Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/16/2016

1. Atlas 5 to launch commercial space habitat for Bigelow Aerospace

http://spaceflightnow.com

2. Starshot

http://www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/ http://www.space.com

3. Yuri's night 2016

https://yurisnight.net/

4. ASU's SunCube FemtoSat

https://asunow.asu.edu

http://femtosat.asu.edu (pdf)

5. New Chart of Space Incidents and Close-Calls

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com

Let's Encrypt is actually encrypting the whole Web

https://boingboing.net

RoboCup European Open 2016 Final MSL League

New Chart of Space Incidents and Close-Calls

http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com

Two new telescopes could help NASA find nearly all threatening asteroids

http://arstechnica.com

Are YOU Ready To Train Like A Martian?

http://themarsgeneration.org

Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

Starshot

http://www.breakthroughinitiatives.org/

Yuri's Night 2016

https://yurisnight.net/

Atlas 5 to launch commercial space habitat for Bigelow Aerospace

http://spaceflightnow.com

ASU's SunCube FemtoSat

https://asunow.asu.edu

http://femtosat.asu.edu (pdf)

Paul Allen doubles down on artificial intelligence research in Seattle

http://www.seattletimes.com

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 4/10/2016

1. Le 1er étage d'une fusée de SpaceX se pose sur une barge en mer

2. "Panama Papers": le lexique pour tout comprendre

http://www.lemonde.fr

3. Un module habitable gonflable va être installé sur la station spatiale internationale.

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

4. Comment la réalité virtuelle va révolutionner le sport

http://www.sportetstyle.fr

5. On a mesuré la température d'un trou noir

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/9/2016

1. SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon, lands first stage

http://spacenews.com

2. Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope

3. ‘Panama Papers’ Leaks Put Iceland Leader Under Pressure to Quit

http://www.nytimes.com

4. We Do Not Dream

http://www.theplayerstribune.com

5. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches Dragon, lands first stage

http://spacenews.com

Welcome to Cutesy

http://www.cutesyapp.com/

We Do Not Dream

http://www.theplayerstribune.com

Nest Reminds Customers That Ownership Isn't What It Used to Be

https://www.eff.org/

Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov

10 things no one tells you before you become a deep sea diver

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Drone Manufacturers Alliance

http://dronemanufacturersalliance.org/

‘Panama Papers’ Leaks Put Iceland Leader Under Pressure to Quit

http://www.nytimes.com

A day in the life of a young black male engineering "coding" student.

https://storify.com/

Dash and Dot

https://www.makewonder.com/

Flight Three: Pushing the Envelope

Les Bits Intéressants de la Semaine - 4/3/2016

1. L'Impact s'incline 1 à 0 face aux Sounders à Seattle

http://www.journaldemontreal.com/

2. Zinédine Zidane: "Pour un entraîneur, c'est le top"

http://www.lequipe.fr

3. Des joueuses attaquent la Fédération américaine pour "discrimination salariale"

http://www.lequipe.fr

4. Cette violent explosion sur Jupiter a été vue depuis la Terre

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

5. Le pitbull, le chien qui souffre le plus de sa réputation

http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr

Soccer Wars

http://interactive.nydailynews.com

Interesting Bits of the Week - 4/2/2016

1. Tesla’s Model 3 is here—with a 215-mile range, to be delivered in 2017

http://arstechnica.com/

https://www.teslamotors.com/

2. Soccer Wars

http://interactive.nydailynews.com

3. Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Another Scary Record

http://www.slate.com

4. Electronic Frontier Alliance

https://www.eff.org

5. Time to take Basic Income seriously

http://www.brookings.edu

 

Tesla’s Model 3 is here—with a 215-mile range, to be delivered in 2017

http://arstechnica.com/

https://www.teslamotors.com/

Arctic Sea Ice Reaches Another Scary Record

http://www.slate.com

The Rise of Data Capital

https://www.technologyreview.com

NASA launch system software upgrade now 77% over budget

http://arstechnica.com/

A Neural Network in 11 lines of Python (Part 1)

https://iamtrask.github.io

Scientists Slam EPA For “Walking Away” From Fracking Pollution Study

http://www.buzzfeed.com

Graphene Wristband Senses Your Blood Sugar—and Treats It

http://spectrum.ieee.org

Time to take Basic Income seriously

http://www.brookings.edu

Target Asteroids!

http://osiris-rex.lpl.arizona.edu

Electronic Frontier Alliance

https://www.eff.org

Ars System Guide, VR edition: Cheap VR, great VR, and optional 4k craziness

http://arstechnica.com

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]