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!
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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…
This temporary tattoo can control your phone
This looks pretty awesome!! DuoSkin temporary tattoos, which can be made at home and wash off in a day, use the electrodes present in inexpensive gold leaf to create a conductive surface Researchers design metallic body art that can control…
Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode
Oops! Poor person .. The autopilot sensors on the Model S failed to distinguish a white tractor-trailer crossing the highway against a bright sky Source: Tesla driver dies in first fatal crash while using autopilot mode The first paragraph notes…
RefME | Free Referencing Generator – Harvard, APA, MLA and 7,500 more!
Create and manage your references in seconds with RefME’s FREE reference generator. Harvard, APA, MLA, Chicago & more – we’ve got it covered! Source: RefME | Free Referencing Generator – Harvard, APA, MLA and 7,500 more! This looks like a…
Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go
A fitness app is bringing new insights into the way we use bicycles. Source: Strava maps show where Australian cyclists go An interesting example of using “big data” constructively – and maybe a good sort of thing to look at…
Neuroscience Fiction – The New Yorker
The first and foremost reason why we shouldn’t simply disown neuroscience altogether is an obvious one: if we want to understand our minds, from which all of human nature springs, we must come to grips with the brain’s biology. The…
Society of mind (Minsky) on the web
Society of Mind book in html form This is the entire “Society of Mind” book by Marvin Minsky on the web! This is an awesome read (or series of awesome reads) that I recommend to everyone!