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Compressed Air Energy Storage

Low Tech Magazine descibes the fascinating possibilities of small scale compressed air energy storage (CAES), which are more sustainable than chemical batteries and robust enough to be suited to off-grid living. Parallel use of storage tanks can even allow for variable energy discharge to meet different energy requirements.

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The Rise & Fall of The OLAP Cube

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The Holistics blog posted about the OLAP cube, the mainstay of enterprise data management for so many years, which is now falling out of favour and being replaced by more efficient parallel processing architecture and column store data warehouses.

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Google Dataset Search

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Google's Dataset Search tool has been released out of beta. The tool now includes filtering options by dataset type and usage rights.

AI & ML

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Cheap Scaleable Cloud Hosting

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Alex Oliver has published a great how to article describing the use of Google Cloud Run for cheap and auto scaleable serverless managed container hosting which is language agnostic.

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Hydropanels

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Zero Mass Water is a tech company based in Arizona that have developed Hydropanels which use solar power to extract water from captured air vapour. The award winning technology is being rolled out in a consumer product called rexi this summer by the company, at a retail price of $2,500.

Environment

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DIY Air Quality Monitor

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Balena is an IoT framework for Linux devices. They have published a new project called balenaSense with instructions on how to build an air quality monitor using a Raspberry Pi and Docker.

Environment

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PS3 Supercomputers

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The Verge posted an interesting article on the story of how, for a few years, Playstation 3 games consoles were used by researchers and the U.S. Airforce as supercomputers to work on black hole calculations, win cryptography contests and process images from surveillance drones.

History

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Toyota Future City

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Toyota are planning to build a prototype city of the future called Woven City on 175 acres at the base of Mt. Fuji. The city will be fully powered by hydrogen fuel cells and it will feature segregated transport links for different type of autonomous zero emissions vehicles and state of the art robot filled smart residences made of wood using traditional Japanese wood joinery. The first population set of 2000 people will be employees, retirees and industry partners. Ground breaking is due to start in 2021.

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Perl Paint Splatters

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According to Colin McMillen, 93% of paint splatters can be recognised as valid Perl code using OCR software.

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Catering For End Users

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The Instadeq Blog has a great list of things that end users care about but programmers don't, such as "Use the fonts I use in Office" and "emoji support".

Design

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