future evil lair
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Itās in the Antartic. Of course some bad guys are going to take over. Itās only a matter of timeā¦ 
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Not satisfied with 48 cores?
How about a 8K gpu?
I said it once, Iāll say it again: Way to go AMD! 
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BBC Click - Gigafactory - 30th July 2016
Click visits Teslaās new Gigafactory, chats to the boss Elon Musk and helps set a Guinness World Record. Plus 3D printed death masks in China.
*note: UK BBC Iplayer (VPN will be required for playback outside of the UK)
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Animating objects on photos. Pretty nice for augmented reality, I was wondering how many years weād have to wait for something like that.
New āMars Roverā Game Celebrates Curiosityās 4th Anniversary
JPL worked with the GAMEE game-player network to develop āMars Rover.ā You can download the game, and learn more about how it relates to real-life Mars exploration, here: http://mars.nasa.gov/gamee-rover/.
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Real-time cinematic path tracing incoming from Otoy:
http://www.develop-online.net/news/octanerender-4-to-support-powervr-ray-tracing/0222314
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How to kickstart Iron Age:
This channel should be useful for anyone interested in (alternative) Stone Age, Post-Apocalyptic/Stranded in the middle of Nowhere or even Stone Punk.
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Love that guy. He always makes it look easy 
BBC Click - 13th Aug 2016 - Defcon
Click reports from Defcon in Las Vegas, the worldās largest hacking convention.
*note: UK BBC Iplayer (VPN will be required for playback outside of the UK)
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I was at DefCon 24 earlier this year. Itās a great place to really get to know about computers/cybersecurity/cryptopuzzles. Thanks for linking this!
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Hello, Iām George Takei
āStar Trekā Star George Takei and Fans Enjoy Zero-G Frontier (Photos)
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Watch the worldās biggest āflying bumā go arse over tit in a crash
Longest aircraft hits the deck during second test flight
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The ESA now has a soundcloud channel:
Also, Space news courtesy of Rosseta:
One final edit:
Pizza gets delivered by drones!
I lied, one final edit:
I gave the Rosetta article a 5 star rating, and it gave the over all rating a 4.94117647058824/5. lol
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So I was debating putting this in the random thread or here, but I think itās awesome so I decided to post it here.
Warning: Long post! If you donāt want to read(shame on you)ā¦pictures are at the bottom.
Last week, I had the pleasure of being invited out to one of the channel islands, Santa Rosa, to the research station there operated by my university. I wanted to share some pictures I took both on this last trip and from previous trips because itās such a beautiful place and deserves to be shared. First, I feel the need to give you all the shpeel of why Iāve been out there and why itās important.
I spent multiple trips this last year out on the island installing a sensor system to monitor the resources used by the research station. The reasons for this were both practical(reducing footprint on the island) and as a learning experience to teach and quantify conservation for students that visit the station. To expand on practicality, the parks service station and our own research station are both linked to the only grid on the island. Itās powered by a combination of solar, wind, and generators for when the batteries are low. For water, there are a few wells on the island but thatās it. Itās extremely important to conserve water on the island especially during the current drought that California has been having.
Why teach? The research station has all sorts of students visiting. Most are environmental science students studying the regrowth of the island after the previous 150 years being in private hands. It was only very recently(1992) transferred to the NPS and slowly has been recovering after decades of damage done by the private ranchers who owned the island. Whatās left are those students in various majors, such as business or communication, psych, math, etc, who travel to the island to get an education on how important preserving our natural treasures and resources are.
Water and power(generation) are the most important resources of the modern world and itās important to remember that they are a finite resource. Our means of generation will not last forever and we need to conserve what we have to make our resources last for the future. Thatās the goal I guess. If you guys havenāt figured it out yet, Iām sort of a hippie and I love nature. I want it to be preserved so that future and current generations can find the same beauty and tranquility I have in the various mountains, slopes, rivers, and lakes that Iāve been to. Itās just wouldnāt be fair to let it disappear.
You all want pictures. I took some! These were taken on my hike to the Torrey Pines on the island. Torrey Pines are only located in two places on the planet: San Diego and Santa Rosa Island. Itās not the first time Iāve done the hike, but it was a beautiful day and I hate being stuck inside programmingā¦I needed to get out.
Edit: Bonus picture of Santa Cruz while on the ferry back. The above is definitely an album so you have to click on it. I thought we had interactive arrows to go through albums but I guess not.
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I like clouds. 
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