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Friday, November 10, 2023

In This Edition:
Text to AI video, co2 formate conversion & energy storage, 10 truths about working in software, 1886 fruit watercolours, & tongue twisters to detect drunkenness!

Text to AI Video

Image: Synthesia

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

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Co2 Formate Conversion & Energy Storage

Image: MIT

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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10 Truths About Working In Software

Image: Unsplash, Ilya Pavlov

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.

1886 Fruit Watercolours

Image: USDA

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

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Tongue Twisters To Detect Drunkenness

Image: Brian Suffoletto, Ayman Anwar, Sean Glaister & Ervin Sejdic

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

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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 Liverpool. 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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