Now there are two capable, sub-$10 computers for Makers — the $5 Pi Zero and the $9 C.H.I.P. — we compare the specs of each.
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Here’s a self-referential puzzle for our self-obsessed age.
Hello guzzlers.
First I’d like to introduce my friend Lee Sallows, who is a master at writing sentences that count the number of letters they contain. Like this classic:
Continue reading...Nearly 90 cyclists were killed riding their bikes in England and Wales last year, but how are you most likely to come a cropper while cycling? And are you more likely to die falling off a ladder? Helen Pidd sifts through the figures
Would you have guessed that 70 people died in England and Wales in 2014 from falling off a ladder? That 15 fell off a cliff and yet just one man died falling out of a tree last year? Five women died from “pain and other conditions associated with female genital organs and menstrual cycle”; nine people passed away from a “foreign body entering into or through eye or natural orifice”. The list of ways to die, detailed in Office for National Statistics (ONS) annual mortality data published, goes on.
But as a cyclist, I was most interested in looking at how cyclists died. The stats make sobering reading.
Continue reading...People stopped and searched by police are able to record them and instantly send the footage to lawyers by shaking their phone, as part of a new app designed to hold officers to account.
The Y-Stop app has been created as a response to police use of stop and search powers and its creators say it will make the police responsible for their actions and improve interactions between the public and officers.
By: Matt Burgess,
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