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STEAM Cafe 2
A few more photos from the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) discovery centre in Paignton,
Lego table
Craft & Activity table
Contact : Facebook Steam Cafe 13 Torbay Road, Paignton
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US Cloud Services and EU citizens data
In a major move in the right direction for data protection and user privacy.
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
The very short version: it is madness to continue transferring the running of European societies and governments to American clouds. Not only is it a terrible idea given the kind of things the “King of America” keeps saying, the legal sophistry used to justify such transfers, like the nonsense letter the Dutch cabinet sent last week, has now been invalidated by Trump himself. And why are we doing this? Convenience. But it is very scary to make yourself 100% dependent on the goodwill of the American government merely because it is convenient. So let’s not. [1]
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#Data,#Privacy,#CloudServices,#DigitalSovereignty.#EU,#GDPR
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STEAM Cafe 1
The discovery centre in Paignton is now open, located at the back of the cafe, it has a range of interactive displays and activities centred around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics)
Contact : Facebook Steam Cafe 13 Torbay Road, Paignton
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AI
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UK to consult on ‘opt-out’ model for AI content-scraping in blow to publishers
UK to consult on ‘opt-out’ model for AI content-scraping in blow to publishers
This is a very worrying development, BIG tech companies would take people to court for copy right infringement of THEIR intellectual property (IP), and yet they feel they can do what they want with other people's IP with impunity.
I will update this in due course.
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NASA Spacecraft – Parker Solar Probe success
Updates from the Parker solar probe mission
Papers and research
arXiv – Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe: Multi-viewpoint messengers of the inner heliosphere
The spacecraft is expected to send back detailed telemetry data on its status on Jan. 1.
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Tinkerers Feb 25
It was just myself and Helen at the Tinkerers meet up today. We had a look at my Arduino robot, which Helen has taken home to work on.
We spent a good deal of time testing Helen's Dragstar car.
This was the first opportunity to mark out a good 7m white line track and test how well the vehicle can run along the track.
Track was marked out in the STEAM discovery centre, as this has black flooring, each tile is 500mm so 14 tiles = 7m (7000mm)
Results were excellent. The dragster has Bluetooth so can send data back to a mobile phone.
Data is sent back to phone.
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Next Meeting
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Hottest January on record
Hottest January on record called ‘terrifying’ by climate scientists after defying expectations
Another worrying trend, we are also coming out of the latest El Niño cycle and still breaking records on temperature. We can combine what is happening here with what is happening at the NOAA, rejection of science based evidence on climate change by President Trump could result in data and research being suppressed. We seem to be getting this with medical information on for example vaccines,
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Bernie Sanders on US billionaires
Bernie Sanders takes down Elon Musk and Donald Trump's “oligarchy” in intense speech
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A Sad Moment in American History
This pretty much speaks for itself, great piece by Mr Sanders.
I just hope people wake up to what Trump is doing before it is too late.
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