Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Tigar]

It’s HAL.

 

[Free]

 

[Caete]

 

[Caete]

 

[Free]

OK, this is pretty useful...

Microsoft Excel will now let you snap a picture of a spreadsheet and import it

Microsoft is adding a very useful feature to its Excel mobile apps for iOS and Android. It allows Excel users to take a photo of a printed data table and convert it into a fully editable table in the app. This feature is rolling out initially in the Android Excel app, before making its way to iOS soon. Microsoft is using artificial intelligence to implement this feature, with image recognition so that Excel users don’t have to manually input hardcopy data. The feature will be available to Microsoft 365 users.

 

[Free]

I'm not sure this is science, but it's also not *not* science. Also, the most fun I've had thinking about boarding a plane.

 

[danielravennest]

This is what it looks like when your science experiment goes very, very wrong:

Superbubble X-Ray emission (purple) from galaxy NGC 3079 is 4,900 light years across

It is probably being produced by a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Parents trying to decipher alternative school’s crystal-based report cards

VANCOUVER – Sherri and Tucker Jackson love the support and individualized learning their daughter Braylyn receives at her alternative elementary school, but they were slightly confused when Braylyn gave them a small, unadorned bamboo box containing seven crystals and told them it was her report card.

 

[Khamon]

Silly parents, the grades are recorded on the crystals, in Kryptonian.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Khamon]

We’re code monkeys because Fritos and Tab.

 

[danielravennest]

Starhopper prototype takes trip to launch area:


"Starship" is the current name for the upper stage of the big rocket that SpaceX is working on. It will ride on top of a very large first stage booster. "Starhopper" is a prototype being built to test take-offs and landings, up to 5 km altitude. It will shortly get three Raptor rocket engines. It is low quality, literally being assembled by a company that makes water towers, but that doesn't matter. The point is to test the engines, electronics, and software working together in actual flight.

What they are doing in the photos is moving it from the fabrication yard to a launch area that has large storage tanks for propellants, and a big flat piece of concrete to land on. All of this is at Boca Chica beach, at the very southern tip of Texas, near Brownsville.

 

[Caete]

Nice but Elon is way behind the curve, like 40 years behind. Maybe he can claim this is a new idea like some of his others.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

So Easy Even Your Wife Can Use It.

Wow...

 

[Caete]

Wow...

Yeah, I'm sure they regret that phrase now. Who would have thought giving us flamethrowers would be so liberating?

 

[Tigger]

US detects huge meteor explosion

So the explosion was 10 times as big as the hiroshima bomb but nobody noticed because it was off in some remote sea off some remote part of russia and that's all fascinating and scary but what I care about is this bit....

Lindley Johnson, planetary defence officer at Nasa, told BBC News a fireball this big is only expected about two or three times every 100 years.

Planetary Defence Officer. I'm sorry, I just need that job title. I mean, who wouldn't live a life of total happiness as a Planetary Defence Officer?


Also this picture is kind of scary.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Poor Clippy:

Microsoft resurrects Clippy and then brutally kills him off again

 

[Free]

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Apple has cancelled development for the AirPower, a large-area wireless charging mat that was intended to charge multiple devices concurrently. Apple so eagerly anticipated this product being released, that other Apple devices that have been sold over the past two years have already included statements that they are compatible with AirPower in their documentation and packaging.

According to Apple's carefully-worded but entirely uninformative statement about the cancellation, the AirPower "did not meet the company's standards". But the word is, that Apple's engineers were running into a brick wall of physics, because so many working induction coils packed so closely together in the same case produce so much heat, the working pad could quite easily damage devices that were sitting on it.