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Seattle-area counties’ experiment with on-demand, door-to-door public bus service is showing promise

GeekWire

Operating in the same manner as Uber or Lyft, riders use the Ride Pingo app to hail a 15-passenger bus to take them from their doors to an on-island destination for $2 – a fraction of a rideshare price. transportation authority, the nation’s third-largest transit system with 1.2 This is a long-overdue rethinking. Shank said the L.A.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s putting some of the brightest engineering minds in the world to work on this project, acquiring virtual reality and augmented reality companies, hiring over 10,000 people to work on it, and backing the initiative with tens of billions of dollars. The first time I tried it out, I was impressed.

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John Deere turned tractors into computers — what’s next?

The Verge

CTO Jahmy Hindman on farming, data, and right to repair One of our themes on Decoder is that basically everything is a computer now, and farming equipment like tractors and combines are no different. Can I hire a third-party SaaS software company to manage that data for me? How does that part work? That’s a new skill.

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