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Friday, September 17, 2021

In This Edition:
Fastest growing jobs for the next decade, universal decoder chip, Woz to clean up space, WCAG accessibility checklist, & a webcam made of checkboxes!

Fastest Growing Jobs For The Next Decade

Image: Visual Capitalist

Visual Capitalist put together a huge infographic projecting the fastest and slowest growing jobs over the next decade. Bad news for street vendors, good news for wind turbine technicians.

Universal Decoder Chip

Image: Unsplash, Lars Kienle

Researchers at MIT and Maynooth University have created a telecoms chip that can universally error correct noise found during transmission of data on a network without needing to know the structure of the noise beforehand. Hat tip to the Maynooth part of the team who I presume had dibs on naming the chip GRAND (Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding)!

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Woz To Clean Up Space

Image: Unsplash, NASA

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is launching a company called Privateer Space that aims to clean up space debris!

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WCAG Accessibility Checklist

Image: A11Y

The A11Y Project has a very useful checklist to use for WCAG Accessibility compliance when building websites or online content.

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A Webcam Made Of Checkboxes

Image: Bryan Braun

Check out this cook demo of a webcam made of checkboxes!

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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 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

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