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    • Magic Keyboard finally transforms iPad into a personal computing device that easily shape-shifts between media consumption and white collar professional uses (Jean-Louis Gassée/Monday Note)

    Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: Magic Keyboard finally transforms iPad into a personal computing device that easily shape-shifts between media consumption and white collar professional uses  —  After years of futile attempts to do my everyday work on an iPad, the newly released Magic Keyboard, coupled with a long wished … Magic Keyboard finally transforms

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    DIY Ribbon Controller For A DIY Synth

    There’s kind of a special joy in making instruments, no matter how simple or complex they are. Even if it’s a straight-up noisemaker, that’s noise you can be proud of. And besides, noise plus rhythm equals music. Whenever you’re ready to have some next-level fun, try making controllers for your DIY instruments. Synthesizers of all

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    • Chinese government statistics claim the country now has 904M internet users and 560M live streamers, with about 265M using live streaming for e-commerce (Xinmei Shen/Abacus)

    Xinmei Shen / Abacus: Chinese government statistics claim the country now has 904M internet users and 560M live streamers, with about 265M using live streaming for e-commerce  —  Eight key takeaways from China’s biannual internet roundup, including education and live streaming services getting a big boost while travel and food delivery apps suffer Chinese government

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    Viewing Countrywide Weather At A Glance

    For his latest project, weather display aficionado [Richard] has put together a handsome little device that shows the temperatures recorded at nine different airports located all over the British Isles. Of course the concept could be adapted to wherever it is that you call home, assuming there are enough Internet-connected weather stations in the area

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    • Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets and is developing technology to detect drivers' usage of face coverings (Sara Ashley O'Brien/CNN)

    Sara Ashley O’Brien / CNN: Uber to require masks or face coverings for drivers and passengers in certain markets and is developing technology to detect drivers’ usage of face coverings  —  (CNN Business)As it anticipates a restart to its core rideshare business amid the pandemic, Uber (UBER) plans to require drivers … Uber to require

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    Sources: Moovit, which makes a journey planner app and provides transit data APIs to cities and companies, in talks to be acquired by Intel for about $1B (Omri Zerachovitz/Globes Online)

    {$inline_image} Omri Zerachovitz / Globes Online: Sources: Moovit, which makes a journey planner app and provides transit data APIs to cities and companies, in talks to be acquired by Intel for about $1B  —  Intel Capital is one of the shareholders in the company, which has developed a public transport journey planner and mobility app.

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    Binary Watch Looks Good

    {$inline_image} Nothing says tech addict quite like the wearing of a binary watch — and we say that as tech addicts ourselves. However, many of the homebrew binary watches we’ve seen don’t just look nerdy because they are showing the time in binary. They are nerdy because it looks like someone strapped an Arduino to

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    • Trustdata report: monthly active users of telecommuting and online education services in China were up 29% and 30.1% respectively in March from a year ago (Minghe Hu/South China Morning Post)

    Minghe Hu / South China Morning Post: Trustdata report: monthly active users of telecommuting and online education services in China were up 29% and 30.1% respectively in March from a year ago  —  Mobile data traffic volume for March jumped 39.3 per cent from the same period a year ago Monthly active users of telecommuting

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