Add a wave powered generator at the edge of the lake and you have a nice perpetual motion machine.
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Seems pretty straightforward from the looks of it.
Basically dropping a big stone in the water slowly.
And taking it out again. And dropping it again.
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Cool waves for science:
https://www.flowavett.co.uk/
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Note: “The Big-Ass Plunger”
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Technically not a plunger, but a very clever method.
The big thingy floats and is pushed down with enough force to counter its buoyancy (not lifted up and dropped as I thought).
Another way to surf: standing wave.
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Not the advertising that Zoom is looking for…
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ETA:
Beer rating app reveals homes and identities of spies and military bods, warns Bellingcat
A beer and pub-rating app built off the back of Foursquare’s location-tracking API poses a risk to the security of military and intelligence personnel, according to legendary OSINT website Bellingcat.
Untappd ‘has over eight million mostly European and North American users, and its features allow researchers to uncover sensitive information about said users at military and intelligence locations around the world,’ wrote Bellingcat’s Foeke Postma in a fascinating guide to using the app for tracking down people of interest.
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This unlicensed saint is the bomb!
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Unlicensed saints are some of my preferred saints: Santa Claus, Saint Christopher the Jesus porter, Saint George the dragon slayer, Saint Amaro the Paradise explorer…
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pull over!
you got a license to perform miracles?
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Hey Siri, are you still recording people’s conversations despite promising not to do so nine months ago?
Apple may still be recording and transcribing conversations captured by Siri on its phones, despite promising to put an end to the practice nine months ago, claims a former Apple contractor who was hired to listen into customer conversations.
In a letter [PDF] sent to data protection authorities in Europe, Thomas Le Bonniec expresses his frustration that, despite exposing in April 2019 that Apple has hired hundreds of people to analyze recordings that its users were unaware had been made, nothing appears to have changed.
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Railway cables overpowered errant drone’s compass and flung it back to terra firma
A commercial drone fell from the sky after a flight across a railway line threw its internal compass into confusion.
The Aerialtronics Altura Zenith ATX8 craft crashed into bushes next to a railway line in October 2019, according to a recent Air Accidents Investigation Branch report.
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Bionic eyes to be a thing in the next decade? Possibly. Boffins mark sensor-density breakthrough
Scientists at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology claim to have developed a robotic eye they say mimics the equivalent human organism and even out-performs it on some measures.
Zhiyong Fan and his team developed a hemispherical artificial retina containing light-sensitive nanowires made from perovskite to mimic the photoreceptors of the human eye. In a paper in Nature, they detail how the device can “see” by reconstructing images (the letters “E”, “I” and “Y”) viewed by the artificial eye.
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It’s so glisteney! (Not a word, don’t care)
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Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC
Build Microsoft delighted retro fans by closing its Build conference with an open-sourcing of 1983’s GW-BASIC.
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It’s been a while, but yes, this is textbook dam failure.
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It’s also capitalism failure: the dam was owned by a private company, that never bothered to spend money on maintaining it, and never had to deal with any consequences for that lack of responsibility.
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