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• This startup’s microliner promises a cheaper route to electric flights

  27-11-2024 15:57 via thenextweb.com
  
  It’s been a tough year for air taxi startups. The UK’s Vertical Aerospace is running short of cash, while Germany’s Lillium faces bankruptcy. Targets for commercialisation keep getting extended. Investors are hesitant to commit. The reason for all the struggles is pretty simple. Building, certifying, and commercialising brand-new aircraft designs like electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOLs) is complex, notoriously expensive, and depends on lengthy regulatory p
  
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• Subscriptions Are Killing Creativity in Design: Why the Industry Must Break Free

  27-11-2024 14:15 via webdesignerdepot.com
  
  The graphic and web design world was once a sanctuary of creative freedom, where designers wielded their tools with boundless possibilities, limited only by imagination.
  But now, a dark cloud looms over this vibrant industry: the relentless rise of subscription-based services. What was sold to us as a convenient, cost-effective model is now suffocating designers, stifling innovation, and forcing us into a perpetual cycle of dependence.The Subscription TrapIn the past, owning design software was
  
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• These will be the most in-demand skills for developers in 2025

  27-11-2024 09:20 via thenextweb.com
  
  The Dutch labour market is experiencing a persistent talent shortage, according to a new salary survey report. The research also flags that when it comes to hiring in 2025, artificial intelligence, automation, and machine learning are expected to be among the hottest functional areas companies are most likely to recruit talent for next year. In line with this, a recent study by Indeed found that over the past year, job postings mentioning generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) or related p
  
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