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Friday, July 24, 2020

In This Edition:
GitHub buries 21TB in the arctic, best cities for freelancers, climate strike software licence, delush live at JRS Studios, and the Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman podcast!

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Github Buries 21TB In The Arctic

Image: Piql

Github deposited 21TB of silver halides QR code data on archival polyester reels into Arctic World Archive, down the road from the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. The 186 archival film reels will be stored 250m below the permafrost and are due to last 1000 years.

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Best Cities For Freelancers

Image: Carphonewarehouse

Carphonewarehouse put together a lovely looking website that compares cities based on a number of attributes such as monthly rent, internet speed, and quality of life, in an attempt to show the best cities for freelancers.

Climate Strike Software Licence

Image: GitHub, climate-strike

The Climate Strike Licence is a software usage licence that software developers can apply to their open source projects to prohibit the use of their code by applications or companies that threaten to accelerate climate change through fossil fuel extraction.

delush Live At JRS Studios

Image: YouTube, Welcome To The New World

Berlin based Irish artist delush recently streamed a performance of his debut album The Journey to Zero live at JRS Studios. Check out the amazing performance on YouTube.

Podcast of the Week: Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman - Stephen Wolfram

Image: Lex Fridman

I recently discovered the Artificial Intelligence with Lex Fridman podcast via Find That Pod. It's like the Tim Ferris podcast but very heavy on the science detail. Lex interviews a range of the world's leading scientists, theorists and technologists and digs deep into their topics. I enjoyed his interview with Stephen Wolfram. Most of the podcast episodes leave me with questions and the want to learn more, which is great!

About Found This Week

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.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. 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

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