Image: Sky Lights, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
This morning I watched a powerful video published by Paddy Hanna, an Irish musician who is supporting Burt Bacharach in upcoming concerts in Galway and Dublin. Maith an fear.
Image: NASA
NASA has revealed that an insecure Raspberry Pi was used as an access point for hackers into the network of NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory. The hackers stole 500MB of data which included information about international transfers of restricted military and pace technology.
Image: Planetary.org
LightSail is a crowdfunded solar sail project from the Planetary Society which launched this week on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Deployment in space of the cubesat with attached solar sail is due on July 2.
Image: cbc.ca
Wallmart is using computer vision AI to track items at self-scanner tills in order to detect items that pass by without being scanned.
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Mary Meeker & Bond have published her 2019 Internet Trends report. Internet penetration is up to 51% of the global population as of 2018, among lots of other stats. Check out the full Bond report here.
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Dutch Data Visualisation specialist Sonja Kuijpers has published a powerful data visualisation which represents the number of people who died by suicide in the Netherlands in 2017.
Image: Image Comics, Declan Shalvey
As a reminder of how great the Savage Town graphic novel is, writer Declan Shalvey released a short animated trailer for the book this week. If you haven't read it yet, check out my review from Found This Week #75 and buy the book :-)
SAVAGE TOWN ANIMATED TRAILER!
Teaser for the graphic novel by myself and @philip_barrett.
Animation by @OldSwifty & @michaeldoigart #SavageTown pic.twitter.com/OpbaqwlO6y— Declan Shalvey (@declanshalvey) June 25, 2019
Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.
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