Chinese scientists have demonstrated that the human nose can differentiate between distinct odours as fast as 60ms apart, which is a similar speed to that of colour perception.
MIT researchers have 3D printed electronic circuits without silicon, creating possibilities of more accessible development and maintenance of electronics technology.
REMspace has successfully sent messages between two people while dreaming. Their system allowed a chat word to be injected into a lucid dream of a person, who responded with another word in their dream. Their response word was recorded bythe system and injected into a lucid dream of a second person, who confirmed the response word when they woke up!
The Irish Government has launched Climate Actions Work, a programme of unding designed to encourage local and grass roots Climate Action and awareness programmes, complete with a map of current in-progress projects.
NTT Data of Japan are working on a Green Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) offering that will allow deployment and provisioning of functional based cloud computing in n environmentally friendly way, to prioritise low power and emissions timeframes, cloud hosting regions, and efficient hardware, while also embedding monitoring and calculation of Software Carbon Intensity (SCI)
Google Japan replaced their April Fools jokes with Keyboard Day. On October 10th each year, they announce a funny new keyboard design. This year, the latest g-board is in the shape of a Möbius strip to allow multiple people to type on the same keyboard simultaneouly!
The Currency published an interesting interview with Stripe co-founder John Collison, in which he talks about how Ireland has become complacent in national priority planning and economically strategic decision-making. It makes for refreshing reading, given the government wasted a surplus budget on buying people's votes rather than tackling any big problems this week.
The ESA are about to launch two satellites that will create on-demand eclipses to allow continual study of the sun's corona. One satellite will deploy a disk to block the sun from the view of the other satellite.
