Technology Links

Science and Technology Journalism

• Wikipedia - Wonderful but slightly flakey
• TED Talks - Intelligent life-changing stuff.
• MIT Technology Review - Deeper, less flashy technology stories
• Zero Hedge - Financial news and often extreme right-wing nonsense but fast for technology stories (-turn off JavaScript first).
• Richard Dawkins - The author of The Selfish Gene and the God Delusion is unusually rational and logical.
• Guardian Newspaper - Open access - good for environment stories
• New Scientist - Light reading for scientists
• The Economist.com - Much journalism in Britain can be terrible but this is better an also slightly forward looking.
• Wired - Technology news and the finest male adventure stories. For example Chuck Fipke and diamonds and salvaging wrecks.
• Darwin and the sexes - Economist pokes its brains into understanding human behaviour - especially the naughty stuff

Computers and Gadgets

• New Atlas - Flying cars and latest gadget news
• Lilliputing - Portable computing news
• GSMArena - The best smartphone reviews
• Toms Hardware - Testing of computer components
• Notebook Check - Notebook and phone reviews
• Next Platform - Big server chip news explaining CPUs. ARM vs x86
• Drone News - Drone DJ news about flying AI computers
• Gizchina - Gadget news direct from China
• The Register - A British slant and better for mobile phones and mainframe gossip
• Slashdot - Geeky news and reader comments
• Phoronix - Latest chip news and solar powered computers
• Raspberry Pi - Educational cheap and mighty but tiny computer with amazing graphics
• Android Police - Phone news
• Phone Arena - Phone news
• Mac Rumours - Rumours about everything going on at the secret Apple headquarters
• Engadget - New computers and gadgets -turn off Javascript first
• Switch Chargers - Guide to PowerBank power banks and USB chargers
• Cringely - Robert X. Cringely's blogs with industry gossip and gratuitous aviation links

Aerospace links

• NASA and ESA - The boys with the most toys
• Renewable Energy - My page with a cheap wind turbine design.
• Space Tech news from SpaceDaily
• Antares - Beautiful high performance glider that self-launches using an electric motor. Air Energy AE-1 - cheaper alternative
• Pipistrel - a 2-seat electric glider and a short take-off plane
• AS 34 Me - a beautiful simple electric launch glider.
• Lilium Jet - Small fast VTOL electric jet aeroplane in Germany but software from the UK soon
• Experimental Aircraft - organisation for wacky aeroplanes.
• Electric aircraft - View from 2018.
• Siemens electric glider tow - Maybe the tow plane could be a drone and the glider an airliner
• AeroVironment Quantix - Electric aviation helping agriculture
• Electric Paramotor - Lighter than a petrol version, but not cheap
• Homebuilt Sonde - Balloon launched aerosonde with homebuilt guidance etc.
• Aeriane - Makers of the SwiftLite - possibly the best hang glider.
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Wikipedia page with links to open source flying robots
• Look up at the spys - Space Station 450 Km above Britain

Radio and Junk

• British Radio/TV - reception advice, also from BBC
• Linux and Digital TV - general introduction and links
• UNIX and other OS - Ubuntu, Ubuntu-Mate, Solaris, Knoppix, Microsoft Windows documentation and personal experiences. Java applets were the best way to run remote code locally on your computer but security problems and Microsoft killed them off as the risk/reward ratio became too high.
• All my photography software
• UNIX OSes and Software