Tech
Royal Academy of Arts offers visitors an ultra high-res 3D digital sculpture in four seconds 3ders.org v
The Royal Academy of Arts royalacademy.org.uk in London has recently begun experimenting with a photogrammetry system that takes 96 photos in rapid succession via an eight camera system. These images can then be processed into a digital 3D model, replicating every feature of the face in intricate detail. The results are something some of history's greatest artists would be jealous of no doubt.
See the RAA's website for more images/info: The Veronica Scanner royalacademy.org.uk
Treaded hand truck created as class project is now making downstairs deliveries safer and easier phys.org
In 2012, a team of students in MIT's well-known product-design class, Course 2.009 web.mit.edu, invented a hand truck with fold-out treads and a braking system that made hauling kegs downstairs safer and easier. Now that hand truck, which launched commercially in April and is called the Glyde, is already being used by hundreds of people worldwide. And the MIT spinout selling the product, ELL Operations (ELLO), has landed major partnerships with Anheuser Busch InBev and leading hand-truck manufacturer Magliner.
The Hyperloop is bringing some of its futuristic tech to Europe’s biggest railway theverge
The train will not be a super-fast hyperloop, in which pods are propelled through aluminum tubes at speeds of up to 760 mph, but a conventional train that includes some of the futuristic technologies the startup has been showcasing at tech conferences around the world.
Space
New American Spy Satellite Launches on Secret Mission space
NROL-61 will be operated by the National Reconnaissance Office nro.gov (NRO), the agency in charge of the United States' fleet of spy satellites. NRO payloads are generally classified, and NROL-61 is no exception; no information is available about the satellite's precise activities or final orbit. (ULA's brief mission description states simply that NROL-61 will operate "in support of national defense.")
Mystery space ray: White dwarf blasting neighbor star with ‘brutal’ radiation rt v
The existence of a unique radiation feed between two stars of the AR Scorpii system - located around 380 light years from Earth - was first picked up by stargazers from Germany, Belgium and the UK in 2015.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot 'roars with heat' bbc
Using measurements from an infrared telescope in Hawaii, a UK and US team found evidence for temperatures as high as 1,500C 2,732F - hundreds of degrees warmer than anywhere else on the planet.
Turkey
Turkey coup attempt: More than 130 media outlets shut bbc v
Three news agencies, 16 TV channels, 23 radio stations, 45 papers, 15 magazines and 29 publishers will be shut. One of them, Zaman, once one of Turkey's biggest newspapers, was put under state control in March. Arrest warrants have been issued for 47 staff. Many of the media outlets are linked to the US-based cleric Fetullah Gulen.
Iran
Iran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz if it faces military action from 'enemies' foxnews
“If the enemy makes a small mistake, we will shut the Strait of Hormuz, kill their sedition in the bud and endanger the arrogant powers’ interests,” Iranian army’s Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Ali Shadmani said, according to the Fars news agency.
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