#software for microscope

[albonium]

i still can't do anything at work yay

[industrynewsupdates]

Microscope Software Market: A Comprehensive Overview of Growth and Innovation

The global microscope software market size is expected to reach USD 1.49 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 8.03% from 2023 to 2030, according to a new report by Grand View Research, Inc. The growth of the market is attributed to the factors such as increasing demand for R&D in the life sciences and material science industry, rising adoption of digital pathology, and growing awareness about the benefits of a microscope. Technological advancements have also played an important role in driving market growth, as they have led to the development of advanced software solutions that are capable of providing detailed imaging and analysis of biological and other specimens.

Furthermore, advancements in microscopy have been done at a rapid pace and it has become an important tool in cell biology labs using 3D and fluorescent microscopy. Some of the advancements include the ability to capture high-resolution images and videos of microscopic samples, as well as proper image processing and analysis capabilities. Furthermore, the ability to automate and streamline many aspects of microscopy, allows researchers to perform experiments more efficiently and accurately. For instance, automated software can help to quickly identify specific structures or cells within an image, reducing the time and effort required for manual analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic had a positive impact on the market. There was a significant increase in demand for microscopes for research purposes related to the virus and other diseases. Researchers and scientists needed to quickly analyze and interpret large amounts of data from samples, which required advanced microscope software solutions. Owing to this, several companies operating in this market experienced an increase in demand for their products and services.

Gather more insights about the market drivers, restrains and growth of the Microscope Software Market

Microscope Software Market Highlights

• On the basis of type, integrated software captured the highest market share of 76.64% in 2022 due to its ability to integrate multiple imaging techniques to provide a more comprehensive analysis of samples at a time

• On the basis of application, life science captured the highest market share of 29.14% in 2022. This can be attributed to the high demand for microscope software in the life science industry for various purposes

• On the basis of type of microscopes, the electron microscope segment dominated the overall market in terms of revenue share of 41.08% in 2022. Due to its applications in various fields such as life sciences, semiconductors, and materials science and comparatively high product cost

• Asia Pacific dominated with 36.26% of market share in 2022, due to various factors such as high investments in R&D and product innovation by manufacturers

• Some of the major players include Carl Zeiss AG, Leica Microsystems, Nikon Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., Oxford Instruments plc, Olympus Corporation, and others.

Microscope Software Market Segmentation

Grand View Research has segmented the global microscope software market based on type of microscope, type of software, application, and region:

Microscope Software Type of Microscope Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2018 - 2030)

• Optical Microscopes

• Electron Microscopes

• Scanning Probes Microscopes

• Other Microscopes

Microscope Software Type of Software Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2018 - 2030)

• Integrated Software

• Standalone Software

Microscope Software Application Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2018 - 2030)

• Material Science

• Nanotechnology

• Life Science

• Semiconductors

• Others

Microscope Software Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Million, 2018 - 2030)

• North America

o U.S.

o Canada

• Europe

o UK

o Germany

o France

o Italy

o Spain

o Sweden

o Norway

o Denmark

• Asia Pacific

o Japan

o China

o India

o Australia

o Thailand

o South Korea

• Latin America

o Brazil

o Mexico

o Argentina

• MEA

o South Africa

o Saudi Arabia

o UAE

o Kuwait

Order a free sample PDF of the Microscope Software Market Intelligence Study, published by Grand View Research.

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Microscope Software Market Global Forecast 2023

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(EDIT: i have been informed that the dice popper is from Trouble, not Sorry. lmao)

[political-us]

The Dow is on track for its worst April since 1932—the bleakest year of the Great Depression. Nearly a century later, markets are once again facing economic turbulence on a historic scale.

Trump's approval rating drops to 42%, the lowest it's been since he became president, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.

A cutting-edge microscope at Harvard Medical School could pave the way for major breakthroughs in cancer detection and aging research—but its progress is now at risk. The scientist who created the software to analyze its images, 30-year-old Russian-born Kseniia Petrova, has been held in immigration detention for two months. Arrested in February at a Boston airport, Petrova is now detained in Louisiana, facing possible deportation to Russia, where she says she fears imprisonment for protesting the war in Ukraine. Her case highlights the tension between immigration policy and the U.S.'s reliance on global scientific talent.

