Image: Autumn, this photo is available to licence on EyeEm.
The podcast series You Think You Know The Presidents is a very enjoyable listen about each President of Ireland.
Image: Hackaday
The massive Cloudflare outage this week was caused by an SQL query that didn't filter its results sufficiently, which led to an input file with too many configuration records, which led to processing overload. Hackaday point out that input verification and error handling are basics of software development for reasons like this.
Image: John LaRocco/Ohio State University
Scientists at Ohio State University have shown that the mycelium of cultivated shiitake and button mushrooms can act as computer memory with 90% to 95% accuracy. Bio-neutral circuitry, here we come!
Image: Alex Davidson/Queen Mary University of London
Scientists at Queen Mary University of London trained bees to recognise morse code light pulses using sugar treats. I too can be trained to do most things for sugary treats.
Image: Undark
Undark published an interesting video interviewing Ernő Rubik, the creator of the Rubik's cude. It took him a full month to solve it the first time.
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.
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