http://www.geek.com/news/asus-announces-the-600-zenbo-home-robot-1656642/ Reasonably priced but limited home robot. Someone needs to invent killer application for this, or this end to be just tablet on wheels. →
A solid state relay (SSR) is an industrial component used for interfacing low voltage control signals to high current mains voltage loads. The SSR may be designed to switch either AC or DC to the load. It serves the same function as an electromechanical relay, but has no moving parts. You can control SSRs easily →
http://www.vox.com/2016/5/27/11797924/cellphones-cancer-bad-reporting Another bad research reporting is spreading FUD that cell phones would cause cancer – and many magazines spread this false “news”. Stop this kind of bad science reporting. →
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile/ But how does Interner work? Take a deep dive into Internet infrastructure and visit to a subsea cable landing site. This article is simply not talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, though those are vitally important →
http://english.eu2016.nl/latest/news/2016/05/27/all-european-scientific-articles-to-be-freely-accessible-by-2020 This sounds like good development to me. →
http://inktank.fi/top-10-finnish-candies/ Finland has some special candies that you might or might not like… →
http://m.phys.org/news/2016-05-transparent-flexible-supercapacitors-pave-multitude.html Interesting science by researchers from Finland and other countries. →
The Big List of Naughty Strings is an evolving list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. This is intended for use in helping both automated and manual QA testing. blns.txt consists of newline-delimited strings and comments which are preceded with #. For those who want to access →
I wrote in earlier in New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once posting about article New Full Duplex Radio Chip Transmits and Receives Wireless Signals at Once – IEEE Spectrum that told about a new chip that makes full dupled radio communications (tranmitting and receiving at the same frequency time at →
http://www.geek.com/microsoft/microsoft-cuts-1850-mobile-staff-signalling-the-end-of-lumia-phones-1656162/ This is the end of devices formerly known as Nokia mobile phones and smart phones. 😩 Microsoft bought this business from Nokia, but could not stop the downturn. Most workers that designed those phones are in Finland. →