July 2017

Elon Musk shares footage of The Boring Company’s first working car elevator

https://techcrunch.com

Sounds bad: Researchers demonstrate “sonic gun” threat against smart devices

https://arstechnica.com

Norwegian Billionaire Funds World's Largest Yacht to Scoop Up Plastic

https://superhv.com

Discover the Oldest Beer Recipe in History From Ancient Sumeria, 1800 B.C.

http://www.openculture.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 7/29/2017

Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon's interior

https://m.phys.org

Is “information is physical” contentful?

http://www.scottaaronson.com

Mapping the International Space Station

https://www.google.com/streetview/#international-space-station

Serious DX: The Deep Space Network

https://hackaday.com

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

https://www.technologyreview.com

First Human Embryos Edited in U.S.

https://www.technologyreview.com

Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon's interior

https://m.phys.org

An experiment proposed by Stanford theorists finds evidence for the Majorana fermion, a particle that’s its own antiparticle

http://news.stanford.edu

The Great American Solar Eclipse of August 21, 2017 (Part 2)

http://www.syfy.com

The future of deep learning

https://blog.keras.io

The limitations of deep learning

https://blog.keras.io

Mapping the International Space Station

https://www.google.com/streetview/#international-space-station

The Parity Wallet Hack Explained

https://blog.zeppelin.solutions

SpaceX satellite mega-constellation attracts competitors’ fire

https://www.spaceintelreport.com

Let’s Build the Tiniest Blockchain In Less Than 50 Lines of Python

https://medium.com

Serious DX: The Deep Space Network

https://hackaday.com

Is “information is physical” contentful?

http://www.scottaaronson.com

AI Is Inventing Languages Humans Can’t Understand. Should We Stop It?

https://www.fastcodesign.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 7/22/2017

Grid Batteries Are Poised to Become Cheaper Than Natural-Gas Plants in Minnesota

https://www.technologyreview.com

Washington joins multi-state effort to ramp up cybersecurity

https://medium.com

Luxembourg adopts space resources law

http://spacenews.com

Mars Curiosity Descent - Ultra HD 30fps Smooth-Motion

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Behind The Scenes

ARKit Furniture dropping app

http://www.madewitharkit.com

The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think

https://www.nngroup.com

The Race to Solar-Power Africa

http://www.newyorker.com

A service that turns pictures of keys into working keys

https://boingboing.net

Star Wars: The Last Jedi Behind The Scenes

How a One-Man Team from California Won NASA's Space Robotics Challenge

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Luxembourg adopts space resources law

http://spacenews.com

A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Europe’s Huge New Vertical Farm

https://singularityhub.com

The Lost Art of Square Roots

https://medium.com

Mars Curiosity Descent - Ultra HD 30fps Smooth-Motion

Washington joins multi-state effort to ramp up cybersecurity

https://medium.com

Washington welcomes its first certified autonomous vehicle pilot test

https://medium.com

Grid Batteries Are Poised to Become Cheaper Than Natural-Gas Plants in Minnesota

https://www.technologyreview.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 7/15/2017

One of the biggest icebergs in recorded history just broke loose from Antarctica

https://www.washingtonpost.com

The Audi A8: the World's First Production Car to Achieve Level 3 Autonomy

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Breaking into the Buran graveyard: Aging Soviet vehicles still impress

https://arstechnica.com

Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains

https://blog.acolyer.org

This Mini Wind Turbine Can Power Your Home in a Gentle Breeze

https://singularityhub.com

EFF has appealed the W3C's decision to make DRM for the web without protections

https://boingboing.net

Ghana: 1st Sub-Saharan Country to Launch Satellite into Orbit

http://www.telesurtv.net

Two energy powerhouses join together to make big, grid-tied batteries

https://arstechnica.com

Robot Solves Sudoku on Paper

https://hackaday.com

One of the biggest icebergs in recorded history just broke loose from Antarctica

https://www.washingtonpost.com

Roomba Inventor Joe Jones: Why I Think Home Robots Will Become Invisible

http://spectrum.ieee.org

The Audi A8: the World's First Production Car to Achieve Level 3 Autonomy

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Breaking into the Buran graveyard: Aging Soviet vehicles still impress

https://arstechnica.com

Blockbench: a framework for analyzing private blockchains

https://blog.acolyer.org

What football will look like in the future

https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football

This Mini Wind Turbine Can Power Your Home in a Gentle Breeze

https://singularityhub.com

A year at Jupiter: Juno has revealed the giant of the Solar System

https://arstechnica.com

France wants to ban sale of gas and diesel cars by 2040, end coal by 2022

https://arstechnica.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 7/8/2017

Elon Musk says Tesla Model 3 production starts imminently

https://arstechnica.com

A panda and a cabana: How to get started car hacking with comma.ai

https://medium.com

Volvo steers toward electrified future

http://www.autonews.com

Tesla to build world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia

http://www.bbc.com

Carbon Prints Amazing Materials

https://www.technologyreview.com

A panda and a cabana: How to get started car hacking with comma.ai

https://medium.com

Tesla to build world's largest lithium ion battery in Australia

http://www.bbc.com

Houston, we have an escape room: Apollo 13 inspires new experience

http://www.collectspace.com

Carbon Prints Amazing Materials

https://www.technologyreview.com