Iron Ox is looking for a Software Architect to help build the future of farming

Iron Ox is looking for a Software Architect to help build the future of farming

Iron Ox is reimagining the modern farm, utilizing robotics and AI to grow fresh, consistent, and responsibly farmed produce for everyone. We are looking for an experienced senior software engineer who cares about the craftof coding and systems architecture design. This is a perfect position for someone with a strong background in software development and an interest in learning more about robotics.

Source: jobs.lever.co

US Navy’s Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico

US Navy’s Railgun Now Undergoing Tests in New Mexico

The HVP program has now taken on a life of its own , separate from the railgun development, as a multi-purpose high-velocity ammunition type, which could include versions with high-explosive warheads , for conventional five-inch naval guns and land-based 155mm howitzers, too. Chief of Naval Operations Richardson’s decision to curtail public discussion about the railgun program was also part of a larger effort that was aimed, in particular, at making it more difficult for Chinese spies to gain any insight into Navy activities or steal sensitive information. But with the railgun now engaged in a new set of tests at White Sands and renewed talk of at-sea tests in the future, it certainly seems that the program is finally “going somewhere” after more than a decade of development.

Source: www.thedrive.com

Why are pedestrian deaths increasing in the US?

Why are pedestrian deaths increasing in the US?

Here are the data from the European Road Safety Observatory:

In the past decade, Europe and the US have reversed positions in pedestrian death rates. It used to be that the number of pedestrian deaths per million population were higher in Europe, now the US pedestrian death rate per million population is now 75 percent higher than in Europe. The following chart compares the change in pedestrian death rates over the last nine year for which data are available for both Europe and the US.

Source: cityobservatory.org

I Am Developing Solely on a No-Brand Android 5.1 Tablet

I Am Developing Solely on a No-Brand Android 5.1 Tablet

Young people got exposed to desktop computers at a young age and used that passion to go on and create truly great things. Therefore I’m deeply saddened by the fact that current devices aren’t hacker friendly devices but rather locked down machines streamlined by market forces to be as addictive consumption-only devices. If instead a gamepad or gloves where used the input rate could again be potentially higher than current solutions.

Source: tbf-rnd.life

A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans

A 30th anniversary note to Prince of Persia fans

Thirty years ago today, I was at my Apple II, crunching on a six-week deadline to finish Prince of Persia by mid-July to ship in September. Stripe Press, an imprint specializing in books about innovation and technological advancement, will publish a hardcover collector’s edition of “The Making of Prince of Persia” — my 1980s original game development journals, newly illustrated with notes, sketches, work-in-progress screen shots, and as many visual features as we have the bandwidth to add by our target “gold master” date of September 2019 (30 years after Apple II PoP signed out of Broderbund QA). For me as a kid who dreamed of creating mass entertainment, in the pre-internet days, when you still needed a printing press to make a book and a film lab to make a movie, the Apple II was a game-changer: a technological innovation that empowered every user to innovate.

Source: www.jordanmechner.com

Reinventing Firefox for Android

Reinventing Firefox for Android

The new application is powered by Firefox’s own mobile browser engine — GeckoView — the same high-performance, feature enabling motor that fuels our Focus app. While all other major Android browsers today are based on Blink and therefore reflective of Google’s decisions about mobile, Firefox’s GeckoView engine ensures us and our users independence. Building Firefox for Android on GeckoView also results in greater flexibility in terms of the types of privacy and security features we can offer our mobile users.

Source: blog.mozilla.org

How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

How to Understand the Universe When You’re Stuck Inside of It

The statement that there’s nothing outside the universe — there’s no observer outside the universe — implies that we need a formulation of physics without background structure. The event has relations with the rest of the universe, and that set of relations constitutes its “view” of the universe. The idea is to try to reformulate physics in terms of these views from the inside, what it looks like from inside the universe.

Source: www.quantamagazine.org

Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules

Twitter adds labels for tweets that break its rules

“In the past, we’ve allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public’s interest, but it wasn’t clear when and how we made those determinations,” the company said in a blog post. [Next time Trump bullies someone on Twitter, the company might call him out on it]
The changes, which The Washington Post previously reported the company was considering, are the social media giant’s latest and boldest attempt to balance its desire to keep up material that is newsworthy against long-standing complaints that powerful people can get away with saying things that would get everyday users punished. For years, Twitter users have complained that the company does not enforce its own policies and that bullying and harassing tweets can stay up despite their protests.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com

How Chinese Food Fueled the Rise of California Punk

How Chinese Food Fueled the Rise of California Punk

In the late 1970s, Chinatown restaurants started booking some unlikely dinner entertainment: the rowdy young bands of the nascent West Coast punk scene. In the late 1970s, Chinatown restaurants started booking some unlikely dinner entertainment: the rowdy young bands of the nascent West Coast punk scene. Hong’s restaurant—known as the Hong Kong Café to showgoers—was far from the only Asian restaurant to incubate the California punk scene.

Source: www.topic.com

Defining Public Interest on Twitter

Defining Public Interest on Twitter

In the past, we’ve allowed certain Tweets that violated our rules to remain on Twitter because they were in the public’s interest, but it wasn’t clear when and how we made those determinations. With this in mind, there are certain cases where it may be in the public’s interest to have access to certain Tweets, even if they would otherwise be in violation of our rules. On the rare occasions when this happens, we’ll place a notice – a screen you have to click or tap through before you see the Tweet – to provide additional context and clarity.

Source: blog.twitter.com