In this week’s post:
BaaS, Arts at CERN, Bitcoin manipulation, Hawaii bad UX, Ionic PWA Toolkit and Larry’s Quest!
Photo of the Week
This week we took a trip to Ystradgynlais to see the oldest tree in Wales. The yew tree is on the grounds of St. Cynog’s church and is over 5000 years old! -
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/07/09/330111102/5-000-years-old-ancient-yew-tree-identified-in-wales
This photo is available to licence on PicFair: https://www.picfair.com/pics/06215526-oldest-tree-in-wales
Each Friday I share some of the best things I encounter, from the internet mostly but also from real life! Hopefully what I find interesting will also be interesting to you :-)
Baidu Blockchain-as-a-Service
China’s Baidu has launched a BaaS product - https://interestingengineering.com/web-services-giant-baidu-confirms-launch-blockchain-as-a-service-platform
Arts at CERN
CERN have announced a call for applications to their Collide International Residency award as part of their Arts at CERN programme. The deadline is Feb 15. (H/T to Mikael for posting this) - http://arts.cern/home
Bitcoin Bots Price Manipulation
Researchers have discovered suspicious trading of Bitcoin in Mt.Gox in 2013 may have been the work of two bots. The trading seems to have been responsive for inflating the BTC price from $150 to $1000.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/15/researchers-finds-that-one-person-likely-drove-bitcoin-from-150-to-1000/
The Hawaii Alert Mistake Caused Bad UX
The false ballistic missile alarm that was sent out in Hawaii looks to have been caused by an employee clicking on the wrong link - http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hawaii-missile-alert-button_us_5a600598e4b054e35177240c
Ionic PWA Toolkit
Ionic have released a toolkit to make building a PWA easier - https://blog.ionicframework.com/announcing-the-ionic-pwa-toolkit-beta/
Cool Thing Of The Week: Larry’s Quest
Set him off on his quest, then sit back and watch this thing of beauty - https://aresluna.org/larrys-quest/
See you next week :-)
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