Weekly STEAM and Maker Digest #3

Stanford built a ‘4D’ camera for cars, robots and VR  A team of Stanford scientists have created what could be the perfect “eye” for autonomous vehicles and delivery drones thus far. It’s a…  https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/25/stanford-4d-camera-robots/ Citizen scientists find a failed star in the Sun’s neighborhood Citizen scientists may not have the time and equipment of their...

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Stanford built a ‘4D’ camera for cars, robots and VR

 A team of Stanford scientists have created what could be the perfect “eye” for autonomous vehicles and delivery drones thus far. It’s a…  https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/25/stanford-4d-camera-robots/

Citizen scientists find a failed star in the Sun’s neighborhood

Citizen scientists may not have the time and equipment of their pro counterparts, but their dedication can sometimes… https://www.engadget.com/2017/07/24/citizen-scientists-find-brown-dwarf-near-sun/

World’s First Ropeless Elevator Can Move Up, Down, and Sideways

While elevators have enabled the rise of city skylines, since the day one, these elevators have worked on a roped hydraulic mechanism for lifting and lowering… http://www.industrytap.com/worlds-first-ropeless-elevator-can-move-sideways/43273

From Waste to Innovation: 22-Year-Old Computer Engineer Converts Soda Can Into Mini-Satellite

Back in school, we all created crafts using easily available, cheap, and recyclable materials in our art projects. However, this 22-year-old computer engineer…  http://www.industrytap.com/waste-innovation-22-year-old-computer-engineer-converts-soda-can-mini-satellite/43247

Grasping Robots Compete to Rule Amazon’s Warehouses

Amazon employs 45,000 robots, but they all have something missing: hands. Squat wheeled machines carry boxes around in more than 20 of the company’s cavernous…  https://www.wired.com/story/grasping-robots-compete-to-rule-amazons-warehouses/

Google working with Tri-alpha Energy on nuclear fusion

Google is helping the Tri-alpha energy nuclear fusion project with improved algorithms, sensor data analysis and simulations. Google developed a new computer…https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2017/07/google-working-with-tri-alpha-energy-on-nuclear-fusion.html

Scientists Are Planning A Floating City Where They Can Conduct Research Unregulated

In the hopes of rising above the laws and regulations of terrestrial nations, a group has bold plans to build a floating city in Tahiti, French Polynesia. It…  http://www.iflscience.com/technology/floating-city-project-wants-to-make-an-unregulated-hub-of-scientific-research/

Two girls make rare addition to UK maths Olympiad squad

Rosie Cates: ‘I really enjoy the problem-solving aspect of Olympiad maths’Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi for the Guardian The rarefied world of international… http://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/14/rosie-cates-international-mathematical-olympiad-uk-team

Controversial New Theory Suggests Life Wasn’t a Fluke of Biology—It Was Physics

The biophysicist Jeremy England made waves in 2013 with a new theory that cast the origin of life as an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics. His equations… https://www.wired.com/story/controversial-new-theory-suggests-life-wasnt-a-fluke-of-biologyit-was-physics/

The $10 Hardware Hack That Wrecks IoT Security

Most consumer tech manufacturers figure that once a hacker can physically access a device, there’s not much left that can be done to defend it. But a group of… https://www.wired.com/story/sd-card-hack-iot-zero-days/

SPP 83: Spectacle of Rockin’ Romans in Space (and BitCoin) – Gears of Resistance

S.T.E.A.M. Power Podcast #83 for July 29, 2017. This week we chat about BitCoin, Roman-era concrete, future of jobs, Google’s jump into geothermal and much more… http://gearsofresistance.com/2017/07/spp-83-spectacle-rockin-romans-space-bitcoin/

First human embryos edited in U.S., using CRISPR

A still from a video shows gene-editing chemicals being injected into a human egg at the moment of fertilization. Scientists used the technique to correct DNA…  https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608350/first-human-embryos-edited-in-us/

Researchers shut down AI that invented its own language

An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language. It developed a system of code words to make communication more efficient…  http://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-and-science/technology/a-step-closer-to-skynet-ai-invents-a-language-humans-can-t-read/article/498142

Mathematics yields techniques for more accurate weather predictions

Figure 1 shows an illustration of the ensemble Kalman filter concept. Each green dot represents a possible estimate of earth atmosphere at a given time.…  https://phys.org/news/2017-07-mathematics-yields-techniques-accurate-weather.html

Tesla Gigafactory Adds Microgrid Lab

BuildZoom reports that Tesla applied for several building permits, including one to add a microgrid lab to its colossal Gigafactory near Reno NV. It’s not clear whether its purpose is to eventually make the Gigafactory

http://www.engineering.com/ElectronicsDesign/ElectronicsDesignArticles/ArticleID/15364/Tesla-Gigafactory-Adds-Microgrid-Lab.aspx

Astronomers Might Have Found the First Alien Moon

Visualizations based on NASA data show a planet with a huge moon. PUBLISHED Close to the swirling depths of a huge alien world, a new… http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/moon-discovery-planets-kepler-exomoon-space-science/

Modifying mice: SF startup unleashes new feat in genetic engineering

Startup of the week: Who they are: Ravata Solutions What they do: Genetic engineering of embryos Why it’s cool: Ravata created technology that makes the process… http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/30/sf-startup-unleashes-new-feat-genetic-engineering/

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