Web User - UK (2019-08-07)

6 7 - 20August 2019

T

he 50th anniversary of Neil

Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin’s

walk on the Moon may have

grabbed all theattentionrecently,

but they’re not the only peopleto

have taken such a giant leap.Ten

other astronauts have put a boot

on the lunar surface, as NASA is

now reminding us with the help of

imagery specialistWarren Harold.

Haroldhas combined images

taken by the Apollo astron auts to

produc e a stunning set of lunar

panoramas, which you can see on

Flickr (bit.ly/flickr481). He has also

converted the Apollo 17 panorama

into an immersive view on Facebook

(bit.ly/facebook481) that gives us

Earth dwelle rs a fasc inating glimpse

of our nearest celestial object.

Meanwhil e, National Geographic

(bit.ly/nategeo481) has been busy

store.steampowered .com/labs
Steam is one of th e most popu lar gaming platforms, but
there’s alwaysroom for improvement. As such, its owner,
Valve Software , has been developin g some potential new
feat ures and is inviting usto try them out.
So far, the Steam Labs beta includes thre e experiments.
Micro Traile rs lets you hover your mouse over a thumbnail of
a game to see a six-second snapshot of th e action, with
options to run multiple traile rs at once. Interactive
Recommender uses machine learning to examine the games
you play, and lets you filter its results by popu larity, releas e
dates and tags.
The final experiment is an
automated half-hour
programme generated fr om
snip pets of new and popular
games as a way of encourag ing
you to discover something new.
This one can be a little
tiresome, but the point is that
you can leave feedback to help
Valve decide which
experiments to include in
Steam and which to abandon.

bit.ly/fsecure 481

Most free online

services are not really

free. The price we pay

for using them is the

data we share and the

privacy we give away.

This means it’s

important to know

exactly what data the

web companies are

collecting, but since

the details are often buried deep within a website, fi nding

out can be a chore.

F-Secure has set up a Data Discovery Portal to make the

proc ess easier, and it’s entirely free. Visit the site, then click

a link for one of th e six firms – Google, Apple, Facebook,

Snap chat, Twitter and Amazon. This takes you straig ht to

the relevant data and privacy pages onthe service itself –

after all, there’s nothing better than hearing this important

information straig ht from the horse’s mouth.

There’s not much more to it, other than a few ti ps for

protecting your data, but the site gives you a quick way to

tighten your securi ty settings.

studying 200 known moons elsewhere

in our solar system. Scrolling down the

page takes you on a fact-packed tour

that explains each moon’s orbit, the

dist ance fromits parent planet,

geological make-up and more. It even

includes deta ils of scientific

interest and miss ions, with

imagesthat you can drag to

rotate for a closer look.

Not to be outdone, Google Earth

has teamed up with Science Friday to

explor e NASA’s launchpads and look

at how the agency is upgr ading them

for future rockets (bit.ly/earth481).

http://www.nasa.gov

Explore our Moon and

hundreds of others

Test Steam’s latest

experiments

Discover how web firms

handle your data

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