The band Khruangbin have created a site called Air Khruang which allows users that are taking a flight to enter their source and destination airports and receive a generated playlist of music for their flight.
KodakONE have released details about the various blockchain technologies they are using to build their platform. The aim is to build a service that allows creators to manage and secure the rights for their photographs.
Stripe has launched Stripe Press, a book collection that highlights ideas that they think are highly useful. The first round of books available deal with company growth, humans and computers, the future of society and the current geo-political crisis.
Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera in Chile have discovered 12 previously unknown moons around Jupiter. The team have been searching for bodies at the edge of the solar system and early last year were scanning an area overlapped by Jupiter. By readjusting their instruments, the scientists were also able to scan the space around Jupiter and subsequently found around two dozen previously unknown bodies, thought to be Jovian satellites.
How I Built This (HIBT) is a great business podcast that highlights how now successful businesses, often household names like Ben & Jerrys or Dyson, got started and battled through to achieve success.The story of Chicken Salad Chick on a recent episode is particularly inspiring. This one will probably have you in tears by the end (as it did me!).
Two PhD students at Cambridge University have kitted out a Renault Twizzy with a front facing camera and used it to teach reinforment algorithm in 20 minutes to drive along a path without veering off.
Technology developed at CERN by New Zealand father and son scientists Professors Phil and Anthony butler called the Medipix3 has been used to produce the world's first 3D colour X-Ray. The Medipix is a chip used in the Large Hadron Collider for particle imaging and detection and has been refined by the scientists over the past 20 years. Their company MARS Bioimaging Ltd is now commercialising a 3D scanner using the technology.
