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From vacant storefronts to vibrant hubs: Revisiting ‘third places’ for urban resilience

GeekWire

Then, I argued that the “third place” purpose it fulfilled as a gathering place and hub of social interaction should be replaced by equivalent square footage somewhere nearby. Post-pandemic they can help transcend times of isolation with renewed social encounters; after lockdowns and social distancing, we need them even more.

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Why would anyone be against life-saving malaria bednets?

Vox

Marc Andreessen, the billionaire venture capitalist and early web browser developer, thinks we’re giving too many insecticidal bednets to people exposed to malaria , tweeting, “Mosquito nets are a triple threat — dangerous to people, dangerous to fish, and dangerous to fishing ecosystems and the communities they feed.”

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A short history of every time Apple CEO Tim Cook praised augmented reality

The Verge

The number one thing is to make sure our products work well with other developers’ kind of products like Pokémon , that’s why you see so many iPhones in the wild chasing pokemons.” Even introverts are social people, we like people and we want to interact. I can see uses for it in education, in consumers, in entertainment, in sports.

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After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay

The Verge

And I have two kiddies, babies really, and there’s no social distancing you can do from a one-year-old and a two-year-old.”. Violet is the creation of Akara Robotics, a Dublin-based firm that builds robots providing social support in care homes. Violet, by comparison, can clean the room in just 15 minutes.

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Volkswagen ID 4 review: electric chill

The Verge

Last year, when Volkswagen unveiled the ID 4 for the first time at an eerily empty, socially distanced event in Brooklyn, the company’s CEO for North America, Scott Keogh, warned me not to make the obvious comparisons to other EVs, like Tesla. VW subsidiary Porsche recently revealed its first all-electric sports car, the Taycan.

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Axie Infinity’s financial mess started long before its $600 million hack

The Verge

The game, launched in 2018 by Vietnamese developer Sky Mavis, was a massive hit in the cryptocurrency world. Eventually it planned to introduce more sinks and hoped people would acquire axies for “the intrinsic value they can provide to players in the form of competitive, social, and progression-based fun and achievements.”

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Twitter is reinventing itself

The Verge

So you have health, which to me, is basically just the overwhelming content moderation problem that every social platform faces. Every social platform has that set of problems. People are making that comparison very directly. And you’ve got to build tools and strategies there. I want to take them in turn. We’ll just start there.

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