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The Parting Glass Sinéad O'Connor Tribute by boygenius & Ye Vagabonds

Listen to this beautiful cover of The Parting Glass by boygenius and Ye Vagabonds, released as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor and raising money for the Aisling Project.

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Jeff Bezos Head Boat

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Watch the entirety of this fantastically wonderful video from Limerick artist Bobby Fingers which chronicles his journey in creating a row boat in the form of Jeff Bezo's head. I guarantee you won't see any of the amazing twists coming. Yurt.

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Building A Bluetooth Occupancy Measuring Device

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Matthew Esposito wrote an interesting post about the journey he took in building a Bluetooth based room occupancy detector using an ESP32 chip.

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Harnessing Heat From Underground Car Parks

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Scientists in Germany and Switzerland measured the ambient air temperature of underground car parks, and the temperature of the groundwater beneath them, and found that those car parks generate a lot of waste heat, which heats the groundwater and impacts on biodiversity and water quality. Extrapolating their findings, the scientists estimate that all 5040 underground car parks in Berlin could heat 14,660 average German homes by harnessing the waste heat using heat pumps.

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Recycling Wind Turbine Blades Into Composite Materials

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A Danish company called Continuum has developed a recycling method for used wind turbine blades that converts them using zero carbon emissions into composite materials that can be used as bulding materials.

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Tongue Twisters To Detect Drunkenness

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Researchers have developed a machine learning system to detect drunkenness by analysing speech snippets of tongue twisters!

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1886 Fruit Watercolours

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From 1886, the US Department of Agriculture commissioned the creation of 7500 watercolours of fruit species.

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10 Truths About Working In Software

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Mensur Durakovic published a great post about 10 truths of working as a software engineer. The most notable piece of advice in my opinion is that you will profit more from good soft skills than good technical skills.

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Co2 Formate Conversion & Energy Storage

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MIT engineers have developed a new Co2 conversion and storage method which converts the gas into formate crystals and is 96% energy efficient.

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Text to AI Video

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Synthesia is a new AI tool that can generate a video with a speaking AI person directly from text.

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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