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to be present for the birth of his first child, which took place Monday at a hospital in New York. Instead, Khalil had to experience the moment over the phone from Jena, Louisiana—more than 1,000 miles away from his wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, who delivered their baby boy. The case has sparked criticism over DHS's handling of family and humanitarian considerations.

The White House is considering policies to encourage more Americans to marry and have children, including a potential $5,000 “baby bonus,” according to The New York Times. The proposals align with a broader conservative push to address falling birth rates and promote traditional family values. Other ideas on the table include reserving 30% of Fulbright scholarships for applicants who are married or have children, and funding educational programs that teach women about fertility and ovulation.

A group of Venezuelan migrants facing removal under a broad wartime authority challenged the Trump administration’s deportation process at the Supreme Court, arguing the notices they received don’t meet legal standards. The ACLU, representing the migrants, said the English-only notices—often given less than 24 hours before deportation—violate a recent Supreme Court ruling requiring enough time for individuals to seek habeas review.

The Education Department announced it will start collecting student loan payments from over 5 million borrowers who are in default. This means it will begin taking money from federal wages, Social Security checks, and tax refunds. This move comes as pandemic-era protections for student loan borrowers continue to wind down.

Tensions are rising within the Arizona Democratic Party as the state party chair is at odds with the governor and U.S. senators. In response, officials are considering shifting 2026 campaign funds to local county Democrats.

​The U.S. Department of Commerce has announced substantial tariffs on solar panel imports from four Southeast Asian countries—Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia—following a year-long investigation into alleged trade violations by Chinese-owned manufacturers operating in these nations. The tariffs, which vary by country and company, are as follows:​

Cambodia: Facing the steepest duties, with tariffs reaching up to 3,521%, due to non-cooperation with the investigation.

Vietnam: Companies may face duties up to 395.9%.​

Thailand: Tariffs could be as high as 375.2%.​

Malaysia: Duties are set at 34.4%.​

Senator Adam Schiff is urging the National Archives to investigate the Trump administration's use of Signal and similar messaging apps. He emphasized the need for NARA to reach out to every federal agency involved to make sure all relevant records are preserved. This comes amid growing concerns over transparency and potential violations of federal recordkeeping laws.

[studiousandrogynousfox-blog]

(almost) fully independent at clicky and zoomy stuff

this morning i received training to use an electron microscope independently! i'm now allowed to open and close a vacuum chamber on my own and play the video game of aligning everything to make the focus better! it's honestly mostly just clicking buttons in a software and carefully sliding a door open and close lol

in the afternoon after installing all the equipment i'll need in the vacuum chamber i was allowed to operate the microscope on my own and managed to measure two samples. the other seven i'll hopefully manage in the next two days :)

[tiredfoxtf]

Having vague thoughts about Docm77 in the android au. He's human, but he has had a lot of body parts replaced with cybernetics for various reasons, most notably his right arm after a factory accident.

He builds androids for a living, doing a bit of everything but mostly being in charge of programming the conscienceness and sensory processing softwares. He is an expert at giving androids the ability to "feel".

He sees androids as distinctly different from humans, but in an almost revering way. Every robot is a work of art and must be respected as such.

Doc's company was the one to make Joel. If you take his motherboard under a microscope, you can see the brand logo in one of the corners

Also have been staring at this ask respectfully for weeks. I like the idea, unfortunately I know next to nothing about the goat man, but this is sick (positive).

[sirfrogsworth]

The Death of Physical Media

I keep seeing this concern around all of my home theater circles. Ever since Best Buy decided to abandon physical media there has been a call to arms to save it.

Chris Stuckman did a great video on his love of physical media.

I admire and share his passion.

That said, I think there is nothing to stop physical media from being scaled back. At best, it will end up like vinyl and only a few select titles will still be pressed.

Which is why I think saving physical media is the wrong fight.

There is a much larger fight that encompasses more than just blu-ray discs...

(I'm going to use really big letters for dramatic effect so don't get startled.)

DATA OWNERSHIP!

(Imagine a long trailing echo when reading that in your mind.)

(Sorry, I probably should have included those instructions in the previous parenthetical. So go back and read "data ownership" again with the proper gusto.)

(Did you do it?)

(Was it cool?)

(Cool.)

A blu-ray is just data.

