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#319

Friday, June 17, 2022

In This Edition:
Google's sentient chatbot, entropy & movement, infection resilient buildings, T-POST t-shirt magazine, & exploring economics!

This cartoon is a great reminder on why UX is needed during product design.

Google's Sentient Chatbot

Image: Medium, Blake Lemoine

A Google engineer created a chatbot and now thinks it has become sentient. Check out the conversation with the bot that the engineer posted by way of proof.

Entropy & Movement

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Infection Resilient Buildings

Image: Royal Academy of Engineering

The Royal Academy of Engineering published a report on building health into construction to make infection resilient buildings. The report shows that in the long run, it is cheaper to build better ventilation and lighting into buildings due to increased health and productivity of its users.

T-POST T-Shirt Magazines

Image: T-POST

T-POST is a unique concept that publishes a limited edition t-shirt with a magazine printed on the inside each month.

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Exploring Economics

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Exploring Economics is a website with articles, courses & other materials to teach economics with the mission of teaching pluralist economics for a sustainable future.

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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