01 Jun London launches world’s first contactless payment scheme for street performers

In a cashless society, even street performers need to accept contactless payments. In what it claims is a world’s first, London is launching a new scheme to outfit buskers with card and phone readers made by iZettle. They’ll accept fixed tips with just a tap.

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27 May This app perfectly demonstrates the iPhone X’s TrueDepth camera system

Swedish artist Peder Norrby has created a fun new app that illustrates the capabilities of the TrueDepth camera system used on Apple’s iPhone X.

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25 May New Virtual Reality Experience Drops You Into Hiroshima Right After The Atom Bomb Explosion 

On August 6, 1945, Shigeru Orimen traveled from his rural home near Itsukaichi-cho to Hiroshima, where he was one of nearly 27,000 students working to prepare the city for impending U.S. airstrikes. For lunch that day, he had brought soybeans, sautéed potatoes and strips of daikon.

When the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m., Shigeru was among the nearly 7,200 students who perished. Three days later, his mother Shigeko would identify his body using his lunch box; the food inside was transformed into coal, but the outside remained intact.

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25 May TESS takes its first test image

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), led by MIT, successfully completed a lunar flyby on May 17, and the science team snapped a 2-second test exposure using one of the four TESS cameras. The image reveals more than 200,000 stars.

NASA’s next planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), is one step closer to searching for new worlds after successfully completing a lunar flyby on May 17. The spacecraft passed about 5,000 miles from the moon, which provided a gravity assist that helped TESS sail toward its final working orbit. 

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25 May The Perfect Entrepreneurial Attitude According to Science

There’s a saying out there that entrepreneurs aren’t made, they’re born. I don’t believe that. I think being an entrepreneur is something anyone can learn how to do. But you need to have a core set of abilities and the right mindset first.

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25 May Apple Watch Secrets Revealed By Jony Ive, Health A Big Focus 

In a wide-ranging interview, Apple’s Jony Ive has talked about the origins of the Apple Watch and its priorities.

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25 May How 3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing The Concept Of Food

The emergence of edible powders, gels, sugars and doughs has brought the culinary world into 3-D printing’s creative sphere.

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20 May DreamLab

Developed with Vodafone, Garvan’s DreamLab app uses your phone’s processing power to speed up cancer research whenever you’re not using it.

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