The Weekly Weird - 2015-06-05
- It's DARPA time! http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/drc-finals-video-post
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More kubernates/borg stuff:
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It's big, it's heavy, it's wood!: http://blog.confluent.io/2015/05/27/using-logs-to-build-a-solid-data-infrastructure-or-why-dual-writes-are-a-bad-idea/
- The most recent big company to make an affirmative move towards making encryption easy for more people is ... facebook? http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/facebook-users-can-now-add-openpgp-keys-for-improved-email-security/
- I think combining this with some physical-presence detector on the authorizing servers (usb key with the crypto?) would be neat: https://github.com/npmccallum/petera
- Pew, pew: http://www.nature.com/news/military-technology-laser-weapons-get-real-1.17613
- A good examination of the human factors surrounding the Fukushima disaster: http://www.irsn.fr/FR/expertise/rapports_expertise/Documents/surete/IRSN-PSN-SRDS-SFOHREX_2015-01_Fukushima-Human-Organizational.pdf
- Slow but impressive: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/01/amazon-picking-challenge-winner/
- Um, wow: http://www.massgeneral.org/about/pressrelease.aspx?id=1815
- Take that bystander effect! http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32993891
- Also in ldn news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e-PW3QlJQY
- Long: http://nautil.us/issue/25/water/will-et-drink-water
- If you thought the whole "finding brand new chunks of human anatomy" phase of scientific exploration was over, you would be wrong: http://sci-hub.org/downloads/e18c/louveau2015.pdf