Aerial Views – Burning Man 2013
Reuters photographer Jim Urquhart captured these stunning aerial images of Black Rock City, the city built by festival participants.
Via Business Insider
Google, a leader in efforts to create driverless cars, has run into an odd safety conundrum: humans.
Google’s fleet of autonomous test cars is programmed to follow the letter of the law. But it can be tough to get around if you are a stickler for the rules. One Google car, in a test in 2009, couldn’t get through a four-way stop because its sensors kept waiting for other (human) drivers to stop completely and let it go. The human drivers kept inching forward, looking for the advantage — paralyzing Google’s robot.
Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk
Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms – but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a clam. Chiara Vigo is thought to be the only person left who can harvest it, spin it and make it shine like gold.
Edmonton’s Cool Bus
Edmonton isn’t the first place to hype the bus with an overblown video campaign. The Danes are way ahead on that count—having dropped “Epic Bus Ad” on the world in late 2012 (what has two thumbs and a license to operate oversized passenger vehicles? This driver) then following it up earlier this year with “Epic Bus: The Sequel” (hold onto your panties, ladies). The Edmonton Transit System reportedly paid $27,000 for three COOL videos; if not riders, the ad is at least drawing eyes, with more than 300,000 Facebook views since last week.
via @CityLab
Coders race to make Ashley Madison dump user-friendly
The pair purchased the domain around midnight, central time, Wednesday morning, and had the site online by about 3:30 AM. Shortly after noon Eastern time, 1,600 people were actively viewing the site, according to one of its creators, and about 12,000 unique visitors had visited the site during the span of an hour earlier that day.