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Submission + - Congress passes an IoT security bill that doesn't suck (theregister.com)

Shotgun writes:

Every now and again the US Congress manages to do its job and yesterday was one of those days: the Senate passed a new IoT cybersecurity piece of legislation that the House also approved, and it will now move to the President’s desk.

the law bill is actually pretty good: it asks America's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to come up with guidelines for Internet-of-Things devices and would require any federal agency to only buy products from companies that met the new rules.


Submission + - Move over autopark. Meet autoland (aopa.org)

Shotgun writes: Lots of hay has been made over self-driving, self-parking, and summon features of new cars. Now, Garmin has a system that will land your plane for you.

During this first-ever autoland for me, nothing felt terribly out of the ordinary until the final 100 feet or so when it finally sunk in that in a few seconds we would be hitting the pavement and no one had their hands on the yoke.

The system is the newest addition to a family of automated flight technologies that Garmin has dubbed Autonomí. After the introduction over the past few years of the two other parts of Autonomí; Emergency Descent Mode (EDM) and Electronic Stability and Protection (ESP), autoland is the next logical step. Combined with autoland, the three form what is basically a digital parachute for the pilot and passengers. If a pilot becomes incapacitated or disoriented, the systems take over either automatically or when activated by the pilot or a passenger, and first stabilize the airplane and if necessary land it.

This is for airplanes as small as one-person, and brings to GA (general aviation) features that airliners have had for years.

Submission + - Hydrogen just might get cheap (popularmechanics.com)

Shotgun writes:

Testing a molybdenum-phosphide (MoP) catalyst with wastewater in a small reactor called a microbial electrolysis cell (MEC), scientists found that the MoP worked better than platinum.

Using an MEC, the team was able to combine the electrolysis technique with hydrogen fermentation, a low-yield process that consumes less energy. Unable to afford expensive platinum catalysts, the team needed something that could reduce production costs to approximately $2 per kilogram of hydrogen.

Would a hydrogen generator be a partial solution to the energy storage story for solar and wind?

Politics

Submission + - Why does a voting machine need calibration? (theblaze.com)

Shotgun writes: I heard on the radio that there were some issues with voting machines in Greensboro, NC (my hometown), and the story said the machines just needed "recalibration". Which made me ask, "WTF? Why does a machine for choosing between one of a few choices need 'calibration'?" This story seems to explain the issue.

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