Government subsidies to encourage people to switch to greener forms of transport are nothing new. They’ve proven to be popular and effective, but climate campaigners are now calling for some of them…
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7 digital health trends that will dominate the globe in 2021
Digital health has the potential to vastly improve healthcare services, but up until recently, it hasn’t been much of a priority for investors. If anything positive has risen from the coronavirus pandemic,…
Musk boasts his Semi will have a 621 mile range and a 40 ton payload capacity
In typical fashion, Tesla figurehead Elon Musk has boasted about the range of the EV company’s planned semi-articulated electric truck. According to a report by Electrek, Musk said that the goal is…
How mimicking asteroid collisions can make diamonds in minutes
In nature, diamonds form deep in the Earth over billions of years. This process requires environments with exceptionally high pressure and temperatures exceeding 1,000℃. Our international team has created two different types…
How COVID and an unexpected 17-hour time difference forced us to master asynchronous work
As my co-founder and I roll into the eighth month of our “one-week visit” to Australia, it amuses me how a company so focused on meeting efficiency ended up being one of…
Android might separate emoji from OS updates so you can get new ones faster
Emoji are important. Heck, they were the biggest reason I wanted to write about the recent iOS 14.2 update. More emoji = better expression. Whenever Unicode consortium, a non-profit organization that handles dissemination and approval…
Snapchat is ripping off TikTok — the cycle is now complete
As surely as the student succeeds the master, the cannibalized social media service shall, in turn, cannibalize another. It’s the axiom of social survival in the ongoing battle for the attention of the…
DoNotPay, the AI lawyer for your inbox, now lets you report businesses for tax fraud
Here’s a cool one: DoNotPay, the legalese-trained email crawler that scours your inbox for ways to save you money (or earn you payouts from class action lawsuits), now helps you collect government…
Ableist capitalist individualism
In this little section, we’d like to discuss the tech that’s getting us through the pandemic. I’ve become obsessed with table-top roleplaying games (TTRPGs) lately. Mind you, I don’t actually play them….
Are you a poet? / Google’s new AI will help / Rewrite your shit prose
If you’re an aspiring poet who doesn’t know your sonnets from your stanzas, a new Google AI app could transform you into a legendary wordsmith. Or at least, a decent impersonation of…