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Google have released two new Edge TPU hardware implementations available for its Tensorflow Processing Unit. The machine learning chips can be embedded on dev board or bundled into a USB stick device. Both devices are due to be available in the Autumn.

AI & ML

Tech

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Pleistocene Worms Revived

40,000 year old worms found frozen in samples taken from the permafrost in Siberia have been revived. The worms were warmed gradually in a Petri dish full of enrichment culture and E. coli food for a few weeks. They are the first multi-cellular organisms to survive such a long cryobiosis.

Science

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Connemara National Park

An image of Connemara National Park taken from the International Space Station has been released through NASA's Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth website.

Space

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Saturn & Mars

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured some fantastic images of Saturn and Mars while the planets were in opposition to Earth, meaning they were directly across from Earth in their celestial orbits.

Space

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Web Share API

Hackernoon have an interesting aricle about the Web Share API, used to natively provide sharing functionality in-browser. Sadly, Chrome is the only browser that supports it, so far.

Web Dev

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Swansea Laptop Orchestra at Nozstock

This week, The Swansea Laptop Orchestra performed in the Cabinet of Lost Secrets at the Nozstock festival. Check out the photos from the gig here.

Music

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NAWR ANOIS #7 - Clang Sayne, Aonghus McEvoy

This week marked the final concert in the NAWR ANOIS series, with the amazing Clang Sayne and Aonghus McEvoy perfoming. Check out the photos from the concert here.

Music

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Cool Thing Of The Week: Hercules Loop

A C130 Hercules transport plane performed a full loop at the Farnborough Airshow!

Life

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Māori Tā Moko Near Extinction

Photojournalist Michael Bradley has created a series focussing on the Māori Tā Moko, the permanent face markings of the New Zealand Māori. In the 1850s, photographs taken by settlers and developed using wet plate techniques caused the face markings to not appear in the final photographs.

Life