Items of Interest

Grieving Gaza on Google Maps

Devon Price wrote a devastating piece about how Google Maps has preserved what was once a vibrant Gaza.

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The Irish Government has launched Climate Actions Work, a programme of unding designed to encourage local and grass roots Climate Action and awareness programmes, complete with a map of current in-progress projects.

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Green FaaS

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NTT Data of Japan are working on a Green Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that will allow deployment and provisioning of functional based cloud computing in n environmentally friendly way, to prioritise low power and emissions timeframes, cloud hosting regions, and efficient hardware, while also embedding monitoring and calculation of Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)

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Google Japan's Keyboard Day

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Google Japan replaced their April Fools jokes with Keyboard Day. On October 10th each year, they announce a funny new keyboard design. This year, the latest g-board is in the shape of a Möbius strip to allow multiple people to type on the same keyboard simultaneouly!

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Apple Depth Pro

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Apple researchers have developed Apple Depth Pro, a AI model that can generate a 3D depth map from a 2D image using a standard GPU in 0.3 seconds.

AI & ML

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Ireland's Complacency

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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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On Demand Eclipses

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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.

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America Deems C, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP, Assembly (Memory) Unsafe

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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.

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15 Min City Map

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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.

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