An Spás Eadrainn-The Space Between is a beautiful music and art programme created by Susan O'Neill and filmed in Bunratty Castle. The programme features a number of musicians and artists that are paired with each other to produce art simultaneously and/or collaboratively while in each other's company.
Engineers at MIT and The Rhode Island School of Design have developed a piezoelectric fabric that can capture sounds by detecting vibrations and convert them into electric signals like a microphone. It is envisaged that the acoustic fabric could be used to monitor heart rates and respiratory sounds of the wearer. The fabric can also reverse the process and play sound that can be picked up by other fabric.
Professor Hideyuki Sawada from Kagawa University has created an utterance robot that manipulates the shape of a mouth and nasal cavity to produce sounds that simulate how humans speak. The robot also uses machine learning to hear its own utterance and improve them over time.
Songs of Disappearance is an album of field recordings of Australia's most endangered birds. This episode of the NPR Shortwave podcast interviews the producer of the album Anthony Albrecht about the birds and their fantastic calls!
Former Uber employee Gergely Orosz teaches us why Idempotency is important when using external APIs in this great thread about how a bug in UberEats allowed $14,000+ of free food to be ordered in India.
NASA recently released a new image from the orbiting High Resolution Imaging Experiment (HiRISE) satellite. The photograph show sedimentary layers on the rocks in the Danielson Crater, which suggests a cyclical nature to the layering.
Simon Kuestenmacher shared this great table released by Hive Systems that describes how long it takes to brute force a password based on its length and composition.
