Anatomy Of A Power Outage: Explaining the August Outage Affecting 5% of Britain

Without warning on an early August evening a significant proportion of the electricity grid in the UK went dark. It was still daylight so the disruption caused was not as large as it might have been, but it does highlight how we take a stable power grid for granted.

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ROS Gets Quick Sensor Debugging In The Terminal

Sensors are critical in robotics. A robot relies on its sensor package to perform its programmed duties. If sensors are damaged or non-functional, the robot can perform unpredictably, or even fail entirely. [Dheera Venkatraman] has been working to make debugging sensor issues easier with the rosshow package for Robot Operating …read more

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Podcast: A Utility Ransomware Attack, Post-Hurricane

A “critical water utility” was hit by a recent ransomware attack, significantly impeding the service in the week after Hurricane Florence hit the East Coast of the U.S. The Onslow Water and Sewer Authority (ONWASA) said in a Monday release … Continue reading Podcast: A Utility Ransomware Attack, Post-Hurricane

Hands On – Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

If you regularly work with Microsoft’s Azure Storage and have always defaulted to using the web portal for Azure then this utility will give you an option to access and manage your storage on Azure without the web portal.

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