Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 3/27/2016

1. Après les attentats de Bruxelles, la lente identification des victimes

http://www.lefigaro.fr

2. Johan Cruyff, génie total

http://www.lequipe.fr

3. Le silence de la crevette pistolet: une perturbation pour les océans

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

4. Primaires démocrates: Sanders remporte trois victoires face à Clinton

http://www.lexpress.fr

5. À La Havane, Barack Obama salue un jour nouveau

http://www.lapresse.ca

Sound Transit Unveils $50 Billion Light Rail Package Including Lines to Ballard and West Seattle

https://www.thestranger.com

https://www.thestranger.com (pdf)

http://seattletransitblog.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 3/26/2016

1. Belgium Terror Alert Raised After Explosions At Brussels Airport, Subway


Link [http://www.npr.org]

2. Football's Greatest - Johan Cruyff

3. Ten Years of Discovery by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Link [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov]

4. Sound Transit Unveils $50 Billion Light Rail Package Including Lines to Ballard and West Seattle

https://www.thestranger.com

https://www.thestranger.com (pdf)

http://seattletransitblog.com

5. Teenager From U.K. Wins World Drone Racing Competition In Dubai

Link [http://www.npr.org]

Football's Greatest - Johan Cruyff

Early results from New Horizons’ rendezvous with Pluto

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

Ten Years of Discovery by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Link [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov]

Bright Spots and Color Differences Revealed on Ceres

Link [http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov]

The Secrets of the Wave Pilots

Link [http://www.nytimes.com]

Andrew S. Grove 1936 – 2016

Link [https://newsroom.intel.com]

Belgium Terror Alert Raised After Explosions At Brussels Airport, Subway

Link [http://www.npr.org]

Blue Origin M2 Kerbalized

Caught For The First Time: The Early Flash Of An Exploding Star

Link [https://www.nasa.gov]

One comet to swerve closer to Earth than any other comet in centuries

Link [http://www.usatoday.com]

Teenager From U.K. Wins World Drone Racing Competition In Dubai

Link [http://www.npr.org]

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 3/20/2016

1.  Une soixante de morts dans le crash d'un avion dans le sud de la Russie

Lien [http://www.rfi.fr]

2. Mathématiques: le prix Abel 2016 décerné à Sir Andrew J. Wiles

Lien [http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr]

3. Ma grossess sous la menace de Zika

Lien [http://www.lemonde.fr]

4. Du mouvement pour les taches de Cérès

Lien [http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr]

5. Ligue 2: Le Havre retrouve le podium, VA s'éloigne de la zone rouge

Lien [http://www.lequipe.fr]

Securing the web, together

Link [https://security.googleblog.com]

Interesting Bits of the Week - 3/19/2016

1. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption (HBO)

2. Last Year Broke Records in Missing Snowpack

Link [https://www.thestranger.com]

3. Doctors just replaced cancerous bones in a man’s spine with 3D-printed vertebrae

Link [http://www.businessinsider.com]

4. Delivery from Earth

5. Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat

Link [http://qz.com]

Researchers are brewing up medicines from beer hops

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

Last Year Broke Records in Missing Snowpack

Link [https://www.thestranger.com]

How Different Cultures Understand Time

Link [http://www.businessinsider.com]

Delivery from Earth

Using distributed code-signatures to make it much harder to order secret backdoors

Link [https://boingboing.net]

Doctors just replaced cancerous bones in a man’s spine with 3D-printed vertebrae

Link [http://www.businessinsider.com]

Robotics

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption (HBO)

18 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole Rotates at 1/3 Speed of Light

Link [http://www.universetoday.com]

Amazon Echo, home alone with NPR on, got confused and hijacked a thermostat

Link [http://qz.com]

The Obama Doctrine

Link [http://www.theatlantic.com]

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 3/13/2016

1. Jeu de go : première victoire de Lee Sedol contre l'intelligence artificielle de Google

Lien [http://www.lemonde.fr]

2. Paris sacré champion de France sur une victoire 9-0 à Troyes!

Lien [http://www.lequipe.fr]

3. A Berlin, Edward Snowden répond à Barack Obama sur le chiffrement

Lien [http://www.lemonde.fr]

AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to take Google DeepMind Challenge series

Link [http://www.theverge.com]

Link [https://gogameguru.com]

Interesting Bits of the Week - 3/12/2016

1. AlphaGo beats Lee Se-dol again to take Google DeepMind Challenge series

Link [http://www.theverge.com]

2. The Obama Doctrine

Link [http://www.theatlantic.com]

3. Stopping killer asteroids costs less than you think

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

4. Annie Zaidi: Football coach faced racism, sexism & Islamophobia

Link [http://www.bbc.com]

5. Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)

Link [http://www.openculture.com]

The U.S. Government Launches a $100-Million "Apollo Project of the Brain"

Link [http://www.scientificamerican.com]

Above and Beyond

Link [http://www.boeing.com]

The Three Most Terrifying Words

Link [http://thecodelesscode.com]

Google's DeepMind defeats legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in historic victory

Link [http://www.theverge.com]

NASA’s foremost solar system explorer says Europa lander a “necessity”

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

Watch the Destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius, Re-Created with Computer Animation (79 AD)

Link [http://www.openculture.com]

Annie Zaidi: Football coach faced racism, sexism & Islamophobia

Link [http://www.bbc.com]

Robo Brain

Link [http://robobrain.me]

Los Angeles condo first to be build with drone landing pad on the roof

Link [http://diydrones.com]

Where The Whale Things Are

Link [http://www.theatlantic.com]

Stopping killer asteroids costs less than you think

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 3/6/2016

1. Autopsie du retour sur Terre de l'astronaute Scott Kelly après un an dans l'espace

Lien [http://www.journaldemontreal.com]

2. Les astéroïdes et la Terre, un ballet ininterrompu

Lien [http://www.lemonde.fr]

3. Top 100 des meilleurs joueurs de l'histoire de la Ligue des champions

Lien [http://www.lequipe.fr]

4. Une forêt verticale en plein centre-ville

Lien [http://www.journaldemontreal.com]

Russian crowdfunded reflector satellite aims to be “brightest star in the sky”

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

Interesting Bits of the Week - 3/5/2016

1. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016

Link [https://www.technologyreview.com]

2. After his picture-perfect landing last night, Scott Kelly seemed just fine

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

3. The Expanse

4. ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed

Link [eso.org]

After his picture-perfect landing last night, Scott Kelly seemed just fine

Link [http://arstechnica.com]

First Javascript-only Ransomware-as-a-Service Discovered

Link [https://blog.knowbe4.com]

Segway Advanced Personal Robot

Link [http://robot.segway.com/]

Tega: A Social Robot

Link [http://spectrum.ieee.org]

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016

Link [https://www.technologyreview.com]

Gladys - Your personal home assistant

Link [gladysproject.com]