Edinburgh Skyline, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
This week I started the DCU Online Irish course Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture. The mix of elements about Irish culture, including some things I did not know, really does a good job at reinforcing the learning of the language elements. Right on cue, Foils, Arms and Hog released this hilarious video about speaking Irish yesterday.
When Irish People Can't Speak Irish... #Gaeilge pic.twitter.com/tcbFzxF1eS
— Foil, Arms and Hog (@FoilArmsAndHog) September 19, 2019
Image: Aaswath P. Raman, Wei Li, Shanhui Fan
Researchers at UCLA have produced a prototype energy unit that takes advantage of radiative sky cooling to generate electricity at night. As heat is radiated from objects facing the sky at night, a thermoelectric generator can be used to generate electricity from the temperature difference, in this case 25 milliwatts per square metre using equipment costing $30.
Image: SIMON NIKLAUS, LONG MAI, JIMEI YANG, FENG LIU
Researchers at Portland State University and Adobe have demonstrated being able to generate a 3D Ken Burns effect (parallax) using a single image. The system uses neural networks to generate depth predictions and object boundaries, and context aware in-painting to generate the missing pieces of the video to simluate a moving point of focus. We can tick another Star Trek TNG sci-fi concept off the list. In the episode Identity Crisis episode, Geordi uses the holodeck to recreate missing perspectives of a scene.
Image: caniemail.com
Can I Email is a handy reference tool that shows the support of different HMTL and CSS across email clients on different platforms, similar to Can I Use for browser compatability.
Image: Listen Notes
Wenbin Fang published an interesting behind the scenes post on the tools and processes he uses to run one person internet company Listen Notes. Listen Notes is a podcast search engine and playlist maker which runs on AWS and uses a host of SaaS products and web tools to stay alive.
Image: Will Porada
So hackers are now planting malware in charging cables and charging ports according to IBM Security!
Image: YouTube, Dan Mace
This is a shocking video from Dan Mace. Old Navy in America throw away an estimated 5 million plastic hangers each week. They don't reuse the hangers after someone buys the clothes. That's 6350 tonnes of plastic hangers in landfills each year.
Image: The Guardian
Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot have released a short video urging us to Protect, Restore and Fund nature, one of the best tools to use against the climate crisis. They also ask us to "Vote for people who defend nature". The video was produced while having t"he tiniest environmental impact possible" according to the director.
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