Fed2 Star Index
In this week’s Fed2 Star: not much going on in Fed DataSpace, extreme cold for space experiments, rundown of reasons why robot cars came a cropper, project to build your very own planetary exploration rover, improving deodorants to better banish BO, internet closed to stop cheating students, robots set to clean offices in Singapore, why flying cars haven’t become a real thing, and some close-up pictures of an asteroid. Plus Winding Down, the tech newsletter from Alan.
Official News
The summertime silly season is in full swing
Real life news: creating the coldest place in the known universe on the ISS
Real life news: self-driving car screw-ups revealed in report
Real life news: build your own Mars rover
Real life news: a better way to banish body odour
Over-reaction of the week: to stop students cheating, a country blocks the entire internet
On the web: where’s my flying car?