Items of Interest

AI in Retail

Vogue Business has an interesting article about how traditional retailers are using AI to increase sales. Some are using AI to recommend custom store displays based on the profile and buying habits of their regular customers. Others are using AI to select first time customers to invite to special offer events in order to convert them to repeat customers.

AI & ML

Innovation

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Generative Art

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Slopes is a generative art tool by Tinkersynth that allows the user to generate art and purchase it.

Tech

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Generative Music

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Generative.fm is an ambient music player created by Alex Bainter that generates endless music systematically, handy to play in the background while working.

Music

Web Dev

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Ireland V Wales in Swansea in 1949

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RTÉ archives highlighted some footage this week from 1949 showing the Irish rugby team beat Wales and win the Triple Crown in St. Helen's in Swansea in 1949. The footage, shot by Norman Hodgson, starts with the Aer Lingus flight from Collinstown Airport in Dublin to LLandow airport and captures supporters arriving into Swansea by train and the crowds around St. Helens before the match.

History

Video

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Original iPhone Prototype Board

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The Verge got an exclusive look at the original iPhone prototype development board, codenamed M68. The board from 2006/2007 contains all the hardware components, and some testing interfaces, of the iPhone spread out on a development board.

Innovation

Tech

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{develop:BBC} London 2019

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This week we took a short trip to London where my wife Jenn was giving the opening keynote for the {develop:BBC} internal BBC developers conference at the BBC Radio Theatre in BBC HQ.

Photo

Web Dev

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Podcasts Of The Week: Darknet Diaries

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The Darknet Diaries podcast was a sick-pick on an episode of Syntax and after listening to the first few episodes, I'm hooked! Each episode tells the story of a major hack or breach in recent years, such as the VTech data breach, or a run of PBX hacking scams by two people on the FBI's Cyber Most Wanted list. Also, the 90's esthetic of the show has a very X-Files/Outer Limits vibe to it.

Podcast

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Stephen Wolfram's Personal Infrastructure

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Stephen Wolfram has published a fascinating long-read on his personal infrastructure. He details all the tech he uses in his everyday life and how he organises and categorises everything, most of which are processes which he has optimised over the last 30 years. It is inspiring how efficiently he organises everything, down to having labelled plastic envelopes of devices, tech and accessories for travelling, hotel stays, car hire trips etc.

Innovation

Life

Motivation

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Future Behaviour in an Autonomous Car World

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Jan Chipchase has an interesting post on medium about the different types of behaviours or hacks we could see emerge in a world with prevalent self driving cars. Will these cars be used to advertise to us in "ConvoyAds", will we need hire "dringers" to be the human behind the wheel in certain regulated areas or will we "go vinyl" and drive ourselves the old-fashioned way.

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Firefox Send

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Mozilla have released a WeTransfer alternative called Firefox Send. The service allows you to send encrypted, self expiring data of up to 1GB unregistered, and up to 2.5GB with an account.

Design

Web Dev

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