Saturday, February 23, 2019

Interesting Bits of the Week - 2/23/19

The clearest images of Ultima Thule reveal a strange-looking object




Introduction to chang'e-4 mission



Latest Weather at Elysium Planitia



Better Language Models and Their Implications



Understanding Math Rather Than Merely Learning It




This origami screen turns your windows into solar panels



Saturday, February 16, 2019

Interesting Bits of the Week - 2/16/19

Opportunity did not answer NASA’s final call, and it’s now lost to us







NASA has taken a significant step toward human landings on the Moon




Blocking the Big 5




Who Owns An Asteroid?



Inside the Apollo Guidance Computer's core memory




Freedom EV: free/open replacement firmware for your electric vehicle -- including a Tesla


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Saturday, February 09, 2019

Interesting Bits of the Week - 2/9/2019

You Deserve Privacy Online. Here's How You Could Actually Get It




I Gave a Bounty Hunter $300. Then He Located Our Phone




Google's secretive, data-hungry private city within Toronto will be much larger than previously disclosed



Smallsats 2019, Orbital Launches 2018




King County considers building 44,000 affordable housing units by 2024




An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms


Saturday, February 02, 2019

Interesting Bits of the Week - 2/2/2019

Five-week government shutdown ends, for now




AlphaStar: Mastering the Real-Time Strategy Game StarCraft II



SSL cancels DARPA satellite servicer agreement



Programming paradigms for dummies: what every programmer should know




NSA to release a free reverse engineering tool