Carbone4 published an interested post about the emissions tracking of cloud hosting providers, what they include in their carbon calculators, and most don't account for Scope 3 emissions.
Canadian fleet management company Geotab conducted a survey of circa 5,00 EVs and found that their batteries showed a degradation of between 1% and 1.8% per year. At those rates, the batteries can outlast the usable lifetime of the vehicle.
MIT researchers have 3D printed electronic circuits without silicon, creating possibilities of more accessible development and maintenance of electronics technology.
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)
This came out some time ago while FTW was on hiatus, but I think it is still worth of highlighting now. The American Government has deemed memory unsafe languages like C, C++, Python, Javascript, PHP and Assembly as unsafe for use in an attempt to reduce the attack surface area of government software and systems.
Inspired by Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest sculptures, Giliam de Carpentier built a walking pod coffee table, which is controlled wirelessly using a Wii remote. He also open-sourced the leg linkage design.
Disney Research announced their new HoloTile, a moving floor that allows multiple people to travel on the spot, ideally while in an AR or VR environment.
Balaji Shrinivasan's The Network State Podcast live-streamed their conference on YouTube. The Network State concept describes society moving away from nation states towards states that coalesce virtually and/or around shared ideals. The conference included talks from organisations that are experimenting with creating their own communities, enclaves, online and real-life cities, and presentations about how technology (usually blockchain) can power these initiatives and also disrupt the operation of the incumbents, aka countries.
