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• The Volvo C40 shows how luxury cars can be green

  01-11-2021 19:40
  
  I’m not a car person.   You know, car people. Driving a car is a big part of their psyche and something that seriously brings them joy. They wax lyrical about the shape of a car rear end, or the wheel hubs. It’s part of their identity — they go for long road trips, join car clubs, visit car shows, and build model cars in their spare time.   I am not one of these people, but I am passionate about mobility, particularly accessible mobility. I like writing about technic
  
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• Apple cost social media $10B. Here are the ads that cash could buy

  01-11-2021 17:03
  
  Apple’s introduction of App Tracking Transparency hasn’t proven popular with social media platforms. The privacy shift has vaporized an estimated $9.85 billion of revenues for Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Snap, according to The Financial Times. The new policy, which launched in April, requires the social media platforms to gain permission from iPhone users before tracking them across other apps. Unsurprisingly, many of them have opted out, which has
  
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• This bizarre Japanese flying bike screeches like an eagle and… hovers?

  01-11-2021 16:53
  
  If you’re a fan of sci-fi futuristic movies such as Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars, you’re already familiar with hoverbikes, or simply flying bikes. For those of you who wrongfully haven’t seen Star Wars, that’s the Speeder bike. It’s a flying motorbike used by the Stormtroopers, the army of the bad guys. Credit: Star Wars Well, seeing hoverbikes in movies presenting futuristic and semi-human societies is normal, I guess. But seeing them in real life can be min
  
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• Virtual reality is fighting loneliness, both on Earth and in space

  01-11-2021 16:22
  
  It takes seven months to get to Mars in an efficiently engineered spaceship, covering the distance of 480 million kilometers. On this journey, a crew would have to survive in a confined space with no opportunity to experience nature or interact with new people. It is easy to imagine how this much isolation could have a severe impact on the crew’s well-being and productivity. The challenges long-duration space travellers experience are not foreign to regular folk, although to a lesser degr
  
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• Clean your ears the “Smart” way with this visual ear cleaner

  01-11-2021 15:00
  
  How do you clean your ears? If you said “cotton swabs” then you would be joining the ranks of many of us who continue to poke and prod the earwax out of our ear canals, despite having heard that swabs may actually do more harm than good. In fact, one study found that 68% of the respondents do exactly that. It’s time to change this habit. Earwax, or as it is known scientifically, cerumen, is a naturally forming substance that helps protect and lubricate our ears, keeping out ha
  
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• The Bluesound Node is the music streamer every Hi-Fi setup needs

  01-11-2021 13:23
  
  Friends, I’m in love. To be fair, I’ve felt this way for some time. It happened when I first got my hands on the Bluesound Node 2i music streamer a few years ago — a relationship that has been going strong since. But the butterflies have started up again, because I’ve had the pleasure of testing out the latest iteration of the device, simply known as the Bluesound Node. Let me tell you of its charms. Who is Bluesound? If you haven’t heard of them, the company posit
  
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• Physicists have come back empty-handed after their search for “sterile neutrinos” fails

  01-11-2021 13:05
  
  Physicists searching for evidence of a “light sterile neutrino”, a hypothetical particle that could give clues to cosmic puzzles such as the nature of dark matter and why the Universe is made of matter at all, have announced their hunt has come back empty-handed. The MicroBooNE experiment at Fermilab was designed to follow up on earlier hints of neutrinos behaving oddly, but the negative result deals a blow to the idea of such a new elementary particle. Neutrinos are lightweight, el
  
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• DropBox users rejoice! An Apple M1 version is dropping next year

  01-11-2021 13:00
  
  Given their performance and power, it’s natural to be lured by Apple’s new lineup of ARM-based MacBooks. I made the switch to the M1-powered Air earlier this year, so I wouldn’t be surprised if many of you might be eyeing the Pro with the M1X processor — despite the notch. When your favorite applications support the native ARM architecture, the laptops are an absolute dream to use. However, some apps still don’t support it — with one of the most annoying exam
  
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• How to bootstrap and scale your SaaS startup the RIGHT way

  01-11-2021 11:20
  
  As the founder of a bootstrapped startup, people often ask me how I decided on which funding route I’d take when there are so many options for founders to consider. While I don’t have a short answer to this, there’s one thing I can say: your choice of funding needs to be based on the nature of your business and the product you are dealing with. The exact type of your business can be determined in a number of ways, but I find ‘Red Ocean’ and ‘Blue Ocean’
  
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• Could open banking pose new security threats to your financial data? We asked an expert

  01-11-2021 10:00
  
  As a result of the extended period of socioeconomic uncertainty caused by coronavirus, interest in open banking is growing. Customers want to have greater management and oversight of their finances, and financial institutions see open banking and PSD2 as a way to facilitate that.  With greater collaboration and data sharing between traditional banks and fintechs, there’s a lot of opportunity to deliver a more personalized customer experience. The concern around open banking APIs, how
  
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