The disc does not positively affect the visuals or the sounds. It's just 1s and 0s coded into microscopic pits. You can put that data on a hard drive. You can put it on an SD Card. You can put it on a thumb drive and wear it on a necklace.

You can even use WinRAR to break it up into little 1.44 megabyte chunks and save it to floppy disks.

Another 40 more cases of floppies and you've got Avatar preserved for life!

The medium is not important.

The *data* is important.

And as everything turns into a subscription we are losing out on ways to own data. Beyond that, people aren't yet seeing the value of owning data. If renting a digital download is cheaper, they are almost always going to choose that option.

So the fight is two-fold.

We need to fight for the right to parrrrrty own data.

We need to convince the populace of the value of owning data.

This can apply to software, movies, video games. Hell, I don't even own my damn doorbell videos. There is no way to download all of the footage. I'd have to do each video one at a time. And if I don't keep my subscription, I will no longer have access to that data as it will soon be deleted.

We would need a platform similar to Steam—though it isn't the perfect data ownership solution. Many titles require internet connectivity and DRM verification. What happens to our media when a company goes out of business and the infrastructure to verify the DRM over the internet is gone?

So that would need to be addressed. Perhaps a new form of DRM linked to our digital identity that can be verified locally.

I mean, I'd love to get rid of DRM, but that is probably not realistic.

I think the best avenue is probably a congressional law.

"The Own Your Own Data Act"

TOYODA?

We can workshop the name later.

In conclusion, we don't need to save blu-rays. We need the option to buy data and actually own it in perpetuity.

Meaning if a streaming service deletes a movie or a movie studio goes belly up, our data doesn't disintegrate along with it. We cannot let our favorite shows go extinct. We need to be part of preserving that history. Not to mention discs have a shelf life. But data can be transferred to new mediums indefinitely.

My house is just going to be wall to wall floppy disks.

[sitting-on-me-bum]

backlit critters

Backlit Critters Small inconspicuous, mostly grey insects, spiders and crabs show many colours and interesting structures under high magnification and polarized backlight. All photos were taken with the self-made setup. They are high resolution photos taken with microscope objectives, stacked and stitched together. The images were processed with software for raw processing, stacking and retouching. Water flea, pol. Copepod bicolor, pol. Brine shrimp, oblique Jumping spider, backl. Varroa mite, oblique Box sucker, pol. Red mite, pol. Head louse, oblique Ant, backl. Hard-bodied tick, oblique

Photographer: Adalbert Mojrzisch

International Photography Awards™

[bpod-bpod]

Image to Model

A review of software tools used in neuroscience to reconstruct microscope images of lab-grown neurons into neural system network models to better understand cell connectivities and organisation

Read the published review article here

Image from work by Cassandra Hoffmann and colleagues

Systems Neuroscience Lab, Melbourne Neuropsychiatry Centre, Department of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Communications Biology, May 2024

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[gleefulchibi]

It really is a shame that Secret of Evangelion was never translated into English. I would love to be able to actually play the game instead of having to run screenshots through translation software and hope for the best. But I guess this is the best I'll get with a PS2 game from 2006.

Kyoya Kenzaki is a fascinating character. I want to study that man under a microscope. Since you're playing the game from his perspective, you really get to see his thought processes and how he reacts to certain situations.

Even though the rough translations I have, I can tell his character development is excellent. The catalyst of said character development is Kaji's death. Once he kills his closest friend, he really starts to question whether or not he should continue blindly following Gendo's orders. To the point where he comes to loathe Gendo. (Good for you, Kyoya. Gendo is a shitbag.)

Long story short Kyoya Kenzaki is cool AF and it's a real shame more people don't know about him.

Oh yeah did I mention he has angel bits in him? Yeah Ritsuko put angel bits in him without telling him after he got severely injured during an angel attack. This guy is having hallucinations and weird shit is happening to him bc of the angel bits. And he's having an existential crisis over it bc he DOES NOT KNOW that he's essentially been experimented on without his consent. (Finding this out made me like Ritsuko less bc there are several scenes where he goes to her for answers and she just refuses to tell him anything. Girl that's fucked up.)

[mariacallous]

Congress is moving closer to putting US election technology under a stricter cybersecurity microscope.

