Alaina Gassler, a 14-year-old inventor from West Grove, Pennsylvania, came up with a clever way to eliminate the blind spot created by the thick pillars on the side of a car’s windshield. All it requires is some relatively inexpensive and readily available tech available at an electronics store. Gizmodo reports: Her solution involves installing an outward-facing webcam on the outside of…
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NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: An amateur radio rig exposed to the internet and discovered by a security researcher was collecting real-time medical data and health information broadcast by hospitals and ambulances across U.K. towns and cities. The rig, operated out of a house in North London, was picking up radio waves from over the air and translating…
‘World’s Oldest Webcam’ To Be Switched Off
The world’s oldest continuously working webcam is being switched off after 25 years. The BBC reports: The Fogcam was set up in 1994 to watch how the weather changed on the San Francisco State University campus. has broadcast almost continuously since then barring regular maintenance and the occasional need for it to be re-sited to maintain its view. Its creators said…
Ask Slashdot: Budget-Friendly Webcam Without a Cloud Service?
simpz writes: Does anyone know of a fairly inexpensive webcam that doesn’t depend on a cloud service? A few years ago, you could buy a cheap webcam (with the usual pan/tilt and IR) for about $50 that was fully manageable from a web browser. Nowadays the web interfaces are limited in functionality (or non-existent), or you need a phone app that…
Nessie watcher films ‘two Loch Ness Monsters’
Eoin O’ Faodhagain had been watching a live Loch Ness webcam when he spotted something odd in the water. The footage he captured, which can be viewed … Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/329325/nessie-watcher-films-two-loch-ness-monsters…
Astronomy educators to rendezvous in Chile
Members of the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program are heading to Chile for a tour of its great observatories, July 27 to August 5, 2019. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/astronomy-educators-to-rendezvous-in-chile…
Dust storms swirl at Mars’ north pole
Over the last month, ESA’s Mars Express has been watching dust storms brew at the planet’s north pole and disperse toward the equator. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/dust-storms-mars-north-pole-images…