Bloomberg Businessweek released a mind-blowing exposé on a massive Chinese government hardware hack that appears to have affected huge organisations like Amazon AWS, Apple and the U.S. government.
The Behavioural Business Lab at RMIT University Melbourne Australia worked with RMIT lecturer and typographer Stephen Banham to create a new font called Sans Forgetica. The font is designed to invoke enough cognitive processing in the brain to prevent the scanning of the text and to prompt the brain to engage in deeper processing, thus enhancing memory retention. The aim of the font is to help students remember their study notes. Sans Forgetica is available as a free download and a Chrome extension.
A dwarf planet named The Goblin has been discovered in a large elongated orbit within our solar system beyond pluto. The planet is just an estimated 300km and takes 40,000 years to loop around the sun. The large orbit of The Goblin is believed to be influenced by the hypothesised existence of Planet Nine on the outer reaches of the solar system.
The Londis on the DCU Glasnevin campus is to launch a state of the art AI powered inventory management and pricing system. The system will use a Panasonic vision system to monitor shelf activity as well as a dynamic pricing system using digital tags on the shelves of the newly refurbished store at the new DCU Student Centre.
Inventor of the world wide web Tim Berners Lee has announced the launch of a new open source project called Solid. The project aims to provide a new paradigm for access and sharing personal data online. Users control their own data in a POD and explicitly grant read and write permissions on their data.
Last weekend I was pitchside in the Cardiff Arms Park taking photos for the MRSC for the Cardiff V Munster PRO14 match. Munster lost 37-13 but there were two fantastic tries by Andrew Conway, one pictured above. You can see the rest of my phots from the match here.
This week NAWR hosted our first concert with The Swansea International Festival 2018 which saw Mike Cooper and Bell Lungs perform. You can check out more photos from the concert here.
Dublin based PR & Storytelling agency All Good Tales have launched an interesting podcast called Media Moments, which tells the story of key moments of media history. The podcast is 2 episodes in and the second episode covers a Irish historical recap of P. Flynn's fall from grace at the hands of Tom Gilmartin, initiated by the infamous interview with Gay Byrne on The Late Late Show.
The makers of Sublime Text have released a free visual GIT tool called Sublime Merge. This is a beautiful piece of software and extremely useful at visualising complex GIT repositories.
