Auteur/autrice : noflux (Page 516 of 633)

« California Senate Bill 1298 passed the State Senate today in a unanimous, bipartisan vote of 37-0, paving the way for safety and performance standards that cover autonomous vehicles operating on the state’s roads and highways ». (via Google-Supported Autonomous-Car Legislation Passes California Senate | Autopia | Wired.com)

« NotFound.org is a European effort to replace 404 pages with missing child alerts like these. Which is a noble cause, but it also feels like the internet version of a Sarah McLachlan animal abuse commercial ». (via World’s Most Bizarrely Unorthodox Way To Help Save Missing Children | Happy Place)

(via Google launches underwater Street View, a new virtual map of oceans – Boing Boing)

« Many of us born in the ’70s grew up with these Fisher-Price Record Players, which used plastic discs to play music-box-sounding analog music. I was surprised to see they had recently been re-released—and disappointed to learn the new ones aren’t the same as the old, but instead play the music electronically ». (via 3D Printing Plastic Fisher-Price Records – Core77)

« From maps of disease and the weather to the earliest maps of the national population, this was a period when the very concept of a map was reinvented. By the early twentieth century, maps had become common tools of analysis, communication, and visual representation in an increasingly complex nation ». via Mapping the Nation