C’est Magnifique! C’est le Tour de France!

This year's Tour de France was the hundredth edition of the world's biggest and best bicycle race - and it proved to be a race to remember. Jack Thurston talks with 'Buffalo' Bill Chidley about three weeks of outstanding bike racing. Next year the Tour will begin in Yorkshire and cycling journalist Peter Cossins is already excited about the race passing right by his house in Ilkley, West Yorkshire.



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World’s Biggest Data Breaches

This weekend, Apple’s developer site was hacked. 275,000 logins, passwords and other records potentially compromised. Two days before that, popular open-source operating system Ubuntu had its forums hacked. 1.82 million records stolen.

Are those big data breaches? Or just pin-points in the big data universe?

Explore our interactive dataviz of the World’s Biggest Data Breaches and find out.

We’ve pulled out the interesting and funny stories out of the data. Click on the bubbles to read.

quick analysis

Using the filter on the dataviz reveals a few interesting patterns.

• Academic & financial institutions seems to have tightened their security since the mid 2000 – or become less attractive targets


• Gaming sites, cumulatively, account for the biggest data breaches


• Healthcare is truly truly leaky – a very worrying trend – with over 50% of the breaches coming from stolen or lost computers


• Accidental publishing seems to be a growing trend – recently with Facebook granting inadvertant access to 6 million records

If we’ve missed any big breaches, please let us know or comment underneath the viz.

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Unfold Radio - Sun 21st July 2013

Unfold with Robert Luis

Sunday 21st July 10pm-12am

Juice 107.2 fm

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Boardman versus Obree

The sporting rivalry between Chris Boardman and Graeme Obree is among the greatest in history, on a par with Ovett and Coe, Borg and McEnroe or Ali and Frazier. Twenty years on from their record-breaking exploits, Jack Thurston and Edward Pickering consider how their era marked a turning point in British cycle sport and how [...]



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How to Spot a Fake Arduino

Arduino's Massimo Banzi wrote a lengthy piece on the Arduino blog describing the organization's challenges with fakes, clones, derivatives, and Kickstarter name-droppers.

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OpenReflex: another exciting step in 3D printing

So we were pretty excited to come across this fantastic project - and if you haven't yet, get ready for a whoa moment...

Recent design graduate Leo Marius has created the very first 3D-printed SLR camera! That's right, he only went and printed an entire camera (minus the lens and the film). But what got us even more excited, was when we realised that he has used sugru to ensure the entire housing is lightproof.

Wooo, sugru!

Leo has put the entire process on his Instructables guide, so those lucky enough to have access to a 3D printer can make it for themselves.The parts take around 15 hours to print, and about an hour to assemble.

This is pretty close to how we felt when we discovered that HYREL had managed to 3D print with sugru back in June.

Could this help get people using SLR cameras again? With Leo's invitation to "copy, understand, improve then share again" we reckon it's a design that will only get better and better.

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Recent works pt. II

So alongside the Lloyd's Register tree, I'd been working on a model for the RSPB, for their visitor centre at their reserve on Islay. This model was so big (1.65 x 1.3m) that I had to rent further workshop space to be able to build it! Fortunately the unit next to mine was free, so pretty convenient.

The red line denoted the reserve boundary, and the area of water in the corner is a tidal loch. There's also flood plains that the RSPB manage to encourage certain species to visit. The model also has 9 LEDs to show the location of certain features - visitor centre, nature trails etc.



I was really pleased to be asked to build this model, I love the idea of making models that are for museums etc, so hopefully there's be more in the future!



In addition to these large commissions recently, there's also been a couple more MONUminies in the pipeline - these are due for release in mid-July, so keep your eyes peeled for these (our Facebook page is usually the best place to keep up with our news).



And just as I thought things were quietening down last week, I got asked to do a quick white interior model for Glasgow Science Centre. A lovely wee job, and nice to do something of a manageable size again!

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Scotland Boy posted a photo:

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Pastime

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Knitic, an Open Hardware Knitting Machine

Knitic is a project involving a custom shield for an Arduino Due; these plug into a knitting machine's solenoids and sensors, allowing Arduino control of your machine.

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Magician automaton transforms some surprising items under his hat

Here is an automaton by Dave Goodchild, made in 2005. The automaton depicts a magician performing the classic 'different items appearing from under a top hat' routine -- in this instance, a rabbit, a dove, a banana, and then finally a miniature version of the magician himself performing the trick. Very recursive! Magicians and historians should note the small red imp whispering into the conjuor's ear, a common trope in in advertising posters for magic shows in the 1800s. Bravo!

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Magician in Residence

What:

Watershed and the University of Bristol are looking for a Magician in Residence, open to artists and creatives as well as magicians, they are openly looking for someone with an interesting idea that blends magic and technology.

The Magician in Residence will receive research, development and production support, including a £3000 fee, up to £1000 for materials, plus travel and accommodation expenses. The two-month residency in Bristol will begin on 1 October 2013 and culminate in a showcase event in early December.

Deadline:

Applications must be received by 9am on Monday 10 June, 2013.

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Insight

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Unfold Radio - Sun 19th May 2013

Unfold with Robert Luis

Sunday 19th May 10pm-12am

Juice 107.2 fm

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Sound, Design and Animation – 2nd Development for Yarla and the Winter Wood

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BlinkyTape: The LED Strip Reinvented

Our friend Matt Mets, along with pals Max Henstell and Marty Mcguire, is developing a cool addressable LED light strip that packs a microprocessor on the strip for easy programming. Look cool? You can get in on the Kickstarter campaign and score some excellent tech. It looks awesome, Matt! Filed […]

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