Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid

Wired Bacteria Form Nature’s Power Grid

The Edison Illuminating Company switched on its Pearl Street power plant, and a network of copper wires came alive, delivering current to a few dozen buildings in the surrounding neighborhood. As night fell, reporters at The New York Times gloried in the steady illumination thrown off by Thomas Edison’s electric lamps. Even in 1882, thousands of miles of wires were already installed in the ground in the New York region — in meadows, in salt marshes, in muddy river bottoms.

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Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Looking for Sales Executives

Shoptiques (YC W12) Is Looking for Sales Executives

As a shopper, you can discover products according to traditional shopping categories as well as by neighborhood and even by store. As a Shoptiques boutique, you have access to millions of customers as well as a multitude of customizable tools, such as web hosting, email marketing, and our latest product – Point of Sale solution. In this role, you will be responsible for helping stores discover all Shoptiques’ products.

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Germany records all-time hottest June temperature

Germany records all-time hottest June temperature

Germany set its all-time highest June temperature on Sunday, with 38.9 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The country has been baking in an early summer heat wave; however, Germany’s all-time high of 40.3 degrees Celsius still stands. Temperatures in the country’s central Rhine-Main region and into eastern Germany were expected to reach up to 39 degrees on Sunday, according to the German Weather Service (DWD).

Source: www.dw.com

Kelly O’Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work

Kelly O’Donnel: flat, non-hierarchical organizations do not work

You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com

Thesis: Every time an organization claims to be flat and non-hierarchical, it is actually hierarchical, but the chain of command is invisible and based on the personal charisma of particular people, or sometimes based on their ability to bully and manipulate others. Or, sometimes people come in, and they do get to play great roles, and it helps them, it does lead to other jobs, but then they start getting a lot of work outside of Flux, they get amazing work, they are busy with theater, they get film roles, but they are no longer members of Flux. It might be possible for a theater company to function the same way that Congress does, so that every few years, or every few projects, the power structure shifts, and that sort of does happen, no matter what, even in the sort of non-hierarchical structure (which I don’t think exists).

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For God’s Sake, Margaret (1976)

For God’s Sake, Margaret (1976)

This following article is of a conversation between Stewart Brand, Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead and was originally published in the CoEvolutionary Quarterly, June 1976, Issue no. 10, pp. 32-44. Gregory and Margaret worked together on the result of their Bali fieldwork, Balinese Character – A Photographic Analysis, and then were separated increasingly by World War II and their own diverging interests. Mary Catherine, his and Margaret’s daughter, wrote a book about one of Gregory’s conferences, Our Own Metaphor (1972, Knopf).

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Looking for Sales Executives (Shoptiques YC W12)

Looking for Sales Executives (Shoptiques YC W12)

As a shopper, you can discover products according to traditional shopping categories as well as by neighborhood and even by store. As a Shoptiques boutique, you have access to millions of customers as well as a multitude of customizable tools, such as web hosting, email marketing, and our latest product – Point of Sale solution. In this role, you will be responsible for helping stores discover all Shoptiques’ products.

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Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Software Developers in Toronto

Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Software Developers in Toronto

That is why we built jerry.ai to create the easiest experience for our users. Enabled by disruptive technologies, jerry.ai aims for the one-click user experience in financial product offerings which traditionally requires users to fill out long forms. Based in Silicon Valley, we are looking for engineering talent to join our team in Canada.

Source: jerry.workable.com

Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia

Deepfake revenge porn distribution now a crime in Virginia

As of today, Virginia is one of the first states in the country to impose criminal penalties on the distribution of non-consensual “deepfake” images and video. The new bill updated the law by adding a category of “falsely created videographic or still image” to the text. Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) on June 12 introduced a bill in the House that would make distribution of deepfakes depicting nudity or sexual activity “with the intent to humiliate or otherwise harass the person falsely exhibited” a federal crime, subject to fines, imprisonment, or both.

Source: arstechnica.com

Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control

Senate passes bill to decrease grid digitization, move toward manual control

“The attack could have been worse if not for the fact that Ukraine relies on manual technology to operate its grid,” the statement read. The bill “seeks to build on this concept by studying ways to strategically use ‘retro’ technology to isolate the grid’s most important control systems,” including manual procedures controlled by human operators. The working group would also develop a national cyber-informed strategy “to isolate the energy grid from attacks,” according to King’s statement.

Source: www.utilitydive.com

2019 redefinition of the SI base units

2019 redefinition of the SI base units

In the redefinition, four of the seven SI base units – the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole – were redefined by setting exact numerical values for the Planck constant (h), the elementary electric charge (e), the Boltzmann constant (k), and the Avogadro constant (N ), respectively. The kilogram remained defined by a physical prototype, leaving it the only artefact upon which the SI unit definitions depend. [17]

There is a precedent for changing the underlying principles behind the definition of the SI base units; the 11th CGPM (1960) defined the SI metre in terms of the wavelength of krypton-86 radiation, replacing the pre-SI metre bar and the 13th CGPM (1967) replaced the original definition of the second, which was based on Earth’s average rotation from 1750 to 1892,[18] with a definition based on the frequency of the radiation emitted between two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom.

Source: en.wikipedia.org