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Japanese Supercomputer COVID-19 Particle Simulation

The Japanese Fugaku supercomputer produced a particle simulation of COVID-19 spread in an office environment. Running 416 quadrillion calculations per second, the supercomputer simulation shows how ineffectual office partitions are over time at containing the spread of COVID-19 aerosols.

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Teach Yourself Computer Science

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Oz Nova and Myles Byrne have put together an amazing list of resources that you can use to teach yourself computer science.

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Eavesdropping By Watching A Lightbulb

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Researchers at Ben Gurion University have demonstrated that sound in a room can be reproduced by watching a lightbulb in that room, from up to 82ft away. The technology, named Lamphone, detects vibrations on the light bulb caused by the sound in the room and process these vibrations to recreate the sound. The resultant audio is good enough for Shazam to recognise a song that was played in the room.

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Lessons in Electric Circuits

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All About Circuits published a free lesson set on electronic engineering and electronic circuits. Originally written as textbooks by Tony R. Kuphaldt, the lessons have been updated by members of the All About Circuits community.

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AWS One Line Descriptions

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Know your Elastic Beanstalk from your Snowball? Yeah, me neither. Thankfully Joshua Thijssen has put together an extremely useful list of one line descriptions of all the different Amazon AWS products.

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Latest Tech Surveys

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The annual Stack Overflow Developer survey has been released. Poor old VBA is still top of the pile as the most dreaded programming languages :-) Thoughtworks also released the latest version of their technology radar, which is a great resource in seeing which techniques, tools, platforms and languages that are gaining traction with the tech landscape.

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Software Development Productivity

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The Binary Mist blog published a great piece on all the things that can be addressed while trying to improve software development productivity. The piece covers everything form bigger screens and better tools to improving processes and leaving developers alone (to avoid context switching).

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LED Face Mask

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Programmer Tyler Glaiel built a face mask with a LED display that illustrates speech, can can even display a smile. He has also posted the code on GitHub. pic.twitter.com/Gyh9aRAr0q

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Nvidia Jetson Nano Object Detection

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Imran Bangash over on Towards Data Science describes how to build an object detection system with a NVIDIA Jetson Nano, a USB camera and ML libraries.

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Polish Water Clams

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The city water supply of Warsaw in Poland uses a rotating team of 8 clams to test the water quality of the supply. If the clams close after detecting toxins in the water supply, they complete a circuit which trips and alarm and shuts off the water supply of the city. (H/T to Mikael for sharing this)

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