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Spotting UFOs: Do-it-yourself sky surveillance comes online

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If you are perplexed, befuddled and bewildered about reports of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) and possible visitations of alien spacecraft, you can take action with do-it-yourself sky-monitoring gear. Given the low cost and high capability of today's consumer-grade technology, you too can be at the ready to document out-of-the-ordinary events. Enter the world of Sky Hub, a global network of smart sensors designed to snag digital signatures of anomalous events. These advancements can be harnessed to probe the ongoing, baffling behavior of UAP and unidentified flying objects (UFOs) reportedly crisscrossing the skies. The mission of Sky Hub is clearcut: Connect a network of civilian-owned sensor arrays, use machine learning to catalogue anomalous events, and share this data with researchers.


How I became a video game designer: Bugi Kaigwa

USATODAY - Tech Top Stories

Welcome to our series "How I Became a …," where we're digging into the stories of accomplished and influential people and finding out how they got to where they are in their careers. We're finding out what their biggest challenges, their biggest passions and their biggest pieces of wisdom are -- for you. Working in the world of video games is a true dream job, and Bugi Kaigwa, a technical artist at Visual Concepts, is living the dream as a video game designer. Kaigwa, who works on developing the immensely popular NBA 2K basketball games, including this year's NBA 2K17 game, chatted with USA TODAY College about vanilla lattes, hard work and, well, of course video games. Usually, being from Kenya, I am a tea guy -- usually just a ginger tea.