Most Michelin-starred restaurants are on the pricey side, although you do hear of the occasional food truck that earns a star. But this food cart in Singapore, Hong Kong Soya Sauce Chicken Rice, run by 52-year-old master chef Chan Hon Meng, serves the “cheapest Michelin-starred meal in the world,” at just $1.50. Now, if I can just afford a ticket to Singapore.
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Cheapest Michelin-star meal in the world costs a mere $1.50
As industrial designers, most of us are keenly aware of how plastic, metal, wood and glass are manipulated into objects. But stone is a lesser-used and more mysterious material; how exactly does a quarry turn what’s in the earth into a slab, and turn that slab into rectangular blocks? In this video shot at a stone quarry in Malta, we see that it requires first surfacing the top of the slab and then performing a series of “rip cuts” (we don’t get to see these two steps), then setting up a dolly track perpendicular to the initial cuts, something like the track of a tracksaw. Then a ride-able machine goes along the track making two cuts at once, while a trailing splitter separates the blocks and helps a second worker set them vertically: More Examples of How to Work Stone: How to Hand Drill Holes in Stone and Concrete How to Quickly Carve Stone Using Cheap Tools Ben Uyeda’s DIY Stone Bench CNC Wire Machines Can Cut Stone Into Crazy Shapes
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How a Stone Quarry Cuts Perfectly Rectangular Blocks Using a Ride-able Machine
Enlarge / I’m in ur tower, nommin ur Internets (credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images) Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) , the effort to bring high-speed Internet to the masses down under, has encountered many speed bumps. The plan to bring fiber-optic broadband Internet to every Australian has been pared back in its ambitions, with a shift to a fiber backbone between “nodes” and distribution over copper wire or cable networks to the majority of users. That cost-saving move, which puts ISPs and cable providers in charge of managing customers’ access, has caused some consternation . But now the operators of the NBN have discovered another problem that affects the cost of delivering the backbone. And it’s for the birds. The BBC reports that NBN technicians have discovered cockatoos have been damaging the ends of spare fiber cables left in place on communications towers for future network expansion by chomping on them, wearing through the steel braiding that protects the fiber. Active cables haven’t been affected, so there has been no loss of service (as of yet) due to cockatoo attacks; the ends of cables carrying active traffic are protected by a plastic cages. But cables left with their ends exposed have become a favorite of the birds, who use them to help wear down their ever-growing beaks. And the cables cost AUS$10,000 (about US$7,700) to replace. NBN’s Chedryian Bresland told the BBC, “That’s Australia for you. If the spiders and snakes don’t get you, the cockies will.” Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Australia’s national broadband network under relentless attack—by cockatoos
Thieves broken into a UPS truck parked outside a San Francisco Apple Store and made off with 300 iPhone Xs valued at around $370, 000, CBS SF Bay Area reports. The suspects were “husky, ” and “wearing hooded sweatshirts, ” according to SFPD Captain Rick Yarid, adding “it appears [they] knew what they were looking for.” The UPS driver reportedly parked the vehicle outside a mall and went to do a delivery at a Macy’s when the thieves snatched the devices, according to a witness. “Given the dollar value in the incident itself it appears it was planned, ” said Yarid. UPS and Apple are assisting police, and the IMEI serial number of each phone has been recorded. That created one of the “fattest” police reports he’d ever seen, said SFPD Sgt. Paul Weggenmann. The phones will likely be blacklisted on all US cellular networks, but it’s a lot easier for thieves to change an EMEI before an iPhone is set up by a customer. Obviously, if you happen to see a particularly good deal on an iPhone X on the SF Craiglist, assume it’s stolen. So far, the iPhone X is Apple’s hottest-selling smartphone ever, with more than double the number ordered in the first few days than the previous champ, the iPhone 6S . Within minutes, the iPhone X sold out online, pushing orders well back from the original November 3rd ship date. This despite reports that the device, which is Apple’s first without a home button and with “Face ID” facial recognition security, is in short supply. As a result, folks have been queuing at Apple Stores as much as ever, hoping to get one in hand before they disappear. Luckily, folks who pre-ordered their iPhone Xs from the Stonestown Apple Store will still receive them on time, CNET reports. Via: MacRumors Source: CBS SF Bay Area
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Thieves pilfer $370,000 worth of iPhone Xs in San Francisco
A report from FierceCable says that a million more U.S. pay TV subscribers cut the TV cord last quarter. “Only five of the seven biggest pay TV providers have released their third quarter subscriber data, but collectively these companies saw a net loss of 632, 000 pay TV subscribers during the period (385, 000 for AT&T and DirecTV, 125, 000 for Comcast, 104, 000 for Charter, 18.000 for Verizon FiOS TV), ” reports DSLReports. “Dish has yet to report its own cord cutting tallies, but the company is again expected to be among the hardest hit due to a high level of retransmission fee feuds and a lack of broadband bundles.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Another Million Subscribers Cut the Pay TV Cord Last Quarter