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Jun 12, 2022

Best automotive sun shades for 2022

Posted by in category: transportation

Looking to keep your car interior cool? This list of the best sun shades for 2022 can help you do just that.

Jun 12, 2022

Minecraft players built a massive library for censored news

Posted by in categories: government, surveillance

Minecrafts’s Uncensored Library is exploiting a loophole in surveillance technology to sneak the news past government

Jun 12, 2022

Scientists covered a robot finger in living human skin

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

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Wrapping robots in human skin that has been grown in a lab may help us to feel more at ease when we interact with them.

Jun 12, 2022

Electrolux GRO kitchen concept offers a fresh take on sustainable eating

Posted by in categories: food, sustainability

It’s no longer enough to just eat healthy. One also needs to make sure our healthy eating is also healthy for the planet. There has been a great deal of interest and attention given to diets in the past years, especially as people were forced to fend for themselves at home. Diet fads come and go, but the ingredients we use have mostly remained the same, and the demand for meat-based products has only gone higher, not lower. Our food system isn’t just broken, but so is our mindset and expectations of an unlimited supply of materials to feed the planet at the expense of the planet itself. That definitely has to change, and a holistic kitchen system imagines how tomorrow’s diets won’t only be plant-forward but also planet-friendly.

Jun 12, 2022

This desk microphone makes it painfully clear whether you are muted or not

Posted by in categories: computing, education

It’s amazing how simple designs can save you from hours of frustration and embarrassment, even virtually.

Work and School from Home arrangements have forced many people to get used to video meetings, virtual classrooms, and online presentations. As if those weren’t stressful enough already, the horrors of discovering that you have been speaking for the past 10 minutes to half an hour when you’re mic has been on mute all the time only adds to feelings of dread. Unfortunately, computers and software haven’t adjusted yet to these new demands on life, lacking clear indicators on the status of the mic. While there might be some sophisticated and complicated software that could try to guess whether you actually need to be muted or not, it actually takes a dead-simple idea to give that peace of mind at very little extra cost.

Designer: Yaman Gupta

Jun 12, 2022

Microsoft Defender Endpoint now isolates unmanaged and compromised Windows devices

Posted by in category: futurism

Admins in charge of securing Windows devices protected by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can now “contain” a compromised unmanaged device to prevent lateral movement of data and slow down hackers.

Jun 12, 2022

Solar energy can be cleanly converted into storable hydrogen fuel

Posted by in categories: climatology, solar power, sustainability

Greenhouse gas emissions need to be significantly reduced to avoid potentially catastrophic effects of climate change, with access to clean and affordable energy needed to eliminate our reliance on fossil fuels. Many researchers and companies are working to address this issue and replace fossil fuels through the use of hydrogen, a storable fuel.

When used in a fuel cell, hydrogen does not emit any greenhouse gasses at the point of use and can help decarbonize sectors such as shipping and transportation, where it can be used as a fuel, as well as in manufacturing industries. However, most hydrogen produced today is almost entirely supplied from natural gas and coal, producing greenhouse gases. And therefore, green hydrogen production is urgently needed.

New research led by the University of Strathclyde suggests that solar energy can be accessed and converted into hydrogen – a clean and renewable fuel.

Jun 12, 2022

James Webb Space Telescope hit by a micrometeoroid, larger than what NASA had anticipated

Posted by in category: space

The James Webb Space Telescope dima_zel/ iStock

Between May 23 and 25, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was hit by a micrometeoroid that has impacted one of its primary mirror segments, NASA said in a recent update on its website. The telescope continues to function at levels exceeding mission requirements.

A meteoroid is a fragment of an asteroid and can be either large or small. A micrometeoroid, though, is a microscopic fragment of a meteoroid and is smaller than a grain of sand. NASA estimates that millions of meteoroids and micrometeoroids strike the Earth’s atmosphere every day but most burn up due to the friction.

Jun 12, 2022

Coloring Computers

Posted by in category: computing

download the ready-to-print-and-cut zine (pdf). to recreate the zine: print double-sided, cut in half, fold the pages and assemble in order.

download the page-by-page zine (pdf). this one is easier to read in a browser and better if you want to extract and print individual pages in letter size.

download/see a digital text transcript.

Jun 12, 2022

The Silurian Hypothesis: What Traces Of Humanity Will Be Left 50 Million Years From Now?

Posted by in category: futurism

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The Silurian Hypothesis contemplates how long the ruins of a civilization would be detectable, on Earth or even other worlds, and if we could ever know if a world had once been inhabited by a technological civilization.

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