Embedded inside this year’s Intelligence Authorization Act, which funds intelligence agencies like the CIA, is the Strengthening Election Cybersecurity to Uphold Respect for Elections through Independent Testing (SECURE IT) Act, which would require penetration testing of federally certified voting machines and ballot scanners, and create a pilot program exploring the feasibility of letting independent researchers probe all manner of election systems for flaws.

The SECURE IT Act—originally introduced by US senators Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Susan Collins, a Maine Republican—could significantly improve the security of key election technology in an era when foreign adversaries remain intent on undermining US democracy.

“This legislation will empower our researchers to think the way our adversaries do, and expose hidden vulnerabilities by attempting to penetrate our systems with the same tools and methods used by bad actors,” says Warner, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The new push for these programs highlights the fact that even as election security concerns have shifted to more visceral dangers such as death threats against county clerks, polling-place violence, and AI-fueled disinformation, lawmakers remain worried about the possibility of hackers infiltrating voting systems, which are considered critical infrastructure but are lightly regulated compared to other vital industries.

Russia’s interference in the 2016 election shined a spotlight on threats to voting machines, and despite major improvements, even modern machines can be flawed. Experts have consistently pushed for tighter federal standards and more independent security audits. The new bill attempts to address those concerns in two ways.

The first provision would codify the US Election Assistance Commission’s recent addition of penetration testing to its certification process. (The EAC recently overhauled its certification standards, which cover voting machines and ballot scanners and which many states require their vendors to meet.)

While previous testing simply verified whether machines contained particular defensive measures—such as antivirus software and data encryption—penetration testing will simulate real-world attacks meant to find and exploit the machines’ weaknesses, potentially yielding new information about serious software flaws.

“People have been calling for mandatory [penetration] testing for years for election equipment,” says Edgardo Cortés, a former Virginia elections commissioner and an adviser to the election security team at New York University’s Brennan Center for Justice.

The bill’s second provision would require the EAC to experiment with a vulnerability disclosure program for election technology—including systems that are not subject to federal testing, such as voter registration databases and election results websites.

Vulnerability disclosure programs are essentially treasure hunts for civic-minded cyber experts. Vetted participants, operating under clear rules about which of the organizer’s computer systems are fair game, attempt to hack those systems by finding flaws in how they are designed or configured. They then report any flaws they discover to the organizer, sometimes for a reward.

By allowing a diverse group of experts to hunt for bugs in a wide range of election systems, the Warner–Collins bill could dramatically expand scrutiny of the machinery of US democracy.

The pilot program would be a high-profile test of the relationship between election vendors and researchers, who have spent decades clashing over how to examine and disclose flaws in voting systems. The bill attempts to assuage vendors’ concerns by requiring the EAC to vet prospective testers and by prohibiting testers from publicly disclosing any vulnerabilities they find for 180 days. (They would also have to immediately report vulnerabilities to the EAC and the Department of Homeland Security.)

Still, one provision could spark concern. The bill would require manufacturers to patch or otherwise mitigate serious reported vulnerabilities within 180 days of confirming them. The EAC—which must review all changes to certified voting software—would have 90 days to approve fixes; any fix not approved within that timetable would be “deemed to be certified,” though the commission could review it later.

A vendor might not be able to fix a problem, get that fix approved, and get all of its customers to deploy that fix before the nondisclosure period expires.

“Updates to equipment in the field can take many weeks, and modifying equipment close to an election date is a risky operation,” says Ben Adida, the executive director of the vendor VotingWorks.

Some vendors might also chafe at the bill’s legal protections for researchers. The legislation includes a “safe harbor” clause that exempts testing activities from the prohibitions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and bars vendors from suing researchers under those laws for accidental violations of the program’s terms.

There is also a funding question. The SECURE IT Act doesn’t authorize any new money for the EAC to run these programs.

“I hope Congress accounts for the necessary funding needed to support the increased responsibilities the EAC will take on,” says EAC chair Ben Hovland. “Investments in programs like this are critical to maintaining and strengthening the security of our elections.”

Meanwhile, the bill’s prospects are unclear. Even if it passes the Senate, there is no sign of similar momentum in the House.

[justforbooks]

The Optimist by Keach Hagey

The man who brought us ChatGPT. Sam Altman’s extraordinary career – and personal life – under the microscope

On 30 November 2022, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted the following, characteristically reserving the use of capital letters for his product’s name: “today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com”. In a reply to himself immediately below, he added: “language interfaces are going to be a big deal, i think”.

