#0079: Angry baby blimp
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This is a really interesting perspective on the use of touch screens in certain environments: “Serious interfaces — those that are repeatedly used by a knowledgeable professional and/or in potentially hazardous situations, should not be touchscreen based.” As potentially disruptive as the Tesla UX may be it does introduce the opportunity for a whole new kind of crash. #ux #touchscreen
The mysterious interstellar object known as ‘Oumuamua’ has finally been identified. #space
Neutrinos are confounding sub-atomic particles that are incredibly difficult to detect because they are without mass or charge. Blazars are equally puzzling interstellar objects that occur when galactic dust coalescing around a black hole is ejected as a relativistic jet of particles. Whoa. Scientists have recently managed to catch a neutrino death as it made a near miraculous collision with another particle deep in the ice in an incredible machine designed to detect just this kind of thing. Following the collision, scientists have managed to track the particle’s path back through space to its origin, you guessed it, in a blazer. The description of the machine used to execute this detection is simply amazing, reconfirming my long-held suspicion that Humans are awesome. Well, at least when we put our minds to it. #space #science #neutrino #blazar #awesome #whoa
Oooh! A massive, black sarcophagus has been unearthed in Egypt, and no-one seems to know who (or what) is inside. Where’s Korben Dallas? #archaeology
Trump ‘angry baby’ blimp gets green light to fly over London during president’s visit. This is precisely the kind of humour that the Brits are soooo good at. Well played! #sosogood
Surprising precisely no-one, perhaps other than credulous journalists, the Magic Leap demo appears to have underwhelmed. If you want to understand why people might be a little disappointed with the demo as shown, take a look at what the company originally put out as a demo of their tech, and it’s easy to see why people might be disappointed. #magicleap #underwhelmed #ar #vr
Barclays is working with startup Flux to make your receipts digital and paperless. What would be really great is a payments industry standard that defined the minimum data set generated and captured as a point of sale receipt. This data should then be made accessible to appropriately authenticated third parties after the transaction so that it can be electronically loaded into accounting or expense tracking systems. The fact that we still have to handle paper receipts, or at best, resort to acquiring an image of a receipt and then force a human — or machine — to interpret the image after the fact is just bonkers. This could well be a step along the way. #receipts #fintech #accounting
This is a good rant: Abolish performance reviews. Performance reviews are a constant source of stress, both with those doing the reviews and those being reviewed. There’s no substitute for simple, concise, direct, constant, person-to-person feedback on behaviour of the people around you (and not the innate properties of individuals). #management #performance
The latest Barbie comes with some serious STEM credentials: A Robotics Engineer Barbie Just Launched To Encourage Girls To Explore STEM Topics. #stem #finally
Four weeks into a fourteen week renovation that involves demolishing the ground floor of my terrace while leaving the other floors in place, I come across this: How to 3D print an entire house in a single day. #want #building #renovation #3dprinting
Vying for #turkey-of-the-week award this week are two very strong contenders. The first is this incoherent ad from HDAC that has been playing throughout the 2018 Football World Cup. Why on Earth this company is spending so much VC money on TV advertising for something so conceptually impenetrable instead of … I don’t know … using it to fund their software development, is beyond me. The second one is perhaps more perplexing: HTC’s blockchain phone. Yes, you read that correctly, a blockchain phone. It’s not enough for HTC to claim to be “the leading innovator in smart phone devices”, they also lay claim to be the creators of the “world’s first major blockchain phone”. What purpose “major” serves in that sentence is anyone’s guess. #turkey #blockchain #credulity #wut
Only in Australia
This is one helluva croc: How we bagged a monster: NT ranger tells of 10-year croc hunt. #onlyinaustralia
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