April 2018

Open-Sourcing Our Approach to Autonomous Safety

https://news.voyage.auto

How much time should you spend automating a routine task?

https://boingboing.net

3D Printed Pancakes

China's trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/28/2018

A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible

https://arstechnica.com

Netflix film examines why NASA shunned women astronauts in early days

https://arstechnica.com

SpaceX's Shotwell: Starlink internet will cost about $10 billion and 'change the world'

https://www.floridatoday.com

Stellar Effort: Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1 Billion Stars

https://www.scientificamerican.com

Seattle Subway Drops New Expansion Map Hoping to Guide ST3 Alignments

https://www.theurbanist.org

19+ companies designing custom chips for deep learning acceleration

https://twitter.com

SpaceX's Shotwell: Starlink internet will cost about $10 billion and 'change the world'

https://www.floridatoday.com

Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Replays His Four Most Memorable Games | The New Yorker

To Be A Sounder | Ozzie Alonso on entering his tenth season with the Sounders

https://www.soundersfc.com

A short new movie of a comet’s surface is pretty incredible

https://arstechnica.com

Stellar Effort: Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1 Billion Stars

https://www.scientificamerican.com

Netflix film examines why NASA shunned women astronauts in early days

https://arstechnica.com

All Aboard: The Nouhou train is full speed ahea

https://www.soundersfc.com

The Solar Neighborhood XLIV: RECONS Discoveries within 10 Parsecs

https://arxiv.org

Seattle Subway Drops New Expansion Map Hoping to Guide ST3 Alignments

https://www.theurbanist.org

A lesson in wireless engineering from the Raspberry Pi

http://www.embedded-computing.com

Paul Erdős' amphetamine consumption

https://www.reddit.com

Bankrupt Spaceflight Company's Assets to Help Young Minds Soar

https://www.space.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/21/2018

DARPA Launch Challenge

http://www.darpalaunchchallenge.org

Falcon 9 launches NASA exoplanet hunter

http://spacenews.com

Open Cosmos raises $7M in Series A funding round

http://spacenews.com

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

https://www.theatlantic.com

Bankrupt Spaceflight Company's Assets to Help Young Minds Soar

https://www.space.com

DARPA Launch Challenge

http://www.darpalaunchchallenge.org

China Satellite SJ-17, Friendly Wanderer?

https://breakingdefense.com

Open Cosmos raises $7M in Series A funding round

http://spacenews.com

Falcon 9 launches NASA exoplanet hunter

http://spacenews.com

It's not just Facebook. Thousands of companies are spying on you

https://www.cnn.com

Tesla Model 3 production aims for 6,000 units per week in June after upgrade in May

https://electrek.co

FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your Body

https://spectrum.ieee.org

Alexa Is a Revelation for the Blind

https://www.theatlantic.com

An enzyme that digests plastic could boost recycling

https://www.economist.com

Chatbots: What Happened?

https://chatbotslife.com

The rise and demise of the AAirpass, American Airlines’ $250k lifetime ticket

https://thehustle.co

Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How That's Possible

https://www.sciencealert.com

Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans?

https://www.theatlantic.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/14/2018

Space ventures raise nearly $1 billion in first quarter of 2018, led by SpaceX

http://spacenews.com

FCC issues warning in wake of Swarm’s unauthorized launch

http://spacenews.com

Tour of the Moon in 4K

Chris Hadfield on the complexities of music in microgravity

https://arstechnica.com

Europe divided over robot ‘personhood’

https://www.politico.eu

FCC issues warning in wake of Swarm’s unauthorized launch

http://spacenews.com

Space ventures raise nearly $1 billion in first quarter of 2018, led by SpaceX

http://spacenews.com

An ex-Google engineer is scraping YouTube to pop our filter bubbles

https://www.technologyreview.com

Europe divided over robot ‘personhood’

https://www.politico.eu

MIT’s New Voiceless Interface Can Read the Words in Your Head

https://singularityhub.com

MIT students create and circulate open source, covert RFID rings to subvert campus tracking system

https://boingboing.net

Swimming in Seattle: Stunning aerial footage shows orcas surfacing in Elliott Bay, Washington state.

https://twitter.com

Tour of the Moon in 4K

Facebook is unfixable. We need a nonprofit, public-spirited replacement.

https://boingboing.net

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

https://medium.com

Chris Hadfield on the complexities of music in microgravity

https://arstechnica.com

Steps to autonomy

https://www.ben-evans.com

Review: Space Odyssey

http://www.thespacereview.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/7/2018

Application For Approval for Orbital Deployment and Operating Authority for the SpaceX NGSO Satellite System

https://transition.fcc.gov (pdf)

50 bigger-than-Tiangong objects that have fireballed their way through an uncontrolled reentry

http://planet4589.org

Dozen black holes found at galactic centre

http://www.bbc.com

Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year apology tour hasn't fixed Facebook

https://www.wired.com

Amazon will open Spheres to public twice a month

https://www.seattletimes.com

Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year apology tour hasn't fixed Facebook

https://www.wired.com