From mid-May to July 2017, Equifax exposed the financial and personal identifying information of 143 million Americans — 44% of the country — to hackers, who made off with credit-card details, Social Security Numbers, sensitive credit history data, driver’s license numbers, birth dates, addresses, and then, in the five weeks between discovering the breach and disclosing it, the company allowed its top execs to sell millions of dollars’ worth of stock in the company , while preparing a risibly defective and ineffective website that provides no useful information to the people whom Equifax has put in grave financial and personal danger through their recklessness. (more…)
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Passive cooling panels beam air conditioners’ exhaust-heat into space
Skycool Systems is a Stanford spin-out that uses panels composed of “layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide on top of a thin layer of silver” to convert the waste-heat from air-conditioners’ heat exchangers into 8-13 micrometer radiation, which passes through the atmosphere and radiates into space. (more…)
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Passive cooling panels beam air conditioners’ exhaust-heat into space
Excellent new project book: Creative Projects with Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized Linux computer that costs about $30 (some versions are only $10). Because they are cheap, tiny, and versatile, they are an excellent basis for lots of different projects. Creative Projects with Raspberry Pi (out today!) by Kirsten Kearney and Will Freeman is loaded with build instructions, resources, and pointers to a bunch of cool projects: coffee roasters, weather stations, mobile phones, handheld gaming consoles — 35 in all. The photos are big and clear, and the introduction at the beginning will get Raspberry newbies up to speed.
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Excellent new project book: Creative Projects with Raspberry Pi
Meet Pepper, Japan’s robot priest that can now conduct funerals
Japan is already known for being at the forefront of humanoid robots that take over traditionally human jobs ( hotel concierge and elderly companions , for instance). Now they can add robot funeral priests to their list. Japan’s telecommunications company SoftBank just unveiled “Pepper,” its robot priest, dressed in Buddhist robes, that can chant Buddhist scriptures, play the drum, and livestream the ceremony for people who can’t attend the funeral in person. The demo took place at Japan’s “Life Ending Industry Expo” in Tokyo last Wednesday. According to The Guardian : The robot was on display on Wednesday at a funeral industry fair, the Life Ending Industry Expo, in Tokyo, shown off by plastic molding maker Nissei Eco. With the average cost of a funeral in Japan reaching in excess of £20,000, according to data from Japan’s Consumer Association in 2008, and human priests costing £1,700, Nissei Eco is looking to undercut the market with Pepper available for just £350 per funeral. Pepper (not a name I’d expect a Buddhist priest to have, but this is a robot we’re talking about after all) has not yet been hired for a real funeral.
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Meet Pepper, Japan’s robot priest that can now conduct funerals
Wikipedia’s mindblowing timeline of the far future
Wikipedia’s prediction of far-future events really makes me wish I could stick around to see the red supergiant star Antares go supernova in 10,000 years. “The explosion is expected to be easily visible in daylight.” I’m happy I’ll miss the 1km asteroid that’s likely to hit Earth in the next 500,000 years. Looking farther out, the moon Phobos will collide Mars in 50 million years. Anything alive 2.8 billion years from now will need good air conditions because “Earth’s surface temperature, even at the poles,” will be 300 °F. This list “Technological Projects” below is just one of the many different tables in the Wikipedia article:
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Wikipedia’s mindblowing timeline of the far future
Daddy longlegs drop their limbs to escape predators
In elementary school, I knew a boy who would impress us by pulling the legs off a daddy longlegs and popping the body in his mouth. I think he would appreciate this Deep Look video about how daddy longlegs can drop up to three of its limbs when threatened by a predator and still survive.
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Daddy longlegs drop their limbs to escape predators
Watch hard candies get made on a candy press from 1871
Producing hard candy in bulk still required a lot of skill in Victorian times, as Lofty Pursuits demonstrated by making cinnamon hearts on this hard candy press from 1871. (more…)
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Watch hard candies get made on a candy press from 1871
Watch a quarter million dominoes fall in this delightful game-themed setup
Steve Price and Lily Hevesh set up a massive domino course that includes homages to classic board and video games, and some sections even use game pieces as part of the action. (more…)
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Watch a quarter million dominoes fall in this delightful game-themed setup
Daniela Forti’s stunning glass jellyfish tables
Italian sculptor Daniela Forti makes gorgeous jellyfish tables from colored glass. Here’s a photo of how she creates the dramatic pieces, drawing out individual globs of glass into long tendrils: (more…)
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Daniela Forti’s stunning glass jellyfish tables
Map of local embroidery techniques in Pakistan
As posted to twitter by Saima Mir , and likely sourced from Generation ; but who’s the artist?
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Map of local embroidery techniques in Pakistan