August 2016 News Wire

The Struggle To Bring More Women Into Game Development

http://kotaku.com/the-struggle-to-bring-more-women-into-game-development-1783683864
http://www.polygon.com/features/2013/12/2/5143856/no-girls-allowed

Watch Full Episodes Online of Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers on PBS

http://www.pbs.org/show/secret-life-of-scientists/

The rise and fall of great world cities: 5,700 years of urbanisation – mapped

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/27/rise-fall-great-world-cities-5700-years-urbanisation-mapped

Finding MH370: How algorithms are helping to hone in on the missing plane

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/mh370-debris-scanning-location

Using a wireless keyboard? Your passwords can easily be spied on

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/07/27/using-a-wireless-keyboard-your-passwords-can-easily-be-spied-on/

Pinterest’s Founder: Algorithms Don’t Know What You Want

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/511096/pinterests-founder-algorithms-dont-know-what-you-want/

New attack bypasses HTTPS protection on Macs, Windows, and Linux

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/new-attack-that-cripples-https-crypto-works-on-macs-windows-and-linux/

More than half the world is still offline

http://www.computerworld.com/article/3099168/internet/more-than-half-the-world-is-still-offline.html

Software flaw puts mobile phones and networks at risk of complete takeover

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/07/software-flaw-puts-mobile-phones-and-networks-at-risk-of-complete-takeover/

Chatbot lawyer overturns 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/chatbot-ai-lawyer-donotpay-parking-tickets-london-new-york
http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/06/30/this-chatbot-is-responsible-for-more-than-160000-dismissed-parking-tickets/

Smallest hard disk to date writes information atom by atom

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-smallest-hard-disk-date-atom.html

The code that took America to the moon was just published to GitHub, and it’s like a 1960s time capsule

http://qz.com/726338/the-code-that-took-america-to-the-moon-was-just-published-to-github-and-its-like-a-1960s-time-capsule/
https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/

To free the creative process from the keyboard, a designer invented off-screen tools for all to use

http://qz.com/724836/designers-work-better-with-their-hands-gadgets-to-wield-back-the-creative-process-from-the-computer/

The Beauty of Laplace’s Equation, Mathematical Key to … Everything

www.wired.com/2016/06/laplaces-equation-everywhere/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

This Funky New Turbine Can Bring Green Energy to Rural Areas

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-21/this-funky-new-turbine-can-bring-green-energy-to-rural-areas
http://icewind.is/en/wind-power/

DIRTT’s ICEreality puts VR to use for interior, office design

https://techcrunch.com/2016/06/17/dirtts-icereality-puts-vr-to-use-for-interior-office-design/
https://www.dirtt.net/

This autonomous, 3D-printed bus starts giving rides in Washington, DC today

http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/16/11952072/local-motors-3d-printed-self-driving-bus-washington-dc-launch

Five subtle ways Facebook could influence the US presidential election this fall

http://qz.com/703680/five-subtle-ways-facebook-could-influence-the-us-presidential-election-this-fall/