DIY VR Viewer
Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers, 2017/07/21
How much was oculus Rift again? OK, you're probably not getting the same quality of virtual reality, but you can't beat the price. More...
10 apps to use for the 2017-2018 term
Meris Stansbury, eCampus News, 2017/07/14
One of the things I do when I read a 'top 10 tech tools' article like this is to ponder which of the tools the list was designed to promote. In this case I'm guessing it's EdCast, self-styled as "the Netflix of Knowledge". We read, "EdCast’s app allows users to discover their most relevant learning opportunities, including those from co-workers, internal experts, formal and informal courses, external experts, MOOCs, and the internet." So, like Google then. More...
Anchor Offers the Easiest Way to Publish Podcasts
Richard Byrne, Free Technology for Teachers, 2017/07/14
This post introduces us to Anchor, a podcast application that allows you to record and mix podcasts using your phone, then publish the result to audio subscription services. More...
First Object Teleported from Earth to Orbit
2017/07/13
This article uses the term 'object' and 'teleported' in a very specialized sense, so don't think of this as Star Trek. Still. When two photons are created at the same time and place, they become 'quantum entangled', so that any change to one photon also happens to the other, no matter how far apart they are. More...
How Losing SoundCloud Would Change Music
Micah Peters, The Ringer, 2017/07/12
If SoundCloud didn't exist, we would need to invent it. "Apple Music is filtered through artist curation; Spotify’s playlists are guided by label interests. Compared to the two, SoundCloud is something of a free-for-all — everyone and anyone can hear and be heard." More...
YouTube Deja:View
Google, YouTube, 2017/07/12
This is very clever. It pits you against some other opponent (of roughly equal skill) in a quiz about recent popular videos posted to YouTube. You use your Google ID to keep track of your points across games. An excerpt of the video plays as an animation in the background; no sound. More...
The Mechanical Universe
David Goodstein, James F. Blinn, CalTech, YouTube, 2017/07/12
O'Reilly summarizes this as follows: " a critically acclaimed series of 52 30-minute videos covering the basic topics of an introductory university physics course. So, like a MOOC or Khan Academy, but from 1985." So, yes, except now it's on the internet so everyone can view it for free. And there are no subscription fees (unline some MOOCs). More...
Google DeepMind AI learns to creatively move around obstacles
Swapna Krishna, Engadget, 2017/07/11
As the teaser says, "Come for the reinforcement learning, stay for the GIFs." Stay for the short video, actually, to watch a human-shaped robot figure navigate complex landscapes. This aerticle summarizes the outcomes of a reserach paper (14 page PDF), It wasn't given instructions on how to do this; it learned how to jump and climb via reinforcement learning. More...
Hyperledger Fabric 1.0 is Released
Chris Ferris, The Linux Foundation, 2017/07/11
According to the website, "Hyperledger Fabric is a platform for distributed ledger solutions, underpinned by a modular architecture delivering high degrees of confidentiality, resiliency, flexibility and scalability." Basically, it's a mechanism for implementing biusiness functions supported by blockchain for security and verifiability. More...
3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes
Katherine Bourzac, IEEE Spectrum, 2017/07/10
The E-nose probably won't be nose-shaped as illustrated in this article, but it will be ubiquitous. Noses are useful for a wide varoety of things - testing for bad meat, detecting smoke, identfying perfume, and tracking down bacon. The e-nose described here is made from carbon nanotibes; these are used because they bring memory and processing closer together. More...
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