June 2017

By teaching computers to track asteroids, UW scientists may save the Earth

http://www.seattletimes.com

It’s Asteroid Day! Scientists look on the bright side of our cosmic shooting gallery

https://www.geekwire.com

Could Tiny Fusion Rockets Revolutionize Spaceflight?

https://www.scientificamerican.com

Help EFF Track the Progress of AI and Machine Learning

https://medium.com

Polynesian people used binary numbers 600 years ago

https://www.nature.com

Who Americans spend their time with

https://www.theatlas.com

Game of Thrones Season 7 Trailer #2 (HD)

IoT goes nuclear: creating a ZigBee chain reaction

https://blog.acolyer.org

House panel takes first step towards military “Space Corps”

http://spacenews.com

SpaceX closes out a rocket doubleheader with Iridium launch and booster landing

https://www.geekwire.com

"Hello, World." -777X

https://twitter.com

Amazon's New Customer

https://stratechery.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 6/24/2017

BulgariaSat-1 Mission

China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance

Kitchen Moon Landing

B612 studying smallsat missions to search for near Earth objects

http://spacenews.com

Restoring a retro 747 Control Display Unit

https://hackaday.com

BulgariaSat-1 Mission

Hardware is the new software

https://blog.acolyer.org

Restoring a retro 747 Control Display Unit

https://hackaday.com

ScienceCasts: Space Gardening

B612 studying smallsat missions to search for near Earth objects

http://spacenews.com

Kitchen Moon Landing

http://www.madewitharkit.com

China’s quantum satellite achieves ‘spooky action’ at record distance

https://www.sciencemag.org

How it is made : Zelda Breath of the Wild's cartridge on Nintendo Switch

https://www.texplained-store.com

New Evidence That All Stars Are Born in Pairs

https://www.cfa.harvard.edu

Creating your personal bitcoin vault

https://beyourownbankbook.wordpress.com

Interstellar communication. I. Maximized data rate for lightweight space-probes

https://arxiv.org

AI Detects Autism in Infants (Again)

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Fractal planting patterns yield optimal harvests, without central control

https://phys.org

Interesting Bits of the Week - 6/17/2017

Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species

http://online.liebertpub.com (pdf)

China discloses Chang'e 5 lunar probe landing site

http://www.spacedaily.com

Our Road to Self Driving Victory

https://medium.com

300,000 year-old “early Homo sapiens” sparks debate over evolution

https://arstechnica.com

Boeing studies planes without pilots, plans experiments next year

http://www.seattletimes.com

Wardriving for Stingrays with rideshare cars

https://boingboing.net

How Blockchain Can Make Identification Borderless and Immutable

https://singularityhub.com

China discloses Chang'e 5 lunar probe landing site

http://www.spacedaily.com

China just switched on the world's largest floating solar power plant

https://www.weforum.org

Making Humans a Multi-Planetary Species

http://online.liebertpub.com (pdf)

Boeing studies planes without pilots, plans experiments next year

http://www.seattletimes.com

Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning: My Experience and Advice for Using GPUs in Deep Learning

http://timdettmers.com

The $1700 great Deep Learning box: Assembly, setup and benchmarks

https://blog.slavv.com

Our Road to Self Driving Victory

https://medium.com

Core ML

https://developer.apple.com/machine-learning

300,000 year-old “early Homo sapiens” sparks debate over evolution

https://arstechnica.com

Linux worm turns Raspberry Pis into cryptocurrency mining bots

https://boingboing.net

Hands off the wheel? Inslee signs executive order to support safe testing and operation of autonomous vehicles

https://medium.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 6/10/2017

Falcon 9 launches reused Dragon to the space station

http://spacenews.com

AlphaGo, in context

https://medium.com

OpenAI baselines

https://blog.openai.com

https://github.com/openai/baselines

4D Toys

http://marctenbosch.com

An entire town learned sign language to surprise one deaf man

House committee passes commercial space regulatory bill

http://spacenews.com/

Astronomers Find Planet Hotter Than Most Stars

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov

Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe

https://www.technologyreview.com

King County - Confronting Climate Change

http://kingcounty.gov

NASA’s Newest Astronaut Recruits to Conduct Research off the Earth, For the Earth and Deep Space Missions

https://www.nasa.gov

AlphaGo, in context

https://medium.com

OpenAI baselines

https://blog.openai.com

https://github.com/openai/baselines

4D Toys

http://marctenbosch.com

An entire town learned sign language to surprise one deaf man

A Chinese company is offering free training for US coal miners to become wind farmers

https://qz.com/

The inevitable rise of the robocops

http://edition.cnn.com

Falcon 9 launches reused Dragon to the space station

http://spacenews.com

Inslee, New York Governor Cuomo, and California Governor Brown announce formation of United States Climate Alliance

http://www.governor.wa.gov

Interesting Bits of the Week - 6/3/2017

Inslee, New York Governor Cuomo, and California Governor Brown announce formation of United States Climate Alliance

http://www.governor.wa.gov

The Paris climate agreement: key points

3 Big Trends Shaking Up the Energy Industry

https://singularityhub.com

"They Basically Reset My Brain"

https://www.theplayerstribune.com

Parker Solar Probe will launch in 2018 & travel closer to the sun than any human-made object in history

https://www.nasa.gov

Parker Solar Probe will launch in 2018 & travel closer to the sun than any human-made object in history

https://www.nasa.gov

3 Big Trends Shaking Up the Energy Industry

https://singularityhub.com

Artemis

http://www.readitforward.com

The Paris climate agreement: key points