Peaks.js: Audio waveform rendering in the browser
If you've been following some of our recent Weeknotes posts you'll have read that we've been developing an audio waveform display in our Snippets Web application. This blog post goes into the detail of this work and describes how we prototyped a browser-based zoomable audio waveform view that allows users to interactively extract segments of the audio to download or share. Snippets is an internal
Breakthrough over 600-year-old mystery manuscript
Professor Stephen Bax found the word Kantairon alongside a picture of the medieval herb Centaury A breakthrough has been made in attempts to decipher a mysterious 600-year-old manuscript written in an unknown language, it has been claimed. The Voynich Manuscript, carbon-dated to the 1400s, was rediscovered in 1912, but has defied codebreakers since. Now, Bedfordshire University's Stephen Bax says
Japan: Artificial servant girl sparks sexism row
A Japanese academic journal has drawn criticism for putting a broom-wielding female robot on its cover, it seems. The illustration appears on the front of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence journal, and was submitted as part of a competition, the Asahi Shimbun newspaper reports, external. It was created by a female artist to show how artificial intelligence could affect our daily liv
Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon, as Danny Shaw reports Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing has been given a posthumous royal pardon. It addresses his 1952 conviction for gross indecency following which he was chemically castrated. He had been arrested after having an affair with a 19-year-old Manchester man. The conviction meant he los
Japan's ninjas heading for extinction
Japan's era of shoguns and samurai is long over, but the country does have one, or maybe two, surviving ninjas. Experts in the dark arts of espionage and silent assassination, ninjas passed skills from father to son - but today's say they will be the last. Japan's ninjas were all about mystery. Hired by noble samurai warriors to spy, sabotage and kill, their dark outfits usually covered everything
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks sound barrier
Highlights from Felix Baumgartner's leap into the record books Austrian Felix Baumgartner has become the first skydiver to go faster than the speed of sound, reaching a maximum velocity of 833.9mph (1,342km/h). In jumping out of a balloon 128,100ft (24 miles; 39km) above New Mexico, the 43-year-old also smashed the record for the highest ever freefall. He said he almost aborted the dive because hi
'Lulzsec hacker' latest to be arrested in US
Lulzsec were known for carrying out attacks for the "lulz", a variation of "lol", meaning "laugh out loud" A man suspected of being a member of hacking group Lulzsec has been arrested in the US, the FBI has said. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, is accused of being involved in hacks on Sony Pictures in May and June last year, in which thousands of personal details were published online.
Spanish fresco restoration botched by amateur
Cecilia Gimenez' attempt to restore the prized Ecce Homo fresco stunned Spanish cultural officials An elderly parishioner has stunned Spanish cultural officials with an alarming and unauthorised attempt to restore a prized Jesus Christ fresco. Ecce Homo (Behold the Man) by Elias Garcia Martinez has held pride of place in the Sanctuary of Mercy Church near Zaragoza for more than 100 years.
BBC News - Huge blast at Japan nuclear power plant
Damian Grammaticas reports on the destruction wrought by the tsunami in Sendai A powerful explosion has hit a nuclear power station in north-eastern Japan which was badly damaged in Friday's devastating earthquake and tsunami. A building housing a reactor was destroyed, but authorities said the reactor itself was intact. The government sought to play down fears of a meltdown at the Fukushima 1 pla
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