You’ve probably heard about the ambitious, almost impossible-sounding project to fly a solar-powered plane around the world without refueling . But now, about a year before the voyage is scheduled to begin, you get your first look at the plane itself. It’s unlike any plane you’ve seen before. Read more…
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This Plane Will Circle the World Using Only the Power of the Sun
DeviceGuru (1136715) writes “Intel and CircuitCo have revealed a smaller, faster, 2nd-gen MinnowBoard open SBC based on an Atom E3800 SoC and supported by both Android 4.4 and various standard Linux OSes. The MinnowBoard Max, which will ship in Q3 starting at $99, blows past the original MinnowBoard (Slashdot video) on price, performance, and energy consumption. The 3.9 x 2.9-inch Max’s $99 starting price includes a 64-bit 1.46GHz Intel Atom E3815 (Bay Trail-T) CPU, 1GB RAM and 8GB SPI flash, and coastline ports for MicroSD, Micro-HDMI, GbE, dual USB, and SATA. Unlike the original MinnowBoard, the Max provides two expansion connectors: a low-speed header, with signals similar to the Arduino’s Shield connector; and a high-speed connector, which can support mSATA and mini-PCIe sockets on expansion modules, among other interfaces. Although the Max’s design supports CPUs up to Intel’s quad-core 1.91GHz (10W TDP) E3845, only two choices shown initially at MinnowBoard.org, with the higher-end $129 model stepping up to a 1.33GHz dual-core E3825 plus 2GB RAM..” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Intel Upgrades MinnowBoard: Baytrail CPU, Nearly Halves Price To $99
First time accepted submitter Trep (366) writes “I thought Slashdot readers might be interested in seeing how my friend is slowly building a 3D printed toolbox. He’s created a fully functional tape measure which is 3D printed as a single assembly, to follow up on his 3D printed dial calipers. This is a pretty novel design, with a lot of moving parts that come out of the printer completely assembled!” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Functional 3D-Printed Tape Measure
You’re looking at Ozobranchus jantseanus , a little leech found in East Asia. It doesn’t look much, but it has a very special skill indeed: it can survive for up to 24 hours immersed in liquid nitrogen . Read more…
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This Leech Can Survive For 24 Hours in Liquid Nitrogen
An astronomer from West Virginia University has discovered a never-before-seen river of hydrogen flowing through space —and it could explain why spiral galaxies keep up their pace of star formation. Read more…
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There’s a Massive River of Hydrogen Running Through Space
sciencehabit writes “Hidden ruins are customary in the wild jungles of South America or on the white shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Now, researchers have uncovered a long-lost culture closer to Western civilization — in New England. Using aerial surveys created by LiDAR, a laser-guided mapping technique, the team detected the barely perceptible remnants of a former ‘agropolis’ around three rural New England towns (abstract). Near Ashford, Connecticut, a vast network of roads offset by stone walls came to light underneath a canopy of oak and spruce trees. More than half of the town has become reforested since 1870, according to historical documents, exemplifying the extent of the rural flight that marked the late 1800s. Some structures were less than 2 feet high and buried in inaccessible portions of the forest, making them essentially invisible to on-the-ground cartography.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
An anonymous reader writes with this news from California: “According to the article, ‘Officials at the Federal Bureau of Prisons say an inmate escaped from a minimum security area of the federal prison in Lompoc. Prison officials say Jeffrey Kilbride, 48, was discovered missing at around 1:30 p.m. on Friday….A search is reportedly underway. Prison officials say Kilbride was serving a 78-month sentence for conspiracy and fraud. He was due to be released on December 11, 2015.'” Here’s why Killbride was in prison. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Killbride Flees Prison
We’re all outraged by the NSA’s invasions of privacy, sure—but we don’t perhaps understand exactly how it managed it. This video explains the maths behind the agency’s surveillance. Read more…
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The Math Behind the NSA’s Email Hacks
The island of California. A huge triangle of land called Florida. A great ocean that cut down from the Arctic into the Midwest. As the New World came into focus beginning in the 17th century, explorers and cartographers struggled to measure a massive expanse of land that would take centuries to accurately map. Read more…
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12 Maps of America From Before We Knew What It Looked Like
Jah-Wren Ryel writes “Looks like the copyright cartel have raided the public domain yet again — the US DoD has signed an exclusive contract with T3 Media to digitize their media archive in exchange for T3 having complete licensing control for 10 years. Considering that all output from the US government is, by law, ineligible for copyright, this deal seems borderline illegal at best. To make matters worse, it appears that there is no provision to make the digitized content freely accessible after the 10 years are up — which means we risk having all that content disappear into T3.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years