunia Circadia, Muufris animal-free milk derived from cow proteins, and Hyasynth exploring the use of cannabinoids to treat multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Alzheimers and other diseases.

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Faulconers San Diego Convention Center Decision Expected Next Week

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Aired 1/9/15 on KPBS News.

For years, the city of San Diego has worked to expand its Convention Center, but a court decision in August brought the project to a halt and little has been mentioned about it since.

Inside the annual San Diego International Auto Show this month, three locals were asked a question: What do you think about using public dollars to expand the Convention Center?

That, I dont really have much of an opinion on," Steven Schott said.

Public dollars for an expansion? I havent even thought of that one. Im not sure about that question," Johnny Moon said.

Well, I dont know. It all comes down to distributing funds and looking at the whole big picture. So I dont know," Maggie Pettit said.

Pettits a Coronado resident, but Schott and Moon are San Diego taxpayers and theyll likely be asked to OK using public funds for an expansion.

Their uncertainty is understandable. Originally the city didnt think it needed approval from voters to cover the $520 million project. But last summer a judge ruled it did. With no back-up payment plan, Mayor Kevin Faulconer faces a tough decision on how to move forward.

And attorney Cory Briggs is part of the problem. He represents groups opposed to various elements of the expansion. So far, hes successfully argued in court against the funding scheme. He has another lawsuit pending over the location. The current design would add to the existing Convention Center on the San Diego Bay.

If the city wants an expansion, three conditions must be met, said Briggs in an interview from his law offices.

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Can any security service stop terror attacks?

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It quickly emerged after Wednesday's Charlie Hebdo shootings that the prime suspects, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, had a long history of involvement in extremist circles.

The men are thought to have carried out the killings of 12 people in Paris. Both are thought to have died after a hostage siege in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele in northern France.

Cherif was arrested in 2005 while preparing to travel to Iraq to fight for an Islamist cell. He served 18 months of a three-year sentence.

Reuters has quoted US and European sources as saying that Said trained with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen in 2011.

US government sources said both were listed in two American security databases including a "no fly" list.

Both men are also understood to have been on a a British watch and no-fly list, preventing them from entering the UK or passing through a British airport.

France's intelligence agencies are now likely to face the same questions asked of their UK counterparts after it emerged that the men who murdered Fusilier Lee Riby in Woolwich in 2013, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, had featured in seven intelligence investigations.

In Australia the government has ordered an inquiry into Man Haron Monis, who died following a hostage siege in a Sydney cafe last month, after it emerged he had dropped off security watch lists.

Andrew Parker, the director general of MI5, said in a speech yesterday that the UK authorities have stopped three deadly terror plots in recent months, with terror-related arrests up 35 per cent compared with four years ago.

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This Aim-Assisted Rifle Is Now Accurate Up to a Mile

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Oh, what a difference two years make. The Precision-Guided Firearm (aka the Linux Gun) from TrackingPoint that blew many a mind at 2013's CES is back and better than ever. And by "better" I mean able to hit a target traveling at 30 mph, 1,800 yards out.

The Linux Gun, as you may remember, utilizes a laser rangefinder and on-board computer to drastically increase its user's first shot accuracy by accounting for a number of environmental variables and showing where the round will land, not where the user is currently aiming. As such, it has no problem perforating smart phones from a kilometer away. "I would say we're at about 70 percent first-shot success probability at 1,000 yards with inexperienced shooters," Oren Schauble, a TrackingPoint marketing official told Military.com at the rifle's debut demonstration.

2013's model was rated out to 1,200 yards (about two-thirds of a mile). This year's Mile Maker model boosts that range out to 1800 yards (just over a mile) thanks to the integration of more advanced hardware and more robust trajectory calculation software. Plus, the 2015 models will also off the ability to export a live feed of what one sees in the scope to a tethered mobile device so people on Youtube and Facebook can watch riflemen snatch life in real time.

What's more, the price of these firearms has fallen precipitously. The company's introductory model cost $17,000 at launch but will set tech-obsessed hunters and wannabe clock tower snipers back $8,000. Eight grand is still quite expensive for a rifleeven one that does the aiming for youbut it's still effectively now half-off.

This is an interesting, and somewhat troubling, development in personal firearm technology. I mean, the record for longest successful sniper shot in military history is 1.54 miles (set in Afghanistan, 2009). This rifle lets any schmuck off the street hit a target three quarters of that distance without really tryingand more than likely, on the first try. And combined with the ability to upload video of your shot directly to the internet, this system could prove an extremely tempting new publishing platform for a new generation of thrill killers. [ExtremeTech - Defensetech]

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Alternative Medicine/Paris 01/08/15 (part 11 of 14, made with Spreaker) – Video

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