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Miami mayor says Elon Musk will tunnel under the city for just $30 million

The Verge

Elon Musk told Miami’s mayor Friday that The Boring Company could dig a two-mile tunnel under the city for as little as $30 million — a fraction of the $1 billion price tag once quoted by local transit officials. That hurdle is one reason for the sky-high price tag quoted in 2018. Image: The Boring Company.

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The search is over: smart trackers from Apple, Samsung, and Tile compared

The Verge

Well, in addition to some other historic milestones, somewhere in the top 100 hits of the year will be the introduction of smart tracker tags from two major mobile device manufacturers: Samsung and Apple. Tracking tags have been around for a while now, and Tile has been the best-known brand in the space.

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Interactive Textbooks Online: Transform Your K12 Study Experience

Kitaboo

Gone are the days when students had to go through pages and pages of text-heavy traditional textbooks. For example, they allow students to utilize the search filter tags, like genre, year, author name, book title, etc., present on the search bar to find textbooks according to their preferences with ease.

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Twitter wasn’t built for spoilers

The Verge

Twitter has gotten better about dodging spoilers as time has gone on, with mute filters that let users block out specific phrases or words (for example, blocking “Spider-Man,” “Peter Parker,” and whatever other words you can think of that might be included in a No Way Home spoiler). There’s still plenty that Twitter could do here.

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Boston Dynamics unveils Stretch: a new robot designed to move boxes in warehouses

The Verge

It all depends what the problem of the day is.”. It all depends what the problem of the day is.”. But Stretch doesn’t have a price-tag yet, and it could be that for businesses with low margins, a robot isn’t worth the hassle no matter how mobile it is. A lot of that same design thinking has gone into Stretch.”.

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Changing Times Cause CIOs To Change Their Priorities

The Accidental Successful CIO

What was gone were the long-approval cycles and debates over what were the company’s priorities. The idea of touchless kiosks, for example, went from being an idea to a prototype in less than 30 days. These machines let passengers print out luggage tags by scanning the boarding passes on their mobile phones at the kiosks.

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How to hide, unfriend, or block someone on Facebook

The Verge

These days, it’s no longer surprising when a friend or acquaintance suddenly breaks into a rant on your Facebook feed. You can unfriend them, block them, snooze them (so you won’t see anything from them for 30 days), or simply hide one of their entries. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Hide a post. (It Block somebody.

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