Visual Capitalist published an interesting post showing the breakdown of the main revenue streams for the big tech companies, adding up where all their billions in revenue are made.
SolarisKit, a Scottish B-Corp have developed a flat packed solar water heater that can be assembled in 20 mins and can heat water to 60 degrees Celsius. The kit uses a solar coil to absorb heat from the sun and heat water that passes through the coil. The kit can be daisy-chained to create a home solar water heating system, or as a standalone water heater for camping or garden pools.
Scientists at the University of California have developed a robot that can jump over 100 times its own height. The robot is intended to help explore the moon and can jump up to 32.9 metres.
Scientists have recently discovered that Lemurs sing with categorical rhythm, something that was prior only known to be present with just birds and humans. This informative episode of NPR's Shortwave has all the details, along with some clips of singing Lemurs that happen to be Queen fans!
I finally got around to watching Wolfwalkers, and I was blown away! The story and emotion is fantastic, and the animation composition and perspectives are superb. It should have won the oscar. I highly recommend it, and bonus points to you if you spot Kíla!
IBM published a getting started guide to their Semantic Data Science API. The machine learning product allows data to be mapped to domains and/or concepts, which are then analysed and meaningful insights and extractions are generated. I recently read about a similar AI technique used in the Pivot Project to help with Climate Change, as described in Steve Hamm's book The Pivot.
Researchers from Meiji University in Japan have invented electric chopsticks that trick your mouth into tasting salt without it being present in the food you are eating! The chopsticks send the electrical waveform that activates ions in salty and umami components into the user's mouth to change their taste perception of the food. The hope is using these chopsticks can reduce national salt intake by 20%.
Engineers in Japan have achieved a data transmission speed of 319 TBps across 3000km, using a new fibre optic transmission mechanism that splits data into different wavelengths and transmit it simultaneously, amplified along the way. The new cables are the same size as existing fibre cables, making them easier to install within existing infrastructure.
The Financial Times has created an excellent interactive game about climate change. You play as the global minister for future generations, and you are presented with different policies and strategies to choose from, across 3 chunks of time up to 2050, with the aim of achieving net zero emissions.The data in the game is based on modelling from the International Energy Agency.