If Altman was aiming for understatement, he succeeded. ChatGPT became the fastest web service to hit 1 million users, but more than that, it fired the starting gun on the AI wars currently consuming big tech. Everything is about to change beyond recognition, we keep being told, though no one can agree on whether that will be for good or ill.

This moment is just one of many skilfully captured in Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey’s biography of Altman, who, like his company, was then virtually unknown outside of the industry. He is a confounding figure throughout the book, which charts his childhood, troubled family life, his first failed startup Loopt, his time running the startup incubator Y Combinator, and the founding of OpenAI.

Altman, short, slight, Jewish and gay, appears not to fit the typical mould of the tech bro. He is known for writing long, earnest essays about the future of humankind, and his reputation was as more of an arch-networker and money-raiser than an introverted coder in a hoodie.

OpenAI, too, was supposed to be different from other tech giants: it was set up as a not-for-profit, committed by its charter to work collaboratively to create AI for humanity’s benefit, and made its code publicly available. Altman would own no shares in it.

He could commit to this, as he said in interviews, because he was already rich – his net worth is said to be around $1.5bn (£1.13bn) – as a result of his previous investments. It was also made possible because of his hyper-connectedness: as Hagey tells it, Altman met his software engineer husband Oliver Mulherin in the hot tub of PayPal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel at 3am, when Altman, 29, was already a CEO, and Mulherin was a 21-year-old student.

Thiel was a significant mentor to Altman, but not nearly so central to the story of OpenAI as another notorious Silicon Valley figure – Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX owner was an initial co-founder and major donor to the not-for-profit version of OpenAI, even supplying its office space in its early years.

That relationship has soured into mutual antipathy – Musk is both suing OpenAI and offering (somewhat insincerely) to buy it – as Altman radically altered the company’s course. First, its commitment to releasing code publicly was ditched. Then, struggling to raise funds, it launched a for-profit subsidiary. Soon, both its staff and board worried the vision of AI for humanity was being lost amid a rush to create widely used and lucrative products.

This leads to the book’s most dramatic sections, describing how OpenAI’s not-for-profit board attempted an audacious ousting of Altman as CEO, only for more than 700 of the company’s 770 engineers to threaten to resign if he was not reinstated. Within five days, Altman was back, more powerful than ever.

OpenAI has been toying with becoming a purely private company. And Altman turns out to be less of an anomaly in Silicon Valley than he once seemed. Like its other titans, he seems to be prepping for a potential doomsday scenario, with ranch land and remote properties. He is set to take stock in OpenAI after all. He even appears to share Peter Thiel’s supposed interest in the potential for transfusions of young blood to slow down ageing.

The Optimist serves to remind us that however unprecedented the consequences of AI models might be, the story of their development is a profoundly human one. Altman is the great enigma at its core, seemingly acting with the best of intentions, but also regularly accused of being a skilled and devious manipulator.

For students of the lives of big tech’s other founders, a puzzling question remains: in a world of 8 billion human beings, why do the stories of the people wreaking such huge change in our world end up sounding so eerily alike?

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

Heinrich Rohrer (6 June 1933 – 16 May 2013) and Gerd Binnig (born 20 July 1947)

Swiss and German physicists, respectively, the collaboration between Heinrich Rohrer and Gerd Binnig began as part of the Zurich research group at IBM. Working as a team, alongside other scientists such as Christoph Gerber and Edmund Weibel they developed the scanning tunneling microscope, for which the two were awarded the half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in physics (the other half went to Ernst Ruska for his much earlier invention of the first electron microscope). The scanning tunneling microscope opened up posibilities for visualization and manipulation of individual atoms for the first time. Rohrer would retire from IBM in 1988 and passed away from natural causes in 2013. Binnig would go on to invent the atomic force microscope a few years later before leaving IBM in 1994 to co-found an image analysis software company.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - IBM) (Nobel Prize, Rohrer) (Nobel Prize, Binnig) (2013 news article, Rohrer) (National Maglab, Binnig) (Wikipedia, Rohrer) (Wikipedia, Binnig)

[ultrademonkiller737]

I like your ultrakill ocs do you have any fun facts abt them? I want to study them under a microscope

I do actually! I should update them a bit ngl lol