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Tear Gun Transmutes Emotions Into Firepower

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Frustration is tough to deal with. When driven to the point of tears it’s sometimes a short step to lashing out irrationally. Focus in these situations helps, channeling your frustration into something useful. [Yi-Fei Chen] has done that — quite literally — by designing a gun that fires her shed tears.

The gun’s design manifested following a strenuous midterm presentation. Her insistent tutor drove her to tears as frustration clashed with the deep cultural values of her native Taiwan which prevented her from speaking up against authority.

A silicone cup resting against her cheek collects the tears which flow into …read more

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H2O’s Deep Water puts deep learning in the hands of enterprise users

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screen-shot-2017-01-26-at-12-25-50-pm To complement existing offerings like Sparkling Water and Steam, H2O.ai is releasing Deep Water, a new tool to help businesses make deep learning a part of everyday operations. Deep Water will open up new possibilities for the TensorFlow, MXNet and Caffe communities to engage with H20.ai. This also means that the GPU is set to become a greater part of business operations for the entire… Read More Continue reading H2O’s Deep Water puts deep learning in the hands of enterprise users→

The Dakota Access Water Protectors Were Leaving—Then Came Trump’s Order

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After Trump’s order greenlighting construction of the pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux tribe is ready to fight again. Continue reading The Dakota Access Water Protectors Were Leaving—Then Came Trump’s Order→

These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life

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The M-AUE robots may look like Minions from the movies, but they are the culmination of 20 years of hard work. Now, if only scientists could stop them from getting picked up at bars… Continue reading These Plankton-Like Robots Are Drifting Through the Ocean to Help Save Sea Life→

Detecting Water With and Without Headaches

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In Texas — at least around Houston — we don’t have basements. We do, however, have bilges. Both of these are subject to taking on water when no one is paying attention. A friend of mine asked me what I thought of an Instructable that showed how to make a water sensor using a few discrete components. The circuit would probably work — it relied on the conductivity of most water to supply enough current to a bipolar transistor’s base to turn it on.

It is easy to overthink something like this, so I told my friend he should go …read more

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Detecting Water With and Without Headaches

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In Texas — at least around Houston — we don’t have basements. We do, however, have bilges. Both of these are subject to taking on water when no one is paying attention. A friend of mine asked me what I thought of an Instructable that showed how to make a water sensor using a few discrete components. The circuit would probably work — it relied on the conductivity of most water to supply enough current to a bipolar transistor’s base to turn it on.

It is easy to overthink something like this, so I told my friend he should go …read more

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