Image: Fiery Sunset, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
We got treated to some more fantastic sunsets courtesy of the summer weather in Swansea. Here are some more for your viewing pleasure.
For the latest NAWR ANOIS concert, we welcomed Analog On and Andrew Leslie Hooker to Swansea for some modular synths and no input mixing magic sounds.
Check out the photos of the concert here.
This week, The Swansea Laptop Orchestra played at the Clik Clik Collective takeover of the Weorgoran Pavillion in Worcester.
Check out the photos from the gig here.
Image: Reuters Graphics
Reuters graphics have put together a really nice site describing the basics of blockchain including lots of animations describing the steps involved in adding records to blocks.
Image: R2D3
R2D3 have created a fantastic data visualisation describing how data models can be tuned to avoid over-emphases on biases of variances during the training phases.
Image: Intercom
Intercom have released a new book called The Growth Handbook, aimed at delivering industry tested advice on how to manage customer retention, growth experiments and driving word of mouth growth.
Image:Coursera
Google have launched a new Introduction to AR & ARCore course on Coursera. The course covers AR tools and platforms, popular use cases for AR and how to create realistic AR experiences.
Image: Anthony DiPilato
Anthony DiPilato made a homemade iPhone remote controller electric tug for his Cessna 310. The tug can pull the 2,268kg Cessna using two 13 inch motors and two 12V power chair batteries.
Image: Hackernoon, Preethi Kasireddy
This interesting article on Hackernoon from Preethi Kasireddy describes the current limitations on scaling blockchain and describes many different solutions and methods that could be used to allow scaling, such as SegWit, Sharding, increasing block size and off chain state channels, among others.
chair.exe has stopped working pic.twitter.com/FO56VNvmH4
— Chocolat Pine™ (@BeautifulLoser_) June 23, 2018
Image: Youtube, SmarterEveryDay
Check out his amazing video from SmarterEveryDay of two vortex rings colliding perfectly to produce cascading concentric circles.
Image: Facebook
In 2014, Facebook launched a high altitiude platform station (HAPS) project called Aquilla, aimed at developing a high altitute glider drone that can transmit internet to remote areas.
In a recent blog post, Facebook confirms that they are no longer developing Aquilla but will contine to work with partners like Airbus on HAPS connectivity in general.
Image: American Chemical Society
Researchers at the University of Manchester have created a 3 layer material that can camoflauge thermal heat when an electric current is applied to it. It sounds much better than Arnie's mud version!
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.
I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in London. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com
