Undergraduates at Harvard hacked Meta's Ray-Bans to identify strangers as they walk past. Their video that demonstrates the system shows them gathering information about strangers and then approaching them to gain their trust. Wild.
Image: Escape, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
Image: AnhPhu Nguyen
Undergraduates at Harvard hacked Meta's Ray-Bans to identify strangers as they walk past. Their video that demonstrates the system shows them gathering information about strangers and then approaching them to gain their trust. Wild.
Image: Sony CSL
The Sony Computer Science Laboratories released an interactive 15 minute city map, showing a range of world cities dissected into grids, where each grid is scored based on its distance by foot and by bike to a range of amenities, services and infrastructure.
Image: The White House
This came out some time ago while FTW was on hiatus, but I think it is still worth of highlighting now. The American Government has deemed memory unsafe languages like C, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP and Assembly as unsafe for use in an attempt to reduce the attack surface area of government software and systems.
Image: ESA-P. Carril
The ESA are about to launch two satellites that will create on-demand eclipses to allow continual study of the sun's corona. One satellite will deploy a disk to block the sun from the view of the other satellite.
Image: The Currency
The Currency published an interesting interview with Stripe co-founder John Collison, in which he talks about how Ireland has become complacent in national priority planning and economically strategic decision-making. It makes for refreshing reading, given the government wasted a surplus budget on buying people's votes rather than tackling any big problems this week.
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