Time to start collecting useful bits of writing, maybe for teaching, but maybe just to think about. Source: Half an Hour: An Ethics Primer
Wedgetailed Eagles bring down drones
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-17/wedge-tailed-eagles-bring-down-drones-in-goldfields/8033056?pfmredir=sm&sf42669975=1 Apparently wedgetailed eagles are more than a match for drones used in mining – they have brought down 9 of them at a substantial cost!
Internet of Broken Things
A couple years back, in 2014, Ward Cunningham wrote a piece on wiki called “Internet of Broken Things”. After dealing with the failure of a home sensor network he wrote: This is how the… Source: Internet of Broken Things This…
Working with Ionic framework
IPhone Apps and Websites So I have been acting as a client for some software engineering students from the University of Melbourne who are developing an iPhone app for taking class lists at my taekwondo club. Both of the groups…
Self-driving taxis roll out in Singapore – beating Uber to it
Nutonomy has begun the world’s first consumer trial of driverless cabs in Singapore – the first self-driving taxis anywhere in the world Like Uber’s upcoming rides, this is a controlled experiment with a safety driver behind the wheel and a…
The power within vulnerability – Juice Daily
How does “the power of vulnerability” sit within a context that eschews victim-blaming? While I have no issue with accepting that we each have weaknesses and limitations, it seems like turning vulnerability into a “power” is delegating responsibility to others…